Show the children how to make a fan, a paper rose. Together with them, make a branch of sakura from the same material and put it in a paper vase. In diligent hands, plain paper can turn into graceful flowers, a Japanese fan, or a pinwheel. Read how to make a phone and all these things out of paper and start creating with your children.
DIY paper rose - 2 options
Such a flower can quickly transform a room, decorate a banquet table. You can twist a few roses and make an artificial garden out of them.
Show your child how to DIY roses using one of the easiest ways. For such a craft, you need only 4 things:
- colored paper;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- stationery glue.
Have your child cut a square out of paper. Place the pencil in the center of the sheet, and the baby, starting from here, draws a continuous curl in a spiral. Now you need to cut it, starting from the edge, towards the center. Next, again from the edge, you need to start rolling the curl into a roll. In the process, you need to glue the sides of the rose. To keep it looking neat, fold it as tightly as possible.
Here is such a wonderful rose made of paper, made with your own hands or with the palms of a baby, it will turn out.
Wonderful artificial plants are also made from soft tissue paper. Here's how to make corrugated roses.
Before you start creating, prepare:
- corrugated paper in green and red;
- electrical tape or glue;
- wire;
- wooden stick.
To make it easier to make the petals, fold the paper several times in a stack. Then you will immediately make several elements, and will not cut out one petal at a time. Draw a heart on the top sheet of the stack, cut the petals along this contour. They need to give volume, for this you need to put the thumbs of both hands on the right and left sides of the petal, press. Now, for each blank, you need to wrap the left and right edges. To do this, bring the part to the stick, twist one and the second upper edge of the petal back with this simple device.
Wrap a strip of green corrugated paper around the stem, glueing it down at the same time. Cut out paired blanks for leaves from the same paper. Put 1 sheet on the table face down, grease the wrong side with glue, place the wire here, and on top - another sheet blank, face up.
Here's how to make a rose from crepe paper next. Take a stem, grease its top with glue, wind the first petal tightly around its top. Grease the bottom of this petal with a little glue, wind the second petal. Thus, decorate the entire flower by gluing the petals.
Cut a strip out of green corrugated paper, use scissors to make one of its long sides in a zigzag pattern. Screw this element onto the bottom of the flower, placing its teeth towards the bud.
We make a fan with our own hands
It can also be made from paper. Such a device comes in handy when it's hot and you can make such a useful thing in just 10 minutes.
If the child is small, then show him a simple manufacturing option. For this he will need:
- colored paper;
- curly hole punches;
- satin ribbon;
- glue.
First, the paper needs to be folded like an accordion, then with the help of hole punches, form curly holes at the top. Round ones are made at the bottom and in the center of paper fans. Now you need to thread the tape through the central holes, just tighten it slightly and tie it to the bow. The tape is also passed through the lower holes, but it is already tightened tightly. You can use a decorative lace instead.
Here's how to make a paper fan for your kid. An older child may use a more complex option. Here are the materials needed for needlework:
- a sheet of A4 paper;
- Scotch;
- wooden sticks;
- beads;
- elastic.
We begin to make a fan with our own hands together with our little assistant by cutting the sheet in half lengthwise. For the finished product to have Japanese motives, have a child draw a sakura branch on these blanks. Now you need to roll them up like an accordion, bending them by 1–1.5 cm. Glue these 2 blanks using double-sided tape.
To make the handle of the fan, for which it will be held, wrap an adhesive tape here 2.5 cm wide. Also, using this adhesive tape, attach wooden sticks to the lower right side of the product. To make the fan foldable, cut a strip of the desired length from the elastic band, string beads on it, tie it into two knots. Slide the elastic over the bottom of the two wooden sticks.
Here's how to make a Japanese-style paper fan.
How to make a turntable?
It is also made from a very affordable material. If you show your child how to make a turntable, he will be happy to do interesting needlework.
See how many different options for such wind turbines there can be.
The child will like to play with the turntables, and you can place them in the country, thus decorating the suburban area.
For the manufacture is taken:
- a sheet of double-sided paper or two one-sided, 14x14 cm in size;
- bamboo skewer;
- beads;
- awl;
- wire;
- Ruler and pencil;
- tubes for cocktails.
If you have two sheets of single-sided colored paper, glue the wrong sides together. Diagrams will help you better understand the principle of creating a product.
Have your child trace a square piece of paper diagonally with a ruler and pencil. Then, before reaching the center of 6 cm, he will cut along these lines.
Take on the next stage of work. Make a hole with an awl in the center, as well as at the top, through the corner. The diagram shows which areas need to be processed in this way.
Now a child can take up work again, to whom you explain how to make the turntable further. Let him wind a wire on a stick, string a bead on it, which is used as a stopper.
After that, the wire must be threaded into the central hole of the paper square, and on the other side, also fastened with beads.
It remains to take turns to put on the tip of the wire the edges of the paper square and fix these blades with beads. Make sure they do not over-tighten the main element, and it rotates well.
If the child easily mastered this technique and wants to know how to make an eight-bladed turntable, tell me that it is made with two four-bladed ones, but the grooves are made in a slightly different way.
Focusing on the diagrams, cut out two such blanks from two square sheets and insert one into the other.
The diagram shows where to make holes in the center and on which upper edges. Make holes, secure the turntable on a stick with a wire, referring to the previous description.
The flower-shaped paper pinwheel also looks great and does its job. It is also cut from a square sheet with sides of 14 centimeters, only the edges are made semicircular.
Looking at the diagram, it will be easy to make internal cuts, bend these elements as shown in the photo.
If you want to return to the floral theme, to learn how a sakura branch is made of paper, read about it right now. By stocking up on the essentials, you will quickly create this graceful home decoration.
DIY sakura branch
It will resemble Japan in spring and will never wither.
In order for the blooming sakura to settle in your home for a long time, here's what you need to make an exhibition:
- corrugated or papyrus paper of dark and light pink color;
- glue gun;
- dry twigs;
- scissors.
Fold the paper in several layers so that it is a square with sides 5 x 5 cm in width. On the top, draw the outlines of a future flower with elongated petals, cut out. Create the same blanks from paper of a different shade.
Now take a darker flower, place a light pink on it, sliding it so that the lower contrasting petals are visible. Put a little glue in the center, press on this place with your hands in thin rubber gloves. Crumple the blank slightly to make the sakura flower look like a real one.
Now take a dry branch, revive it by gluing the blanks.
You can make small indentations with a knife, glue flowers there, or wrap them with floral tape or tape to match. You have such a beautiful blooming sakura made of paper. You can make not only one or several branches, but also a whole tree. If your home is tight, keep it small. Such decoration will perfectly fit into the room and will remind you of spring even in winter.
The cherry blossom branch may look different. For such, flowers are made in a slightly different way. First, 6 large petals are cut out of bright pink paper, the same amount from light pink, but smaller. For such a craft, you also need yellow paper, stamens are made from it. Cut a mug out of it, cut its ends with a fringe. Glue them up to the center of the flower.
A sakura branch can be a decoration for a large space. For this, flowers are glued to the wall.
If you prefer the desktop option, then think about where you will put the artificial branch.
Paper vase
In such a beautiful container, the composition will look great. It can also be used for its intended purpose - to fill with water and put fresh flowers.
For this useful work, you will need:
- corrugated or plain colored paper;
- glass jar;
- scissors;
- PVA glue.
Measure the circumference of the can. Cut strips of colored paper to this length. Chop their larger edge with a fringe and glue the first strip on the jar, directing this openwork edge to the bottom.
Glue the second and each subsequent one a little higher. As a result, you will have a beautiful paper vase.
A child of kindergarten age can also make such. He will be interested in learning how to make a vase with his own hands so that it turns out to be so original.
In it, the sakura branch will stand and look perfect. For work, use the list of the following materials:
- cardboard tube;
- unnecessary newspapers and magazines;
- PVA glue;
- transparent hardener varnish;
- cardboard;
- golden tint;
- paint.
For the base of the vase, a medium-diameter cardboard tube is taken. You can buy it at a hardware store or make it yourself from 2-3 sheets of cardboard by twisting and gluing them.
- Depending on how high the paper vase will be, you will cut the cardboard tube to this height. Place the bottom on a piece of cardboard, circle the bottom and cut it out. Attach this piece to the bottom of the pipe with super glue.
- From old newspapers and magazines, cut strips, fold each in half, twist into tight rolls, greasing parts of the parts with glue so that they do not unwind.
- Glue them over the outer surface of the cardboard tube, including its top.
- Fill the gaps between the parts with beads, beads, buttons or beans.
When the glue is dry, start decorating the paper vase. To do this, first cover it with scarlet paint, let it dry. Then apply black and immediately after that, without letting dry, wipe off the excess with a sponge. It is only needed for toning.
Here's how to make a DIY vase next. When the paint is completely dry, cover the item with translucent gold paint. When it dries, apply 2–3 coats of fixing varnish to the surface and leave to dry. After that, you can put a sakura branch, dried flowers or decorative grass in a vase.
Here's how much you can do with cardboard and plain paper. At the end of the article, as always, interesting videos on this topic are waiting for you.
