All people use paper. We use it in the kitchen in the form of napkins, for baking muffins, at work - in the form of documents, at school, institute and college - for writing notes, we read books printed on paper, in general, this material is present in all areas of our life . However, many do not even suspect how you can still use this material.
You can make colored paper with your own hands an excellent gift for a friend, decorations for the home’s interior, a developing toy for your child, or please your dad by making him a colored paper tank with your children. To create masterpieces, you can use special paper materials for needlework, for example, corrugated colored paper, but ordinary waste from the printing industry is also suitable. Thus, you will not only save nature by using recycled paper for the second time, but also get an unusual little thing without spending a lot of money.
To talk about all the crafts that you can create from paper, you need a whole book, so in this article we will consider only some of the possible ideas.
Paper flowers
Everyone loves flowers. Without them it is impossible to imagine a single celebration, they will undoubtedly become the best gift for the girl, and, of course, will perfectly fit into any interior. Unfortunately, cut flowers are short-lived. Even the most beautiful bouquet is unlikely to last longer than a week. If you want to become the owner of a plant that will remain unchanged for ages, create it from colored paper.
What can be done from colored paper, you will learn by reading this article to the end. So, here are some color options.
Colored paper poppy
From corrugated paper, you can make a poppy that you can hardly distinguish from a living flower, unless you look closely.
What is needed:
- Corrugated colored paper in red, black, green.
- Glue. Threads are black.
- Long wooden skewer.
Working process
- Cut a rectangle of green corrugated paper about three by five centimeters in size .
- Wrap a small piece of cotton wool in this rectangle as shown.
- Wrap a piece of cotton wool wrapped in black corrugated paper with black thread to make a box of poppy seeds.
- Place the center of the poppy on a wooden skewer and fix it there with the help of threads or glue.
- Cut a strip of black corrugated paper measuring 6 cm by 10 cm.
- Cut the cut strip into a thin fringe, not reaching about five millimeters to the edge.
- Wrap the resulting fringe around a poppy seed box on a skewer.
- From the red corrugated paper, cut out three small petals and four large ones.
- Wrap the petals around the fringe seed box, starting with small petals and ending with large ones.
- Secure them there with thread and glue.
- Cut a long strip of corrugated paper about one centimeter wide.
- Lubricate the wooden stick with PVA glue.
- Wrap the entire wooden skewer with this strip, starting from the point of attachment of the petals.
Paper roses
Asking the question of what can be made of colored paper, many different options come to mind. One of the most popular flowers is the rose. Paper roses are common, such an artificial copy can even be made from old newspapers.
Newspaper roses
To make a paper rose, you will need:
- Old newspapers, a sheet from one book or an old music book.
- Scissors.
- PVA glue.
- A bit of imagination.
Work algorithm
- Divide the newspaper, book or notebook into pieces.
- Roll a thin tube from one leaflet (this will be the stem of our rose).
- Cut 20 petals in the shape of a droplet.
- Gluing the sharp part of each droplet with glue, glue the petals one by one on the stalk.
- After the glue has dried, bend the top edges of the petals to give the rose a more natural look.
- Cut a pair of leaflets with torn edges.
- Glue the leaves on the stem a little below the bud.
- One rose is ready.
- Make the required number of roses and collect them in a bouquet.
- The bouquet will look best of these flowers if wrapped in a cardboard box.
Plain colored paper rose
There is a simpler assembly option than the previous one. Even a child can make such paper roses.
You will need:
- Colored paper in red, pink, white, yellow or any other color.
- A queen of high-strength wire or a wooden skewer.
- Glue or glue gun.
- Pencil.
- Scissors.
- If you want to arrange a bouquet in a more original way, a wooden branch is useful.
Working process
- Draw a spiral with wavy edges on the sheet.
- Cut this spiral.
- Take a skewer or wire and wind a spiral on it so that you get a rose bud.
- Make the required number of such flowers.
- This can be limited to simply wrapping a bouquet in a sheet of newspaper, but you can do something special and unusual.
- Fasten in a pot with sand or a floral sponge.
- Drape the surface around the branch with small pebbles and moss.
- Plant rosebuds without stems on a branch.
- Lock the paper roses with a glue gun.
Clove
This option is suitable for any occasion. A bouquet of bush carnations can be brought to the girl on a romantic date, on May 9, carnations are the most welcome guests, they congratulate veterans, they are laid on mass graves. If you want the present to never fade, make carnations from colored paper. Such flowers will remind loved ones of your love when you are not around.
To create a colored paper clove, you will need:
- Wooden skewers.
- Scissors.
- Glue.
- Red napkins.
- Green colored paper or green napkins.
- Green electrical tape or scotch tape.
- The fishing line is transparent.
Algorithm
- Fold the red napkin into a square 4 times.
- Fold a square into a triangle 2 times.
- Trim the excess, what would you do by making a snowflake.
- Make the bottom edge of the triangle serrated by rounding the corners.
- Expand the triangle in a circle.
- Make four such circles on one flower.
- Put the circles on a wooden skewer, smearing the middle of each circle with glue.
- Wrap the base of the bud and the entire wooden skewer with green tape or tape.
- From green paper, cut four long leaves.
- Pass a transparent fishing line into the bottom of the leaves.
- Use a fishing line to secure the leaves on the stem of the clove.
Here you can make such a gift from colored paper to your beloved, with very little effort.
Since we talked about May 9, there are still options for what can be made of colored paper for this holiday or for Defender of the Fatherland Day. A great gift for dad would be a military technique made of paper made by a child. Together with the child, you can make a plane, military vehicle or paper tank. Let us dwell on the latter option.
What will be required to create a tank
- Colored paper or colored cardboard in green, gray, black and red.
- Instead of colored paper, you can use sheets for watercolor or drawing and paint.
- Pencil.
- Ruler.
- All of the above tools and materials can replace a color printer and heavy paper.
- Scissors.
- Glue.
Process of creation
- Print on the printer or draw on the back the details of the tank, which are shown below in the picture.
- Cut the parts strictly along the lines.
- Bend all parts along fold lines.
- Glue them together.
- If you used white paper, paint the tank after it dries.
Postcards from colored paper
If you want to make friends and relatives happy, please them with cute home-made cards. This little present will tell the recipient about your love and care. Even if you suddenly remembered a friend’s birthday, all the stores are closed, and there is no place to buy a gift, you can always make a postcard yourself or with the help of children from any paper in the house.
Surprising quilling card with volumetric heart surprise
This craft is interesting not only with its colorful outer side, but also with the fact that when it is opened, the recipient will see a spring-heart inside.
For such a postcard you will need:
- Red napkin.
- A sheet of any color (lilac in the picture) of A4 format.
- Paper of black, pink, blue, green, red, yellow.
- Two yellow buttons.
- Yellow thread.
- Needle.
- Glue.
- Scissors.
- Pencil.
- Toothpick.
Working process
- Lubricate the front side of the card with glue and stick a napkin on it, specially leaving unevenness.
- From the blue paper, cut two strips, fold them in half, and from the fold side make incisions imitating the fringe, 0.5 cm not cutting to the edge. Twist them into a ring to make a flower, and glue one in the upper right corner, and the other in the lower left corner of the card.
- Sew a button in the middle of these flowers.
- Split one side of the toothpick into two parts.
- Cut 6 strips 1 cm wide of pink paper and 6 strips 1 cm wide of green paper.
- Insert one end of the pink strip into the toothpick cleavage, roll this strip into a tight roll.
- Slightly loosen the tension of the twisted roll.
- Glue the end of the strip to the roll.
- Make six of these rolls.
- Insert one end of the green strip into the toothpick cleavage.
- Twist the strip into a tight roll.
- Loosen the tension of the twisted roll.
- Glue the end of the strip to the roll.
- Press the roll at both ends so that it resembles a leaf of a plant in shape.
- Make six of these leaves.
- Glue the pink rolls in the middle of the flower-shaped postcard.
- Insert a leaf between each two petals.
- Decorate the corners of the postcard with black stripes.
- Cut two large enough hearts out of red paper and a small heart out of yellow.
- Make “springs” from red hearts (cut them out like you would a spiral) and glue them in large pieces.
- Glue them inside the card so that one small part of the heart-spring is attached to one page and the other to the other.
- Glue a small yellow heart on one part of the red heart-spring.
- Cut the letters LVE from green paper.
- Place them on the red heart-spring so that the word "LOVE" appears, and the yellow small heart should replace the letter "O".
Cute paper card is ready!
Conclusion
Now that you know what can be done from colored paper and from waste paper, you will never throw out used printed materials and you won’t have to go to the store for postcards.