How to make origami cat - the basic techniques, assembly features and review of modules for the craft

Origami - a great way to not only have fun, but also a positive impact on intellectual development, especially in childhood and adolescence. It is no secret that manipulation that requires spatial orientation, as well as working with the hands, develop fine motor skills.

And it, in turn, affects the reaction rate, memory and other features of human thinking. Therefore, do not forget such a useful pastime, which came from Asia, as origami.

There are many techniques that allow you to fold, both simple figures and entire fantasy complex designs. For children, it is better to choose the images of animals - it's fun and interesting.

Features of making origami cat

When performing an origami cat in the technique of origami, you can use several methods:

• Make a muzzle of the animal - this is the easiest option, suitable for beginners or young children.
• For experienced can fold a cat out of origami modules, but use necessarily a step-by-step instruction - this composition is quite complicated and will require experience in dealing with the techniques of this art.

Muzzle cat

To fold origami, you must do the following steps:

• Take a square piece of paper.
• Bend diagonally.
• Put the top down. Right and left corner bend so they touch the bottom top of the triangle.
• Is formed a square, located vertices up and down.
• Corners of the left and right sides of the bend up so that the edges formed a vertical line.
• Small corners of the lower base are bent to hold the ears.
• Upper triangle is bent down the edge - from the top to form a horizontal line.
• Folded structure is turned all the bends down on the table.
• Bottom corner unbent, but only the top layer.

Complete the composition by gluing eyes and touching the antennae and the elements of the muzzle.

Graceful figure of a cat

Often origami is characterized by some angularity, which is formed because of the folding of forms at certain angles. But, there are versions of graceful images, formed by curved lines. These are complex designs, but the effort is worth the result.

Here's how to make an origami cat in full size:

1. From a sheet of colored paper, cut a rectangle with the dimensions of the sides 18 and 6 cm.
2. Bend it lengthwise in half. Each side of the bend in half again.
3. After additional double folds of the sides unbend. Place a sheet of paper in front of you horizontally.
4. On the left side it is necessary to bend the corner on itself so that the edges of the paper coincide.
5. Left corner of the bend to the right so that he was half the height of the width of the sheet.
6. Unfold both corners. Thus we got the necessary curves for further formation of the figure.
7. Unfold the entire sheet and put it colored side facing up.
8. According to the resulting folds will make a muzzle and torso of the animal.
9. Place a rectangle vertically and bent parts upward.
10. In the middle you need to press the fold inward, pulling both the left and right corner upwards. At the same time collect the sheet so as to form a shaped relief folds.
11. On the inside, you need to middle section to squeeze out a special triangle, which will form the bottom of the muzzle of the cat. This is indicated in the diagram.
12. The rest of the length of the sheet is stitched together and smoothed by hand so that the body was simplified and elongated.
13. Ears put inside, bending double fold.
14. After the formation of the muzzle perform the lower part of the body and tail. To do this, departing from the ears about 2/3 of the sheet to make a fold, bending the sheet in half, and then forming a triangle up and down the torso.
15. Pull apart the sides of the triangle, laying a tight fold perpendicular to the torso.

What was formed at the bottom of the fold and will be the tail of the cat. But, for the tail to get an elegant shape, it is better to screw it on a pencil and pull sharply, twisting the paper inward. Smooth a little and send it up and the tip slightly down.

Children's version of making origami cat

To cope with a child full figure of a cat, you need to use the following scheme:

1. Take a square of colored paper and place it with the top up.
2. Make folds on the diagonals.
3. Arrange the sheet and point the top up.
4. Upper corner of the bend inward to the diagonal, and then put the top of the top.
5. Bottom corner of the bend back, but make sure that it was the height of no more than 1/4 of half the diagonal square.
6. Take the left corner of the wrap it down. Similarly, proceed with the right. So formed a small square, which is 4 times smaller than the original sheet of paper.
7. Corners of the top layer unbent upwards.
8. Turn the muzzle of the cat and unbend the nose.
9. After proceeding to create the body. Need a square piece of paper the same size as the head.
10. Fold it in 2 times diagonally. Unfold and place the diagonals vertically. We place the sheet with the white side facing us.
11. Take the right and left corner and bend them in such a way that they converged on the vertical diagonal with their sides.
12. Fold the sheet from right to left in a vertical direction.
13. It turns out equilateral triangle with a sharp extended lower corner.
14. Here it is, and will need to bend upwards, combining the bottom and left corner.
15. Bend it to form a horizontal line at the bottom edge. It should be 90 degrees to the vertical diagonal.
16. Thus we get the body kitty. To get it in the right position, you should now turn everything so that the tail went to the right and up, and the side occupied the horizontal.
17. After that, the head kitty put on the top left free corner.

Origami figurine ready.

These options are fairly simple in their manufacture. But if desired, you can create a multi-component complex designs. They can be obtained in two main ways:

• By combining complex additions. Typically, these figures consist of a head and torso, which are attached to each other.
• But, origami cat paper for children can be made from individual modules. This is the so-called modular or volume origami. They consist of many identical parts that are inserted into each other, forming the desired figure.

To look cat become more interesting, it is recommended to use different colored sheets of colored paper and complement the muzzle traced or glued elements of the eyes, nose and mustache.

Photo ideas cat made in the style of origami