How to make a cone of paper

For certain, nobody knows who first thought up how to make a cone of paper. But the fact that it was a real discovery was a fact! It seems to be such a simple matter: just take the upper right corner of the rectangular sheet with the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, make a corner on top of it and wrap it with the other hand, grabbing the left upper corner of the sheet. The point obtained as a result of this action is rolled several times, fixing the "bag".

All this takes even less than a minute! But how widespread is the use of a paper cone in everyday life! First, paper bags are an indispensable way of packing small products: seeds, seeds, sweets, nuts. And before the time when the plastic bag was invented, in the stores all the products that were sold by weight were packed exclusively in such bags as sugar and peas and pasta and cereals. Only the sizes of these packages were varied.

In the last century, someone who did not know how to make a cone of paper would have looked, at least with surprise, if not more. Housewives using a paper bag with a cut in the most bizarre manner, the point used to decorate culinary products. The cream was laid in a cone prepared from a waxed paper and by extruding it, "drew" patterns on cakes and pastries, and sauces - on dishes with cold appetizers.

And who does not know how to make a filter for liquid using a cone of toilet paper or blotting paper ? Or an elementary one-time funnel made of plain paper? By the way, gardeners and gardeners use the method of a miniature "funnel" to plant small seeds in the garden so that the crops are more even and not heavily soiled.

At the facultative courses in physics, children were shown how to warm the water in a paper cone. After all, it can happen that suddenly there will be someone unexpectedly in a place torn from civilization! And from things he has only one lighter and a piece of paper. And if this one of the physics lessons knows that the heat conductivity of the paper is great and therefore, until the water in the bag boils, the newspaper does not get flamed even in the surprising case, when the tongues of fire will lick it from all sides. That's great, is not it? But you can use this discovery only if a lost person knows how to make a cone of paper.

A primitive pie or a so-called paper cone can turn into a disposable one-way wash basin. Just roll the sheet, fix it so that it does not turn around, you make a small hole - you can even not at the very tip, but on the side, hang it on a branch and pour water into it. Under a thin trickle, you can easily put yourself in order.

Of course, if there is a reservoir nearby, an adult person can wash right there. But in cases when it is difficult to get close to the water, for example, the place is rather marshy, or there is a young child in the group, then the skill of how to make a cone of paper that easily turns into a washbasin can all help out.

And what else can you do in a minute with a paper sheet and the ability to turn it into a bag? Please: a disposable cup - once, a shout - two, a lamp shade - three, a primitive sound amplifier, that is, a "hearing aid" - four. And if the time is not very tight and you just want to fantasize, then using a paper cone in decorating the room, festive decoration of the table and making details of fancy dresses is presented in the widest possible way.

Indeed, the clown hood is nothing but a fancifully decorated cone of a certain diameter of the entrance. And Buratino's nose is a thin and long paper cone on an elastic band. True, for convenience, the cone for the cap or nose is not made from a rectangular sheet, but from a part of the yum-a-round circle. For the hood you need a circle with a segment cut from it, and for the nose, on the contrary, a small segment of the circle.

But the masterpiece of the creative use of a paper cone is the corrugated collar of a prince or Pierrot, assembled from a set of elongated cones of fine wrapping paper. These snow-white or tender pastel tones with a bell with a diameter of 3 cm or less are threaded onto a thread stretched across the section at the thin end of the cone. The resulting "beads" wrap around the gate in several layers and are thus secured. It is possible to impose fabric circles on the top and bottom of this corrugated collar - so it looks richer and more natural. The more the cones and the thinner their bell - the finer this detail looks for the fancy dress.

So, we draw a conclusion: if you know how to make a cone, then in a difficult situation you will not disappear, or you will not stay on a masquerade without the most original costume. By the way, the opening of the cone is widely used by inventors in many subjects that surround us: flashlights and headlights, heat reflectors, megaphones and horns, various sockets for filling. Yes, just look around the interested, captious look!