Volumetric crafts from paper with their own hands - interesting master classes for children and adults

The main features of working with paper material

Paper of any density and color is actively used in the creative process providing the creation of handicrafts of different design and purpose. With their own hands you can make simple items and decorative decorations for the house, figurines of animals and birds, unusual three-dimensional installation and wonderful pictures.

Work with this material can even children who are sure to enjoy participating in an interesting creative process. Paper can be glued and stapled, folded and formed from its individual elements of future crafts, and its main feature remains cheap and affordable.

Using different techniques to create three-dimensional objects

Choosing an interesting idea, for its implementation it is easy to use old newspapers or magazines, flyers and even packaging materials, using different techniques:

• Origami allows you to create three-dimensional paper handicrafts without gluing, the products have a simple form and for their production should clearly reproduce the stages of bending blanks and collecting the finished product;
• papier-mâché refers to more complex techniques, the creative process involves pasting the basis of small pieces of paper, the finished product requires additional coloring and decoration;
• Quilling, to create a handicraft using thin and long paper strips, twisted to a specific pattern, they help to make openwork and the most aesthetic products;
• Applique, this technique is suitable not only for babies and preschool children, thanks to its use you can create unique decorative items, distinguished by their layering and interesting design.

The use of colored paper for needlework will help to create a masterpiece of design art, which will decorate the house or take a prize-winning place at an exhibition.

Choosing ideas and options for making paper crafts

Volumetric paper crafts do not take much time in the making, and are great for making themed decor for a holiday or celebratory event. To make a three-dimensional handicraft you can use different materials, it can be corrugated or office paper, sets of colored sheets. The main task of the home master is the right idea, for the embodiment of which he chooses the material and technique of its processing.

Colored paper for crafts

The simplest appliqué will play with new colors if you choose an interesting design for the future product and take into account its intended purpose:

• Decorating gift wrapping and using several layers of paper for colored applique;
• children's crafts and homemade cards with three-dimensional figures of Christmas trees, snowflakes or balloons;
• creation in the technique of application of three-dimensional figures on any basis (the sun with rays, a hedgehog with needles, the sea with waves).

Pliable paper material is well used and combined, in one craft can be used a simple and corrugated or foiled paper.

Newspapers and newspaper tubes

You can replace cardboard in the crafts with newspaper tubes, which are used to create practical and useful homemade

• coasters for hot food, with the possibility of creating complete sets, they can decorate the kitchen and even present as an original gift;
• Candy and bread boxes, to create such crafts will require a certain scheme of assembly, then the design of the product will be consistent with a certain style;
• Laundry boxes and additions to any storage system, the boxes can be further decorated with ribbons and lined with fabric.

Interesting and simple design of the crafts will help to create a beautiful interior, save your own budget and recycle unwanted newspapers or magazines.

Original holiday decor

Decorate the home interior by using interesting ideas for creating paper, volumetric crafts with different designs:

• large and small balls of tissue paper or corrugated paper and colored napkins;
• wall and ceiling garlands with repeating elements and thematic decoration;
• compositions from paper flowers, exclusive topiaries with additional decorations.

Wall decorations in the form of a swarm of flying butterflies or a flock of soaring birds, clouds in the air or an installation of the starry sky on the ceiling look great.

Three-dimensional picture of paper balls with their own hands

To decorate the interior and accentuate the interior composition with a bright element, you can make an unusual 3D picture of paper elements.

A detailed master class and step-by-step instructions will help you quickly orient yourself in the process of making the decor, for which you will need corrugated paper, glue and a cardboard base:

1. the choice of subject for the picture, a novice master is better to stop at a simple sketch with a minimum of small details, geometric shapes;
2. the sketch is transferred to the cardboard base, it is possible to mark individual parts in advance with colors or numbers of shades for easy filling;
3. Corrugated paper of appropriate colors is cut into small squares with sides of 5-7 cm, they are carefully rolled into tight balls;
4. To simplify the work, you can put paper balls of certain colors and shades into different containers, which will simplify the process of assembling the finished picture;
5. a thin layer of PVA glue is applied to a certain element of the sketch blank (glue-pencil can be used) and its area is filled with balloons;
6. without waiting for it to dry, all the elements of the future installation are filled with colored balls of corrugated paper, and then the picture is left to dry.

The end result will be a great decoration for a nursery or a living room, especially if you place it in a beautiful frame. To increase the durability of the handicraft and ease of care you can use acrylic varnish, it is best to varnish the product using a spray can.

Looking at the inspiring photos it is easy to find an idea for making a three-dimensional handicraft, which is very easy to make at home. Decorative installations and three-dimensional 3D shapes are suitable for decorating the house and garden, preparing for any holiday or themed party.

Easy to process and inexpensive material can be used for crafts with children, and such homemade products are sure to stand out with their design among other works at the exhibition at school or in the garden.

Photo ideas for bulk paper crafts