Origami "Leaping Frog". Technique of execution

The amazing art of turning ordinary paperin these masterpieces was born in the land of the "rising sun" and got the name origami. This wonderful kind of creative leisure miraculously brings together those engaged in the manufacture of handicrafts, compensates for the lack of attention to children, sometimes so suffering from its shortage from adults. There are many different schemes for performing certain crafts, animal figures, plants, various objects, and the origami "Leaping Frog" stands out among them. Children really like to make such crafts, only because they move, thus causing a lot of positive emotions. Studying with the kid, you involuntarily accustom him to assiduity, to finish the business to the end, besides, he develops his imagination, logic and fine motor skills of his fingers. Seeing the result of his work, the child experiences an indescribable delight. Here is one of the popular schemes.

However, before proceeding to manufacturecrafts, you must select the appropriate paper, because of its quality will depend on the jumping of the future figure. It is better to take thin paper so that the folds are not too thick, ideally a paper from a notebook will do. So:

Origami "Leaping Frog". Step-by-step manufacturing

• It is necessary to take a sheet of paper and bend it in the center.
• Mark the folds of the rectangle and carefully bend and smooth the corners at the top.
• Next, you need to bend the quarter in exactly the same way.
• The top of the rectangle is to raise and fold the paper on the sides.
• Next, you need to make corners - the future paws of a jumping frog. They just have to be bent upwards, the lower part to bend in half.
• Then bend the right and left parts to each other.
• It is necessary to bend and unbend the lower part so that the fold is clearly visible.
• Then carefully - the lower ends need to be unbent up and to the sides.
• It turns out a boat, the walls of which must be bent down in turn.
• Next it is necessary to dilute the petals to the sides and smooth it smoothly, which will ensure a high bouncing of the animal.
• Then it is necessary to bend the paws of the accordion with the base to get a "spring".
• The handicraft needs to be turned over.
• Origami "Jumping Frog" is ready! With pressure on the back of the cold-blooded animal makes its first leap in the paper life.

Among the great variety of schemes formanufacture of hand-made articles, exist, both complex and very simple. For example, even a three-year-old can do this work. The toy is put on the fingers, with its help it is possible to play the puppet theater sketches, which is very pleasant for young children. Origami for children - a frog - one of them. To produce it you will need:

• ½ thick green leaf (according to the size of the album for drawing);
• a small piece of red paper for the tongue.
• a little white and black paper for the eyes or markers for drawing eyes.

Manufacture:

1. Take the prepared green paper, put in front ofitself vertically. Divide the sheet by eye vertically along imaginary lines into three parts, bending them to yourself. It's okay if it does not work out exactly.
2. Then bend the resulting long rectangle in half from itself, so that the top is an uneven edge.
3. As a result, you should get a rectangle,It lies so that the fold line is at the top. Then the bottom edge is bent upward, the figure is turned over and the procedure is repeated, a kind of accordion is obtained.
4. It remains to paste the tongue, cut from the red paper, glue the cut circles of the eyes or draw them. Put the toy on your hand, your fingers fall into the pockets.

Modular origami "Frog", whose scheme is farnot so simple as the previous ones, is a more painstaking process that requires more than one evening to be realized, but the result is truly impressive. Such a product will long decorate the interior, and also suitable for participation in a school exhibition of handicrafts.

Depending on the format of the paperused in making crafts, origami "Jumping Frog" can turn out different (from a rectangular sheet of paper or square). Even if used for its coloring markers, which seem to "weight" its weight, the properties of the finished toy significantly change.

If for the first time for some reason an odd jobfailed - nothing terrible, as they say, the first pancake is lumpy - the next one will certainly get better than the first. So, go ahead - hone your skills!