We develop simple handicrafts for children from paper using the example of a crane, a whale, a pelican and a penguin, made by our own hands.

The developed schemes to make simple paper crafts for children with their own hands will be presented in this article. The manufacture of handicrafts is fascinating - and at the same time a useful lesson for children of different ages, because thanks to such activities children become plodding, attentive, accurate, they learn to think logically. Children develop small hand motor skills, spatial thinking and creative abilities in general.

It is better to begin to engage with children with handicrafts from an early age, of course at first it's better to choose simple schemes to explain the essence and principles of work to the child, to develop the initial skills of folding figures, and then gradually to raise the level of complexity.

In the selection of the video lessons presented below, several master classes will be demonstrated in which needlewomen will show how to make interesting works on the examples of modeling crane and crab figurines, as well as step by step the processes of making colored figures of a pigeon, a whale and a cat.

Simple folding schemes for paper crafts

The simplest folding schemes suggested in this article will help children understand the basic principles of work. For example, in order to make a figure of a crane, you only need a square sheet of paper, you can have a white color, you can color it, depending on the color of the paper, the color of the crane's feathers depends.

First the piece of paper should be folded in half, then bend the resulting triangle in half and make a pocket. Then the top layer of paper should be turned to the right and make a pocket. Next, the resulting figure must be deployed, turn and open the pocket, then it is necessary to bend first the lower right corner, then left to the sides, thus forming the head and tail of the bird. At the final stage it is necessary to decompose the folds and the crane is ready.

In order to fold the figure of the whale, it is necessary to fold the sides of the square to the middle two times, then it is necessary to straighten out the resulting triangles. Then you should bend back two corners under a slight slope, then bend the other two triangles down and make an incision for the tail. After this, it is necessary to wrap the upper corner back, fold it in half and turn it inwards, then one fin must be folded and the whale figure is ready.

The simplest work can be done using the pelican as an example. The scheme is this: you have to fold the square in half and bend the sides to the center two times, then turn the resulting figure and bend it in half. Next, the figure needs to rotate and bend about two-thirds of the modeled triangle, then the top of the triangle needs to be bent to form a nose and then twist the tail. At the final stage, you should straighten the beak and the figure of the pelican is ready.

In order to simulate a penguin figure, it is necessary to bend a sheet of paper diagonally, then bend the lateral lines to the center, then bend over the bisector of the lower left corner and bend the figure in half. Next, you need to bend the right side up, then you have to fully unfold the resulting figure. After that, you need to bend a sheet of paper along all the lines indicated, then combine straight corners with blunt corners, the left corner of the figure must be bent, and the upper triangle must be bent, then the beak and the penguin figure can be considered ready.