How to make Smeshariki?

Funny Smeshariki long fell in love like kids,and their parents. To please your child with a funny toy, try yourself to make cartoon characters from the simplest and most accessible material - paper.

Smeshariki from paper lumps

If you start doing origami for the first time and nothave a lot of time - this option is for you. Such crafts can be made together with the child. In order to build a smesharika with our own hands in the simplest way, we will need:

• dense pages from a newspaper or magazine
• colored paper and colored cardboard
• scissors
• glue
• markers or paints

Procedure:

1. A thick sheet of paper crumples into a ball (as hard as possible so that the work does not fall apart).
2. A square sheet of colored paper (the color should match the color of the character you want to make) carefully wrap the resulting ball.
3. From smaller paper, we make four more lumps in the same way - these will be Smesharik's paws.
4. Carefully glue them to a large ball - the body.
5. From the colored cardboard, we cut out the other details (ears, horns, beak, etc.) and glue them to the figure.
6. Eyes and a nose can be drawn right on the torso of Smesharik. If desired, they can be cut from cardboard and glued.

The figure is ready!

Smeshariki in the technique of modular origami

Modular origami differs from the classicalthe fact that several pieces of paper are required to fold the figure. Each sheet is added to the module, and then all the modules are connected together. Such crafts require much more patience and time. If you decide to make Smeshariki this way, you will need:

• several sheets of colored paper
• scissors
• glue

First we produce modules:

1. A sheet of dense colored A4 paper is divided into 16 equal parts and cut out.
2. One of the resulting rectangles is folded in half.
3. Bend the edges to the middle and turn the product over.
4. We raise the edges sticking out from under the triangle and bend the corners inside.
5. We bend the triangle in half.

In the same way, we add all the other modules. Inserting the resulting modules into each other, you can get a three-dimensional figure Smesharik. We make a circle of 24 modules and build up the series (approximately 12 rows). After that add ears, paws, spines and other details. Eyes can be cut from cardboard and glued to a figure.

There are many waysMaking Smeshariki from paper. For example, you can find on the Internet schemes Smesharikov-cubes. It is required to print out the scheme and simply glue the cube according to the instructions. And if there is no time for the scheme, try to draw your favorite hero yourself. In this you will help article - How to draw Smesharikov.