Original crafts made of white paper. DIY crafts from colored

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 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 together in advance in 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 paper shape can be turned into a paddle piece, the number of paddles and the splendor of the piece depends on how many pieces you use in your 3D 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 always don’t 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.

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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).

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with paper stripes.

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.

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 appliqué 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).

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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).

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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.

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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 craft designs - 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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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.

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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 can 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.

You can always meet some animals near the house: cats, dogs, and if this 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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Both boys and girls of any preschool and primary school age love to build. Cubes and constructors, plasticine and paper - even the smallest children are drawn to the creation of the same tower of cubes. Early activities of parents or caregivers with children directly affect the development of their abilities.

Designing helps the formation of figurative thinking, helps to improve hand motility, broaden one's horizons. At 3-4 years old, the child is already able to make paper. He is able to fold paper, learn to cut with scissors, create three-dimensional structures, do-it-yourself paper crafts. At the same time, accuracy and accuracy of movements develop.

The easiest way to keep a child busy with paper crafts without giving them dangerous scissors or glue is origami.

Introduction to origami

It is better to start the first origami lesson by creating the easiest paper crafts, the child's hand should get used to working with this material. Start by getting acquainted with the simplest geometric figure - a square. Try to tell on behalf of the square about what you can do with it. In a playful way, you can explain that it has sides and corners, and show the child how to find its center. Having taught how to fold triangles, a child can be shown how to make a composition from them, folding, for example, a Christmas tree. From a folded rectangle, you can make a door that can be glued onto a base prepared with the help of an adult in the form of a drawn house.

Gradually, tasks can become more difficult. From squares of different sizes, turned into triangles, the child can be asked to fold a Christmas tree that expands downwards. From a triangle and a rectangle folded by a child, you can construct a fungus. Origami-type paper craft templates can be found in special books. Below is

Origami for advanced masters

Origami art is a suitable creative activity not only for children, but also for adults. It calms, creates a meditative mood, and eventually allows you to create a beautiful little thing with your own hands.

To twist the tube, you will need a newspaper, a long knitting needle, PVA glue, a stationery or kitchen knife. The newspaper spread is folded in half lengthwise and carefully cut with a knife. Then again fold and cut until you get four strips for four tubes. After that, they take a knitting needle and, applying it to the edge of the newspaper at a slight angle, begin to twist it gently. Having screwed it up to the end, a drop of PVA glue is applied to the corner, pressing lightly, the needle is taken out and the resulting tube is set aside until the glue dries. When weaving, the tubes must be held in order to give them the intended shape. Weaving begins with small-sized products, over time, taking into account and evaluating all the features of the material.

From newspaper tubes, baskets and caskets, photo frames and coasters for mugs, vases and wall panels are most often woven. But a developed imagination allows you to use this material and type of technology almost unlimitedly.

quilling

Quilling is another type of paper craft that is gaining popularity. This is a technique of twisting narrow long strips of paper into spirals and then modifying them to make flat or voluminous compositions.

Quilling comes from Mediterranean Europe. This hobby is quite common in America, England and Germany. It is also called "paper filigree". Despite this name, the technique allows even a child to make simple paper crafts. Paper spirals in skillful hands turn into flowers and patterns used to decorate gift wraps, handmade cards, albums, photo frames. Products made in are used as wall decorations, and even make jewelry out of them. This is a budget, beautiful and simple type of needlework.

In quilling, colored paper of special density is used. It is important that both sides and the cut itself are the same color, although paper with two different colors on both sides of the sheet is sometimes used for special effect.

Ready-made paper sets are sold in specialized stores, but you can also cut the strips yourself.

Facing

In this technique, volumetric figures and images can be made from paper. For trimming, thin and soft paper, for example, corrugated, is used. Small squares are cut out of it, which are then folded into cones or funnels. The top of this cone is smeared with glue and glued to the base. Multi-colored cones glued to the base create a voluminous and beautiful panel. Thus, you can make a picture or a postcard, or you can create an interior topiary.

Iris Folding

This technique of paper art in Russia is not very common, but it has a rich history and unlimited opportunities for self-expression. At its core, it is a technique of folding paper strips in such a way that their pattern resembles a twisting spiral. The drawing is laid out from colored paper or paper with a pattern, carefully choosing shades to make it harmonious. From above, the resulting pattern is covered with a frame - a motif or silhouette cut out of paper. As a result, even a child can make an easy craft out of paper - a beautiful panel or a postcard.

Papier mache

Papier-mache is a simple and affordable technique with great potential for needlework. Caskets and caskets, vases and bijouterie, theatrical props, dolls, figurines and figurines of animals, toys, covers with painting, embossing and varnishing are made using this technique. Even interior decoration elements are made from papier-mâché: from decorative panels for walls and doors to architectural stucco for walls and ceilings. Frames for mirrors, candlesticks, lamps and even furniture made in papier-mâché technique are distinguished by their beauty and originality. However, even the lightest paper crafts can be made using this technique.

Papier-mache (French papier mâché) means "chewed or torn paper". The basis of papier-mâché is paper, which easily turns into a mass that can be molded. Glue, gypsum or starch are added to the composition of the mass.

Three techniques for making papier-mâché products

First way

A model of the product is being prepared, which will need to be pasted over with paper. It can be made of wood, clay, plasticine or plaster. The model can be smeared with glue and fixed under the layers of paper, or it can be removed from the paper layer, for which it is pre-coated with Vaseline. Torn wet paper is applied to the selected model with glue. Alternating a layer of paper with a layer of glue, paste over with layers, the number of which can reach up to a hundred. Previously, a starch-based paste was used for gluing, but special glue is now available. Gluing paper in layers is called mashing.

Second way

The product is formed from a liquid paper pulp, for which the paper is cut or torn into pieces and soaked in hot water a day before they plan to start work. After that, the soaked mass is boiled. Then the water is squeezed out, pieces of paper are loosened and dried. The dry mass is mixed with chalk and a special glue from the mixture and starch paste is gradually poured into it until a dough with a soft and plastic structure is formed. Such paper dough is poured into a mold or applied to a product.

Third way

For this type of papier-mâché, you need hard cardboard and PVA glue. The method resembles plywood manufacturing technology. The model is made by gluing pieces of hard cardboard together. After that, the cardboard is subjected to pressure, specialists use brackets and a stapler to fix the glued plates, or a vice and clamps. Dried products are puttied, sanded, primed, and then painted and varnished or embossed.

Thus, paper is one of the most versatile, inexpensive and easy-to-use materials for creativity and needlework. You can make an easy craft out of paper, decorate your life, transform the interior, make an original gift that resembles a work of art.

This is perhaps the simplest and least costly type of creativity for children and adults. And probably, there will not be a person who has not launched a paper airplane at least once in his life, and these endless ways to make your liner faster brought so much joy and the first children's victories. In this article, we will look at some interesting crafts that you can easily repeat with your children. Creative activities with paper will be interesting not only for kids, but also for school-age children. Making paper crafts develops fine motor skills, teaches the child to work with scissors, to be neat, patient and attentive.

And all that for children's joy, we need scissors, glue, a couple of sheets of paper, for more advanced users, a couple of colored sheets of paper (cardboard). And you will definitely make your baby happy. In the process of working with very small crumbs, you can remember colors, shapes in a playful way and just have a great time.

Today we would like to offer you some simple techniques that even the smallest can handle to make their own origami.

For the first type of crafts, we need

1. Scissors;
2. Glue;
3. Markers or pens;
4. Several sheets of colored paper.

The technique for making such paper crafts is very simple. All we need is to choose our favorite character or animal. Choose the right paper color and get started.

How to make paper craft?

Below, let's take a look at three simple paper crafts: a mouse, a bunny and a bee.

As an example, consider the manufacture of a mouse.

Step 1:

We need to prepare everything necessary for work. To make a mouse, we need to cut out the following elements from paper:

• 1 rectangle (for the body of the mouse). Make the sides of the rectangle pointed, as shown in the example. (this will be the head of the mouse);
• 3 thin strips (this will be the antennae);
• 1 triangle for the spout;
• blanks for the ears 2 larger ovals and 2 smaller ovals, glue them together;
• blanks for the peephole 2 larger ovals in white and 2 smaller ovals in black, glue them together;
• 1 ponytail, cut a slightly twisted strip from paper.

Step 2:

Now that we have all the elements of the mouse, we need to fasten it with glue. We bend our largest rectangle (torso) in half, but do not press it, glue the front part. We are waiting for the glue to set.

Step 3:

We glue all the other elements of the mustache, nose, tail and ears to the finished main part.

Examples of work in a similar technique.

For the second type of crafts, we need

The next type of paper craft is also very easy to make, but very colorful and bright. Such crafts will also look beautiful as bowls for pens and pencils.

1. Scissors;
2. Glue;
3. Markers or pens;
4. Cardboard cone.

For example, consider the manufacture of a bee

Step 1:

We need to prepare everything necessary for work. To make a bee, we need to cut out the following elements from paper:

• 1 large rectangle the size of the cone you chose for the craft;
• 3 black stripes;
• blank for wings, make it the same as in the example;
• 1 circle, this will be the face of the bee;
• mustache blanks.

Step 2:

At this stage, we need to take the cone and glue it with a blank of a large rectangle.

Step 3:

While the glue on our cone dries, we can prepare the face of our character. Draw eyes and a smile on the prepared circle, then glue on the antennae.

Step 4:

We continue to work with the cone, glue the stripes characteristic of the bee on it, approximately at the same distance.

Step 5:

We collect our bee, glue all the remaining elements on our cone. The bee is ready.

Examples of work in a similar technique

For the third type of crafts, we need

The third version of crafts is slightly different from the first two. It takes a little more time and patience to make. But these types of paper crafts look very beautiful and stylish. And they are suitable not only for children's creativity, but also for decorating a room and many more different applications.

1. Scissors;
2. Glue;
3. Pencil;
4. Several sheets of colored paper;
5. Ruler.

As an example, consider the manufacture of a bunny.

Step 1:

We need to prepare everything necessary for work. To make a bunny, we need to cut out the following elements from paper:

• circle, this will be a blank for the face of a bunny;
• 4 oblong ovals for ears (2 a little more, 2 a little less) glue them together to make ears;

Step 2:

We need to make the base of our bunny. We take a sheet of A4 paper, now we need to make something similar to an accordion. So that at the end, our bunny turned out to be even, use a ruler to divide the A4 sheet into even parts. Now, along the marked lines, we bend our leaf into an accordion. To make the bunny bigger and more embossed, you can make several of these harmonicas

Step 3:

The next step in our work is to glue our finished accordions together with glue to make a circle.

Step 4:

Glue the face of our bunny and ready-made ears onto the finished circle. You can make several of these bunnies and fasten them together with a thread and decorate the room with such a cute DIY garland.

Examples of other works performed in a similar technique.

We hope our article was useful for you, leave your comments and send us photos of your work.

Colored paper and thin cardboard are the first material from which children begin to make flat or three-dimensional figures. Children's paper crafts develop creativity, spatial thinking and fine motor skills of fingers. This is the simplest way to keep kids entertained in their spare time. They will be carried away by the creative process at any time of the year, especially in inclement weather. The ideas, schemes, instructions and templates offered in the article can be used not only by teachers, but also by parents of preschoolers and children of primary school age.

Making simple paper crafts on your own is fun and affordable. Every year, experts offer new ideas and work techniques that inspire exclusive decor in the interior.

Paper does not mean what can be done, thrown away and forgotten. If you prepare correctly and do everything extremely carefully, paper decor will not look cheap and trivial. From thin colored cardboard and thick office paper, you can make a lot of beautiful and useful household gizmos with your own hands. They are suitable for updating the design in the children's room or decorate the whole house for the holiday:

• for the New Year;
• for Easter;
• by March 8;
• for Valentine's Day;
• for the birthday of each member of the family.

Designers use three-dimensional figurines for interior decor in various styles. For example, branches of delicate sakura with voluminous pink flowers made using the origami technique from modules are a great idea for a Japanese-style bedroom.

A panel with voluminous butterflies, applications in the form of birds or autumn leaves, a tree with owls - a simple and unique decor for a country-style hallway or dining area.

Paper Christmas decorations are the best preparation for the long-awaited holiday.

Enthusiastically use all your boundless imagination:

• openwork snowflakes on the window glass, planted on soap;
• christmas angels;
• moon and planets;
• garlands with colored paper additions;
• Santa Claus, snowmen, hares and other winter characters;
• voluminous and flat Christmas toys.

Children of different ages, girls and boys, are willingly involved in the work. Older students, having practice, on behalf of their mothers, become "instructors" for kids. They can make a complex base in the form of an accordion, fan, flower stem or supporting parts.

Tip: Teach your child to be careful when working with glue so as not to make stains and sagging. And before you cut something, let it measure with a ruler, mark and make marks with dots. The lines from the pencil should go into trim, and not into the main details. Under this condition, all work will be done masterfully, and not like beginners.

Knowing how to make spherical tulips, voluminous daffodils, roses and other flowers, older children are able to make a gift for their mother or grandmother with their own hands. One of the parents will give the child an idea and teach the basic skills of working with scissors, glue and thin cardboard.

A beautiful paper bouquet in an impromptu vase will stand on the window for more than one month, reminding you of the holiday. And for parents there will be another reason to praise their children for their patience and perseverance, to remind them when something does not work out.

It is better for beginners to master various techniques and craft according to the easiest schemes. Simplicity and affordability are the secret of the popularity of crafts made from the cheapest material.

You can start with children 3-4 years old or when the baby begins to show interest.

About how to make interesting paper crafts with your own hands using various techniques, our experts will share their secrets.

Invite your students to watch a video tutorial on creating three-dimensional paper flowers.

How to make easy paper crafts using various techniques?

1. Making cardboard toys according to a template is the easiest way, especially if the elders do the difficult work for the baby.

Hares in the grass is a simple toy, it can be made "animated" if the characters are not fixed, but made in slots on sticks.

• Cut out one hare (head and shoulders) as a template and multiply with a child who can circle the cardboard blank with a pencil several times. Do not forget to teach your baby to save paper - apply templates tightly to each other.
• These bunnies will need the plastic "moving eyes" that are sold in the craft department.
• On the cut out faces, it remains to glue the eyes, finish the nose and mouth. If you depict them in different ways, you get bunnies with a different facial expression.
• The length of the ears can be varied or even screwed onto a pencil to lower.
• Next, you need a strip of cardboard with grass cut out in 1 or more rows.
• Behind the grass, it is necessary to cut holes along the width of the hare's body so that they "sit" tightly there. And the bunnies themselves are best attached to sticks or paper tubes in order to control.

The toy is ready, now it can be used - the hares will tell the child a story before going to bed on the edge of the back of the bed. At the same time, mom will move these bunnies in turn. To complete the plot, you can make a wolf or a fox so that the bunnies hide in the grass (we lower or take out the templates).

In a similar technique, do-it-yourself any flat animated crafts made of colored paper. For example, in the window of a house carved according to a template. You can put a doll or a storyteller there. Stories or poems for children can be read at night by a grandfather and a woman with a samovar (other characters). Use an easy plot, understood by children, with famous fairy tale characters.

A dog and a whole family of puppies will look out of the booth, which are driven out by a cat or a rooster. If you manage to make a tower of a “stone” castle, let a princess and a dragon appear in the window with your dialogues - children love to watch this.

1. Twisted paper figures are an easy way to add dimension to paper crafts. Experts suggest mastering this at an elementary level, and in a few weeks the baby will make a whole animal world in the children's room.

The easiest way to make paper rings and cylinders:

• Bunny.
• Curl bird.
• Chicken.
• Kitten.
• Puppy.
• Frog.
• Owl.

The paper cylinder is the torso, depending on the design of the toy, it can be positioned horizontally or vertically. Attach the ponytail and paws cut out of paper to this base. It is most responsible to make a head or a muzzle - flat or voluminous (your choice).

If you make birds with a child, then it is better to open the beak. Use chicken feathers or down - this will make the chicken or cockerel more attractive. Eyes can be drawn or glued, for this use:

• halves of peas or beans;
• "shifting eyes";
• black allspice;
• flat beads;
• black sequins.

In addition to the toy itself, it will be interesting for children to make the “habitat” of the character out of paper: grass, a lake, a house, a hollow, a tree, etc. If you are not too lazy, in a few days there will be many crafts on the same topic - a whole zoo or heroes of the fairy tale "Teremok" . This story can be memorized and shown in roles to guests on the child's birthday.

1. Paper doll dress up is a popular game for girls. You can buy them ready-made or make your own. For those who do not know how to draw, it is easier to cut out Barbie in a swimsuit from the "coloring book" and stick it on a cardboard base.

Outfits are made from:

• white paper and decorate with pencils or markers;
• thin colored cardboard;
• velvet paper;
• foil;
• magazines (illustrations with the texture of fabric or fur).

If a mother or a girl has artistic skills, then a fashionista doll can be drawn independently or copied from a sample you like. Such paper crafts are decorated with paper and fabric appliqué, feathers and flower herbarium. A little more difficult level - puffy dresses made of voluminous elements and pleated skirts made of folds like a fan.

Tip: Do not forget that each outfit should have holders (elements at the edges of the outfit) to cling to the shoulders and waist of the doll. An advanced level is to fix a flat magnet inside the cardboard template, and glue a light metal plate or a shoe stud without a hat under each outfit. Usually, for such help, they turn to dad or grandfather.

Add a Girlfriend and a Prince for the doll, a house or a whole street for walking. If we limit ourselves to only one "fashionista", she needs a box or cardboard box in any technique. It is no less interesting to weave a basket of twisted paper for a homemade doll and make a rug.

This is one of the easiest ways to create color patterns. Even a child of 3-4 years old will master the braided rug step by step.

With this technique, you can do:

• basket;
• bookmark for books;
• patterned rug for paper toys.

Several color combinations have been developed. For those who are interested in what crafts can be made from paper, it is enough to master three:

• monophonic weaving;
• two-color;
• multicolor patterns.

The lightest is braided, where stripes of two close or contrasting shades alternate.

For the doll rug you will need:

• scissors,
• glue;
• ruler,
• pencil;
• 2 squares of colored paper.

We mark the back sides by 1-1.5 cm, but do not cut to the end - a centimeter border is needed along the edge. You should get one form with not completely cut edges on both sides, the second - on one side cut to the edge. These strips will simply run through the first pattern step by step. Then the ends need to be glued. Finish with a border, curly or openwork edges of a different color.

Rolled paper or newspaper toys

Another novelty for those who are not familiar with this technique.

True hand-made craftsmen use this technique to weave wicker and rattan furniture, and interior baskets from newspaper tubes. Easy crafts from twisted white paper start with blanks, then weave according to the pattern.

Rolled-up newspapers will also become products: after painting with an aerosol, letters and photos will not be visible, but the secondary material will become a useful decor for the apartment. According to the general scheme, for example, you can weave baskets for old flower pots and flower pots that need updating.

Another interesting idea is a stationery basket on the computer desk to put small items in there for general organization.

Newspapers are cut with a sharp knife and wound on a thin long knitting needle, after which the edges need to be fixed with glue. From one sheet of newspaper you get 4 tubes, if you fold it in half twice and cut it into 4 identical parts.

It is proposed to weave:

• A vase for dry flower arrangements or paper flowers.
• The casket.
• Plafond for the kitchen.
• Frames for family photos.
• Stands for hot glasses.
• Interior inserts, etc.

In Russia, this type of needlework is not yet as popular as abroad, but the number of admirers of the technique of working with paper is growing rapidly. This is the twisting of long narrow strips to create three-dimensional images. They are combined into three-dimensional images or pasted on postcards.

The examples show how to make paper crafts using this technique.

To begin with, make the easiest patterns with your child - a bird or a flower. It will be something new and surprising for him, then his fantasy will develop. First, children need to be told the density of the twist and the need for creases in certain places. Soon they will begin to understand and make new models from "paper filigree" on their own.

In this technique, they make full-fledged souvenirs or decorate the base. Most popular:

• postcards and invitations;
• photo frames;
• earrings;
• gift packages;
• Christmas tree decorations;
• interior decor.

In needlework stores, you can find ready-made quilling kits, cut colored stripes for do-it-yourself paper crafts, diagrams and templates.

Facing

Another original way to create three-dimensional figures, which requires the same soft paper templates. They are connected and unfolded, getting three-dimensional figures that can be used to decorate the interior or make a festive decor in the house.

Iris Folding

A new type of work with paper for Russia, which develops creative potential. In principle, nothing new - paper spirals are twisted in a special way, which are used to lay out patterns. If you carefully consider the pattern and shades, you get masterpieces that have a place in a frame on the wall.

Invite your daughter to make a young lady in a magnificent dress, but help complete the most difficult stages of work.

Papier mache

This is the oldest technique that periodically comes into fashion and is forgotten again. To some, it will seem new, but to someone it is known for the surprise balls that are hung up for the holidays. They are filled with sweets and various sweets, and the birthday boy must knock down with a bat, releasing goodies.

A lot of interesting paper crafts were made by craftsmen from glue and torn newspapers. Translated from French, papier mâché is “torn” or “chewed” paper. Applying layer after layer of glue-based scraps, it is easy to get any shape.

The same "surprise balloon" is easy to make by wrapping a large balloon with thin paper or newspaper and applying layers of papier-mâché. When the layer is ready, the ball is blown off, and the form remains. It is filled with sweets, and the hole is closed with the same “chewed paper” on glue. Decorated with colored blocks, foil stars on top. This is a popular entertainment at Mexican-style parties.

If durable figures and sculptures are created, gypsum or starch is added to the base. In this technique, it is easy to do anything - from fake hats for a party to decor items in the interior.

Piggy bank in the form of a pig can be made in this simple technique under the original painting and varnished. It can be filled for years, and then broken, and with this money the family can go to the sea.

Layer-by-layer pasting of an object - “mashing”. To remove the finished papier-mâché, you need to carefully cut it, and close the seams using the same technique. Sometimes they make a liquid mass based on shredded paper, which is squeezed out and made into a shape.

Toys based on "accordion"

For children, this is a more difficult level, but a great base for the torso of crafts. Two strips of paper are placed in a square on top of each other alternately at a right angle until an elastic accordion comes out. It remains to glue the paws, tail and muzzle of funny animals to this base.

Try to make easy three-dimensional paper crafts with your child: a caterpillar, frogs, or a arched, yawning cat hiding in the grass.

Paper origami is the most popular technique for children's creativity

Many models do not involve working with glue and scissors - the figures are folded according to a certain pattern.

Advanced level - modular origami of triangular elements. Children with spatial imagination lay out entire zoos and cities in this way. Start with the simplest by watching a video tutorial on how to make paper crafts using the modular origami technique:

To consolidate the acquired knowledge, we propose to do:

Bud of paper (TULIP) step by step

• Fold a square of red paper (preferably two-sided) diagonally.
• Bend the second diagonal (see photo).
• Collapse into a triangle.
• Wrap the corners to the center and top, as well as from the back.