A NOTE TO ADULTS Please review the instructions for these craft projects before your children make them Be Sure to help them with any steps you do not think they can safely do on their own CHERRY LAKE Publishing A NOTE TO KIDS Be sure to ask an adult for help with these craft activities when need it Always put your safety first ye Ou
HOW TO BRAS TABLE OF CONTENTS It began as Toilet Tissue 4 Decorating with Tissue Paper 6 Skills and Terms 8 Hawaiian Lei 10 Wall Art 12 Tissue Paper Monster Puppet 14 Tissue Paper Doll 17 Stained Glass 20 Decoupage Flowerpot 22 Candleholder 24 Butterfly Mobile 26 Keeping a Sketchbook Diary 29 O O Glossary 30 For More Information 31 Index 32 About the Author 32
It Began as Toilet Tissue Today tissue paper is available in almost any color You can imagine In 1857 the world was introduced to toilet tissue a paper product invented by Joseph Gayetty Gayetty s paper was different than other papers of the time It was also different from the toilet paper of today It did not come on rolls Instead it was packaged as individual flat thin sheets of paper In 1863 a tailor named Ebenezer Butterick realized that the thin toilet tissue paper could be used to make sewing patterns His patterns quickly caught on among people who
wanted to make their own clothing at home It didn't take long for people to find other uses for toilet tissue Some even used it to wrap gifts In the early 20th century it was still common for gifts to be wrapped in white or brown tissue paper that closely resembled toilet tissue But by 1917 a store owned by the Hall brothers began selling red green and even patterned tissue paper as gift wrap The paper was so popular that the brothers ran out of it They began offering a thicker colored paper at 10 cents a sheet The paper sold so quickly that they increased the price to 25 cents the following year Once again it sold out The Hall brothers soon founded a company called Hallmark to specialize in selling gift wrap At the time the brothers had no idea they were launching an entire industry Tissue paper is still used to wrap gifts
