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18.11.2020

You can make a lot of crafts from plain paper that will keep your baby busy and enjoyable. As you know, cutting and gluing paper parts develop the child's fine motor skills, and also allow the child to show their imagination and creativity. After all, you can make absolutely everything out of paper that you have enough imagination for. And we will help you and your baby get some inspiration and tell you what you can do out of paper.

What can children make out of paper?

We make paper applications for children 1-3 years old

Basket with mushrooms

We need

Template
Paper
Pieces of colored paper
PVA glue

At this age, it is still too early to handle scissors and perform complex craft items. Therefore, it is better to start with simple applications.

Take a piece of paper and draw a basket on it or circle its pattern.
Cut mushrooms of different shapes and sizes for your child from colored paper.
Cut into small pieces of brown and yellow paper.
Ask your toddler to glue pieces of paper over the basket. You need to try to fill all of its space without going over the edges.
Then have him fill the basket with mushrooms. We glue the mushrooms to the basket.

Also, the basket can be cut out of paper and glued, or painted with paints.

Aquarium with fish

We need

Colored paper
Scissors
Markers

If the child still does not know how to cut objects, it is better to do it for him. Prepare all materials in advance.

Take a piece of blue paper and cut out a semicircle. This is for the aquarium. You can leave the sheet as it is - rectangular. After all, aquariums come in different shapes.
Prepare small parts for the baby, cut out fish, algae, pebbles and bubbles.
Ask the baby to make the bottom of the aquarium, pasting it with paper pebbles.
Then, to make the fish cozy, populate their house with algae.
Now you can "launch" the fish - glue them.
The fish also breathe, only with gills and under water, so let's add air bubbles to the fish.
Draw the scales and eyes as desired.

What else can you make of paper for kids?

For children at such an early age, it is best to start mastering creativity by creating simple appliqués from small pieces of paper. Be sure to do crafts under the supervision of an adult.

You can make anything out of pieces of paper, even a ladybug. Don't forget to decorate it with a flower:

They say that bears and fish are not very friendly, although the first second are very fond of:

Paper crafts for children from 3 years old

Passionate about "Chtun"

We need:

Sheet of colored paper
Sheet of white paper
Scissors
Paper glue
Markers

Ask your child what is his favorite book. Fold a sheet of A4 white paper in half to make a book and ask your child to draw the cover of the book on it with felt-tip pens. Let him also write her name and the name of the writer on it, if he already knows how to do this. If not, then help him in this.
Cut three strips from a colored sheet about 1 inch wide. We will make legs of two, and divide one into a pair of chtuna handles. Fold your legs in an accordion.
The remaining rectangle of paper is the torso of our creature. Glue your legs to it.
Cut the hand sheet in half and have the child draw fingers at the tips. This can simply be done by drawing a grid: 4 vertical stripes and one horizontal below. Glue your arms to your torso. Insert the booklet into them with glue.
Bend your upper body forward. Scissors into ragged bangs in a zigzag fashion.
Cut out a couple of circles out of white paper and draw the pupils inside them. Glue them to the torso. You can also add glasses from them, as shown in the picture.
Now it remains to finish drawing parts of the face: a smile, a nose, etc.

Attach the "chtuna" near the bookshelf. So he will remind the kid about reading and will be a kind of call to read something.

Volumetric bunny

We need

Paper (white or colored)
Scissors
Paper glue
Felt-tip pen
Ruler

We take a sheet of paper and horizontally cut out two strips along the width of the ruler.
We bend the first strip into two WRONG parts and cut. We fold each of them into a ring and glue them. We glue both rings to each other.
Cut the second strip into three equal parts. Cut one of them lengthwise into two thin strips - these will be the ears of the bunny. Make a loop out of each and glue. Glue the resulting ears with the head - with a smaller ring.
From the second part we make legs in the same way as ears. We glue them from the bottom of the body.
We cut the third part lengthwise into two thin stripes, but now we round off its corners with scissors. We pass this strip through a large ring - the body and glue it inside so that the legs stick out.
From the last strip we make a small ring - a tail. For this it is worth shortening it a little. We glue on the back.
It remains only to draw the eyes and nose of the bunny with a felt-tip pen.

Hat - dinosaur

We need:

Colored paper - 3 sheets
Paper glue
Scotch
Scissors

First you need to cut 4 stripes about 3 cm wide along the length of the sheet. Two of them will go to the circumference, and the rest - across the "cap" (spikes will be attached to this part).
From the two remaining sheets of paper, cut strips about 5 cm wide, but now across the sheet (shorter). There should be 10 stripes. We will make thorns out of them.
Fold each piece in half. Step back about 1-1.5 cm from the fold line and draw a triangle mark up to the edge of the part, as in the picture below. Cut before reaching the fold line.
Glue the strips for the cross piece and glue the spikes to it, as shown in the photo.
Let the glue dry. At this time, measure the size of the baby's head. Glue the rim of the cap along its diameter with adhesive tape. The same with the cross side.
Now glue the triangles of the thorns tightly together. While the glue dries, it is best to secure the spikes with paper clips or clamps so that they do not fall apart.
Glue the comb to the cap at the front and back.

What else can be made of paper for a child?

You can make any headdress out of paper, which will be a great accessory for a festive or any other holiday.

A headpiece is a great addition to a fancy dress party. You are unlikely to find such a hat in a store:

Paper crafts for a child from 5 years old

Crocodiles

We need:

Colored paper
Scissors
Felt-tip pen

The principle of creating crafts is similar to rabbits. Also make 4 strips of paper. Divide two of them into equal parts. We need about 10 short strips.
Roll one strip into a ring. Put the other inside the ring and glue it as well. Similar to making a paper garland.
Take a piece from another strip and fold it in half. Draw an elongated triangle, slightly receding from the fold line. Cut without hitting the seam. This will be the mouth of a crocodile. Bend the crocodile's nose to make it look like a crocodile's face.
Cut out two small triangles and glue inside the mouth. Draw the fangs with a felt-tip pen.
Slip your head through the top ring of your torso and tape together.
Cut into thin strips. Round one around the edges and push it inside the triangle and glue. These will be the eyes. Draw them with a felt-tip pen.
From other thin ribbons create 4 legs and attach them under the crocodile's belly.
Push a strip of paper at the end of the body, glue it into a loop and cut a corner at the end. This will be the crocodile's tail.

Rainbow and clouds

We need

Colored paper - rainbow colors
Thread - 60 cm
Beads - 3-4 pcs.
Scissors
PVA glue
Sewing needle
Stapler

Cut 7 strips of each rainbow color, 4 cm wide, and red - 29 cm long, each next color 2 cm smaller than the previous one.
Draw a pencil line in the center of each stripe. Now fold the ribbons on top of each other so that the centers line up.
Pierce all tapes in the center with a needle. Let an adult do it. A thread will be passed through this hole in the future.
Now fold the stripes so that the edges match (see picture). Staple at this location.
Trim the other side of the rainbow along one line and sew with a stapler. You should have such a blank.
6. Now we put the thread into the needle and put on one bead, and tie it with a knot so that it does not fall. We pass the thread through the rainbow into the hole that we made at the very beginning of the work. Tie the thread with a loop at the top.
You can add a few more beads if you like. Cut out 9 droplets of the same size, bend them along their length. We glue one drop on the thread, but do not close it up to the end. One bulk droplet should consist of three flat ones. Therefore, we fasten their sides together (photo below).
Decorating the ends of the rainbow. Also thread them with a bead and add drop by drop.
Now all that remains is to add fluffy clouds by gluing them to the ends of the rainbow with cotton wool and glue.

The pendant can decorate a child's room, delighting him with bright colors on cloudy days. Or you can give the craft to your dad so that he can place this gift at his workplace. He will always remind him that a loving family is waiting for him at home.

Origami paper crafts for children from 7 years old

Organizer for stationery

We need

Thick paper - 6 sheets (assorted colors)

Each compartment must be completed separately. To do this, take a sheet of paper, fold it in a triangle and cut it off so as to make a square format out of it.
Then we fold it in half, the resulting side doors bend inward in halves. Turn the sheet over, make the same folds. As a result, the sheet should be all in square lines.
We fold each corner inward, as shown in the picture, and fold the two sides inward.
Then we turn the craft over and bend it inward on both sides. Insert a piece of colored paper into the resulting pockets, cut it to size, if necessary.
We insert one side into the hole of the other, forming a three-sided cup.
Repeat these simple movements with the 5 remaining pieces of paper.
Glue the resulting cups together. Circle the bottom on a regular sheet of paper, cut out and glue to the cup.

Each of us probably already made something out of paper with our own hands, for example, a mouse on a string for a kitten or a flower for mom on March 8th. Now you can go to the Internet and ... oh, how many things! Here you can find funny animals, mysterious birds, fabulous flowers, and unusual snowflakes…. You can't count everything! How to figure out all this and what paper crafts to choose for repetition?

We tried to demonstrate various types of paper crafts and divided them into groups according to appearance, purpose, manufacturing method and complexity. Moreover, we have made the most attractive and uncomplicated handicrafts and prepared available master classes.

Cut out and glue colored appliques from strips, circles and torn paper

Before doing anything, you need to become familiar with what others have already done. Of course, we will follow this path, observing the principle: from simple to complex.

It is quite simple to make these funny flat applications: first you need to draw images of individual elements with a pencil on colored paper, then cut them out with scissors and stick them in turn on a regular album sheet. To maintain the proportions, you should first make the largest piece of the craft, and then apply it to sheets of a different color in order to draw other elements.

You can do it differently: first, depict the entire craft on white paper, and then cut out individual parts from it, apply them to a colored sheet and outline with a pencil. The most affordable flat applications can be made by babies from the 2nd to the 4th grade.

These original flat appliqués are interesting because they are made of paper scraps. When repeating, it is only important to observe the proportions of the diameters of individual elements. Let's learn how to make these using the example of a squirrel.

We need the following materials and tools:

Now you need to prepare the following circles:

We glue the blanks to the base in the following sequence:

yellow segment of the upper leg;
brown details, that is, the torso and ears;
now the second yellow paw, tail and muzzle;
hind leg, eyes and nose;
It remains to paint on the mouth of the animal with a black marker - and the squirrel is ready!

Amazing crafts are made from pieces of torn paper! To make them, you must first apply the contours of the drawing with a pencil, and then glue the torn pieces of the required color.

In this way, you can really get a variety of plots. It is important not only to accurately apply the original drawing, but also to choose the right color of the paper and the size of the pieces. This makes very accessible and effective images possible.

This quick tutorial demonstrates how to craft an autumn tree with falling leaves. It's not at all scary if the tree is not very natural, and the leaves are glued unevenly. The main thing is that the result is impressive, even if a child gets down to business.

Charming crafts are made from strips of paper. Many of them can be made without the use of glue, using weaving.

To do this, holes are cut in the one-color applique, into which multi-colored stripes are inserted. It is possible to use a stapler to fix individual elements. The slots are made with a clerical knife on a metal ruler, and all work is done on a solid, even base.

As an example, let's make a beautiful fish from stripes. We need the following materials and tools:

a4 paper in two colors;
ruler;
glue;
pencil;
scissors;
pattern.

We collect the fish in stages:

The fish can be made as two-color or one-color. If we hang fish of various colors with the help of threads, then we will find ourselves in the Red Sea.

Schemes of simple and complex volumetric crafts for beginners and experienced

Of course, spatial forms provide great opportunities for making paper crafts. Children successfully create funny, bright and funny figures of this type with their own hands.

Again before us are strips of colored paper, but now they form spatial figures. The stripes can be glued to a flat base and complemented with a pattern.

Undoubtedly, voluminous crafts are somewhat more complicated than flat applications, but there are quite simple and successful examples. So, fish scales, parrot plumage and lion's mane are very successfully imitated by this method.

Let's learn how to make applique strips using the example of a hedgehog. We need the following materials and tools:

yellow and brown paper;
a4 white paper;
ruler;
glue;
pencil;
scissors;
black marker.

The sequence of actions is available to schoolchildren of approximately 2-4 grades:

Three-dimensional figures of animals can be made in various ways. So, an ordinary cone perfectly imitates a chanterelle, and paper cylinders turn into elephants.

It is important to choose the right shape of the constituent parts, and then you get masterpieces: a bright humpbacked bug, fish with cheerful tails, graceful swans or bunnies with shifted legs.

Let's make a bright fish together. You will need a colored sheet, glue, pencil, black marker and scissors:

A peacock with a gorgeous tail is especially successful! The fact is that paper folded like an accordion holds its shape well in one of the directions, which makes it easier to create spatial figures. Bright fish from the Red Sea, temperamental Spanish dancers and nimble hedgehogs from our forest are made of paper folded like an accordion.

As you can see, suns, mushrooms, fox cubs, and Russian beauties are obtained no less successfully using the same method. Let's make a beautiful girl together. You will need A4 cardboard, white, yellow, beige and blue paper, glue, pencil, red and black markers and scissors. It is very good if you find eyes, flowers and beads from the children's creativity kit:

Specialty parchment or corrugated paper already has a wavy structure and does not need to be folded like an accordion. Original children's crafts are made from such material, but flowers are obtained especially well from corrugated paper, which we will demonstrate below.

Wonderful applications can really be made from napkins, and torn and wrinkled. Each lump will have to be fixed with glue and you will get a colorful mosaic.

As you can see, this method can be used to depict literally any subject: from bugs and butterflies to a natural landscape. To create a good picture, you need to correctly draw the contours of the image on a flat sheet, choose the colors well and be ready for painstaking work.

Let's learn how to make napkin appliques using the example of an apple. You will need red napkins, green paper, cardboard, glue, pencil and scissors:

Volumetric paper applications turn into works of art if they are executed competently and with taste. Any of the images shown in the photo can take its rightful place in the house as a picture.

Obviously, we have some pretty cool crafts in front of us, the manufacture of which will require some experience. It is difficult to take your eyes off such work, but the painstaking work will be appreciated by relatives and friends.

Original products and things made of colored paper with practically no glue in various techniques

Handicraft paperwork is widespread in Japanese culture. Accordingly, many of the original techniques for working with colored paper are named in the language of that country.

These paper animals are made using origami technique. Crafts have original shapes and seem very complex. However, if there is a template, assembly diagram and description of such animals, schoolchildren can repeat all this.

These photos showcase simpler crafts that students in 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade can do. Most of them can be made without the use of glue.

It is interesting to make a movable origami toy - a frog that can jump. For this we need green paper. It is easier to make such a craft using the attached video.

The photo shows crafts made from pre-prepared colored paper modules. Products assembled using the modular origami technique amaze the imagination with their texture and shapes.

The modules come in various sizes, and it is really possible to assemble almost everything from them. Individual elements of the craft are fastened without the use of glue, but it is often used in an effort to provide the necessary structural strength.

To try the modular origami technique, let's make a small flower or an asterisk. We need paper of any two colors, we will use yellow and pink colors:

We need to make modules from sheets of paper, for this we need to divide a colored A4 sheet into 16 identical rectangles.
Take a rectangle and fold it in half horizontally.
Next, fold the workpiece in half vertically, and then immediately unbend it.
We fold the upper corners of the part to the vertical bending line.
Now we need to turn our workpiece over.
We bend the parts protruding from below.
Bend the parts that look out at the edges again.
We fold the part vertically and get the module.
For the craft, we need 10 modules for the core, in our case they are pink, and 45 modules for the petals, we have them in yellow.
We start making a flower from its core. Place two pink modules together.
We fasten them using another module, into which they must fit tightly.
We attach another module from the edge to an existing workpiece.
We also attach it with another module.
In the same way, we dock another module on the side and attach it.
We repeat the previous step, now our very first and very last modules are in contact.
We put one more module on the two extreme ones, connecting them.
Now let's make a petal. To do this, place two yellow modules next to each other.
We fasten them with another.
We attach one module to the left and one to the right in the outermost flap of the second row modules.
In the same way, we add two more modules on each side. The petal is ready!
We will need 5 such parts.
Now you can start connecting the parts. We take the core and put the extreme modules of the petal on it, as shown in the photo.
Do the same with the rest of the petals and align them.
We have such a flower!

Crafts using the kusudama technique are also assembled from the same type of modules, but in this case they are glued together. The constituent elements can have a wide variety of designs, providing a variety of finished products.

Best of all, using the kusudama technology, multi-colored balls of a fantastic structure, as well as flowers, are obtained. Let's learn how to make a kusudama flower ball. You will need orange sheets of paper, glue and scissors:

The photo shows samples of a relatively new technology for making paper crafts called papercraft. ("Paper" is not about dad, but about paper. "Kraft" is power, so you can talk about dad.)

Using the papercraft technique, it is possible to make wonderful volumetric figures of animals of a special style. Probably, it is not easy to develop such a craft, but it is quite possible to cut it according to a template and glue it together.

Let's make a funny dog \u200b\u200busing this technology. In this case, it is allowed to make a template in two ways: either cut it out of white cardboard and then paint it, or make it out of beige cardboard and then glue the colored paper parts. A combined option is also possible.

The template can be pre-printed or transferred by cells. Next, the figure is glued together in places unpainted in the image. While the glue dries, it is better to fix the craft with paper clips and money rubber bands.

Another Japanese word - kirigami reminds us of a fairy tale from the national theater of this country. A wide variety of crafts and subjects are possible.

Interesting are the "open books" in the kirigami technique with a voluminous plot. Of course, making such crafts requires a certain amount of experience.

We will make a fairly simple lawn with green grass and flowers in the style of kirigami. Such a craft can be folded like a book and carried away in a backpack, and then unfolded again.

We need the following things: cardboard, colored paper, scissors, a ruler, a pencil and glue:

Interesting homemade products from newspaper and magazine tubes, kraft paper

When you first see a craft made from newspaper or magazine tubes, you don't immediately understand what they are made of. Meanwhile, such products have good strength and are suitable for practical use in everyday life, so that they can be safely used as gifts.

The coloring and color of the paper, its quality and density matter: in one case, a color magazine is suitable, in another version, a newspaper is used.

Wrapping or kraft paper is often used. Its brown color is perfect for many crafts. In other cases, the wrapping paper is dyed.

Consider the process of making a small owl from newspaper tubes. We need the following things: newspaper, glue, building primer and color scheme, needles with a diameter of 1.5-3 mm, scissors and clothespins. For weaving, we need seven tubes 30 cm long - five brown and two green:

As you can see, kraft paper does not need to be rolled up. From it, as well as from packaging bags, it is possible to make, among other things, original and simple children's crafts.

It is easy to make a colorful autumn tree from a regular gray bag. In addition to the package, you will need glue, scissors, yellow and red paper:

Templates of cool kids toys and cardboard houses

Cardboard provides special opportunities for making crafts for children. They can be used to make large toys, using which you can hide in a house, growl in a bulldozer or purr in an airplane. Old cardboard boxes are perfect for this.

A cardboard house is very popular and can be made in a variety of versions, including for a cat. For the assembly of such structures, a special glue gun or adhesive tape is very convenient to use.

As follows from the photo, both fairly simple children's crafts and designer jewelry are possible from cardboard. Obviously, it is quite possible to repeat this yourself.

Let's build a cardboard house for children. You will need the following things: a large corrugated box, a stationery knife and scotch tape:

Cool paper decorations for interiors and everyday life

Both professionals and amateurs have developed a considerable number of crafts for interior decoration and useful in everyday life. It is possible to do whatever you want: we look together and evaluate.

Let's start with the simplest children's applications that serve as bookmarks for books. Several versions are possible.

For example, origami bookmarks can be made without glue. In this case, design paper with a pattern is well suited.

Let's make the simplest origami bookmark:

This is what our bookmark looks like on the book page. Holds up well.

Colorful fish, bats, cranes and butterflies will serve as a worthy exclusive decoration for any home. Perhaps this kind of work can be done with the whole family together.

In nature, butterflies strive for light, which can be depicted around a chandelier in an apartment. Flowers for decorating the walls of your home can be used in different ways.

For interior decoration, literally any of the techniques we have considered can be used, it is only important to give free rein to imagination. DIY paper jewelry can be made in accordance with the illustration, which is self-explanatory.

Paper snowflakes are a classic of the genre. They are cut out by both adults and children, both at home and at work and at school.

Volumetric snowflakes are especially lovely. Their complexity is seeming, small children do so easily.

Let's go back to decorating the interior, now for the New Year. Crafts from colored paper in this case are especially appropriate, since their bright unusualness is especially good in combination with cheapness and short service life.

Unusual paper flowers can be made in different ways.

Undoubtedly, flowers from a wide variety of paper occupy a special place. Let's evaluate the most common technologies for their manufacture.

The most uncomplicated are the very applications with which we began our story. For many, this is the first gift for mom on March 8, made on their own.

Unusual 3D handmade flowers, of course, are more difficult. But there is the possibility of creating a real work of art.

One of the options is flowers using the quilling technique. A lot of work will have to be done on such creations, but the result is clearly worth it.

In the photo in front of us are the already mentioned strips of paper. Certain types of flowers from such material are obtained as real.

We keep our promise to introduce corrugated paper flowers. Obviously, this material is better suited for imitating them than anyone else. Both individual flowers and bouquets are very similar in appearance to their natural counterparts.

DIY paper toys

A variety of things are made from ordinary paper! All homemade products are definitely not counted.

Before us is a paper machine that shoots the same bullets. To make a toy, you should use the article material

A paper cap? Who didn’t do it! In the article Create for health and about the rules of safe work, read ...

Safety rules for working with glue and scissors for children and adults

Scissors and glue, and especially a clerical knife, can cause very unpleasant injuries and consequences. We will very briefly list the circumstances that should be taken into account by both children and the adults responsible for them:

scissors for children should have rounded ends;
they should be well sharpened and adjusted;
no need to play with scissors or a knife, swing them around, bring them closer to the face;
give the scissors to a friend with the rings in front, put them in the closed position while working with the rings;

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Paper crafts are perhaps the most interesting hobby for children and adults. The manufacturing process is quite exciting, moreover, at the same time, children develop imagination and motor skills. Below we have selected several master classes that, in our opinion, will be of interest to you.

Paper butterfly

Butterfly is a bright summer companion, a symbol of beauty and lightness. Each butterfly is unique and inimitable in its own way. Nature has tried to mark each winged beauty with bright colors and patterns. These beautiful insects are a decoration of flower lawns, and in today's lesson we will try to decorate the room with a butterfly, which we will make with our own hands from paper. Making paper crafts favors the development of attentiveness, accuracy, perseverance and the manifestation of imagination in children. And what a surprise the kid will experience, watching how an ordinary leaf turns into an amazing creature before his eyes!

In order to make a paper butterfly, we need:

Paper;
Scissors;
Paints;
Fantasy and great mood.

For crafts, an ordinary album sheet will work, but first you need to make it square. To do this, bend the upper left corner diagonally, cut off the remaining section of paper with scissors. We got a square with one diagonal fold. You need to make another diagonal fold on the other side. To do this, bend the upper right and lower left corners.

At the resulting triangle, bend the lower ends up. Then turn the figure over with its wide side up and bend the top of the triangle so that its tip extends slightly beyond the edges.

We wrap the protruding tip. Fold the future butterfly in half.

The butterfly figurine is ready, but for now it is white and inconspicuous. Therefore, the turn has come for children - to show imagination and decorate the butterfly to their taste, using watercolors or felt-tip pens. Drawing can be the most unimaginable: from flowers, as in our example, to complex geometric patterns, the main thing is that the child enjoys the creative process. If you wish, you can make a few more butterflies, allowing the kid to make crafts without your help.

A boat made of colored paper

Of course, each of us loves when he succeeds. And especially, it is done by hand. And you do it just for yourself, for the soul, without even thinking about specific benefits. Although she will still be. Crafts are a great way to show yourself that the craft is fun and rewarding. Especially when there are no costs and it turns out to make something beautiful from scrap materials. And for children it is a great joy to do it on their own, even if it is not an interesting trinket for an adult, but to do it. And the task of each parent is to support his child, to praise what he himself was able to create. And also to help, prompt and in no case scold if the conceived does not work. By doing this kind of work, the child tries to learn the world himself, using his imagination. He remembers everything he has ever seen and tries to reflect it in his products. For lovers of the marine theme, we have prepared a lesson on making a simple boat. Feel like a real captain of the most beautiful ship, moreover, made with soul and love. All we need is:

empty matchboxes;
colored cardboard and colored paper;
scissors;
glue;
tubule.

Take the matchboxes and fold them so that two are next to each other, and the third is on top of them. In order to give the boat the desired appearance and the advertising inscriptions of the boxes did not spoil the future product for us, glue the craft with plain paper, as shown in the picture.

After that we will make the stern of our ship. Cut the base out of cardboard, and from two strips build the bow of our ship. Then, we will use the tube to build the sails. Take a rectangular piece of cardboard and attach it to the straw as shown below. Finish the look with small red flags at the end of the tube.

It remains to decorate the craft from the side so that the matchboxes are not visible. If you have small Lego toys, then they can take a place with dignity on our beautiful deck.

Our boat is ready, it's time to hit the road!

Russian oven made of paper

The stove was the main attribute in the house: it heated the house, cooked food in it, and assigned it a special place. Therefore, the stove is always associated with satiety, warmth and comfort. In many Russian fairy tales, we come across a Russian stove. Let's remember Emelya, the fairy tale "Geese-Swans", Baba Yaga. The stove is also found in old proverbs and sayings. And if the child was asked to make a product - a Russian stove, then this is not a problem at all. They build a real brick stove, and we propose to create it from cardboard. With such a child can easily cope. A small Russian paper oven turns out to be very realistic.

To make it work, you need to take:

a small package left over from toothpaste;
colored paper (white, orange and black);
some cotton wool;
black marker;
scissors;
glue.

1. First, cut the toothpaste package into two halves, make one larger and the other smaller.

2. The larger one will stand vertically, the smaller half will be applied to the larger one horizontally.

3. We fasten the structure of the craft with glue.

4. After it dries a little, glue it over with white paper, imitating whitewash.

5. Prepare a pipe on the stove, for this we cut a strip out of cardboard, bend it to make a small pipe, glue it to the base.

6. Cut a small rectangular sheet of white paper. Prepare the firebox from black paper, the orange stripe will frame the firebox.

7. Carefully glue it all onto a white sheet. We are waiting for the glue to dry.

8. Glue to the oven in the appropriate place. Now we have a stove with a firebox!

9. The pipe must be pasted over with orange paper.

10. For naturalness, draw small bricks on the pipe with a black marker and insert a small piece of cotton wool into the pipe, straighten it out, depicting smoke. For strength, so that it does not fall out, it is better to glue the cotton wool on the inside of the pipe.

Here's a Russian oven made of paper! I already want to warm my sides on it and remember my childhood, the village, my grandmother. Plus a paper stove - it is small, light and does not take half a house, but it gives a touch of comfort and warmth.

Chicken from disc and paper

How nice it is to receive gifts made by our close and dear people. Moreover, do them yourself, including imagination and creativity. With our own hands, from improvised means, we can prepare a wide variety of crafts and toys. This is a very exciting experience. And if you make crafts with your family members or friends, then you will definitely get a lot of pleasure from communication and the result of teamwork. Today we will try to make a chicken from a disc and colored cardboard. It will not be voluminous, and therefore it can be hung over the table or even on the Christmas tree in the New Year. Let's start!

For our toy, we will need:

1. Old music or video disc,

colored cardboard, we will need four colors - blue, white, yellow, red;
scissors;
pencil;
glue;
a small ball of yellow or beige woolen thread.

2. The first thing to start with is to cut finely the threads, but more. They will replace our chick's feathers.

3. Then, coat the disc well with glue and sprinkle it with thick threads. After the disc is dry, shake it to remove the remaining hair.

4. Cut out oval eyes from cardboard paper - they will be white and blue. Beak and legs - let them be red. And we will make the wings yellow. Oh, and don't forget the scallop. Our chicken is small, but he already has a scallop. You can see each step in the photo.

The job is done, our chicken is ready. You can hang it on a string, as we said earlier. Ask your dad to make a hole in the disk, pull the thread and that's it. The craft turned out to be unusual, joyful. The chick seems to take off, wants to see what is happening there! Or maybe he wants to see - where are his friends?

Like this craft, we can make a chicken mom or rooster dad. And if you dream up, then a bunny, and a pig, and a hedgehog, and a bear cub, and other cartoon characters, for example. Moreover, we did not spend a lot of time and money on this lesson. It remains only to find a place for her. Or maybe we will give our chick to someone?

Paper ball

The creative process of creating various crafts, paper designs will captivate both adults and children. After reading the following instructions, anyone can assemble a shape in the form of a beautiful paper multi-colored ball.

Colored paper (two colors that can contrast with each other without breaking the harmony, such as cyan and purple).

Quantity: for each of the eight modules (circles) that make up the final figure of the craft, you need five parts (if you plan to make the ball small, you can cut 2-3 such parts from one sheet of colored paper of about A4 size).

24 parts in blue and 16 parts - purple or equally - twenty parts of each color;
Pencil;
Ruler (in order to draw the sides of the cardboard template);
A piece of cardboard (its size will depend on how large the shape of a wonderful paper ball is needed;
A beautiful rope (not thick - with its help a ready-made volumetric figure can be attached to almost any place in the interior to decorate it);
Scissors (preferably with sharp tips, especially if the figure is small, otherwise it will be difficult to cut).

At the first stage of the creative process, you need to draw a sketch on cardboard with a pencil, according to which all the details for the shape of the ball will soon be cut out. It should be noted that the sides of the depicted figure should be straight (for accuracy, use a ruler), and the top and bottom should also be completely the same.

Both parts of the patterned figure are similar to a chef's hat or a cake with cream, but the main thing is that the edges of the upper and lower parts, respectively, should form convenient “ears” for subsequent coupling into a three-dimensional figure. After completing the sketch, the pencil must be set aside, now it is time to carefully cut the template figure out of cardboard along the contour.

You need to take colored paper and draw the required number of figures and cut them out.

Next, you need to interlock the cut-out figures so that they alternate in color, with each subsequent figure rotated about ninety degrees from the previous one so that its narrow side can be inserted into the grooves of the long side of the previous part. Thus, you need to link five such parts in one circle.

If two purple and three blue parts were used to construct the circle, now, you need to connect the two purple parts together (provided that the sequence rule was followed).

All modules are connected so that in each recess there are five "roundings", that is, the joints of the parts.

Card for mom

The most memorable and expensive gift is a handmade gift. An original postcard will be an excellent gift for mom, grandmother or sister, because in addition to a postcard made by yourself, you give a part of your soul, according to the belief of many nations, in every thing created by us, we put a part of our soul. And this is the most valuable thing!

And so let's start, for the craft we need the following materials:

Glue, preferably paper;
Colored paper;
Scissors;
Marker;
Unnecessary magazines with pretty pictures.

We make a blank postcard from cardboard, draw a semicircular pattern along the edges of our postcard. You can come up with another ornament, show your imagination.

Carefully cut out our workpiece along the lines.

On our blank, we glue a sheet of colored paper, distribute the glue carefully so that the colored paper adheres well to the cardboard.

It is necessary to make blanks of daisies. We cut out two small circles from white cardboard - these will be the petals of our future chamomile, and from yellow cardboard it is necessary to cut two circles of a smaller diameter for the middle of our flower.

We collect our daisies, glue the yellow center of the daisy to our white petals. Thus, we collect four flowers.

Now for our daisies, we need to make stems. We will make them as follows: on a sheet of cardboard, green, draw lines at a distance of 2-4 centimeters, we have three daisies, therefore we need to draw three lines.

We cut out our stripes exactly along the contour. The stalks for our daisies are ready.

Next, the fun begins, the assembly and design of the postcard. To our cardboard blank, we glue the daisies and stalks we made earlier, we place the flowers slightly at an angle so that they fit onto our postcard.

We cut out beautiful pictures from old magazines for decoration of crafts. We glue the ornament found in the magazine on the corners of the postcard. And we will plant a beautiful butterfly in the right edge.

Now the most crucial moment, we make an inscription with wishes for a loved one. Cut out a blank in the shape of a "cloud" from colored pink paper. We write on it the inscription "Mommy" and glue it on our postcard.

The original postcard is ready, all that remains is to present it.

Origami paper pencil

Origami is a fun technique that can interest all family members. It's amazing how a familiar object suddenly appears from one flat sheet of paper at the next fold, without glue, scissors, or something else.

You will need a little perseverance and accuracy, and you will definitely be able to create a voluminous paper craft, for example, a pencil.

Necessary materials:

Color double sided square sheet

We used yellow and green colors to clearly show that it is a pencil. And you can also make the first option so as not to get confused in the description, and then, when you learn how to do it, you can use any colors. Or use one-sided colored paper, then the shirt of the pencil and the lead will be colored, and the rod will be in a contrasting white color.

Put the sheet on the table with the yellow side up. We apply the right corners of the sheet to the left ones, and making sure that the line is straight, we make a fold. Without changing the position of the sheet, we unbend it again with the yellow side up.

In the same way, carefully apply the two upper corners to the lower corners and bend the sheet in half, carefully forming a fold line.

Expand the sheet with the yellow side up again. Now our square is divided into four equal squares by perpendicular fold lines.

Again, take the square by the upper corners and bend our upper small squares in half. Drag the top corners to the center fold on the square. Straighten the full square again with the yellow side up. And again we bend the upper corners so that the green color does not even reach the very top fold strip. We get a yellow square with a thin green stripe on top, as in the picture below.

Let's pay attention to one fold, which runs vertically in the center of the leaf. We take the sheet by the squares on the left and bend it to this center. We repeat these actions with the right corners. Now we have a green rectangle in front of us with two horizontal fold lines.

We take the upper inner corners (which are at the vertical fold) and bend them to the edges. You should see pieces of yellow with green stripes around the edges. As shown in the picture below, we will bend these stripes as far as the paper will allow.

Now we bend the right and left upper squares alternately diagonally back. The pencil is ready.

You can find many different uses for such pencils: use as a bookmark, as a decorative element in decorating a school office, as a children's toy, etc.

Christmas tree made of paper

The main attribute of the New Year is the tree. Everyone decides for himself to dress up an artificial or live forest beauty. But in addition to the main tree, you can make several small ones with your own hands. With the help of such a craft, we can decorate rooms or present it as a small souvenir that will surely raise the festive mood.

Required inventory:

colored paper;
glue;
wire;
stand;
pencil;
ruler;
scissors;
compass;
beads for decoration.

Twist one end of the wire into a spiral and glue it to a small, stable block.

Using a compass, draw circles on the back of the colored paper. The diameter of the largest should be 20 cm, and the smallest - 6 cm.Reducing the size of the circles in 2 cm increments.Total, you should get 16 circles, plus one circle, the diameter of which will be 5 cm.It will be needed to make the top in the form of a cone ...

Each of the blanks must be divided into segments. And inside, draw a circle, the diameter of which will, on average, be equal to the radius of the workpiece. The centers of the circles must match. Use scissors to cut to the beginning of the inner circle.

Grasp the edges of the segment and roll it up, securing the ends with glue. Hold each section with your fingers until the glue sets. We do the same with each section. In the center of each piece, make a hole for threading onto a metal frame. Assemble the tree, starting from the largest diameter to the smallest.

Cut a segment from the remaining circle and fold it into a cone, securing the edges with glue. Place the cone at the top of the tree. Now it's time for the most creative part of the process - decorating the Christmas tree. Children like this procedure very much, so you can safely involve children in this activity.

Use bright beads, seed beads, tinsel, rhinestones and other colorful elements as decor. You can fix them with glue, silicone glue is very suitable for this procedure, it sets as quickly as possible and has a transparent texture, which makes it completely invisible.

Christmas garland made of paper

New Year is a bright and long-awaited holiday for all children and for many adults. The smell of pine needles hovering in the room, gifts under the spruce and a decorated house. A large number of people buy Christmas decorations, because it is faster and easier, but you can get creative and decorate the house with your own hands. For example, make a New Year's garland out of paper. Many people remember garlands and flags from childhood, they are light, comfortable, it is not difficult to make them ourselves and are convenient to store after the holidays. A fun, colorful garland will help decorate a simple gloomy wall, a long curtain, and a regular chandelier.

1. What is useful for us for making paper garlands:

colored paper;
scissors;
compass;
glue;
rope.

2. Draw neat circles of different sizes on the back of colored paper with a compass. Some circles will be larger, others smaller.

3. Using scissors, cut out the resulting multi-colored circles.

4. Combine several circles of the same shape, but different colors. They need to be laid out on top of each other and bent in the middle. It turns out one big and dense circle.

5. Now let's prepare the circle of the largest shape.

6. Carefully use scissors to make three small holes in it. We make sure that the round pieces do not move.

7. We pass the rope through the resulting holes.

8. We have the base of the garland ready.

10. String circles on the rope in descending order from larger to smaller.

11. Let's fluff up the garland so that all the colors of the paper are visible and it seems more voluminous.

12. We stretch the balls along the rope evenly, at the same distance from each other.

13. You can also decorate the garland with paints - put bright dots in the form of multi-colored scattered confetti. It is better to do this on large circles, since it may not be noticeable on small ones.

14. We ended up with a fun, fluffy and colorful garland. Now you can hang it on the wall at home and admire it all the New Year's holidays!

Volumetric paper snowflake

Outside the window - the wizard-winter, New Year is approaching, the most favorite holiday of children. Everyone, especially children, lives in anticipation of a miracle, and it is in your power to give it to them. It's simple - you need to pay more attention to them, spend time together, and do your pre-holiday chores together. Children will love to do festive New Year's decor with their parents, one of the integral elements of which is snowflakes. Everyone knows how to cut them, but for children who will definitely want to participate, it will be more interesting to make voluminous snowflakes, which are appropriate to decorate a Christmas tree, or to make a mobile out of them by adding different figures (Christmas trees, balls, angels, etc.) or to combine them into a garland. The craft is simple to perform, a child of 4-5 years old can easily make it.

For work you will need: a sheet of double-sided blue paper (the shade can be any), a ruler, scissors, glue. Colored paper should be cut in half. Then each half must be folded like an accordion: we put a ruler on the edge of the sheet and make a fold - this is the first strip, the rest are equal along it (you should get an accordion of 7 strips 3 cm wide). We cut the accordions and get 14 strips. From each strip we form a "needle": as shown in the photo.

Cut off the protruding ends of the strips. You get a cone with a sharp ledge. For the base, cut out a circle of paper with a diameter of 3 cm.

We glue the "needles" to the base with a cone to the center, as shown in the photo. First, on the one hand, then, when the glue dries, on the other, making sure that the "needles" are staggered. You should get a snowflake with a diameter of about fourteen centimeters.

Give free rein to your imagination: use white paper or paper of two different shades, additionally decorating the snowflake with sparkles, sequins, etc. If you want a bigger snowflake, take two landscape sheets, and double the width of the stripes.

Do New Year's crafts with the children, give them and yourself the joy of communication, and then this New Year will become truly unforgettable for you and for them.

Paper crown

The carnival costume of a little prince or a capricious princess is inconceivable without an elegant shiny crown. A headdress suitable for a young crowned person can be bought in a toy store, but if it is evening outside and the crown is needed for tomorrow's matinee, then there is no choice but to build it yourself.

To make such a homemade attribute of royal power, you will need:

a roll of thick food foil;
a sheet of thin and dense white cardboard;
adhesive heat gun;
scissors;
several packages of glue rhinestones of different colors;
half a meter of narrow silver metallic braid;
half a meter of white linen or hat elastic;
ruler and pencil.

Making a crown

1. On a piece of cardboard, draw a 25x12 cm rectangle and, using a line parallel to the long edges, divide it into two strips measuring 25x7 and 25x5 cm.

2. Divide the narrow strip into five squares with 5 centimeter sides and write in these squares isosceles triangles with a height and base equal to 5 centimeters. These will be the teeth of the crown.

3. Attach a 1.5 cm wide fastening tab to one of the side short sides of the larger strip.

4. Cut out a cardboard blank of the crown and wrap it in foil.

5. To do this, first, with allowances of 1-1.5 cm, cut out the "metal" facing of the outer part of the royal headdress, attach it to the cardboard and fold the excess foil onto the seamy part of the crown.

6. Then cut out the inner liner (its dimensions should be slightly smaller than the cardboard base).

7. Place the purl foil lining on the glue and snap the crown into the ring.

8. Having retreated 1 cm from the bottom edge of the crown, glue the edging of silver braid on it and decorate it with crystal rhinestones.

9. Decorate each prong of our craft with a flower made from multi-colored rhinestones and pearl half beads.

10. From the elastic band make (glue, or even better - sew) a ring of such a size that it is quite tight, but not tight, put on the child's head (in the position over the crown and under the chin).

11. Glue the crown to the rubber ring and try the finished piece on the head of “Their Highness”.

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Today, paper is the most popular among the huge variety of materials for crafts. Both children and adults can work with it. However, among all the variety of paper crafts, I want to find and make the really most interesting and unusual ones.

In this tutorial I will show you how to make such paper crafts with your own hands with step-by-step unique photographs.

In view of the sufficient prevalence of such material as paper, creative people come up with more and more new techniques for using it - origami, kirigami, quilling, papercraft and many others. In case of failure, such material is not a pity to throw away and start doing the craft again. Try with your child to master the most diverse areas of paper art!

Please note that creating paper crafts with children will become not only an interesting and exciting activity, but also useful, as it will help them develop their creative imagination, accuracy and fine motor skills.

How to make paper crafts

Rocking duck - a fun craft for kids

A funny paper duck can be made with your child. In finished form, such a craft can swing, because it is based on a circle. But first things first. This master class shows the step-by-step making of a rocking duck.

Let's prepare for work:

yellow sheet of paper;
compass;
simple pencil;
black marker;
ruler;
glue stick;
scissors.

First, cut out a large circle from the yellow sheet. To do this, first use a compass, and then scissors.

Make parallel folds around the edges of the circle. This will be the base of our duckling.

From the remainder of the yellow sheet, cut out a rectangular strip about 6 cm wide. It will become a blank for the duck's head.

Fold the strip into a ring and fix it with glue.

Cut out small circles from a white sheet. These will be the eyes of the duckling. We mark the pupils with a black marker. We glue the eyes.

Cut a beak out of a red leaf.

Glue it in place by slightly bending the base.

Let's go back to preparing the torso again. In the places of the folds, we will make shallow cuts.

In this place, we will bend the yellow blank.

Now we will use glue and connect the individual elements together.

There will be a tail on the other side of the workpiece. To create it, we will make frequent cuts.

Twist them up a little. It is convenient to use scissors for this.

Cut out the wings of the duck from the remnants of the yellow leaf.

We glue them on the sides of the body.

Let's fix the head of our duckling.

It remains to make the legs. To do this, cut out 2 red blanks.

Bend them slightly at the base.

We glue the legs on the sides.

Our paper rocking duck is ready.

Funny paper craft - a bee on a finger

The ease of working with paper allows you to quickly create a wide variety of crafts from it, including toys for children. The bee is just such a funny toy; you can put it on your finger and play, imitating the flight of this insect. You can create such a bee, focusing on the step-by-step photographs given in this master class.

To make crafts, you need to take:

yellow paper;
some black and white paper;
scissors;
red felt-tip pen;
black marker;
glue stick.

We start creating a bee by cutting out a small rectangle, in our case we used a blank with dimensions of 10x8 cm.

We twist the sheet into a tube and fix it with glue, this will be the body of a bee.

Slightly flatten the edge on one side of the tube.

We make a small fold and fix it with glue.

We make a semicircular cut around the edges, this will be the face of a bee.

Cut 2 strips about 9 cm long and 1 cm wide from a black sheet.

We glue them on the bee's body.

Cut out small circles from a white sheet and put a point in the center with a black marker. These will be the eyes of our insect.

We glue them in place.

Draw a mouth with a red felt-tip pen.

Cut the wings of the bee from a white sheet.

We glue them on the insect body.

It remains to add antennae. To do this, cut out thin strips from a black sheet and glue them on the face. Our paper bee craft is ready!

This craft can be put on your finger and used as a toy.

To make a cute hedgehog, you should show sharp thorns and a small nose. Invite the children to do this job using crepe paper. It is convenient to work with this material, and the rolls are not so expensive. It is better to make the basis of the craft out of cardboard, but the needles themselves are from strips of soft corrugated paper. In this case, no one will get hurt - only an imitation of a sharp fur will be performed, which protects the small animal from enemies.

Hedgehogs are figures that children love to do. Such a task can be given by teachers in a kindergarten, if we are talking about an autumn-theme craft. Making such a forest dweller out of paper does not take much time.

The longest process is twisting thin needles. But he can be safely trusted by children, their dexterous fingers will quickly cope with the task while parents prepare the rest of the details or tell them interesting information about thorny animals, make riddles or read poetry.

To create a paper hedgehog, prepare:

Yellow cardboard;
Pencil;
Small scissors;
A roll of brown corrugated paper or a separate small sheet;
PVA glue or other;
Black marker or black pen;
A black bead or bead-sized piece of black plasticine.

Take for work all those materials that are indicated in the list. Yellow cardboard paper will be needed to cut out the base of the craft - the calf itself and the face of the animal, brown corrugated paper - to create thin thorns. That's all the blanks that are needed, so the cost of the craft will be low.

Draw the outline of the planned figure on the cardboard. The body should be oblong and rounded at the back, the nose should be small and sharp. Cut out the part. Cut the brown, soft paper into short, narrow strips (approx. 2 cm long, 0.5 cm wide).

From each strip separately, create a thorn for the animal. With two fingers, hold the strip on one side, with the fingers of the other hand, begin to twist the paper into the flagellum from the opposite side. Thus, you will get a soft thin stick, the mass of such sticks will replace the fur coat in the future. But the small part held by the fingers will remain flattened.

Make enough thin needles to fill the entire back of the hedgehog with a thick layer. Glue on the first row of pieces, applying glue to the wider part and pressing against the cardboard with your fingers. It is better to make the first one at the top so that all subsequent ones can be layered on top.

Continue until you finish the barbed back. At the bottom, fold the protruding ends under the bottom and glue.

The craft is almost ready, only you still need to draw an eye. This will be a black point. You also need a small black nose. Make it out of a bead or plasticine.

An interesting lesson for children will not go unnoticed. They will get paper crafts that will show off for a long time in the most conspicuous place. And the creator himself will show everyone the fruit of his creativity.

Be sure to come up with some other ways to model a hedgehog, because there are so many of them. This will create a friend for your newly baked pet.

Origami rainbow paper caterpillar

To create interesting crafts with children, paper is most often used. If you intend to make a toy with a child, then it is best to choose a simple option that is easy to implement. This is exactly what our rainbow caterpillar is, made of individual modules using the origami technique. You can familiarize yourself with its step-by-step creation in this master class.

To work on a caterpillar, take:

12 multi-colored squares measuring 8x8 cm;
glue stick;
2 plastic eyes.

Our rainbow caterpillar will consist of separate modules that need to be connected to each other in the future. Let's start by creating one module. To do this, fold the sheet in two transverse directions.

Then we make 2 more folds, but diagonally and in the other direction.

The folds made allow us to fold the square into a double triangle.

On one side, we bend the side corners up, combining along the midline.

After that, we turn the workpiece to the other side.

Here you also need to bend the side corners to the middle, but at the same time we combine them with the bottom edge.

This is how one of the elements of our future caterpillar should look like.

We carry out 11 more modules in the same way.

The first of the modules will be the track head. To do this, we chose blue, on it we make the folds of the upper corners to the sides.

We glue the eyes on the same blue module.

Now we connect it to the next module. To do this, insert the protruding corners of the yellow module into the blue one. For a better connection, a little glue should be applied to the corners of the yellow element.

We fix the third red module using the same principle.

We continue to work until all the elements are connected.

Our paper craft rainbow caterpillar is ready.

3D-craft "Mushroom"

Often, parents are faced with the question - what to do with the child at home? The simplest answer is to make a paper craft with him. For example, you can make a cute mushroom. Its step-by-step production is given in this master class, supplied with photographs.

To create a mushroom, take:

green, brown and white paper;
compass;
ruler;
pencil;
black marker;
scissors;
red felt-tip pen;
glue stick.

Let's start by making the leg of the fungus. To do this, cut out a 15x11 cm rectangle from a white sheet and fold it into a tube.

In its upper part, we will make 4 cuts, after which we will bend the elements. They will later serve as the basis for the cap of the fungus.

Cut out a circle with a diameter of 7 cm and glue it to the base.

Cut off the parts protruding outside the circle.

Cut out a 15x4 cm rectangle from a green sheet.

We make cuts on it that mimic grass.

We glue the grass to the bottom of the leg of the fungus.

Bend back the blades of grass slightly.

Now let's get into the hat. To do this, cut out 8 round elements with a diameter of 7 cm from a brown sheet. The size of the base (white circle) and brown blanks must be the same.

We fold each circle in half.

Then we make another fold.

Apply a little glue to the last fold. This is how the finished element should look.

We begin to connect the brown elements together. We do this with glue.

The result should be a hat, for which we used 2 shades of brown paper.

We glue the hat on a white base.

If you wish, you can draw eyes and a mouth.

Our paper mushroom is ready.

Snakes can be funny as well as dangerous. This is exactly what our snake, made of paper, is. She is not only a craft, but also an interesting toy. After all, our snake can stick out its tongue if it blows into the tube. The step-by-step making of such a funny snake is given in this master class.

To create it you need to take:

green leaf;
small pieces of red and white;
compass;
pencils (plain and brown);
black marker;
glue stick;
cocktail straw.

First, draw a circle on green paper using a compass and cut it out. This will be a blank for the snake's body.

On it we draw a spiral line and cut along it with scissors.

With a simple pencil, draw a zigzag line along the entire length of the snake.

We mark it with a brighter brown pencil.

Now let's start creating the head of our snake. For her, we need two green blanks and a narrow strip of red.

On one green part we glue a red strip, this will be the tongue of the snake.

Glue a cocktail straw on top, after shortening it a little.

Cover everything from above with the second green part, smearing it with glue.

We fix the eyes on the back side. We make them from a white sheet, and draw the pupils with a black marker.

At the tip of the tongue, make a small longitudinal cut in the middle.

Using a pencil, we twist the tongue.

This is the head of our snake.

It remains to glue it to the body.

Cut off the protruding corners with scissors, giving the head a more rounded shape.

Our funny paper snake is ready.

Craft from colored paper "Pirate" for boys

Pirates are fearless people who loved water, freedom and treasure. Therefore, it is impossible to imagine such a character from history without a ship with a pirate flag, a chest with jewels, a vest and a black themed hat with a feather. This image can be easily made from colored paper.

Necessary materials:

colored paper in red, orange, white, light yellow and black tones;
scissors;
pencil;
thin black marker;
glue;
ruler.

As a basis, we take a light yellow sheet, from which we cut out a 12 x 7 cm rectangle to create the pirate's torso.

Then we will make a striped vest for the pirate. To do this, we take white paper, from which we cut out a 12 x 4 cm strip. Next, one 12 x 1.5 cm strip should be cut out of the black sheet. We will also prepare two thin black strips with parameters 12 x 0.5 cm ..

We glue the black stripes onto the white rectangle to get the vest.

Glue the finished striped element to the bottom of the light yellow rectangle.

Draw the pirate's face with a black marker and turn the rectangle into a tube. We get the body of the character.

Attach three beard pieces to the pirate's face. We use glue for this.

Now let's create a pirate hat. To do this, cut out two parts of the black hat along the drawn outline, two bones from white paper and one feather.

We connect all the elements together with glue. Then we "put on" the hat on the head of the pirate.

Finally, we will make the character's hands, which will be dressed in a vest. Therefore, we cut out rectangles from white paper, thin stripes from black, and silhouettes of hands from light yellow. We connect all the small parts together with glue to get a pair of hands.

We glue hands in a vest on the sides of the pirate's body. We will also add plastic eyes to our paper craft.

Our fearless colored paper pirate is absolutely ready for this, but this does not mean that he cannot be added details. For example, you can cut a sword and stick a parrot to your arm or shoulders.

Craft paper pirate is ready!

Craft for girls "Fairy" from paper circles

Crafts from paper circles are a type of creativity that is gaining more and more popularity. Agree that children are very fond of all kinds of creative experiments. They are always happy to do paper crafts.

But, if you approach the execution of the figures in a non-standard way, for example, model them from multi-colored circles of different sizes, then they will like this work even more. Everyone knows what a circle is, for example, a head needs to be drawn round, a flower or a sun. But it's so easy for many to take and make a beautiful figure.

This tutorial will show you how to create a cute little paper fairy. It will be completely made of paper circles, only they will be folded in different ways. So look carefully, you can even calculate in advance how many and what circles you will need to do everything as quickly as possible and not lose interest.

To perform the little fairy, prepare:

colored paper;
compass;
scissors;
glue.

The compass is needed to draw circles of different sizes. Sometimes circles are drawn on paper, simply by tracing a suitable object with a pencil. But this method is inconvenient in this case, since the figure will consist of circles of completely different sizes, and such a number of objects may not be immediately at hand. In addition, children must be taught to work with a compass, if they are still small, then the work must be done under the careful guidance of adults.

After completing the paper crafts, a bright figurine will definitely remain as a keepsake. The fairy can even take off if you tie her on a string, because she is just weightless - paper.

Cut out the desired circles. All of them are shown in the photo. Parts of the craft are as follows: dress with sleeves, head with hair, hands, wings, eyes. Shown here are circles of yellow, orange, blue, and white that are needed to create a fairy.

Fold the large yellow circle for the torso and 2 blue circles for the wings in half.

Fold the yellow semicircle 2 more times. The triangular piece can be glued - this is a blank for a dress. Make two smaller yellow semicircles for the sleeves and another one for the collar.

Glue a semicircle to the sharp part of the triangular piece perpendicularly, as shown in photo 5. Bend two small white circles in half, glue them to the sleeves to show the hands.

Start assembling the dress. Glue on the sleeves with the hands. Add wings at the back.

Now take care of your head and hair. Make halves with orange pieces.

On a white face, glue 2 orange halves to get a hairstyle, add small ponytails on both sides.

Stick eyelashes on your face. You can no longer show any facial features - everything is already very clear. Glue the head to the collar of the dress.

The bright paper fairy is ready. They give out the craft, of course, the wings, as well as bright hair. It all looks beautiful together. The creative imagination is completed, the experiment was successful and gave positive results.

All those who like to read, are fond of books, they just need useful little things - bookmarks. It is always customary to mark the last read page in order to instantly open the book on the desired page next time. The easiest and most reliable option is a paper strip, and a paper clip is also suitable as a bookmark.

And I would like to decorate this paper clip in some way, turn it into someone's face - bright and smiling. Then this bookmark will appeal to children, they will definitely use it after reading. We offer to make together with the children a useful thing for school or home use - a bookmark on a paper clip in the shape of a lion cub. It will be a sweet couple that will fit comfortably on the pages. Here is a photo tutorial for ease of implementation of the idea.

To create such bookmarks, you can use:

Colored paper clips in standard shapes and sizes;
Yellow colored cardboard;
Orange corrugated paper;
Glue;
A pen;
Scissors;
Gel glitters;
Black, pink, orange or any other bright markers.

Prepare everything you need for work. From a dense sheet for children's creativity, we will make the faces of African animals, from a soft sheet - a lush mane, so the color scheme matches this. Use markers (black and colored) to draw eyes, nose and so on on the face. Glitter or bright markers can be used for additional decoration.

Cut out circles from yellow cardboard - small and identical. This will be the central part - the base of the animal's face. Cut a circle out of orange corrugated paper, but with wavy edges. You can do this with curly scissors or by first drawing a line with a pen. The orange circle should be larger than the yellow one, since the lion cub's mane will be made from it.

Glue the yellow parts onto the orange ones. Draw the eyes, mouth, and dots on the cheeks (showing furry) with black marker, and the nose orange or pink. Add shine to the mane using a special gel or other method. The brighter, the more interesting the product.

When the muzzle is ready, secure the back with a paperclip - the main part of the bookmark. This can be done with a reliable glue or even a heat gun. Drop at the very base, glue the top of the paperclip.

Remember that in the future you will be attaching the entire structure to the thin pages of the book, so turn the part to the correct side at the time of fastening.

When the glue, glitter and marker on the face are dry, you can use amazing book accessories. You won't have to wait long, but the bookmark will surely please its creator. This is how unique school accessories are made quite simply, such lion cubs will also serve as a service on a diary, notebook or general notebook. Make as many copies as you see fit.

Fox - corrugated paper craft

From corrugated paper, you and your children can make the same bright volumetric applique in the form of a fox if you repeat all the steps of this lesson. Soft and pliable rolls that resemble fabric in texture are excellent raw materials for children's crafts. Moreover, even the smallest artists can create applications using the clumping technique, simply by collecting details by color.

To help the little ones, you can outline the lines for filling the applique with colored spools with a pencil, help them handle glue and scissors, tell and show all the wisdom of working with paper. The proposed craft will be a fox figurine, perhaps even movable, if you carefully fasten the individual parts with a stapler. And this option can be replaced with another beast using different colors.

To create a fox paper craft, prepare:

A sheet of cardboard;
Orange and white crepe paper;
Black and blue paper (to create one lump of each color for the nose and eyes) or half-beads of the specified color, if any;
PVA glue;
Scissors;
Stapler;
A simple pencil.

How to make a fox from crepe paper

Prepare the specified materials for work. From cardboard we will create a central fox template, from orange and white paper - beautiful fur, scissors will be needed to cut out an animal figurine and fragments of soft paper, PVA glue - to attach the lumps to the cardboard.

Cut a fox figurine out of cardboard. Either immediately draw an animal with a lush tail and four legs and cut along the contour, or cut out the legs and tail separately. Then there is an opportunity to get a moving toy.

Use a stapler to attach the legs and tail to the torso. If you use only one bracket for fastening in each case, then the tail and legs will move.

Cut the crepe paper into small squares. There will be a lot more orange details than white ones. And gradually you will have to add them over and over again.

Roll a lump out of each square. Let the children perform this procedure. Rolling paper lumps is an excellent trainer for children's fingers, the development of fine motor skills.

Paper is the most affordable and versatile material for creativity. Plain white paper and a set of colored paper for applique are available in almost all stores. In specialized salons, you can find dozens of different types of paper, differing in composition and texture.

Having conceived to make paper fakes with your own hands, you can give a second life not only to the magazines and newspapers you read, but also to the written-down notebooks and notebooks, as well as packaging from goods.

Using paper as an attribute for educational games with toddlers can train their fine motor skills, ability to concentrate and develop imagination.

Learning elements of varying complexity can be introduced into the content of the creative process of paper crafts for children, ranging from the study of numbers, letters, hours, arithmetic, the names of flowers, animals, etc. - in simple applications and mosaics, and uploading with the most complex origami designs for which you need to have an extraordinary gift of spatial imagination and remarkable patience.

Making volumetric figures in origami style, paper models of buildings, cars, ships, and mastering other types of applied paper art, when moving to a professional level, can become not only a hobby for life, but also bring a considerable income.

For starters, the simpler the better

When starting to work with paper at any age, it is better to start with light crafts: simple appliqués, openwork cutting and weaving, as well as master the basics of origami. It can be interesting to use the papier-mâché technique (multi-layer glued curly paper) and quilling - making figures from twisted strips of paper.

Paper butterflies - endless scope for imagination

The first experience in making a volumetric product can be a butterfly. The basis of this craft is rectangles of paper (equilateral or slightly elongated) folded diagonally like an accordion and fixed in the middle with glue or threads.

You can make the torso and legs using wire and the head from a bead. The surface of the wings can be painted, decorated with thin openwork cuts of colored paper or beads. By stringing such butterflies on one thread, you can make beautiful garlands. Or you can cover part of the wall with such colorful flocks.

The same simple technology for making a butterfly using more (from 6) layers of corrugated paper can be used to make decorative balls. In this case, not only the color and size, but also the shape of the balls varies, you can bend the edges of the blanks in different ways, rounding and pulling them in the right places.

Squares, circles, rhombuses and even triangles superimposed on each other and fixed in the middle can serve as a basis for such balls. The silhouette of the product can be changed using blanks of different sizes.

This simple paper craft technology is also at the heart of making paper flowers. You can start with simple stylized inflorescences, making appliqués fixed in the center with circles, and then try more complex volumetric models of artificial flowers that are made from special textured paper.

Origami butterfly

In order to learn how to make an origami-style craft, you must first of all remember the simple designs: airplanes, boats, frogs, familiar to everyone from childhood, etc.

These traditional patterns can be given new life by using the interesting texture of paper, decorating products with paints and beads.

We have to admit that in our time, paper butterflies have bypassed the popularity of the famous paper airplanes and are an essential decoration of any girl's room. Here is a step-by-step instruction for paper crafts using the example of such a butterfly:

1. fold the paper square horizontally and vertically, then fold it in the form of a rhombus, according to two possible options, and also make clear inner folds.
2. Fold the workpiece in a double triangle with free edges in the form of a boat.
3. alternately bend the corners of the triangle to the top of one of the sides and bend this side so that a wing is obtained.

Combined appliques - room for imagination

Using glue and scissors, you can make snow from rice, chicken from threads, a house and a fence from matches, a cat from cotton wool ... and the list can be continued indefinitely. The photo shows crafts in which paper applique elements are combined with other materials.