Create crafts for your own home and garden

If you want to attract a child to some kind of creativity, then start creating animal handicrafts with him. It develops assiduity, accuracy and attention. Also involved is a small hand motor and observation. Such activities bring parents closer to children, since adults take a direct part in creating an unusual product.

Material for crafts

The material that you may need to create crafts is available. Most often use cardboard and colored paper. With such material, the child can easily work by carving out various details. фетра, бисера, пластилина, теста, различной швейной фурнитуры, а также природного материала. Crafts of animals are made from plastic bottles, felt, beads, plasticine, dough, various sewing accessories, and also natural material.

Products can be made by hand for any holiday of the four seasons of the year. It can be decorations of a summer residence, garden territory, the house, a kitchen garden. Crafts can participate in landscape design, as well as in the design of a kindergarten. Of course, if it is necessary to use tools such as saws, drill, secateurs, then this work is not for the child. It is better to involve him in the manufacture of crafts made of small parts.

A personal zoo can be created using any technique. This can be origami, quilling, modeling, embroidery, beading. The animal that you decide to make can be a symbol of the coming year or those years in which the family members were born. When you make animal handicrafts with your own hands, you can combine several techniques. For example, the muzzle and hooves of the pet can be made from baked clay, and the wool - from the fleece of the required color.

Bottles from bottles

Basically, these products are placed in the garden or in the garden. Since the bottle is not afraid of weather changes, it is durable and does not require care for it. In the garden there can be both wild animals and pets. An example is the original piglet.

For a given craft, a container of any size and diameter, at your discretion, is suitable. Naturally, it needs to be dyed with a waterproof paint in pink, imitating the skin of a pig. From the side of the twisting lid, draw large surprised eyes with cilia. On the vertex, cut the bottle from both sides to insert the ears, which are cut from the spare container. Ears paint the same color as the body. On the cover, draw a pentacle in the form of two black dots. The pig can be used as a flower bed for flowers. To do this, on the back, cut out a rectangular hole, fill in the earth and sow the seeds of flowers. The whole family will look more original, and not one craft. A pet, created by itself, will please the eye not only during the flowering of plants, but also during the rest period.

Sheepskin Felt

When you make animal handicrafts with your own hands, you can safely use a felt of different colors. Let's create, for example, lambs. Pink felt will serve as a wool, lilac - a muzzle, white we use for the peephole, well, and from black felt we will make a hoof. You can find patterns, and you can make a pattern yourself. The trunk of a lamb is like a cloud, which needs to be cut from a suitable piece of material. Slightly extended head with ears, three times smaller than the trunk, cut out of lilac felt. On a white background, draw a sign of infinity, depicting future eyes.

We put this sign on the head of the animal and sew the eyes with beads, piercing both materials. Embroider with black thread the mouth and nose. Glue the head to the body. Then from the lilac felt cut rectangles, from the black - squares. Glue the legs with the hooves, and then glue the parts to the body. So we made the original hand-made article!

Gifts of nature

Using natural materials, you can create unique masterpieces. All the gifts of nature are not only environmentally friendly and safe, but also free of charge. Working with them is a cognitive and fascinating process.

Crafts of animals made of natural material, created by their own hands, take part in various school and even city exhibitions and competitions. To create a masterpiece used a variety of leaves, acorns, chestnuts and cones, branches, pumpkins and zucchini, seashells, stones and much more.