How to make a cylinder of paper with your own hands

Quite often, many of us have to deal with paper, making from it all kinds of crafts. The main initiators of this fascinating occupation are children. It's not surprising: paper is a very grateful and pliable material, it's easy to work with.

Let's see how to make a cylinder. In the future, this can be useful if you suddenly need to make a hat-cylinder or any other craft that has a cylindrical shape. In stores, we will not find anything like this. It remains to rely only on his head and hands.

How to make a cylinder of paper?

There is nothing complicated here. For this work we will need some materials and tools. They are in any house. This paper, pencil, compasses, ruler, scissors, triangle and glue for paper. All this is already laid out on the table.

The cylinder consists of two identical bases and a surface called lateral. The basis is two symmetrical circles, we cut them out first. Before you make a cylinder, you need to determine its diameter. Dividing it into two, we get a radius whose numerical value is set on the compass, using a ruler for this.

We cut the first circle with scissors. In the same way, we mark out and cut out the second circle.

Next will be a little easier.

Before you make a cylinder of paper, you need to determine its height, it will also be one of the sides of the rectangle. From this rectangle we make the lateral surface of the cylinder.

To the size of the height of the cylinder, you must add 10 millimeters from both, and on the other hand, and draw the lines. This is an allowance for gluing the bases.

On the allowance, we cut out the triangles. Their height will be equal to ten millimeters. To determine the parameters of the second side of the rectangle, multiply the diameter of the base by 3.14. This will be the length of the circle (DO), which is calculated by the formula

L = πD = 2πr

L - DO; D is the diameter of the DO; R is the radius of DO; Π is the mathematical constant ≈ 3.14.

The numerical value of the diameter we chose earlier and we know it. Substituting these values in the formula, we get the size of the second side of the rectangle. Add to it another 10 mm and draw a line with a pencil. This strip is an allowance for gluing. We spread the allowance with glue, turn the rectangle into a pipe and glue it along the mark. We let the glue dry. We bend the denticles of the pipe inside, glue their outer part with glue and glue the bases to them.

That's all. We not only answered the question of how to make a cylinder, but also made it from paper.

Holding it in your hands, it's easy to realize how to make a cylinder from cardboard. The algorithm of actions will not differ from the one described above.

The difficulty is caused only by the stiffness of the cardboard. More effort will have to be made by cutting out the details and bending the allowances for gluing. If necessary, a cylinder made of paper or cardboard can be painted with the paint of the desired color or varnished.

The craftspeople say that crafts made of paper must be created only in a good mood, because "paper" creations store a particle of the human soul and give it to the addressee.