Paper toys
Paper toys are constructed in several ways, by
Origami toys
Paper toys date back to
The craft was for only the rich at first because the cost of paper was very high. They found useful ways to use the folded paper. For example, they would fold it with strips of dried meat or fish and this was called Noshi, which was a token of good luck. Also they would often wrap the glasses of wine at a wedding into butterfly form to represent the bride and groom. As time went by new methods of making paper were developed which lowered the cost of paper. This allowed the art of origami to be more accessible to all people.
Paper dolls
Paper dolls have been popular toys throughout the last couple of centuries. Unlike the origami and modern paper toys these are usually flat two-dimensional dolls. Often various paper clothes and such things are used to decorate the doll. Much alike the modern paper toys they would often print dolls that resemble popular celebrities, singers, and political figures. They also would print these dolls in magazines for children to cut out and color, they would have a page for the figures and then a page of all the costumes and add-ons.
Modern toys
Modern paper toys can be made using
See also
- Action origami
- Cardboard modeling
- Net (polyhedron)
- Origamic architecture
- Paper plane
- Paper prototyping
- Paper model
- Pop-up books
References