Tablets and smartphones are modern gadgets that are difficult to do without today. However, their popularity has grown so much that they inexorably force out traditional toys and are of great interest to young children. For a child of preschool age, the ideal option for games is a home-made device. How to make a tablet out of paper, and what materials will be needed for such a craft?
Paper Tablet: Material Preparation
To make a paper analogue of the tablet, you will need a modest set of materials, tools and very little effort. So, for crafts, you need to prepare:
- Scotch;
- glue;
- paper;
- felt-tip pens or pencils;
- scissors;
- cardboard;
- decor elements;
- colored paper;
- magnet and paper clip.
There are several options for creating toy tablets. Let's consider some of them.
Paper tablet with magnet
A paper tablet can be made in any color. Having decided on the shade, you need to take a colored sheet and cut out a rectangle from it, which will be the basis of the future device. Then you should take cardboard and cut another rectangular piece. The size of the latter should be 2-3 cm smaller than the first. The cardboard template should be laid out in the center of the color sheet. Next, you need to bend the side parts, and lower and upper edges to curl up so that the folds are not so noticeable.
You can go the other way - cut off the excess parts with scissors. How to make a tablet out of paper to make the toy interesting? To do this, cut out two square parts from sheets of different colors and stick them to the workpiece. Before you do this, you need to place a paper clip on one of the squares.
Once the front part is ready, you can begin to create a screen. It is done using A4 white sheets. These leaflets need to be trimmed to the rest of the details of the future toy. The prepared parts are attached to the tablet and pressed with a magnet.
Cardboard tablet
How to make a tablet out of paper if there is no magnet at hand? To make the toy durable, you can use another method. This time, thick cardboard (0.5 cm) will come in handy. A thin material is suitable as a base, from which, as in the first embodiment, a rectangular part is cut out. Then, on a thicker cardboard, you need to mark the same rectangle. A window should be cut out in the center, indented on each side by 1.5-2 cm. An identical frame should be cut out of thin cardboard.
Thick cardboard frame needs to be finalized. One of the sides must be cut off, in other words, a piece in the form of the letter "P" should be obtained from cardboard. However, you need to cut it so that it is not shortened. As soon as all the elements are cut, you can start assembling. A U-shaped part needs to be glued to the base, and on top of it is a frame made of thin cardboard. If white or gray cardboard was used, the top can be pasted over with colored paper. A4 sheets need to be cut so that they can be pushed through the side hole.
How to paint a craft?
How to make a tablet out of paper to make it interesting for games? To do this, it must be painted. The menu can be created at your discretion. To "open" one of the windows, you just need to pull out a piece of paper. On the bottom panel of the toy, you can create an imitation of buttons or give a name to the resulting home-made "gadget". To make the paper model a worthy copy of the original, you can print the image of the tablet’s desktop on white cardboard and stick it on the base.
IPad out of paper
How to make a tablet out of paper according to the scheme, we figured it out. Consider a way to create an iPad Mini 3. This will require the same materials as for the manufacture of a conventional paper tablet. The printed image of the iPad Mini 3 desktop needs to be cut so that the picture has edges that can be folded back.
To create the reverse side of the paper "gadget" you need to make a printout with the famous "apple" and the inscription iPad. One of the cut out pictures needs to be attached to a cardboard and outlines. Using a clerical knife, it is necessary to cut a rectangular part. This model should turn out with rounded edges. The front of the tablet must be glued to a cardboard base, then you need to bend the edges and fix them with glue. Rounded edges need to be glued so that the tablet lasts as long as possible and does not lose its original shape.
The Apple emblem needs to be glued to the back of the craft using regular glue, but the Moment glue is ideal for rounded ends, since it is important that they dry as quickly as possible. Now you know how to make a tablet out of paper, a photo and a diagram of which are presented in our article.