Easy paper crafts

If you're looking for something to keep your child busy, paper can be a great creative tool. This is a budget material, moreover, it is absolutely safe - you do not have to worry that you will get hurt during classes. And if you're not sure where to start, here's how to create simple colored paper crafts for beginners.

Very beautiful bouquets can be made from plain paper. To do this, you just need to make several flowers and combine them into one composition. The easiest way to make daisies and roses.

You will need yellow and white paper, a pencil, a ruler and a pair of compasses.

To begin with, cut 9 strips of paper of the same size, approximately 1 cm thick.

Cut out two circles from yellow paper and glue the ends so that petals are obtained.

The blanks are glued to the center of the yellow circle, the second circle is fixed on top.

Draw a circle on pink or red paper and draw a spiral inside.

Use scissors to cut a circle and then a drawn spiral - you should have a spring.

Twist a rose out of it, fix the edges with glue.

Make as many flowers as you need for your bouquet.

A very beautiful fan flower can be made from thin paper. To do this, you need to take a sheet of paper and fold it like an accordion. Each accordion is folded in half, thus forming a fan.

After that, it remains only to glue four folded sheets together to make a circle.

Original bouquets of paper flowers can be a good gift for mothers and grandmothers.

One of the simplest crafts is a hare figurine. We propose to do it in an unusual, but very simple technique. You will need colored paper, dark cardboard, and scissors and glue.

The sequence of actions involves several steps:

to begin with, thin rectangular strips are cut from paper;

glue them in the middle in the manner of an eight-pointed star;

the edges of the blanks are glued from above, it should look like a ball.

The base for the bunnies is ready. All that remains is to cut out the ears, arrange the auricle, glue the eyes, nose and mouth.

Here's a funny little animal you will get.

Many different crafts can be made with white and colored paper with babies.

We offer several simple models that you can quickly and easily make with your own hands.

The easiest way to make a ladybug is from paper rolls. This is one of the easiest crafts that can be done with toddlers from the age of 4. To create a model of a beautiful insect, you need double-sided cardboard of red and black colors or paper of the same shades.

The body will consist of a roll of paper. To make it, you need to cut off two strips of black cardboard, while one should be slightly thinner and shorter than the second - they will be used to create the body and head. Dimensions are selected arbitrary depending on how much volume you want to get a ladybug.

Rings are formed from the strips and their sides are glued together. The ladybug base is ready.

The wings are made from two halves of a large circle. The diameter of the figure should be flush with the body or slightly larger. The finished circle is cut in half.

Many small circles are cut out of black paper. They are glued to a red semicircle to achieve maximum resemblance to the shell of a ladybug.

Glue the eyes on the head, fasten the shell on the body.

One of the easiest crafts for children will be a cone butterfly. For work, you need to prepare double-sided colored paper, double-sided colored cardboard, white paper, glue, pencil, scissors and compasses. To create the head and body of the butterfly, cardboard is used, the wings are made of paper.

To make a cone, you need to take the fourth part of the circle. It is drawn with a compass or a plate, divided into four equal parts and one quarter is cut out - it will go to work. The segment is folded into a cone and the edges are glued with glue.

With the help of a compass, another circle of small diameter is formed and cut out - it will go to create the head.

Circles are cut out of white paper and black eyes are drawn on them. They are glued to the head, and then a nose and a smile are drawn with felt-tip pens.

Cut out two more short, thin strips separately. From them it will be possible to build antennae and attach them to the head with glue. Use a pencil or ballpoint pen to curl the tips slightly.

The finished head is glued to the top of the cone. The butterfly's body is ready.

Let's move on to making the wings. Take a rectangular piece of colored paper of any color you like, fold it in 2 times and draw a wing in the direction from the fold. It can be given any shape: wavy, elongated or oval. Cut the wings along the drawn line without cutting the fold lines. This will give you a pair of completely identical wings on both sides.

At this stage, you can connect your imagination and decorate the wings. On them you can glue flowers and hearts made of colored paper, paint with felt-tip pens, sprinkle with glitter or paint with paints.

The finished wings are glued to the back of the body.

You will get such a bright beautiful butterfly.

You can make a piggy out of a paper cone.

For work, you need to prepare pink paper or cardboard, a little more white paper will be needed for the eyes. The piglet is made of paper, which is slightly lighter or darker than the main color.

To create a torso, you need to roll a cone. If you want to get a slender pig, then you can take a quarter circle. If you need a moderately well-fed pig, use half of the circle.

Cut out a small round or oval blank from the same cardboard - this will be the head. Make triangular ears and a round patch for her. Draw two eyes with a black felt-tip pen on white paper and cut them out slightly beyond the outline.

Cut a small thin strip out of pink paper, roll it into a ring with a pencil. This will be the tail of your pig.

Connect all the elements together. Draw eyelashes on the head, a mouth, add handles - and you get a cute animal.

You can make a caterpillar from strips of paper. For work, you will need colored paper of several shades, green cardboard, as well as a felt-tip pen, scissors and glue.

You should work strictly step by step.

First, cut strips of colored paper, try to choose bright colors so that the caterpillar turns out to be beautiful. For crafts you need 8-10 blanks, the size is selected depending on how you want to see your caterpillar. The best option would be stripes 10x2 cm.

Roll each strip into a ring and fix it with glue so that it does not unfold.

Cut a sheet out of green cardboard. It should be longer than all the rings stacked one after the other.

Glue the rings one after the other. If you wish, you can raise a few rings in the center - this is how you get an insect that slightly arch its back.

The paper caterpillar is almost ready. You just have to draw her eyes, a smile and glue thin tendrils of paper twisted with a pencil.

It is very simple to make an octopus out of the material in question. You need to cut a strip out of green paper so that its width corresponds to the height of the craft, and its length corresponds to the circumference of the body.

Divide the cut piece of paper in half. After that, the lower half is cut into thin strips - they will act as tentacles.

The workpiece is twisted into a cylinder and carefully twisted with a pencil or pen.

After that, it remains to make eyes and a mouth for the octopus. And to make the marine life more realistic, small circles of beige or yellow foam rubber can be glued to the tentacles.

It is very easy to make a clock from colored paper. To do this, you need to cut a circle out of colored cardboard - this will be the dial. If you have only white cardboard at your disposal, you can paste over it with colored paper.

Numbers or circles with numbers are cut out of paper of a contrasting shade and glued to the dial in the prescribed manner.

After that, all that remains is to cut out the cardboard hands and fix them in the center of the dial.

In order to make the watch more effective, you can make it using the fan technique.

If you have colored paper, felt-tip pen, scissors and glue at your disposal, you can make fish. To do this, cut a square out of paper, bend it in half and cut the corners.

The fishtail is divided into 6 strips of the same size. Each strip is thrown to the opposite side by analogy with braiding and fixed with glue.

The fish is ready. It remains only to draw her eyes with a felt-tip pen.

And if you want to get a more formidable inhabitant of the water column out of paper, then you can try to make a shark.

A small circle is cut out of white paper, the edges are cut into triangles and folded inward. Thus, you can get the most real shark mouth.

Outlines of a shark are formed from blue paper and glued to cardboard.

The craft is ready, it remains only to draw the eyes of the toothy predator and stick the mouth.

To make an autumn craft for school or kindergarten, you can use paper bags, they sell bread and cakes in pastry shops. To do this, cut out a rectangle, divide it into two halves and cut several strips in the upper part.

After that, the workpiece is twisted. In this case, the dense lower part will be the trunk. And thin stripes at the top will represent branches.

If you want to make a turtle, then you need to draw a figurine of this cute creature on a piece of colored paper and cut it out.

Thin strips are cut from corrugated paper of different colors and they are formed into a shell on the back of the turtle.

At the final stage, small details are drawn: legs, tail, eyes and mouth. The best way to do this is with a marker or felt-tip pen.

We told you how to make the most interesting and unusual paper crafts step by step. If desired, you can make other animals: foxes, dogs, kittens, bear, tiger and many others. At the same time, techniques can be very different: origami, applique, quilling and even papier-mâché. We hope our recommendations will help you make children's activities more fun and exciting.

How to make paper crafts with your own hands, see the video.