Knight tournaments have not been held for several centuries, but every boy in his heart is a knight. Kids love to play heroes and samurai as well. All these heroes of ancient years wore certain clothes and were endowed with armor and ammunition. Their heads were covered with special helmets. Modern boys can feel like the same heroes very easily. To do this, you just need to make a hero’s helmet out of paper and put it on.
Option number 1: from paper
For work you need to take:
- centimeter tape;
- a simple pencil;
- cardboard;
- scissors;
- stationery glue;
- any paint.
Getting to work
How to make a helmet out of paper? Start the process by measuring the circumference of the child’s head. This is easy enough to do. It is necessary to wrap the boy’s head with a centimeter tape, fix it with your fingers and mark the resulting figure. Now you can cut the rectangle. Its length should be equal to the circumference of the head plus ten centimeters, and the width will depend on the height of the helmet (but not less than thirty centimeters). Then mark the center of the rectangle with a pencil and draw a visor in the form of an inverted letter “P”. Its size will depend on the width of the boy’s face. Cut out the visor and bend it.
Helmet body
Next, roll up the rectangle in the form of a cylinder and glue its sides. If you did everything right, the visor will be in the center. Take a pencil and draw a circle on cardboard on the diameter of the cylinder. Draw small rectangles. It will be ears. Then make a hole in the center of the circle. Put the right amount of glue on the rectangle ears and glue them to the sides. Paint the helmet with some paper-based paint or spray can. In conclusion, it remains only to decorate it with a goose feather or artificial. In such a helmet, any boy will feel like a true knight.
Option number 2: from papier-mâché
If you have some more time for needlework, you can try making a papier-mâché helmet. Not sure how to do it? A paper helmet - it's easy!
Materials required for work:
- plasticine;
- plain paper;
- water;
- PVA glue;
- sandpaper;
- paint in spray cans.
First, from plasticine, fashion the blank whose shape you are most impressed with. Then prepare paper and cold water. The first two layers can be glued with ordinary napkins, the fourth with newspapers, the next with PVA glue. It is necessary to smear the paper well and let each of the layers dry. Usually do so. Smear a couple of layers with glue and leave for twelve hours. Only with this approach will the finished helmet have sufficient rigidity and will last a long time, and will not break on the first day.
To get a voluminous helmet helmet made of paper, you need to glue no more than ten layers, carefully cut, remove the plasticine and continue gluing, carefully masking the traces of cuts.
So, now you can start painting it. But first you need to thoroughly clean the helmet from the inside with sandpaper. This is done so that the child is later comfortable in this helmet. It is very convenient and quick to paint such products with automotive paint from spray cans. You were interested in the question of how to make a helmet out of paper with your own hands. Now you know the answer to it.
Option number 3: using the program Pepakura Designer
Perhaps the most realistic and impressive helmet will turn out if you craft it using the well-known computer program Pepakura Designer. How to make? A paper helmet, or rather its model, we will print on a printer. First download the program and install it. Then print any helmet you like (there are a lot of them) on thick paper.
Prepare:
- thick paper or cardboard;
- PVA glue;
- epoxy resin;
- scissors or knife;
- Scotch;
- paper clips;
- fiberglass;
- spray paint in spray cans;
- magnets
- LED lights;
- batteries
- wires
- switch;
- a bit of clear plastic.
How to make a helmet out of paper: step by step instructions
- To make the necessary changes to the drawings, you need to measure the boy’s head, and then re-print the model.
- Then cut all the details with sharp scissors or a clerical knife.
- Prepare PVA glue and glue the helmet components. Stiffening will require epoxy. All moving parts must be glued with tape, and also fastened with paper clips, and fiberglass on the inside. Fit by putting the blank on the boy’s head.
- Getting to the painting. For this purpose, automotive paint is used in aerosol cans. A helmet treated with such enamel looks like a real one, glistens and shimmers in the sun. Check that there are no gaps or gaps.
- Does your child want the helmet to open and close easily if necessary? How to make? A paper helmet will be easy to close / open with magnets.
- Add a little electricity, do not be afraid, just a little. Let's make luminous eyes based on LED lights. Cut two pieces of plastic. These will be openings for the eyes. Set the lights a little lower. Attach the batteries and switch.
Now you know how to make a helmet with your own hands, you can even share your own skills with your friends and relatives. Indeed, many of them probably have children, so they will be happy to make such a fun for their beloved child. What can I say, when some adults are not averse to frolic and fooling around in such a helmet, like young boys, not knowing the problems and worries. This article offers options for manufacturing various models, based on which you can come up with something of your own, no less interesting.