Many people are interested in how to make a knife out of paper with their own hands, I will now demonstrate this master class in a step-by-step form with photos. The craft is not very complicated and is considered slightly childish, for example like, or. It is by making a paper knife that many people learn origami skills. We will need two oblong sheets, one long for the base of the knife, and another smaller one for the limiter. I specifically chose different colors to make it clearer and more convenient for you.
I'll move on to creating the craft right away. Let's prepare the necessary leaves, orange for the base of the knife, pink for the limiter. Determine the size of the orange sheet yourself, the length of the knife depends on this, the size of the pink one can be slightly reduced in the process.
Let's start with the basics. Take the longest rectangle and fold it in half along the long line. We need this to mark the middle.
Unfold the folded sheet. The middle has been outlined.
We bend one side to the middle.
We bend the second one in the same way.
This is what should happen. If the length of the base is too long, you can trim it.
Now you need to make one edge sharp. Fold one corner out of two, like this.
The other corner needs to be folded into the middle.
And finally, insert one corner into the other.
One edge of the knife is ready, this is how it looks, neat and beautiful.
We wrap the other edge of the workpiece inward. This results in two angles.
Then, turn each corner individually inward again. Let's take one.
We wrap it up. This is what it looks like.
Fold the second corner inward in the same way and this is what should happen.
This is what the finished homemade base looks like.
Let's move on to the limiter. Take the pink leaf, the smaller one.
Fold it in half along the long side. And mark the middle.
Fold both sides towards the center. And bend the entire workpiece in the center.
Fold the existing strip two-thirds over.
This is what it looks like from above.
Bend the remaining tail in the same way.
Insert the shorter edge into the longer one. At this stage, you can slightly adjust the size of the knife stop.
Combine both parts together. You can pour a little PVA glue onto the crossing of the two parts to secure them.
We managed to make such a beautiful knife out of paper, an interesting origami craft and quite easy.
Today it is very fashionable to manufacture products based on paper. Toys of this type can completely replace real ones. Take, for example, pistols or knives. Unlike plastic options, paper ones are safe, which is primarily important for children. One of the main attributes of toys for boys is a knife. We recommend that you read the instructions below and learn how to make a knife out of paper.
Knife made of multi-colored paper
To begin with, we will tell you how to make a knife from colored paper. To construct this model of a children's toy, you will need an A4 sheet, a stapler (can be replaced with tape), and scissors.
Making a knife:
- We take a sheet, carefully wrap any of the corners, but the edges of the sheet should coincide. Having made such a fold, you should get an open triangle, cut it off, unfold the workpiece and see a square in front of you. We bend the square three times, while ironing the folds well.
- Now we take scissors and make all the edges semicircular, like a kitchen knife. To prevent the workpiece from falling apart, it must be secured with tape or a stapler. Now we take a piece, bend it along its length several times, fix it with the same tape and get the handle of our knife.
- Next you need to combine 2 blanks into one solid object. After joining, the craft can be painted.
So we told you how to make a simple knife out of paper. Now you can start making a more complex model.
Kunai Dagger
One of the serious paper products can be called a Kunai knife. The paper art of origami is used to construct it. Before you begin the manufacturing process, you need to find two landscape sheets and several sheets of colored paper.
How to make a ninja knife from paper:
Kunai Dagger - We take a landscape sheet as a basis, fold it and get a triangular shape. Fold the resulting triangle in half, and then unfold the workpiece to its original position.
- We wrap the corners to the center line and fold the craft in half. Next, we have protruding ends, which we bend into the resulting pockets and thus form the blade of our future craft.
- Pressing the edge in the shape of a pyramid with your fingers, we lift the paper a little to achieve volume. We take a second sheet of paper, roll it into a tube with a small diameter and insert the blade five centimeters deep.
- Next, use your fingers or a sharp object to level the edge of the tube and repeat folding several more times. A handle with a tip should form. At the end, we fix the craft.
Many people want to make the craft heavier and put a coin or pebble in the middle. This is how a ninja knife is made, there are many more options for making knives. Many are trying to learn how to make karambit from paper, we will also tell you about that, but a little later.
Pirate knife
The design of a knife is carried out using the following tools and materials:
- cardboard, preferably white;
- a simple pencil;
- bolt with nut or rivet;
- glue and needle.
Manufacturing process:
Sample - download the template, print it and cut it out;
- take white cardboard, apply the cut out elements, trace them with a pencil, and cut them out too;
- now we take a needle and pierce the blade, body and saw all at once, pull out the needle and insert a bolt or rivet;
- Next, we take glue and drip a little onto the workpiece, but it is worth considering that the blade should not be in the glue;
- then we place one part of the body on the other and fix the workpiece.
The knife is ready, now you can decorate it, if you wish, of course. So we have made the main versions of knives, now we will tell you how to make a karambit knife out of paper.
Karambit
Before explaining how to make karambit from paper, you need to find paper for schematic drawing, a glue stick, and scissors. Boys who play computer games will be interested in making a model themselves. The manufacturing process is very simple:
Sample - download and print the knife drawing;
- Using scissors, we cut out all the parts, apply the blanks to drawing paper and trace them with a pencil, while the base needs to be traced eleven times, and the handle twelve times;
- cut out the outlined elements, glue all the parts and place them under a press (or under heavy books);
- now we take one part of the handle and glue it to the blade;
- Having coated the second part with glue, close the other side of the blade.
At the end, we paint the craft and cover it with colorless varnish.
Knife like an Assassin
This model of knife can be made without a template. You will need eight album sheets and tape.
The knife is made in this way:
The knife is ready. Your child will probably ask you how to make such a paper knife 232 times, and maybe more, because the toy turns out to be excellent. In addition to it, you can make sure that the warrior is ready for battle. We described earlier how to make shuriken.
When playing with such a knife, the child will be safe and will not be injured during the game, and this is a guarantee of peace of mind for parents. It’s better to make any of them together with your children; they will really like this activity.
But boys and girls have completely different interests. Girls make paper flowers, and boys make paper weapons.
Therefore, this article is dedicated to all mothers and fathers who are raising sons.
I suggest that you and your child create a toy weapon that is absolutely safe, and most importantly, you can make as many of them as will fit in your weapons room. It all depends on the availability of paper, glue and tape in the house.
And the fact that this is creativity is confirmed by the finished works. For example, a paper dagger that has a beautiful hilt and sheath.
I think that as soon as you look at these objects, the shapes of the most ideal dagger, sword or rapier begin to form in your head.
So, then let's start mastering the origami technique. All descriptions will be very detailed so that my young reader can easily repeat what is shown in the picture. So let's get started.
Origami is a wonderful technique that allows you to create any thing. The main thing is to strictly follow the instructions. During the lessons, logical thinking, attentiveness, accuracy and patience are honed. How do you understand that all these qualities are very important for a boy?
And, of course, he will be very interested in making a gun with his dad. This way you will create a community of interests and spend an hour of your time usefully.
And, as we know, our adult fathers are also children, so we need to make two pistols at once.
Today we can make two simple options. Of course, if you add imagination, you can improve them, for example, add another barrel.
All crafts require A4 sheets.
A craft that a 4-5 year old child can do.
This pistol consists of two parts. Take a thick sheet of paper. We need it to be square in shape.
Now fold it in half.
And divide it into two stripes.
Now fold one of the parts in half lengthwise.
And in half again.
Let's bend our workpiece in the middle and put it aside. Now we take the remaining strip.
We bend the edge. If it is difficult to do this manually, then use a ruler.
Fold the strip in half so that the free edges completely match.
We repeat this action again.
We also fold it in half.
Now we turn one side at an angle.
We also fold the other side.
When we unfold it, we should get a figure like this.
Now we connect both parts, pushing the ends of one into the formed “loops” that were made a little earlier in the second workpiece.
We thread both parts.
We tighten the barrel and handle well.
Now let's complicate the weapon model. Let's just say that the first option looked more like a flintlock pistol, and the bottom one looked more like a revolver.
We will need a square measuring 21*21 cm, glue, a pen or pencil and scissors.
We make blanks; for this we fold the sheet in half.
And cut along the fold line with scissors.
Take the first half and fold it in half.
Let's unfold it, now we will wrap each edge to the middle.
In this picture, both edges are folded.
This is how we mark straight fold lines, along which it is then easy to fold the desired part.
Now we find the middle of the workpiece by folding it along the width.
Then we fold both edges towards the middle.
Do you see that the folds are very even? It's like we're laying out a grid.
And all that remains is to roll the workpiece along the marked lines.
Fold one edge along the marked second line.
We repeat the same action for the second edge. This is what we get.
Remember that we still have one more half left? Now we need to divide it in half. To do this, find its middle length and cut it along the fold line.
Let's fold one of the parts again, only this time across.
And we'll cut it again.
We begin to fold the part, as shown earlier.
We get such a blank. This will be the trigger.
We need to glue the two sides together.
Our trigger is ready.
Using the handle, twist the barrel. We glue the edge with glue or tape so that our tube does not unfold.
Now we take a large blank and begin to wrap one of the set aside segments around one edge. Glue the edge to the part, otherwise the winding will slip off it.
We glue the edge so that the winding does not unwind.
We insert the barrel into the edge of the winding.
To prevent the barrel from falling out, bend the edge.
And we glue it so that our barrel does not fall out. By the way, it’s also better to coat the edge of the tube.
Glue the trigger. After this, you need to glue all the edges of the handle.
Do all the steps in order and everything will work out.
If it is difficult to roll using your eye, then use a ruler.
Although the origami technique is quite self-sufficient and uses only your hands and a piece of paper.
Origami weapons: patterns for beginners
It happens that the diagram is not always clear, because it contains the most important actions and their sequence.
Therefore, I give the main types of weapons with a step-by-step description.
But a brief diagram of creating a weapon that shoots looks like this. It begins with the creation of an ordinary pistol, then becomes more complex to a revolver and ends with a paper gun.
I also provide a brief diagram for creating a surreken. This is the simplest option. You can increase the number of rays to any value.
But such a knife is very easy to make and has a very sounding name - kunai.
The diagram shows the sequence of actions for rolling a kunai blade.
The handle can be made following the example of a katana.
Making an easy ninja surreken without glue
Now let's start creating the surreken. After all, a real ninja always keeps a couple of rays in his belt pockets.
Below I will show you how to make them without glue. And, if you are afraid of getting confused, then take two sheets of paper of different colors.
For four rays we will need two landscape pages. Take the first one and fold one edge diagonally. This is how we form the line of the free edge.
Now fold the sheet in half.
Another half.
And we find the middle of the strip in width.
We turn the bottom edge inside out and make sure that all the lines are parallel to each other.
We repeat the same action for the other edge.
We make another similar blank. This is what should happen.
Now the ends of the blanks need to be bent.
We apply both strips perpendicular to each other.
We bend the curved edge and try to get the end into the slot that has formed in the middle.
We also tuck all the rays in turn, changing the side of the surreken.
Crafts for boys: axe, nunchucks, katana and butterfly knife
So, they fired the pistol, lowered the surreken, now it was the turn of the “cold” weapon.
I really liked the idea of the Slavic axe. Moreover, it is done very easily.
To create an ax we will need:
- 1 sheet of A4 paper
We need to make a square from the rectangular shape of the sheet. Therefore, we fold it diagonally, connecting the edges and cut off the resulting excess strip. We will use this to create a handle.
Now we mark the diagonals of the resulting square.
Now we turn each edge towards the center.
Turn the workpiece over.
And again we bend each end with the tip towards the middle.
We turn the square over again and repeat the same steps.
Then we open the two opposite edges.
Carefully fold the piece in half.
Let's start making the shaft for the axe. To do this, take the remaining free edge and find its middle.
Let's unfold and now tuck each edge to the found center line.
Let's fold the edge inward.
Now we need to prevent the shaft from unfolding, so we glue its internal parts.
Lubricate the top with glue.
And we glue both parts so that the shaft is inside.
That's it, you can decorate the toy with runes or inscriptions and run to organize a camp.
Now we will start creating the katana. This is the weapon of real samurai - the most fearless warriors of Japan.
We will need:
- 2 sheets of white paper
- 1 color sheet
- scotch
- stationery knife
Fold one white page in half and draw it well along the fold line.
Fold the edge to the intended fold.
And curl the katana blade.
To prevent it from turning back, we carefully cover the junction of the edges with a strip of tape.
The tip of the knife is rounded, so we do it that way.
Now we take the remaining white sheet and start making a tube from one end. You need to twist it diagonally. Secure the edges with tape.
Now let's move on to the handle. To do this, we measure the blade of the blade.
On the fourth part of A4 format, mark exactly this width and fold it.
Glue a strip of tape along the edge.
We fold another quarter of A4 in the middle.
And again, but changing sides.
We also fix it so that the part is intact.
Mark the width of the blade and draw a diamond.
It needs to be cut with scissors or a stationery knife.
Here are our details. We begin to collect the katana.
We insert the tube into the blade; it will extend beyond its limits. Therefore, we thread the handle, capturing part of the blade.
We put on the limiter.
I couldn’t resist the folding knife, so I want a lot of people to see this craft.
We will need:
- 4 sheets (colors: 2 red, 1 blue and 1 yellow)
- toothpicks
- glue gun
Fold the red paper in half and divide it into two parts.
Roll up the strip.
All the red paper will make 4 strips.
Cut the blue paper into two parts. We take one half and begin to form the blade.
Shape the tip of the blade. Be sure to seal it with tape.
From the remaining half we make a strip. Take the blade and cut its base to the width of the second blue stripe.
We insert the prepared strip into these slots.
We glue the edges well with tape and use an awl to make two holes. We make the same holes at the ends of the red blanks.
Insert toothpicks into the holes.
Let's roll a tube from a yellow sheet.
Divide the tube into two equal parts and begin gluing it with hot glue.
We connect two parallel red stripes, forming one side of the handle - the sinus.
We cut off all ugly and protruding edges.
Lubricate the slots generously with glue, and cut off the ends of the toothpicks or bite them off with wire cutters.
I’ll say something about nunchucks. This invention was used by the Chinese when they were under Japanese pressure. They were forbidden to use any weapons and began training with chains. Then this art grew into this form.
We will need:
- 8 sheets of paper
- 20 m cord
- glue gun
You can twist six tubes in advance. First, one end is tucked in, then we move diagonally.
We connect three tubes and wrap them in paper. Help yourself with hot glue.
So we got two blanks.
We also coat the ends of the cord with hot glue and insert them between the tubes. We wait until the cord is fixed.
We compact and weight the edges.
These are the options for men's crafts that I offer you. Some of them are very easy to do, while others require a little effort. But I think that your reward will be satisfied boys who will be busy playing for several hours.
Any weapon that is presented in popular fantasy films and cartoon series can be reproduced at home.
When children play, they often want to have toys on hand that imitate real objects. Boys prefer dangerous games with weapons and, of course, no normal parent would give a real knife to a child. The toy must be believable, but safe! Paper origami comes to the aid of parents and children - weapons, knives and other toys from this material can be made easily and quickly. How to do this, read below.
How to make a ninja dagger?
Many boys are passionate about ninjas and their fighting techniques. Every self-respecting ninja has a knife called a kunai. How to make a ninja knife out of paper?
- Take a square piece of paper and fold it diagonally.
- Fold the resulting triangle again.
- Now return the figure to its original position and bend the corners so that their edges coincide with the center.
- Fold the shape in half in the center.
- Make the point of the weapon - tuck the remaining ends into the “pockets” on one side.
- Roll the next sheet into a thin tube and push it three-quarters of the way into the “pocket.”
- Flatten the free end of the tube and bend it at an angle of 90°.
- Bend the end of the tube three more times at right angles to form a handle.
- Place the end of the tube into the “pocket”. The ninja knife is ready!
How to make a folding knife?
How to make a knife out of paper that will also fold? It's not difficult at all, just follow the instructions!
- Fold a square sheet of paper diagonally twice.
- Line up the bottom sides with the center line. Bend the top corners and align exactly.
- Fold the side strips so that they stand upright, then turn the paper over and fold the strips back.
- Bend the lower and upper corners of the future knife.
- Make a blade by folding two edges of the paper. The paper knife is ready!
How to make a butterfly knife?
A knife with a flip-out blade can be made by first cutting out its parts from paper. These will be 4 long narrow rectangles, 4 narrow strips and 2 short strips along the length and width of the rectangles. Cut out a blade from white cardboard. Now start the main work.
- Take two rectangles and cover them with strips of cardboard, leaving the inner sides free (this is the future pocket for the blade).
- Glue the lid on top - the two remaining cardboard rectangles.
- Start working on the blade - pierce it with a toothpick, the edges of which should not be more than 2 cm on both sides.
- Now insert the blade into the body of the knife, close the knife and pierce with toothpicks on both sides.
- To ensure the durability of the knife, secure the toothpicks with any glue.
How to make an assassin's knife out of paper?
Many boys are fond of computer games and dream of having an assassin's blade at their disposal. You can make it from paper very quickly, take only 8 sheets of paper and tape.
- Place 4 sheets of paper on top of each other and fold them in half twice.
- On one side, cut a strip approximately 1 cm wide.
- Make a sharp blade by cutting off the corners on both sides.
- Cover the blade with tape to prevent it from falling apart.
- Now take 4 sheets of paper to make the case. Also, place them on top of each other and bend them twice.
- Cut out the central part of two sheets, secure the rectangular remains of paper with tape.
- Make a stopper out of paper; it will prevent the knife from falling out of the case. Insert the knife into the case.
- Now place a sheet of paper on the case; it should move away from the limiter just a little.
- Wrap the sheet around the case, leaving a small gap. Secure the ends of the sheet with tape. Now you know how to make an assassin's knife out of paper that jumps out of the case with a sharp wave of the owner's hand!
Every parent will have peace of mind knowing that their child's toys are safe.
There are several ways to make such toys. For example, you can make a butterfly knife out of paper. This toy can be made in just a few minutes.
What materials will be needed
To make your own safe knife you will need:
- several sheets of thick paper 15x20 cm - 2 red, 2 blue, 1 yellow.
- sharp scissors;
- several wooden toothpicks;
- transparent tape.
Also, to assemble a plausible paper knife, you will need to prepare an awl.
Knife blanks
To make a paper knife with your own hands, take a red sheet, fold it in half along the long side and cut it into two equal parts. Fold each piece in half again and fold it into thirds to create a strip about 1cm wide.
Do the same with the second red leaf. You should end up with 4 identical red stripes. In the future, these will be the “handles” of the knife. Wrap the strips with tape to prevent them from unraveling.
Also fold a sheet of blue paper in half and cut it into two parts. Fold one of the halves in half, then in half again, and again. Cut off the end of the resulting wide strip in the form of a knife tip and wrap the resulting “blade” with tape.
From the second blue half, roll up a narrower strip, folding it in half and then three times. Also cut off its blade-shaped end. Insert a second strip into the first to make the “blade” more rigid.
Cut the second sheet of blue paper in half. Roll a wide strip from one of the halves. Cut the blunt end of the “blade” along the edges along the length by 2-3 cm. Insert the blue strip at the bottom of the “blade” perpendicularly and secure it with tape.
How to make a safe knife out of paper: assembly
At the intersection of the “blade” and the strip, make two holes with an awl. Insert a toothpick into the holes. Punch holes in the ends of each of the 4 red strips you made earlier.
Roll a yellow sheet of paper into a thin tube and secure it with tape. Cut two lengths from the tube equal to the length of the red stripes.
Place the red stripes on both sides of the toothpicks. Coat the yellow tubes with glue on both sides, place them between the red stripes in pairs and press down. As a result, you will have two movable handles along the edges of the “blade”.
Final stage
Cut the toothpicks so that they protrude only a couple of millimeters beyond the plane of the paper. Cover them with tape on both sides.
Cut the perpendicular blue strip at the level of the “handles”. A real paper butterfly knife for a child is ready. Depending on the position of the “handles”, the “blade” in such a toy will be open or closed.
