Crafts for the Year of the Tiger will create a cheerful holiday mood and help many creative talents who could not find a way out for their manifestation to open up. After all, you can work with a wide variety of materials and in different techniques, so every child and adult will be able to find a master class for themselves and make a craft with their own hands.
In this New Year's Tigers article:
- from light plasticine
- from felt
- from fabric
- from sock
- from pompons
- from yarn crochet
- from bushings
- made of paper in different techniques
- pumpkin
- from a ball
Light plasticine tiger
Children really like to sculpt various figures from plasticine, so they will be interested in a simple master class on creating a large striped cat. For work you will need:
- plasticine of orange, black, white or cream colors;
- toothpicks.
How to make it yourself:
- Make a thick sausage from orange plasticine, which will become the body of the animal.
- Then roll a ball out of the material of the same color, which will later become the head. Connect the torso and head with a toothpick.
- Roll three small balls from white or cream plasticine and attach them to the head. This will be the muzzle. With a sharp toothpick, put points on the face in places where the mustache should grow, as shown in the photo.
- Then attach two small orange balls to the head and flatten a little - these will be the ears.
- Make eyes and nose from small balls of black plasticine.
- Attach four orange sausages of the same length to the bottom of the body and shape them into paws.
- Make a tail from a long orange braid with a black tassel at the end. Attach it to the torso.
- The craft is almost ready. It remains only to add stripes to his body made of thin bundles of black plasticine.
Such a craft can be made from ordinary or light plasticine, polymer clay. In the last two cases, after the material hardens, the craft will be able to delight its creator for a long time, and you will not have to worry that it is deformed from the warm air, and the child will be upset because of this.
Felt symbol of the year
It is easy to make beautiful crafts from felt for school with children who know how to hold a sewing needle in their hands at least a little.
To sew a tiger from felt, you need to prepare:
- felt orange, black, white, pink and green;
- sewing threads to match the material;
- filler - synthetic winterizer or holofiber;
- scissors, a needle and additional decorative elements at will.
Sequence of work:
- Lay out the patterns on felt of the appropriate color, circle with ordinary or tailor's chalk and cut out.
- Then sew strips, muzzle elements, eyes and more to the main details. This can be done with a loop or a seam in front of the needle, or you can do it even easier - stick it on polymer glue.
- Next, sew all the paired parts together with a buttonhole seam, not forgetting to put the filler inside before tying the last knot.
- Sew all the individual parts of the toy together.
Such crafts for the New Year, even made according to the same pattern, can be completely different due to additional decorative elements (bow, flower, embroidery), so do not be afraid to bring something of your own into the work.
Here are some in-depth felt Tigers workshops.
Crafts for the Year of the Tiger from fabric
Fabric is more difficult to work with than felt, so it's good if you have a sewing machine at hand for sewing stitches.
In addition to her, you will also need from tools and materials:
- fabric - not necessarily striped tiger colors, you can take any fabric even in a flower, the main thing is that it is natural and does not crumble: chintz, linen, cotton;
- scissors - sharp, suitable for cutting fabric;
- threads and a needle - to sew and sweep individual parts;
- filler - synthetic winterizer, holofayber;
- various decorative elements.
How to sew a Tiger from fabric:
- First you need to prepare a pattern. You can draw it by hand or print one of the suggested ones below, enlarging it in one of the graphic editors to the desired size.
- Next, the prepared patterns need to be circled on the fabric and cut out. If it is possible to cut the edges of the blanks, it is better to cut the cut with a zigzag seam.
- On the front side of the muzzle, it is better immediately, even before joining the two parts together, to sew or embroider the eyes, nose, mustache, and so on.
- After that, sew all the details, leaving a small hole through which to fill the toy with padding polyester. Then carefully sew this hole by hand.
New Year's crafts made of fabric in the form of a large striped cat will be able to settle in the interior for a long time, becoming, for example, an assistant who will keep the TV remote control or simply add coziness to the room.
Striped sock cat
A simple craft of a pair of striped socks can be a cute tiger cub.
For work you need to prepare:
- a pair of socks;
- thread and sewing needle;
- filler;
- buttons or ready-made eyes and nose.
Sewing method:
- Cut out the torso and tail from one sock. For the tail, you need to cut off the toe (upper part) of the sock. Put filler inside this part and sew.
- The heel of this sock will be the booty. Based on this, cut the workpiece lengthwise on both sides into the hind and front legs. Sew the part by filling it with padding polyester.
- The heel of the other sock will become a muzzle, so cut the sock on one side of the heel with a straight line, and on the other side - in the form of two triangles (ears).
- Sew and stuff your head. Sew on her eyes, nose, mustache. After that, sew the torso and head together.
There are variants of tigers and from one toe, in which the heel is the muzzle. Such tabby cats usually stand.
For this craft, it is better to take terry socks that will imitate fur. And if you fill the toy not with a padding polyester, but with buckwheat husk or small balls, you get anti-stress. It can be presented as a souvenir for the New Year 2022.
Pom-pom tiger
If all the crafts in which the parts need to be sewn together are suitable for schoolchildren, then a tiger from threads can be made for kindergarten.
Buying yarn on purpose is not at all necessary entrance, you can start up the leftovers. A list of all the necessary tools and materials will look like this:
- thick cardboard;
- woolen threads in orange, black and white;
- wire;
- nose and eyes;
- scissors;
- polymer glue;
- long needle with a large eye.
Build process:
- Cut out two base rings for the body and head from thick cardboard. For the ears, you need four base rings.
- Between the cardboard blanks, put a thread with which the pompom will be tied. For reliability, it can be fixed with glue in several places.
- Next, fold all the cardboard bases in pairs and wrap them with threads, as shown in the photo and indicated on the cardboard bases.
- When finished winding, cut the threads along the outer edge of the template and tie the pompom. Remove cardboard parts.
- Tie the body, head and ears together with threads or connect with polymer glue. If necessary, cut off any protruding threads with scissors.
- For the paws and tail, make small pompons by winding threads around the finger. Tie out to a wire and then attach to the torso. Finally, attach the eyes and nose.
If such a performance seems difficult, then you can limit yourself to just two pom-poms. In this case, the hind legs and ears can be cut out of felt, and the tail and front legs can be made from braided threads.
Crochet the symbol of the year
A knitted tiger is a complex but beautiful project that will be interesting to complete not only for children, but also for adults.Moreover, on our website you can find amigurumi schemes with descriptions for different levels of difficulty. Here, we will just dwell a little on what materials and tools are best used for work.
Not just any thread is suitable for a crocheted toy. Experienced knitters advise using yarn that contains:
- acrylic - it does not double, keeps its shape well, does not cause allergies, it is convenient for them to knit and it is easy to dissolve knitting if something went wrong;
- cotton - knitting with it turns out to be neat, but you need to observe the uniformity of the thread tension;
- mohair - it will be difficult for inexperienced craftswomen to work with such yarn, but it is from it that the most realistic fluffy toys will turn out.
As for the hook - the main working tool, it must correspond to the number of the yarn. The thicker the yarn, the thinner the hook and vice versa.
There are many crochet accessories available in handicraft stores that will make the striped symbol of 2022 realistic and alive. In addition to the noses and the peephole, it is worth taking a closer look at the joints, which will make the legs and head mobile.
Making wild cats from bushings
The most simple craft, available in complexity for children of absolutely any age, is made on the basis of a cardboard sleeve from paper towels. At the same time, the list of necessary tools and materials will also be minimal:
- cardboard sleeve;
- two sheets of thick cardboard;
- polymer or hot glue;
- acrylic paints or gouache;
- scissors, brushes, pencil.
Algorithm of actions:
- Draw a head with front paws and a tail with hind paws on thick cardboard (you can take packing corrugated cardboard), so to speak, front view and back view.
- Cut out these details and paint with paints. Also paint the sleeve, which will be the body of the animal.
- After the paint has dried, glue all the parts together.
Such a tiger can be put under the tree together with Santa Claus so that he lures good luck in the upcoming New Year 2022.
Paper tiger in different techniques
Application, origami, vytynanka, papercraft, paper plastic and there are many other techniques in which you can make crafts for the Year of the Tiger from paper.
Let's consider examples of specific crafts for the most popular ones:
- Tiger applique. For work, they use simple geometric shapes made of paper of different colors. You can cut them out, and then invite your child to glue a striped cat out of them. The applique can be used to decorate corrugated cardboard crafts. Thin strips of colored paper, not cut off, but torn off by hand, easily turn into stripes on the skin.
- Origami. From a sheet of orange paper, following the instructions of the photo instructions, you can fold the face of a cute tiger with your child, which then, for example, can be used for a handmade greeting card.
- Papercraft is a complex process of creating volumetric polygonal models, which is more suitable as a type of creativity for adults. Children can be offered a more simplified version of crafts - cuts and glues.
Animal patron of the New Year from pumpkin
The orange color of the pumpkin beauty of the garden just asks that this vegetable be turned into a cute tiger.
This can be done in several ways:
- draw - this should be done with acrylic paints, after removing all impurities from the vegetable and treating it with a sealant;
- craft applique - both colored paper and soft felt are suitable for this purpose, it is better to glue the parts with glue Moment;
- decor made of electrical tape - black electrical tape or scotch tape can be quite enough to turn a pumpkin into a tiger;
- A New Year's mask is the simplest and least time-consuming method, because you just need to put on a mask with an animal's face on the pumpkin, which can be easily bought at the gif.webpt shop.
To complement the composition with paws, you can put two tangerines next to the pumpkin, taking care of their decor in advance.
Ball tiger
An ordinary balloon can delight a kid, but you can surprise a child even more by teaching him how to make a tiger out of a balloon.
To do this, you need a long orange balloon (ШДМ 260), a black permanent marker and a good mood.
Progress:
- Inflate the balloon, leaving a long non-inflated tail (about 8-10 fingers). Tie a knot, which is hidden by wrapping around a small short segment (pinch twist).
- Next, turning the ball clockwise, make separate segments (bubble twist): long, long, small, long, short, long, long.
- Twist the balls under the second and sixth segments. Pass the bubble twist element into the resulting hole and twist the long ball.
- Rotate the small bubble twist one by one and the muzzle is ready. After that, make the segments of the bubble twist on the remaining length of the ball to make the front, hind legs and tail.
- Draw a muzzle and stripes with a permanent marker.
It is not necessary to use only the orange ball. In a year patronized by the Blue Water Tiger, you can make a patron animal from a blue or blue ball.
