How to make goat horns with your own hands out of paper (photo)?

Not sure how to make goat horns with your own hands? Read the article. It offers many options: both flat and voluminous. They are easy to make, and can be used for paper sculpting or decorating a kid on a postcard, or for a New Year's fancy dress. According to the presented technologies, it is easy to make horns of various shapes, suitable not only for goats. Read, study, choose, do.

Materials and Tools

If you know how to make goat horns with your own hands from fabric, but there is no time for this, there is an alternative quick way - use a regular sheet of paper. In addition, you will need the following:

• Pencil and eraser.
• Scissors.
• Glue (for complex options, you can use a thermal gun, if you have one).

From a limited set of tools it is easy to make beautiful and realistic horns.

How to make goat horns with your own hands out of paper?

The photos shown in the article clearly demonstrate that several options can be made:

• Cut flat products of appropriate shape.
• According to the same configuration, make elements from the corrugated edge of a disposable paper plate.
• Twist volumetric parts in the form of cones.
• Create more realistic paper ribbon horns.
• Use papier-mâché technique.

So, there are many ways. Choose for yourself how to make goat horns with your own hands. The first ones listed above are the simplest. It will take a couple of minutes to make them. The last two options will require a little more time, but the result will be much more effective and more realistic.

Simplest method

We will describe in more detail the technology of how to make goat horns with your own hands quickly and easily. Work like this:

• On a piece of paper or on a newspaper, draw the shape of one horn.
• Cut out the pattern. This will be your stencil.
• Take a disposable paper plate or sheet of the appropriate size and outline your blank.
  
• Turn the template over, or just lay it side by side if the paper is double-sided, and circle again. Also cut.

All is ready. You can try on the product of your paper goat.

Volumetric horns of instant cooking

Below is another way to make goat horns with your own hands out of paper. The photo shows the design. It is made in the form of an ordinary cone.

This is the easiest method to get volume horns. The sequence of actions is as follows:

1. Draw two identical circles on paper. Their radius will be equal to the height of the horn.
2. Cut out the details.
3. Make an incision from the outer circle to the center along the radius on either side on both workpieces. You can cut the sector so that the horn is thinner and without a large overlap.
4. Roll up the cones and glue the seam.
5. You can trim the products from the bottom.

So, in a couple of minutes, simple voluminous horns are easily made.

Sophisticated but beautiful option

Below is a way how to make goat horns with your own hands from paper of a more realistic look than the previous ones. The technique is as follows:

1. Prepare a strip of paper, preferably thin (the length and width depend on the size of your horns).
2. Make a blank in the form of a cone according to the technology of the previous version or make a base from plasticine of a more complex shape. If there is any object of a suitable configuration, for example real horns or a children's toy of a suitable size, use it.
3. Start wrapping your blank with a paper tape in a spiral, gluing the places of application of one layer on another.
4. After the glue has dried, remove the horns from the base. To facilitate this procedure, it is first necessary, before gluing with paper, cover the blank with cling film and do not wind the tape too tight.

How to fold paper horns?

You can make goat horns with your own hands using paper-plastics methods when cutting a blank of a certain shape with marking future fold lines. You will get a design that resembles a box, only of a rather complex shape. The same option is easy to assemble from three separate parts.

The seams are glued, or the elements are joined with adhesive tape. In the second case, you will have to cover the surface with any material, for example, glued napkins, threads, or use a beautiful decorative adhesive tape that is suitable in color, or paint.

The disadvantage of this product is that it will turn out to be somewhat angular, although this can be compensated by a decorative layer of glue and paint applied over the threads.

Papier-mâché horns

If you still have not decided how to make goat horns out of paper with your own hands, you may like this option the most. The manufacturing technology is simple, but it takes a certain time, so it’s impossible to build horns in a few minutes using this method. The meaning of the work is as follows:

1. Take any bulk blank. If nothing suitable is at hand, mold it yourself from plasticine. This is convenient, as you can choose the size and shape you want.
2. Prepare a lot of pieces of paper. You can use only white, although for the first layers journal or even newspaper is suitable. Narrow the particles by hand or cut with scissors.
3. Before gluing, it is worth wrapping your billet with cling film to make it easier then to remove the paper-adhesive "carapace".
4. Take PVA glue or make a paste and apply a layer on the workpiece.
5. Lay pieces of paper in any direction randomly.
6. After the first layer has dried, repeat the action as many times as possible to obtain a sufficient thickness of the object.
7. Remove the made "shell". If it is very difficult to do this and you are afraid of damaging the product, make an incision on one of the sides, and then, after removal, glue another one or more layers of paper.

So you can make horns of any shape. After drying, the paper mixed with glue becomes hard and strong enough. If you want to speed up the gluing process, you can mix pieces of paper with glue before applying it to the surface. Only in this case should the parts be smaller so that the paper rests neatly and evenly and does not clump.

How to make goat horns on your head?

If you are preparing a child for the Christmas tree and sewing a fancy dress of a goat, lamb or other horned character, you can use any of the presented methods for creating horns. You will only have to prepare an additional part - a rim on which the manufactured elements will be fixed. As a frame, a purchased plastic version is well suited, preferably already having horns in its design, for example, on tinsel or rain springs. In this case, it will be enough for you only to fix your paper products on the finished frame.

If you just have a decorative bezel for a hairstyle, you will have to create frame elements for the horns yourself. To do this, it is better to take a strong wire and fix it in the appropriate places on the rim. Its surface will need to be decorated to match the color of the costume. You can, of course, do without a blank frame at all, and make it yourself from thick paper or cardboard.

So, you saw how to make goat horns with your own hands. Choose the right option. Use the technique to perform both crafts and fancy dress of goats and other horned characters.