The finished paper product - the Japanese kunai knife - looks quite interesting, like a real weapon. And if you use silver (for metal) instead of white paper to work, then the final result will turn out to be very formidable.
What it is?
The answer to this question is presented in this article. Kunai is a kind of knife that is made of metal or iron and resembles fish in shape. It was widely used by the Japanese in the farm. Sometimes the owners of the knife used it as a cold weapon. Peasants in Japan from ancient times practiced the art of self-defense, and their auxiliary tools helped them in this. One of these agricultural devices, which gradually grew into a means of self-defense, was the kunai knife.
Ninja combat weapon
Usually in everyday life this tool was used as a hammer or shovel, because it does not have sharpened sharp edges. But the ninjas used it in their arsenal along with shurikens in the fighting, delivering heavy-hitting blows to the enemy’s pain points . Having tied a strong rope to the knife ring, it could be used as a climbing device to climb an impregnable wall or a tall tree.
Weapon popularity
This workshop will help you figure out how to make kunai out of paper using the origami technique. To make the final product seem voluminous and more like a real knife, you need to make a little effort, patience and accuracy.
It is such a weapon used by the ninja in the famous anime "Naruto". Almost all boys love this Japanese cartoon, but none of them really knows how to make kunai with their own hands out of paper. If you have a desire to surprise and please your child, then get to work right now. You can even do this origami in four hands, paired with your baby.
And not at all difficult
This craft is done very simply. So, we begin to make origami from Kunai paper. The operation scheme is described below.
We take several sheets of A4 white paper . We bend the first sheet in half along the entire length.
We fold all the corners inward to the fold line. Now we turn the sheet vertically, and the top two corners are folded two times inward to the bend axis and then outward. After such manipulations, the upper part of the craft already looks like a pointed blade.
With the lower part, we proceed as follows. On the edge, which was formed by the addition of the sides, cut off the excess. As a result, we got a sharp blade. By the same principle, we produce another same part.
Make the handle
A few more steps, and you will know how to make kunai out of paper. Next, we move on to the design of the handle of the future knife. To do this, take a standard sheet, fold it diagonally and twist it into a flat tube. We insert the finished handle inside one of the parts of a pointed shape. The sides of the blade are folded inwards and glued with glue for paper or tape.
Now we put the part with the handle in the second same part, we also bend the corners of the craft and fix them. The final touch on how to make kunai out of paper will be the formation of a ring on the knife handle. To do this, take a strip of paper of medium width. From it we make a tube, which we compress in a flat strip. Gently with frequent folds we form a ring from it. We connect it and glue to the base of the handle.
Conclusion
Here is the hack and ready! Now you know how to make kunai out of paper in just minutes, without resorting to outside help. And you can please your baby with a safe toy.