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How To: Paint a Blue Butterfly and Iris using a Hake brush

The Hake brush is a type of flat brush used in Chinese painting along with the more typical trimmed brush. In this video the artist demonstrates the use of such a brush to create painting of an Iris with a blue butterfly and some calligraphy to finish it off. If you don't already have a Hake brush as part of your Chinese art toolkit, this video should convince you to invest in one.

How To: Fold an origami sampan boat

Make a paper sampan boat! With this guide, you'll learn how to make a paper boat using origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own folded-paper sampans, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Make an origami shirt out of a dollar bill

Is your love of money surpassed only by your love of miniature dress shirts? Boy, are you in luck. This video tutorial presents complete, step-by-step instructions on how to make a shirt from a folded dollar bill. For more information, and to get started making your own money shirts, watch this free arts-and-crafts how-to.

How To: Fold an colorful origami bird

New to origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding? With this guide, you'll learn how to make a colorful paper bird from folded paper. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own folded-paper cranes, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Origami a rare spring kusudama

Looking for a next-level origami project? Make a 3D paper medicine ball or kusudama! With this guide, you'll learn how to make a paper kusudama using origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own folded-paper medicine balls, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Make an origami envelope from paper

Looking for a craft project that's as beautiful as it is useful? With this guide, you'll learn how to make an ornate paper envelope using origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own paper envelopes, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Make mini 3D origami stars

Want to make your own confetti? With this guide, you'll learn how to make miniature paper stars ring with origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own paper stars, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Fold a cherry blossom flower from an origami bird base

Looking to add a rare and exotic specimen to your paper garden? Make a paper cherry blossom using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. Specifically, this free video origami lesson demonstrates how to make a cherry blossom taking an origami bird base as a starting point. For more information, and to get started making your own paper sakura, take a look!

How To: Fold a bright and colorful paper flower with origami

Looking to add a rare and exotic specimen to your paper garden? Make a bright, colorful 3D paper flower using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own paper flowers from folded paper. For more information, and to get started making paper flowers yourself, take a look!

How To: Make tiny paper stars from folded paper with origami

With this guide, you'll learn how to fold a small paper star using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own tiny stars (which work wonderfully as party decorations), watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Make tiny origami stars

Looking for an easy craft project? With this guide, you'll learn how to fold a tiny paper star using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own tiny stars (which work wonderfully in garlands or as party decorations), watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Fold an origami swan that flaps its wings

Looking to add a rare and exotic specimen to your paper menagerie? Make a swan with flappable wings using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions on how to make your own swans from folded paper. For more information, and to get started making paper waterfoul yourself, take a look!

How To: Make an origami star with one paper strip

Looking for an easy craft project? With this guide, you'll learn how to make a lucky paper stat from a single strip of paper using origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own paper stars, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Fold an origami skeletal octahedron

Looking for an advanced craft project? With this guide, you'll learn how to make a 3D skeletal octahedron with origami, the traditional Japanese folk art of paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own colorful octahedrons, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Make a paper flower ball with origami

With this guide, you'll learn how to make a folded-paper flower balls with origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own decorative flower balls, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Make a cookie bowl from folded paper with origami

With this guide, you'll learn how to make a cookie bowl from folded paper using origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own folded-paper cookie trays, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Make a six-piece 3D spiral star with origami

With this guide, you'll learn how to make a 3D spiral star from six sheets of folded paper using origami, the traditional art of Japanese paper folding. For more information, including a step-by-step overview of the folding process, as well as to get started making your own folded-paper spiral stars, watch this free origami lesson.

How To: Make a tropical bird from folded paper with origami

Looking to add specimens to your paper menagerie? Make a tropical bird with origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions for making your own tropical bird from a sheet of folded paper. For more information, and to get started making your own paper parrots, take a look!

How To: Make a 130-sheet, folded-paper penguin with origami

Looking to add specimens to your paper menagerie? Make a 3D folded-paper penguin with origami, the traditional Japanese art of paper folding. This free origami video lesson presents complete instructions for making your own penguin from a sheet of folded paper. For more information, and to get started making your own paper penguins, take a look!

How To: Make paper roses for cards or scrapbooking

In this arts & crafts tutorial, learn how to make a beautiful rose embellishment out of a piece of 6x6 pattern paper and Glimmer mists to give it a pearlescent sheen. This is a fun technique and great to apply to all your craft projects including cards, scrapbook layouts or home decor projects.

How To: Make a simple balloon snowman

In this free balloon art tutorial, learn how to twist and tie a simple balloon snowman - perfect to present to a crowd during the winter holiday season! Your Balloon Man, Mr. Fudge, is full of balloon tricks! Be sure to find other balloon videos on WonderHowTo from Mr. Fudge teaching everything from animals to planes! In a few twists and a few ties, you'll be an expert balloon artist in no time!

How To: Make ocean in a bottle with your kids

When it comes to keeping your kids entertained, there's nothing like arts and crafts to help stimulate their little minds. So many different objects from home can be used to make a great educational project. This tutorial shows you how to take items from your home in order to make the ocean in a bottle. Enjoy!

How To: Make candy bouquet for Easter

We are shown how to make a delectable piece of art given by the author of Delectable Art. It's an Easter candy bouquet. Its a great gift to give during the Easter season following the candy giving tradition of Easter. The supplies needed to make this are: cellophane wrap (four different colors are used), scissors, floral wire, ruler, needle nose pliers, wire cutters, decorative Easter mug, sterofoam, clear scotch tape, glue and glue gun, floral tape and the candy of your choice. Directions on...

How To: Warm up with ballet barre exercises

Warm up your muscles with simple ballet barre exercises including: simple lies, tendus, degages, ronde de jambes, port de bras and frappes. Get a free demonstration and lesson from this ballet and pointe expert: Mikael Monson is an instructor specializing in ballet and pointe at the Virtuosity Performing Arts Studio/Vancouver Elite Gymnastics Academy in Camas, Washington. Learn more ballet from this expert by searching WonderHowTo! You're only practice time away from ruling the dance floor!

How To: Fold a 3D origami kusudama meteoroid

Kusudama origami is more of a work of art than just plain old paper folding. It's not only crafty, it's mathematical. Japanese kusudama is created by sewing multiple identical pyramidal units together to form a 3D paper model, like this 3D meteoroid.

How To: Make a glitter and lace card

Cards are so meaningless these days, unless of course, you make make your own, giving it that personal and meaningful touch. Watch this video tutorial to learn how to make a glitter and lace card, with help by Barbara Trombley from Art Glitter. Barbara designed this technique for making glitter lace cards using polyester lace, glitter, and sticky paper as a template to create lace paper that sparkles to no end!

How To: Make a glittering butterfly

Butterflies are beautiful, even when they aren't real, but merely decorative. In this video, learn how to rainbow glitter a butterfly with Barbara Trombley from Art Glitter. This is a fantastic craft project developed by Barbara. They're simple to make and you only need a few craftsy materials, like opals and card stock.

How To: Draw stony surfaces

Whether you want to draw fine art or the covers of trashy romance novels, drawing stone surfaces is an essential skill. In this video, "Miki Falls" manga creator Mark Crilley shows you how to make stone look like stone. It turns out, rock's not as hard as it looks!