Efteling Hansel and Gretel papercraft giveaway! (deadline July 14th, 2023)

The Efteling is the biggest amusement park in the Netherlands, and probably most dutch people will have visited it at least once in their lifetime with their parents or on a school trip. 😀

For older kids and adults, there are exciting story-themed rollercoasters 🎢 and other attractions, but once upon a time, the Efteling started as just a Fairytale Forest 🍂🍄 with a few attractions about the old fairy tales written down by famous writers like Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault, and the Brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.

One of the fairytales featured there is of course the famous story of Hansel and Gretel, who find a strange house made of delicious candy after being left in the forest by their parents who could not take care of them anymore...

In the Efteling, the witch that turns out to live there is on her guard (having just captured Hansel and Gretel as you can see...) and whenever her black cat spots any new visitors at the garden fence, she checks at the door to ask "who's knibbling on her home!"

So maybe it's better to leave her alone and continue on to the next fairytale if you don't want to end up like poor Hansel and Gretel... (spoiler: they do escape in the end 😉)

The Fairytale Forest 🍂🍄 is the original heart of the Efteling and the visual style was created by the artist Anton Pieck. Basically, because of the Efteling, for dutch children this is what houses and castles in fairytale forests look like!

The Giveaway

I'm giving away the official Efteling papercraft of the Hansel and Gretel house from 2008 (there were a few others in this official papercraft series, but I couldn't find them so easily, sorry!)

If you want a chance to make your own piece of the Efteling's Fairytale Forest, 

• Simply enter your emailadress in the Google Form below before 23:59 CET (Central European Time) July 14th, 2023. That's all. 😊

1. After the deadline I will randomly draw a winner and contact them through the emailadress they left (so make sure it's correct!)
2. This is a physical papercraft (I will NOT scan it!) so make sure you're okay with telling me a physical address where I can send your prize if you're the lucky winner (if you're underage, ask your guardians if it's okay first!)
3. Anybody can enter this no matter where you live! 🌎📬
4. This is a free giveaway just for fun: I will pay the shipping costs myself (if there are any custom fees or anything like that, let me know and I will take care of those as well 👍)

NOTE: Unfortunately, the coupons on the papercraft for entering the Efteling are not valid anymore - but go visit anyway if you get the chance! 😉

Have fun and good luck!

This giveaway ended July 14th 2023, sorry!

Stay tuned for the next free giveaway! 😀

free official papercraft Paleo Pines dinosaur Lucky

We all know what can happen if you put a bunch of dinosaurs on a small island...

But don't worry, the upcoming Paleo Pines game looks a lot more friendly! 😉

You can download a demo now - and a free papercraft!

Download + build your own free papercraft parasaurolophus dinosaur Lucky (by Paleo Pines):

https://paleopines.com/paper-lucky/

free papercraft World War II German Nashorn tank destroyer

Box Studio usually makes papercraft tanks; in fact I can imagine he made so many already that he should "make room" for future ones - so maybe that's why this time he made a papercraft tank destroyer...? 😉

Download + build your own free papercraft World War II German Nashorn tank destroyer (+lots more, by Box Studio):

http://boxstudio.main.jp/2023/06/28/nashorn/

PaperPrairie free Little House on the Prairie papercrafts

Have you ever wanted to imagine living in a little house on the prairie at the end of the 19th century? 

The Little House on the Prairie children's book by Laura Ingalls Wilder based on her own childhood memories and the television series based on the books can help you do that.

And you can also make tons of papercrafts from PaperPrairie! 😀

Download + build your own free papercraft Little House on the Prairie printables (by PaperPrairie):

https://paperprairie.art.blog/

free papercraft Dutch Railways NS Class 1700 locomotive by Jaap Zijp

Jaap Zijp made a personal website where he tells about some of the the interesting things that he did - like making this papercraft of a NS Class 1700 locomotive that used top be operated by the Dutch Railways. 🚃

Download + build your own free papercraft Dutch Railways NS Class 1700 locomotive (by Jaap Zijp):

https://www.jaapzijp.nl/3-hobbys.html

50+ free papercraft Planet of Death vehicles

zxc6713's must be a big Planet of Death fan - or maybe just a big papercraft fan, because they made more than 50 vehicles from the 1997 racing game into papercrafts! 🚐🚤

Download + build your own free papercraft Planet of Death vehicles (by zxc6713):

https://zxc6713.blogspot.com/

(download instructions: use the small orange "글 더보기" link at the bottom of zxc6713's blog to see the "[Download]" links and then click the "Read more" text on the posts if you found a model you like to see the "[Download]" links; you'll need the free Pepakura Viewer to open *.pdo files!)

free papercraft cable car gondola, monorail and timber logs from Tamiya

Tamiya makes plastic model kits and toys like remote control cars and small toy motors, and they  also made these free papercraft bodies for their cable car gondola and monorail motors. 🚝🚠

(and you can also download some simple papercraft logs for their Volvo FH16 Globetrotter 750 6x4 Timber Truck 🌲) 

Download + build your own free papercraft cable car condolo, monorail and timber logs (by Tamiya):

• cable car gondola body: https://www.tamiya.com/japan/products/69936/index.html
• monorail body: https://www.tamiya.com/japan/70254_monorailtrain_pdf/index.html
• logs for timber truck: https://www.tamiya.com/english/products/56360/index.htm

free papercraft rescue vehicles, boats and trailers

All these papercrafts can be downloaded from the DLRG Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft Ortsgruppe Maintal! 🚑

Download + build your own free papercraft rescue vehicles, boats and trailers (by DLRG Deutsche Lebens-Rettungs-Gesellschaft Ortsgruppe Maintal):

https://maintal.dlrg.de/die-ortsgruppe/fuer-mitglieder/downloads/

free papercraft Koriyama Fire Department fire trucks and ambulance

I *finally* found some new papercraft fire trucks and ambulances! 🚒🚑 (you know, because there are so few to find online 😉)

Download + build your own free papercraft fire trucks and ambulance (by Koriyama Fire Department):

https://www.shobo.koriyama.fukushima.jp/information/cat1/002694.html

free papercraft sea creatures

A long time ago I showed you some papercraft fish and other sea creatures that you could download for free from the Japan Fisheries Research Agency, and it seems they added quite a few new ones incuding some research ships! 🙂

Download + build your own free papercraft sea creatures (by Japan Fisheries Research Agency):

https://www.fra.affrc.go.jp/forkids/kids_pr_fun_paper-craft.html

Final Minecraft Papercraft Kit giveaway wrap-up :o)

So I had hoped to post this map almost a year ago, but I'm happy to say that now then I can finally wrap up my Minecraft papercraft kits giveaway! 🙂

As you can see on the map the three first winners came from the USA, Mexico and Indonesia. They had already gotten their prizes after the original giveaway almost a year ago and a new fourth winner from Japan this time received their prize without problems too this weekend after the replacement draw earlier this month!

I like how the papercraft prizes travelled all over the world again 🌎 just like with my first giveaway!

I'm happy that in the end all four papercraft Minecraft kits got to the lucky winners and hopefully they had some fun playing around with them! 🙂

(I'm already thinking about doing another small papercraft giveaway soon so stay tuned! 😉)

Thank you to everybody that participated in the giveway (or that just likes to visit my blog to find papercrafts to make of course 🙂); have fun!

free papercraft ocean liner S.S. Liberté

Thanadol changed his modelling name a while ago to Retrocale, and he asked to share his new papercraft ocean liner S.S. Liberté with you! 🚢🙂

Download + build your own free papercraft ocean liner S.S. Liberté (+lots more, by Retrocale):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BDxdVHAEnuHPjQiJV3CidaA23PeAbDto/view?usp=drivesdk

official Disney Kids Star Wars paper toys

I think these papercraft toys were on other official Star Wars websites earlier; but you can still get them on the Japanese Disney Kids site now! 😀

Download+ build your own free official Star Wars papercraft toys (by Disney Kids Japan):

https://kids.disney.co.jp/download/0261

(Note: browse through the related downloads just below the first download on the Japanese Disney Kids site to find the other Star Wars paper toys)

free official Ranking of Kings - The Treasure Chest of Courage papercrafts by Paperman Returns

The Treasure Chest of Courage is a spinoff series of Ranking of Kings, about the tiny deaf prince Bojji who and his friend Kage!

And if that doesnt get you excited, maybe the papercraft created by Paperman Returns that you can download for free from the official website will?

Download + build your own free official Ranking of Kings - The Treasure Chest of Courage #papercrafts (by Paperman Returns for Ranking of Kings - The Treasure Chest of Courage):

https://osama-ranking-treasurechest.com/special/papercraft/

free famous building papercrafts from Architecture With Sauce

If you don't recognize these papercrafts of famous buildings from Architecture with Sauce right away, maybe you can color them first and try again! 😀

(but you probably have to recognize them first to know what to color them I guess... Nvm forgot what I said; just enjoy the papercrafts!)

Download + build your own free black-and-white/color yourself famous building papercrafts (by Architecture With Sauce):

• English site: https://www.craftingmodels.com/directory/
• German site: https://www.bastelmodelle.de/verzeichnis/

free papercraft NHK Bitworld characters

Building a robot can be challenging, but if they're just papercrafts like these, it's easy! 😉

Download + build your own free papercraft NHK Bitworld characters (by NHK):

https://www.nhk.or.jp/bitworld/contents/rmpapercraft/index.html

free papercraft fire truck

You can find lots of coloring pages and fun papercrafts on the German Malvorlagen site, including this cutelittle fire truck! 🚒

Download + build your own free papercraft fire truck (by Malvorlagen):

https://malvorlagen-seite.de/feuerwehrauto-bastelbogen/

cute official free Robocar POLI papercrafts

Do you like the animated childrens' show Robocar POLI about a team of rescue vehicles that can transform into robots keeping the town of Broomstown tidy and safe? 🚔🚑🚒🚁

On the official website you can download these fun papercrafts of the main team and some of their friends! 😀

Download + build your own cute official free Robocar POLI papercrafts (by Robocar POLI):

https://robocarpoli.com/play

free cute Club Penguin papercrafts

I could ask you if you would like to build a papercraft penguin made by Mega8960. 🐧

But the real question is, would you like to build 20 papercraft penguins made by Mega8960? 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

(and lots of other fun papercrafts 🙂)

Download + build your own free cute Club Penguin papercrafts (+more, by Mega8960):

https://www.deviantart.com/mega8960/art/Club-Penguin-Papercraft-Color-Pack-958481326

(download instructions: click the Google Drive link on Mega8960's Deviantart's page; you'll need the free Pepakura Viewer to open *.pdo files!)

free papercraft Taiko no Tatsujin drum rythm arcade machine

Locha is a graphic designer who likes rythm games, and as you can see he decided to make a papercraft Taiko no Tatsujin drum rythm arcade machine! 🥁

(he even made a video tutorial on how to put it together on his Youtube channel here: link! 😀)

Download + build your own free papercraft Taiko no Tatsujin drum rythm arcade machine (by Locha):

https://www.reddit.com/r/taikonotatsujin/comments/x2v7c4/taiko_no_tatsujin_arcade_papercraft_tutorial/

(download instructions: click the "https://drive.google.com/..." Google Drive link in the comments on the Reddit page)

free papercraft Seenotretter rescue boat

"Seenotretter" means "sea rescuers" in German, so that explains the SAR (Search And Rescue) boat you can download from their website! 🙂

Download + build your own free papercraft rescue boat (by DGzRS Seenotretter):

https://www.seenotretter.de/magazin/luettje-seenotretter/zum-basteln

free papercraft The Dragon Dentist characters

If the guardian of your country is a dragon, you have to take care that it doesn't get a tooth ache of course, so you need a dragon dentist! 🐉🦷

Donload + build your own free papercraft The Dragon Dentist characters (by NHK):

https://www.nhk.or.jp/anime/ryu/special/win_papercraft.html

free papercraft Mitsubishi Pajero Gen 1-4, color-yourself Delica L400 Space Gear and Roof Top Tent

These papercrafts of the Mitsubishi Pajero Gen 1-4 and Delica L400 Space Gear are from an old car show and an old catalog from a long time ago, but thanks to 4x4WARD they're available from The Archive on their website now. 🚘🙂

(and don't forget the Roof Top Tent of course! ⛺)

Download + build your own free papercraft Mitsubishi Pajero Gen 1-4, color-yourself Delica L400 Space Gear and Roof Top Tent (by 4x4Ward):

• Mitsubishi Pajero Gen 1-4: https://www.4x4ward.com/mitsubishi-pajero-papercraft
• Mitsubishi Delica L400 Space Gear: https://www.4x4ward.com/delica-space-gear-model
• Roof Top Tent: https://www.4x4ward.com/rtt

cute free NHK Science & Technology Research papercraft Lab-chan and robot

Did you know that the Japanese broadcasting company NHK has a Science & Technology Research Laboratories department?

And that the NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories has a website where you can download these cute papercafts of Lab-chan and a cute interactive companion robot? 🤖

Download + build your own cute free papercraft Lab-chan and robot (by NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories):

https://www.nhk.or.jp/strl/open2023/cs/paper_craft.html

free papercraft Tomb Raider Chronicles X-Ray Lara vignette release!

As promised, my papercraft Tomb Raider Chronicles X-Ray Lara vignette release! 🙂

Download + build X-Ray Lara yourself (and lots more!) for free from:

https://ninjatoes.wordpress.com/category/tomb-raider/

Some parts will turn out pretty thin...!

Quite the collection already I think! 👍

Have fun building

free Zappelin Koek & Ei papercraft toy cow

Koek & Ei was a children's program about forester Otto, who taught young children about all kind of things; this cow looks quite unusual, though...! 🐮

Download+ build your own free boxy papercraft toy cow (by Koek & Ei):

https://www.zappelin.nl/diy/knutselen/koek-ei-koe

May 2023 Minecraft Hostile Mobs papercraft kit giveaway result

Last giveaway, I had multiple prizes and I used a bingo mill to pick the winners. But as you can see, this time I used an online spinner wheel. 🙂

The winner this time was Hiroshi, who I will contact soon to ask where I may send the prize! 📬

Maybe next time you will be the lucky winner? Have fun!