Crafts on the wall with your own hands from paper. Interesting do-it-yourself paper crafts and fresh ideas for creativity. White Paper Crafts: Volumetric Snowflake

Paper is the most common craft material for several reasons: low cost, availability, ease of use. Of course, paper cannot be called a very simple material, because it all depends on your skills, the type of paper, as well as the complexity of the craft. It can be a simple application for children, or it can be an origami from modules that young children cannot handle. In this article I want to offer 10 crafts of varying complexity for children and adults. They are made from several types of paper: plain white A4, colored, corrugated, crepe. He even eats one piece of paper for notes. Let's start looking at the various options.

3D postcard for March 8

You always want to surprise with a gift for the holidays, and such an unusual postcard will not leave anyone indifferent. This craft can be quickly and easily done by a child from 9 to 11 years old with their own hands and presented to their mother or grandmother for the holiday. To learn how to make a 3D postcard, you can watch the photo and video description with step-by-step instructions.

You will need:

• Colored paper (4 white sheets and 1 pink sheet)
• Scissors
• PVA glue
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Double-sided tape
• Paint (lilac and green)

Working process:

1. Divide the white sheet in half with a line, and then fold 4 sheets together and cut along the line. We need 7 halves, put the 8th aside.
2. Take half of the sheet and fold it in half 2 times. We get a rectangle, two sides are closed, and two are open.
3. We bend the corners to the closed long side outward. We do this on both sides.
4. Now the folded corners need to be bent again in the opposite direction, so we do this only on one side.
5. We get a guideline by which we will cut off. Cut along the folded line on one side, then flatten the corner once and cut along the line on the other side. Thus, we get a shape similar to a leaf.
6. So we do with the remaining six sheets. So that the shape remains the same for all colors, simply attach the first blank and cut it out.
7. Take the resulting flower and cut out one petal from it, and then glue the gap by overlapping the side petals exactly one on top of the other. You should have 6 petals. We do this with all the flowers.
8. Fold the flowers in half. Glue pieces of adhesive tape on the side petals of the 1st flower, on the very top of the petal.
9. We glue flowers on the side parts, only the side petals, gently applying the petal to the petal.
10. Now we glue the 4th flower on 3 flowers, also only the 4th one should have all the petals glued.
11. We glue the 5th and 6th flowers on top like 2 and 3 (only on the sides).
12. We glue the 7th flower on top of all the others on 3 petals.
13. Fold a pink sheet in half, like a postcard, now we will finish our composition.
14. We put the flower on half of the postcard and attach adhesive tape to the upper central petal and close it with another sheet of the postcard. Glue the other side in the same way. Make sure that the sheet lies clearly near the fold line.
15. The card is ready, it remains only to color the middle of the flowers. You can sign the postcard.

Colored paper caterpillar

Such a caterpillar is easy to perform and will take very little of your time. The craft is designed for children from 2 years old and their parents. You will be able to spend time with your child pleasantly and usefully, you will also develop the motor skills of children's hands. Let's start doing the caterpillar with our own hands.

You will need:

• Colored paper in different colors
• PVA glue
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Pencil
• felt-tip pens

Working process:

1. Make strips of paper 6 cm long and 1 cm thick (red, green, blue, yellow, purple, brown, blue). The colors should be different so that the caterpillar turns out to be iridescent and bright.
2. We glue each strip to make circles.
3. When the circles are ready, glue them together alternating colors. You should get a strip of circles. We glue the last one a little higher than the rest, this will be the head.
4. Draw a mouth and eyes with a felt-tip pen.
5. Cut thin strips from colored paper and twist with scissors. Glue them in place of the antennae.
6. From a green sheet, cut out the shape of a leaf in size, focusing on the caterpillar. Our funny caterpillar is ready!

Corrugated paper valentine

For Valentine's Day, ordinary heart-shaped cards are always given, but if you want to make a more original card, make it from corrugated paper. And now I will tell you how to make a valentine with your own hands step by step with step by step instructions.

You will need:

• Cardboard
• Red corrugated paper
• Scissors
• Match
• PVA glue

Working process:

1. Cut out a card in the shape of a heart from cardboard.
2. Cut corrugated paper into squares a little more than 1 cm in size.
3. We apply the square with the central part to the tip of the match and crumple the paper in a circular motion. Do this with all the squares.
4. We apply glue to the valentine and begin to glue our crumpled blanks. When the glue dries, fluff up the paper to make it more fluffy. The holiday card is ready, you can give it to your loved one.

Bunny in 5 minutes

If you need a craft for kindergarten that does not take much time, then a voluminous bunny is the perfect option. The most important thing is that you can connect your baby to the execution process. Let's see how to make a simple bunny with your own hands using detailed instructions.

You will need:

• Sheet of colored paper
• Scissors
• Ruler
• Pencil

Working process:

1. From a sheet of paper, cut out 2 strips about 1.5 cm wide along the length.
2. Cut one strip into two different strips. The difference is about 3 cm.
3. We glue both strips so that we get 2 circles.
4. Glue them together.
5. Cut the second strip into 3 equal parts. Cut one piece lengthwise. We fold each thin strip in half and glue the ends together. This will be our ears.
6. We glue the ears on our blank of two circles, on a smaller one.
7. The remaining strips are also cut lengthwise. Paws are made like ears. Glued to the bottom circle.
8. From one more strip we make a small circle and make a tail.
9. Fold the last strip in half and round the edges with scissors. Spread and glue to the back of the bottom circle and scissors twist them forward. Bunny is ready!

Video how to make a paper bunny in 5 minutes

Beautiful flower

To decorate the interior, you can make an unusual flower from note paper with your own hands. For this, you do not need special skills, a child of 4-7 years old can also help with the implementation. To complete the craft, we have made a detailed description for you with step-by-step instructions.

You will need:

• note paper
• PVA glue
• Cardboard
• Scissors

Working process:

1. Note paper is best used without a sticky edge. Take the sheet with the corner up and fold the side corners and sides together. Glue them. You get buns. Do this with all the leaves.
2. Cut out a circle of about 7-8 cm from cardboard. So we get a small flower.
3. Now glue the 1st row of petals on the circle with the short side up. Petals should be close to each other.
4. In the next row, glue the petals into the gaps of the previous row.
5. So we do subsequent rows gradually reducing the number of petals in a row.
6. We fill the middle with petals, no longer focusing on the rows, see that it is beautiful and voluminous. The flower is ready, you can hang it on the wall or put it on the table.

Videos flower diy

DIY book

If you want to make an unusual craft that will also be useful for use, you can make a small origami book out of paper. You will not write down your poems or compositions in it, but it will come in handy for small notes, and besides, it will not take up much space in your bag. It is very easy to make such a craft, just follow the instructions with a step-by-step description.

You will need:

• Sheet of A4 paper - 2 pieces of different colors
• Scissors

Working process:

1. Fold A4 sheet in half lengthwise. Open the sheet back.
2. Next, fold the sides to the center fold.
3. Cut the sheet into 4 strips along the folds.
4. Take one strip and fold it in half 3 times. You get a small rectangle.
5. Do this for all stripes.
6. Open the resulting triangle and now fold it with an accordion. Do the same with the rest.
7. Now glue all the pieces together, stacking the last pages of each harmonica one on top of the other.
8. When gluing, fold the sides that face each other and glue. This is how we make pages.
9. We fold an A4 sheet of a different color in half in width, and then in length. You will have 4 rectangles. Cut out one of them.
10. At the rectangle, fold the side long sides towards the center, but not reaching the center by about 0.5 cm.
11. Fold the rectangle in half and lightly mark a cent. Now, focusing on the center, make two folds in the central part about 0.5 cm wide. The cover is almost ready.
12. Now, trying on the sheets of the notebook on the cover, fold the sheets inward according to the size. Then insert the last pages of the notebook into the cover. For better fastening, you can use glue. Our unusual notebook is ready.

Video how to make a mini book with your own hands

Butterflies for decoration

Paper butterflies can be used to decorate walls, windows and gift wrapping. They create a romantic and light mood, because butterflies are so graceful. A child from the age of 3, as well as any beginner, can make butterflies with their own hands. There are many options for making paper butterflies and we want to offer you one of them, quite interesting. And now let's create a beautiful decoration in the form of a butterfly with our own hands.

You will need:

• Sheet of A4 paper - 2 pcs (yellow and pink)
• Large needle
• Beads and beads
• thin wire
• Scissors
• double tape

Working process:

1. We take one sheet and fold it in half, but the fold does not need to be highlighted too much.
2. We cut off the corners, more on the lower side, and less on the upper side with a smooth bend in the middle.
3. We open the sheet and, moving along the fold line, fold it with an accordion. We made the top wing.
4. For the bottom, we do the same, only we will cut the corners of the same size. Next, fold with an accordion.
5. We pierce the wings of butterflies in the center with a needle, so that in the future it will be easier to fasten them.
6. We fold the wire in half and string the wings on it.
7. We put a white bead on the wire at the upper wings, on both fibers. Then two gold pieces for each tendril.
8. The rest of the wire is decorated with golden beads. To finish the antennae, we need to insert the tip of the wire into the last seed beads twice. We cut off the excess. We also do with the second mustache.
9. Tape the top and bottom wings together.
10. On the bottom of the wire we put on white beads of a larger size, about 4 pieces, and then 2 more beads of a smaller size.
11. You need to finish the ponytail like the antennae, but for reliability, you can make a few twisting movements and cut off the excess.
12. Now spread the wings of the butterfly and you can decorate the interior.

Paper origami tree

To decorate a home, office or kindergarten for the new year, you can make an interesting and unusual Christmas tree out of paper with your own hands. For those who love origami, this Christmas tree will love it. To complete this craft, read the step-by-step instructions, as well as the photo and video description.

You will need:

• colored paper
• Scissors

Working process:

1. From a sheet of green paper we make a square.
2. Connect two opposite corners so that you get a triangle.
3. Unfold the triangle back into a square and fold the other two opposite corners into a triangle.
4. Along the folds along the sides, fold them into the middle, when you fold you get a triangle.
5. Now we bend the sides of the triangle to the center, from the beginning on one side, and then on the other. And straighten it again.
6. We straighten each resulting triangle along the fold, straighten it along the central fold and fold and make a new fold to the left.
7. Divide the resulting structure into equal sides.
8. Bend the bottom corners up, and then hide inward.
9. We get a blank already similar to a Christmas tree. We make three cuts on the sides a little before reaching the center.
10. Now we need to bend the corner to the inside of each incised piece. Thus, we will get the corners of the Christmas tree. We do this work with all the pages of the Christmas tree.
11. The Christmas tree is ready to decorate your home.

Daisies from paper

If you want to bring a summer and sunny mood into the interior, make paper daisies with your own hands. They can be used not only in the interior, but also as a gift to family and friends. Such interesting and beautiful daisies will not leave anyone indifferent.

You will need:

• Crepe paper (yellow and white)
• Green colored paper
• Scissors
• Scotch
• Threads
• Toothpick
• Ruler

Working process:

1. Visually divide a sheet of colored paper lengthwise into 4 parts and cut off 1/4.
2. Using a toothpick, twist our strip into a tube and glue the tip with tape. This will be our stem.
3. From crepe paper, cut out a piece of white 10x25 cm and yellow 20x4 cm.
4. Fold the yellow strip 2 times and cut the closed parts on one side with scissors. Now on both sides along the strip we make frequent cuts about 1 cm deep.
5. Fold white paper in half and cut the closed part.
6. Lay the white paper on the table and the yellow paper on the extreme part of the long side, and in relation to the width, it should lie in the middle.
7. Starting on the other side, fold the paper with an accordion.
8. In the middle we tie a rope for fixing.
9. Round the white ends with scissors.
10. With the narrow side of the stem, go around the middle of the flower and secure it with tape.
11. Spread the center of the petal towards the top so that it is fluffy. Also spread the chamomile petals.

Good afternoon, today I decided to collect in one article all ways make paper crafts that kids can do. For the DIY season of 2017 - it turned out to be a decent photo piggy bank of ideas that a child can make out of paper with their own hands. These paper crafts can be used for kindergarten or school (grades 1-5). There will be easy crafts for preschool children(from 3 to 7 years old) - for the younger, middle and older groups. And there will also be crafts and more complicated ones that require more long school hours(for 45 minutes) - suitable for labor lessons for children in grades 1, 2, 3, 4. As well as heads of creative circles "Skillful hands" kindergarten or school will find many useful paper craft ideas for themselves.

• We will do flat crafts-applications.
• Volumetric crafts from colored paper and corrugated cardboard.
• craft toys from cardboard or thick paper.
• crafts using various techniques(half disks, fan, symmetrical fold, postcard).

At the moment, we already have thematic articles on the site with paper crafts,

And also a lot of ideas for paper NEW YEAR crafts in the article:

And in this article - we will look at different techniques that can be used for paper crafts for children of different ages.

So let's see what paper crafts I have collected in this piggy bank.

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In the technique of HALF DISK.

Colored paper crafts that we meet in kindergarten and at school most often look like applications. I myself really like effect applications 3D. There are quite a few ways to create bulges on the application.

In this article, I want to highlight a technology that is interesting in its graphics - these are crafts from round paper discs. When all the work is laid out in the form of whole or folded in half paper rounds.

Such a mosaic applique of round pieces is suitable for children 3-4 years old. It is just right for them in terms of pedagogical tasks of this age, when children still do not know how to work with scissors, but are already happy to glue ready-made template modules from colored paper.

Such crafts-appliqués look bright and unusual due to PARTIAL GLUE of modules - we put only half of the disk on the glue, and its second part sticks out in a fold.

And from circles or ovals bent in half, you can make not only flat applications, but also paper crafts-toys. Here's one for inspiration caterpillar of ovals bent in half- children from 3 years old cope with this task, if you help them fold the ovals in half. Children 4 years old will fold the ovals themselves, and even cut out a few of them. And for children 5 years old, you need to distribute colored rectangles, they themselves will cut the corners of the rectangles, thereby turning them into ovals, they themselves will bend them in half and fold them into a caterpillar.

Be smart and think WHAT ELSE can be constructed from paper semi-circles or semi-ovals. Surely you can make a frog, a panda, a giraffe, a hippopotamus, a penguin from such half-discs of a round or oval shape.

VOLUME application

From paper blades.

And here is another technology for convex paper applications. When the parts are glued in advance into the BLADES, and then such a bladed paper craft is glued with its blades onto the application cardboard.

Blades are obtained if Bend 3-4 identical parts in half, and then the bent walls of adjacent parts are glued to each other.

For example, the ladybug in the photo below consists from three paper circles. Cut out three circles, bent them in half. First, glue the halves bent in half on the left and right. And then the third kruglyash lays down like a book on the protruding halves of the glued kruglyash.

Craft "Ladybug" is suitable for children 3 years old. And the craft "Balloon" with a large number of blades is suitable for children 4-5 years old.

Any form of paper can be turned into a paddle part, the number of blades and the splendor of the part depends on how many parts you use in your bulk gluing.

In the same way, you can do paper crafts in three-dimensional form (in the form of objects) with your own hands - like these paper fruits in the photo below. Watermelon is suitable for crafts in the older group of kindergarten.

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ON SPRINGS.

And here's another paper craft with a bulging effect. Here, the volume of the application is transmitted by embossing a strip of colored paper bent into three folds. This autumn application is easy to do with your own hands - suitable for children of the middle and older groups (5, 6 years old).

In the center of the upper fold, we cut a hollow and place the silhouette of an owl inside. To make the owl hover at a distance from the back wall of the hollow, you need to stick a paper spring on the back of the owl. How to make a spring you will now understand, using the example of the following paper craft with a three-dimensional effect.

Here below we see a BEAR paper craft. The bear's paws are also glued at a distance from the body. And this distance between the paws and the body is achieved by sticking paper springs. Everyone in childhood made such spring worms. Below we see a master class that shows the process of creating such a paper spring and the whole craft as a whole.

The BEAR craft is suitable for children 3-4 years old (if all the details are already cut out and the springs are folded). Children 4 - 5 years old you can slowly cut out the silhouettes yourself. Children 5-6 years old already able to fold the springs themselves (and the lesson can be divided into 2 parts- in the first lesson we make springs and cut out part of the silhouettes - in the second lesson we cut and assemble everything together.

In the same way, you can do any craft. Below we see that the crown of the tree is made according to this principle. But with the same success, you can do bunch of balloons on a greeting card. Or bouquet of flowers from paper, where each flower will be at its convex level.

You can highlight with a bulk spring any details of paper crafts - bird wings, tiers of thorns on a hedgehog (photo below).

Or hares in thick grass (spring crafts in the photo below).

You can also make this paper craft using springs inside. It turns out a beautiful effect. And also legs-stands for multi-layer applications can be made not from paper springs, but from purchased thick double-sided tape. Such a plump adhesive tape is for sale - it has a thick, as it were, foam tape and it is sticky on both sides. It can be cut into stumps and glued between layers of crafts.

From such springs, you can make not only applications, but also independent paper crafts. Make a spring and beat it with other paper parts. For example, attach an oval muzzle, round ears, paws at the bottom and a long stripe-tail - and now it all starts to look like

But paper penguins crafts based on the same spring. Or crafts-bugs. There is always unused black paper in the kindergarten in a set of colored paper - you never know what to make of it - but here you are, black bugs, penguins and little crows.

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WITH FAN.

A paper fan is often used in children's crafts as a way to quickly create the desired shape of a part. Most often, a gluing fan is used as a tail for paper birds (or as wings).

The spreading fan blades may remind you of bat wings. Children's crafts for middle age (4-5 years).

The fan is similar to the lampshade of a table lamp - which means it will make an excellent do-it-yourself lamp craft (craft for children from 3 years old)

The fan can become the basis for children's crafts in the form of fairy-tale characters - friends of penguins or northern bears (crafts for children 5-7 years old).

If we fold the fan in half - and unbend its blades into 2 semicircles - and glue the semicircles that meet with glue, then we will get a ROUND FAN.

From such a blank, you can make a lot of paper children's crafts. The simplest and fastest are apples (add a stalk and a leaf) or birds (add a wing, an eye and a beak).

Ready-made blanks of round fans are used in classes with children 3-4 years. And aged 5 years the child is already given the task of creating such a round fan out of colored paper.

By adding various details to the paper fan, we can get the image of any paper animal (a black cat, or a red, white bunny (as in the photo with children's crafts below).

You just have to teach children how to make a fan with their own hands, practice several times. Then teach them to bend the fan in half and unfold both halves into two semicircles - and glue these semicircles with a glue stick. And then the children themselves will surprise you, they will throw up more and more new ideas for crafts, turn a round paper fan into a snowman, then into a mermaid bra, into a round red nose of a clown.

And if you make several round fans of slightly different diameters at once and string them on a wire, then we can get a voluminous spherical paper craft. The fan ball can become an apple, a pumpkin, a snowman, a sheep, a white rabbit and any other children's character.

Children's crafts

on an accordion stand.

There is another original way to make paper crafts for children. Below we see the principle of creating such crafts. From cardboard, we fold an ordinary accordion. And we use it as TIERS for sticking paper parts.
In the photo of the children's crafts below, we see how the accordion turned into a cake craft. Each row of an accordion is a tier of a cake with candles.

Note, the side high part of the craft in the photo below (where the balloons are) is not necessary.

In the same way, according to this principle, we can use the rows of an accordion like rows of Christmas trees in a forest. And between them put a deer or a snowman, or hide a bunny.
Rows of pots can be used as streets on which to place houses.
Or the rows of such a stand can be folded from blue paper and designed as SEA WAVES, and then it remains to stick dolphins or rows of boats on them. Or peeping sharks.

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on a flat cardboard template.

And now we will see crafts for children, where all the elements are pasted on a silhouette cut out of thick cardboard.

For example, we take cardboard and draw a silhouette of a shark on it. Any child from 4 years old is already learning to cut with scissors - he cuts out the silhouette himself with his own hands, slowly crooked, but he should already myself cut along the line holding the scissors in a stationary hand, and rotate the sheet of cardboard as the cut line rotates along the silhouette ..

When the silhouette of a shark is cut out of blue cardboard, we give the child a round blank of white paper - the task of the child is to cut it into teeth (just stuff the triangles obliquely with scissors, and then bend every tooth so that it protrudes inside the general circle. And this paper mouth remains to be glued onto the silhouette of a shark. And we'll get awesome crafts for children 4-7 years old. Sharks are great crafts for boys. Little brave men will be happy to tame a dangerous sea predator.

Application details do not have to be from colored paper. For example, a scarf on a polar bear below is cut out of a cover from colored paper (the cover was in a box). And the carrot on the craft with the hare is white cardboard, which was previously painted with gouache (they painted yellow-orange-red stripes).

You can peep ideas for the same applications on a cardboard silhouette in children's cartoons, or see them on a children's coloring book.

Such paper crafts for children 5 years old can become the basis for a children's theater. If you stick on the back of each craft long handle made of thin wooden lath(you can buy it in the building department of the store) - or the pen can be rolled up from a sheet of paper and wrapped tightly with tape for tightness.
Children, hiding behind a screen and holding their characters on sticks, can put on performances entertaining parents, grandparents with homemade reprises of famous fairy tales.

And you can also cut round holes for children's fingers in such a craft - then you can already play the scenes of the TABLE THEATER. Here in the photo below we see a sheep and a hare made of paper with such slots for fingers.

Also, your paper characters can have a special PAW GRIP, and you can insert a candy or a pencil and a small gift for someone into this grip.

By the way, here's a good idea - such a character can be pasted on a postcard and give him a paw rolled up 100 dollar bill- you get a gift card with money for a friend's birthday.

Such flat cardboard crafts can be supplemented with FOLD elements (as in the bunny in the photo below), or TWIST elements (as in the snail below). Or additional ENTOURAGE elements (as with the cat below).

Children's crafts

with paper strips.

Also, the application can be made voluminous if you use LOOP FROM PAPER STRIPS. Colored paper is cut into strips, and each strip is smoothly folded and glued at its ends. Such curved stripes can be the petals of a lush aster or a modest chamomile.

Or such paper loops can serve feathered swan- left photo below. This craft is suitable for children ages 4 and up. They themselves glue the already cut strips into loops and stick them in rows on the tail of the swan.

But the peacock (in the right photo above) is already craft for older kids. For grades 1-2 - because in a lesson in kindergarten, children in 25 minutes will not have time to make a peacock from start to finish. But in 45 minutes of a school lesson, children will just cope with this task.

Please note that the peacock is made of paper from strips of different lengths. The yellow strip is the shortest - it is the first to bend into a loop. Then the green strip is glued to the loop with one edge and also bent to the place where the yellow loop-strip is glued. Then we do the same with a slightly longer blue stripe.

Thus we get EIGHT THREE-COLOR LOOP for the peacock tail. They all stick together ribs to each other- in one bunch-bouquet. And at the junctions of their gluing, we attach peacock spots. Then we attach to the back cardboard silhouette of a peacock. Great creative piece.

Below we see how flower crafts are created according to the same principle. In the same way, we make a tail for our peacock from the photo above.

Or a paper craft for girls - SHOES-SANDALS - here the strips serve as straps to create a woven toe of paper flip flops.

And if you cut strips of the SAME LENGTH, then it is convenient to make a spherical braid out of them. Such a braid in the form of stripes crossed in a circle can serve as a shell for a turtle, a balloon, or the middle of a lush flower or a snowball from a snowman.

Or it can be a delicious apple bitten off the side (left photo below). And inside such an apple, you can put a worm from a paper spring (see above for the method with a spring).

If you glue the strips crosswise in the center ... and pierce holes from the ends with a hole punch ... and lift these ends with holes up ... and collect them on a thread, then we will get a paper pear craft (look at the right photo above).

And if take NOT SEPARATE strips - but cut a sheet of paper into strips NOT CUT TO THE EDGE - like a long fringe. And then arrange this long striped fringe in the form of a paper craft-hat.

By a similar principle, beautiful paper crafts are made in the form bird cages. Such a craft only at first glance seems complicated. But in fact, everything is available for children from 4 years old. And even a child of 3 years old can cope with the help of an adult who will show, then smear with glue and where to stick it.

Below we see this cage in the blank (photo-master class). First, these are paper strips on a wide strip of the base. Then we wrap the base in a ring. And we bend the strips sticking up into an arch, each relative to each other. Quick and easy craft. It remains only to make a paper bird and hang it on a string under this paper roof.

That is, such a craft is easy to do with your own hands for children even 3-4 years old.

And you can also make paper children's crafts based on a BALL from strips. A ball of stripes is collected on a needle and thread. Since you can’t give a needle to children, you can go the other way and make holes in three places of each strip in advance with a hole punch - along the center and along two edges.

The strips are folded crosswise onto the central hole - a thread is threaded into it from a suspended bead from below. A large bead at the bottom prevents the strips from slipping off the thread. Next, a few more beads are strung on the thread (see carefully inside the lamb, they are visible in the photo). And then the same thread is threaded into all the holes at the ends of all the strips - THIS IS THE BALL. If anyone does not understand, there is a photo-master class in

You can attach any details to such paper balls, turning them either into frogs or hares (as in the photo of children's crafts below). With your hands and your imagination, you can make a variety of animals.

These are the chickens and the hen made by craftswoman Tatyana. What characters will you invent? Such crafts from stripes can be done in the 1st, 2nd, 4th grade of the school. And it is also suitable for diligent children of 5-6 years old.

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in the quilling technique.

And paper strips can be wrapped in a tight roll-twist. Then give this twist the shape of a petal or a leaf and make paper applications of flowers with such twists. The technique is quite well-known, called quilling. The technique is suitable for children from 5 years old, when the fingers are already dexterous enough to hold the twist on the holder rod.

Here below we see how the usual round twist is given different shapes (they pinch it with a finger from the right sides) and the twist becomes tear-shaped or cup-shaped, or triangular. And from such twisted modules we add a quilling application.

Below we see children's crafts made of colored paper using this technique. You see, paper consumption does not have to be large - the craft itself looks miniature and can decorate a handmade postcard. The child will be pleased to give his mother a handmade card.

Within the framework of a school or kindergarten, the time for doing such crafts is limited - and we can only make a few of these modules. The process is laborious for children's fingers and takes time. You can break the craft into 2 classes - on the first we make modules, on the second we form crafts.

Children's crafts in the form of a cupcake are very popular with girls.

A cupcake and a bird is a very quick craft because it does not require many twists. Such crafts can be done by children in grades 1 and 2 - slowly, gently twisting and gluing the twist tails.

But a bear or a bunny is already a paper craft for children who have gotten their hands on simple quilling tasks. For grades 3, 4, 5 - this level of complexity of do-it-yourself crafts is just right.

By the same principle, you can make larger twisted crafts - if you take not a thin cut strip, but a folded sheet of paper. The thick folding of the sheet will allow you to get large twisted parts and you can make a large application out of them - for example, such a penguin or an owl made of paper.

And also large twisting crafts are obtained from corrugated cardboard. Due to the ribbed relief, such a corton forms wide volumetric parts and can be used to make 3D paper toys. Craft for the older group of kindergarten or for school (grade 1,2,3,4).

Origami

based on the CONUS.

A paper cone is also a good base for children's craft ideas. We all made a Christmas tree from a cone in kindergarten with our own hands. And now we can already make any character out of paper in the form of a cone craft.

So that the cone is not too wide and not too narrow - its razmerka (flat pattern) should be an angle of more than 90 degrees - usually 120 degrees (as in the photo below) - that is, a third of a full circle.

For a giraffe, you can make the cone thinner and sharper. Then we need a quarter of a circle (that is, not 120 degrees, but 90 degrees is enough).

Origami
folded in half.

But children's crafts that are made from a sheet of paper that was bent in half and cut out the silhouette - as a result, we got a double-sided craft with the same symmetrical sides.

And paper birds can also be made using the same technique. In the bird (pictured below), we see that the wings are a fan made of paper or napkins. And in the fold of the upper part of the bird, we make a slot and insert the fan there.

For animal crafts, elephant ears can be inserted into such a slot. And also, for example, a lion's mane made of cardboard or thick paper.

To such BENDING CRAFTS, you can attach not only wings, but also a head - which will be perpendicular to the body. See the photo below with an example of a children's craft "Black Cat" made of paper.

The head of this cat is attached according to the same principle as the wings-fan of the bird above - ALSO IN THE SLOT. If you look closely, you will see that the head has fold too, which divides the head into 2 planes (posterior and anterior).

THE BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD continues with the ears, AND THE FRONT PLANE OF THE HEAD contains the glued eyes and whiskers of the cat.

A slot is made in the back of the cat (as in the bird above for wings) - and the BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD is inserted into this slot. And the front plane simply hangs in front and is not inserted into the slot.

A very simple paper craft for older children (age 5-6 years). And for children in grades 1-2, it’s also great do-it-yourself work.

It is possible to provide for such a craft scheme addition in the form of a tummy- like these hares below. To do this, you just need to draw additional processes of paper in the abdomen area, which then, after the silhouette is folded, WRAPPED WITH A ROLL and fastened with a stapler or glue.

You can slightly modify this principle of crafts - leaving between the two halves-bochins the UPPER BACK PLATFORM. That is, at the top of the part, make not one fold, but two folds at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other - this is how we get the back.

These bears made of cardboard (or thick paper) have just such a back.

And these paper birds (pictured below) also have a back. And thanks to this site, we were able to provide for the tail part (it became a natural continuation of the dorsal part of the bird).

I specially drew a diagram of the birds - so that it becomes clear for you how to add a back-platform to your craft. Here in the diagram below - the back area is highlighted with a purple dotted line. Along these lines is the fold of our craft.

Both birds and bears according to this scheme can be drawn in advance on a template made of paper, then circle this template on a sheet of cardboard by drawing in advance the internal fold lines (those that go along the back). And the task of the child is to cut the silhouette of the template and bend it along the internal lines. That is, the craft is available to children from 5 years old, and is suitable for middle and older groups of kindergarten and for school lessons of creativity and labor.

Origami

SIMPLE ORIGAMI.

For young children, it is difficult to make multi-step origami crafts. Therefore, it is better to start with simple schemes, which are then supplemented with cut out elements, giving them a resemblance to the intended character. So we get easy crafts.

You yourself, with your own hands, you can experiment with a sheet of paper - fold it this way and that, and then think about what this folding sheet might look like ... but what if ears are here, eyes are here, and nose is here .... wow, this looks like a great MOUSE.

Here's another simple folding of paper along diagonal lines that makes it possible to get a fold for the Ladybug craft. Spots and a muzzle can be drawn with a marker or cut out of colored paper.

The simplest thing a small child can do is fold a sheet of paper into two folds and get base-blank for a character made of paper, whose mouth opens, and therefore you can make him not only a muzzle, but also a mouth with teeth and tongue.

This children's craft is suitable for classes in paper design in kindergarten. She needs double-sided colored cardboard or the same thick paper. It is good to buy office colored paper for such crafts - it has a higher density than standard children's colored paper.

Or children can make their own hands like these easy folding bed crafts. To do this, a sheet of paper (A4 format) is cut along a beveled diagonal. And then it folds into 2 folds (to get 3 parts). The wide side of the folded paper is not glued onto a sheet of colored cardboard and then decorated according to the design of the sketch.

Children's paper crafts.

DROP template.

If we roll a wide strip of paper with the ends together, then we get teardrop-shaped twist.

On the basis of such a simple blank, you can also make a variety of designs for crafts - a blue paper whale, a ladybug (glue wings to a drop).

It is convenient to make mice or a hedgehog from a paper template in the form of a drop.

Can i to such drop-shaped details add on top round paper roll- to make a head. So much more options for simple and easy crafts - bunny, duckling, swallow.

Turn on your imagination and multiply ideas.

And if you connect a whole series of strips together like CHAIN ​​LINKS, then you can get such a green crocodile from paper loops.

And here are some more simple crafts based on a wide strip, bent into a ring or into navicular shape.

In the craft with the boat - we first do holder at the bottom of the boat- it's just a small rectangle of paper, which has small sides bent on both sides. And then we glue the REAL BOARDS OF THE BOAT FROM BLUE PAPER to these bent sides. Rectangle with edges in the center will not let the sides of our boat collapse towards each other.

The craft is suitable for children from 5 years old.

And here is a children's paper craft, where white paper strips also imitate the body of a swan. Here the form holder is a roll of white paper twisted into a long tube. Craft for children 5-6 years old.

Crafts-postcards

from paper.

And of course, if you like to make children's crafts from paper and cardboard, then opener cards are a suitable topic for children from 3 years old. Ideas for opening crafts can be very different. For example, an aquarium with a fish. Or craft-valentine with spring birds.

You can make a simple children's craft in the form of a castle - the gates of which will be opened for boys by knights and soldiers, and for girls by beautiful princesses hidden inside a paper bastion.

Crafts-postcards can be a great gift for March 8, made by hand. For example, here is a cup with tulips. The handle for the cup can be cut out as a separate piece and glued to the side of the mug.

Or you can make an apron craft with carved paper lace (lace can be obtained from ready-made paper napkins, or cut a snowflake out of paper, cut off its lace edge and we will get a border for the apron.

You can cut out the silhouette of the can on the craft - seal it with a thin layer of the file (on double-sided tape). And also stick a paper pocket (the back wall of the craft) and put hearts in this transparent front pocket.

Here is another technique VOLUME POSTCARDS. She is simple. Fold a piece of paper in a fold. And on the edge of the bend we do 2 notches scissors (any length and width). And then we simply push the place between these incisions with a FINGER into the postcard - and it BUGS out in the form of such a rectangular stand.

And now we stick any element on this stand. For example a cupcake.

If you make three pairs of such cuts - push them with your finger inside the postcard, then you can stick a cupcake on each of them. And checkboxes on top. Here is a simple children's craft and ready. Interesting and non-standard.

To get started, practice on a piece of a regular sheet - bend in half, cut it twice and push the incised part inward. You will see that it is simple.

And you can show your kids the same way. And then on such a stand (already pushed inside the postcard) you will stick any craft (butterfly, dinosaur, rocket).

Any original ideas can be realized in this technique of voluminous postcards. That is, this is another field for children's fantasy paper crafts.

The longer you make paired cuts, the further the strip-stand will be curved inside your postcard. You can see this in the example with the postcard craft in the photo below.

Crafts openers can have a surprise in the form of a folding fan. Under such a folding bed, you can arrange a peacock with a magnificent tail.

Of course, such a complex carving (as in the photo below) is difficult for a child. But for children, you can simplify any idea - let the fan be not carved, but simply cut out the peacock spots separately and stick them on the fan blades.

Or a cot inside the postcard can be in the form folding chain of symmetrical elements- butterflies, flowers (that is, the main thing is that there is a symmetry of the folds).

We cut out any identical details - butterflies, flowers, hearts. The main thing is that the left half and the right one should be like a mirror image of each other. And then these parts can be glued in halves to each other (not all the halves should be smeared with glue, but only the outer edges). And then we get a multi-colored accordion of parts. And paste this accordion into a postcard. Also a beautiful craft - night butterflies, bright but against the background of a dark sky.

These are the ideas I collected and systematized - for your future paper crafts. I am sure that now you will not only be able to repeat the crafts presented here with your children, but also CREATE YOUR OWN AUTHOR'S WORKS for each of the proposed METHODS.

After all, when you understand the method, and when you see that it allows itself to be widely interpreted - multiplying the same technical idea in the form of a variety of crafts - then you just have to CONTINUE THE CHAIN ​​OF IDEAS.

And I wish you the most original creative finds. And the children will be very happy to implement them in the most diligent and inspired way.

Good luck with your children's crafts.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site

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You can make a lot of interesting and beautiful things out of paper. Among such interesting crafts are even paper houses with which you can decorate the Christmas tree or simply use them as interesting toys. And most importantly, you can make them with your own hands for any adult and child, of course, for those who are older.

How to make a paper clapperboard

It is not necessary for the festive fireworks to shoot firecrackers loaded with confetti and fill the entire apartment with small pieces of paper. A paper clapperboard that does not contain any explosives can also clap loudly enough. She will add fun to the atmosphere of a common holiday: someone will jump in surprise, and the rest will laugh merrily.

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It is not at all as difficult as it might seem at first - to make a butterfly out of paper with your own hands. This task is within the power of an adult and a child, there is not quite a baby. A butterfly can be hung on a string, it will float in the air in your room, it can be hung from a branch of a Christmas tree, it is also very beautiful.

From a simple sheet of paper, after a short work, a cute paper frog is obtained, which also knows how to jump. It can decorate your desktop, or it can become a funny children's toy. Children can even start fun competitions for the distance of the jump or the speed of the jumping frog.

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Send a letter - today's youth associate this action only with e-mail. But sometimes you have to send paper letters, but they need an envelope. In the era of electronics, you will not find such a trifle in every home, so you have to think about how to make an envelope out of paper with your own hands. It seems that wisdom is not great, but without skill it is impossible to cope with such a task.

Paper airplanes are easy to make and most importantly, they actually fly. This process is so interesting that any adult will be happy to make light paper structures and, to the delight of children, send them flying. Well, older children themselves will be able to do aircraft design.

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Many beautiful things can be made from paper, but the simplest and at the same time surprisingly beautiful are snowflakes. You don't even need to paint them: they must be white. It is enough to fold a sheet of paper in a special way and work a little with scissors to get a real patterned miracle.

It is easy to make a toy boat out of a simple sheet of paper and set it sailing along the stream and along the water expanses of the bath. You just need to remember a simple instruction on how to make a boat out of paper, how to fold it in order to get a water-resistant structure. This is a simple, but very exciting thing.

As you know, light paper crafts are very useful for children of any age. The first interest arises in a baby as early as the age of 1 year, it is during this period that you can begin to teach him how to properly make simple crafts from various materials.

Important! It is worth noting that such creativity develops fine motor skills in the baby, it positively affects the perception of the world around and the ability to think creatively.

Of course, in order for the baby's talents to develop successfully, parents should understand how to properly teach their child to perform a particular task.

paper butterfly

The first rule that every parent should remember is that during the period of development, only those tasks should be given to the child that will be within his power. For example, easy DIY paper crafts will be very interesting and simple for a child. In this case, it must be borne in mind that the baby himself must do the bulk of the work, otherwise there will be no benefit from such an activity.

There are many interesting workshops that talk about how to make easy paper crafts with your own hands and at the same time spend a minimum of time on this activity.

Christmas trees made of paper

Some of them will be given below, and it will also be told about which craft is best for what age.

As mentioned above, light paper crafts are suitable not only for older children, but also for the smallest. So, for example, kids under the age of 2 years willingly participate in this process. True, in this case it is important to remember that such an activity should not take more than 10 minutes, otherwise the baby will get tired of everything and he will abandon this business. You need to monitor the behavior of the crumbs during this task. For example, if he begins to lose all interest, then it is clear that such a task turned out to be either too difficult for him or, on the contrary, very simple.

Easy paper crafts are suitable not only for older children, but also for the little ones.

If we talk about tasks for children of this age, then they can be divided into several groups:

1. Easy paper crafts, the essence of which is that you need to cut out certain figures and stick them on a blank sheet of paper. In other words, the chaotic fastening of individual pieces of paper to each other.
2. Crafts that are based on the fact that the pieces must be attached in a chaotic manner.
3. The type of crafts is when individual figures must be attached to a pre-designated place.

Easy craft for little ones

For example, if we are talking about the first option, then here the task has a simple essence. Some figures or pieces are cut out of colored paper, and then they are glued onto another sheet. In this task, it is very important to initially teach the baby how to use glue. He must understand how the leaves are glued together, how to attach them correctly, whether it is necessary to press one part of the application to another, and so on. In other words, this is a variant of getting to know the crumbs with paper and glue.

Important! The task of an adult is to teach the baby to properly hold the glue in his hands, show how to spread it on paper, and do not forget to show that when the glue is smeared on the base, the sheet itself must be held with the left hand.

In this case, the pencil should be strictly perpendicular to the sheet. This is very important, because if, when getting acquainted with stationery, you do not explain to the child all the basics of the creative process, then it will be very difficult to retrain him later. And, accordingly, he will perform all subsequent tasks incorrectly.

Dandelions from paper and napkins

Of course, you need to give the crumbs the opportunity to independently complete the entire task from start to finish. Some parents, fearing that the baby will do something wrong, perform the task themselves. But this is absolutely wrong.

The second stage of acquaintance with paper and glue

After the child has learned to perform elementary operations with paper and glue, you should show him the very technique of creating various pictures and postcards. Of course, even the lightest paper crafts will be insanely interesting for the baby. Of course, if adults make every effort to do so.

The second stage of creating simple crafts is that the child must learn how to properly arrange the various details on a piece of paper. Of course, at this stage he will not need to create any specific drawings or lines. He just has to learn how to glue various figures wherever he wants. Now it is very important that he himself learns to decide how his future work will look better. Adults can only say what figure to get as a result, and the baby decides for himself where exactly to glue the different parts of the craft.

Paper craft - chamomile

If you really want to intervene in this process, then you can simply suggest why it would be better, and where exactly you need to stick this piece of paper. But you can’t put pressure on the child, at this stage he is only learning to create his future masterpieces.

During such crafts, you can create figures in the form of a sun, a cloud, a house, a flower and other very simple objects.

Easy craft options

The last stage in creating beautiful and original crafts is that the baby begins to realize for himself where to glue the various parts of the figure correctly. To do this, you should prepare in advance all the necessary tools for the implementation of a creative idea. Most often, such creative masterpieces are made from two or three types of colored paper, as well as a white sheet. Do not forget that you will need glue and scissors. If the parent does not want the child to pick up scissors, you can first make a blank and cut out the necessary figures from colored paper yourself. To make really light and beautiful paper crafts, you should use at least 3 or even more colors.

Christmas tree decorations made of paper

For example, if you make a Christmas tree with balls, then you should initially glue the Christmas tree itself, then the balls, and at the end an asterisk. To make the final picture brighter, you can use more flowers and make many different jewelry blanks for the forest beauty in advance.

Paper crocodile

Below is a list of basic crafts that will be of interest to children:

• a tree on which apples grow;
• a hedgehog with apples and mushrooms on its thorns;
• a basket with many berries;
• jar with vitamins;
• a tree from which leaves fall;
• fish that swim in the aquarium.

Application - fish

By the way, to make the process of creating an application faster, you can print ready-made blanks of such figures as a Christmas tree, a hedgehog, a tree, a jar, a basket. As a result, the baby will need to glue only small figures.

paper tree

You can also watch tutorial videos, which are very numerous on the Internet, they talk about how to create easy paper crafts.

What is of particular interest to the child?

After the child learns how to create very easy paper crafts, they can be shown videos that show how to make a more complex application. Thus, it will turn out to develop the baby's imagination and skills. Of course, most often this happens already when the baby is at least 1.5 years old.

To begin with, an adult should draw on the base sheet the outlines of the figures that the child will glue. This will help him visually understand what kind of application should be the result. After he learns how to carefully glue the figures along the contours, you can proceed to creating crafts without drawing these same contours.

Multicolored paper caterpillar

In this way, you can create:

• caterpillar;
• snowman
• dandelion;
• a bunch of balloons;
• a house that is built from blocks;
• building with windows
• machine and much more.

paper grapes

Of course, these are the main figures, it all depends on the skills of the baby and his patience. If he has perseverance, and he likes to create simple postcards and pictures, then you can choose more complicated figures. And if it lasts a maximum of 10 minutes, then it is better to choose something simpler.

Craft - paper hedgehog

Some parents also experiment with different magazines and newspapers. They simply cut them into pieces, and then glue them back together with the kids. For example, if a traffic light is drawn in the picture, it can be cut out and then glued back.

paper snowman

Important! Easy paper crafts for kids are a great way to teach your child independence and develop the ability to think abstractly.

It is very important in this process to trust him, to give him as much freedom as possible. You should not limit him in his movements and constantly suggest what and how to do. Let him initially understand everything himself and learn how to create paper crafts easily and quickly, and after that you can start giving him more complex tasks. This is exactly what is described in the well-known Montessori method. The only thing to take care of in advance is to show the child that there are certain rules. For example, to tell that you can only glue at this table, the paper lies here, and you need to put it back here, and so on. Then the baby will grow up independent, but at the same time he will understand what can and cannot be done.

Everyone knows how to work with cardboard. In kindergarten, beautiful paper crafts are taught to create the smallest children. Later, skills are fixed in elementary school, and older children learn from each other and make cool figurines, delicate flowers and "valentines", postcards and cardboard panels with their own hands. Among the techniques of working with paper are appliqué, quilling, and origami, which allows you to create three-dimensional 3D crafts, and design.

Everyone knows how to work with cardboard. In kindergarten, beautiful paper crafts are taught to create the smallest children

For paper affairs, the wizard does not need complex tools. The most basic can be found in any home, and what is not there can be easily bought at the nearest stationery store. So, you will need:

• paper of various grades and types (white, colored, corrugated, etc.);
• cardboard (thin, for child labor, toilet paper sleeves, postcards, etc.);
• scissors;
• wire;
• stationery knife;
• simple pencil;
• glue for paper (silicate, PVA, starch or other).

You can decorate paper crafts with your own hands with beautiful ribbons, and beads or rhinestones, and sparkles. Paints with a brush can also come in handy. As colored paper, you can use the pages of glossy magazines or napkins of different shades. If you need to cut a lot of the same parts, it is best to prepare a template from thin cardboard in advance.

We do paper crafts ourselves (video)

paper flowers

They can be useful for decorating postcards, creating bouquets and compositions, for decorating other crafts. Flowers are the most indispensable element of any holiday and a special category in papermaking. You can make them from almost any kind of selected material.

For those who like to work with their own hands, a master class on what kind of roses can be created from double-sided colored paper will be very interesting. You will need circles of different diameters: the larger the workpiece, the more magnificent and larger the rose will come out. Do not try to cut a perfectly correct figure. An uneven edge will give a natural look to the flower petals.

Cut the finished circle in a spiral, moving from the edge to the center, leaving a small circle in the middle. The resulting strip must now be twisted into a roll, also starting from the edge. Make the first few turns tight, and then wind the rest of the strip around this core, aligning the bottom edges of the paper. In the process, you can lightly fasten the turns with glue, especially if the material is dense and hard. Having finished twisting, glue the bottom edge of the roll to the circle remaining in the center.

From these roses you can make a panel with flowers. If you stick flowers on a heart made of cardboard, you get a beautiful "valentine" or postcard. By attaching roses to natural branches, you can arrange a composition in the style of "ikebana".

Origami leaves and flowers

The Japanese art of origami allows you to make voluminous paper crafts on a variety of topics. Flowers and leaves can be made from modules that are held together with glue. For Women's Day or another spring holiday, you can quickly make a souvenir in the old Japanese style.

You can give a whole basket of snowdrops to someone even on New Year's Eve, if you use the instructions. This will require only white and green paper, a basket and wire. Origami snowdrops need to be made step by step from the Shamrock modules:

1. For each flower, you need to make 3 white paper modules, as follows from the diagram (top, left).
2. Lubricate one of the leaves with glue, it is shaded in the photo on the right, above. Insert a leaflet into a pocket on another module, from the wrong side of the same sheet.
3. Glue the 3 trefoil in the same way, and then connect the extreme modules in the same way. A hole will remain in the center (photo above, in the lower left corner).

It remains to make the stem and leaves of snowdrops. To do this, wrap the wire with thin paper (corrugated or napkin). Leave a free end about 2 cm long. Make a thickening near it by winding a little more layers of paper. Pass the free part of the wire through the hole in the cup of the flower, form a ring inside it and bring the remaining tip to the stem. Wind a few more layers of green paper, forming the base of the flower. Glue long narrow leaves, bend the stem and make a few more snowdrops.

Other examples of crafts in the photo below were created from the same modules: for a water lily, you need to assemble a base of 7 green modules, connecting them in the same way as for a snowdrop cup. The white flower consists of 3 rows with a gradually decreasing number of modules (from 6 to 3). For petals, you need to place the elements inside out. The craft “Fuchsia Bouquet” consists of flowers made in the same way as snowdrops, but from 2 tiers - white and pink. Using origami modules, you can make other crafts from colored paper, connecting them in different quantities according to the same principle.

Origami leaves are also made in a different way. How to make different types of paper in stages:

1. Draw a spread sheet. You can do this on paper folded in half so that the halves are symmetrical. If the material is not painted, then a brush and gouache will come to the rescue.
2. Fold the finished sheet with an “accordion”, placing the folds parallel to the bottom, long side of the pattern.
3. Squeeze the folded workpiece in the middle and bend it so that the halves of the long side are side by side. Glue these parts.
4. The stalk can be made from twisted paper tow or wire. A small hole remains at the place of the inflection of the folded scan. You need to thread the finished element into it and glue the end.

Flowers and beautiful autumn leaves can be combined in a variety of compositions. But interesting ideas from paper are not limited to this.

Gallery: beautiful paper crafts (25 photos)

Funny bookmarks for books

Another area of ​​application of skills in papermaking is the manufacture of simple but necessary things. These include DIY crafts such as bookmarks. It's nice to pick up a book or a notebook in which funny cartoon characters, a funny monster or cute animals look out from the right page.

The easiest way to make bookmarks with slotted parts. For their manufacture, it is better to take thick paper or thin cardboard. Schemes can be enlarged and printed or draw the desired drawing yourself. Further work is very simple: along the edge of the colored muzzle of the chanterelle, on the border with the gray stripe, you need to make a through cut. A utility knife will help with this.

All bookmarks in the photo below are made according to the same principle. To decorate the elements, you can use movable eyes and decorative wire (“brush”), appliqué and paints. The fantasy of the master can suggest the most incredible ideas based on the products already presented. Figurines of birds and animals can also be used to decorate homemade postcards, cutting holes along the contour of a branch (for an owl and a bird), depicting a snowdrift, from which a fox's muzzle will peek out, etc.

corner bookmarks

Another option for bookmarks is a corner. To make such gizmos, you need to make a pattern, as in the photo. To create such a scheme, you need to draw a square, and then add 2 more of the same shapes to it on adjacent sides. Draw diagonals in the side details.

Then you can proceed in different ways. Stopping at step 1 and cutting out a polygon consisting of a square and 2 triangles, the master will be able to make a bookmark with a large back (critter or angry bird). Continuing to draw, lengthening the lines formed by the hypotenuses of the triangles and connecting their extreme points with a straight line, you can make a bookmark with a slightly protruding backdrop (bunny or flower corner). In any of the options, you need to fold the pattern along the sides of the triangles. Connect the triangles with glue. Between them and the back side of the bookmark there is a pocket in which you can insert a page of the book. Attach additional details and decor separately.

Another option for bookmarks is a corner

The corner can be done in a different way:

1. Cut out 2 parts from a postcard, a beautiful candy box, velvet paper. It can be a heart or another figurine.
2. Sew the sharp corner of the heart with a contrasting thread.
3. Decorate, if necessary, the front side of the romantic bookmark.

For those who do not yet use books on their own, ideas for creating toys will come in handy. Some of them the child can even do with his own hands under the guidance of elders.

Paper flowers (video)

paper toys

Almost regardless of age, children love to play with building models. They build houses from cubes, boxes, any material at hand. Then these structures are replaced by the houses of Barbie and Ken and their many friends.

Back in the 18th century, the art of making toy houses out of paper and cardboard was common. These models were quite expensive and only available to wealthy families. In our time, when materials can even be junk, all parents can afford to make a paper house for a child.

To create a fabulous log hut, you will need paper tubes. They can be made by folding thin cardboard, whatman paper or similar material according to the template (on a pencil). The edges need to be coated with glue and connected. From ready-made "logs" you can fold a fabulous house together with your child, glue windows with shutters, a roof and doors to it.

Another option for crafts made of cardboard or thick paper is models created from scans. This may be a model of Baba Yaga's hut, your own house, a castle, or some kind of fictitious building. It is desirable that its walls are interconnected. The unfolded pattern should resemble an unfolded box: with only 1 side seam. Glue the base and roof separately. By cutting a fence out of paper, you can enclose such a house with a fence.

It is very convenient to make round towers of castles from cylindrical bushings from towels, toilet paper, cling film, etc. For them, you need to make a roof in the form of a cone, rolling it from a circle notched along the radius. Having understood the principle of constructing such patterns, everyone will be able to independently create paper houses of a more complex design.

Near the house you can always meet some animals: cats, dogs, and if it is a fabulous forest hut, then a deer or even an elephant. Children are very fond of such paper figures. Older children are happy to create them on their own, and the younger ones need to be shown how to make the right animal out of paper:

1. Draw the body and head.
2. Draw legs or paws in the form of a symmetrical figure. It can be an arch, a corner, etc.
3. Make slits on the body where the legs should be located.
4. Insert the parts of the paws into the slots, fixing them perpendicular to the plane of the body.

To make an elephant, the legs need to be drawn and cut along with the torso. He can stand, leaning on huge ears. This detail is also made symmetrical, and you can insert it into the slot on the head of the elephant figure.

Cardboard sleeves can be used as the basis for figurines of people and animals. After painting or pasting them with colored paper, you need to cut out and attach details of the face or muzzle, headdress, hair, ears and horns.

There are many options for making various paper crafts. Masters with an artistic streak create real masterpieces by assembling three-dimensional paintings from carved details. But even children can begin to learn how to handle cardboard and paper, develop spatial imagination and hone their taste.

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