How to make a paper helicopter with your own hands

You can diversify your leisure time and entertain your child at home, on the road, at a party, by building a helicopter model with your own hands. Using the kirigami technique to create flying models, a helicopter made of paper can be made in a few minutes, and it will certainly bring joy. What is kirigami? This is a kind of origami technique, allowing the use of cutting tools in work: scissors, knives, blades. How to make a paper helicopter with your own hands?

Preparing paper and scissors

For work it is necessary to prepare the following materials and tools in advance: a sheet of rectangular paper, a ruler and a pencil, scissors and a large paper clip. Density and quality of paper for the flying model of the helicopter is selected depending on the desired size of the helicopter. For a larger propeller, a denser material is required.

How to make a helicopter from paper. Step-by-step instruction

Step 1. From the sheet of paper you need to cut a strip of paper 3-4 centimeters wide.

Step 2. By folding, divide the strip in half. From the side of the free ends, we cut the strip in length approximately to the middle. From the incision it is necessary to retreat about five millimeters and draw a transverse line. From each edge of a strip of paper along this line we make centimeter cuts.
Step 3. Prepare the helicopter before the cuts on the left. Then the right will be the base of the flying toy, the left part becomes the blades. At the base of the model of the helicopter it is necessary to draw two horizontal lines, departing from the edges one centimeter, and fold the paper along these lines inward.

Step 4. To correctly locate the center of gravity of the helicopter and improve its flying properties, lower the bottom of the base bend upwards and fix the fold with a paper clip.

Step 5. Having bent the blades of the flying toy in opposite directions, we establish them perpendicular to the base.

The step-by-step instruction is so simple that even a child will understand how to make a helicopter out of paper. Having finished the work, we remove the workplace and start the tests of the aircraft. To do this, raise the helicopter up, release it, slightly pushing forward. If everything is done correctly, the helicopter, smoothly turning, will drop down. To create a simpler mini-helicopter model you will need a match. How to make a mini helicopter? We produce blades by applying the above-described method. Match the split to the middle, carefully insert the propeller blades into it, bend them into opposite sides. The helicopter is ready for testing.

Another way to make a paper flying helicopter

How to make a paper helicopter in another way, we will consider in the next instruction. It is necessary to cut a rectangle from the paper with sides 8 and 7 centimeters. Having retreated on each side of two centimeters, you need to cut the wings a half centimeter wide. The rectangle is glued in the form of a cylinder, and the wings are bent. To strengthen the center of gravity, a piece of plasticine is attached to the nose of the helicopter. After that, we can assume that another toy is ready.