Very often for games with a child, and just for creativity it is required to make a human figure out of paper. Of course, you can simply draw a character on a sheet and carefully cut with scissors. But how to make a person out of paper if you want to create a three-dimensional figure?
There is nothing impossible in such an undertaking. After all, skillful hands in conjunction with indefatigable imagination and rich imagination can do such things that not everyone dreams in a dream. It is sometimes difficult to imagine how needlewomen and needlewomen create their masterpieces, multifaceted, unusual and complex, and using simple and completely non-creative things and materials that are purely utilitarian.
Anything can be used: napkins, newspapers, wire and pieces of dermatine, even toilet paper, the remains of beads, feathers and everything that is at the right time at hand.
So how to make a man out of paper? First you need to decide on the materials. You will need a piece of not too soft wire, PVA glue, pliers (for twisting the wire) and ordinary paper napkins. If a person made of paper is to become colored, then gouache, brushes and a glass of water will be required.
The beauty of such a craft (and it will be a papier-mâché or paper dough figure) is that it is simple, although it is not performed very quickly. But on the other hand, it can be sculpted both alone and with a child, even in kindergarten and in the classes of a creative circle. After all, the materials are very simple and affordable, and the main source is their own imagination.
First, from the existing wire with the help of pliers, you need to make a frame, the skeleton of the future man. Here it all depends on the chosen composition. If he stands, then everything is simple. If, according to the plan, the figure should, for example, sit on a bench, then the frame should have legs and arms bent so that subsequently a natural pose is obtained.
How to make a man out of paper by making a base? Of course, proceeding to the next step, namely, the manufacture of paper dough. To do this, paper napkins are taken, finely torn, folded into a bowl or a small bowl and filled with boiling water. Glue is added there. The resulting mass must be mixed so that it becomes homogeneous. Everything, the dough for the figure is ready.
Now, thin layers of dough must be carefully and carefully glued onto the wire frame to make the character “flesh”. You can start with the head and hands, gradually moving lower and lower. Now the sticky figure is left to dry, which usually takes a couple of days. When the base has dried, a second coat of dough is applied, but now it is necessary to form all the detailed details of the body, head and legs with hands. Great, everything is left for one more day.
Well, the third stage of wrapping the figure is the fashioning of details of the face and clothes. It's time to form a hat, boots, cloak or dress, if the conceived character is a lady. Here you can insert feathers in a hat, and for a girl to fix beads and any chosen jewelry for a dress. The figurine is again sent to dry (a day or two).
Now that it’s already clear how to make a person out of paper, the final stage begins: painting. Clothes, a face are painted, small details are put into the hands - a fan or a newspaper. Now the character is ready, it can be used in the game.