You can make a magic ball of kusudama from paper or from a banknote. A master class and 80 step-by-step photos representing each stage of the work will help you with this. Kusudama is one of the constituent parts of origami. And before, such balls were mainly used for medicinal purposes. Crushed medicinal plants were poured into them and hung in the patient's house. Today, such balls are more often used as decorations.
Paper kusudama ball: how to make a beginner
Watch a beginner's workshop to help you master the basics of this fun Japanese art. Here's what you need:
- paper;
- scissors;
- glue.
Cut off the excess from the paper to make a square. You can take small sheets of paper from a notepad. Fold the sheet diagonally in half, then pull the two lower corners to the top to get this detail.
Now the bent corners need to be bent as follows: right to right, and left to left.
Further, the resulting two folds need to be straightened.
Expand the workpiece so that the back side is now facing you and turn the newly created side triangles outward.
Here's how we continue to create a kusudama ball out of paper: turn the blank over again with the right side facing you and bend the corners, focusing on the already existing lines.
Now you need to make a cone from this square part. To do this, apply a little glue to one bent triangle and connect it to the other - on the opposite side.
Make several identical details. The more there are, the more magnificent the ball will turn out. In this case, there are 5 of them.
It is necessary to connect these blanks in order to give these petals the shape of a flower. To do this, grease their side edges with glue and connect them together.
Use paper clips to hold the tabs in place to keep the workpieces dry in the correct position. When the glue is dry, they will need to be removed.
For the kusudama ball, the master class on the creation of which you are looking at, you will need 12 such flowers. When you glue them together, you will get a beautiful product, for example, like this.
When making kusudama balls, it is better not to use superglue or rubber, as the product may be damaged by traces of these solutions. Better to take PVA. Watch the next workshop to craft a kusudama ball.
Thus, the product will turn out as a result. Before you start creating, take:
- rectangular paper blanks of 1 and 2 colors, 30 pieces each, measuring 5 by 10 cm;
- glue;
- artificial pearls.
Such a kusudama for beginners should not cause them any difficulty, since creating a ball is easy to figure out. When finished, it will have a diameter of 15 cm.
Take the first paper triangle and fold it in half. Direct the corners of this workpiece to the center.
These manipulations are needed in order to mark the line on the blank. Expand it and you will see them.
Fold the rectangle in half again, but this time along its long side.
Expand the workpiece again, its right and left small sides will be pulled to the center. After that, the rectangle must again be brought to its original position, but the following lines will clearly appear on it.
They are needed so that now, focusing on these bends, you can fold this workpiece along the lines. Here is its view from the front and from the wrong side.
And this is how this element looks from above.
In the same way, you need to arrange a rectangle of a different color. Expand it, and place the workpiece you made earlier in the center.
Bend the corners of the second piece diagonally and in a checkerboard pattern pass them through the corners of the first piece.
You need to work a little more with these two elements so that you get a detail like in the next photo.
Now you need to assemble a kusudama ball from these modules. Let's take 3 blanks. The first has a kind of pocket. This is where you put the corner of the second piece.
Next, pass the corner of the third into the corner of the second. You should have a pyramid like this.
This is how kusudama is created. Following the diagram presented, you need to continue to stack the modules.
You will connect four blanks, and where to put the fifth, an arrow and a small blue triangle on the right show.
Now each pair of petals needs to be combined to create a pyramid.
Give the petals the desired shape by fixing them with glue. Also, the bonding mass will help fix the pearls.
Prepare several of these modules, after which the kusudama ball can be hung to decorate the room.
Kusudama - the flower of money
Such a present is a great gift for a birthday or any other holiday. If you want to give money in an original way, then you can make a flower out of it. Depending on how much you have, this will be the size of the bills.
If you just need to bring an inexpensive present, then purchase bills that resemble cash. These can be cut if you want to decorate your paper flower. To make a kusudama ball out of money, take:
- real or souvenir bills;
- scissors.
Bend the ends of the money down, as shown in the next photo.
If this is souvenir money, then cut off two of these corners, removing the middle.
If the bill is real, then you need to bend the corner inward to get a square. Bend it in half diagonally to make a triangle. Then we proceed in this way. We bend the corners of the workpiece up. Here's what you get.
Next, pull the right corner to the right, left to the left. Lock in this position.
Fold the small protruding corners 1 and 2 inward.
If the bill is a gift, spread glue on a small sidewall, bend the opposite side to it and make such a bun. If the money is real, then you can fix the workpiece in this position with a transparent paper clip.
You will need 5 similar modules, which need to be connected to each other with glue or paper clips.
You will get such a beautiful flower from a bill. If the money is gift, then you still have trim strips, fold each in the form of an accordion and decorate your work.
Did you like the presented Japanese technique? Try making the following origami craft using this skill.
How to make a paper ball with your own hands - a master class
The diameter of the finished product is 12 cm. It consists of 12 flowers, and each such blank is made of 4 modules.
Cut a 10 cm square from a piece of paper and fold it diagonally. Then again, on the second diagonal.
Flip the square over and fold it in half to create another strip. Then fold it in half so that this line is in relation to the first at an angle of 90 degrees.
Using these markings, make a double square, pulling the fold toward the center.
Align the top corner with the bottom and make a fold.
The dotted line in the next step-by-step photo shows how to fold the two inner corners to the centerline.
Then each corner must be opened and turned inward.
You have double corners, you need to lower them down, and then fold the part vertically in half.
Focusing on the next dotted line, pull the top corner towards the middle, and then open it and hide it inside the fold.
At the top, you have two triangles. Now you need to pull one bottom and one top corner to the middle.
The two lower ones must be lifted up and folded down to the middle. Now do the same manipulations on the back of the module.
So you should get a workpiece in assembled and straightened form.
Make three more of these modules and glue them together, dripping glue onto the bottom fragment of each part.
You need to make 12 such flowers and glue them together.
Cover the center of each flower with a bead, after which a paper kusudama ball can be given or decorated with. If some steps of the master class caused you difficulty, then watch the video explanation in the next master class.
The second video tutorial clearly shows how a kusudama ball is made from spirals.
