How to Use construction paper in a Sentence

construction paper

noun
  • Take your four, four- by two-inch strips of construction paper.
    — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2018
  • Cut a face, beak, two wings and two feet from felt or construction paper and glue each in place.
    — Ann Cameron Siegal, Washington Post, 15 Nov. 2022
  • Just pick up construction paper in a few shades of green and a pack of pom-poms to act as berries.
    — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 7 Nov. 2022
  • Print the shapes onto black construction paper or card stock and cut them out.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Or go old-school and make your own with construction paper and markers!
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Begin with a few sheets of green, red and white card stock or construction paper.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
  • The boys brought over blocks to dip in paint and press onto beige construction paper.
    — Brad Schmitt, Nashville Tennessean, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Make a garland with green construction paper and faux red berries.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Cut and glue colored construction paper squares to the box.
    — Greta Cross, USA Today, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Each was handwritten on a piece of green construction paper in the shape of a leaf.
    — Elaine Ayala, ExpressNews.com, 25 July 2019
  • The counselor taught viewers how to make a fire pit out of construction paper.
    — Dallas News, 19 June 2020
  • For eyes and a mouth, either cut three ovals from construction paper or use black candy pieces.
    — Karen Hugg, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Or use a whole bottle of glue sticking leaves to construction paper?
    — Naomi Schaefer Riley, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2017
  • Then give your toddler construction paper shapes, pom poms and other doo dads.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 28 Dec. 2022
  • Grab some construction paper in fun, vibrant colors, and then cut out some shapes.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Trace a coin 20 times on the construction paper with a pencil.
    — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 10 May 2018
  • Paint freely on white construction paper that's folded into a card shape.
    — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 31 May 2023
  • Step 8 Cut out eyes and a mouth using black construction paper.
    — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 2 Oct. 2018
  • The requests ranged from construction paper to laptops to sewing kits to books to slow cookers.
    — Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Jan. 2018
  • There, the library staff taped construction paper over the windows.
    — Kyle Casey Chu, Vogue, 1 July 2022
  • For the menorah, cut flames from construction paper and glue them to the tops of the menorah candles.
    — Janna Oberdorf, Parents, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Just give your child some construction paper, markers, glue and a handful of candy hearts.
    — Amy Schwabe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2018
  • Or make a paper chain using green, red, and black construction paper and scissors.
    — Chanté Griffin, Good Housekeeping, 19 Dec. 2022
  • One determined boy, maybe four or five, held a piece of green construction paper with a message scrawled on the front.
    — Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 13 May 2026
  • Just cut out the face shapes using black construction paper, then let kids go to town with a glue stick, adding them to the orange plates.
    — Jennifer Aldrich, Country Living, 18 July 2022
  • On a square of pea-green construction paper, Grigely drew two circles.
    — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Cleanup Clean up the remaining construction paper, string and all your tools.
    — Svenja Lohner, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2019
  • To honor the girl who loved nature and animals, the school made a tree out of construction paper.
    — Megan Diskin, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2020
  • Also use a small flashlight and attach a red piece of cloth or red construction paper over the lens of the flashlight.
    — Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Some were made of construction paper and signed by classrooms of children; others had been sent by youth baseball teams.
    — Jennifer Gonnerman, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023

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