We learn to do unpretentious paper crafts with our own hands in childhood. A ship, an airplane, a New Year's snowflake, a postcard for mom on March 8 - which of us has never made them at least once. Affordable and malleable material became the basis for the amazing origami art invented by the Japanese. How to do under the tree made of paper for home decoration, we will tell you.
Papier-mâché bird
Paper carousel
Cute paper dandelions
Any paper can be used for crafts. Colored sets for children's activities, corrugated sheets, paper napkins, cardboard - all these varieties make interesting, useful and beautiful things for the home.
Flowers look very beautiful and realistic in do-it-yourself corrugated paper crafts. Rose petals from such paper turn out like real ones. The same rose can be made in another way, by cutting out a spiral from thick paper and bending it outward.
All kinds of boxes, boxes, cardboard stands will always be used in the household. The turntables loved by children will perfectly fit into the decor of the suburban area. Cardboard Christmas tree toys can be made by the whole family, giving them the most original images.
Turntables for children
A traditional paper fan can become the wings and tail for a bird of paradise, and a cardboard toilet paper cylinder will successfully serve as the basis for an airplane cockpit or the body of a dog.
The paper craft "daisy flowers", which will take very little time to make, will look amazing. The middle of the flower can be made by wrapping a rolled napkin ball in yellow paper. You should have a paper chupa chups. Then wrap a strip of corrugated paper cut around it several times and secure it with thread. To give the flower a realistic look, shade the edges of the paper with a different color. Craftsmen who have been working with paper for a long time create amazing things. These are flower arrangements, figurines of animals and birds, and picturesque panels.
Volumetric craft that imitates rose petals
Advice! For serious work, with many details, such as chic paper peacocks and parrots, it is worth starting with a thorough experience with paper.
Decorative fans
Tea bag house
Elegant envelope for the holiday
Holiday decorations
You will not surprise anyone with an openwork snowflake on the window, but if you want to stand out and deliver something pleasant to your guests, while spending a minimum of money, then you should master more complex designs.
Paper garland - this is a universal decoration for both the New Year and birthday. It can also become a permanent decorative element for a nursery or bedroom. Since our task is to teach you how to make a paper craft with your own hands, we will not only tell you, but also show you the entire manufacturing process.
Garland links
Let's start by preparing tools and materials. We will need:
Colored paper
Our goal is flat chain garland. What do you need to assemble a chain? Links, of course. We will cut them out of colored paper.
3D garland chain
Multilayer garland of colored paper
Important! Decide in advance what link size and chain length you need. Based on this, prepare the amount of colored paper.
Getting started:
Fold a sheet of paper in half.
Draw the shape of the link on one side. It can be a circle, an elongated loop, a square, or a heart, whichever you prefer.
The first link can be used as a template for subsequent details, so as not to draw it every time.
Cut out the link along the outlined lines.
Having prepared a sufficient number of links, we begin assembling the garland.
We glue both halves of the link.
We thread the next, not glued link into it, and then glue it together.
We continue assembling the garland to the length we need.
The whole family can take part in the work process. Assign responsibilities and things will go faster.
Gift wrapping made of paper
Newspaper roses with ombre effect
Colored paper balloons
Paper applique is applicable for the design of greeting cards, and for the creation of wall panels. And again, do-it-yourself colored paper crafts with step-by-step instructions await us.
Volumetric paper applique - heart
The easiest way is to cut a flower out of colored paper, stick it on a white sheet and the applique is ready. Even a child can do such a picture, which he successfully does in labor lessons. For the creativity of an adult, we offer voluminous paper crafts, including applications.
This is the kind of panel we should get.
Panel made of paper with a terry effect
Let's prepare for work:
Colored paper (blue, yellow, green and brown).
Pencil.
A piece of cardboard for the base.
Since we have to create a craft from paper and cardboard with our own hands, we will compose step-by-step instructions.
We will spill the paper into squares with a side of 2 cm.
We cut the paper into squares.
We take one square, put the sharp end of a pencil in its center and crush the paper around the pencil. (In order not to tear the paper, blunt the pencil, and twist it over the canopy).
Having prepared a sufficient number of details, we proceed to "writing out" the panel.
We draw borders of colored fragments on cardboard.
We begin to fill them in by pasting the prepared squares. For ease of operation, we string the square on the finger, put a drop of glue on its bottom and press it against the cardboard.
DIY Christmas card
Thematic card as a gift to the needlewoman
In the same technique, you can perform more complex paintings in terms of the plot. You can present such a paper craft for your birthday or use it as a decor for a summer cottage or children's room.
You can make very beautiful do-it-yourself paper crafts by replacing smooth sheets with soft napkins. In order to lay out the panel, you do not need scissors and a pencil, just wrinkle multi-colored napkins and make a drawing from shapeless spools.
Cardboard cake with gifts for guests
Valentine's Day decor
Chic decorative shoes
Origami
If you want to decorate your home with paper figurines, you should pay attention to ancient Japanese art. Original origami do-it-yourself paper crafts require care and patience when assembling.
Wedding bridal bouquet
If this is your first time taking up origami, it's best to start with simple designs. For example, here is how a swan gathers. In addition to the diagram, we have compiled a step-by-step description for such a paper craft with our own hands.
Take a square sheet of paper that is convenient for you.
Fold the sheet in half diagonally.
We bend it in both directions and return it to its original position.
Bend the sides of the square, adjacent to one corner, to the central diagonal.
We make the swan's wings by bending the vertices of the resulting triangles at an angle.
We turn the folded sheet down and fold it up diagonally.
We measure at the base of the resulting triangle 1/3 of the length of its larger side.
Now the sharp left corner must be turned inside out. Make sure that its sides form a right angle with the base.
We bend the top of the resulting small triangle 1 time to make the neck of a swan.
We get the swan's tail by bending the right triangle of our workpiece in parallel. We put them in an accordion and the figurine is ready.
Please note that the first experience of assembling origami may not be ideal for execution. Don't worry, repeat the fold a few times to fill your hand.
Funny DIY paper crafts for the summer will help you decorate a summer gazebo or a country house. And we offer you a practical video on how to create a paper lamp:
Paper metropolis
Candlesticks made of paper
Modular origami
Paper crafts - video
Colored paper and thin cardboard are the first materials from which children begin to make flat or three-dimensional figures. Kids paper crafts develop creativity, spatial thinking, and fine motor skills. This is the simplest way to keep children busy in their free time. They will be passionate about the creative process at any time of the year, especially in inclement weather. The ideas, diagrams, instructions and templates offered in the article can be used not only by teachers, but also by parents of preschoolers and primary school children.
Making simple paper crafts yourself is fun and affordable. Every year experts offer new ideas and techniques of work that inspire exclusive decor in the interior.
Paper does not mean what can be done, thrown away and forgotten. If you prepare correctly and do everything very carefully, paper decor will not look cheap and trivial. You can make a lot of beautiful and useful household gizmos from thin colored cardboard and thick office paper. They are suitable for updating the design in a children's room or decorating the whole house for the holiday:
- for the New Year;
- for Easter;
- by March 8;
- for Valentine's Day;
- for the birthday of each family member.
Designers use volumetric figures for interior decor in various styles. For example, twigs of delicate sakura with voluminous pink flowers made using the origami technique from modules are a great idea for a Japanese-style bedroom.
Panels with voluminous butterflies, appliqués in the form of birds or autumn leaves, a tree with owls - a simple and unique decor for a hallway or dining area in country style.
New Year's paper decorations are the best preparation for the long-awaited holiday.
Use all your limitless imagination with enthusiasm:
- openwork snowflakes on the window pane, planted on soap;
- Christmas angels;
- moon and planets;
- garlands with colored paper additions;
- Santa Claus, snowmen, hares and other winter characters;
- volumetric and flat Christmas tree toys.
Children of different ages, girls and boys, are willingly involved in the work. Senior schoolchildren, having practice, on behalf of the mother, become "instructors" for the kids. They can make a complex base in the form of an accordion, fan, flower stem or supporting parts.
Tip: Teach your child to be neat when working with glue so as not to make spots and sagging. And before cutting out something, let him measure it with a ruler, mark and make marks with dots. The lines from the pencil should go to the scraps, and not to the main details. Under this condition, all work will be performed masterfully, and not like a beginner.
Knowing how to make spherical tulips, voluminous daffodils, roses and other flowers, older children are able to make a gift for their mother or grandmother with their own hands. One of the parents will give the child an idea and teach the simplest skills of working with scissors, glue and thin cardboard.
A beautiful paper bouquet in an impromptu vase will stand on the window for more than one month, reminding of the holiday. And for parents there will be another reason to praise their children for their patience and perseverance, to remind when something does not work out.
It is better for beginners to master various techniques and craft according to the easiest schemes. Simplicity and affordability are the secret to the popularity of crafts from the cheapest material.
You can start with children 3-4 years old or when the baby begins to show interest.
Our experts will share their secrets on how to make interesting paper crafts with your own hands using various techniques.
Invite your students to watch a video master class on creating three-dimensional paper flowers.
How to make light paper crafts using different techniques?
- Making cardboard toys from a template is the easiest way, especially if the elders do the hard work for the baby.
Hares in the grass are a simple toy, it can be made "animated" if the characters are not fixed, but made in the slots on sticks.
- Cut one hare (head and shoulders) as a template and multiply with the child, who can circle the cardboard blank several times with a pencil. Do not forget to teach your baby to save paper - to attach templates tightly to each other.
- These bunnies will need plastic running eyes, which are sold in handicraft departments.
- It remains to glue the eyes on the cut out faces, draw the nose and mouth. If you depict them in different ways, you get bunnies with a different expression of the face.
- The length of the ears can be varied or even screwed onto a pencil to lower it.
- Next, you need a strip of cardboard with cut grass in 1 or several rows.
- Behind the grass it is necessary to cut holes along the width of the body of the rabbits so that they “sit” there tightly. And the bunnies themselves are best attached to sticks or paper tubes in order to control.
The toy is ready, now you can use it - the rabbits will tell the child a fairy tale before going to bed on the edge of the back of the crib. At the same time, mom will wiggle these bunnies one by one. For completeness of the plot, you can make a wolf or a chanterelle so that the bunnies hide in the grass (we lower or take out the templates).
In a similar technique, they do any flat animated crafts from colored paper with their own hands. For example, in the window of a house cut from a template. You can put a doll or storyteller there. A grandfather and a woman with a samovar (other characters) can read stories or poems to children at night. Use an easy plot, understood by children, with famous heroes of fairy tales.
A dog and a whole family of puppies will look out of the booth, which are chased away by a cat or rooster. If you succeed in making the tower of the "stone" castle, let the princess and the dragon appear in the window with your dialogues - children love to watch this.
- Curled paper figurines are an easy way to add volume to paper crafts. Experts suggest mastering this at an elementary level, and the baby will make a whole animal world in the children's room in a few weeks.
The easiest way to do it from paper rings and cylinders:
- Bunny.
- A curly bird.
- Chicken.
- Kitten.
- Puppy.
- Frog.
- Owl.
A paper cylinder is a torso, depending on the design of the toy, it can be positioned horizontally or vertically. Attach a paper-cut ponytail and legs to this base. It is most responsible to make a head or a muzzle - flat or voluminous (optional).
If tinkering with birds with a child, then it is better to open the beak. Use chicken feathers or down to make the chicken or cockerel appear more attractive. Eyes can be painted or glued, for this use:
- halved peas or beans;
- "Shifting eyes";
- black allspice;
- flat beads;
- black sequins.
In addition to the toy itself, it will be interesting for children to make a character's "habitat" out of paper: grass, a lake, a house, a hollow, a tree, etc. ... This plot can be memorized and shown in roles to guests on the birthday of the child.
- Paper doll outfits are a popular game for girls. You can buy them ready-made or make them yourself. For those who do not know how to draw, it is easier to cut a Barbie in a bathing suit from the "decoration" and stick it on a cardboard base.
Outfits are made from:
- white paper and decorate with pencils or markers;
- thin colored cardboard;
- velvet paper;
- foil;
- magazines (illustrations with the texture of fabric or fur).
If a mother or a girl has artistic skills, then a fashionista doll can be drawn independently or drawn from a sample you like. Such paper crafts are decorated with paper and fabric applique, feathers and a flower herbarium. The level is a little more difficult - fluffy dresses made of volumetric elements and pleated skirts made of fan folds.
Tip: Do not forget that each outfit should have holders (elements on the edges of the outfit) to cling to the shoulders and waist of the doll. Advanced level - fix a flat magnet inside the cardboard template, and glue a light metal plate or a boot carnation without a cap under each outfit. Usually they turn to their father or grandfather for such help.
Add a Girlfriend and a Prince for the doll, a house or a whole street for walking. If we restrict ourselves to only one "fashionista", she needs a cardboard box or casket in any technique. It is no less interesting to weave a basket of rolled paper for a homemade doll and make a rug.
This is one of the easiest ways to create color patterns. Even a child of 3-4 years old will master the wicker rug step by step.
In this technique, you can do:
- basket;
- bookmark for books;
- patterned rug for paper toys.
Several ways of color combination have been developed. For those who are interested in what kind of crafts can be made from paper, it is enough to master three:
- plain weaving;
- two-color;
- multicolor patterns.
The lightest is a braid, where strips of two close or contrasting shades alternate.
For a rug, dolls will need:
- scissors,
- glue;
- ruler,
- pencil;
- 2 squares of colored paper.
We mark the back sides by 1-1.5 cm, but we do not cut it to the end - a centimeter border is needed along the edge. You should get one shape with not completely cut edges on both sides, the second - cut on one side to the edge. These stripes will simply thread through the first pattern step by step. Then the ends need to be glued. Finish with a border, curly or openwork edges in a different color.
Curled paper or newspaper toys
Another novelty for those unfamiliar with this technique.
Real hand-made masters use this technique to weave furniture from vines and rattan, and from newspaper tubes - interior baskets. Light crafts from twisted white paper start with blanks, then weaving according to the pattern.
Newspapers rolled up in tubes will also become products: after painting with an aerosol, the letters and photos will not be visible, but the secondary material will become a useful decor for the apartment. According to the general pattern, for example, you can weave baskets under old flower pots and flower pots that require renovation.
Another great idea is the stationery basket on the computer desk to put small items in there for general order.
Newspapers are cut with a sharp knife and wound on a thin long knitting needle, after which the edges must be fixed with glue. One sheet of newspaper will make 4 tubes if folded in half twice and cut into 4 equal pieces.
It is proposed to weave:
- A vase for dry ikebana or paper flowers.
- Jewelry box.
- Plafond for the kitchen.
- Frames for family photos.
- Stands for hot glasses.
- Interior inserts, etc.
In Russia, this type of needlework is not yet as popular as abroad, but the number of admirers of paperwork techniques is growing rapidly. This is curling long narrow stripes to create volumetric images. They are combined into three-dimensional images or pasted on postcards.
The examples show how to make paper crafts using this technique.
To begin with, make the lightest samples with the child - a bird or a flower. It will be something new and amazing for him, then his fantasy will develop. First, children need to be prompted for the density of the twist and the need for creases in certain places. Soon they will begin to understand and make new models from "paper filigree" on their own.
This technique is used to make full-fledged souvenirs or decorate the base. The most popular are:
- cards and invitations;
- photo frames;
- earrings;
- gift wrapping;
- Christmas decorations for the tree;
- interior decor.
In handicraft stores, you can find ready-made quilling kits, cut colored stripes for do-it-yourself paper crafts, diagrams and templates.
Facing
Another original way to create volumetric figures, in which you need the same templates from soft paper. They are connected and unfolded, obtaining volumetric figures that can be used to decorate the interior or make a festive decor in the house.
Iris Folding
A new type of work with paper for Russia, which develops creative potential. In principle, nothing new - paper spirals are twisted in a special way, which are used to lay out patterns. If you carefully think over the pattern and shades, you get masterpieces that have a place in a frame on the wall.
Invite your daughter to make a young lady in a fluffy dress, but help her complete the most difficult stages of the work.
Papier mache
This is the oldest technique that periodically comes into vogue and is forgotten again. To some, it will seem new, but to someone it is known for the surprise balls that are hung for the holidays. They are filled with sweets and various sweets, and the birthday boy must knock them down with a bat, releasing the goodies.
A lot of interesting paper crafts were made by craftsmen from glue and torn newspapers. Translated from French, papier mâché is "torn" or "chewed" paper. By applying layer by layer of glue-based scraps, it is easy to get any shape.
The same "surprise balloon" is easy to make by wrapping a large balloon with tissue paper or newspapers and applying layers of papier-mâché. When the layer is ready, the ball is deflated, but the shape remains. It is filled with sweets and the hole is covered with the same “chewed paper” on glue. Decorate the top with colored blocks, foil stars. It is a popular Mexican party entertainment.
If solid figures and sculptures are created, plaster or starch is added to the base. It is easy to do anything with this technique - from fake party hats to decor items in the interior.
A piggy bank in the shape of a pig can be made using this simple technique under the original painting and varnished. You can fill it for years, and then break it, and with this money go to the sea with your family.
Layer-by-layer pasting of an object - "waving". To remove the finished papier-mâché, it must be carefully cut, and the seams must be closed using the same technique. Sometimes they make a liquid mass based on shredded paper, which is squeezed out and made into a shape.
Accordion toys
For children, this is a more difficult level, but an excellent basis for the torso of crafts. Two strips of paper are superimposed with a square on top of each other alternately at right angles until an elastic accordion comes out. It remains to glue the legs, tail and muzzle of funny animals to this base.
Try to make light three-dimensional paper crafts with your child: a caterpillar, frogs, or an arched yawning cat hiding in the grass.
Paper origami is the most popular technique for children's creativity
Many models do not involve working with glue and scissors - the figures are folded according to a certain pattern.
Advanced level - modular origami from triangular elements. Children with spatial imagination lay out entire zoos and cities in this way. Start simple by watching a video tutorial on how to make paper crafts using the modular origami technique:
To consolidate the knowledge gained, we suggest doing:
Paper bud (TULIP) step by step
- Fold a square of red paper (preferably double-sided) diagonally.
- Bend the second diagonal (see photo).
- Collapse with a triangle.
- Fold the corners to the center and top, as well as from the back.
- We will do flat crafts-applications.
- Volumetric crafts from colored paper and corrugated cardboard.
- Crafts toys made of cardboard or thick paper.
- Crafts using different techniques(half-discs, fan, symmetrical fold, postcard).
- unique furniture;
- attractive wall decorations;
- lighting devices;
- mirrors;
- picture frames;
- window curtains;
- decorative vases.
- chandeliers;
- table lamps;
- frames and doors;
- window curtains;
- decorative vases.
- paper flowers;
- birds;
- butterflies.
- To make a volumetric wall hanging step by step, roll several newspapers into a thin tube.
- Now glue these rolled sticks on the cardboard, let the glue absorb well.
- After that, use scissors to cut out any selected shape from these glued paper rolls, such as a heart shape or a flower shape, or choose a doll shape.
- Make sure that you cut the large object identical to the smaller ones (it is best to make the shapes from a template).
- Now take some string with beads and make 5 strings of different sizes by attaching their bases to a paper craft.
- Now choose the color in which the product will be made, come up with some interesting ornaments on top of the base to make the pendant more beautiful.
- You will need 12 sheets of 25x25 cm. At the end it is important to assemble the elements correctly. Always use three elements to combine.
- When you have formed a ball from 12 pieces of figures, take out one block in one place.
- The released two tabs are folded and glued. Repeat the same procedure on the bottom side.
- If the stable base is not handed over from the bottom, the vase may tip over, so the bottom hole is also necessary.
- orchid pattern;
- desktop printer;
- scissors;
- glue;
- paper.
- glue gun;
- scissors;
- glue stick;
- decorative tape;
- colored paper.
- A4 sheet of paper;
- Scissors;
- Glue.
- Download and print the template (see the cat template below) on white or colored paper;
- Cut out the template with scissors, and then make 4 cuts in it along the outlined solid lines;
- Bend your neck along the markings with an accordion and twist the ponytail;
- Bend the dashed fold lines on the legs and glue them to the cardboard.
- First glue the beak to one side of the bird, then to the other.
- Glue the back of the bird starting from the beak, as shown in the photo.
- Glue the wings.
- Now take the part, which is the poultry breast, and at one end, fold and glue the triangle as shown in the photo.
- Assemble the legs, make sure the knees are at a 90 degree angle, then glue the legs to them.
- Well, that's all, it remains only to glue the legs to the body and your volumetric paper craft is ready. If you wish, you can make a whole flock of such birds in different colors with your own hands.
- 1 sheet of colored A4 paper;
- 1 sheet of A4 white paper;
- Scissors;
- Glue stick;
- Markers, pencils and paints.
- 3 sheets of colored paper;
- Glue stick or PVA;
- Scotch;
- Scissors.
Good afternoon, today I decided to collect in one article all ways make paper crafts that are feasible for children. For the craft season of 2017 - it turned out decent photo-piggy bank of ideas, which a child can make out of paper with their own hands. These paper crafts can be used for kindergarten or school (grades 1-5). There will be light crafts for preschool children(from 3 to 7 years old) - for the junior, middle and senior group. And there will also be more difficult crafts that require more long school hours(for 45 minutes) - suitable for labor lessons for children of grades 1, 2, 3, 4. As well as heads of creative circles "Skillful hands" in kindergarten or school, they will find many useful paper craft ideas for themselves.
At the moment, we already have thematic articles with paper crafts on our website,
And also a lot of ideas for paper NEW YEAR crafts in the article:
And in this article, we will look at different techniques that can be used for paper crafts for children of different ages.
So let's see what paper crafts I have collected in this piggy bank.
Origami
In the HALF DISC technique.
Colored paper crafts that we meet in kindergarten and at school most often look like appliques. I like myself very much appliques with effect 3D... There are many ways to create bumps on appliqués.
In this article, I want to highlight a technology that is interesting in its graphicality - these are crafts from round paper disks. When all the work is laid out in the form of whole or folded in half paper rounds.
This round mosaic applique works well for children 3-4 years old. She just suits them for the pedagogical tasks of this age, when children still do not know how to work with scissors, but they are already happy to glue ready-made template modules from colored paper.
Such crafts-applications look bright and unusual due to PARTIAL ADHESION of the modules - we put only half of the disk on the glue, and its second part sticks out with a fold.
And from bent in half circles or ovals, you can make not only flat applications, but also paper craft toys. Here is for inspiration such caterpillar of ovals bent in half- children from 3 years old can cope with this task if you help them fold the ovals in half. Children 4 years old will fold ovals themselves, and even cut out a few of them. And children 5 years old, you need to distribute colored rectangles, they themselves will cut off the corners of the rectangles, thereby turning them into ovals, they themselves bend them in half and fold into a caterpillar.
Be smart and think about WHAT ELSE can be constructed from paper semicircles or half ovals. Surely you can make a frog, panda, giraffe, hippo, penguin from such round or oval half-discs.
VOLUME application
Made of paper blades.
And here is another technology of convex paper applications. When the parts are glued together in advance in the BLADES, and then such a blade paper craft is glued with its blades onto the application cardboard.
The blades are obtained if Bend 3-4 identical parts in half, and then the bent walls of adjacent parts are glued to each other.
For example, the ladybug in the photo below consists of from three paper circles. Cut out three circles, bent them in half. First, on the left and right, we glue the halves bent in half. And then the third round lays down in a booklet on the protruding halves of the glued round ones.
Craft "Ladybug" is suitable for children 3 years old. A craft "Balloon" with a large number of blades is suitable for children 4-5 years old.
Any paper shape can be turned into a blade part, the number of blades and the splendor of the part depends on how many parts you use in your volumetric gluing.
In the same way, you can do paper crafts with your own hands in a volumetric form (in the form of objects) - like these paper fruits in the photo below. Watermelon is suitable for crafts in the senior group of kindergarten.
Origami
ON SPRINGS.
And here is another paper craft with a convex effect. Here, the volume of the applique is conveyed by embossed gluing of a strip of colored paper folded into three folds. It is easy to make such an autumn applique with your own hands - it is suitable for children of the middle and senior group (5, 6 years old).
In the center of the upper fold, we cut a hollow and place the silhouette of an owl inside. So that the owl hangs at a distance from the back wall of the hollow, you need to stick a paper spring on the back of the owl. How to make a spring You will now understand by the example of the following paper craft with a volumetric effect.
Here below we see a paper craft BEAR. Bear's paws are also glued at a distance from the body. And this distance between the legs and the body is achieved by gluing paper springs... Everyone in childhood made such spring worms. Below we see a master class that shows the process of creating such a paper spring and the entire craft as a whole.
The craft BEAR is suitable for children 3 - 4 years old (if all the details have already been cut out and the springs are folded). Children 4 - 5 years old you can slowly cut out the silhouettes yourself. Children 5-6 years old already able to fold the springs ourselves (and the lesson can be divided into 2 parts- in the first lesson we make springs and cut out some of the silhouettes - in the second we cut and put everything together.
In the same way, you can make any craft. Below we see that the crown of the tree is made according to this principle. But you can just as well do a bunch of balloons on a greeting card. Or bouquet of flowers made of paper, where each flower will be at its convex level.
You can highlight any details of paper crafts with a voluminous spring - bird wings, tiers of thorns in a hedgehog (photo below).
Or hares in dense grass (spring craft in the photo below).
You can make such a paper craft too, using springs inside. The effect is beautiful. And the legs-stands for multi-layer applications can be made not from paper springs, but from purchased double-sided thick tape. Such plump scotch tape is for sale - it has a thick foam tape, as it were, and it is sticky on both sides. It can be cut into stumps and glued between the layers of the craft.
From such springs, you can make not only applications, but also independent paper crafts. Make a spring and play with other paper details. For example, attach an oval muzzle, round ears, paws below and a long strip-tail - and now it all starts to look like
And here are the paper penguins' crafts based on the same spring. Or craft bugs. Always in kindergarten there is unused black paper in a set of colored paper - you always don't know what to make of it - but here you are, black bugs, penguins and little crows.
Origami
WITH A FAN.
A paper fan is often used in children's crafts as a way to quickly create the desired shape for a part. Most often, the fan-gluing is used as the tail of paper birds (or as wings).
The fan's spread blades can remind you of the wings of a bat. Children's craft for the middle age (4-5 years old).
The fan is similar to the lampshade of a table lamp, which means it will make an excellent DIY lamp craft (craft for children from 3 years old)
The fan can become the basis for children's crafts in the form of fairy-tale characters - friends of penguins or polar bears (craft for children 5-7 years old).
If you fold the fan in half - and unbend its blades into 2 semicircles - and glue the met semicircles with glue, then we puff ROUND FAN.
You can make a lot of paper crafts for children from such a blank. The simplest and fastest are apples (add a stalk and a leaf) or birds (add a wing, an eye and a beak).
Ready-made blanks of round fans are used in classes with children 3-4 years... And at the age 5 years the child is already given the task of creating such a round fan from colored paper himself.
By adding various details to the paper fan, we can get the image of any animal out of paper (black cat, or red, white bunny (as in the photo with children's crafts below).
You just need to teach children how to make a fan with their own hands, practice several times. Then teach them to bend the fan in half and unfold both halves in two semicircles - and glue these semicircles with a glue stick. And then the children themselves will surprise you, they will throw more and more ideas for crafts, I turn a round paper fan into a snowman, then into a mermaid's bra, into a round red clown nose.
And if we make several round fans of slightly different diameters at once and string them on a wire, then we can get a volumetric spherical paper craft. The fan ball can become an apple, a pumpkin, a snowman, a lamb, a white rabbit and any other child's character.
Kids crafts
on an accordion stand.
There is one more original way to arrange a craft for children from paper material. Below we see the principle of creating such a craft. We fold the usual accordion out of cardboard. And we use it as TIERS for sticking paper parts.
In the photo of the children's craft below, we see how the accordion turned into a craft cake. Each row of the accordion is a tier of cake with candles.
Note, the side high part of the craft in the photo below (where the balloons are) is optional.
In the same way, according to this principle, we can use the rows of the accordion as the rows of trees in the forest. And put a deer or a snowman, or a bunny to hide between them.
Rows of peas can be used as streets on which to place houses.
Or the rows of such a stand can be folded out of blue paper and decorated as SEA WAVES, and then it remains to stick dolphins or rows of ships on them. Or sharks looking out.
Origami
on a flat cardboard template.
And now we will look at crafts for children, where all the elements are glued on a silhouette cut from thick cardboard.
For example, we take cardboard and draw a silhouette of a shark on it. Any child from 4 years old is already learning to cut with scissors - he cuts the silhouette himself with his own hands, slowly crookedly, but he should already myself cut along the line holding the scissors in a stationary hand, and rotate the sheet of cardboard as the cut line rotates along the silhouette.
When the silhouette of a shark is cut out of blue cardboard, we give the child a round blank of white paper - the child's task is to cut it into teeth (just scissors obliquely into triangles with scissors, and then bend each tooth so that it protrudes into the common circle. And this paper mouth remains to stick on the silhouette of the shark. And we'll get awesome craft for children 4-7 years old. Sharks are great crafts for boys. Little brave men will be happy to tame a dangerous sea predator.
The appliqué details do not have to be colored paper. For example, a scarf on a polar bear below was cut from a cover from colored paper (the cover was in a box). And the carrot on the craft with a hare is white cardboard, which was preliminarily painted with gouache (painted yellow-orange-red stripes).
Ideas for the same applications on a cardboard silhouette, you can spy on children's cartoons, or see on children's coloring.
Such paper crafts for children 5 years old can become the basis for a children's theater. If you stick the craft on the back of each long handle made of thin wooden slats(can be bought in the construction department of the store) - or the handle can be rolled up from a sheet of paper and tightly wrapped with tape for density.
Children hiding behind a screen and holding their characters on sticks can act out performances, entertaining parents and grandparents with home reprises of famous fairy tales.
And you can also cut round holes for children's fingers in such a craft - then you can already act out the scenes of the TABLE THEATER. Here in the photo below we see a lamb and a hare made of paper with such slots for the fingers.
Also, your paper characters can have a special FOOT GRIP, and you can insert a candy or a pencil and a small gift for someone into this grip.
by the way, here's a good idea - such a character can be pasted on a postcard and give it to his paws rolled into a roll 100 dollar bill- you will get a gift card with money for a friend's birthday.
Such crafts made of flat cardboard can be supplemented with BEND elements (as in the bunny with the photo below), or with TWIRL elements (as on the snail below). Or additional ANTURAL elements (as with the cat below).
Kids crafts
with paper STRIPES.
Also, the applique can be made voluminous if you use PAPER STRIP HINGES. Colored paper is cut into strips, and each strip is smoothly folded and glued at its ends. These curved stripes can be the petals of a lush aster or a modest chamomile.
Or such paper loops can serve plumage of a swan- left photo below. This craft is suitable for children from 4 years old. They themselves glue the already cut strips into loops and stick them in rows on the tail of the swan.
But the peacock (on the right photo above) is already craft for older children. For grades 1-2 - because in a kindergarten lesson, children in 25 minutes will not have time to make a peacock from start to finish. But in 45 minutes of a school lesson, children will just cope with this task.
Please note that the peacock is made of paper from strips of different lengths. The yellow strip is the shortest - it is the first to bend into a loop. Then the green strip is glued to the loop with one edge and is also bent to the place where the yellow loop-strip is glued. Then we do the same with a slightly longer blue strip.
This gives us EIGHT THREE-COLORED HINGES for the peacock's tail. They all stick together ribs to each other- in one bunch-bouquet. And at the joints of their gluing, we attach peacock spots. Then this tail part of paper we fasten to the back of a cardboard peacock silhouette. Great creative craft.
Below we see how a flower craft is created according to the same principle. In the same way, we make the tail for our peacock from the photo above.
Or a paper craft for girls - SANDALS SHOES - here the strips serve as straps to create a woven toe of paper slippers.
And if you cut strips of the SAME LENGTH, then it is convenient to make a spherical braid from them. Such a braid in the form of stripes crossed in a circle can serve as a shell for a turtle, a balloon, or the middle of a lush flower or a snowball from a snowman.
Or it could be a delicious apple nibbled on the side (left photo below). And inside such an apple, you can shove a worm from a paper spring (see the method with a spring above).
If you glue the strips cross-on-cross in the center ... and punch holes from the ends with a hole punch ... and lift these ends with holes up ... and assemble them on a thread - then we get a paper pear craft (look at the right photo above).
And if take NOT SEPARATE strips - and cut a sheet of paper into strips WITHOUT CUT TO THE EDGE - like a long fringe. And then arrange this long striped fringe in the form of a paper craft-hat.
According to a similar principle, beautiful crafts are made of paper in the form cells with birds. Such a craft only at first glance seems complicated. But in fact, everything is available for children from 4 years old. And even a child at 3 years old can cope with the help of an adult who will show, then spread it with glue and where to stick it.
Below we see this cell in the blank (photo master class). First, these are paper strips on a wide strip of the base. Then we wrap the base in a ring. And we bend the strips sticking up into the arch each relative to each other. Fast and easy craft. It remains only to make a bird out of paper and hang it on a string under this paper roof.
That is, such a craft is easy to do with your own hands for children even 3-4 years old.
And you can also make paper crafts for children from the strips ON THE BASIS OF THE BALL. A ball of stripes is collected on a needle and thread. Since you won't give the children a needle, you can go the other way and make holes in three places of each strip in advance with a hole punch - along the center and along two edges.
The strips are folded crosswise on the central hole - a thread is threaded into it from a suspended bead from below. A large bead at the bottom prevents the stripes from slipping off the thread. Next, a few more beads are strung on a thread (see carefully inside the lamb, they are visible in the photo). And then the same thread is threaded through all the holes at the ends of all the strips - THIS IS A BALL. If anyone does not understand there is a photo master class in
You can attach any details to such paper balls, turning them into frogs or hares (as in the photo of children's crafts below). With your own hands and your imagination, you can make a variety of animals.
These are the chickens and the chicken made by the craftswoman Tatiana. What characters will you come up with? Such crafts from stripes can be carried out in the 1st, 2nd, 4th grade of the school. And it is also suitable for diligent children 5-6 years old.
Origami
in the QUILLING technique.
You can also wrap paper strips in a tight twist roll. Then give this twist the shape of a petal or leaf and make paper applications of flowers with such twists. The technique is quite famous, called quilling. The technique is suitable for children from 5 years old, when the fingers are already dexterous enough to hold the twist on the holder rod.
Below we see how a regular round twist is given different shapes (clamp it with a finger on the right sides) and the twist becomes a teardrop-shaped or cup-shaped or triangular twist. And from such twisted modules we put together a quilling applique.
Below we see children's crafts from colored paper using this technique. You see, paper consumption does not have to be large - the craft itself looks miniature and can decorate a handmade postcard. It will be pleasant for the child to give his mother a hand-made postcard.
Within the framework of a school or kindergarten, the time for such a craft is limited - and we can only make a few of these modules. The process is laborious for children's fingers and takes time. You can divide the craft into 2 lessons - on the first we make modules, on the second we form the craft.
Girls like this children's cupcake-shaped craft very much.
Cupcake and poultry is a very quick craft as it does not require a lot of twists. Such a craft can be done by children in grades 1 and 2 - slowly, gently curling and gluing the twist tails.
But a bear or a bunny is already a paper craft for children who have gotten their hands on simple quilling tasks. For grades 3, 4, 5 - this level of difficulty of do-it-yourself crafts is just right.
By the same principle, you can make larger twisted crafts - if you take not a thin cut strip, but a folded sheet of paper. Thick folding of the sheet will allow you to get large twisted parts and from them you can make a large applique - for example, such a penguin or an owl made of paper.
And also large twisted crafts are obtained from corrugated cardboard. Due to the ribbed relief, such a corton forms wide volumetric parts and it is possible to make 3D paper toys from them. Craft for the senior group of kindergarten or for school (grades 1,2,3,4).
Origami
based on the CONE.
The paper cone is also a good base for kids craft ideas. We all made a Christmas tree from a cone in kindergarten with our own hands. And now we can already make any character out of paper in the form of a conical craft.
So that the cone is not too wide and not too narrow, its spreading (flat pattern) should be at an angle of more than 90 degrees - usually 120 degrees (as in the photo below) - that is, a third of a full circle.
For a giraffe, you can make the cone thinner and sharper. Then we need a quarter of a circle (that is, not 120 degrees, but 90 degrees is enough).
Origami
folded in half.
But children's crafts that are made from a sheet of paper that was bent in half and cut out a silhouette - as a result, we got a double-sided craft with the same symmetrical sides.
And paper birds can also be made using the same technique. In the bird (pictured below), we see that the wings are a fan made of paper or napkin. And in the fold of the upper part of the bird, we make a slit and insert a fan there.
In animal crafts, you can insert the ears of an elephant into such a slot. And also, for example, a lion's mane made of cardboard or thick paper.
You can attach not only wings to such FOLDED CRAFTS, but also a head - which will be perpendicular to the body. See the photo below with an example of a children's handicraft "Black Cat" made of paper.
The head of this cat is attached according to the same principle as the fan-wings of the bird above - ALSO IN THE SLOT. If you look closely, you can see that the head has also fold, which divides the head into 2 planes (back and front).
THE BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD, continues with the ears, AND THE FRONT PLANE OF THE HEAD contains the glued eyes and whiskers of the cat.
A slit is made in the back of the cat (like a bird's wings are higher) - and the BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD is inserted into this slit. And the front plane just hangs in front and is not inserted into the slot.
A very simple paper craft for older children (age 5-6 years). And for children in grade 1-2, it's also great do-it-yourself work.
You can provide for such a scheme of crafts tummy addition- like these hares below. To do this, you just need to draw additional branches of paper in the abdomen area, which then, after the silhouette is folded, WILL BE ROLLED and fastened with a stapler or glue.
You can slightly modify this principle of crafts - leaving the TOP SQUARE BACK between the two halves-barrels. That is, on the top of the part, make not one fold, but two folds at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other - this is how we get the back.
These bears made of cardboard (or thick paper) have just such a back.
And these paper birds (pictured below) also have a back. And thanks to this platform, we were able to foresee the tail part (it became a natural continuation of the dorsal part of the bird).
I specially drew a diagram of the birds - so that it becomes clear to you exactly how to add a backrest to your craft. Here in the diagram below - the back area is highlighted with a purple dotted line. The fold of our craft goes along these lines.
Both birds and bears according to this scheme can be drawn in advance on a paper template, then this template can be circled on a sheet of cardboard by drawing the inner fold lines in advance (those that go along the back). And the child's task is to embed the silhouette of the template and bend it along the inner lines. That is, the craft is available for children from 5 years old, and is suitable for middle and senior kindergarten groups and for school lessons in creativity and work.
Origami
SIMPLE ORIGAMI.
It is difficult for young children to make multi-step origami crafts. Therefore, it is better to start with simple schemes, which are then supplemented with cut out elements, giving them a resemblance to the intended character. So we get easy crafts.
You yourself, with your own hands, you can experiment with a sheet of paper - fold it this way and that, and then think about what this folded sheet might look like ... but what if there are ears, here are eyes, and here is a nose .... wow, it looks like it could be a great MOUSE.
Here is another simple folding of paper along diagonal lines makes it possible to get a fold for the "ladybug" craft. The spots and muzzle can be drawn with a marker or cut out of colored paper.
The simplest thing a small child can do is fold a sheet of paper in two folds and get base-blank for a character made of paper, whose mouth opens, and therefore you can make him not only a muzzle, but also a mouth with teeth and tongue.
Such a children's craft is suitable for training in designing from paper in kindergarten... It requires double-sided colored cardboard or the same thick paper. It is good to buy office colored paper for such crafts - it has a higher density than standard children's colored paper.
Or children can make with their hands such light clamshell crafts. To do this, a sheet of paper (A4 format) is cut along a beveled diagonal. And then folds into 2 folds (to make 3 parts). The wide side of the folded paper is glued onto a sheet of colored cardboard and then decorated according to the concept of the sketch.
Children's paper crafts.
DROP pattern.
If we roll the ends together with a wide strip of paper, we get teardrop-shaped twist.
Based on such a simple blank, you can also make a variety of craft designs - a whale made of blue paper, a ladybug (stick the wings to a drop).
It is convenient to make mice, or a hedgehog from a paper template in the form of a drop.
Can i to such drop-shaped details add from above round paper roll- to get a head. So more options for simple and easy crafts - bunny, duck, swallow.
Turn on your imagination and multiply ideas.
And if a whole series of strips are connected together like CHAIN LINKS, then you can get such a green crocodile from paper loops.
And here are some more simple crafts, which are based on a wide strip, bent into a ring or in scaphoid shape.
In the craft with the boat - we first do boat bottom holder- it's just a small rectangle of paper with small sides bent on both sides. And then to these curved sides we glue the REAL BOAT BOATS FROM BLUE PAPER. Rectangle with center bumpers will not let the sides of our boat collapse to each other.
The craft is suitable for children from 5 years old.
And here is a children's paper craft, where also white paper strips imitate the body of a swan. Here, a roll of white paper rolled into a long tube serves as a form holder. Craft for children 5-6 years old.
Crafts-postcards
from paper.
And of course, if you like making paper and cardboard crafts for children, then opener cards are a suitable topic for children from 3 years old. The ideas for opening crafts can be very different. For example, an aquarium with a fish. Or a Valentine's day craft with spring birds.
You can make a simple children's craft in the form of a castle - the gates of which will open for boys, knights and soldiers, and for girls, beautiful princesses hidden inside a bastion of paper.
Crafts cards can be a great DIY gift for March 8th. For example, here's a cup with tulips. The cup handle can be cut as a separate piece and glued to the barrel of the mug.
Or you can make an apron craft with carved lace from paper (lace can be obtained from ready-made paper napkins, or you can cut a snowflake out of paper, cut off its lace edge and we will get a border for the apron.
You can cut out the silhouette of a can on the craft - glue it with a thin layer of a file (on double-sided tape). And also glue a pocket made of paper (the back wall of the craft) and put hearts in this transparent front pocket.
Here's another technique VOLUME CARDS. It's simple. We fold a sheet of paper into a float. And on the edge of the fold we do 2 notches scissors (any length and width). And then the place between these cuts is simply pushed inside the postcard with a FINGER - and it HOLES OUT in the form of such a rectangular stand.
And now we stick any element on this stand. For example a cupcake.
If you make three pairs of such cuts - push them with your finger inside the card, then you can glue a cupcake on each of them. And on top there are flags. Here is a simple children's craft and ready. Interesting and non-standard.
To get started, practice on a piece of a regular sheet - bend it in half, notch twice and push the notched part inward. You will see that it is simple.
And you can show children in the same way. And then on such a stand (already pushed inside the postcard) you will glue any craft (butterfly, dinosaur, rocket).
Any original ideas can be realized using this technique of volumetric postcards. That is, this is another field for children's fantasy paper crafts.
The longer you make the paired cuts, the further the support strip will be curved inside your postcard. You can see this in the example with the hand-made postcard in the photo below.
Crafts openers can have a surprise in the form of a clamshell fan. You can arrange a peacock with a lush tail under such a folding bed.
Of course, such a complex thread (as in the photo below) is difficult for a child. But for children, any idea can be simplified - let the fan not be carved, but simply cut out the peacock spots separately and stick them on the fan blades.
Or a clamshell inside a postcard can be in the form folding chain of symmetrical elements- butterflies, flowers (that is, the main thing is that there is symmetry of the folds).
We cut out any identical details - butterflies, flowers, hearts. The main thing is that the left half and the right half are like a mirror image of each other. And then these parts can be glued to each other in halves (not smear the whole half with glue, but only the outer edges). And then we get a multi-colored accordion of details. And paste this accordion into the postcard. It is also a beautiful craft - nocturnal butterflies, bright but against the background of a dark sky.
These are the ideas I have collected and systematized - for your future paper crafts. I am sure that now you will not only be able to repeat the crafts presented here with the children, but also CREATE YOUR AUTHOR'S WORKS by each of the proposed METHODS.
After all, when you understand the method, and when you see that it allows itself to be widely interpreted - by multiplying the same technical idea in the form of various crafts - then you just need to CONTINUE THE CHAIN OF IDEAS.
And I wish you the most original creative finds. And children will be very happy to implement them in the most diligent and inspired way.
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Those who love paper products can use them in room decoration and interior design so as not to spend a lot of money. Paper crafts can create unique and highly stylish home interiors. Find out what can turn your apartment into a real treat. More details on this later in the article.
Material features
This is a trend that allows material to be recycled to create:
Paper is a material that has several uses, it is easy to work with, it is environmentally friendly, cheap.
Paper home furnishings and wall decorations are reminiscent of origami-inspired artwork, thus adding incredible detail to contemporary interior design, decoration. Therefore, instead of destroying unnecessary paper, consider turning it into art and furnishings.
You will be amazed at how much plain paper can transform your space.
Design ideas and crafts
Interior design ideas made from paper, such as wall decorations or lamps, have the ability to significantly transform, decorate your interior. Various voluminous and fantastic 3D shapes for decorating walls, ceilings, stairs, home furniture can also be made of paper.
Having a delicate exclusive look, paper products add beautiful accents on:
Decorations can be in the form:
They will add a romantic and interesting touch. Paper products produce a different effect in interior design, depending on the idea - it can be unusual, amazing or beautiful, impressive, stylish, modern or retro modern.
The paper flower design looks amazingly fabulous. They look like beautiful pieces of art that inspire paper recycling and eco-friendly interiors.
To do this, you can dilute this natural material with traditional brick, wood, producing paper structures on the walls and ceiling.
Change your wall and ceiling designs every year to keep your decor fresh, using paper for modern interior designs, wall décor and unique ceiling designs. There are many ideas, places and items where this trend can be used.
So if you are a handicraft enthusiast, then why not try your hand at paper for finishing designs? For interior designers, artists, this universal means of art has become a familiar thing, and they offer their best practices for your creativity.
But more importantly, remember that you are doing more than decorating - you are helping to reduce recycling and saving the environment from clogging.
Newspaper is a great material for work
The newspaper is the element that becomes completely useless the very next day after its release, and the endless advertising products in the form of newspapers in our mailboxes are even more depressed by their generosity.
Thus, we always use it as a garbage object in our home.
But did you know that this particular waste paper can be used as a wonderful component for making beautiful wall decorations or beautiful home decor items!
I wanted to choose for you the most interesting products that you can easily do with your own hands, namely from newsprint, in order to combine business with pleasure - to improve the ecological situation on the planet, to create a beautiful product for your home. Check it out - it's very simple.
Wall decor
Volumetric pendant made of newspaper tubes in the shape of hearts - beautiful and romantic
How to make a gift bag
Choosing handmade gift bags with elements of old newspapers will be the solution that will reveal in you an extraordinary daring personality. After all, it is not easy for our mentality to make a gift in the newspaper, like our grandmothers and grandfathers in the pre-perestroika era. This solution not only leads us to a way of processing things, but, at the same time, fulfills all the necessary transportation requirements usually imposed on packaging - that is, it is still a very good option.
The gift bag can be decorated with a lace napkin - this will make it more festive
Papier-mache bowl
You can also make a daily newspaper basket or giant dry storage bowl.
Beautiful decor
DIY vase
Roll them up tightly as in this video, bend them according to the shape requirements. One of the great things about these newspapers is that the product will be amazingly flexible, so you can create several useful items by rolling them according to your desire.
Furniture items
This product is made according to the quilling principle - wind rolled sheets of newspaper around a pen or pencil using glue, and then paint them in your preferred color. The building material for a decorative vase is ready.
Twisting newspaper sheets into bundles is the best way to use newspaper for DIY craft projects. With these tubes, you can decorate a modern flower vase by gluing strips horizontally or vertically, as well as perform more complex shapes like a mirror frame, photo or wall plates, etc.
Handmade vase
While the recycling process itself can be tricky, the end result is great material from which to make great postcards. Items can be made from such paper. You can make this vase out of any paper you like.
Step by step guide
How to make tropical paper orchids
Tropical orchids are quite expensive, but you can make them out of paper if you love these flowers but don't want to waste your money.
The tools you need:
STEP 1
Print and cut out all the orchid petals shown in the template to the color of your choice.
Then print out, cut out the center of the orchid on a second colored paper, a sheet template on green paper. Cut out two sets of petals, one center, two leaves for each flower.
STEP 2
Use the edge of the scissors to twist each petal and center piece. Fold the leaves in half. Fold each petal backwards to form a bowl. Roll both sides over the leaves.
STEP 3
Attach each layer with hot glue. The largest of the three petal shapes is located at the bottom with curved petals up, followed by glue the two-piece petal in the center and central part on top of the two layers of petals.
STEP 4
Attach the sheets by flipping the flower over and placing two sheets in the back.
STEP 5
To make a hair clip, bracelet, or gift wrap, glue the fastener to the back of the flower.
STEP 6
Attach the trunk. For an orchid on a stem, bend the end of the wire at an angle. Cut out a small leafy shape, making a one-third cut in the center and drawing a corner of the wire into that fold. Glue the petal and wire on the back of the orchid.
STEP 7
You can use ready-made orchids not only in decor, but also to make a gift, a bouquet, wear them on a sweater or in your hair.
STEP 8
These orchids can be a great alternative to a bridal bouquet or decoration.
Flower garlands
Create a playful mood with these easy-to-make paper flowers.
You will need:
STEP 1
Choose colors
Choose a matching color for a balanced color scheme. For a monochromatic approach, consider layered shades and shades of the same color. For a more multicolored effect, mix together those shades that differ in contrast.
For a more feminine look, stick to muted colors and pastels mixed with neutrals such as dark brown, brown, or soft gray.
STEP 2
Fold in half
Use square sheets as the rosebuds are perfectly round. Rectangular papers should be cut to a square shape. The first step in this process is to fold each piece of square paper in half.
STEP 3
Fold in a quarter
After everything has been evenly folded in half, fold it back in quarter.
STEP 4
Turn a square into a circle
With a quarter folded, use scissors to round the edge.
STEP 5
Unroll the circle
Expand to open the form. Once you've managed to create the perfect sphere, it's time to move on to the next step; however, if the result is oblong or oval, it is best to repeat the previous step until a perfect circle is created.
STEP 6
Starting at the outside edge and working your way towards the center, cut out solid circles in a spiral.
STEP 7
Form the center of the flower
As you reach the end of the circle when cutting the spirals, leave an oval tab at the end with a diameter of about 2 cm. This is the part of each paper bud that will hold the spirals together with the glue.
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Making paper crafts with your own hands is a simple, inexpensive and very interesting activity for both children and parents. All you need is paper, scissors, glue, and some cool ideas. In this material you will find 7 step-by-step master classes on needlework from different types of paper and 50 photo ideas for your inspiration.
Idea 1. Volumetric crafts
We offer the smallest needlewomen to make a simple volumetric paper craft in the form of such a cat.
Materials:
Instructions:
For older children, there is a more difficult task, namely a master class on making a volumetric paper craft in the form of a bird.
Instructions:
Step 1. Download and print the layout diagram (see below). Note that the file contains a colorless template so you can print it on colored paper.
Step 2. Cut all the pieces exactly along the solid lines using a breadboard knife.
Step 3. Fold all the fold lines according to the principle: bold dotted line = fold inward, thin dotted line = fold outward.
Step 4. Glue the parts together by glueing their corners (with the words Glue). Stick to the following order:
Idea 2. Wall panels, paintings and applications
It is known that you can draw not only with paints on paper, but also ... with paper on paper. Such classes are no less exciting and useful for the development of hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, perseverance, the ability to plan their work, to combine colors, shapes and materials.
The next selection of photos presents ideas for paintings, panels and paper applications for children of different difficulty levels.
By the way, an applique can be made of parts of the same shape, but different sizes and colors. These can be circles or hearts. The next slider shows examples of such paper crafts and schemes for their manufacture.
And here are some more examples of interesting paper crafts of different types.
Now we offer you to get acquainted with a master class on making an original, but very light paper craft. We have no doubt that such cute figures will help instill an interest in reading books in your child.
Materials:
Instructions:
Step 1. Bend one half of a white A4 sheet in half and let the child draw on it the cover of his favorite book on his own, also signing the title and the name of the author.
Step 2. Cut three long strips from a colored sheet about 2.5 cm wide. You will have 4 parts: 2 stripes for the legs, 1 stripe for two arms and one rectangle to create the body of the figurine.
Step 3. Take two strips (for the legs), fold them like an accordion, and then glue them to the body-rectangle.
Step 4. Divide the remaining long strip into two equal parts, draw fingers at the ends and glue to the body.
Step 5. Bend the top of the figurine to the front side and make bangs with it using scissors as shown in the photo.
Step 6. Cut out circles from the remaining half of the white sheet and glue them on the figure as if they were glasses.
Step 7. Draw the details of the eyes, mouth, nose and temples of the glasses with black marker.
Step 8. Now glue the book to the hands of the figurine and finally place it on the table or hang it on the wall, for example, near a bookshelf.
Idea 3. Hats
All children love transformation games and for this they use everything that comes to hand. To provide your child with props, you can make fancy hats with him. By the way, such colored paper crafts can be made for one or several children for a performance, masquerade, themed birthday or any fancy-dress party. In the next selection of photos, you can see examples of a wide variety of paper "hats" - from pirate cocked hats to wigs.
Today we invite you and your baby to make a hat in the shape of a dinosaur head. This master class is so simple that a child from the age of 3 will need very little help from you.
Materials:
Instructions:
Step 1. Cut 4 strips about 3 cm wide along the long side of the sheet of paper. Two of these strips will turn into a headband, and the other two - into “cap” crossbars, on which the dinosaur spikes will stick.
Step 2. Take two other sheets of paper and cut them into strips about 5 cm wide along the short side of the paper. You can measure and cut stripes by eye, but in the end you should get 5 strips from each sheet. We need these blanks to make thorns.
Step 3. Fold each blank for the thorns in half and, stepping back about 1.5 cm from the fold, draw a marking in the form of a triangle up to the very edge (see photo). Next, just cut out the future spikes.
Step 4. Glue two strips-crossbars, and then glue spikes on them in a row as shown in the photo below.
Step 5. While the glue is drying, adjust the two pieces of the headband to fit the circumference of the child's head, and then use tape to join them in a circle.
Step 6. Now let's go back to the spikes. Turn the crossbar over so that the spikes are on the table and bend each of them well (see photo). Form the first spike: cover one side with glue and connect it to the other. Use paper clips to hold the spike in place until the glue dries. Repeat these steps for the rest of the pins.
Step 7. After the glue is dry, remove the staples from the cleats and simply glue the crossbar to the headband at the front and back.
Idea 4. Toy figurines from toilet paper rolls
Toilet paper rolls are great kid's craft blanks that only need a little embellishment. For example, you can make such wonderful toys from them.
