The swan is a bird of love and fidelity, creativity and wisdom, nobility and purity. You can meet a similar image literally everywhere: among toys, souvenirs, postcards or packaging. And you can also make a paper swan with your own hands, putting a piece of your own soul into it! And at the same time - to distract from everyday problems, to occupy the child or just to while away the time. Let's tell!
1. Swan from paper palms for children
A very touching and cute family swan will turn out if you make the wings with an applique made of paper palms. To do this, have everyone involved in the process circle their hands on a piece of paper. Make a large, dense blank for the body and paste over it with these palms instead of feathers, spreading on the wings layer by layer.
2. Swan made of paper hearts
From small paper hearts, you can make the plumage of another romantic swan. It will be a wonderful decoration for a valentine or holiday card. And also - it will greatly delight young children, because making blanks is as easy as shelling pears!
3. Origami swan for beginners
You can make the simplest origami swan in just two minutes, and even beginners can do it. Unfold the square to you with an angle, tuck the top and bottom to the center. Fold back the corners, fold the piece in half, raise your neck and finally form a head with a tail with a ladder.
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4. Swan with voluminous paper wings
For such a swan, you will need a blue base sheet, white paper and various little things for decoration. First, cut out and glue the silhouette of a swan to the base - it may not even be too even, because it will still hide under the plumage. Cut the white paper into strips about a centimeter thick, roll them into loops and gradually glue them to the body of the swan in layers.
5. Swan with fishnet wings
If you have a lot of time and patience, and you also like delicate painstaking work, cut real feathers out of paper. It takes much longer to make such a swan, but it turns out to be really unusual and original. Experiment with shapes and colors and make real fantasy birds.
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6. Origami paper swan
This scheme at first looks like a simple swan, but then the nuances begin. After tucking the corners to the center, mark the diagonals of the side rhombus. Turn the corners up with triangles, lay the side part to the side and cover with these triangles.
For a multi-layered multi-sided rhombus, fold the sides to the middle again and turn over the halves, as in the diagram. Bend back half of the body, lift the swan's neck and form a head with a beak on it. Raise the wings and shape them with a ladder at an angle, mark the tail and gently spread the bird.
7. Volumetric swan made of A4 paper
To make a volumetric swan out of paper, first prepare a thick cardboard stencil and transfer the silhouette to a regular A4 sheet. Cut the wings in steps of about a centimeter, without cutting a few centimeters to the edge. After that, wrap the workpiece, roll it up like a cylinder and carefully glue the edge. You can make many colorful swans and play whole fairy tales with them.
8. Multi-layer stenciled swan
To make a beautiful and voluminous swan in 3D, you need thick paper that can stand and not bend. First, make a stencil and use it to draw each detail in 3-4 copies, gradually reducing them. Fold all the elements like a jigsaw puzzle, and carefully glue or secure with a paper clip.
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9. Modular paper swan
This is the most difficult way to make a volumetric paper swan, but at the same time it is the most interesting and beautiful. First, find a cute model or roughly draw on paper the outlines you want to see.Collect dozens of identical triangular modules according to the scheme and connect them together like a constructor.
