Waiting for a fresh breeze: how to make a paper pinwheel

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

When the sun shines mercilessly outside the window, a breath of fresh wind seems to be the highest pleasure. If it were colored, then not a single stream of it would go unnoticed: I saw a colorful air wave, stood in its path, raised my hands and … here it is - the bliss of "bathing" in the refreshing surf.

Yes, it is not easy to see the wind, but it is easy to detect its presence. How? Make a paper spinner! Let's do that.

Preparatory stage

The spinner is a wonderful wind catcher. This toy is especially liked by children. How to make a turntable? From paper, of course. For beginners and children, colored paper is an ideal material that is easy to work with.

Check if everything you need is at hand:

- square sheet of paper;

- scissors;

- a small carnation and two beads (or a pin, a button on a round leg, etc.);

- skewer (or pencil, cocktail straw, wooden stick, etc.).

Stage 1

Now let's take a close look at how to make a paper spinner.

Arrange your chosen beautiful papersheet on the table in front of you. Bend it exactly diagonally in half. Unbend. Bend again on the other side. Straighten the square. The sheet should form two lines crossed in the center, obtained by bending.

Make four cuts along the crease from each corner to the center. But do not cut to the intersection, leave one and a half centimeters to the “meeting point” of the two lines.

Step 2

Poke preliminary punctures with a carnation: in the center (just where the lines intersect) and one hole in each left corner of the triangle. Here is what you should get:

Stage 3

Put the bead on the stud.

Step 4

Let's proceed to the final stage of the process called "How to make a paper spinner". Connect all four ends with holes in the center and thread a carnation through each of them, as well as through the middle. On the reverse side, where the point now sticks out, put a second bead on it.

Stage 5

Attach the pinwheel flower to a wooden stick.

The toy is ready! Now even your child can explain how to make a paper spinner. Stick a stick into a pot with a flower, and it will not only “bloom”, but also as a stand will be a reliable assistant to the watchman of a breath of fresh air.breeze.

By the way, this simple little thing can become a stylish element of room design. Elegant pinwheel will decorate the office.

Several bright "mills" will delight the eye in your apartment.

Turntables can also serve as an interesting solution for landscape design.

And they can also become the center of the holiday.

Do-it-yourself paper spinner is a simple matter that gives a quick result and a lot of positive, especially if you did it with your child. He will remember such a creative tandem and in the distant future he will teach his children how to make wind catchers.