A paper accordion is one of the simplest elements. Any person can create it, after which you can make a huge number of spectacular decorative things from it: for example, a variety of snowflakes and books. Accordions can be simple and more complex, small and huge, for the interior and postcards.
Materials and Tools
- paper (cardboard, any paper - colored, landscape, velvet, if you want to make an exquisite version of accordions);
- a ruler;
- any glue;
- pencils;
- paints;
- sparkles;
- felt-tip pens.
A simple way to make
Take the rectangle of the desired size, the length of which is several times greater than the width. To get a long accordion when there is no paper of this size, glue several sheets together and do not bend them until they are completely dry. The glue line should be the width of the planned fold - so it will not be evident.
If you doubt your eye, mark the workpiece with vertical lines, placing them at an equal distance. Do not press hard on the pencil when marking so that snowflakes or other products look beautiful. Mark the places where you want to make the inner bend with solid lines, and for the outer bends with barely visible points.
Once you have marked the rectangle, you can bend it, carefully stroking each fold with your hands. Its your blank from cardboard, you will have to make more efforts to make it look neat.
Options for using a simple accordion
The top of the blanks can be decorated with curly cuts - manually or using a hole punch. The same snowflakes from such an accordion will look especially elegant. To make them, you need to fasten the accordion in the center with a stapler, make holes in the edges to your liking - here you can show your imagination in full force! Holes can be cut not only along the edges, but also over the entire surface of the workpiece using a hole punch or nail scissors. After that, straighten the accordion and fasten its edges to make a circle. Instead of plain paper for creating snowflakes, you can take colored or beautiful napkins with patterns. With such snowflakes you can decorate a Christmas tree, a window, hang them so that they hang from the ceiling or form a beautiful festive decor on the walls.
If it is assumed that you will make a free musical instrument from the workpiece, you can draw keys on it with paints or felt-tip pens, or paste them on paper. For the accordion on each side of the accordion, you need to leave the segments without folds to decorate them as it happens with a real instrument.
If you make wide folds, you get a little book, on each side of which you can make illustrations on the topic. For example, this may well turn out to be a bright alphabet for kids or a book with numbers for learning them. If you make a little book of paper accordion with your child, this will contribute to his development, will allow you to become closer to him.
Agree that now the question of how to make a book or snowflakes out of paper, you will no longer have.
A complicated way to fold an accordion
It was an easy way to create an accordion. Once you master it, you can move on to the more complex version of creating an almost real harmony or even a button accordion from paper with your own hands. A square sheet of paper is useful for him. Bend it horizontally almost in half, extending the fold line quite a bit beyond the center of the workpiece. This is necessary so that the edge slightly opens the bottom. A narrow strip will be visible from under it - bend it up, covering the edge of that half of the sheet that is on top. Next, the operation must be repeated: bend the future accordion in the same line as before, and bend the narrow part of the paper, which is on top, up. As a result, a narrow paper rectangle should form. Fold it in half horizontally, and then spread it out.
Bend the resulting folds so that there is a seam on top. In the center of the resulting element, after all the manipulations, you will see narrow stripes. Once this happens, bend the workpiece exactly in half: the fold line should be under a narrow strip. And now with the resulting rectangle you need to do the same procedure that you already knew when creating a simple accordion - that is, alternate the folds in and out. From both edges, leave a place where there are no bends - these will be the harmony knobs. Smooth the lines carefully to fold the workpiece into a rectangle. You should get something that looks like a box with fold lines. Holding the handles, you can fold and breed the harmony, as a real musical instrument does. It remains only to make the keys on the handles.
Now you know how to make an accordion with your own hands from any material and for any purpose, whether it be elegant snowflakes, bright books or stylized musical instruments. Do not stop at the ideas we have proposed: you can always come up with your own version of the creative use of harmonica in the decor or the educational process. For example, you can make volume applications from accordions by folding umbrellas, hedgehogs, suns, flowers, trees, Christmas trees and many other elements from them. And not necessarily applications should be only on postcards - on the walls when decorating the premises for the holiday they will look great.
