how to make a paper tree
You don't need seeds or soil to grow paper trees for kids. Read this article to learn how your own paper tree Most of the crafts presented are so easy to make that you will soon have a whole forest full of fantastic paper trees.
Here are more than twenty examples with step-by-step photos, diagrams and collages. These are different options for three-dimensional and two-dimensional crafts, origami trees and models made using the quilling technique. And of course, the children’s favorite craft, a paper Christmas tree . You can make them tall or tiny, fun and modern, or elegant and traditional... or somewhere in between... the possibilities are endless.
Volumetric model
The place card stand can easily be turned into a three-dimensional model. To do this, you just need to slightly modernize the classic “Water Bomb” - and the lush crown is ready. We make the barrel by repeating steps 17 - 28 from the first description. It’s easy to assemble an origami forest from three-dimensional models for a home theater or zoo. Spanish origamist Leila Tores will help with this.
For the crown - “Water Bomb” you will need a square of 21x21 cm. To make a tree trunk, a similar sheet of paper, but brown, needs to be divided into four parts.
Applications for 1st grade
For the youngest children in school, so that they quickly adapt to a different mode of work, it is necessary to think through the lessons in a fun and interesting way; this is where technology lessons come to the rescue, where you can make a variety of crafts. For work it is best to use:
- colored paper;
- multi-colored cardboard;
- pencils of different colors;
- scissors;
- glue.
If you offer them an interesting topic, they will work hard for a long time to create their work of art.
The most important thing in working with first-graders is to be able to organize them for creativity while completely capturing their attention.
A primary school teacher can make connections between subjects, i.e. In the lesson on the world around them, they get acquainted with the topic “Animals of our region”; you can continue to consolidate the material already at work by inviting them to make an application on this topic.
You can diversify the work as follows, distributing animals among students and initially inviting them to make a craft about the character they got.
For the next lesson, they can be asked to prepare an interesting story about an animal, thus preparing a presentation of their work.
Seven-year-old children will perceive this type of creativity well, since they really like to play games and read fairy tales, so they can also be asked to make an application to a work or fairy tale they have studied.
Star
A luxurious eight-pointed Christmas star can be made even without blanks and patterns. You will need squares of thick paper, a ruler, a pencil and scissors. You will only have to mark the diagonals and transverse folds; for density, you can press them with the tips of scissors so that the folds are expressive. Having made four cuts, we fold the rays.
After gluing, you need to squeeze the corners so that the star acquires volume. After this, we glue the two blanks at an angle so that the craft takes on its final form.
Paper modeling for children
There are many benefits to children making paper crafts. Such creativity develops imagination, fine motor skills, thinking, perseverance and attentiveness. Three-year-olds can make something out of paper. You should start with applications.
Required Tools
To create images using the appliqué technique, you will need an accessible set of tools.
- Pencil and liquid glue (paste), container for glue.
- A simple pencil and colored pencils, an eraser, a pen.
- Glue brushes, stand and glass for them.
- Paper or oilcloth for working with glue.
- Small scissors, preferably with rounded ends, a stationery knife.
- Boxes in which you can put prepared parts and scraps.
- Cloth napkins: wet and dry.
Autumn vytynanki - leaves for windows for kindergarten and school
We use cutting out silhouettes from paper for autumn crafts. You can also make postcards for Teacher's Day. They decorate glass windows, walls, mirrors. Connect to glass using tape. They look very beautiful when hanging from the ceiling on threads.
This is such beauty on the glass of window frames.
Fantasy is limitless and thanks to it such masterpieces appear. They help you see the world better. In rainy weather, when there is heavy rain and slush outside, everyone will feel comfortable in a decorated room. And if the children did it partially or completely with their own hands, it’s doubly nice.
Painting from waste paper
To create this accessory, you can use old wallpaper, unnecessary geographical maps, newspapers yellowed by time, etc. Paper covers from vinyl records will also work.
In general, all the pulp and paper products that you were sorry to throw away can acquire a new life, being framed in an original frame.
Stripes
The essence of another type of volumetric modeling is gluing together multi-colored paper strips. This technology is used to create applications, panels, and to decorate works made by other methods. Here are the instructions:
- Form loops from the strips by gluing the ends of the blanks.
- Use them to designate flower petals, peacock or swan feathers.
If you glue strips in the form of a three-dimensional hemisphere to cardboard, you can create a turtle, a balloon, an apple, or an entire underwater world.
By gluing many strips crosswise in the middle and lifting the free ends with a thread inserted into the holes made in them, you can get a pear.
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Christmas balls woven from paper ribbons look attractive.
Mother's Day card
In Japan, among the Slavic and Scandinavian peoples, trees are often associated with the cult of the divine Mother Earth. First of all, this applies to deciduous trees, which depend on natural cycles - in the spring they are covered with leaves and flowers, and, approaching winter, they shed their “outfit”, as if falling asleep. Among the Greeks, female deities with maternal functions were also revered in the form of trees - hence the sacred groves, where one could receive protection and patronage. Today the tradition has not been lost. An origami tree is often given specifically to mothers - for a birthday, on a special holiday or on March 8th. As a token of gratitude for the warmth, care and support given, as well as a wish for longevity, strength and good health.
You can make an interesting composition “Four Seasons” based on a model from the Vietnamese artist Nguyen Hong Kong, based on a video lesson by the Spanish woman Leila Tores. For multi-colored trees, pages from old magazines, thin wallpaper, craft packaging or professional kami paper with a pattern are suitable. It is desirable that one side of the leaf be dark and monochromatic, reminiscent of bark in color. However, it’s easy to color the paper in the desired shade yourself. For the model, it is recommended to use a square of 15x15 cm, if you want to make a magnet - 8x8 cm.
Origami maple leaves (step by step instructions)
Making cute leaves is very easy and simple. The most important thing is to be with the children. Then decorate any room (kindergarten, school or nursery) with your crafts. With step-by-step instructions and photos you can do it very easily and quickly.
Attached is a step-by-step diagram of folding a maple leaf.
We will need:
- 3 square leaves 8.5×8.5 cm
- glue
Progress:
We can make squares of any size.
Let's take one copy. Fold it diagonally. Next, we unfold it to its original state.
Then fold the wings in half towards the middle of the fold.
Turn the craft over at an acute angle downwards.
We remove the resulting tail inside the pocket.
Fold the top corners towards the middle. It turned out to be small triangles. Let's bend them back and put them inside. The result is a figure familiar to us - a rhombus. Bend the top corners down. One piece is ready. Next we’ll make a few more of these blanks. Let's connect them together and secure with glue.
To ensure that the parts keep their shape well, they can be glued onto a dense round base. Don't forget to make a leg. The maple leaf is ready. You can also use them to make a crown for the autumn holiday. Only for this you need to make a rim out of paper and connect everything together.
Fairy lights
Children can be involved in making a New Year's garland to decorate the classroom or school Christmas tree. What is difficult to do alone, children will do together. The main thing is that the sizes and general appearance of the segments that schoolchildren make are the same. This is the only way a set of crafts will look like a single whole. Colors and design details may vary. You can divide children into groups, each offering its own type of segment.
There are many options:
- Simple balls made from stapled circles or paper strips.
- Chains assembled from strips.
- Ornaments cut from a single sheet folded into an accordion.
- Stars, Christmas trees, snowflakes strung on threads, symbols of the coming year.
- Boxes folded using origami technique.
- Segments made of paper strips are ornaments using the quilling technique.
In kindergarten and elementary grades, it is important that the work be signed, even if the child has made at least one snowflake. From middle school, work can become a collective endeavor.
Methodology for using templates
By working step by step with templates for paper crafts, children aged 6-8 years can accurately reproduce an exemplary composition.
With another approach, the child himself makes a choice among a large number of modules, cut out in the form of stripes, circles and other elements, creating unique color combinations.
Saving time is another factor that speaks in favor of using drawing or carved templates.
Elements that are difficult to perform independently (silhouette and perforated parts, drawings with polygons or strict requirements for sizes and proportions) allow you to create beautiful aesthetic works, which creates additional motivation for doing manual labor.
Rainbow in the clouds
You will need: colored cardboard, scissors, glue stick, cotton wool, stapler.
Master Class
- Cut 7 strips of paper of different colors so that each piece is shorter than the previous one. The red stripe should be the largest and the purple stripe the smallest.
- Arrange the stripes in the following order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
- Fasten the strips of paper together using a stapler.
- Roll 6 cotton balls.
- Glue 3 cotton balls at the base of the rainbow as clouds.
Rainbow in the clouds is ready!
