Application in the form of a Rat - a symbol of the New Year 2020

New Year 2020 according to the Chinese calendar will be held under the auspices of the White Metal Rat, which can settle in every home as a lucky charm, but not as a living rodent, but as an applique in the form of a Rat. It can be made from many available materials (paper, felt, fabric). Subsequently, such a composition will not only be able to decorate the house or clothes, but also go as a craft to school or kindergarten.

Paper applique

The easiest material to work with for making appliques is paper, and you can use both ordinary colored and corrugated paper. The finished composition can become a beautiful craftwork for a kindergarten or a New Year's card. To create you need the following tools and materials:

  • colored paper;
  • cardboard;
  • PVA glue;
  • pencil;
  • scissors.

Additionally, you can use beads for a nose or eyelet, threads for a mustache and ponytail. Instead of beads for the eyes, you can buy ready-made eyes in the store.

The main stages of work:

  1. Print from the Internet or draw your own templates for the image of a rat, then cut them out of paper of the corresponding colors. Usually the ears and tail are made lighter, contrasting in comparison with the main color of the animal.
  2. Glue colored paper parts onto a sheet of thick cardboard, smearing them with a thin layer of glue.
  3. When the applique is dry, add the finishing touches to the design, making the eyes of the rat, the mustache and the tail. You can pierce a triangle cut out of yellow paper with a hole punch, making a piece of cheese out of it, which will complement the composition.

For preschool children, simpler applications of circles and triangles are suitable.

And for those who already go to school, you can offer to make a craft from corrugated paper using the facing technique. To do it you will need:

  • corrugated paper of different colors;
  • glue;
  • scissors;
  • a sketch of a rat (can be taken from coloring pages), printed on white paper.

Sequencing:

  1. Cut the corrugated paper into small squares, about 1.5 × 1.5 cm. If they are not quite even and the same, it's okay.
  2. Then each square must be rolled into a dense pea.
  3. After that, grease a small section of the sketch with glue and glue the corrugated paper peas of the corresponding color tightly to each other.

The finished applique can be cut along the contour and glued to a sheet of colored cardboard, turning it into an original handmade New Year card.

Christmas tree made using the “facing” technique. You can also make a cute Rat.

Felt rat

Another easy-to-use and affordable material is felt. You can create a voluminous toy or applique in the form of a symbol of the year. Or you can decorate children's clothes, a sofa cushion or become a beautiful wall panel. To make felt crafts you will need:

  • felt of various colors;
  • glue gun;
  • thread and sewing needle;
  • scissors;
  • tailor's chalk or thin remnant;
  • thick colored cardboard or fabric for the base.

How to make a felt applique:

  1. Print applique patterns on a sheet of paper and cut them out.
  2. Attach the resulting blanks to the felt of the appropriate color, carefully circle them with chalk and cut out.
  3. Next, connect the parts of the craft to each other by gluing them together with a glue gun or sewing the needle along the contour with a seam forward.
  4. Glue the finished felt rat on a cardboard or fabric base, if it is a panel, or sew on clothes.

Fabric applique

Appliques made of fabric are the best for decorating clothes.So, a funny rat, the patroness of the upcoming 2020, can decorate children's pajamas, a T-shirt or a children's New Year's dress. To make a fabric applique, you need to prepare:

  • pattern paper template;
  • scraps of bright fabric that will not crumble (felt, cotton, wool);
  • adhesive non-woven for lining;
  • threads;
  • pins;
  • needle or sewing machine.

Work order:

  1. Cut out the details of the pattern from the fabric and lining material.
  2. Place the details on the garment to be decorated with the applique, pin them with pins or sweep the needle with a seam forward.
  3. After that, it remains only to sew them along the edge on a sewing machine in a small zigzag or sew them by hand with a buttonhole seam and iron them.

To make the applique look neat, you should not choose compositions with a lot of small details and complex geometric shapes. If several motives are sewn on top of each other, then you should start from the bottom fragment.

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