How to make Newspaper Pots

1. Use a normal tabloid size newspaper, different sized newspapers will provide an assortment of pot sizes. One sheet of newspaper opened out flat:
2. Fold the page in half along it’s spine:
3. Then fold in half again:
4. ..and fold in half again:
5. Now is the tricky bit. What you are trying to do is fold the bottom right hand corner, as you see it in the picture above, inside and to the centre. What I do is lift the fold up so it forms a right angle and then push the centre in towards the centre of the fold. You will end up with a triangular shape with the original newspaper spine flat. This is where I think most people hit a brick wall, do persevere, once you have got it then you can churn them out in seconds. It’s not easy to explain or photograph but here goes:



6. Fold the top left ‘triangle’ back over to the left to form this.






7. Repeat step 5 on the other side so you end up with this:






8. Now you need to fold the edges in to the centre, like so:






9. ..and then fold them into the centre again, like this:







10. Now flip it over and do step 8 and 9 on the other side and you will end up with this:




If I am making a batch of these and not using them right away then leave them in this state and sandwich them between 2 books with a weight on top. When you come back to them the creases will be nice and crisp and they will stay together better.

11. To make the pots fold the top flaps back first, then carefully open up the pot by putting my hand inside and gently forming it into a cube. Make sure you dont push the folds open. It may seem like it will never hold soil and just open up. Don’t worry as long as your creases are nice and crisp then it will be fine once the soil goes in, it actually helps keep them stay in the right shape.



This is what you should end up with!