How to fold a paper boat: scheme, folding instructions, correct folds along the lines and the final version

Spring, summer and autumn are wonderful seasons. It is at this time that nature gives us such a wonderful phenomenon as rain. And despite the fact that rainy weather for adults creates more problems than benefits, rain for children, and especially rain with a thunderstorm, is a grandiose event from the category of adventures. Still would! In the summer after rain, secretly from your mother, you can tinker in puddles, measure their depth and, of course, launch boats.

But few (especially mothers) in the childhood folded boats. And the little son demands. What to do? We will learn the basics of how to fold a paper boat from a piece of ordinary thick paper and how to make sure that this boat does not drown, saturated with moisture.

Which paper is suitable?

The boat will turn out of paper of any type. The quality of the paper itself does not affect the process of how to make a paper boat with your own hands. If you fold it like an origami toy to put it on a chest of drawers later, it is better to take some kind of colorful paper. To look more spectacular. The density is all the same. In terms of training, a newspaper sheet is also suitable.

But in order for buoyancy and the strength of the boat to be higher, it is better to make it at least from a sheet torn from an album for drawing. There paper is denser, which means that the boat itself will be stronger and more durable.

What tools should be prepared?

Since a paper boat can be folded simply by bending a paper sheet according to a given pattern, no tools are needed. But some, to give sharpness to the bends, use a ruler. Therefore, those who want his paper boat from landscape paper to look 100% perfect should prepare an ordinary student ruler, a sheet of A4 paper and scissors - in case you need to align the edge of the torn sheet. A great choice would be a sheet from a student album for drawing.

Preparation stage

In modern times (as, indeed, in all the rest) all pages of books, albums and newspapers have the shape of a quadrangle. Therefore, before starting to explain how to make a paper boat step by step, you should prepare one of the sheets of the album or notebook, simply tearing it out and leveling the torn edge with scissors.

Detailed instructions for folding the boat

Now that we have a prepared quadrangular sheet of paper, we proceed to a detailed briefing on how to fold a paper boat step by step. And here is how we do it:

1. The prepared sheet must first be folded along the transverse midline. This is done easily, you just need to make sure that the opposite sides of the rectangle coincide perfectly with each other. You can draw a nail along the bend line so that the bend is more “fixed”. Those who have prepared a ruler, you can use its help. The main thing at the moment the ruler draws along the bend line is to firmly press the resulting double quadrangle to the table, otherwise, if the bend deviates slightly, the opposite sides will no longer match perfectly, and the boat itself will be slightly uneven.
2. We place the sheet bent in half with the bending line up. Our task is to find the center of this side of the bend. To do this, we again fold our blank in half, but we notice only the center of the side of the initial bend. When outlined, unbend a sheet of paper to a half-folded state.
3. The sheet again lies before us with a bend line from us. Now that we have drawn the center of the quadrangle along the bend line, we need to fold the opposite upper corners of the sheet so that their sides, which currently form the only bend line, meet in the middle of the sheet evenly and tightly to each other. The lower edges, which are located after the operation parallel to the bottom of the sheet, should, as it were, continue each other and coincide 100%. Otherwise, the cabin of our boat, whose function will subsequently be performed by the upper part of the angle obtained during the bending of two opposite sides, will be slightly skewed. Now we have such a blank.

The second part of the assembly of a simple boat

1. We continue our instructions on how to make a paper boat, and our next step will be to bend the lower rectangular strips, not covered by bent corners. Bend the front strip first. This is done exactly along the bottom line of the edges of the corners bent before this. Then we turn the workpiece over on the other side and bend the corners of this strip sticking out due to the main resulting triangle.
2. Now do the same with the other lower bar. We also bend along, then bend the corners. It turns out here is such a triangle. But it's too early to rejoice. This is far from a boat. Move on.
   
3. The next step is to make a quadrangle from our triangle by connecting its opposite angles; not bending, but in spatial execution. That is, we insert a hand inside the triangle, as if revealing the figure, and connect its opposite sides. This time it should turn out such a thing.
   
4. How to fold a paper boat from the resulting blank? In fact, there is very little left, and these actions are the most responsible and for some - the most incomprehensible. And we do this. We bend the edges on the side of the quadrangle, where the strips of paper overlap, up.
   
   Bent on one side, turn over, just bend on the other. The vertices of the bent corners and sides of the main triangle of the workpiece, to which we bend them, must exactly match. Upon completion of the manipulations, such a triangle should turn out.
   
5. Now comes the most crucial moment of how to fold a paper boat. Slightly straighten our workpiece in space.
   
   Now we take up the corners at the top and stretch them in opposite directions. Opening up, our blank will turn into just such a real boat.
   
6. After the resulting boat can be modified. To sharpen the angles of bends, to correct irregularities. But in general, the boat is ready. Such a product will perfectly float on streams after rain until the paper from which it is made is wet. About how to protect the boat from getting wet, write below.

How to prevent the boat from getting wet?

So that your child does not run and every five minutes does not molest you, so that you put him a new boat, you can make him one "long-playing". To do this, take a brush, melt a paraffin candle and coat the bottom with liquid paraffin. After the paraffin hardens, the boat will become waterproof.

Origami boat with two sails

Next, we will tell you how to make a two-sail paper boat step by step. First of all, for this we need exactly a square sheet of paper. So, the “build” method:

1. We bend the sheet diagonally, exactly combine the sides related to one of the right angles. The strip that the upper triangle resulting from diagonal bending did not cover will be superfluous. In order not to use scissors and a ruler with a pencil, simply bend the remaining (extra) piece of paper sheet along the line of the resulting double triangle. Draw along the bend line with your fingernail. Then simply gently tear off (cut off) the excess strip.
2. Next, bend the square on a different diagonal to outline the bending lines that will come in handy later.
3. We bend two opposite corners to the center. These will be future boards.
4. We leave one corner not bent, it will make a large sail. The second (opposite to the big) angle is slightly bent so that the second sail is shorter.
   
5. Bend the workpiece diagonally on the sails on the other hand.
6. Opposite sides should be set inside the future model so that the bottom of the ship becomes triangular. At first glance, this may seem complicated. But there is nothing complicated. Look here. We bend the first side, forming a large sail.
   
7. Now we bend the second side, forming a small sail.
   
8. We bend the bottom from below, thereby forming a kind of stand for the resulting origami.
   

Here is a ship with us should go.

Ship with two pipes

Here again we need exactly a square sheet of paper. So, as in the last case, we cut off the excess and proceed:

1. Fold all four corners so that their tips converge exactly in the middle.
2. Turn the workpiece over and do the same operation.
3. Turn over again and repeat the bending of the corners to the center for the third time.
4. Turning the workpiece over, we straighten the opposite corners. First one, then another. It will be pipes.
   
5. On the line of the remaining corners, open our ship.
6. Having expanded, we finish the bending lines - and the model is ready.
   

Yes, in appearance such a ship does not look particularly “floating”. Its sides are divided by transverse sections, and in general, it is somehow not inspiring confidence. But until the paper is completely saturated with moisture, such a steamer will keep afloat very well.

Conclusion

To make a paper boat of any configuration with your own hands is not a difficult task. Only now the first option will be kept afloat humanly, especially if treated with paraffin. Yes, and he looks more presentable. An origami boat with its own stand is generally not suitable for swimming. Well, the ship’s bottom is suspiciously bifurcated. So for games the child is best to make a regular boat, as in the first case.