How To Make A Cone Roof Out Of Paper

I used aluminum sheet coil but you could use paper or any flat material.

How to make a cone roof out of paper.

To make a funnel or cone from paper start by tracing a wide triangle onto a sheet of paper. Bark or tree stump body of the house 65 lb. The lighter paper is easier to curve for the roof. Leaves 98 lb.

Make sure the two shorter sides are the exact same length then cut the triangle out. Here is one way to make a cone from flat stock. Then secure it with glue or tape. The circle formed by the other side is called the base of the cone while the upper extremity is called the vertex.

To make the cone a precise size make the length of your semi circle twice as long as the height you want your cone to have. Next take one of the far corners and roll it into the center so the paper s edge is touching the middle of the triangle. If you want to make a paper cone cut out a semi circle and fold it over on itself to get your desired cone width. Brown cardstock or woodgrain scrapbook paper.

A cone is a tridimensional geometric shape formed by rotating a right angled triangle around one of its sides. Watercolor paper worked best for me. Roof cone 65 lb. For example if you want a 12 inch cone draw a semi circle that s 24.