Visually study the continents and water spaces most conveniently with the layout of the globe. However, not everyone has the opportunity to purchase a finished globe. Then you can feel like a creator and make a planet yourself in miniature. Moreover, it can be made in several ways. Consider how to make a globe with your own hands out of paper.
Preparatory stage
Cover with newspapers, waste paper or a special oilcloth the table on which you are going to make. Prepare all the necessary materials so that in the process you are not distracted by their searches.
You will need:
- pans
- glass containers;
- a spoon;
- water - five glasses;
- flour - one cup;
- newspapers or consumer paper;
- balloon;
- primer;
- tassels;
- paints (acrylic or gouache, diluted with PVA glue);
- scissors;
- hot glue;
- sleeve from toilet paper;
- plastic plate (cake stand).
The globe needs a foundation. Therefore, you need to figure out how to make a ball of paper with your own hands. Ideally, you need a round balloon. Choose the diameter with which you want to make the globe. Inflate the ball and tie it tightly. Put it on a cup or any other convenient container that can serve as a stand. If you want to make the most realistic layout of the planet, then try to achieve a slightly flattened shape. If you find only a standard oval ball, simply inflate it slightly.
Cook paste
Before you make a globe with your own hands out of paper, you need to prepare a binder solution - a paste. Pour four glasses of water into the pan and put on a fire to boil. Meanwhile, in a different bowl, knead the flour with the rest of the liquid. As soon as the water boils, gradually introduce the mixture into it, stirring constantly.
Reduce the heat to a minimum and cook for a couple of minutes. Do not stop stirring, otherwise it will burn. The finished paste can be put in a cool place so that it cools faster.
How to make a paper ball with your own hands
Narrow the newspaper with your hands into small strips or squares. Lubricate the balloon with oil or petroleum jelly. Put a pan with a binder solution in front of you. Dip newspaper pieces in a paste and apply to a ball. So make some layers. Do not forget to leave a small hole through which you will then take out the ball. Cover the remaining paste with a tight lid or plastic bag. Leave to dry the workpiece for a day.
Preheat the adhesive mixture and repeat the whole process. That is, wrap the ball with pieces of paper and let it dry. In principle, you can stop at this stage. But the more layers of paper, the stronger the ball will be.
We are already approaching how to make a globe with your own hands. From paper we made not completely closed blank, but with a small hole. Pierce a balloon through it or untie the tip and blow it off. Do not release the tail, hold it with your fingers. Remove the balloon. The result was a hollow blank of papier-mâché in the shape of a ball.
We paint and create continents
The future globe is primed and allowed to dry. Now paint the ball blue. So simulate the oceans and seas. By hand or using stencils, draw continents with a pencil. Paint them with green, brown, yellow and white paints, drawing on a real layout. Optionally sign the names of continents, reservoirs, islands, and so on. Now it remains to make a stand to get a desktop globe. But first, consider how else you can make a map of the world.
Other options for creating continents
Paint the globe in blue. We cut ready-made continents from paper and glue to the ball. You can leave the card white so that during the learning process the child himself paints the continents and water spaces in the right colors. And you can completely cover the globe with blue paper, and then apply the continents.
The easiest way is to transfer a ready-made map of the world. Some craftsmen process the image in a graphical editor: enlarge, stretch, and then print and paste. And you can do even simpler - take as a basis the ready-made layout of the globe made of paper. For example, you can use the image above, resizing it to the desired size.
Globe stand
Take the toilet paper sleeve, make cuts on one side and bend it. Apply hot glue to them and attach to the middle of the plastic plate. Instead, you can take the bottom of the round box from under the cake. If necessary, expand the hole in the globe. Insert the other side of the sleeve, pre-lubricated with glue, into it. Globe desktop ready. If the blank from papier-mâché turned out to be quite weighty, then weight the base with plaster or use a container with sufficient weight instead of a plate.
How else to make the basis for the globe
- Just crumple the newspapers and wrap paper in several layers until you get something that looks like a ball. The method is simple and quick, but not neat.
- Buy a ready-made foam blank.
- Use Christmas balls if you want to make a small globe.
Take volleyball, football, gymnastics or another ball of suitable diameter as the basis. On them you can immediately draw or paste the continents. And you can use them as a form for papier-mâché. Only the paper blank will have to be cut to retrieve the ball. But you can attach loops to the halves and turn the model of the planet into a box.
Now you know how to make a globe with your own hands out of paper. Try to make it with your children, they will definitely like this fascinating process.