Wiktionary
n. Thick colored paper that people cut out to make designs, models, etc
WordNet
n. paper suitable for drawing and making cutouts
Wikipedia
__NOTOC__ Construction paper (sugar paper) is a tough, coarse, coloured paper. The texture is slightly rough, and the surface is unfinished. Due to the source material, mainly wood pulp, small particles are visible on the paper’s surface. It is used for projects or crafts.
The origin of the term "sugar paper" lies in its use for making bags to contain sugar. It is related to the "blue paper" used by confectionery bakers from the 17th century England onwards; for example, in the baking of Regency ratafia cakes (or macaroons).
The animated cartoons Blue's Clues and South Park (initially) were made using construction paper and stop motion.
Usage examples of "construction paper".
The fronds of the palm trees looked like construction paper cutouts, flat dark shapes against the flat blue sky.
Trying to comfort him, his mother had cut a ribbon from blue construction paper and pinned it on him—.
It was a jack-o-lantern: a circle of orange construction paper with three black triangles in it, one for each eye and one at the bottom that was apparently supposed to be the mouth.
Abe, our in-house multimillionaire, used to have tinfoil all over his bedroom windows to keep out what few rays of sun penetrated the trees until we ragged on him so hard that he went out and bought a sheaf of black construction paper at the Pay 'n Save and taped it up instead.
Darkness hugged the ground, while the sky was tinged with eerie light, like dark gray construction paper smudged with white chalk.
I liked geography and music and the smell of LePage's paste on black and orange construction paper.
For a moment one of the night-walkers was illuminated in its four glaring high beams as clearly as something cut from black construction paper.
Against the light they looked like figures cut from black construction paper.
Foliage that appeared to be a vivid green by day now had the matte, washed-out look of construction paper.
I noted a bouquet cut out of construction paper pasted on one wall, the sole evidence of an attempt to make their surroundings look more human and less institutional.