How to Make a Paper Wallet

Video Transcript

"In this clip we are going to make a paper wallet. For this clip you need some card, some scissors, some colorful tape and a felt tip pen. Get your strip of card, fairly strong card and fold it in half. When you've got it folded in half, you need to fold it back on itself to nearly reach that fold. Not quite, but nearly reach that fold. Hold it firmly and bend that and crease it then turn it over to nearly reach the fold create it firmly. Open it out and you can see you've got a "W" shape. Close down the "W" and fold it back down onto itself like a book. As we open the book we can see that we have a little place in there and a little place in there where we can keep things. Now, they are a little bit hard to open so what I am going to do is a chop and a stop there and a chop and a stop there turn it over and two more chops and chops chops and stops. If you lift those up that will be like a little handle for opening it so you can slide things in and out. now you've got some nice colorful sticky tape to close up those edges. Wrap it over very carefully so that you get some on this side and enough to fold around to the back, the other side. Try to keep this really nice and neat. This bit here you don't need so that can go around the corner. Same again here. This side flapped over and over onto the back and trim off the corner and the same with the other side of the wallet keeping it as nice and neat as you can. Lap it over half half way across the sticky tape and and then to the back and trim it and lap it over on the last bit half way onto the sticky tape and fold it over down to the back. It's good and cut that piece off. The red and blue looks rather smart. Now you can fold it up like that and on the outside you can do your own design. I like cats so I am going to draw a cat design right on mine. A nice catty pussy cat face there it is. Pussy cat eyes, pussy cat nose, there we go and a few whiskers. With a bow tie, it's a smart pussy cat. That's the decoration on the outside of the wallet. Inside not you've got a place to put your notes, a place to put your special cards and a little handle that will open it up but when you want to put everything away safe it closes and will pop into one of your pockets so you won't lose things. That's how to make an easy little paper wallet."