Kusudama
The kids and I finally decided to make kusudama, a Japanese ball of paper flowers. In ancient times, the Japanese made and hung such balls over the bed of a sick person to speed up his recovery. A collection of medicinal herbs was necessarily placed in the middle of the ball.
Kusudama has been our long-time dream, but since its technology is quite complex for children, we constantly put off making it.
Finally, due to the fact that it was necessary to make a craft for a children's exhibition, we decided to do it, and this is what came out of it.
To begin with, we took a set of colored printer paper in A4 format. Several sheets were cut into even squares with a side of 9 cm. There were 6 pieces from each sheet. Just the number of petals for one flower. Then each square began to be folded and bent in this sequence.
Fold the square in half to form a triangle.
Bend the corners of the resulting triangle towards the middle. You will get a rhombus.
We bend the left corner and, slightly expanding from the inside, combine its middle with the outer edge of the triangle. We do the same with the right side.
We bend the resulting upper corners forward.
We combine the extreme edges of the small triangles and bend them.
To give the resulting petal the desired look, roll it into a cone and glue the inner parts together. It turns out that there are already stamens inside the petal. For each flower we made six such petals and glued them together.
To get the ball, we made 12 flowers of different colors and also glued them together. We completed this job in the evening. Despite the fact that the kusudama was made by kindergarteners, it turned out excellent, apparently due to the fact that all the flaws “went” into the middle and were completely invisible.
Now our plans for the future are to try to make a more complex kusudama.
Kusudama has been our long-time dream, but since its technology is quite complex for children, we constantly put off making it.
Finally, due to the fact that it was necessary to make a craft for a children's exhibition, we decided to do it, and this is what came out of it.
To begin with, we took a set of colored printer paper in A4 format. Several sheets were cut into even squares with a side of 9 cm. There were 6 pieces from each sheet. Just the number of petals for one flower. Then each square began to be folded and bent in this sequence.
Fold the square in half to form a triangle.
Bend the corners of the resulting triangle towards the middle. You will get a rhombus.
We bend the left corner and, slightly expanding from the inside, combine its middle with the outer edge of the triangle. We do the same with the right side.
We bend the resulting upper corners forward.
We combine the extreme edges of the small triangles and bend them.
To give the resulting petal the desired look, roll it into a cone and glue the inner parts together. It turns out that there are already stamens inside the petal. For each flower we made six such petals and glued them together.
To get the ball, we made 12 flowers of different colors and also glued them together. We completed this job in the evening. Despite the fact that the kusudama was made by kindergarteners, it turned out excellent, apparently due to the fact that all the flaws “went” into the middle and were completely invisible.
Now our plans for the future are to try to make a more complex kusudama.
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