Origami options for boys

Simple origami will allow children to get involved in the creative process at home or on the road when they are bored. In addition to entertainment, this activity is useful from the point of view of physical education - it perfectly develops fine motor skills. And also, this is a reason to have fun with your baby.

Boys love weapons, cars and military equipment. Therefore, the origami tank is a great opportunity to translate their preferences into creativity. Many of them will be happy to make a tank, even if they are not interested in making other figures. The technique is quite simple and suitable for beginners. To make a do-it-yourself combat vehicle, you need a sheet of standard A4 size office paper of any color.

You can even use white, but the green tones are as close as possible to the military color - the boy will surely like this choice.

The creation of funny paper figures will delight the smallest origamiists who are just starting to learn the basics of complex art. Children's origami can be painted with paints, decorated with appliqués and other decorative elements, complicating the craft and turning it into a toy.

• The cat's face is funny and cute. To do this, you need a square sheet, which is folded diagonally into a triangle. Then its edges are bent from the base to the middle, making ears. The upper corner is turned down to form the head, after which the resulting workpiece is turned over, and decorated with eyes, a nose, a mustache.

• Dog - the physiognomy of a good-natured puppy may seem difficult to perform, but in reality everything is much simpler.For work, you need a square sheet with marked diagonals. Next, you need to make a smaller square out of a large one - all 4 corners are wrapped with tops towards the center. After that, one of the corners is turned back and the resulting "house" is folded in half. The left side needs to be turned diagonally, turning it into an asymmetrical rhombus head. The tops are bent in the form of ears and muzzles. To give stability, the lower corners are tucked inward, after which you can start decorating the muzzle.

• Penguin. To make it, a square sheet of paper is marked with diagonal lines, turned with an angle downward, and then this angle is bent up, not bringing its vertices to the center of 1-2 cm.The tip of the bent corner is lowered down, thus obtaining a beak. Then the origami is turned over with the seamy side outward, and all the corners of the formed pentagon are folded inward so that all the vertices go over each other. Wings are made, turning the corners into an "accordion", and eyes are drawn or pasted on. The beak can be painted.

• Crab. The execution of this figure takes place on the basis of a paper square, on which the midpoints are marked, after which the sidewalls are wrapped to the center, turning the square into a rectangle. The upper and lower parts of the rectangle are turned off and turned into trapezoids. The corners of the lower part of the base of the upper trapezoid are lifted up, the same is done with the opposite side. At the final stage, the ends are turned in a straight line, raising the top to it, then turned over, and a crab looks at the baby.

Folding paper figures is good because it is accessible to adults and children, and everyone will find an interesting topic for themselves. For example, origami for boys 6 and 10 years old in the form of a typewriter will certainly interest them, because they can do it on their own.

• The album sheet is folded in half along its entire length.
• All available corners are folded towards the middle.
• The long sidewalls are bent towards the center, the previously formed edges cover the bent sidewalls.
• One of the sides is bent towards the other and tucked into it.