Origami is a popular form of creativity for children and adults. Even the smallest child will enjoy watching how adults fold a paper airplane or boat, and then play with it. You can do paper folding together at an early age, there are origami schemes for children 4-5 years old.
The benefits of origami
How will such an activity help in the development of the baby? For a child, origami can be an exciting game that develops creative abilities and dexterity. Folding paper perfectly develops fine motor skills, because when folding sheets, coordination of fingers improves. This will help in the development of speech, in teaching writing and will be useful in a music school.
In addition, accuracy, ingenuity, memory, logic, perseverance, spatial thinking, imagination are developing. Working with geometric shapes will help you better understand math.
Another advantage of origami for children 4-5 years old - for training, no special tools are required. All you need is a piece of paper. To diversify the creative process, ordinary pencils, felt-tip pens, colored paper, sequins, beads, buttons, etc. can be useful.
The simplest origami for children 4-5 years old
Schemes can be found in children's magazines or on the Internet, and having some experience, you can come up with it yourself. First, the child needs to be interested by folding several figures on their own. Very quickly, the baby will want to repeat your actions. Start with the simplest shapes, and gradually move on to the complex ones. For starters, it's best to choose simple animals and flowers.
A tulip is a simple figure made of colored paper. It can be a gift to mom, grandmother, teacher or decorate a greeting card. It is extremely simple and it will not be difficult for a child to repeat it.
Take a square sheet of paper and fold it diagonally. Bend the corners of the resulting triangle, as shown in the diagram, bend the lower tip of the flower. To make the stem, bend the corners of the new square to the center, fold the resulting figure in half and fold the bottom corner. Now the parts can be glued together or attached to a piece of paper.
The simplest are animal figurines. The child learns to recognize images, he is interested in playing with such animals. They can draw eyes, nose, mouth, antennae, decorate with pencils, collect a collection of fairy tale characters or from pets, wild, marine, African, etc.
For example, to make a dog, it is enough to fold a square sheet diagonally, form hanging ears from the side corners, and a muzzle from the bottom. Now you can draw or glue the nose and eyes.
Making a cat is as easy as making a dog. Only ears need to be bent harder, because the face of the animal will be on the other side.
Thus, you can create a whole zoo! From triangles of different widths, make torso for the animals, draw or cut and glue the tails, paws.
Origami from paper for children of 4-5 years of average complexity
The most popular figures - the plane and the boat - can be folded by each parent. A grown child will quickly remember the sequence of actions and will repeat them soon.
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complex origami for children 4-5 years old does not necessarily imply a design with many bends, it can be made up of simple parts. For example, origami "teremok". From the simple parts of the same type of “rooms”, form a house and populate it with fairy tale characters. You can come up with large rooms for each animal, draw furniture in them, glue the shutters to the windows. This craft can be a real family project, which will be constantly developed and supplemented.