"Eternal Fire" of paper with their own hands how to do?

Prepare with the child for the Victory Day? Do you need to make a "perpetual fire" of paper yourself in a kindergarten or school? Read how you can perform a beautiful craft. Choose a suitable option, simpler or more complex. Together with an adult, every idea is realized quickly. Absolutely accessible devices are used.

Variants and techniques for creating

You can make "eternal fire" from paper with your own hands in the following versions:

• In the form of an application for a postcard, a wall panel.
• Make a volumetric composition of flat parts.
• Apply methods of paper-plastic and create a three-dimensional layout of the monument.
• To execute a souvenir in the technique of modular origami.
• Collect the composition from the details, twisted by the technology of quilling.

The first variants from the list are the simplest. Even pupils of a kindergarten will cope with them. For older children, more complex ways will work, especially if adults organize a joint creative process.

Materials and Tools

To create an Eternal Fire from paper with your own hands, you will need the following:

• Thick paper or cardboard of white, silvery or golden hue for a pedestal and a star.
• Thin sheets of yellow, orange, red colors to perform fire. It is good to use translucent crepe or tissue paper.
• Material for the substrate (a postcard, a panel or a stand for a volumetric composition).
• Pencil.
• Eraser.
• Ruler.
• Compass.
• Scissors.
• Glue.

From the list listed it is easy to perform a simple, but beautiful "eternal fire" of paper with your own hands. How to do it in every way, in detail you will learn further. It is worth noting, if you want to work in the quilling technique, you will additionally need to cut the paper into narrow strips. It is better to perform a special cutter with markings, and you also have to prepare a torsion tool, for example, a toothpick, a spoke, a rod from a ballpoint pen or something like that. Otherwise, there will be no problems.

"Eternal Fire" from paper by own hands: how to make an application

This is the easiest way to work. It's so easy to make a postcard or a wall panel. The sequence of work is as follows:

1. Cut out pieces of paper from different colors for the flame, pedestal and other elements, for example, carnations or numbers. You can draw the templates yourself or print them.
2. Prepare the foundation. If necessary, paint the background.
3. Glue all the parts together. You can make some elements more prominent. It is easy to realize by curling the shape of flame and carnations from tissue paper.
4. If necessary, you can add additional decor (to finish the elements of the salute, glue the ribbon of St. George, etc.).

The handicraft is ready.

"Eternal Fire" of paper with their own hands: a master class (three-dimensional version)

This way a small sculpture-mock-up of the monument is performed. Work as follows:

1. Build on the back of the sheet prepared for the base of the burner, templates of several blanks in the form of five-pointed stars of different sizes. This is done by dividing the circle with a compass.
2. Cut out the templates.
3. Stick them on the base (stand) on the layers from the largest to the smallest. Three elements will suffice.
4. Cut out flat flame blanks from plain or crepe paper.
5. Glue the paper tongues to the center of the top star. Crepe paper can be slightly stretched, giving the workpieces in this way a more realistic look.
6. If desired, decorate the product in addition with flowers from paper, St. George ribbon and dates.

Work is done.

How to create a three-dimensional star

Another way is easy to make even more effective and realistic "eternal fire" of paper with your own hands. Templates for the star can be downloaded ready-made or built independently.

Method one:

1. Draw on a thick cardboard a triangle measuring 16x12x7.5cm or other, more suitable for you. Cut out the workpiece.
2. According to the prepared template circle 10 identical parts with allowances of 0.5 - 1 cm.
3. Cut out all the elements.
4. Begin to connect pairs of blanks in the form of rays, gluing seams inside.
5. When five parts are ready, connect them together.
6. Circle the resulting star at the base along the contour, providing allowances, cut it out and glue it as a bottom to the volumetric detail.

Method two:

1. Print a five-pointed star pattern or build it with a compass.
2. Construct all future fold lines along the ruler (if they are not on the template). Add allowances for gluing each beam.
3. Cut out the workpiece.
4. Swipe across all fold lines with a non-writing ballpoint pen, a spoke or something similar. Execute the folds. Conducted lines allow absolutely even folding even tight cardboard. The details turn out neat without a hint.
5. Glue the elements according to the allowances.
6. You can make the bottom, as in the previous method, or in advance provide for allowances going along the second side of each beam, to which you will glue the star to the base.

Quilling

This technique allows you to make an original artifact "eternal fire" of paper with your own hands. For children, this method is not only very entertaining, but also useful, since paper scoring perfectly develops fine motor skills. In this way, you can make both a flat decoration for the wall or elements for decorating a postcard, or a volumetric composition. The work proceeds in the following order:

1. Prepare strips of decorative paper with a width of no more than 5 mm for details of a flame of yellow, orange, red and silver, gray or gold for a star.
2. Screw the strips on a toothpick or a special quilling tool, and then create a suitable configuration by removing the part from the stick and twisting it a little and bending it, if necessary. For fire, blanks of a teardrop shape are best suited, and the star can be laid out and dense not untwisted circles. Do not forget to fix the elements with glue.
3. Collect the composition from the created blanks, gluing together the elements. You can do this using a pre-drawn contour pattern in the form of a star and flame tongues.

Origami

This technique also allows you to make a beautiful "eternal flame" of paper with your own hands. The photo above clearly demonstrates this. It uses modular origami. To do this, you will first need to make many modules of different colors, and then form a star and fire design from them, starting from the center of the lower layer to the edges of the star and upwards, creating a flame shape. Variants can be different.

So, you saw how to make an "eternal fire" of paper with your own hands. Perform any of the presented options can be at home or in an organized group. Choose an idea appropriate to the age opportunities of children. Create memorable cards, sculptures, panels as thematic decorations for cabinets, as well as gifts for veterans.