Hand-made bear of cones: a master class

Creative activities with the child are always interesting and fascinating. If you like to make crafts made from natural materials together and are looking for new ideas, a cone bear will be an excellent option for you. These souvenirs can be made so unusual and original that they will be an excellent gift to the grandparents, and also they can decorate any interior.

Crafts from natural material: the benefit of such creativity

To be engaged in any kind of artistic skill to a child is very useful. It develops small motor skills, imagination, imagination, the ability to follow the instructions of an adult. Working with natural materials has several advantages:

• Everything that a child does is natural, and therefore safe for health;
• Collection and preparation of cones, acorns, leaves, flowers can be turned into a fascinating cognitive process;
• These materials provide ample opportunities for creativity.

Child any fake from cones will approach : bear, hedgehog, fox, mouse. Children love to make animals. In addition, the animals are the heroes of folk tales. Of these heroes, which the baby made by hand, you can arrange a whole theater.

Preparation of materials

All elements of natural origin must be collected in dry weather. It is advisable to allow them to lie down for a while in the room until they dry completely. Wet fresh fir cone after a while from thin will turn into a large opened. This must be taken into account. If you need to keep the shape, use a coating of an aqueous solution of joinery glue. In a few days, you can start modeling. All that you have found in nature, should not have visible damage: holes, dents, mold, rot. High-quality materials will allow the craftsman to keep an attractive appearance for a long time.

Cones, acorns and everything else are better immediately sorted and sorted. Smooth, accurate should be used in a general form, and those where there are not enough scales, hats, can be disassembled and used separately. If you need a bear of cones, hats from acorns or pine scales will fit as ears.

Combination of materials

In any art work, the contrast method looks spectacular: colors, textures, shapes, and sizes. This is one of the techniques of composition, with the help of which harmony is achieved. The bear will look good from cones and plasticine, threads, tangles, seeds, nuts. You can use chestnuts, acorns, sticks, matches as additional elements. Not a bad combination of natural textures and artificial. For example, your eyes or nose buy ready-made plastic for handicrafts, designed for soft toys. They will give your animal a certain facial expression and facial expression. Although they can be made from plasticine, peas, peppers, pebbles. In a word, you need to show imagination, and then your bear of cones will turn out great.

Fir cones

General advice for all works was said above, now specific options and ways of their manufacture will be considered: how to make a bear of cones of spruce, pine, and their combinations. You can make a large beast or in the form of a miniature table souvenir. Very simple samples will be offered, which even a small child can handle on their own, others will require joint efforts with an adult.

Any work begins with the preparation of everything necessary. In the illustration, where a hand-made cone is presented, the bear is made rather simplistically. It is made using material collected from under the Christmas tree.

To cope with this work, you need to perform the following steps:

1. Find cones in the forest or in the park (one big for the trunk, the second for the smaller for the head, four medium sizes for the paws and two for the ears).
2. Collect all the elements as shown in the picture. You can fix them with the help of glue, wire or pins, on the heads of which again all the parts are glued.
3. Decorate the product with a ribbon.

Handy No. 2

And if you go to the fir grove long? How to make a bear out of cones? Pines are often planted right in the park and on the local area. Use this material. From it, too, are wonderful souvenirs.

Such a bear can be obtained in several ways. Option 1 includes the following:

1. Collect the torso from several large elements.
2. Attach a head to it from one bump.
3. Ears perform from previously separated scales.
4. For the feet, take also two elements.
5. From white threads make pompoms: round for a muzzle and trimmed in shape for the feet and ears. They are obtained by winding the yarn on a cardboard blank in the form of a ring, then cutting along the perimeter and pulling it into a ball. This method can be obtained in any form.
6. Attach the pompons with glue or wire to the right places.
7. Establish an eye, a nose. Decorate with a scarf.

Option 2 is manufactured in a completely different technology. Such a bear of cones with its own hands is very easy. Take an old soft toy and glue it with pine scales, leaving fluffy paws, inner parts of ears and face.

Next is the simplest bear of cones. Photo is clearly demonstrates. This craft can be built even by a kid. The cardboard form can be cut as one unit or by individual elements. In the first case two bumps are used for the trunk on both sides of the workpiece. In the second variant, the paws and head are inserted between the scales and adhered.

A beautiful combination

If you do not feel the lack of materials, boldly combine them. You will have the same happy bear of cones, a sweet couple or a whole family. So, do the following:

1. Take a good large fir cone for the trunk.
2. Attach to it the opened flattened pine form as the head.
3. The muzzle and ears receive acorns from the hats.
4. Eyes and nose perform from peas.
5. Four small pine cones are used for paws. Try to strengthen them so that the craft is stable.

Bear of cones and plasticine

In the previous examples, the elements were connected by means of glue or wire. The same can be done with clay. The most important thing is to use the appropriate color to make it as inconspicuous as possible among the brown scales. Try to tightly press the elements against each other and take a sufficient amount of clay.

By the way, it can be used as a decoration. Then choose any color. From it make a muzzle, eyes, ears, ornaments.

Big bear of cones

If you need a monumental decoration of the interior, use the following example. This figure is collected from a huge number of elements. In the spruce forest you will have to spend a lot of time. This kind of work is suitable as a collective creativity. To build such a sculpture, you will need to perform the following actions:

1. Make a skeleton. If you do it by the papier-mache method, you can use the ready solid sculpture form. Then it will turn out hollow. Inside are stuffed newspapers, paper. In the lower paws it is necessary to put something heavier, for example, bars for the stability of the structure. If there is no ready-made wooden bear, it makes sense to create the mold yourself from the mass of paper mixed with gypsum, starch or glue. Large shapes are also created from the mounting foam.
2. At the second stage, an outer layer of cones is made. Of course, you can completely build a sculpture of them, but in this case they will need much more. Choose yourself. In any case, all elements are connected with glue. You can use a thermo gun. In it, under the influence of temperature, special glue rods melt and the composition enters the nozzle, from which it is squeezed out to the junction. Work with this tool should be carried out necessarily under the supervision of adults.
3. When the main form is made, decorative elements are executed: the muzzle, the inner parts of the ears in the form of pompons of threads, and a scarf made from any material, natural or artificial.

Now you will have the same magnificent bear of cones. A master class will certainly help in creating a sculptural masterpiece.

Fashionable bear cub

If you have decided to do creativity and are going to make souvenirs for pleasure or as gifts to relatives and friends, try dressing your hero in bright things. Objects of his wardrobe can be crocheted or knitted, sewed or even used clothes for dolls.

Ideas for decoration are very different. Let it be a bear of cones, in the costume of Santa Claus or the Snow Maiden. A great gift for the New Year. It is not necessary to decorate a souvenir from head to foot. It is important not to overdo it and preserve the beauty of natural material. It will be enough to have a Santa Claus hat or a Snow Maiden crown.

If you want to make a gift to one of your friends or relatives, decorate the bear with such an element of clothing that is most characteristic for this person. The original hat, scarf or bow will be enough.

Polar bear

In addition to decorating with additional things, it is worth using the magic of color. Take plasticine bright colors or even paint to create a specific image of your hero. If you paint the bump in white for the artwork presented in the photo, you get a polar bear.

You can also make a panda bear, a clown, an artist. It all depends on your imagination.

Subject composition

A bear is a frequent hero of fairy tales. The child will be interested in playing theatrical scenes with the help of his crafts. This will require the construction of other animals. In addition, it will be interesting to present the fairy tale "Three Bears". You can think of and just a souvenir, consisting of several objects, united by a common theme:

• New Year with a Christmas tree, toys and gifts;
• Cook - as a souvenir in the kitchen;
• A bear with a bouquet of flowers, a barrel of honey, butterflies and bees;
• With a briefcase and a primer on September 1;
• In glasses with a book, a globe or other attributes of a schoolteacher;
• The figure can be supplemented with the characteristic objects of any profession.

So, you were presented with detailed practical material on how to make a bear out of cones. The adult and the child can make a beautiful and original handicraft. The best is joint creativity.