Let's talk about how to make an animal out of paper with a preschooler

How to make an animal out of paper with a small child? Children 4-5 years old fingers are not formed to the end, so it's better to make crafts from different types of paper (velvet, colored, corrugated). As a result, tactility develops, and interesting crafts are obtained. Let's start with simple works.

How to Make an Animal from Paper: Basic Steps

Any animal can be made flat or bulky. The child must remember all parts of the body and head. The first stage of the adult is to cut out all the parts, and the kid on the paper will glue them. At the same time he will remember that every animal has paws, tail, trunk, head, ears, eyes, nose, mouth, hair, mustache. You can make some details in bulk. For example, a mustache, tail or bending paw should be glued only from one edge to create movement.

Further complicate the task. Draw a cat or dog head with a baby with ears, eyes, nose and mouth. Color and cut. Now cut the long rectangular strip. Bend one edge and attach to the second edge so that you leave 1.5-2 centimeters for the feet.

Mark the border with a pencil and draw your paws. Cut the edges with scissors. Glue the body along the painted line and decorate the legs with the trunk. Now glue your head and tail. The unpretentious animals were made of paper. Even handicraft preschoolers can make such handicrafts.

Making a cylindrical elephant

Now try to make the head and paws bulky. Consider the example of an elephant calf:

• Take the four rectangles and glue them. Get cylindrical legs. Place them next to each other and glue over the paper that will be back. From the contrast paper, cut a few small circles and cut them in half. It is these semi-circles that are glued at the bottom of the legs so that the oval side is on top.
• From a small rectangle, make a cylindrical head in the same pattern as the legs. Attach it to the back. Attach the painted or running eyes to the head.
• Cut two large circles and glue them inside the cylinder head.
• Of two long rectangular strips, make a tail and nose. The trunk can be slightly bent or scissor slightly curled.

As you can see, combining volumetric and flat details, you can make a variety of domestic and wild animals. Pay attention, that for volume details on which the whole craft is held, it is better to take thick paper or cardboard.

Two Ways to Make a Pig

Consider another example of how to make an animal out of paper in a combination of flat and three-dimensional parts. Now let's do a piglet. Cut from the pink paper two rectangles (large and small), which individually glue and get two cylinders.

Put a small figure on the big cylinder, it will be a head and a trunk. On the muzzle, draw eyes, a nose-patch and mouth. Glue the triangular ears. Cut a thin strip and use a pair of scissors to wind them into a spiral. Glue the resulting tail to the piglet. Remains also from small rectangles to make paws.

Under this scheme, you can make rabbits, cats, dogs. Then the kid will understand that every animal, despite the same parts of the body, has differences. You can change the creation technology.

Square the sheet fold in half, getting a triangle. To the point, fold the corners of the figure on both sides and get the ears. One half of the triangular top is bent upwards and you get a patch, drawing on it two circles. Also draw your eyes and glue your head on a long cone or cylinder.

How to make paper animals for jewelry or theater performances

Crafts made of corrugated paper are excellent for Christmas decorations and theatrical performances. In order to make a tiger from corrugated paper, you will need:

• Strips of yellow, white color 1.5cm;
• Strips of yellow and black color 1cm;
• Eyes running;
• scissors;
• glue.

Take a white strip and begin to tighten it tightly into a roll. Glue the end to the circle. Next, attach a yellow strip to it and continue twisting to the desired diameter. It will be the tiger's tummy. Then from the 1.5-centimeter strip of yellow color also make a head.

From a centimeter yellow strip wring your paws. From one side, push the part slightly with your finger, creating a little kulechkok. Ears make of yellow paper and form from the circles triangles. Spout make of a black strip. Now paws glue to the tummy, and ears, eyes, nose to the head. On the head also glue the mustache and stripes.

Allow the glue to dry. Now you can stick your head to your stomach. Under this scheme, make bears, koalas, hares, cats, dogs. I think, now you will not have any questions how to make an animal from paper with children.