If your young inventor is interested in technology and at the present stage likes cyborgs, then most likely he already wondered how to make a robot out of paper. This article will help organize a fun creative workshop with a child on creating cyborgs of various designs.
In order to figure out how to make a robot of the first model out of paper, you need to prepare: a paper cylinder (you can take a tube from a used paper towel), a strip of thick solid paper measuring 2 cm x 10 cm, two “cups” cut from an egg paper packaging, glue, brushes, green and silver paints. Yes! Still need a four- or five-year assistant.
Two cups must be cut off from the egg packaging in different ways: the first is cut along the very edge of the convex part. She will serve as a headdress for the robot. The second - together with the "blades", the rectangular parts adjacent to the bulge. These will be the legs of the cyborg.
Since a child can make a robot out of paper himself (the model is simple in execution), adult responsibilities should include assistance in planning work and safety measures. It is the adult who must cut two slots from two opposite sides of the paper cylinder (approximately in the middle). A little craftsman can cut a paper strip in half. Then you need to smear the edges of the two halves formed with glue and insert them into the slots of the cylinder. These are the hands of a robot. While the glue dries, you can glue the cropped egg cup to the top of the cylinder, and glue the cup with “blades” into the bottom so that they peek out from under it from the side where the robot will have a face.
After waiting for the blank to dry, the body and hands of the cyborg can be painted with green paint, and the head and legs with silver. Now give the assistant a black marker, let him draw the face of the robot, buttons and control displays. Hurrah! The first model is ready!
In order to understand how to make a robot of the second model out of paper, you need to have a good command of origami technique. You need to be able to fold basic shapes, such as a paper cube. It is not very difficult. It is necessary to prepare multi-colored paper of different sizes and plan your work in order to know which combinations of modules will be the head of the robot, how many modules are needed for the body, arms and legs, and what size they will be. This requires experience.
To begin with, it is better to fold the simplest robot out of paper cubes of different sizes, learn how to connect parts, and draw a face with markers or felt-tip pens. Over time, it will be possible to create a robot with a rather complex structure, which will be a work of art. Everyone can master the technique, because origami is available to everyone. Pursuing this fascinating technique with a child, one can develop attentiveness, accuracy and spatial thinking in him. It is important to always have a stock of multi-colored paper in the house. Robots, cars, paper planes will become the favorite toys of a young mischievous person. And their manufacture well develops fine motor skills of the hands of both hands. This, in turn, will accelerate the development of preschooler speech. It makes sense to include such classes in the preparatory course for school. All the skills associated with mastering origami will be useful in life not only to a small one, but to every adult. After all, this activity also calms the nerves.