Instruction how to make paper crafts with your own hands on the example of butterfly, pigeon, ladybird and cat

It is not difficult to understand how to make paper from handmade paper with your own hands if you follow the schemes of folding figurines and video lessons presented in this article. Different schemes of figurine folding, both for beginners and for those who have certain skills and a high level of skill, have been developed for each degree of complexity, therefore each handicraftsman can choose the suitable version of the craft.

Thanks to the ability to watch video, in which everything is explained in detail, needlewomen can understand how to perform simple paper crafts from a sheet of white paper, for example, a tulip flower, and also to understand how to produce more complex crafts from sheets of colored paper and several elements.

What kind of crafts can be made from paper

A simple master class on origami, presented below, will be able to repeat even small children. In order to make a colorful butterfly, you only need a sheet of colored paper of bright color, a little paper of other colors to perform a pattern on the wings.

First you need to cut out a square from the sheet of colored paper, then bend the square in half, then the resulting triangle should be bent in half. Then you need to bend the sides of the triangle in different directions. After that, you can cut out the antennae from a sheet of colored paper of a different color and glue them, also the butterfly's wings can either be decorated with cut out elements of colored paper, or painted.

Another simple version of the craft - bright ladybugs. In order to do this work, you need a sheet of colored paper of red color and a sheet of paper of green color. First, a square with sides eight and a half centimeters, cut from a sheet of red paper, must be folded twice diagonally, then the left side and the right side of the square should be bent inward. Next, you need to trim the corners so that the torso of the ladybug becomes oval. To complete the craft, the body must be painted and glued on a piece of green paper.

On the question: how to learn how to make crafts made of paper, you can answer this: to focus on the developed schemes. It is better to start working with simple schemes, and then choose more complex schemes for work. For example, according to the scheme presented in this article, you can perform a dove. To work, you need a sheet of paper, the color of the dove's tail depends on the chosen color.

From paper you can make a cat figure, this option is considered more complicated, because the figure consists of several parts of different colors that need to be glued together. For work you will need a colored paper of two colors and glue.

In order to make the front and rear legs, you should form two pockets of paper of the same color, and for the trunk - a pocket of paper of a different color. In order to get a muzzle, you need to make a larger pocket of one color and two smaller pockets of a different color for the ears, on the larger pocket you need to draw eyes, mouth, nose and antennae. To make a tail, you need to make several pockets of different colors and fold the tail of them, alternating pockets of different colors. Then the details must be connected and the figure of the cat is ready. The process of forming a figurine of a cat is shown in the photo.