Paper is a unique material for creativity. Children adore its properties: crumple, tear to pieces, take any shape under the influence of scissors, transform from a flat sheet into three-dimensional figures as a result of folding and subsequent straightening. Light paper crafts created in this way are called "origami."
Why learn to make origami
This is an interesting and useful activity for children. It develops fine motor skills, imagination, spatial thinking, sense of form and ability to combine, patience and accuracy. In addition, the child brings joy, satisfaction and a sense of self-worth, self-confidence, and stylish decor items in the interior.
The main advantage of this type of activity is accessibility for everyone. Get the right material and learn how to make paper crafts (origami) together with your children, square folding sheets can help you get a good result.
Preparation for work
1. Prepare the workplace. It should be even, clean, have a sufficient area for convenient location of paper and operations with it.
2. Read the instructions carefully.
3. Gather everything you need to work. For the manufacture of crafts shown in this article, these are: paper, scissors, glue, wire. You will need invisible threads (thin fishing line for bead jewelry). Nippers, cardboard, black marker, pencil, ruler, mat and knife for cutting paper.
4. Think about what you are going to do, what the result should look like and how you will use it.
You are ready? So get started!
Flying birds: learning to make paper crafts and
To make flying birds, you need office paper. Colored squares (with a side of 10 cm) are perfect. You can use any other kind of paper products. Please note that the material used is not heavier than office paper. It is desirable that it be colorful. The dimensions of the bird can be changed, but its square is the correct shape.
In the diagram:
- dashed line - fold (fold line);
- red line - completed addition;
- red arrow - folding direction;
- black twisted arrow - turn the product with the other side to itself.
It is important that you follow the instructions carefully and carefully follow all the steps.
When the bird is ready, it remains only to draw her eyes with a marker. Any light paper crafts painted by children look more interesting.
One bird is good, and a whole flock is even better. Make your birdie girlfriends out of paper in a different color.
Tip: you can use white paper, but it is better to take double-sided color or with drawings.
Then your product will look good from any direction. Now think about how you will use paper bird. You can decorate a gift box with it. But it’s much more interesting to make a mobile, and then your feathered craft will gain life on the move.
Making a mobile
So, you could not resist and created a colorful flock of flying birds. Now you need to combine light paper crafts into a complete composition using wire and transparent threads (thin fishing line). It is better to take a floristic wire. It fits in diameter. It’s easy to work with. In addition, it will organically look in the product. However, if you do not have a floral decor, you can take any material available to you.
This craft is good in that it can be done collectively. A group of children can prepare birds. There is a lesson for kids. Who can paint eyes better than them? Of course, the children willingly take up any business, but an experienced, skilled person should help them realize their plans . Therefore, it is better if an adult makes paper crafts with children. He will tell you how to properly bend pieces of wire at the ends (you should get “rocker arms”), how to fix the bird on a thread so that it maintains balance (its body should be parallel to the floor). It is important to guess exactly where in the element to make a puncture. If it does not work out the first time, you should try again - thread the thread slightly away from the first puncture.
After all the birds are on the threads, they can be placed on the edges of the wires and assemble the product into a single whole. The threads can be of different lengths, and the birds will be located asymmetrically (one slightly higher than the other). The location of auxiliary wires can also be varied. The composition will maintain balance if the lengths of all threads and their attachment points to the arms are correctly determined.
What other mobile elements are there?
Mobiles are products that include lightweight paper crafts. These are stunning interior decorations. They create an atmosphere of lightness and tranquility, pacify their slow, smooth movement. Butterflies, fish and any similar figures can hang on threads and delight their creators.
Flowers for mom
Relatives of the child first of all evaluate the results of paper creativity and at the same time serve as the main source for inspiration. Who else but mom can appreciate and approve of the fruits of the labor of her child? She is the main object for presenting gifts. Every year, on March 8, every kid from kindergarten or school brings handicrafts to mother from paper. Any woman loves flowers. Children have no opportunity to buy bouquets. But to create a floral composition of paper flowers is available to everyone. Teach your child to make a delicate sakura branch.
To make flowers, use paper napkins folded in several layers. On the prepared material, draw the necessary element. Then it needs to be cut along the contour. Fasten the resulting stack of flowers in the center with a stapler. Paint the edges of napkin flowers (if the paper is white) with a felt-tip pen (marker) or give a shade of paint, making light strokes, you can use colored paper. Finished elements need to be fluffed by hand (bending the edges). For a branch, you can use a natural element. Fix a tree branch on cardboard and glue flowers to it. The gift is ready!