How to make a swan made of paper: a simple option and from modules

In the rating of the most frequently performed origami from paper, one of the leading positions is the folding of the figure of a swan. In this article, a simple variant of folding a figurine of this regal bird and a complicated variant will be presented. The complexity of the second option is that the figure is formed according to the technology specially developed by the Chinese, if to speak more accurately, the image of the swan turns out to be voluminous due to the fact that the figure consists of small triangular modules.

Variants of folding

In the selection of the video presented in this article, the wizards will show how you can add the figure of a swan using a simple scheme. And also explain the technology of folding a three-dimensional swan.

Schemes of the swan figurine

A simple detailed scheme, which will be offered below, will help needlewomen to understand the basic principles of work and understand how to make such a figure with their own hands.

For work, you only need a piece of paper of a square shape. First, the sheet must be folded diagonally, aligning the opposite corners. Then you should turn the sheet and then fold the side strips to the middle line. After this, it is necessary to bend the corners, which are located at the bottom of the formed equilateral triangle. Next, the workpiece should be flipped and folded in a straight line. Then it is necessary to bend the acute angle of the triangle to such a distance that it corresponds to a third of the bisector, the formed triangle. At the final stage, you need to bend your beak and tail, as shown in the diagram, and the figure of the swan is ready.

This folding scheme allows you to perform a small exquisite swan. But in order to add a three-dimensional multi-colored figure of a swan, it will take a little more time and patience. The large composition of the swan consists of the same elements, in another way they are also called modules. Each module is composed of separate sheets of paper of different colors, then the modules are assembled into a single shape. In this article, step by step will be told how to do the work.

For work, you will need dense sheets of colored paper, since the figure consists of the same elements, that is, from modules, the main thing is to understand how to make the module. First of all, you need to prepare a rectangle. Then bend the rectangle in half along the horizontal line, then you have to bend and unbend the rectangle in half so that the fold line appears. Then the edges of the rectangle should be bent to the middle, turn the resulting part and bend the edges upward. Then it follows that the edges are bent to form a triangle. The resulting triangle must be bent. Each module should have two corners and two pockets, which will allow you to connect the modules together.

In order to perform a white swan, you need 458 white modules and 1 red module to indicate the beak. If it is conceived to make a multi-colored hand-made article, then 136 modules of pink color, 90 - orange, 78 - green, 60 - yellow, 39 - blue, 36 - blue, 19 - purple and 1 red are required.

In order to assemble all the modules into a single composition, you need to start with the pink color modules. First you need to connect the three elements by inserting the corners of the two modules into the pockets of the third module. So you have to connect the elements to get the first row. There should be two rows, each of which has thirty elements. The third row, the fourth and fifth, should consist of thirty orange modules that are staggered. Then you have to turn the workpiece inside out. The sixth row consists of thirty yellow modules, which should be fixed from above. Then you need to identify the place where the neck will be formed, and on both sides of this place you need to fix the twelve yellow modules. The number of modules in each next row must be reduced, so the eighth row consists of 22 green modules, the ninth row includes 20 green elements, the tenth - 18. In turn, the eleventh row consists of 16 blue modules, the twelfth - of 14. The thirteenth row consists of 12blue modules, the fourteenth - from 10 elements, the fifteenth - from 8 elements. In the sixteenth row there should be six violet modules, in the seventeenth - four, in the eighteenth - two.

The tail of the swan includes five rows, the number of modules in each row should be reduced, there should be only 12 green and 3 blue modules. To make the neck, you need to connect the modules as follows: by attaching two corners of one element to the two pockets of the other. There should be only one red module, seven violet, six blue, blue, green and yellow. Then the neck needs to be attached to the main structure and make eyes. Similarly to how the modules forming the neck were connected, it is also possible to fold the stand. The stand can consist of two rows, 36 and 40 modules.