We have known paper boats since childhood, but this simple toy is also popular among the younger generation.
The history of such paper products is very long, and came to us from Japanese culture. Making paper boats is part of Japan’s traditional art form, origami. This means that the execution of the ships takes place without the help of an outside object. All that is needed is paper, mindfulness and perseverance.
There are a large number of varieties of paper boats, as well as methods for their manufacture. Consider the most popular of them.
Origami simple boat
The most common type is an ordinary origami paper boat. But even he can turn into an interesting adventure, if you do it with your child. A master class with photos and step-by-step instructions will help in this.
Tip: for ships that plan to release into free navigation on water, stock up on paper with a glossy surface, then the paper ship will last longer.
How to make a simple paper boat:
We take a sheet of A4 paper, place it in front of us on the surface horizontally and fold it in half along the transverse line.
Now you need to bend both upper corners so that they form an acute angle exactly in the center of the sheet. It is important to distinguish fold lines well.
Then it is necessary to raise the lower rectangular edge of the paper sheet up so that it is bent strictly along the edges of previously bent corners.
This action must be repeated with the remaining free edge, only you need to bend in the opposite direction.
Next, go to the remaining sharp corners of the ship. Alternately, for each side, you need to do the following to get a triangle:
We bend the sharp corner exactly along the line of the appearing triangle and hide this tip inward. The remaining corner covers this part of the triangle. Repeat the steps for the other side of the boat.
In the resulting paper triangle, a peculiar pocket has formed, which now needs to be opened.
Further, according to the instructions, you need to fold the craft along the opposite fold lines to make a square.
Now we bend the bottom corner up from this square, pressing it exactly along the upper corner of the square. We turn the craft over and bend the remaining free angle of the square up to make a triangle again.
Once again, we straighten the resulting triangle of the future ship out of paper.
Again, fold along the opposite fold lines into a square.
The upper corners of the square must be carefully pulled in opposite directions. From the craft turned out to be a boat.
It remains only to straighten the bottom and sides - that is, to correct the entire structure for greater stability on the water.
Making an ordinary paper boat
Another simple option to create a boat out of paper with your own hands. To make this boat, it will take only a few minutes, a sheet of paper, scissors and step-by-step instructions.The assembly method is very simple.
How to make a simple paper boat - boat:
A square should be made from a standard rectangular A4 sheet.
It must be bent horizontally, a good outline of the fold and straighten the square back.
Then, its lower part must be bent and folded so that the lower boundary is adjacent to the central fold.
The upper part of the sheet also needs to be bent so that the upper border lies along the central fold of the paper.
Now the central fold needs to be bent in the opposite direction to get a zigzag or accordion from four sides.
Now you need to open one side as a book.
The upper free corner must be bent so that it lies along the central fold in the center of the “book”.
The second corner must also be folded to the central fold of this “book”.
On the opposite side of the rectangle, we bend the corners to the center in the same way.
After that, we fold the future boat out of paper in half.
Turn the craft over with narrow corners down and open the resulting boat.
We wrap one of the sharp bow parts of the boat in the center, as shown in the photo.
Repeat this process with the second part to make a hexagon.
The upper and lower sharp corners of the craft need to be wrapped 0.5cm.
We open the resulting boat again.
Now, one by one we arrange the sides making bends on one side of the craft, then on the other.
Folds should be well defined, then the product will look beautiful.
The final stage is to straighten the ship out of paper in those places where the product requires it.
How to make a boat with paper sails?
As soon as you can quickly make ordinary paper boats, I immediately want to quickly find out how to make something more complex and interesting from paper. Therefore, the next step will be a master class that helps you learn how to make a sailboat out of paper. True, you should immediately make a reservation that this craft will not be able to swim on the water, it is rather a decoration or a beautiful bookmark.
How to make a paper boat - sailboat:
Cut a square from sheet A4, or take a finished square sheet for crafts. Fold it diagonally in half to make a triangle.
Then we turn back and fold the future boat out of paper in half in the usual way.
The sheet again needs to be expanded and folded in half to the other side - so that there are obvious folds on the paper.
Having straightened a sheet of paper, you can see on it a web of folds, which in the future will help to quickly navigate in the manufacture of the boat.
Next, you should bend to the center of the sheet the corners of those squares, drawn with lines, where the folds were still empty, as in the photo.
Now bend the craft in half and unbend.
The left free corner of the paper must be folded toward the center to form an open envelope.
The same edge must be bent to the side, as shown in the photo.
We bend the entire resulting angle into the future boat.
It looked like a rhombus with a sail.
The right corner of the rhombus bends up - now there are two sails.
The lower corner of the boat must be bent towards the center in the opposite direction and turn the product on the front side.
Now the boat with sails is ready to decorate the interior.
Video: Unusual ways to make boats
In order to make even more complex models of paper ships, you can watch several video tutorials on this topic.
Master classes will help to make a two-pipe ship, a boat and a complicated ship out of paper.
