A variety of crafts made of paper will always be popular and in demand, because their production does not require special material costs, and the process itself brings a lot of fun to adults and children. And do you remember how in school days in just five minutes it was possible to fold a cracker from paper (a notebook or album sheet), and then quietly approach the classmate and scare him with the sharp sound that she made? Of course, entertainment is, from the point of view of adults, rather doubtful, but as an exciting pastime at the breaks is quite appropriate. Have forgotten how to make a cracker with your own hands? We will help you remember! So, we make a cracker made of paper.
All we need is a regular sheet of A4 office paper. Schoolboys for these purposes most often use ordinary tetrad sheets. But we recommend using more dense paper. The fact is that from sharp movements (and the "clapper" works in this way) the notebook will quickly become unusable. In addition, teachers may not like the fact that the notebooks regularly disappear leaves.
- First, put a piece of paper on a flat horizontal surface, then bend it in half. After smoothing the fold line, unfold it, and bend all the corners triangles to the center so that you get a hexagon of irregular shape.
- The resulting detail is bent in half along the fold line. All angles must be inside the paper trapezoid. And again bend the workpiece in half, but already across. With your finger, iron the fold line to make it clear.
- Next, you need to bend the left and right corners to the center line of the fold, fix it, and then unbend it again. As a result, you will get a trapezoid, from the center of the bottom of which there are three straight lines to the sides. Then fold the part along the fold lines.
Now you know how to make a paper cracker, but what should I do to make it clap? First, grab a piece of paper from your fingers with your fingers for the loose ends of a triangular shape. In this case, the inside of the cracker must be pushed forward. Then sharply lower your hand down. The paper pocket under the effect of the pressure of the air will open, and others will hear a loud clap.
Double cracker
The volume of sound produced by a regular paper cracker seems to be inadequate? Try to make of paper a double cracker, such hand-crafted thing produces a sound that can scare anyone! As in the first master class, you only need one paper sheet. So, let's get started!
- Place a sheet of office paper on the table, bend all four corners to the center.
- Bend the resulting paper blank in half, straighten it, and then fold it in half again. You should have a pentagon with two straight, two blunt and one sharp corners.
- Now you have to put in the details the "wings", which turned out on the sides of the paper blank.
- In the end result you will get such a double clapper. And you already know how to use it.
If you are making a cracker for a child, do not forget to explain the rules for using it. First, such entertainment is not appropriate where there are adults. Secondly, you can not clap this paper toy near the ear, because the sound is loud enough, and for the health of the ears it is, to put it mildly, not useful. If you are sure that the cracker will not do any harm to anyone, feel free to start making it.
