Now, looking at the papercut you made, have your little friend pick out and identify as many of the A.B.C.'s as are included in the design. Children can make simple papercuts almost at once, using arrowheads, birds, chevrons, and little egg-shaped cuts. Help them to cut within a circle four or five inches in diameter, which they can pare down and cut to produce a mobile or plastic can lid decoration. These papercuts should be symmetrical medallions, preferably of birds and flowers or some other favorite motif. Flowers, a child, and squirrels make a lovely combination.
Red lids come from one pound tins of tobacco.
Peanut and some coffee cans have yellow plastic lids, and look striking with bright blue or bright green papercuts. As it is too cumbersome to make star-shape papercuts small enough to fit on lids, variety of design is essential. Remember that photocopying is a great help in developing different versions of the same design. The clear coffee can lids are ideal too as background for small- scale Lowicz flowers. If several versions of the same flower arrangements are tried in several color combinations, these can all be cut out at once, one on top of the other.