Hot Air Balloon Paper Craft

Today, we want to share with you the cutest paper balloon idea, along with a printable template you can use (if you want).

Simple paper crafts for kids (and kids at heart) are our favorite since we always have some colorful paper around.

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This is the first hot air balloon craft idea we’ve shared but we really enjoyed it because it was fun and colorful to make, so we’re pretty sure we’ll be sharing more with you soon.

You can use our printable template for this craft project or just let your kids draw their own balloons to get creative. This idea would work well as a classroom craft project (preschool, kindergarten, and higher grades), you just need to adjust some of the steps to suit your child’s age group.

Paper Craft Hot Air Balloon

What you need:

our printable template (we’ll get to it later)
colorful construction paper
scissors or box cutter
glue
colored pencils, crayons, markers (we have colored the template at the end of the tutorial but when working with young children we recommend letting them color the template first).

You can watch the video tutorial on making a hot air balloon here

Or follow the step-by-step instructions

Start by printing out our template (located at the end of this tutorial). We recommend coloring the template first.

Cut the strips of paper – we used a paper cutter as it was quicker (perfect for teachers if you are cutting). You can use scissors. We used 4 different colours – 2 strips of each colour (8 strips together).

Hot air balloon craft template

You can get the pin pattern for this fun craft by clicking here -> Hot Air Balloon Craft Pattern

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