Once upon a time, paper was invented in China. Then came the kind of art as origami - the manufacture of figures from paper. But not all scientists agree with this opinion. Some of them believe that the art of folding figures appeared much earlier than the invention of paper, and stacked them from fabric. Be that as it may, but for a long time this type of art was available only to a noble estate and was used in religious rites. Gradually, the art of origami became available to everyone and spread throughout the world.
In classic origami, figures are made up of square sheets of paper without glue and scissors. Now this tradition is sometimes broken. A particularly important role in the development of this art was played by Japan, where origami was at first part of the ceremonies. Paper figures necessarily symbolized something, for example, a frog in this country is a symbol of good luck and prosperity, and it is customary to give it to all tourists as a keepsake.
If you want luck to look into your home - make a frog. Not sure how to make a paper frog? This is not at all difficult. Try it, and of course you will succeed. A funny frog can amuse a little crying child, make him smile and forget his grievances. So how to make a frog out of paper?
There is a special colored paper for origami. But even from the most ordinary paper sheet, you can make several different types of frogs. Some of them jump, others only open their mouths, and others can be very similar to real ones. Now we will tell you how to make a frog that can jump.
For work, we need a regular sheet of thin A4 paper. Before you make a frog out of paper, you need to cut the sheet so that it makes a square. A square sheet of paper is folded diagonally so that the opposite corners align. Then the sheet needs to be bent and bent again, combining other opposite corners. Now you need to fold the sheet of paper again and fold it in half to make a rectangle. The upper corners of the rectangle are bent inward along the diagonal folds.
The result is a triangle with two short edges and one long. Short edges need to be bent towards the center towards each other, and then bent to the edges of the formed triangles - these are the future legs of your frog. When you yourself understand how to make a frog out of paper, you can teach your child this. We continue to make a frog. After you have bent the short edges from the center to the edges, the frog needs to be turned over and the lower corners bent to the top of the triangle. Thus, a square consisting of two triangles turned out in the upper part. You need to take the inner edges and tuck them to the center.
At the top are two corners from which the eyes are made. It is necessary to bend these corners in half, and then bend up. Later, when the frog is ready, eyes are drawn on these little triangles. And now the frog needs to be turned back and bent in half, first from itself, and then again in half, but to itself. All! Now the frog can be painted green, and in order to make it jump, you just need to lightly push with a slight sliding movement on the fold formed on the back. For the frog to jump better and further, you do not need to make it big. Very jumping frogs are obtained from notebook sheets of paper.
When you learn how to make a jumping frog, you can make a croaking frog for a puppet theater. Having made a couple of such frogs, you can play a small home performance. Jumping and croaking frogs only vaguely resemble real ones, and frogs that look like living ones are much more difficult to make. But gradually, it will be possible to move from simple figures to making more complex ones.
In special literature or on the Internet you can read how to make a bird out of paper, for example, a paper crane. According to Japanese legend, a person who made a thousand of these cranes is healed. What is not an occupation for a sick baby?