DIY paper vase. How to make origami "paper vase"

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

Paper vase can be a decorative home decoration and an unusual souvenir gift. You can make it in a variety of ways from improvised materials, glue and origami. Let's start with simple but unusual paper crafts.

Lantern vase

For this product you need to take gift and office white paper, scissors, thick cardboard. Take cardboard and glue it into a tube. In principle, you can use two or three toilet paper rolls that need to be glued together.

Next, glue the roll with white office paper. This will be the base of the vase. You can take another color. It will depend on the gift paper. From two edges on the roll, mark 1.5 centimeters and draw a barely noticeable line with a pencil in a circle.

Next, cut the gift paper into 1.5 cm wide strips. Their length should be such that they wrap the vase 180 degrees and keep the shape of a flashlight. Instead of gift paper, you can use a decorative fabric that you need to stick on whatman paper and cut into strips.

Now glue the strip on both sides of the roll to the pencil line diagonally, that is, the second edge in comparison with the first should be 180 degrees. Glue the strips tightly to each otheralong the edges, and in the middle a wavy pattern is formed. It turns out the original elegant paper vase.

Book decorative vase

To make an unusual craft you will need:

• unnecessary books of the same size;
• cardboard;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• bottle;
• glue.

Measure the height of the glass bottle and measure on the cardboard. Draw a half vase or bottle template. It is with these blanks that the bottle will be glued. Now put the template on the book, press firmly and cut out the blanks with a cutter.

Try not to deform the fastening of the book. It is enough to cut two of them in the shape of a vase. Then, when folding the covers to each other, a convex shape of the vase is formed. Cover the glass bottle with these blanks and glue them to each other. It turns out an unusual newspaper vase made of paper for flowers.

For this craft, it is important to take a bottle even, without bends. Depending on the template, you can create different shapes of vases, bottles, flowerpots. The more books you use, the denser the shape of the product. Otherwise, the pages will bulge and the integrity of the product will be broken.

Colorful paper vase

Another option for beginners is to make an original craft using the quilling technique. To do this, take colorful magazines, paper, scissors and glue. Cut the leaves into thin strips. Their width determines the density of the product.

To make the vase dense,it is better to make it from tight rolls. To do this, wind the strip on a pencil and glue the edge. If there is no special tool for winding paper, then make an incision in the toothpick and insert a strip into it.

Rolls need to be made a lot, different sizes. Next, carefully glue the rolls together in the shape of a vase. Glue each new row only after the previous one has dried. You can glue the finished bottle with paper blanks, then you can put flowers in it.

Decorative vases can be made from other figurines. To do this, make a free roll, then glue the end of the paper and create the shape of a leaf, square, eye. But such products will be fragile. A paper vase will be multi-colored if the rolls are made from strips of different colors.

How to make an origami vase? Preparatory stage

Cut from 18 A4 sheets 560 white, from 6 sheets - 192 red and from 2 sheets - 36 yellow rectangles. The standard sizes of rectangles are 5, 3x7, 4 cm or 3, 7x5, 3 cm. Next, make modules:

• take a rectangle and fold it in half so that the edges meet lengthwise;
• bend and straighten the strip along this line several times;
• next, put the resulting narrow rectangle with the folded side up and fold it in half, closing the sides in width;
• also bend and unfold the rectangle several times along this line to outline a stable fold line;
• unfold a narrow rectangle and bend the corners like an airplane (note that the resulting shapehouse: a triangle on top and rectangles on the bottom);
• turn the figure so that the face is a solid triangle and bend the rectangles up;
• next, for the rectangles, bend the corners along the line of the figure and tuck them inward (that is, the corners should not wrap the module, they bend inward);
• now bend the resulting triangle in half.

It turned out to be a kind of triangle with pockets where other modules will be inserted.

Paper Origami: Vase Patterns

Modular origami is a kind of paper constructor. Arrange the modules in a checkerboard pattern, then connect two rows of 16 pieces and close in a ring. Make another row in a checkerboard pattern and turn the workpiece inside out. It turns out that the middle fits snugly against the table, and the ends of the modules rise up.

This is the base of the vase. In this position, add a row of white modules. Next row - start adding red triangles.

• 5 row: alternate to the end of 3 white (B) and 1 red (R) pieces.
• 6r: 2B, 2R.
• 7p: 1B, 3K.
• 8 full row of red triangles, add 4 pieces evenly.
• 9r: 1 yellow (W), 4K (yellow triangles are located under the red modules of the fifth row).
• 10o: 2F, 3R.
• 11r: 3F, 2K.
• 12r: 2F, 3R.
• 13r: 1F, 4R. Please note: original patterns similar to rhombuses are obtained from yellow.
• 14r: will be all red modules and add 4 more triangles evenly. That is, the total will be 24.

The final stage of the origami vase

Next is the alternation of red and white modules according to the scheme. Note that the whites are placed exactly above the white triangles from the 7th row:

• 15 row: 1B, 5K.
• 16p: 2B, 4K.
• 17p: 4B, 3K. Add evenly 4 pieces of white.
• 18p: 5B, 2K.
• 19r: 6B, 1C.
• 20 a row of all white triangles, add 4 more pieces (for a total of 32 pieces).
• 21r: 32B.

Vase of paper flowers is almost ready. It remains to make decorative edges. To do this, insert 4 white modules into each other. There are 16 such racks to make. The same number of arches needs to be made from 13 triangles and legs.

Now you make legs for the vase from the racks and insert them through one module to the bottom of the vase. From above, also through the module, install the racks on which you install the arches. The origami paper vase is ready! You can put paper or dry flowers in it.