Paper Picture Frames

Use of paper is much common in most of the arts and crafts for kids and adults as well. Making picture frames is one such kids' craft idea that most of us are sure to love working on. Moreover, this is also a best way to spend free time and further use these handmade frames for classroom, home or kids' room decoration.

Framing a picture definitely enhances its look and makes it perfect to be hanged on a wall or placed on a shelf. If you are wondering how to make paper picture frames, then here's the procedure. Follow these procedures and add your ideas to make some beautiful craft picture frames.

Card Paper Picture Frame

This is one of the easiest paper picture frame ideas. Such craft picture frames can be made in various shapes like tree, house, doll, sack and you can creatively add a picture to this. Here we will make a flower shaped frame wherein you can stick a photograph in the center of the flower. In a doll shaped frame you can have your daughters close up face photograph in place of the doll's face. Let's see how to make flower paper picture frames for kids. You will need a rectangular piece of cardboard, crayons, markers, paint and scissors. You will also need a picture of your child's face.

Procedure
Draw a simple flower on the cardboard. Draw the stem and two leaves attached to this flower. Now cut out this picture. Ask your kid to paint it using crayons and paints. Take the picture and stick it using craft glue in the center of the flower. You can have a bunch of such flower paper picture frames, one for each kid's picture!

Decorative Paper Picture Frame

This is where your kids have a lot of scope to explore their creativity and come up with various ways to decorate the frame. You will need black card paper, dried flowers, leaves, seashells, sea sand, glitter, transparent plastic sheet, adhesive tape, craft glue and a picture.

Procedure
Now, take a rectangular piece of card paper. Place the picture on the center of this paper and mark the rectangle. The rest of the place is your kid's area for decoration. They can use dried flower petals, leaves, seashells or other decorative items to beautify this paper frame. If they are making picture frames using seashells, use blue paper. For making craft picture frames using dried leaves and petals, black paper is the best.

Once this is done stick the photograph in the marked box. Now cover the entire paper using the transparent plastic sheet and secure it at the back using adhesive tape. You can make such lovely paper picture frames using various decorative items like lace, golden or silver glitter, beads, etc. Kids can also color or draw freehand designs on the border of the frame and have simple and cheap paper picture frames ready. Read more on how to make picture frames.

Colorful Tissue Paper Picture Frame

Here's the procedure of making picture frames using tissue paper and card paper. You will need white card paper, colored tissue papers, white glue, photograph and craft knife.

Procedure
Take a card paper of rectangular size, 2-3 inches bigger than the photograph to be framed. Now place the photograph in the center of the frame and mark the borders. Remove the photo, draw a border ½ inches inside this border and cut it out to make a hole. Now take white tissues and white glue. Go on sticking white tissue pieces on the frame. Overlap to have a number of layers of tissues. Let this dry. Now take colored tissue and stick them in same way randomly using glue to have a colorful frame. Let it dry. Now you can just draw some patterns using a marker. Stick the photo from the backside of the frame. Your paper picture frame is ready!

The above mentioned ideas of making paper picture frames are best to help your kids spend time in making some creative and interesting paper crafts. You can experiment with the types of papers, colors and decoration items to have variations in these frames and make even more beautiful pieces.