Cone crafts with their own hands: easy master classes for children and beginners

Creative activities are very useful not only for children, but also for adults. Making a holiday souvenir or a beautiful applique for the wall will be an excellent alternative to watching TV in the evening, and joint activities between parents and children will leave pleasant memories.

The conical base figure is an excellent blanks for the subsequent production of crafts. It is much easier for children to assemble a Christmas tree souvenir or glue a holiday hat, having a ready-made shape at hand.

A set of materials for creative activities is minimal and includes paints, brushes, glue, and colored paper. If desired, this list can be supplemented with tinsel, beads or beads, buttons (depending on the idea of the master).

A basic figure for crafts

Before proceeding to the creative task, you should prepare the main part - a cone.

The conical blank can be made of the following materials:

Paper and thick cardboard. To obtain a cylinder, it is enough to cut a circle from paper, and then roll it into a cone. Be sure to leave 1,0-1,2 cm for an allowance, so it was convenient to glue the edges of the workpiece with each other. Cone crafts using paper are the most popular for children's creativity.
Whole cones can be cut out of foam plastic, however, such figures will not have an inner cavity.
For garden crafts, you can prepare blanks from old plastic bottles or corrugated pipes. Such blanks are an excellent basis for creating cachepots, hanging flower beds.

In creative classes, you can use old, scratched cubes (a cone is one of the obligatory forms for the early development of children).

Master classes for making crafts

A variety of techniques are used to create original crafts, souvenirs, toys, home and garden decorations. Cones can be glued with colored paper, painted with stained glass paints or gouache, and decorated with paper buds.

The most important task for the master is the correct organization of the work. Before you start, you should prepare a sketch of the future craft, prepare materials and tools.

Figure of an angel

The Christmas angel is a popular character, symbolizing the arrival of the winter holidays. Such a souvenir will look great on a mantelpiece, on a shelf in the bedroom or in the living room.

To make an angel, you need to find and print out a photo of the finished craft beforehand, as well as find templates for the head and wings.

Instructions on how to make a craft out of a cone with your own hands:

The cylinder should be rolled from cardboard or cut from foam plastic (depending on the availability of supplies).
From cardboard cut templates for wings and head.
Using templates cut out parts for subsequent assembly.
The next step is to decorate the cone itself. If foam plastic is used in the work, it is pre-painted in white paint, hiding the relief. Painting the cone includes an image of a festive dress and hands of an angel.

The wings and head are painted, the smallest details are drawn (guided by the prepared photo). Parts are attached to the cone with glue.

If desired, you can make a festive decoration by gluing a thin strip of tinsel along the contour of the wings.

New Year's Tree

The next must-have holiday symbol is the holiday tree. There are many ways to create a brightly colored Christmas tree out of a cone: paint it with paint, glue it with triangles of green paper, or use pompoms of yarn.

To make a pom-pom around a cardboard circle, wrap green thread, fix the central thread, and then cut from one edge of the resulting ball.

For pasting pompoms, you need to use a more stable cone, such as made of foam plastic or corrugated tube. Wool blanks are attached in parallel rows with glue.

For children, you can use a simpler way, cutting out circles of green paper. A few circles will be colored in red and blue shades, imitating the holiday balls on the Christmas tree.

Children's Toy Set.

A basic cone shape allows you to create a set of fun toys with your kids, such as a penguin or a mouse. For work you will need colored paper, scissors, glue. Instructions on how to make crafts from a cone and a cylinder with your own hands:

The basic figure to roll out of cardboard or cut out of foam plastic.
Using templates or a drawn sketch, cut out blanks (ears, paws, funny faces of selected animals).
A composition in the form of miniature mice can be created by drawing details directly on sleeves of toilet paper. One end of the sleeve should be flattened and glued.

Separately prepared parts are attached to the base figure with glue.

Holiday Hood

Children's birthday will become much more fun, if you prepare in advance a set of brightly colored hubcaps. To make an original accessory, you will need cardboard, paints, scissors and an elastic band. Instructions on how to make a craft from a cone for children:

It is necessary to cut a circle from cardboard (the diameter is calculated, depending on the circumference of the child's head).
The circle is rolled into a cone, and the opposite edges of the workpiece are glued together.
Using paints and brushes, you should decorate the hubcaps in one theme or in different variations.

The last step is to make two small holes on the opposite ends of the cap, and put a rubber band through them (to fix the holiday accessory on the child's head).

A gift bouquet

To mom on March 8 or Mother's Day, a child can make an original bouquet in a cone. To do this, a circle of cardboard is rolled into a figure, fixed with glue.

The outer side of the blank can be decorated with beads or beads, decorated with paints or applications (fabric scraps, funny figures from colored paper, confetti). Flower for greetings can be real or made of corrugated paper.

To make stylish crafts for home, creative studio, school or kindergarten, you do not need to have special skills and abilities at all. Using ordinary cardboard, brushes, paints, you can create a bright gift bouquet, holiday cap or Christmas tree.