Origami options for preschoolers

Preschool children love to craft paper objects. They willingly fold various origami figures.

Any paper craft develops children's imagination and creativity. Origami works well for preschoolers. The technique is useful for developing the fine motor skills of the baby's hands. At the same time, there is a process of forming such important qualities as attentiveness, patience, dexterity.

Adults should introduce babies to the conventions that are found in various schemes for folding paper objects.

The kid shows interest in working on the creation of complex figures from paper only after mastering the easier schemes for folding the object. Prepare paper, glue, scissors and markers.

Consider the step-by-step instructions for creating a dog's face:

• take a square sheet and fold it diagonally;
• bend the middle part of the resulting triangle, and unfold it;
• on the right and left, bend the corners down, carefully iron the resulting ears;
• pull the bottom double corner closer to the center, press it;
• paint over with a black felt-tip pen the upper part of the turned-up corner to get a spout;
• draw oval eyes;

The dog is ready!

There are other easy patterns for making animals in the form of origami. Let's consider a simple option for making a frog.

• Before starting work, carefully consider, together with the baby, various pictures depicting a swamp bouncy hopper. Ask to describe the frog. The kid should focus on the huge mouth, bulging eyes and green color.
• After that, you need to take a green A4 sheet and fold it in half.
• The resulting workpiece must be bent again, smoothed and immediately unfold.
• On the right side, pull the corners to the central axis, press them. Repeat the same steps on the left.
• Roll the resulting hexagon in half horizontally, and the resulting shape vertically.
• The folded trapezoid should be opened and small cuts should be made in the central lower part and on both edges.
• Fold the resulting 4 sides up.
• Glue the prepared eyes.
• Grasp the frog's head with two fingers and press down to reveal its large mouth.

You can start mastering the origami technique using templates with drawn details and dotted lines. Assembling the fish is available for a baby from 3 years old. After making the diagonal folds and opening them, it is necessary to tuck the upper and lower corners inward so that a double triangle is obtained. Then turn the workpiece over with the back side and bend the top corner down. Next, pull the bottom corner up, and lay it over the previous fold so that you get a tail. In the next step, turn the figurine over and gently tuck the fins. The scalar is ready.

The child can independently fold any fruit according to the schemes. It is very easy to fold bananas. Let's consider all the steps step by step:

• fold the yellow square sheet diagonally;
• lift the bottom corner of the top layer so that the top goes beyond the base;
• wrap the top corner over the base;
• fold the workpiece in half;
• tuck each subsequent layer according to the scheme;
• the bunch of bananas are ready.

Origami-style paper pineapple making workshop:

• make a diagonal fold and unfold the sheet;
• press the side corners towards the center line;
• turn the workpiece over with the back side;
• press the side corners to the middle part;
• make incisions at the top;
• fold the top according to the pattern;
• turn the workpiece over to the other side;
• paint the fruit in the appropriate colors;
• draw intersecting stripes;
• the pineapple is ready.

Children love to tinker with different types of transport. Assembling a paper plane is very easy:

• fold the sheet along the central vertical;
• bend the 2 top corners;
• bend the nose to the central axis;
• pull the upper corners to the center;
• bend the middle corner;
• fold the figure in half, fold the wings;
• after straightening the wings, the plane can be sent into flight.

Description of the simplest boat making:

• make a diagonal line;
• tuck the side corners to it;
• pull the bottom corner up;
• make another fold of the bottom;
• the boat is ready.

To make a windmill, you need to divide a square sheet into 16 small sections. And then the square should be folded according to a certain pattern. You can also make a house for your favorite doll from a square sheet, as well as a table and a chair. For children 6 years old, there are schemes for making paper shoes using the origami technique. You can make slippers and shoes with heels for dolls.

For older children, more complex craft patterns are offered. Modular origami is available to them. At the initial stage, you need to learn how to add shapes in the shape of a ball. It could be a bun. Your child will love working on the creation of a nesting doll, which consists of 500 parts. The modules must be combined into circular blocks, and then 25 rows of them must be folded. Then you need to glue the pre-drawn eyes and lips.A brave firefighter figurine can also be assembled from modules.

For how to make origami for kids, see the next video.