Easy paper crafts. DIY paper products for children

Paper crafts - the largest section of the category of children's creativity. Despite the fact that paper is the most affordable material for needlework, works made from it can be very different: from simple applications to voluminous models.

And in order to diversify the standard program of manual labor classes, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with the crafts of preschoolers in our section, where you will surely find something interesting and original as an idea for creativity.

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Probably, every mother in her daddy or on the table has a paper craft from her beloved child. Every eighth of March or the ninth of May, a child brings a beautiful paper flower or a postcard with fireworks from the kindergarten. In general, paper art is popular in preschool.

The site, for example, presents a wonderful idea for making a garland of cute doves. And making flowers from rings will create not only a warm and spring mood in the group, but will also develop fine motor skills, a sense of shape and the ability to combine. The combination of several materials is especially interesting. When they are added together, the pictures are original, voluminous and very interesting.

The goal of a competent teacher is not only to interest and involve the child in making paper crafts, he must provide support in the implementation of any paper idea. The child himself may not be able to cope with a difficult task for him, although he will gladly take up its implementation.

One of the most common materials for children's creativity is paper. Paper crafts for kids is one of the fun activities for both kids and parents. Joint creativity unites and develops creative abilities.

Paper handling:

develops fine motor skills in children;
promotes concentration;
develops imagination;
forms artistic taste;
develops an eye;
stimulates the development of memory;
activates thought processes;
develops patience;
contributes to the creation of game situations.

There are various techniques for working with paper:

Application. It can be broken or cut, flat or voluminous, made of paper or napkins.
Quilling is one of the types of appliqué. A drawing is applied to the base of thick paper. The image is filled with elements from narrow strips of paper twisted in a special way.
Mosaic (from French: folded from pieces) - an application made from geometric shapes.
Paper plastic - artistic modeling from paper.

You will find even more articles with instructions for creating all kinds of crafts with your own hands on the site - myhobby.guru

Paper crafts for preschool children

From a very early age, children like to perform easy DIY crafts especially from paper.

butterflies

Butterfly 1

To cope with such a craft and two year old. Of course, we can't do without your help. Fold a sheet of white paper in half and draw half a butterfly. You can choose any shape and size of wings. It is advisable to make a big butterfly.

Then the butterfly needs cut and unfold. Give your child some finger paints and have them color one side of the butterfly. Before the paint dries, fold the butterfly so that the unpainted part lies on the painted one. Press and unfold the butterfly, let it dry.

Such a paper masterpiece can decorate your baby's room.

Butterfly 2

Can you make a butterfly baby handprints. This craft can be done with a child 3-6 years old. For this you will need the following materials:

sheets of colored paper;
a sheet of white cardboard;
scissors;
glue;
marker, felt-tip pens, sequins, stickers and other elements for decorating a butterfly.

On a colored sheet of paper, with a simple pencil, circle the contours of the right and then the left palm of the baby. Cut out the resulting patterns twice. Get four wings palms of different colors.

Glue the cut out wings onto a white sheet of cardboard. On colored paper, draw an oval for the butterfly's body. Let the child carefully cut it out with scissors and glue it to the junction of the wings. Butterfly eyes can be made in a different way: draw with a felt-tip pen or stick two small white circles, in the center of which put dots with a marker. You can also stick ready-made eyes. Draw the mustache and mouth.

Have your child decorate the butterfly wings. Let the kid show his imagination. For decoration, you can use glitter, stickers, or just paint with felt-tip pens.

Mom will definitely save this paper butterfly with the palms of her beloved child.

Butterfly 3

To make this beautiful, paper, airy butterfly with your own hands, you need the following materials:

paper (thin or napkins, regular color or origami, you can use sheets from a glossy magazine);
wire or thread;
scissors;
glitter or other materials for decoration.

Draw on paper two squares 10x10 cm and 8x8 cm. In the future, you can make any sizes of the squares. To make the butterfly look beautiful, make the square for the upper wings 2–3 cm larger than the square for lower wings.

Have your child cut out these squares.

You will fold one square diagonally with an "accordion", and let the child do it with the second. You can choose any width of the folds, the narrower the folds, the more magnificent the butterfly will turn out.

Press the resulting wing blanks with the centers to each other and secure by bandaging them thread or wire.

The abdomen, head and antennae can be made from paper, wire or beads. You can round off the wings with scissors. The resulting butterfly is an elegant craft that can decorate a baby's room. It will look even more impressive if it is decorated with sequins or other decorative materials. The craft is suitable for any competition in kindergarten.

Mosaic Application

This type of craft will be interesting for children of any age, although a three-year-old child will cope with this work. To create a mosaic applique, you will need the following materials:

a rectangular sheet of white cardboard;
colored paper;
scissors;
simple pencil;

On a white sheet of cardboard, draw with a simple pencil the outlines of a fish, mushroom, sun, or other simple object that would have enough space inside for gluing mosaic elements.

From colored paper, cut strips about 2 cm wide. Then ask your child to cut out small squares, triangles or other geometric shapes from these strips. With the resulting mosaic elements, let the child seal the inner space of the drawn figure. At the same time, it is necessary to glue the elements of the paper mosaic close to each other. This craft can be an original gift for mom or grandmother.

Volume application ladybug

This craft can be done by a child of 4-5 years. The main thing is to correctly tell the baby the sequence of actions. It’s even better if you do this craft with him, showing you how to perform each action correctly.

First, prepare circle templates with diameters of 10 cm, 5 cm and 1 cm, colored paper, a white sheet of cardboard and glue.

Have the child use the template to draw two large circles on a piece of red paper. On a black sheet of paper, circle one large circle, one smaller and 6 small circles.

With your own hands, with the help of scissors, let him cut out all the circles drawn.

Now in the middle of the white cardboard will stick a large black circle - the torso. The circle, which is smaller, needs to be glued so that it goes a little on the big one. This will be the head.

Now let him decorate the wings with black small circles, gluing them with glue.

Having learned how to make such a craft, a child can diversify his work by placing a ladybug on a leaf or flower.

Paper crafts for primary school children

Nosed bookmarks

This craft is very easy to do. A preschooler will also cope with it, but it will be especially pleasant for a first grader to make such a bookmark for his first textbooks.

This will require the following materials:

colored cardboard;
scissors;
ruler;
chenille (fluffy) wire;
glue;
eyes.

Cut out a 6x12 cm rectangle from a sheet of colored cardboard.

Step back from the sides one and a half centimeters and draw two parallel segments 8 cm long. Make a cut with scissors along the marked lines.

The middle stripe will serve as the nose. At the bottom of it with a simple pencil, draw a rounding and cut it out with scissors.

Now glue the eyes (if not ready, you can draw them).

Make one or two holes at the top of the head with a hole punch. Pass the chenille wire through them and give it the shape of horns or antennae.

Having shown imagination, the child will be able to make bookmarks of different shapes and sizes with his own hands, as well as decorate them at his discretion. The main thing should remain unchanged - this is a long nose at the bookmark.

Particular delight among younger students is caused by voluminous toys made of paper. It's easy to make them. You need to print the templates, cut them out and glue them. The kids love it. And then they are happy to play with toys that they made with their own hands.

Here are some diagrams of your favorite papercraft cartoon characters.

Papercraft schemes

Paper crafts for middle school children

For children of middle school age, it will be interesting to make a puppet toy with their own hands. To make one toy you will need:

toilet paper roll;
rope or twine;
two caps from a plastic bottle;
awl;
scissors;
glue;
wand (control bar);
acrylic paint;
fishing line.

To make this craft you need:

Paint the lids and toilet paper roll orange.
For arms and legs, make four holes on the sides of the roll with an awl.
Make a hole in the center of each cap with an awl.

Cut two small ropes of the same length. Tie a knot at the end of each. From the inside of the roll, thread the free ends of the ropes into the hand hole and tie knots at the ends. The handles are ready.

Do the same for the legs. Only the ropes need to be cut longer and the ends threaded into the hole in the lids, fixing them with a knot.

On a piece of paper you need to draw the head and tail of the fox. If you don’t know how to draw, you can use the template, decorate them with paints and cut them out. After that, glue them to the roll-torso.

Now it remains to tie to the legs and head (roll) along the fishing line and fix them on the control bar.

origami lotus

Children can give this simple and original DIY craft to their mother or grandmother. You can easily make it both at home and at school.

To make a lotus, you will need green, white and yellow origami paper. Scissors and strong thread or wire.

Cut out 5 rectangles 7.5x15 cm in green and 10 of the same rectangles in white, as well as 3 rectangles 4x10 cm in yellow.

Let's figure out how to assemble a lotus flower step by step - this wonderful paper craft.

Fold the green rectangle in half along the long side. Unfold the paper and fold the triangles to the center on one side and the other.

Alternately bend both long sides to the center.

Make 5 green blanks in this way.

Now fold the white rectangle in half along the long side. Turn it upside down and fold the triangles as you folded in the green rectangle.

Bend the long sides to the center, then bend in half. Should be a boat.

Repeat all steps with the remaining white leaves.

Fold the yellow rectangle in half lengthwise and again across.

Cut with scissors into narrow strips, but not completely, so that you get a fringe. These will be the stamens. There will be three such blanks.

The video shows step by step how these fakes are made.

Now you can collect the flower. The green blank is folded in half and we alternately put two white blanks on it. We attach a yellow stamen on top. Repeat these steps two more times. As a result, you will receive three sets, each of which consists of green, two white blanks and stamens.

Assemble the two remaining sets in the same way, but without stamens. Now assemble the blanks. First take a set with stamens, then without yellow stamens, again with stamens. Place the resulting sets on top of each other, alternating sets with and without stamens. Take the set with yellow stamens first. Tie all these blanks in the middle with threads or wire. Now bend the blanks to the sides.

Start collecting the flower from the stamens. In those petals where there are stamens, we bend them so that the “tails” look up. Now lift up and spread the white petals through one. Get the first row of petals. Assemble the second row. The remaining petals also lift up through one. Perform the third row in the same way as the first and second.

Raise up the last row of petals. And finally, straighten the green leaves. So your original lotus is ready.

Paper is the most common craft material for several reasons: low cost, availability, ease of use. Of course, paper cannot be called a very simple material, because it all depends on your skills, the type of paper, as well as the complexity of the craft. It can be a simple application for children, or it can be an origami from modules that young children cannot handle. In this article I want to offer 10 crafts of varying complexity for children and adults. They are made from several types of paper: plain white A4, colored, corrugated, crepe. He even eats one piece of paper for notes. Let's start looking at the various options.

3D postcard for March 8

You always want to surprise with a gift for the holidays, and such an unusual postcard will not leave anyone indifferent. This craft can be quickly and easily done by a child from 9 to 11 years old with their own hands and presented to their mother or grandmother for the holiday. To learn how to make a 3D postcard, you can watch the photo and video description with step-by-step instructions.

You will need:

Colored paper (4 white sheets and 1 pink sheet)
Scissors
PVA glue
Ruler
Pencil
Double-sided tape
Paint (lilac and green)

Progress:

Divide the white sheet in half with a line, and then fold 4 sheets together and cut along the line. We need 7 halves, put the 8th aside.
Take half of the sheet and fold it in half 2 times. We get a rectangle, two sides are closed, and two are open.
We bend the corners to the closed long side outward. We do this on both sides.
Now the folded corners need to be bent again in the opposite direction, so we do this only on one side.
We get a guideline by which we will cut off. Cut along the folded line on one side, then flatten the corner once and cut along the line on the other side. Thus, we get a shape similar to a leaf.
So we do with the remaining six sheets. So that the shape remains the same for all colors, simply attach the first blank and cut it out.
Take the resulting flower and cut out one petal from it, and then glue the gap by overlapping the side petals exactly one on top of the other. You should have 6 petals. We do this with all the flowers.
Fold the flowers in half. Glue pieces of adhesive tape on the side petals of the 1st flower, on the very top of the petal.
We glue flowers on the side parts, only the side petals, gently applying the petal to the petal.
Now we glue the 4th flower on 3 flowers, also only the 4th one should have all the petals glued.
We glue the 5th and 6th flowers on top like 2 and 3 (only on the sides).
We glue the 7th flower on top of all the others on 3 petals.
Fold a pink sheet in half, like a postcard, now we will finish our composition.
We put the flower on half of the postcard and attach adhesive tape to the upper central petal and close it with another sheet of the postcard. Glue the other side in the same way. Make sure that the sheet lies clearly near the fold line.
The card is ready, it remains only to color the middle of the flowers. You can sign the postcard.

Colored paper caterpillar

Such a caterpillar is easy to perform and will take very little of your time. The craft is designed for children from 2 years old and their parents. You will be able to spend time with your child pleasantly and usefully, you will also develop the motor skills of children's hands. Let's start doing the caterpillar with our own hands.

You will need:

Colored paper in different colors
PVA glue
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil
felt-tip pens

Progress:

Make strips of paper 6 cm long and 1 cm thick (red, green, blue, yellow, purple, brown, blue). The colors should be different so that the caterpillar turns out to be iridescent and bright.
We glue each strip to make circles.
When the circles are ready, glue them together alternating colors. You should get a strip of circles. We glue the last one a little higher than the rest, this will be the head.
Draw a mouth and eyes with a felt-tip pen.
Cut thin strips from colored paper and twist with scissors. Glue them in place of the antennae.
From a green sheet, cut out the shape of a leaf in size, focusing on the caterpillar. Our funny caterpillar is ready!

Corrugated paper valentine

For Valentine's Day, ordinary heart-shaped cards are always given, but if you want to make a more original card, make it from corrugated paper. And now I will tell you how to make a valentine with your own hands step by step with step by step instructions.

You will need:

Cardboard
Red corrugated paper
Scissors
Match
PVA glue

Progress:

Cut out a card in the shape of a heart from cardboard.
Cut corrugated paper into squares a little more than 1 cm in size.
We apply the square with the central part to the tip of the match and crumple the paper in a circular motion. Do this with all the squares.
We apply glue to the valentine and begin to glue our crumpled blanks. When the glue dries, fluff up the paper to make it more fluffy. The holiday card is ready, you can give it to your loved one.

Bunny in 5 minutes

If you need a craft for kindergarten that does not take much time, then a voluminous bunny is the perfect option. The most important thing is that you can connect your baby to the execution process. Let's see how to make a simple bunny with your own hands using detailed instructions.

You will need:

Sheet of colored paper
Scissors
Ruler
Pencil

Progress:

From a sheet of paper, cut out 2 strips about 1.5 cm wide along the length.
Cut one strip into two different strips. The difference is about 3 cm.
We glue both strips so that we get 2 circles.
Glue them together.
Cut the second strip into 3 equal parts. Cut one piece lengthwise. We fold each thin strip in half and glue the ends together. This will be our ears.
We glue the ears on our blank of two circles, on a smaller one.
The remaining strips are also cut lengthwise. Paws are made like ears. Glued to the bottom circle.
From one more strip we make a small circle and make a tail.
Fold the last strip in half and round the edges with scissors. Spread and glue to the back of the bottom circle and scissors twist them forward. Bunny is ready!

Video how to make a paper bunny in 5 minutes

Beautiful flower

To decorate the interior, you can make an unusual flower from note paper with your own hands. For this, you do not need special skills, a child of 4-7 years old can also help with the implementation. To complete the craft, we have made a detailed description for you with step-by-step instructions.

You will need:

note paper
PVA glue
Cardboard
Scissors

Progress:

Note paper is best used without a sticky edge. Take the sheet with the corner up and fold the side corners and sides together. Glue them. You get buns. Do this with all the leaves.
Cut out a circle of about 7-8 cm from cardboard. So we get a small flower.
Now glue the 1st row of petals on the circle with the short side up. Petals should be close to each other.
In the next row, glue the petals into the gaps of the previous row.
So we do subsequent rows gradually reducing the number of petals in a row.
We fill the middle with petals, no longer focusing on the rows, see that it is beautiful and voluminous. The flower is ready, you can hang it on the wall or put it on the table.

Videos flower diy

DIY book

If you want to make an unusual craft that will also be useful for use, you can make a small origami book out of paper. You will not write down your poems or compositions in it, but it will come in handy for small notes, and besides, it will not take up much space in your bag. It is very easy to make such a craft, just follow the instructions with a step-by-step description.

You will need:

Sheet of A4 paper - 2 pieces of different colors
Scissors

Progress:

Fold A4 sheet in half lengthwise. Open the sheet back.
Next, fold the sides to the center fold.
Cut the sheet into 4 strips along the folds.
Take one strip and fold it in half 3 times. You get a small rectangle.
Do this for all stripes.
Open the resulting triangle and now fold it with an accordion. Do the same with the rest.
Now glue all the pieces together, stacking the last pages of each harmonica one on top of the other.
When gluing, fold the sides that face each other and glue. This is how we make pages.
We fold an A4 sheet of a different color in half in width, and then in length. You will have 4 rectangles. Cut out one of them.
At the rectangle, fold the side long sides towards the center, but not reaching the center by about 0.5 cm.
Fold the rectangle in half and lightly mark a cent. Now, focusing on the center, make two folds in the central part about 0.5 cm wide. The cover is almost ready.
Now, trying on the sheets of the notebook on the cover, fold the sheets inward according to the size. Then insert the last pages of the notebook into the cover. For better fastening, you can use glue. Our unusual notebook is ready.

Video how to make a mini book with your own hands

Butterflies for decor

Paper butterflies can be used to decorate walls, windows and gift wrapping. They create a romantic and light mood, because butterflies are so graceful. A child from the age of 3, as well as any beginner, can make butterflies with their own hands. There are many options for making paper butterflies and we want to offer you one of them, quite interesting. And now let's create a beautiful decoration in the form of a butterfly with our own hands.

You will need:

Sheet of A4 paper - 2 pcs (yellow and pink)
Large needle
Beads and beads
thin wire
Scissors
double tape

Progress:

We take one sheet and fold it in half, but the fold does not need to be highlighted too much.
We cut off the corners, more on the lower side, and less on the upper side with a smooth bend in the middle.
We open the sheet and, moving along the fold line, fold it with an accordion. We made the top wing.
For the bottom, we do the same, only we will cut the corners of the same size. Next, fold with an accordion.
We pierce the wings of butterflies in the center with a needle, so that in the future it will be easier to fasten them.
We fold the wire in half and string the wings on it.
We put a white bead on the wire at the upper wings, on both fibers. Then two gold pieces for each tendril.
The rest of the wire is decorated with golden beads. To finish the antennae, we need to insert the tip of the wire into the last seed beads twice. We cut off the excess. We also do with the second mustache.
Tape the top and bottom wings together.
On the bottom of the wire we put on white beads of a larger size, about 4 pieces, and then 2 more beads of a smaller size.
You need to finish the ponytail like the antennae, but for reliability, you can make a few twisting movements and cut off the excess.
Now spread the wings of the butterfly and you can decorate the interior.

Paper origami tree

To decorate a home, office or kindergarten for the new year, you can make an interesting and unusual Christmas tree out of paper with your own hands. For those who love origami, this Christmas tree will love it. To complete this craft, read the step-by-step instructions, as well as the photo and video description.

You will need:

colored paper
Scissors

Progress:

From a sheet of green paper we make a square.
Connect two opposite corners so that you get a triangle.
Unfold the triangle back into a square and fold the other two opposite corners into a triangle.
Along the folds along the sides, fold them into the middle, when you fold you get a triangle.
Now we bend the sides of the triangle to the center, from the beginning on one side, and then on the other. And straighten it again.
We straighten each resulting triangle along the fold, straighten it along the central fold and fold and make a new fold to the left.
Divide the resulting structure into equal sides.
Bend the bottom corners up, and then hide inward.
We get a blank already similar to a Christmas tree. We make three cuts on the sides a little before reaching the center.
Now we need to bend the corner to the inside of each incised piece. Thus, we will get the corners of the Christmas tree. We do this work with all the pages of the Christmas tree.
The Christmas tree is ready to decorate your home.

Daisies from paper

If you want to bring a summer and sunny mood into the interior, make paper daisies with your own hands. They can be used not only in the interior, but also as a gift to family and friends. Such interesting and beautiful daisies will not leave anyone indifferent.

You will need:

Crepe paper (yellow and white)
Green colored paper
Scissors
Scotch
Threads
Toothpick
Ruler

Progress:

Visually divide a sheet of colored paper lengthwise into 4 parts and cut off 1/4.
Using a toothpick, twist our strip into a tube and glue the tip with tape. This will be our stem.
From crepe paper, cut out a piece of white 10x25 cm and yellow 20x4 cm.
Fold the yellow strip 2 times and cut the closed parts on one side with scissors. Now on both sides along the strip we make frequent cuts about 1 cm deep.
Fold white paper in half and cut the closed part.
Lay the white paper on the table and the yellow paper on the extreme part of the long side, and in relation to the width, it should lie in the middle.
Starting on the other side, fold the paper with an accordion.
In the middle we tie a rope for fixing.
Round the white ends with scissors.
With the narrow side of the stem, go around the middle of the flower and secure it with tape.
Spread the center of the petal towards the top so that it is fluffy. Also spread the chamomile petals.

This is perhaps the simplest and least costly type of creativity for children and adults. And probably, there will not be a person who has not launched a paper airplane at least once in his life, and these endless ways to make your liner faster brought so much joy and the first children's victories. In this article, we will look at some interesting crafts that you can easily repeat with your children. Creative activities with paper will be interesting not only for kids, but also for school-age children. Making paper crafts develops fine motor skills, teaches the child to work with scissors, to be neat, patient and attentive.

And all that for children's joy, we need scissors, glue, a couple of sheets of paper, for more advanced users, a couple of colored sheets of paper (cardboard). And you will definitely make your baby happy. In the process of working with very small crumbs, you can remember colors, shapes in a playful way and just have a great time.

Today we would like to offer you some simple techniques that even the smallest can handle to make their own origami.

For the first type of crafts, we need

Scissors;
Glue;
Markers or pens;
Several sheets of colored paper.

The technique for making such paper crafts is very simple. All we need is to choose our favorite character or animal. Choose the right paper color and get started.

How to make paper craft?

Below, let's take a look at three simple paper crafts: a mouse, a bunny and a bee.

As an example, consider the manufacture of a mouse.

Step 1:

We need to prepare everything necessary for work. To make a mouse, we need to cut out the following elements from paper:

1 rectangle (for the body of the mouse). Make the sides of the rectangle pointed, as shown in the example. (this will be the head of the mouse);
3 thin strips (this will be the antennae);
1 triangle for the spout;
blanks for the ears 2 larger ovals and 2 smaller ovals, glue them together;
blanks for the peephole 2 larger ovals in white and 2 smaller ovals in black, glue them together;
1 ponytail, cut a slightly twisted strip from paper.

Step 2:

Now that we have all the elements of the mouse, we need to fasten it with glue. We bend our largest rectangle (torso) in half, but do not press it, glue the front part. We are waiting for the glue to set.

Step 3:

We glue all the other elements of the mustache, nose, tail and ears to the finished main part.

Examples of work in a similar technique.

For the second type of crafts, we need

The next type of paper craft is also very easy to make, but very colorful and bright. Such crafts will also look beautiful as bowls for pens and pencils.

Scissors;
Glue;
Markers or pens;
Cardboard cone.

For example, consider the manufacture of a bee

Step 1:

We need to prepare everything necessary for work. To make a bee, we need to cut out the following elements from paper:

1 large rectangle the size of the cone you chose for the craft;
3 black stripes;
blank for wings, make it the same as in the example;
1 circle, this will be the face of the bee;
mustache blanks.

Step 2:

At this stage, we need to take the cone and glue it with a blank of a large rectangle.

Step 3:

While the glue on our cone dries, we can prepare the face of our character. Draw eyes and a smile on the prepared circle, then glue on the antennae.

Step 4:

We continue to work with the cone, glue the stripes characteristic of the bee on it, approximately at the same distance.

Step 5:

We collect our bee, glue all the remaining elements on our cone. The bee is ready.

Examples of work in a similar technique

For the third type of crafts, we need

The third version of crafts is slightly different from the first two. It takes a little more time and patience to make. But these types of paper crafts look very beautiful and stylish. And they are suitable not only for children's creativity, but also for decorating a room and many more different applications.

Scissors;
Glue;
Pencil;
Several sheets of colored paper;
Ruler.

As an example, consider the manufacture of a bunny.

Step 1:

We need to prepare everything necessary for work. To make a bunny, we need to cut out the following elements from paper:

circle, this will be a blank for the face of a bunny;
4 oblong ovals for ears (2 a little more, 2 a little less) glue them together to make ears;

Step 2:

We need to make the base of our bunny. We take a sheet of A4 paper, now we need to make something similar to an accordion. So that at the end, our bunny turned out to be even, use a ruler to divide the A4 sheet into even parts. Now, along the marked lines, we bend our leaf into an accordion. To make the bunny bigger and more embossed, you can make several of these harmonicas

Step 3:

The next step in our work is to glue our finished accordions together with glue to make a circle.

Step 4:

Glue the face of our bunny and ready-made ears onto the finished circle. You can make several of these bunnies and fasten them together with a thread and decorate the room with such a cute DIY garland.