Children love to mess with paper from childhood. Such activities develop motor skills and imagination. Yes, and adults do not seem boring. Making flowers using glue and paper is a very fun time together. Having gained some experience, you can learn to perform crafts of amazing beauty. It will be quick, low cost and, most importantly, made with your own hands.
Paper Techniques
Crafts from paper are such an interesting hobby that the masters came up with various techniques for working with this material.
The main techniques are as follows:
- Origami is a way of folding simple paper figures without glue and scissors.
- Modular origami - the technique consists in combining identical fragments by inserting one into another into one common figure or composition. You can create three-dimensional models of animals and birds, complex geometric shapes.
- Wet origami is a technique similar to origami, only to give the products smooth lines, the paper is wetted with water.
- Kusudama is a type of origami in which all the details are spherical in shape and can not only be embedded in each other, but also glued together.
- Quilling - lies in the fact that narrow strips of paper are curled in layers in the form of a wheel, and then these individual parts are glued into different shapes. In this way, you can create paintings, postcards, Christmas decorations, vases, caskets and the like.
- Papier-mâché - to create an item, you need an original, which is glued with several layers of finely chopped paper, and then removed from the resulting cocoon.
- Decoupage - items are decorated by sticking thin painted paper, most often napkins, then covered with a layer of varnish.
What to do tools
With the help of paper technology, you can make a huge number of various products:
- figures of animals and people;
- various flowers and compositions;
- Christmas tree decorations and snowflakes;
- holiday greetings;
- dishes;
- gift boxes;
- various interior decorations.
Any kind of crafts can be created in 3D-format.
To complete the crafts you will need the following tools:
- glue for paper - silicone, PVA, pencil, glue gun;
- colored paper - plain or velvet;
- glue brush, if the bottle is not equipped with it;
- pencil and ruler;
- scissors;
- paints with a brush or felt-tip pens.
Making water lilies or daisies
The simplest version of flowers for a beginner needlewoman will be chrysanthemum and chamomile.
The sequence of actions using paper and glue origami scissors consists of the following steps:
- For the manufacture of petals with a diameter of ten centimeters, color strips of paper should be cut into lengths of ten and a width of half a centimeter in the amount of fifteen to fifty pieces. The more stripes, the more magnificent the flower will turn out. For chamomile, a minimum amount will be enough.
- Next, all the strips must be bent in half, slightly smoothing the bend to get a rounded loop, and glue the edges at the base.
- From a green paper, cut an asterisk with a diameter of three centimeters with five to seven rays, which will serve as the basis.
- Glue prepared petals to the base one by one, placing glued edges in the center of the base. Distribute rounded edges evenly around the outer circle.
- After sticking the first layer, continue on top to add the following until the petals run out. Cut off the rounding of the petals.
- Finish the work with the middle of the flower - cut out a circle from yellow paper and glue it in the center, covering the tips of the petals.
As a tip:
- You can make a dense stem from glue and paper, attach a flower hat to it and add leaves;
- the petals of the flower are made both plain and multi-colored;
- the composition can be made in two versions - flat or three-dimensional, which will depend on the method of attaching the flower to the stem.
Volumetric postcard
Using glue and paper, you can make volumetric greeting cards.
Step by step, create such a crafts with a floral theme like this:
- Prepare the basis for the postcard of the right size, outline the fold.
- Decorate or color the base on both sides.
- For the inner composition, make flowers in the amount of 7-10 pieces. To do this, cut a square with sides equal to four centimeters in the middle from four sides, not reaching the center. Glue each incision to form a flower bowl.
- Glue all the flowers together at the ends of the petals, giving the desired shape to the composition.
- Glue the resulting bouquet for the base of the flowers in the middle of the base fold.
- Use felt-tip pens or paints to paint the middle and flower petals.
- Gently fold the card over the fold, adjusting the flowers inside.
Tip: you can finish or make a decor for a card in the form of leaves, serpentine, confetti.
Hare figurine
Making a schematic three-dimensional figure of a hare is great as a family activity with the smallest. This very simple craft will bring joy and pleasure to your child.
Step-by-step instructions for performing work using glue and paper are as follows:
- Cut a rectangle of the desired size from colored paper - the height of the sheet will be equal to the growth of the animal.
- Lubricate the short sides of the paper and glue together - the result is a body.
- Cut a strip of paper with a length equal to two heights of the hare's body, and a width of one centimeter.
- Bend the strip in the middle and fix the fold with glue. Lower the ends down and stick on the sides on the inside of the hare's body. The ears are ready.
- Use paints or felt-tip pens to draw a mouth, mustache and nose.
- Eyes draw or glue white and black circles of different diameters.
- Decorate the hare with a bow, for which cut a rectangle, fold it with an accordion, fix it in the middle and stick it to the body.
Tip: eyes can be made from buttons or take ready-made from an old toy.
Christmas decorations
Making DIY decorations from paper and glue for Christmas tree decorations is a fun and exciting experience, especially on the eve of the holiday. And toys made by hand will surely please the child on holiday.
The simplest thing you can make is an earring:
- Cut colored stripes half a centimeter wide from paper. The longest strip should be twenty-one and a half centimeters, and the rest - each one and a half centimeters shorter than the previous one. The shortest is five centimeters.
- Lubricate the edges of the smallest strip with glue and stick together. Next, take a strip one and a half centimeters longer, circle around the previously obtained shape and stick the edges in the same place. Repeat the same for all lanes.
- It remains only to fix the thread and the multi-colored decoration is ready.
Tip: the place of fastening the thread can be hidden with a decorative bow, and instead of the thread, attach a shiny braid.
Making a beautiful vase
Quilling makes it clear what can be done from glue and paper. Using this technique, unusual things and jewelry are made.
The original vase is performed as follows:
- prepare for crafts multi-colored strips of various lengths half a centimeter wide, the amount is regulated by the size of the vase;
- twist each tightly into a wheel using a rod, fasten the edge with glue;
- make the base of the desired diameter by laying the wheels horizontally and gluing them together;
- assemble the vase cylinder in the same way, only by gluing the circles vertically;
- glue the wheels at the right height above not over the entire diameter, but in such a way as to form triangular petals of different heights.
Tip: to make the vase more beautiful, for one mug you can take strips of different colors, then the wheel will turn out multi-colored.
Newsprint flowerpot
Papier-mâché from paper and glue allows you to create various shapes and shapes, if it is possible to stick paper around the original as accurately as possible. In this case, the presence of many small parts is not suitable.
The sequence of steps for making a pot in this way looks like this:
- cut thin paper (usually newsprint) into squares with a side and a half centimeters;
- coat the flowerpot with petroleum jelly and stick around with the first layer of squares so that an open seam of one millimeter width remains across the entire product;
- use a brush on top of the paper to apply a thin layer of PVA glue;
- stick the next layer of paper squares like the first and continue to work until ten to fifteen layers are applied;
- cover the last layer of paper with glue and leave to dry for a day;
- remove both halves of the product along the seam, connect and glue with three layers of squares;
- to decorate the flowerpot with paints, allow to dry, cover with varnish.
Tip: before varnishing, the surface of the flowerpot can be decorated with a relief pattern of twisted moistened napkins or quilling figures.
Making paper crafts is a fascinating activity that will allow you to enjoy communication with both adults and children.