How to make a helmet out of paper? Various manufacturing options

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

Jousting tournaments have not been held for several centuries, but every boy is a knight at heart. Children also like to play heroes and samurai. All these heroes of ancient times wore certain clothes and were endowed with armor and ammunition. Their heads were covered with special helmets. Modern boys can feel like the same heroes very easily. To do this, you just need to make a hero’s helmet out of paper and put it on.

Option 1: paper

For work you need to take:

• measuring tape;
• simple pencil;
• cardboard;
• scissors;
• stationery glue;
• any paint.

Getting Started

How to make a helmet out of paper? The process should begin by measuring the circumference of the child's head. To do this is quite simple. You need to wrap the boy's head with a centimeter tape, fix it with your fingers andnote the resulting number. Now you can cut out the rectangle. Its length should be equal to the circumference of the head plus ten centimeters, and the width will depend on the height of the helmet (but not less than thirty centimeters). Then mark its center on the rectangle with a pencil and draw a visor in the form of an inverted letter “P”. Its size will depend on the width of the boy's face. Cut out the visor and fold it back.

Helmet shell

Next, fold the rectangle into a cylinder and glue its sides. If you did everything right, the visor will be in the center. Take a pencil and draw a circle on the cardboard along the diameter of the cylinder. Draw small rectangles. These will be the ears. Then make a hole in the center of the circle. Apply the right amount of glue to the rectangle ears and glue them to the sides. Paint the helmet with some kind of paint designed for paper or an aerosol can. In conclusion, it remains only to decorate it with a goose feather or artificial. In such a helmet, any boy will feel like a true knight.

Option 2: papier-mâché

If you have a little more time for needlework, you can try making a hat out of papier-mâché. Don't know how to do? A paper helmet is easy!

Materials needed for work:

• plasticine;
• plain paper;
• water;
• PVA glue;
• sandpaper;
• spray paint.

First from plasticinefashion the blank, the shape of which appeals to you the most. Then prepare paper and cold water. The first two layers can be pasted over with ordinary napkins, the fourth - with newspapers, the next - with PVA glue. It is necessary to coat the paper well and let each of the layers dry. They usually do that. Lubricate a couple of layers with glue and leave for twelve hours. Only with this approach, the finished helmet will have sufficient rigidity and will last a long time, and will not break on the first day.

To get a voluminous helmet made of paper, you need to glue no more than ten layers, carefully cut, remove the plasticine and continue gluing, carefully masking the traces of the cuts.

So, now you can start painting it. But first you need to thoroughly clean the helmet from the inside with sandpaper. This is done to ensure that the child is comfortable in the future to be in this helmet. It is very convenient and quick to paint such products with automotive paint from spray cans. You were interested in the question of how to make a helmet out of paper with your own hands. Now you know the answer to it.

Option 3: using Pepakura Designer

Perhaps the most realistic and impressive helmet will come out if you make it using the famous Pepakura Designer computer program. How to do? A helmet made of paper, or rather its model, we will print on a printer. First download the program and install it. Then print any helmet you like (there are a lot of them) on thick paper.

Prepare:

• thick paper or cardboard;
• PVA glue;
• epoxy;
• scissors or knife;
• adhesive tape;
• paper clips;
• fiberglass;
• spray paint in cans;
• magnets;
• LED lights;
• batteries;
• wires;
• switch;
• a bit of transparent plastic.

How to make a helmet out of paper: step by step instructions

1. To make the necessary changes to the drawings, you need to measure the boy's head, and then reprint the model.
2. Then cut out all the details with sharp scissors or a utility knife.
3. Prepare PVA glue and glue the components of the helmet. Epoxy resin is required to stiffen. All moving parts must be glued with adhesive tape, and fastened with paper clips, and on the inside with fiberglass. Adjust by putting the blank on the boy's head.
4. Let's start painting. For this purpose, use automotive paint in aerosol cans. A helmet treated with such enamel looks like a real one, shines and shimmers in the sun. Review to ensure there are no gaps or gaps.
5. Does your child want the helmet to be easy to open and close when needed? How to do? The paper helmet will be easy to close/open with magnets.
6. Let's add some electricity, don't be afraid, just a little. Let's make glowing eyes based on LED lights. Cut out two pieces of plastic. These will be the holes for the eyes. Set the lights a littlebelow. Attach batteries and switch.

Now you know how to make a helmet with your own hands, you can even share your own skills with your friends and family. Indeed, for sure, many of them have children, so they will be happy to make such fun for their beloved child. But what can I say, when some adults are not averse to frolic and fool around in such a helmet, like underage boys, not knowing problems and worries. This article offers options for making various models, on the basis of which you can come up with something of your own, no less interesting.