Fijian Fan

HOW TO MAKE A FIJIAN FAN







We had a church activity that we needed Fijian fans to use as props for a Fijian dance number.  This is what I came up with.  I realize the patterns are not Fijian but take what you want from this and make it better.  This is just a quick tutorial of how to put a basic fan together.

You will need:

• Scissors
• Glue gun & glue sticks
• 2 Large craft sticks
• Cardboard
• brown paper bags or packaging paper
• black crayon or markers
• 1 piece of 8x11 paper (scrap paper is fine)

1.  Take a piece of scrap paper and fold it lengthwise.  Then draw a half spade, with the center on the folded side.  

 2. Once you cut it out and unfold it, it should look like this.

 3.  Take your pattern and trace it onto cardboard.  Then cut out.

4.  Place your cardboard onto brown paper.  Then trace around the cardboard leaving about an inch space all the way around.  Cut your brown paper.  You'll do this twice so you have a brown paper spade for each side of the cardboard.  It should look like the picture above.

 5.  Using black crayon or marker, draw a geometric design or pattern on one side of both spade paper cutouts.

6.  Take two large craft sticks and get your glue gun warmed up.

7.  Squeeze a big glob of hot glue on the top of one stick and press onto the bottom of CARDBOARD spade.

8.  Do the same with the other stick on the back side of the cardboard so that both sticks line up evenly against one another.  This provides extra support for the handle.

9.  Squeeze hot glue all over one side of the cardboard and place the back side of your spade paper on the glue.  Do the same with the other side.

10.  Cut fringe all the way around your spade paper.  The cardboard in the middle will keep you from cutting in too far.

11.  Take your fingers and rub them over the fringe to bend it and add dimension.

Here's the finished product!