DIY Paper Chain Wall Hanging

DIY Paper Chain Wall Hanging
by White House Crafts

Total project time: about 3 hours 

Antonella Grossi blogs about easy, fun crafts and DIY tutorials and lives in Ontario, Canada.
You can follow her on Instagram at @white_house_crafts. 

This is a delightful and fun project from Antonella at White House Crafts. This DIY Paper Chain Wall Hanging is a basic and simple paper craft that can be done by everyone, for everyone. As you gather the following items, Antonella suggests for you to have a lot of extra supplies, especially glue sticks and blue coloured paper.  

According to her calculations, each sheet of 8 1/2″ x 11″ card stock paper will yield you ten pieces and you will need exactly 264 for this 16 1/2″ x 24″ wall hanging. The measurements in this post are to specifically fit a roll that is 17″ long and 1″ in diameter. Anything shorter or thicker will pose a problem. Now let’s get started on your DIY Paper Chain Wall Hanging!

Materials 

• Card stock in sky blue, two shades of pink, medium blue, yellow, purple, and white 
• Paper trimmer 
• Hot glue gun 
• 17″ x 1″ dia. cardboard cylinder from a roll of wrapping paper 
• Thick jute rope 
• Scissors 

Directions 

1. First, start by trimming all 264 pieces into 1 ½” x 5 ½” strips. Broken down by colour, it goes:
   1. Sky blue: 129
   2. Hot pink: 30
   3. Light pink: 24
   4. Medium blue: 21
   5. Yellow: 17
   6. Purple: 7
   7. White: 36 
2. Plug in the glue gun and follow the patterning as you see it below to make your wall hanging. There are 29 rows and 9 columns.  
3. Use the hot glue gun to adhere the strips together along the edge.  
4. It is suggested to make your rainbow from right to left.  
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2
   1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3
   1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3
   1 1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 
   1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 4
   1 1 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 
   1 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 4 
   1 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 5
   1 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 5
   1 1 1 2 3 3 4 5 5 
   1 1 2 2 3 4 4 5 6 
   1 1 2 3 3 4 5 5 6
   1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6
   1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6
   1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6
   1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6
   1 2 2 3 4 4 5 5 6
   7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 
   7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
   7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
   7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 
5. Once all nine chains are assembled, slide the top ends thru the cardboard cylinder of an old or nearly finished wrapping paper roll.
6. Last, insert some thick jute twine into the cylinder and tie a double knot.  
7. Hang your work.  

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Photo taken from whitehousecrafts.net.

Photo taken from whitehousecrafts.net.