How to make wild duck origami easy ways

Everybody knows about origami. Origami is one kind of art. It helps our mind refreshes. Now this time we make wild duck origami easy ways. Wild duck is the most popular migratory bird. When the winter season is coming they migrate their living place on summer country.

So, Let's make wild duck origami:

Step 1:  At first take a square paper and fold in half to make crease and fold back.

Step 2:  Fold the two side parts along two dot lines and match them in the middle line

Step 3:  Again ,Fold the two side parts along two dot lines and match them in the middle line

Step 4:  First, fold the front with the big dot line and then forward it along the small dot line

Step 5: Fold the lower part in the back

Step 6: Take it up and down with the dotted line

Step 7: Now fold down along the bottom line, then flatten it with the top dot line and flatten it.

Step 8: Fold along the right side of the dot line and fold it along the left side of the dot line.

Step 9: Finally you draw eyes on this paper and make of your dwarf wild duck.

WILD DUCK

This is the easy process to make a wild duck. You can easily make this .

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Easy tips and equipment for making Paper-craft

 At the age of five or six I learned how to make a paper boat from my friend. I made that boat with a white paper of my note book. In that time, I didn’t need colorful origami paper or any origami tools. I believe you don’t need any tools to fold paper. You need your hand, a piece of paper, and a surface to fold on. It is an art of simplicity. You can do it at home, you can do it at bus or train, you can do it in a restaurant. Origami mainly depends on imagination and creativity, your own imagination creates the limit of origami.But origami can be more fun and easier with some tools.

Color Paper

Origami paper: There are various types of origami paper. They vary from price, size, color and quality. Origami paper can be large, small, square or round shape. You can use white or different color paper. Different colors will suit different projects. Traditional papers such as chiyogami paper or washi paper can be very useful in origami. If you want you can make your own origami paper.

Scissor & Pencil

Paper cutter and scissor is needed in origami. You need to use paper cutter and scissor for perfect shape of color paper.You need different shapes of color paper for making different types of paper-craft. Specially A-4 size paper and square size paper is mostly used. In this reason , getting perfect shape of paper you need paper cutter and scissor. You can use glue if you are not making traditional origami.

To store and organize origami paper you will need origami paper storage. Zip lock bags, divided portfolios, trays and shelves can be used as storage.

Paper shelves

Folding bones are used by most of people. These tools help fold, crease and score paper. In the past they are made from cow, deer bones. Today, they are made of plastic, Teflon, bamboo or wood.

Crease Paper

Marker pen like different type of color pen used in Paper-craft more colorful. Sometimes scale,rubber,pencil,compass,eraser are also used to make this.

Marker pen

 At last i say using your hand in proper way to make more beautiful paper-craft and show your creativity . This is the more important part and easy ways. Though you can learn origami from free origami diagrams or online. But origami books are better. They are organized and have color photos. There are thousands of books for making origami.

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The History of Paper Handicraft

During childhood everyone has a fascination for making paper plane, paper boat or other paper made handicraft. These paper made handicraft is mostly known as origami.  There is debate about which country started origami or paper folding first. Some researchers suggest if paper was invented in china, then paper folding would have started there. But origami became an art form in Japan during 6th century when Buddhist monks brought paper to Japan. Japanese paper folding was largely restricted to religious ceremonial use because paper was expensive. The Japanese word "Origami" is a composed of two Japanese words: "ori" meaning to fold, and "kami", meaning paper. Gradually origami spread to Europe, then to South America and then to North America.

The beautiful Pin-wheel 

The first book on origami was Tsutsumi-no-ki which was published in 1764. The first recreational origami book was Hidden Senbazaru Orikata which was published in 1797.This book offered basic diagrammatic instructions on 49 different forms of paper cranes. Currently, there are thousands of origami books, free origami diagrams on the internet, and origami videos.

The art form continues to change over time. Sometimes people cut colorful papers and add them with glue whereas sometimes a single paper is used for making a origami design. Origami styles and techniques include: complex origami, mathematical origami, modular origami, wet folding origami, origami tessellations. Wet folding origami is very popular technique developed by Akira Yoshizawa. This technique uses water to dampen paper so that it can be manipulated easily. It gives wavy shape to paper animals.  Modular origami uses many small pieces that are same which are combined to form one large model.

Origami show

The kindergarten movement made origami popular during 19th century. Paper binding, folding, cutting can be helpful for child development. Origami is good for body and mind. It activates our whole brain. Origami has various benefits like developing eye-hand co-ordination, attention skill, and math reasoning skill, geometry, sequencing, concentration, self-confidence and proportion.

Paper-craft Car

Crane is considered as the one of the most famous origami designs. It is auspicious in Japanese culture. There is a legend about crane origami. According to legend anyone who folds one thousand paper cranes will have their hearts desire come true. There was a Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki. She was two years old when atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. She survived in that incident.

Paper Crane

But later on she was diagnosed with acute malignant lymph gland leukemia. She was admitted to Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital for treatment. Her roommate told Sadako about the legend of thousand cranes and taught her how to make paper crane. Sadako had plenty of free time in hospital but she couldn’t make thousands of crane because she had not enough paper. She also used medical wrappings in order to making cranes. Her best friend also brought paper from school for Sadako. There has a popular story that Sadako only managed to make 644 paper cranes before her death. After her death her classmates made one thousand cranes, which were buried with her. After her death a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was built in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park.

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