Safe toys for your son learn to make by yourself. How to make a knife from paper?

Each boy in a box with toys has such attributes as plastic pistols, swords, knives. And very often manipulation with such dummies of weapons is an excuse for parents to worry, because a child can injure himself or harm other family members and pets. But how can a future man be forbidden to have toy guns in his arsenal? Of course not. And for such entertainment to be safe for the health of all household members, we suggest that you learn how to make hand-made game attributes from handy materials.

Learning to make toy cold weapons from paper

In this article you will find information on how to make a knife from paper. Readers are presented two ways to perform this accessory.

The first model is made by the origami method. The paper knife as described in the following description is simple and quick. The child can also master this method of making toy weapons. The second version of the knife is performed using the papier-mache method, which will also be in the hands of children. So, before you are master classes.

How to make a knife from paper using the origami method?

To work you will need A-4 paper , scissors and a stapler.

1. Put a sheet of paper in front of you. Bend one corner to the opposite side so that a triangle is formed. The band of paper remaining on the side, cut off.
2. Triangle unfold, before you now a square.
3. We form the knife blade in the following way. The square part is folded in half. Then the resulting rectangle is bent once again twice as long. It turns out a band. It can be left so, then the blade of the knife will be wide. But the detail will be much more dense, if this piece is folded once more in length.
4. Cut one edge of the strip obliquely, forming the tip of a paper knife. If desired, you can make incisions in the form of teeth along the bottom edge. Secure this workpiece with a stapler.
5. How to make a knife from paper, or rather, its handle? We will do it from a rectangle cut off at the stage of forming a triangular part. Fold this strip in half in width 2 times. You should get the workpiece wider than the blade of the knife.
6. Put the first part of the toy on the second blunt end, slightly overstepping it. Wrap the paper handle on top of the blade and secure with a stapler. The toy knife is ready.

When making this model, you can use an adhesive tape instead of a stapler. To give the crafts of hardness, you can insert a wooden stick from the ice cream into the blade part.

Toy weapons made from papier-mache

Want to know how to make a knife out of paper in this way? Then study the description. We prepare for work such materials:

• Wooden blank of the corresponding form;
• Newspapers;
• A bowl of water;
• PVA glue;
• sandpaper;
• paints;
• acrylic lacquer.

A blank in the form of a knife or a plastic toy is pasted over with wet pieces of newspaper in one layer. Next, dilute the glue with water - and the paper for the next three tiers, treat this solution. And stick the last layer of clean PVA. Leave the artifact until it dries completely. Then gently cut it, take out the mold, and glue the two paper pieces together. When the product is completely dry, sand it with sandpaper and paint. And the last stage of the work is the processing of the craft by varnish.

You learned two ways of making a knife out of paper. We hope that they will be useful to you - and very soon your son will play the original, and most importantly, safe toy.