How to make a rocket from a cardboard?

Boys-fidgets long sit-rounds for creative pursuits prefer noisy outdoor games. But on a rainy cloudy day or on a winter evening there is still one sure way to entice them for a long time, offering to make a cardboard rocket. After all, a toy made by own hands is always more appreciated by a child, especially if it is an article on the theme "Space . " In addition, an exciting lesson will help to develop not only small motor skills and fantasy, but also teach you how to bring the matter to the end, following clear instructions. To make classes more fun, you can tell your child about the space and cosmonauts. In addition, the story of what an astronaut can see in space during the flight will be useful.

How to make a rocket with a preschool child?

It is very simple to make a rocket from a tube that remains after the used food film. For the manufacture of crafts, we need color paper, scissors and glue.

  1. From the colored paper of the color you like, we cut out a quarter of a circle.
  2. Preliminarily trying the workpiece on the tube, glue a quarter of the circle cylinder.
  3. We make small incisions along the edge of the cylinder and stick it on the deckhouse.
  4. We measure the length of the tube, cut out a suitable rectangle of colored paper and paste it on the tube.
  5. Cut out the trapezium and glue them together, leaving room for the wings to be glued to the rocket.
  6. We glue the wings of the wings to the bottom of the rocket.
  7. The handicraft is ready!

How to make a rocket from cardboard in origami technique?

From a thin double-sided cardboard it is possible to make a very simple, but at the same time an original hand-made article with a child of 3-4 years.

  1. From the colored paper, cut out the square, which we fold first in half, then unfold and add each side of the square to the middle. Then the workpiece is folded diagonally and unfolded.
  2. The upper corners of the workpiece are "pulled" to the center.
  3. Stepping away from the center of the workpiece a couple of centimeters, bend the right side of the rocket to the middle, and then turn it out.
  4. The same thing we do with the left side of the workpiece and turn the already almost ready rocket.
  5. You can decorate the missile with an appliqué: glue to it the portholes, the flame and the cute astronaut. The handicraft is ready!

How to make a rocket from corrugated cardboard?

Crafts from gofkartona always look more interesting and unusual. Suggest your little one to make a children's voluminous craft of a rocket to go to the moon. Undoubtedly, the kid will gladly join the game and surprise you with his zeal.

  1. Take the sheets of corrugated cardboard and cut it into strips with a width of 15-20 mm.
  2. We proceed to manufacture the hull of the rocket. For this, we roll rolls of 10 strips, gluing each new strip with glue.
  3. We give the rolls the shape of the cone, pushing its middle into the inside.
  4. From two bands 4 cm wide we twist a circle whose diameter is equal to the diameter of the cone.
  5. From strips of width 15 mm we twist the turbines of the rocket. Each roll consists of 5 bands, glued together. We need only 6 pieces of blanks: 3 white and 3 orange.
  6. Of the three blanks of white color, we form cones.
  7. We collect the missile's body: we glue the parts, closing the junction points with a strip of white color.
  8. To the body we glue the portholes. After turbines of white color are glued to turbines of orange color, we attach them to the body. The missile is ready for launch!

Rockets from cardboard can be played for a long time: they do not deform and do not break. Even if the craft is in the form of a cardboard rocket and will bother the child in a couple of weeks, it can take a place of honor on the shelf or desk.

Continue the "space" theme, you can make with your own hands a rocket made of paper or by performing an application on the theme "Rocket" , which will master even the smallest "cosmonaut"