Boys of all ages love to play soldiers. Well, and what kind of game can be without weapons, vehicles and suitable equipment? Of course, soldiers also need parachutes. So, how to make a parachute out of paper?
Available varieties
From an ordinary leaflet, you can make three types of parachute: in the shape of an umbrella, the usual quadrangular and with a special propeller. You can make any of them, which seems prettier. Small umbrellas are suitable for soldiers, for equipment it is necessary to do something more massive and impressive. Of course, you can also make a parachute in the form of an origami, but this is more difficult than creating the same with glue and scissors.
The lightest parachute
To make it, you will need thin paper, scissors, a spool of thread and stationery glue. Such a paper parachute is made as follows. A white or colored sheet is taken, cut out in which nothing is needed. With glue and small pieces of paper, you need to stick a thread of the same length on each corner of the sheet. All four cords are tied into a knot almost at the very bottom, and a cardboard square is tied to or glued to their ends. The last step: first bend the parachute along one diagonal, then along the other to make sides. Everything, the parachute is ready, it only needs to be thrown into the air, where it will open.
Parachute umbrella
But how to make a parachute out of paper if you want to make something more complicated? To do this, you will have to acquire additional materials. You will need all the same scissors, a small stick with a length of thirty centimeters, and a diameter no thicker than a centimeter, rings of paper, thread, thin paper or light fabric (silk will do). First, you need to stick a ring of paper on the stick, placing it on the border of the upper third of the entire length of the stick. Now the second ring of a larger diameter is glued so that it moves freely. It is to him that the future cables - strings are attached. To keep them better, you need to make a third ring and stick on top. Now an even circle is cut out of fabric or paper, its middle is fastened with a pin to the end of the stick. Cooked cables are attached around the circumference of the future parachute. Everything, the work is finished. To model revealed, it is enough to throw it into the air as high as possible. That is why such parachutes are convenient to launch using a slingshot.
Propeller Model
There are unusual examples of equipment. For example, how to make a parachute out of paper with a propeller? This is more complicated than making the rest of the models. You need to take any capron stocking, a thin steel wire and an ordinary wire softer. Steel is bent into two parts, and then these parts are bent in the form of an arc. The ends are crocheted. On the ends of the wire (but not on the hooks) you need to wind a soft wire. The curved part of the arcs is wrapped with nylon. Flags and a figurine of a soldier who will descend by parachute are cut out of paper. It remains only to make a sling, with which it will be possible to launch the resulting parachute.
Whatman parachute
Having figured out how to make a parachute out of paper, one can easily invent more colorful models. For one of them you need a piece of paper, pencils or bright colors, scissors with thread, an ordinary plate and a soldier who will fly with it. First, a plate is drawn on a piece of paper. It turns out an even circle, from which you need to cut a sector of degrees 15. Now that the workpiece is done, you can paint it with all the drawings or patterns that come to mind. The more colorful the better. When the art dries, you need to make four holes around the entire circumference, and glue the circle itself so that a dome is obtained. In the cut holes, you should thread the cables, tie them into a knot, wrap them with the figure of a soldier. Everything, you can run.