#MetKids—How to Design Your Own Fashion Accessory: Fancy Cuffs

Follow along and learn how to design fancy cuffs to go with your favorite outfit. Make Fancy Cuffs with Folded Flourishes Materials: • strips of paper • Smart-Fab (available online and at art and school supply stores), paper, or fabric • pencil • stapler • tape Instructions: 1. Cut Smart-Fab, paper, or fabric into squares approximately 6 inches by 6 inches (15 cm x 15 cm). If you use fabric, you will want to iron the creases to reinforce the folds. 2. Fold one square in half, forming a triangle, and crease the fold. 3. Take one corner of the longest side and fold it to meet the peak of the triangle. Crease the newest fold. 4. Take the opposite corner and fold it to meet the other one, making a diamond. Crease the newest fold. 5. Set aside your diamond. Repeat, folding five more pieces of Smart-Fab, paper, or fabric. 6. Cut paper into strips about 9 inches by 1 1/2 inches (23 cm x 4 cm) for the wristbands. 7. Measure one strip of paper around your wrist and mark where it meets. 8. Staple the folded pieces of Smart-Fab to the wristband, overlapping the diamonds. The diamonds only need to go as far as the pencil mark you made that shows the length you need to cover your wrist. 9. Put tape on the hanging end of wristband. Flip it over and put tape on the opposite side. Then, secure the wristband and cuff to your wrist. Make Fancy Cuffs with a Cut Pattern Materials: • strips of paper • tissue paper • scissors • pencil • glue • tape Instructions: 1. Cut tissue paper int