Mini Eco is an UK mommy blog with a penchant for featuring colorful DIY tutorials, and one of the recent projects on there cleverly used platonic solids to make a decorative garland. The geometric shapes are lovely to look at in their symmetry, and she even includes the templates to each object so that you can print them out yourself.
I was particularly drawn to this DIY because so many paper/garland tutorials out there err on the side of frilliness (rather than good design); this one, however is modern and clean and simple, with a emphasis on craftsmanship instead of just craftines. From the Mini Eco blog:
There seems to be a bit of a Polyhedra craze going on at the moment. It seems to me that mathematics has never been so cool. I have put together some templates for a ‘platonic solids’ garland. Perfect for cheering the place up now all the festive decorations have been taken down. Simply chop, score and glue together.
That sweet GIF at the end really made the post. I’d love to see someone do this with a series of neutral, creamy colors– there’s also a lot you can work with in terms of contrasting paper textures.
