Desk Name Sign

A tent-style name sign for your desk: a light blue scalloped frame with little stars, and the name inside in marker. One strip with three folds and a tab, 1⅜ in tall — it stands on its own.

• Easy
• 1 piece
• 3 folds
• 12 cm — sign

Make it with your phone cameraLesson code: 1422

On VanGami the template appears over your sheet through your phone camera — no printer needed. Trace it, cut, fold and glue. Below are all the steps in text.

What you’ll need

• Letter sheet — office paper, 80 gsm (20 lb)
• Markers
• Pencil — and eraser
• Scissors — small
• Glue stick — or PVA glue
• Glass — phone stand

Steps

Trace

1. Outline. Trace the strip with a solid line: a rectangle with a narrow tab at the bottom that has cut corners. You’ll cut along this line.
2. Fold lines. The three dashed lines across the strip are the folds — you don’t cut along them. Write their numbers next to them.
3. Draw. Copy two frames with scalloped edges using thin lines: the bottom one has little stars in the corners, and the top one is upside down, without stars.

Color

4. Color the design. Color the space between the edge and the scallops: the bottom frame light blue, the top frame pink. Color the stars yellow with a black outline. The middle of the frames, the base and the tab stay white.

Cut

5. Cut out: sign. Cut out the strip along the solid line: the long sides in one go, and trim the corners off the tab.

Write

6. Write your name. Inside the light blue frame, write your name big, in block letters, with a darker marker. Start from the middle — that way the name will be centered.

Fold

7. Fold it into a tent. Fold the strip along all three dashed lines away from you, with the drawing on the outside, and crease each fold. The bottom is the narrow band between folds 2 and 3; the tab stands up.

Glue

8. Glue the tab. Put glue on the outside of the tab and lower the bottom of the back (pink) panel onto it: the edge of the panel goes exactly along fold 3. Press for ten seconds.

Check

9. Put it on your desk. Stand the sign on your desk with the name facing the board: the teacher sees the light blue side, and you see the pink one.

Done. The sign is done. Stand it on your desk with the name facing the board — the pink side faces you.

Make it with your phone camera

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