How to make an owl out of paper?

Paper is an affordable and flexible material that even the smallest children can work with. In today's article, we will figure out in detail how to make an owl out of paper.

The easiest way is to make an attractive applique depicting a wise owl with your own hands. Such crafts are made quickly and without unnecessary problems. This can be an applique made using a ready-made template. In production, such a composition will be extremely simple, but very nice.

To make a beautiful paper applique depicting an owl, you will need the following components:

• colored paper;
• glue (it is advisable to use a glue stick, but PVA is also possible);
• felt-tip pen, pencil.

The work process is phased.

• First you need print ready template with all the necessary details for the future bird. After that, each of them should be transferred to paper of a certain color.
• Further it is necessary choose the basis of the application... A plain sheet of cardboard is suitable for this. First, the base of the composition is glued to it - the body of an owl.
• Next to colored paper it is necessary to translate the following detail - a twig on which the bird will sit. It is cut out and glued over the body of the owl.
• Then the remaining elements are transferred to paper. Cut out, stick it in order on the base of the applique. Then they cut out the details for the peephole, prepare the beak and leaves for decorating the applique.
• All prepared components glued to the base in place.

Applications are very popular tasks for the little ones.Before proceeding with the study of more complex master classes, it is best for a child to start by creating such a paper composition. There are many affordable and fun ways to make a paper owl, suitable for little craftsmen to master.

Let's find out what stages the independent production of an attractive applique with an owl consists of.

• At the first stage, you will need prepare sheets of colored paper. All the necessary parts should be carefully cut out of them, from which the bird figurine will be made.
• Now you need to take the basis for the applique. A sheet of cardboard is perfect for this. Its color can be selected based on your own preferences.
• Pre-prepared details of the future owl should be glued to the cardboard sheet.
• Further, on the applique, you can use a felt-tip pen or marker draw some decorative additions, to design the muzzle of a wise bird. At this stage, a beautiful and simple craft will be ready!

The famous origami technique is insanely popular among masters of different ages. By sticking to it, you can make a lot of different figures. For example, it is possible to make an original owl with movable wings or a bird sitting neatly on a tree branch.

A detailed master class on self-modeling of a beautiful owl using the origami technique.

• First you need to fold the owl correctly. To do this, use light shades of colored paper. The paper square must be folded from right to left, and then opened.
• The side edges are bent to the center point.
• All corners are folded towards the center line. Then, by means of a reverse fold, the corners are brought into the inner part of the workpiece.
• The upper triangle is lowered, and then returned to its previous position. The bifurcated bottom of the workpiece is raised.
• The corners are bent to the sides.
• Then open the "pockets" located in the upper part and smooth them out.
• The open corners of the lower half of the workpiece, which play the role of owl's legs, are led inside the figurine.
• The corners are opened diagonally from above.
• Bends are made along all the dotted lines that are present in the diagram.
• The upper triangular valve is lowered. This is how the paper bird's head comes out. The light parts on both sides will play the role of eyes.
• The bottom triangle is folded in a zigzag fashion.
• Now the figure is rounded, slightly bending all the outer corner parts.

The owl figurine is ready. It remains to make only a twig on which it will sit.

• This detail should be done starting from the seamy side. Mark out the diagonal.
• The blanks are folded in half, then opened. The diagonal line is placed vertically.
• The corner on the right is folded in accordance with the dotted line.
• Align the right and left edges. The result is an asymmetrical detail.
• The left side is folded over again, partly overlapping the right side with it.
• The completed triangle is closed with a "valley".
• Make a fold by means of back laying to obtain a twig.
• It remains only to fix the owl on the finished support piece. The result is a beautiful and original toy.

There are so many other interesting ideas for making a paper owl. These can be not only applications made of whole, corrugated or torn paper (a tear-off application looks very unusual), but also other curious methods, for example, using the weaving method, using a roll of toilet paper or paper accordions. The scenery for such a character also varies.It can be not only neat branches, but also a hollow or a stump - there are a lot of options.

An excellent autumn craft will turn out if you make an owl in the form of a voluminous accordion. We will analyze step by step how you can do it yourself.

• You should take brown colored paper. Two fans need to be formed from it.
• The finished accordion parts are glued to each other to obtain a complete circle. This will be the torso of an owl.
• Then you need to make 2 more accordion mugs, but already white - these will be the eyes of a bird. For the pupils, it is enough to cut out black circles from paper.
• From the pre-cut parts for the ears, legs, wings and beak of the owl, you also need to form accordions. Then all the blanks must be fixed on the body of the bird using glue.

You can model this adorable owl yourself using regular paper strips. This will require:

• beige or brown cardboard;
• yellow cardboard (for the legs and beak of an owl);
• white cardboard (for the bird's eye);
• pencil, glue stick, scissors, felt-tip pen.

Step-by-step instruction.

• First, a round piece is cut out of the cardboard sheet. The size of this item will depend on the parameters of the future craft.
• Take 4 paper strips with a width of about 1.5 cm.Their ends need to be folded on both sides. The first strip is glued to the cardboard circle, trimming the fold along the edge. A second strip is fixed on top of it crosswise. The remaining parts are glued between the first two.
• Further, using templates, the head and ears, wings, beak, legs and eyes of a bird are cut out of a cardboard sheet.
• First, the necessary parts are glued to the owl's head. We are talking about the eyes, the beak. The pupils can be drawn with a black felt-tip pen.
• The head is fixed on the base of strips, and after it the wings and legs are glued, after which the original bird will be ready!

If you want to make an original bird, you can use a toilet paper sleeve. From such an unusual component, excellent homemade products are obtained. Let's find out how you can easily model an owl from a sleeve.

You will need a sleeve and paper cupcake tins, as well as colored paper, glue, and scissors.

• First, one edge is cut off from the sleeve, adhering to the arc line.
• Cut the muffins in half and fix them with glue on the sleeve so that the brighter part is located on the front side of the future owl. You need to glue these parts in such a way that one wing overlaps the other.
• Next, the plumage of the bird is laid out using a sufficient number of layers.
• The eyes can be made from white and black circles, and the beak can be made from an orange triangular piece. The finished components will need to be glued to the base. At this point, the original DIY will be completely finished!

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