How to make a boat from paper: a step-by-step instruction with a diagram and video

All of us in childhood, when the spring came, made paper boats and sent them to distant voyages. In this article, we recall how to make the simplest vessel and learn how to create more complex models.

Option number 1: the simplest

In order to understand how to make a boat out of paper, a step-by-step instruction will not be superfluous.

Take a sheet of paper, it's best to take a landscape, A4 format. Such ships will be harder and more beautiful. Fold the sheet in half vertically.

The two upper corners fold to the center, as when creating the airplane.

Now you should bend the paper strip under the folded corners.

Turn the future ship around the other side and do the same.

Now fold the corners of the resulting strips inward from one side and the other.

Take the workpiece and rotate it, putting together the other opposite sides, you should get a diamond.

Rotate the workpiece with separate angles down. Fold one corner up, then the other.

A triangle is obtained. We turn over the next ship and connect the other two opposite sides.

The last step remains. Grasp the corners and pull.

When the boat is ready, in the middle you need to expand a bit. That's it, the product is ready.

Below there is a scheme by which this art can be mastered even faster.

How to make a steamer with two pipes made of paper

Make a two-pipe ship is not as difficult as it might seem at first sight. This vessel is also best done from sheet A4.First we need to make a square from a rectangular leaf. To do this, fold the sheet so that most of it forms a triangle, cut off excess.

Now you need to bend all the corners so that their tips are at one point in the middle.

Rotate the workpiece with the other side and do the same with the corners.

Turn the future ship again and do all the operations with the corners a third time.

We turn the figure again. Straighten the two opposite corners so that there are two rectangles.

Pull the two remaining opposite corners, and the pipes should be in place.

The steamer with two pipes is ready.

Sailboat in origami technique

It is not difficult to make such a sailboat in origami technique by using the scheme and description you can easily build the same one.

Take a sheet of paper, you can A4 or colored paper. Fold it in half vertically and again spread out. Now the edges of the sheet should be pressed to the fold line in the center. Now add the top and bottom of the rectangle to the center, you should get a square. Then return them to their original position. Expand the lower corners as shown in the diagram along the dashed lines, align the folds to make the trapezoid. Do the same with the upper corners. We carefully look at the pictures.

Now bend the corners of the upper trapezium as shown in the diagram, along the dashed lines. Turn over the shape and bend the part of the workpiece along the dotted line. Everything, your sailboat is ready, everything you need for a good result - look carefully at the scheme and step by step to repeat the action.

Paper is a great material for creativity, in addition to simple handicrafts from it you can make very beautiful things, for example, a military cruiser, such as shown in the video below.

Conventional boat:

Sailboat:

Steamboat with two pipes:

Canoe:

Origami sailer: