Perhaps there is no more popular material for crafts than paper. A variety of types and colors of paper, as well as an extensive assortment of textures and various types of its density allow you to embody original ideas and create memorable origami.
The distinctive advantages of creativity with the use of paper products is its low cost, a wide selection of materials, and ease of execution. Unlike leather, plastic, metal, even a preschooler can cope with paper during the creation of crafts. Of course, under the supervision of elders.
Many adults, especially those who have not yet had time to start a family, tend to consider paper crafts as the lot of kindergarten workers. But children's applications and postcards are only the initial stage in the creative variety of ideas that can be embodied with paper, scissors, glue and boundless imagination.
Today, quite a lot of directions in working with paper are mastered by mature adults. Some use paperwork as a favorite hobby and a way to escape from urgent worries, others turn their favorite activity into a professional and profitable activity, creating new directions in the development of paper craft art.
In the world there is an extensive selection of varieties of techniques for working with this material. The possibilities of using paper in needlework are truly endless. Origami and quilling, decoupage and kusudama, papier-mâché and applications are all just the tip of the iceberg, because each creatively oriented person is able to create a new direction sooner or later and come up with fundamentally new ways to make paper crafts.
We suggest starting the process with the development of the simplest and most understandable ideas for each child. Together with mom, kids can create a birthday card for their beloved dad, grandmother, friend for their birthday, come up with a themed applique or make a bouquet of flowers from colorful napkins.
For more advanced users, we suggest decorating the New Year’s interior with paper toys and LED elements, creating a masterpiece of decoupage equipment, transforming an old casket or glass bottle.
If you think that paper creation will require considerable financial expenses, our resource will easily convince you of the opposite. Beautiful and useful products from toilet paper, cardboard boxes, magazines and newspapers allow you to show creativity and decorate your home with the help of improvised tools and unnecessary paper products. The most important thing for success is to find some time, show your imagination and be patient.
