How to make a paper boat – step-by-step instruction

October 15, 2017 handmadebase

If your baby is bored with toys, just show himhim how to make a boat out of paper. Children study the process with interest, and then work for a long time on its details, equipping the origami ship with plasticine passengers, paper tools, a straw flagpole or an improvised sail. Launching paper boats is even more interesting than folding them. Adults do this with the same passion as kids. Then why not make folding and launching paper fleets a family hobby?Homemade paper boat from newspaperWhen going for a walk, the boat can be set sail on a pond or lake, along the nearest river or fast spring stream. Even an ordinary bath is suitable for an exciting “around the world” trip. All that remains is to study a couple of diagrams, show them to the child, then 2-3 repetitions of the process will consolidate the skill and the child can be entrusted with creating an entire fleet for launching this coming weekend. Let's look step by step at 2 schemes for folding origami ships: a simple ship and a sailing yacht. By the way, you can dilute your fleet with a simple paper punt boat and an excellent two-pipe steamer.

Option 1 "Basic"

Making a boat out of paper The first diagram is wideknown. However, not everyone knows how to make a simple paper boat using it. But everything is simple here - all you need is an A4 piece of paper or any other format (rectangle, but not square) and a little patience. You can use colored paper, for example green, to create a warship, which is often decorated with red stars (applique). Please note that single-sided sheets are folded with the color on the inside to get maximum color on the outside of the ship. Step-by-step instructions and fig. 1 will help you understand the intricacies of the process. So let's get started:

Rectangular sheet in front of you vertically, and then fold it in half from top to bottom;
Now bend the workpiece vertically, equaling its left side to the right, squeeze the bend;
Go back to the stage back - before you again a horizontal half-folded sheet (the place of the bend from above, the loose sides below);
Now bend the upper corners to yourself, reducing them to one point and equating the faces along the central edge of the workpiece (see how to do in Figure 1);
Turn up the "walking" lower edges on each side and give the workpiece the shape of a triangle, filling the projecting corners with one another;
Expand your triangle from below, reducing its acute angles to each other - you will already have a square (see the figure);
The workpiece will have only 2 free corners, each of which must be wrapped to the opposite vertex on each side;
Again, open the resulting triangle from below, turning it into the correct square (as in §6);
Spread out the "walking" corners, releasing the mast, spread the toy - a boat made of paper with a mast-cone is ready.

We looked at how to make a paper boatstep by step, and all you have to do is decorate and stylize the toy according to your own plans: as a passenger airliner or a military battleship - as you wish. This craft floats excellently and stays on the water for a long time. To prevent the toy from getting wet and to delight your baby even longer, paint the outside of it with acrylic paints or use shiny glossy sheets of paper.

Option 2 "Sailboat"

Do-it-yourself paper sailboat We studied the firstscheme and have mastered this technique in practice? Then it's time to diversify your origami skills and fold a beautiful sailboat, which also requires nothing but a piece of paper. It is important to take into account that the sailboat is folded a little differently - unlike the first scheme, here the colored side of the sheet remains outside, that is, the sheet must be placed “face down”, with the rough side facing you. So, to the point:

Put a rectangular sheet in front of you vertically and fold it with an angle, bringing together the left side of the sheet with the top;
On the identified lower face, cut the workpiece with scissors - you need the right square sheet, the cut edge will not be useful to you;
"Span" the square, folding it in half and left to right, and from top to bottom, and then along the diagonals;
Adhering to Fig. 2, fold the "leaves" of the sheet to the center and, by the planned layout, fold the "boats" on both sides, pressing the workpiece in the center and opening it from the inside with a free hand along the edges;
Turning the resulting adjacent boats down "face", fold the workpiece diagonally, unfolding the elements perpendicular to each other (see Figure 2);
Squeeze the folds and stretch the toy - the boat with the sail is ready to make the first voyage.

This boat can be made from colored paperany tone is a matter of your personal choice. And if you decorate the ship with a cocktail umbrella and give it a name (write it on the side), you will get a full-fledged origami yacht - an interesting interior decoration for a child’s room, which can be used in an exciting game. After all, such a cool cruise liner is always a tasty morsel for pirate ships. And knowing how to make boats out of paper, you can now also fold a filibuster schooner without difficulty.

Game development of the child

Not every adult knows how to fold a boatmade of paper, let alone children. A small child will master the process methodically and with interest if his mother or father helps him. And folding paper figures is useful not only for leisure purposes, but also for the overall development of the baby. Hand motor skills, lateral thinking, design skills, memory and attention - all this is trained in a basic origami course for children and paper boats in particular. First, the baby will need your help. But perhaps very soon the child will truly surprise you. Ships are just the start, a fun game. As your child grows up, he will probably want to engage in modeling if he already has the skills to fold origami figures. This should definitely be encouraged - a live hobby is always better than stupid computer games.

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Option 1 "Basic"

Option 2 "Sailboat"

Game development of the child

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