Making a lotus from napkins

You can create beautiful and original crafts from simple kitchen napkins. There is a wide variety of ideas for making such children's gizmos. Today we will analyze how you can make a product in the form of a lotus from this material with your own hands.

Before you start making crafts in the shape of a lotus, you should prepare all the necessary devices and materials for this. These include the following:

• paper napkins in several colors;
• scissors;
• glue;
• threads;
• corner.

You can also immediately pick up various additional decorative elements if you want to decorate the finished product.

To begin with, consider the most simple instructions for creating this paper lotus.

• At the first stage, a yellow napkin is taken. It is folded neatly diagonally, then the middle of the upper acute corner is marked. After that, the side sections are folded towards the center section.

• Then the workpiece is turned over, all protruding elements should be bent back. As a result, you get a figure that looks like a boat. It is folded in half again, resulting in a triangle.

• In the same way, only 12 parts are folded. Next, they will need to be sewn together. For this, a needle and thread are taken, the ends of all parts are pierced. All elements are tightly tightened together. The resulting product will serve as the basis for the future flower.

• Then you need to take pink napkins... Lotus petals will be created from them. They are made according to the same algorithm as in the previous version, but it is necessary to make already 98 pieces.After that, you can proceed to the final assembly of the bud.

• To form the first row, a pink petal is taken, both ends are connected with yellow - into each other.

• Next, another petal is carefully inserted next to it and all the folds are repeated again, and so on in a circle. The second row of the craft is created in much the same way as the first, but the pink elements will need to be inserted into the same pink row.

• All other rows are performed according to the same algorithm.... A total of 8 lines with pink petals should form.

• At the final stage, the finished decorative product can be additionally decorate beads, pearls, beads and other details.

Next, we will see how you can make a craft in the form of a beautiful lotus using the origami technique.

• In this case, you need to take a pink or orange paper napkin.... It is fully deployed. Depending on the specific napkin, the folds on the surface will be either completely flat or not very good. If the fold lines are visually curved, then you can try to re-fold the material yourself and make it more accurate.

• Later, you will need to align the corners of the napkin with the intersection of the folds in the middle.... As a result, the edges of the triangular blank should coincide with the folds. After that, the remaining corners are folded in the same way.

• Now all the corners of the paper blank should be folded back to the central part, after which the product is turned over to the other side, and the actions are repeated with this part. Later, you will need to fold one of the corners by about a third of the length. All remaining elements are added in the same way.

• Then you need to take the corners from the back of the paper napkin and turn them up. At the same time, small triangles that were made earlier are pressed with your fingers so that they do not lose their shape and do not wrinkle. The result should be an almost finished bud.

• All small triangular parts are turned in the opposite direction. And again, all the corners are folded up from the back.

You can also make the middle of the flower bud separately. For this, a yellow or orange napkin is best suited. Several such materials need to be prepared in advance.

Each napkin is cut along the fold lines into four separate pieces with scissors. Each resulting square is exactly wound on a knitting needle or skewer. The material is then carefully removed and folded in half.

According to this algorithm, several more bright stamens are made, then all the parts obtained are gradually inserted into the central part of the bud in the places between the modules. You can apply very little glue there so that all the elements can be securely held in the middle.

• Do not forget that to get the most even and neat workpieces, you can use ready-made cardboard templates. They will allow you to quickly make all the necessary elements.
• Before starting work, you should check that the table on which all work will take place is absolutely clean and dry. After all, paper napkins, when dirt or moisture gets on their surface, will quickly lose their shape and appearance, and become unsuitable for making such crafts.
• Also remember that to connect all the constituent parts of the lotus flower, it is worth using threads and needles, which will allow you to assemble a smooth and beautiful product.
• If you nevertheless decide to work with an adhesive composition, then it would be better apply with a small brush in minimal amounts, since this material can easily get wet from the glue, lose its shape.

A detailed workshop on creating a lotus from napkins can be found in the following video.