Handmade potato crafts - easy masters on how to make a hedgehog with thorns, piggy and cheburashka
Vegetables are a great material for children's creativity. They are not only available, since they are in every home, but also have understandable shapes for kids - round, oval or cone-shaped.
To translate his plan will only need to place them in the right sequence. Make crafts from potatoes with their own hands is absolutely not difficult, so this product is willingly chosen by schoolchildren and children from kindergarten.
Preparatory stage
From vegetables, you can come up with an original composition. The process is very entertaining and brings great joy to the child. In front of his eyes, such familiar objects turn out quite believable pets, characters from fairy tales or cartoons. Demonstrating the proper diligence, you can get a real work of art!
Before you start making potato crafts, you need to pick up tubers of such size, which corresponds to the idea. They are well washed and dried.
You may need:
- Vegetables and fruit for decoration - carrot, tomato, cucumber, apple.
- Glue.
- Plasticine.
- Colorful cardboard.
- Markers.
- Thread.
- Cotton pads.
- Toothpicks.
Hedgehog with thorns
Material will be required in advance:
- Not a large potato.
- Toothpicks - 40-50 pieces.
- Carrots, dried berries or raisins.
- Plasticine.
Step by step instructions :
- Toothpicks break in half, the more needles there will be, the more interesting the product looks.
- Sticks carefully poke not prickly side around the perimeter, leaving the front part free, which is provided for the muzzle.
- The result is a prickly ball.
- Eyes are made of black plasticine, which is placed in the hole made. A couple of peas, berries or raisins glued on superglue or pinned with a toothpick will do. They should fit tightly to the body.
- For the nose and mouth take a clean carrot and cut oblong strips.
- The legs will serve as sliced pieces from a potato ring, which are also carefully attached.
- For effect, leaves, cranberry berries or a small apple are placed on the thorns. They are placed haphazardly on the back.
Hedgehog, hoarding food for the winter, looks especially funny. As a stand can take a leaf of maple or any other tree. For the hedgehog handicrafts out of potatoes can use another version with buckwheat grits. The needles are made simply by pressing the buckwheat with your hand.
Pigs
We need to prepare the material ahead of time:
- 1 medium-sized and 2 very small tubers of potatoes.
- 1 carrot.
- 6 peas of black pepper.
- Toothpicks.
- Cardboard box with low sides.
- 2 sheets of yellow paper for straw bedding and brown paper for trough.
- Corrugated cardboard for the fence.
- Paper sleeve.
- A pine tree branch.
- Yellow plasticine.
- Glue "Moment.
- Millet grits.
- Stationery for gluing, line drawing, cutting and erasing.
Workflow :
- Prepare 3 potatoes.
- From the narrow part of the carrot separated 3 different circles 3-5 mm - the large for the largest tuber, and the rest for the small ones.
- In each billet, stick 2 broken toothpicks in the spaces designed for the heel.
- Carrot circles are strung on them.
- From the same vegetable cut a pair of ears for each of the 3 future piglets.
- Break out 6 toothpicks - 2 pieces for each ear.
- The parts are tried on and placed in the right area for all the pieces.
- The next part of the creative process is to cut 4 legs out of carrots for the piggies.
- Take 6 toothpicks - half for each leg.
- Turning the product, observing symmetry, they are placed in the place of the expected legs.
- Attach elements of the craft.
- Where the eyes are made miniature openings, which put glue and peppers.
Now the piglets need to make a home out of a cardboard box with a fence. It is drawn on corrugated cardboard - a total of 4 parts on each side of the box. The length should be the same, and the height a little more than the rim, for example, 4 and 6.5 cm.
If the dimensions of the box of 25 and 17 cm, then you will need to have 2 parts of the fence 25 x 6.5 cm and the same 17 x 6.5 cm.
The fence is attached by means of glue to the sides of the box. Pine branches are attached with plasticine in the future house. Paper cut into strips is used as straw bedding. The slightly crumpled sheets are scattered chaotically on the bottom of the box, whipping it up a bit.
The trough imitates a cut lengthwise roll of toilet paper, to which the brown sheets are glued. Glue the other part of the trough. In a box placed pigs. For food, they are poured millet. Thus, children themselves take care of them.
Model piglet out of potatoes ready! This animal can be made as a symbol of the year, give it as a gift, made by hand, or find him a nice corner in the house!
Cheburashka
An excellent children's craft out of potatoes can become this cartoon character.
Step by step instructions :
- Pick a large, oblong in shape tuber.
- Cut across to a thickness of 1-2 cm for different sizes of rings. There should be 7-8 of them.
- The largest will serve as the body.
- On toothpicks attach a circle of smaller diameter - for the head.
- Two equal circles attached with toothpicks will replace the ears.
- The potato legs are also perfectly attached.
- To complete the look, they make eyes out of carnations and a mouth out of carrots.
The character will look best with a hat! Do not forget to pre-apply to all elements a composition of water and citric acid.
You can use sunflower oil instead. So the product will retain its attractive appearance for a long time.
The good thing about these handmade crafts that the material for them will certainly be found in the household. Different ideas can be found on the internet and make sure how unusual they can be. Children they will help to show their creative talents. There is always a lot of creative ideas for the realization of their imagination!
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