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Easy Trick: Sawing a Lady in Half

By Wayne Kawamoto, About.com

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Seal the envelope and cut off the ends. You’ll want a “tube” that’s about four inches long. The illustration above shows the paper tube.

You'll also need a paper doll, which is simply a strip of paper with a person drawn on it. We've used a strip of blue paper that is cut from the width of a standard 8.5" x 11" piece of paper. The strip is about 1.5" wide.

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