Preparation for the New Year begins long before its onset, and it takes a lot of time and effort. One of the stages of such preparation (especially in families with children) will be the creation of crafts for the year of the Ox, which will replace the Rat.
The patron animal has an enviable will, confidence, perseverance in achieving goals, a heightened sense of justice and a calm attitude to life's troubles. You can tell children about this by creating bulls with them from various materials. In this article:
- Bull made of polymer clay and plasticine
- Symbol of 2021 made of felt
- Goby using the amigurumi technique
- Salted dough gobies
- Craft-bull from twine
- Symbol of 2021 made from plastic bottles
- Bull from DVD disc
- Crafts in the form of a symbol of the New 2021 from plates
- Goby from natural materials
- How to make a bull or cow out of paper and cardboard
- Toy-bull from nylon tights
Bull made of polymer clay and plasticine
Children really like to create volumetric figures from polymer clay and plasticine. At first glance, it may seem that only a person seriously engaged in sculpture can blind a realistic bull or cow, but the above photo master classes can destroy this stereotype.
Any figurine can be disassembled into simple elements - balls and flagella. Making them in different colors and sizes, and then, slightly adjusting the shape with stacks or improvised tools (match, toothpick), according to step-by-step photos, you can sculpt very realistic animals.
Plasticine works can be used to create New Year's compositions for school or kindergarten. After hardening, figures made of polymer clay can be turned into pendants, a fridge magnet or a Christmas tree toy.
Symbol of 2021 made of felt
Felt is a non-woven material that is very easy to work with. It does not crumble and allows you to create bright New Year's crafts. From felt, you can sew a two-dimensional bull or a voluminous soft toy.
The main stages of work will be as follows:
- Transferring the corresponding colors of patterns to felt and cutting them out.
- Sewing cut out parts.
- Stuffing toys with soft filler and decoration (sewing on eyes and other decorative elements).
More interesting options for felt crafts for children, as well as detailed master classes, can be found on our website in the article Felt gobies.
Goby using the amigurumi technique
Crocheting toys has captivated not only older children, but also many adult craftswomen. A knitted bull can become a toy for a child, which he will be happy to find on New Year's morning under the Christmas tree, and for adults - a happy talisman for the whole coming New Year 2021.
This type of needlework has many subtleties and nuances, from which thread to knit toys, to the peculiarities of the knitting technique of certain elements.
A lot of useful information on crocheting a symbol of the new year and detailed master classes can be found in the article: Crocheted gobies.
Salted dough gobies
Salted dough is an affordable material for creativity. Everything you need to prepare it is in every kitchen, and by its properties it is as plastic as plasticine and it can be baked by making it hard like polymer clay.
To make salted modeling dough, you will need:
- 150 g flour;
- 150 g fine salt of the Extra type;
- 100 ml of water.
Mixing process:
- Sift flour into a deep bowl and add salt. Stir dry ingredients well with a whisk.
- Then gradually adding water to knead the elastic dough. It should not fall apart and stick to your hands.
While kneading, food coloring or gouache can be added to the mass to make a colored, salty modeling dough.But you can leave the mass white by painting the already finished crafts of the bull with paints. This method will allow you to create smooth color transitions, making bulls and cows more realistic.
In order for such crafts to retain their beautiful appearance longer, they should be coated with water-based acrylic varnish. This will give the artwork a glossy sheen.
And here are other ideas for New Year's crafts from salt dough.
Craft-bull from twine
Even from such a nondescript material as twine or jute rope, you can create a beautiful and original craft in the form of a symbol of the new 2021. This craft material is most often combined with burlap and coffee beans.
To make a bull and twine, you will need:
- a plastic cup from sour cream;
- wire;
- twine;
- glue gun with rods;
- eyes.
Progress:
- Twist the frames for the paws, ears, horns and tail from the wire. Wrap them with twine, fixing the ends with hot glue.
- Attach these parts to the glass. After that, wrap the base with twine, gluing everything well, especially at the attachment points of the paws, tail, ears and horns.
- "Revive" the bull by making a muzzle out of twine, bangs on the head and gluing eyes.
Using plastic cups of different sizes, you can make a whole family of artiodactyls. If you make animals spotty using coffee beans, then they will not only delight with their ozone appearance, but also with a pleasant aroma.
Symbol of 2021 made from plastic bottles
Recently, it has become very fashionable to make various garden figurines or toys from plastic bottles. So why not make a beautiful goby with your own hands and install it in your garden so that it will attract good luck for the next year?
In addition, such creativity develops imagination, because you need to figure out how to connect bottles of different displacement with each other.
For work you will need:
- 6 plastic bottles of different sizes (1 - torso, 4 - legs, 1 - neck and 1 - head);
- acrylic paints and a brush;
- glue for plastic;
- felt-tip pen;
- sharp knife or scissors.
Priority of actions:
- On a large bottle, which will be the body, mark with a felt-tip pen the places where the legs and neck will be attached. Also mark the eyes, ears, horns and neck on the head bottle. Where it is necessary to cut or cut the neck.
- The prepared parts must be painted with acrylic paints. You can paint both with a brush outside and inside, just pouring paint inside the bottle and rotating the vessel to distribute it along the walls.
- Next, you need to glue the bottles together with special glue and finally arrange by gluing or drawing eyes, making ears, a horn from scraps of plastic, and a tail from a rope.
If you make a slot on the back in a large bottle of such a figurine, which you then fill with earth, then you can plant flowers there in the summer. You can also make a bull-pots for the garden from one large plastic bottle.
Bull from DVD disc
Nowadays practically nobody uses DVD discs, and they lie idle. Young children can be offered to make a simple craft in the form of a Bull from a disk. To make it, in addition to the disk, you will need colored cardboard, paper or felt, glue, paints, scissors and a pencil.
Having prepared everything you need, you need to draw on paper or cardboard, and then cut out the details of the craft (specks, ears, horns, muzzle). After that, together with the child, you need to stick them on the disc.
Crafts in the form of a symbol of the New 2021 from plates
In a similar way, you can make crafts for the Year of the Ox from disposable paper or plastic plates. The easiest option is to paint them with paints or felt-tip pens and glue decorative elements made of cardboard or felt. If you make slits for the eyes of such a craft, you can get a beautiful original carnival mask of the Bull.
Goby from natural materials
Crafts for the New Year in the form of an animal, under whose patronage the next 365 days will pass, can be made from natural materials: cones, acorns, shells, twigs, chestnuts, walnut shells, dried leaves.
These can be both voluminous works and two-dimensional New Year's applications in the form of bulls. To fasten the parts together, you will need Dragon polymer glue or a hot glue gun. Individual parts can be made from plasticine or polymer clay. With the help of gouache or acrylic paints, you can paint the finished craft, making it more alive.
How to make a bull or cow out of paper and cardboard
There are many techniques for creating crafts from paper and cardboard: origami, paper plastic, quilling, papercraft, but there are also simpler options, for example, using paper towel rolls or ready-made templates. Often, the parts in such crafts are not even glued together, but simply inserted into the corresponding slots. For work, you will need colored or packaging cardboard, colored paper, scissors, paints, felt-tip pens and pencils.
Toy-bull from nylon tights
White Metal Ox - the symbol of 2021 can be made from a material such as nylon. Even with the help of detailed step-by-step photos, it is difficult to understand the technology of creating a toy, so it is better to watch a video master class from craftswomen, who tell and show how to turn nylon pantyhose into a soft toy or a fridge magnet.
