Sometimes you need to urgently make a New Year’s clown costume or elegant packaging for a gift, an original Christmas tree or a funny little animal, unlike any other. And then the question of how to make a cone out of cardboard or paper can become an edge. If someone does not understand what is being discussed, let’s explain: this is such a voluminous geometric figure, at the base of which lies a circle. All rays from a circle ascend upward at an equal angle and intersect at one point.
How to fold a cone from a rectangle?
It is unlikely that anyone over 40 did not have to fold the bag, because plastic and plastic bags for packaging appeared relatively recently. And during the Soviet era, it was precisely such packages of weighted goods that were practiced in stores. Yes, and in everyday life, many used this method of folding cone-shaped bags to pack a sweet gift, buy seeds from an old woman at the corner, pour sugar for tea to work ... Who knows why?
But today, not everyone knows how to make a cone out of paper. A step-by-step flow chart will show you how to deal with this task.
- The left hand grabs the sheet from above.
- This side of the rectangle is rolled down at an angle. The sharper the bag is needed, the smaller the overlap angle. The top of the cone can be in the right corner of the sheet or on the perpendicular side. The thumb is located outside, and all other fingers should be inside.
- Wrapping the sheet around the fingers, form a bag. It is important to ensure that the top of the cone is “respected”. The strength of the bag depends on how sharp and accurate the tip of the bag is.
- The material from which the cone is rolled cannot be crumpled. The sheet should “keep in shape”, only then will you get a bag made according to all the rules.
- The top of such a cone folds tightly or twists. To create a gift bag, you can use a stapler, glue, a beautiful ribbon, which you need to wrap or bandage the package.
How to make a cone out of cardboard or paper from a whole circle?
If the parameters of the future “bag” (namely, this figure is popularly called by the people) are not clearly regulated, then you can take arbitrary sizes.
- Since making a cone out of cardboard or paper is quite simple, you just need to draw a circle on the prepared material with a compass.
- Then draw a radius in this figure. It is necessary to make a cut along it.
- Next, the edges of the slice are superimposed on each other so that the initially flat figure acquires volume. The center of the circle becomes the tip of the cone. The sharper it is, the larger the overlay area.
- Having fastened the cone along this line with a paper clip, stapler or glue, you can get a cone from paper or cardboard.
But you can just cut out of the circle a sector limited by two radii. The edges of the resulting figure are fastened in the usual way. The larger the angle of the cut sector, the sharper the cone will be made of paper or cardboard.
How to construct a cone from a semicircle?
Sometimes you need to make, for example, a cap for a carnival costume or a Christmas tree toy. For such crafts, pointed cones are needed. And in these cases, you no longer need to use a circle with a cut sector. A semicircle will serve as a pattern for the cone.
In the middle of the diameter, which serves as the edge of the figure cut out of cardboard, mark a point. Here will be the top of the cone. Radii impose on each other and fasten with glue, a stapler. If the cap or other craft is made of fabric, then the fabric in this place is sewn.
Why do you need to be able to make cones?
Very often, parents have to make New Year's costumes for their kids. Knowing how to make a cone out of cardboard, you can easily make a clown or wizard outfit. And the top of a witch’s hat with brim is easy to do with such skills.
If you make a cardboard cone, wrap it with threads, cords or rope, cover the top of the structure with paste or glue, then after removing the cardboard frame, the manufacturer will have the original “Christmas tree” openwork. It can be decorated with small toys, chains, lanterns or bulbs.
On the basis of cardboard cones make a lot of cool figures of animals. Such crafts act as Christmas tree toys, creative crafts for gifts or designer decorations on the premises.
As a packaging for sweet gifts, a cardboard cone looks very presentable. Yes, and already fed up with all the factory boxes and bags! And when at least the packaging for the same sweets is made by oneself, then this is a manifestation of special attention to the gift.