To diversify your leisure and entertain the child at home, on the road, on a visit, you can build a model of a helicopter with your own hands. Using the Kirigami technique to create flying models, a paper helicopter can be made in a few minutes, and it will certainly bring joy. What is a kirigami? This is a kind of origami technique that allows the use of cutting tools in the work: scissors, knives, blades. How to make a paper helicopter with your own hands?
Cooking paper and scissors
For work, it is necessary to prepare the following materials and tools in advance: a rectangular sheet of paper, a ruler and a pencil, scissors and a large stationery clip. The density and quality of paper for the flying model of the helicopter is selected depending on the desired size of the helicopter. A larger propeller requires denser material.
How to make a helicopter out of paper. Step-by-step instruction
Step 1. Cut a strip of paper 3-4 centimeters wide from a sheet of paper.
Step 2. By folding, divide the strip in half. From the side of the free ends, we cut a strip in length to about the middle. About five millimeters must be retreated from the notch and draw a transverse line. From each edge of a strip of paper along this line we make centimeter cuts.
Step 3. We place the helicopter blank in front of ourselves with cuts on the left. Then the base of the flying toy will be on the right, the left part will become the blades. At the base of
the helicopter model, you must draw two horizontal lines, one centimeter from the edges, and fold the paper along these lines inward.
Step 4. For the correct placement of the center of gravity of the helicopter and improve its flight properties, we bend the bottom edge of the base upwards and fix the bend with a paper clip.
Step 5. Bending the blades of the flying toy in opposite directions, set them perpendicular to the base.
The step-by-step instructions are so simple that even a child will understand how to make a helicopter out of paper. Having finished work, we remove the workplace and proceed to the tests of the aircraft. To do this, raise the helicopter up, release it, slightly pushing it forward. If everything is done correctly, the helicopter, circling smoothly, will go down.
To create a simpler model of a mini-helicopter, you will need a match.
How to make a mini helicopter? We make blades using the method described above. We split the match to the middle, carefully insert the propeller blades into it, bend them in opposite directions. The helicopter is ready for testing.
Another way to make a paper flying helicopter
How to make a helicopter out of paper in another way, we will consider in the following instructions. It is necessary to cut a rectangle from paper with sides of 8 and 7 centimeters. Having retreated two centimeters on each side, you need to cut through the wings one and a half centimeters wide. The rectangle sticks together in the form of a cylinder, and the wings are bent. To strengthen the center of gravity, a piece of plasticine is attached to the bow of the helicopter. After that, we can assume that another toy is ready.