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How To Make A Paper Basketball? 13 Easy Steps To Make

Right now, Basketball is one of the most popular sports going around in the world. All you need are two things- a ball and a hoop to start with.

Kids love to play basketball. Because this is fun. This is exciting. There is never a dull moment in this game. Children love doing exercises, especially when it is hidden in a competitive and thrilling sport like basketball. Hence playing with the best portable basketball hoop shall create more enthusiasm.

They show tremendous hand eye co-ordination, fine motor skills, improved flexibility and endurance. As a young kid, whenever there is a scope to have the ball in their hand, they hardly let it go.

Table of Contents

• materials you’ll need to make a paper basketball
• 13 Step By Step Paper Basketball Making Process
• Pro Tips

But what if your mom says you can’t play with the ball inside the house? Because it can get really noisy out there. In addition to this, there is a greater possibility that you may break things or shatter your windows.

That is exactly the reason why most often parents don’t allow their children to play inside the house. Besides, not all the kids may have the capability to own a basketball.

So, what should they do now? Should they give up playing the game that they adore most?

No, they don’t need to. Instead, they can try to make something out of the local materials. In this situation, paper basketball is the way to go. With paper basketball in your hand, now you can easily play inside your house. But how to make a paper basketball?

To make various shapes, Paper is a sensational medium to have at your disposal. Can you tell me what is most amazing about things made of paper? Paper is really a low-cost material. It is extremely easy to manufacture.

These paper basketballs do begin with a simple circle. In fact, this is so simple to make that you can decorate and craft it all by yourself. The overall process is easy to understand and absolutely safe for the children as well. Make it colorful according to your liking. Kids will have tons of fun with their friends.

So, why not try making a paper basketball to show the love and passion you have for the sport? Let me give you some instructions on how to make a paper basketball.

materials you’ll need to make a paper basketball

• Newspaper or paper (amount certainly depends on the size of the ball that you want for your kids)
• Any type of scotch tape
• Color paper (orange)
• Scissor
• Compass
• Pencil
• Ruler
• Ruler
• Black permanent marker

13 Step By Step Paper Basketball Making Process

Yeah, there are several ways by which you can make paper basketball. But we always try to help our readers with the best information possible.

This is why we have enlisted the easiest way for you to make a paper basketball. With that now, you can easily make a paper basketball by purely following these instructions.

Step 1: Collect some old magazine or newspaper. Any type of discarded paper will also do.

Step 2: Now you take a sheet of paper on your hands and fold it to form a round shape as the basketball.

Step 3: Then crumple the paper into a circle and you need to create a basic paper ball shape.

Step 4: You should wrap the other paper onto your crumpled paper.

Step 5: Repeat the same process to another piece of paper. It will now get bigger and bigger.

Step 6: Continue crumpling until you think this size will be OK for you.

Step 7: Hold the grip tightly with your hands.

Step 8: Now, you need to work with your drawing compass. When you’re adjusting your compass keep in mind that the span between the tip and pencil is kept half as wide as you prefer your basketball to be.

After that you need to place the point of the compass at the center of your color paper. Keep holding it in place with the small shaft at the top of compass. Spin the compass carefully and use pencil to draw the perfect circle onto the paper.

Step 9: Utilize a scissor to cut the circle out from the paper.

Step 10: How do you draw a basketball? Now it is time to bring a real basketball image on the circle paper. Draw two lines on the circle paper. One vertical and other is horizontal. The vertical line should be going across the center of the orange circle, and the horizontal line must be across the center of the vertical line.

Make it look like a black plus sign by using a ruler and black permanent marker. You should also draw two semi circles at either side of the horizontal line.

Step 11: Nicely place the orange paper onto the crumbling ball now.

Step 12: Bring the tape and wrap it around your paper shaped ball.

Step 13: This is not any instruction really. Yeah, finally you’re ready to play!

Now you see, how simple it is to make a ball out of paper? Challenge your friends and see who can score more points. Surely your mom won’t be screaming at you now. Cheers!

Pro Tips

Tips 1. When you design the ball, it will be much easier to paint for you if you have a basketball or an image of basketball on your hand. Besides, you can also choose any other design over the ball.

Tips 2. If you want, you’re free to fill the whole paper shaped ball with the tape.

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I made an indoor basketball hoop. File that under Things I didn’t Think I’d Be Doing This Spring.

I wasn’t sure I’d write about it because it’s cobbled together from things we had at home, which is the most satisfying kind of project to make but a more frustrating kind of project to be presented with by someone else. Apologies in advance because I can’t offer the exact size of the screw or magnet that I used and my net tying instructions are probably wanting in both detail and technique, but I’ll try my best to show what I did.

I’m hoping you all might take this in the spirit it’s intended, which is an opportunity to dig around in your toolbox for washers and screws and to flex your creativity and make something you’ve never considered before. Mostly I’m hoping this might provide a momentary diversion on days desperate for them.

In terms of a basketball hoop specifically, my goal was to make it movable (and removable) because there are players of varying heights in our apartment and more importantly, because there’s no telling how long the interest might last. I also needed it to be not too much of an eyesore and to actually work. (This replaces another iteration involving rolled up paper and blue painters tape. Believe me when I say it was more than aesthetics alone that were improved in this version.)

For a ball, we’re using an oversized pom-pom. While it’s quite sturdy when fitted with a heavy-duty magnet, the hoop isn’t strong enough to support an actual basketball. More importantly, neither are our fragile nerves. We needed something that’s virtually noiseless, for ourselves and for our neighbors. We tried a small blow-up beach ball and a woolen knit ball and both worked but the pom-pom has been perfect.

For the net, I modified the macrame technique that Rose taught me last fall and I’ve done my best to offer simple instructions below.

Materials:

+ The interior ring of a 10-inch wooden embroidery hoop

+ hand drill or electric drill

+ 1 heavy duty magnet hook (the key is having one with a detachable screw hook)

+ screw

+ washers

+ screwdriver

+ cotton butcher’s twine

+ scissors

Directions:

+ Begin by drilling a small hole into the side of your embroidery hoop.

+ Unscrew the hook from the magnet. Fit a screw that matches the width and thread of the hook through the hole in the wooden hoop from the interior of the hoop, so you can screw it into the magnet post on the other side. Depending on the size of your magnet and hoop, you might need to use a series of washers, as I did, to help secure a tight fit.

+ Begin by attaching the hoop to a magnetic surface, like a steel apartment door, refrigerator, or radiator.

+ Cut 8 ~4′ lengths of cotton butcher’s twine.

+ Fold each piece of string in half. Place the folded loop over the top of the hoop. Loop the ends of the string through the hole you formed and pull, forming the cast on stitch. Repeat for the remaining strings, placing them at even intervals around the circumference of the hoop.

+ Take the left-hand string hanging from one loop and the right-hand string hanging from the adjacent loop and pull them together to form the point of a triangle, roughly 3 inches down from the hoop. Tie a simple knot by looping both strings through each other.

+ Repeat around the circumference of the hoop until all of the strings are tied.

+ To make a second row, follow the same technique as above. This time, your knots will be forming the bottom point of a diamond. Tie your knots roughly 2 inches down from the previous knot. This will allow your net to begin to taper a bit. Repeat until all of the strings are tied. You’ll now have two rows of knots, forming large diamonds around the hoop.

+ To make a third row, follow the same technique as above. This time, form the bottom point of the diamond about 1.5 inches down from the last row of knots.

+ To finish, tie an additional final knot in the bottom of each set of strings, about an inch directly down from the last knot you tied. (You’re not pairing strings from different sides this time.) Trim any excess length.

Notes!

+ Wooden embroidery hoops are quite thin and I didn’t have any trouble using a small hand drill to make my hole, but because of the relatively fragile wood, take care not to split the hoop with too large a hole.

+ I attached my hoop to our steel apartment door with a magnet, but you could also place on your refrigerator or another magnetic surface. If your home is fitted with metal corner beads (the metal piece used to form sharp corners with drywall) and your magnet is very heavy duty, you might even be able to attach the hoop to a door frame.

And that’s that. If you make one of your own, I’d love to see photos. If you have more ideas for quiet gross motor play for small apartments, I’m ALL ears.

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Get the whole family into sports this summer and try out the soccer paper crafts available at Creative Park.

Summer has already arrived, and parents want to find an interesting activity for the whole family. DIY games are a great source of fun, and Canon Creative Park makes making them easy and inexpensive.

Creative Park has a range of free and colorful paper models available for printing from your home printer.

Fariba Soetan lives in London with her husband and three children and maintains the blog Mixed.Up.Mama. In this article, Fariba talks about using Creative Park and the Canon PIXMA TS8340 printer to create sports games for the whole family.

1. Choose your hardware and templates

First of all, you should choose strong paper for printing games. We recommend using Canon Matte Photo Paper for modeling as its texture is ideal for printing vibrant images and graphics.

“The thickness of the paper is very important because it determines how strong the models will be,” says Fariba, mother of three daughters aged 6, 8 and 10. The Canon PIXMA TS8340 printer is ideal for this kind of printing, but any PIXMA model can be selected.

Fariba says choosing soccer game templates will be fun for the whole family - each template has a build time and difficulty level to help you figure out if it's right for your kids.

“The girls were very excited as they browsed the website looking for things they could make,” she adds. “If parents are browsing the site with their kids, all they need to do is note down the build time and difficulty level of the model.”

"We chose basketball and football because we found them fun and the difficulty level was suitable for kids and parents who will be building paper models for the first time."

2. Make your own mini-game

Get the whole family involved in making paper models - parents will help kids with more difficult activities.

From the Creative Park app or from the Creative Park website (download directly to PC), you can choose the templates you like and print them on your home printer to assemble before the match.

Your craft team will need scissors, glue, a fold line, an old ballpoint pen, and instructions for making the game. Then use the markings to cut, glue, and fold.

“My kids love to create and these games have been a great way for me to satisfy their need,” says Fariba.

Discover paper model board games - the feeling of accomplishment after finishing the build is second only to the fun of playing with paper models.

Distribute tasks to keep everyone involved in the process busy. “When we printed the games, not only did they look great, but they also came with easy-to-follow picture instructions,” says Fariba. “The girls were thrilled to be able to carve each of the models, and the level of difficulty kept me busy with all three, despite the difference in age and carving skills. The most difficult thing was to cut the ball - the eldest daughter demonstrated her skills. For the gate, it was necessary to cut out larger pieces, which the youngest was able to handle.

“We worked together on the same task and were able to communicate through the activities. Each of us contributed, and we felt like a team, and not arguing about the division of responsibilities!”

3. Organize a tournament

“When we were done, we decided to take a break, have a snack, and then get back to the game,” says Fariba.

Once assembled, it's time to start playing! Why not get a group of friends to keep track of the score, or even create your own scoring table to make the tournament feel more real?

At Creative Park, you'll find a range of templates that are perfect for hosting sports tournaments, from photo booth props and player support banners to fun hats and megaphones for active fans.

Children will enjoy playing with their own models, and the assembly process will help them develop useful hands-on skills. “Girls love to paint, glue and color, so it’s great that even after organizing such a game, they still have fun toys,” says Fariba. “These games have many advantages: scissors help develop motor skills, and the opportunity to see the result of your efforts increases confidence in your abilities.”

“The eldest daughter was very pleased that she was able to create a complex 3D ball model by cutting and gluing. She had a lot of fun throwing the ball at the target.”

4. Organize a whole day of fun

Paper craft projects like Fariba's are great summer fun for the whole family for a few hours. “We have already noted what we will do next time,” says Fariba. “If we have a couple of extra hours on Saturday or if it rains, we will try to collect the selected models.”

Have you made and played a paper version of the game? How about replacing paper models with real paraphernalia?

Whether you're hosting a game over the weekend or during school holidays, set aside a full day to create games and prepare a snack for the whole family and a trophy for the winner. We also recommend playing with the whole family and taking pictures of the fun going on.

And the most creative participants can personalize paper models, especially if they decide to keep them as a keepsake after such an active day.

“The football target is still hanging on our wall,” says Fariba. “Sometimes girls find balls and have a spontaneous game with them. The goalkeeper can be printed in silhouette form, but children can draw his face or cut out another shape for him. You are only limited by your imagination."

Whether your family needs inspiration for crafts and crafts, or if you want something to do while putting your gadgets aside, Creative Park has plenty of paper model building templates.

Author: Lorna Dokril

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How to equip a basketball court in the country or in the yard

Basketball develops the physical data of the child - coordination, endurance, educates strong-willed qualities, concentration, attentiveness and teaches non-standard thinking. Professionals recommend giving the child to the basketball section from 8-9years, but outside the city or in the yard you can "chase the ball" from an early age.

I myself equipped a basketball court in my country house and now I am ready to share the secrets of its arrangement. I'll tell you what you need to do, how to choose the right equipment and how to care for it.

Prepare basketball court surface

To create a basketball court in accordance with all the rules, you need to select a flat horizontal surface for it and fill it with concrete. After that, I recommend applying a special rubber coating, like on playgrounds in the yard. There is a more expensive coating option - from rubber.

The coating will provide cushioning - the ball will bounce well.

If it is not possible to organize a special platform, you can simply place a rack or hanging basket on a dirt surface. In this case, the ball bounce will not be so strong. An important requirement for safety: the surface must be flat, without holes and bumps.

The dimensions of the site depend on the features of your yard or plot in the country. A full-fledged basketball court has dimensions of 28 × 15 meters. However, not everyone has the opportunity to build such a site in the country.

It is necessary to take into account the technical features of the game. The three-point line in basketball is 6.75 meters from the hoop. Therefore, it is necessary that the size of the site be at least 10 × 13 meters. If you are not going to train three-point shots, a 5 × 5 meter court will do.

Mark out

The second step is to mark up. It is important to use paints of contrasting colors. It is better to buy paints with a high content of rubber or polymer.

If you are equipping a basketball court for children, make the markings bright so that they cheer you up and attract attention. For the game of teenagers and adults, it is better to immediately apply technically correct markings.

Place a small fence or protective net on the site. Thanks to them, you do not have to constantly run after the ball to the other end of the site.

Buy stand or backboard

It is difficult to answer the question of what is better - a basketball stand or a backboard. It all depends on taste, tasks and opportunities. Each of these types of equipment has its pros and cons.

There are two types of racks: mobile and static. The static one is mounted in the ground.

The base of the mobile rack is filled with sand or water - for stability. The main advantage of a mobile rack is that it can be moved from place to place. This is convenient when there is no dedicated basketball court or if you are going to play other games in this area, such as tennis or football.

The main requirement for racks is their stability. It will be much more comfortable and safer to play if you are sure that the stance will withstand a blow of any force.

Pay attention to the materials from which the racks are made. A static rack will be outdoors throughout the year, which means it must be made of reliable materials. It is better to buy racks from well-known manufacturers. So, the American companies Spalding or Royal Fitness guarantee high quality, durability and safety.

Basketball backboards can be made in the country with your own hands from a board, chipboard or plywood remnants. If this option does not suit you, you can purchase semi-professional or professional options in stores.

There are four types of materials from which the shield surface is made: composite, polycarbonate, acrylic and tempered glass. The first one is the cheapest. It is intended for entry-level players. Now manufacturers offer a large selection of colors. A carbonate backboard will provide a good bounce of the ball. An acrylic shield is bought to hold competitions or intense games.

The mobile stand can be moved, so it is suitable for a playground in the country and for those who want to play other games besides basketball

Shields and racks made of tempered glass look solid. They will be appreciated by experienced basketball players

Pay attention to rings

You can buy cheap rings, but I don't recommend doing that. In a year they will deteriorate and you will have to buy new ones. Basketball hoops from Spalding and Royal Fitness are made from quality metal that won't rust in the rain.

The ring must have a springy structure - no rigid attachment to the shield.

According to NBA rules, the ring must be fixed at a distance of about three meters from the ground. For a game with the participation of younger students, it can be hung lower so that it is not very easy to hit it, but at the same time it is quite possible.

Choose rings made from high quality metal to last for many years. For a game involving adults and teenagers, metal chain rings are suitable. They are distinguished by durability and strength.

Know what types of basketballs exist

Success in the game depends on the basketball.

They are divided by size. Size 7 is for men, 5 for women. Even smaller balls are bought for children. The size 6 ball is suitable for street ball or street basketball where the game is played on half the field.

You also need to take into account where you will play the ball: on the street or in the hall. The street ball has a stronger bounce, it is harder and more wear-resistant, but the indoor ball is more convenient to hold in your hands.

It is important to pay attention to the composition of the basketball. Well-known companies use complex polymer compositions for its production. The more expensive the ball, the more complex the polymer composition. The quality of the material determines how comfortable it will be for the players to hold the ball, what kind of rebound it has from the floor and from the bow of the ring.

Another important nuance: do not forget to purchase a pump with any needle.

If you want the ball to have good grip and bounce well, you need to choose polymer models from world famous manufacturers

Proper care

Professional athletes are ready to play in any weather, but amateurs are better off not following their example. If you don't properly store, use and care for your basketball arsenal, its lifespan will be shortened. Humidity will ruin the ball and all equipment, so you can’t leave them outside during rain and snow.

Balls should be stored only in a dry and ventilated room at a temperature of 10 to 20 °C.

Before winter storage, water must be poured out of the base of the mobile rack, and then removed from the street. If you don't feel like doing this every time, fill the rack with sand. Then it will not need to be constantly moved. Basketball stands from Royal Fitness can be left outside in the winter.

Points to Remember When Organizing a Basketball Court

1. The area needs to be determined. The classic version - 28 × 15 meters - is not suitable for everyone. For a dacha, a 5 × 5 meter area will be enough if you want to train three-point shots.
2. Don't forget the markup. It should be in a contrasting color. Bright colors will interest children and cheer them up.
3. It is necessary to install a protective net so as not to constantly run after the ball to the other end of the area.

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