"Eternal flame" of paper with your own hands how to do?

Get ready for Victory Day with your child? Do you need to make an “eternal flame” of paper with your own hands in a kindergarten or school? Read in what ways you can make a beautiful craft. Choose the appropriate option, simpler or more complex. Together with an adult, each idea is realized quickly. Absolutely accessible devices are used.

Options and techniques for creating

You can make "eternal flame" from paper with your own hands in the following versions:

• In the form of applications for postcards, wall panels.
• Make volumetric composition of flat parts.
• Apply paper plastic methods and create a three-dimensional layout of the monument.
• Run a souvenir using the modular origami technique.
• Assemble a composition of parts twisted using quilling technology.

The first options from the list are the simplest. Even kindergarten pupils will cope with them. For older children, more complex methods are suitable, especially if adults organize a joint creative process.

Materials and Tools

To create the Eternal Flame from paper with your own hands, you will need the following:

• Thick paper or cardboard in white, silver or golden hue for pedestal and star.
• Thin sheets of yellow, orange, red to make fire. It is good to use translucent crepe or tissue paper.
• Base material (postcard blank, panel or stand for volumetric composition).
• Pencil.
• Eraser.
• Ruler.
• Compass.
• Scissors.
• Glue.

From the above list it is easy to make a simple but beautiful “eternal flame” of paper with your own hands. How to do each method, you will learn in detail later. It is worth noting that if you want to work in the technique of quilling, you will additionally need to cut the paper into narrow strips. This is best done with a special cutter with markings, and you will also have to prepare a torsion tool, for example, a toothpick, a knitting needle, a ballpoint pen, or something similar. Otherwise, there will be no problems.

Do-it-yourself eternal flame from paper: how to make an application

This is the easiest way to work. It is so easy to make a postcard or wall panel. The sequence of work is as follows:

1. Cut out blanks of different colors from paper for flame, pedestal, and other elements, such as carnations or numbers. Templates can be drawn independently or printed.
2. Prepare the foundation. Paint the background if necessary.
3. Glue all the parts in layers. You can make some elements more prominent. This is easy to implement by folding the shape of the flame and tissue paper cloves.
   
4. If necessary, you can add additional decor (finish the elements of the salute, stick the St. George ribbon, etc.).

The craft is ready.

Do-it-yourself eternal fire from paper: master class (volumetric option)

In this way, a small sculpture-model of the monument is performed. Work as follows:

1. On the back of the sheet prepared for the base of the burner, build patterns of several blanks in the form of five-pointed stars of different sizes. This is done by dividing the circle using a compass.
2. Cut fabricated patterns.
3. Stick them on the base (stand) in layers from the largest to the smallest. Three elements will suffice.
4. Cut flat flame blanks from plain or crepe paper.
5. Glue the paper tongues to the center of the top star. Crepe paper can be stretched slightly, giving the blanks a more realistic look.
6. If desired, decorate the product with additional paper flowers, a St. George ribbon and dates.

Work is done.

How to create a 3D star

Another way is easy to make even more spectacular and realistic "eternal flame" of paper with your own hands. Templates for the star can be downloaded ready-made or built by yourself.

Method One:

1. Draw a triangle measuring 16x12x7.5cm or other, more suitable for you on thick cardboard. Cut the workpiece.
2. According to the prepared template, circle 10 identical parts with allowances of 0.5 - 1 cm.
3. Cut out all the elements.
4. Begin joining the blanks in pairs in the form of rays, gluing the seams inward.
5. When the five parts are ready, connect them together.
6. Circle the resulting star in the base along the contour, having provided allowances, cut it and glue it as a bottom to the volumetric part.

The second way:

1. Print a five-pointed star pattern or build it with a compass.
2. Draw on a ruler all future fold lines (if they are not on the template). Add allowances for gluing each beam.
   
3. Cut the workpiece.
4. Swipe along all the fold lines with a non-writing ballpoint pen, knitting needle, or something similar. Perform folds. The drawn lines allow even dense cardboard to be folded absolutely evenly. Details turn out accurate without jamming.
5. Glue the elements to allowances.
6. You can make a bottom, as in the previous method, or provide for advance allowances along the second side of each beam, on which you will stick the star to the base.

Quilling

This technique allows you to make the original craft "eternal flame" of paper with your own hands. For children, this method is not only very exciting, but also useful, since paper rolling perfectly develops fine motor skills. In this way, you can make both a flat decoration for a wall or decoration elements for a postcard, as well as a voluminous composition. The work goes in the following order:

1. Prepare strips of decorative paper with a width of no more than 5 mm for flame details in yellow, orange, red and silver, gray or gold for a star.
2. Screw the strips onto a toothpick or a special quilling tool, and then form a suitable configuration by removing the part from the stick and slightly unwinding and bending, if necessary. Drop-shaped blanks are better for fire, and the star can also be laid out in dense, untwisted circles. Remember to fix the elements with glue.
3. Assemble the composition from the created blanks by gluing together the elements. You can do this using a pre-drawn outline template in the shape of a star and flames.

Origami

This technique also allows you to make a beautiful "eternal flame" of paper with your own hands. The photo above demonstrates this. It uses modular origami. To do this, you will first need to make many modules of different colors, and then form a star and fire design from them, starting from the center of the lower layer to the edges of the star and up, creating a flame shape. Options may vary.

So, you saw how to make "eternal flame" from paper with your own hands. You can perform any of the presented options both at home and in an organized group. Choose an idea that is appropriate for the age of the children. Create commemorative postcards, sculptures, panels as themed decorations for cabinets, as well as gifts for veterans.