How to make an origami car - making a paper product quickly and easily with your own hands

Classic origami technique has long been fond of ploddering people around the world. Origami is not standing still. Every now and then there are new techniques of folding paper figures. Little boys and their daddies enjoy folding cars out of the tools at hand.

The car for beginners

If you are not yet strong in the folding of the figures of paper or plan to fold a machine with a preschooler, it is better to start with a simple model. On the Internet there are many instructions.

In order to make origami car from paper for children, do the following:

From a standard sheet of scrapbook cut a square;
Fold the square along and across to mark two intersecting diagonals;
Bottom side of the sheet bend to the middle of the square, then it will be the wheels;
Edge of the future wheels bend down to get sharp edges;
The upper part of the sheet bend to the center. It should cover the sharp corners of the previous item;
The resulting rectangle bend upwards, and its corners bend to the bottom of the machine.
Turn the handicraft.

The output is a sports car or spaceship, whatever you like.

Preparing to work with modules

In order to make a volume of their hands origami car, you need to prepare parts for it.

Take a standard sheet of office or colored paper. Even easier to use a special double-sided origami paper;
Fold the sheet lengthwise;
The corners of the resulting narrow rectangle bend to get sharp edges;
Long side parts bend to the center, the sharp ends must cover them;
The sides of the resulting billet to bend to opposite edges and shovel into each other.

It is very important that all the modules have exactly the same size. Only in this case, the origami paper machine will be strong enough.

Machine made of modules

Creating three-dimensional shapes of modules requires a lot of time and a lot of patience. In order to assemble, for example, a fire engine, we need in advance to make about 4 thousand parts. If you do not plan to spend as much free time, you can make the modules larger, but then the design is not as rigid. To create the wheels of the triangular modules are folded with a sharp "nose" to the center and glued together using PVA or a thermal gun. Even parts of the car body can be glued together or insert each following module into the "pocket" of the previous one.

By the way, from such modules can be collected as cars, trucks and racing models. In the technique of modular origami can be folded completely any piece of volume.Modular modeling provides room for imagination. The model of the car can be made whole or hollow inside. In the second case it is even possible to place inside the crafts of the driver and passengers. It is only necessary to think through opening design for the roof or doors of the paper car.

Passenger car

We offer you a second easy scheme for the assembly of a passenger car from paper. It will take no more than five minutes. To do this, cut out a square of paper. Then do the following steps:

Fold the sheet twice, marking the center vertically and horizontally;
Fold the bottom part to the center;
Side corners of the bent rectangle bend down;
Fold down the whole lower part of the design;
Fold the workpiece in half;
The upper part of the model bend down;
Turn the design;
The upper right corner bend toward you;
Turn the finished machine.

Race car

Fold the paper racing car will be much harder, but this handicraft looks very realistic and volume.

For its assembly need not be a square, as it was in the previous models, and a sheet of office or colored paper A4.

Put a sheet of paper horizontally;
Carefully fold it lengthwise;
Left corner of the rectangle fold down to flatten it with the bottom edge of the workpiece;
The upper corner of the triangle, obtained earlier, bend upward;
Do the same with the right corner of the workpiece;
Go over all the folds with a ruler or nail to make the lines were clearer;
Unfold the sheet;
Side triangles that form the fold lines, fold inward, so that the top was formed isosceles triangle;
Repeat the same steps for the other side of the sheet;
Fold the resulting "wings" so that the place of their connection was hidden under the central triangle;
Take the right triangle and fold inward a little more than half;
Second triangle bend, hiding his corner in the resulting "pocket";
Back of the craft bend at right angles.

The finished machine can be painted, decorated with inscriptions or applique. Level of bending of each of the parts of origami can be changed, it will change the final result of your work and creativity.

Piperkraft technique

Gaining popularity in Europe is a relatively new technology for creating machines from paper. She got the name "Papercraft. The essence of it is that the blank car is printed on a printer, bent at the joints of the parts and glued together.

At the top of the blank looks like the roof of the car, to the left of which is attached a sprawling hood, to the right - the trunk, and above and below - the side doors and wheels. There are special "offshoots" at the intended place of gluing.

In general, the assembly of model cars in this technique is very similar to how in the school before the sweep of the cube was collected volumetric figure. Architects work in a similar technique when creating a paper model of a future building. Apparently from there and came this way of modeling.

It is better to print blanks for such techniques on thicker paper. Then the car model is more stable.

Despite the simplicity of manufacture, cars in the technique of Papercraft look very realistic. On the Internet you can find many blanks for creating large and small cars, ships and trains.

Large-sized models

Using the above technique can be done not only desktop models, but also large-scale products for the playroom or kindergarten.

To do this, a simple drawing for Papercraft should be transferred to a scale of heavy cardboard, such as boxes for large household appliances. Next, the cardboard should be cut out and glued as if they were doing it with a paper blank. Ready-made car, ship or even a house should be painted with paint.

If you have free time and patience, paper and cardboard can be folded or glued even a tiny pocket car, even a life-sized car.