Fairy Tale papercuts - kings and queens, kids drawing class, 4/2/19

Kings and  queens are in a lot of fairytales. Hans Christian Andersen, who wrote many fairytales but the more modern tradition than all the stories that are part of oral storytelling traditions, was is the inspiration for working in the medium of papercutting. He made thousands of papercuts as he spun stories. We're glad he also wrote down his stories. Disney has made many of his stories into movies.
HCAndersen wrote The Snow Queen, (which inspired Frozen), The Little Mermaid, The Ugly Duckling. Also The Emperor's New Clothes, and The Princess and the Pea.

Today we tried to correct my complete miscounting of how many royals we could make in our paperdoll chain. We wound up with four figures. We had to cut one of the half figures on the end and tape it to its matching half on the other end.

A five year old came to class today. I think she made two little books rather than the papercutting. And then we had some fun with my taking exact dictation so she could copy her dictation. She wrote her sentences in different colors. Yellow is not a color  I can easily read. I'm glad she only wrote the last sentence in yellow!

Fairy Tale Papercuts - kings, queens, princesses and princes - paperdoll chains, 4/1/19

Hans Christian Andersen, a master of storytelling and author of fairy tales, also made fantastic papercuts. In honor of his birthday on April 2, (I think), we do this enjoyable project. Easy to get mixed up in doing it, but that is ok because however you do it, you'll have fun doing it.

Here we use a sheet of copy paper folded in half the long way.
Cut this paper in half along that fold.
Place both long pieces together as neatly matched as possible.
Fold them in half, and in half again. (I may or may not show pics for this part later...). For now, think of it as a puzzle to chew on!
Draw a king and a queen, one half body for each, with their midlines along the left and right folds.
Make sure they stay connected across the panel and along the folds. (Holding hands in the middle of the panel).
Now cut them out through the paper thickness. You will be cutting away a lower area of background below the handholding connection. And you will cut away the area around the figures above their handholding connection.
When you open this up you should have x figures on each strip. (Edited re the number of figures...they are less than I'd thought, and I have not figured that out yet!)
I put a set together and made a crown of it for myself. Maybe later I'll take a pic of that to show.
Students made background pieces and attached their figures.
Of course if you want, decorate these paperdoll chains. Endless possibilities here. The cutaway sections also make good shapes for long decorations.