Depending on the degree of complexity, a hand-made chicken craft can not only become the theme of simple children's creativity, but also serve as an interior decoration.
Starting with the simplest jobs, it’s easy to move on to more complex techniques. Depending on the material chosen, a funny chicken can serve as a nice souvenir, toy for children or as a decorative element for decorating a festive table.
Paper chicks
Paper serves as the most flexible and accessible material for children's creativity. Craft chicken, made of paper in the form of an applique, will be within the power of young children. It should be noted right away that in such work there are different degrees of complexity.
The simplest option would be the usual flat applique in the form of one or more chickens cut from paper according to a template. They will need to be glued to a cardboard base. If desired, the composition can be supplemented by drawing grass and the sun with paints or felt-tip pens.
You can complicate the task by creating a volumetric applique. For example, a flat chicken body, cut according to a template, is appropriate to complement the wings made of narrow yellow paper ribbons.
You will need to separately glue each element that forms the wings. This will require attention and focus from the child.
- An interesting option would be a craft with details in the form of children's hands. This fun process will appeal to children of both middle and primary school age. It is convenient to cut the base of the craft out of cardboard, and then attach palm-shaped wings to it.
- Another technique for creating a volumetric applique involves the formation of a volumetric body from a sheet of colored paper. A whole sheet of A4 format must be cut into two halves, the resulting parts must be folded like an accordion. The blanks are fanned out, sequentially glued to a cardboard base. Then they are supplemented with painted or flat details: legs, wings, eyes and beak.
- Original crafts are obtained using the quilling technique. At the preparatory stage, it is necessary to cut a sufficient number of narrow strips of yellow paper. The number of strips directly depends on the degree of complexity of the final product. It is not difficult to implement primitive chickens using the quilling technique by twisting two strips of paper in a spiral. One blank will serve for the head, and the other for the body of a funny chick. In the same technique, it is easy to make a beak and a funny scallop on the top of the head. The rest of the elements can be drawn with a marker.
The contouring quilling technique will require lengthy preparation of a sufficient number of paper spirals to fill the form.
A photo of a chicken craft using the quilling technique serves as evidence that a voluminous craft of a high degree of complexity can be made from individual elements.
Kidder chickens
If you urgently need to make a homemade product for a kindergarten, it is reasonable to consider making a chicken from containers for chocolate kinders as an option.
The advantage of a plastic kinder for using it as a base is the shape and color of the product.
- It is enough to glue the eyes, beak, wings and legs made of plasticine or colored paper, and the funny chicken is ready.
Chickens from chicken eggs
An ordinary chicken egg will serve not only as a convenient, but quite logical blank for crafts.At the same time, making a chicken from an egg involves the use of a shell as a base, from which the contents are carefully extracted.
- At the preparation stage, a raw chicken egg will need to be washed, chopped on both sides, and the white and yolk removed. After that, it is easy to decorate the workpiece using elements made of paper, salt dough or plasticine. If desired, the egg can be pre-painted with gouache or watercolors in bright yellow.
- Taking the idea into service, it is easy to apply it to decorate a festive table using boiled eggs and carrot decor.
If desired, it is possible to use eggshells as mosaic elements to decorate the volumetric chicken craft made from plasticine or salt dough.
Such a product, coated at the final stage of work with a colorless varnish, will not lose its spectacular appearance for a long time.
Chickens from yarn
Many interesting ideas can be realized with yarn.
The simplest is a craft made from pompons. It is recommended to make it from inexpensive acrylic yarn, the advantage of which is its bright color and budget cost.
- To make pom-poms, you need a couple of cardboard templates, on which you need to tightly wind a sufficient amount of yarn.
- The threads are carefully cut along the edge, the templates are pushed apart, and the middle of the workpiece is fixed.
- Then the templates are removed, the resulting pompom is straightened, then supplemented with decorative details.
- The beak, wings and eyes can be cut out of colored paper.
- You can complicate the task a little by making a pair of pompons (head and body).
- Such crafts have a funny look, and an elementary school student can easily cope with the work.
- Using yarn, you can embody other ideas.
- You can wrap a blank made of cardboard or plasticine with a thick thread, and also create an interesting applique.
- Craftsmen who know how to knit can easily make funny chickens using knitting needles or a crochet hook.
Chickens made of thread
The technique of creating toys using threads and a balloon deserves a separate consideration. The work is quite simple, and the result is quite original.
To create a chicken craft from threads, you will need:
- The threads are yellow,
- PVA glue,
- Small balloon,
- Decorative details.
Work progress:
- It is easy to simplify the task by placing the glue in a small plastic container, the bottom of which can be easily pierced with a needle.
- The first step is to inflate the balloon. Then pass the thread through the bottle of glue, wrap the ball in different directions.
- It is important not to wrap the base too tightly in order to maintain the delicate structure of the product.
- Having finished winding the ball, the workpiece is additionally covered with a layer of glue. After the glue dries, the ball is pierced with a needle, carefully remove the remnants.
- After that, they start decorating by gluing a comb, wings, legs, beak and eyes. Decor elements are easy to glue from colored paper.
If there is no yellow thread at hand, then it is easy to paint the workpiece with acrylic paint.
Chickens made from natural materials
Natural material also serves as a good basis for home art. The shape of the nuts or cones will naturally tell you how to make the chicken craft.
- From walnuts fastened with plasticine, you can make an interesting chicken in literally twenty minutes.
- Round pine cones can be dipped in yellow acrylic paint. After the paint has dried, the workpiece is supplemented with plasticine parts. You can mold the head, wings and legs from plasticine or cut out of paper.
- For a thematic exhibition, it's easy to use lemon, orange, or medium potato tubers to create chicken.
Working together to create fun chicks will help you make the most of your family's leisure time.Home creativity contributes to the versatile development of the child, and brings all family members closer.
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