Parrots, swans, crows - there are many beautiful birds. They make friends with people, live in cities and independently, in their native environment, in the wild. Sometimes they interfere, but more often, nevertheless, they make one distract from everything, forget about everything, dreamily sit in the park, listening to the wind, the rustle of leaves, their chirping.
Making a toy, making a panel, a picture, a cute paper souvenir in the shape of a bird is interesting and not difficult. You can try, test your strength right now.
Unusual craft ideas
How to make a bird craft quickly, without unnecessary worries? This is the best way. It is proposed, without wasting time, to make it out of a paper sheet, to make colleagues laugh, to surprise everyone at school when they meet by repeating the experiment or showing a photo of the bird craft.
- You will need colored paper, several different colors, or plain white sheets. Even drafts can be used.
- In this case, the paper will need to be colored with paints, markers or felt-tip pens. You will also need glue or double-sided tape and scissors.
- A sheet of paper needs to be rolled up into a horn and glued. This will be the body of the bird.
- It is best to roll the paper so that the base remains wide and the craft is stable.
- From paper of a different color, you need to cut the scallop of a Jaco parrot or Ryaba chicken. It is necessary to make two such details, exactly the same, fold them and glue them.
The scallop will look beautiful on both sides. A gap should be left at the base so that it can be placed on top of the horn.
Step-by-step instruction
- A bird needs a beak and eyes. It is better to make the beak out of paper so that the craft is voluminous and expressive.
- You can also draw it, but the bird will be much less elegant, festive.
- Eyes can be glued with plastic ones, like on soft toys. From paper, however, it is more convenient.
- They can be round, square, oval. You will need white and black paper in order for them to be naturalistic.
- You need to glue them almost at the very crest to the paper body, so that the bird turns out to be high, as if stretching its neck to study everything around.
- Accordingly, large paper squares, rhombuses, ovals do not need to be cut out. They can be small or even different in diameter.
- To make the beak, you will need two paper strips or one, but painted in the same color on both sides. The tapes are folded and glued neatly. On both sides, you need to cut out triangles so that the edges are already formed by two triangles, like the tongue of a lizard.
- The beak can also be pointed, rounded.
- The tape should be folded in half and glued to the horn-body. The paper bird craft is almost ready.
- It remains to cut out beautiful wings with wavy feathers and put it in a prominent place.
Children's paper bird crafts can be done with the same technique, but make the horn wide, small in height, so that they look like cartoon characters, games, angry birds. You also need to cut eyebrows out of paper so that the birds turn out to be really angry.
Paper birds on a thread
Elegant paper birds in the Chinese style are a wonderful Christmas tree decoration for indoor flowers. On a sheet of cardboard you need to draw a silhouette of a bird:
- Draw a horizontal line first;
- Draw a circle with a pencil, so that the line runs exactly along the diameter, dividing it into two equal parts;
- Near the second, but slightly higher, the line should separate about one third of the circle
- Circle them, outlining the silhouette of a bird.
Work progress:
- To make their tail and wings, you need two sheets of paper. They need to be folded into an accordion.
- In a cardboard silhouette, cut a line vertically near the junction of the circles and thread one of the sheets folded into an accordion.
- Spread it out slightly on both sides. Then cut another vertical line in the tail area and thread the second sheet.
- At the base, it must be glued so that the fan-tail does not straighten too much, remains similar to feathers.
Such a do-it-yourself bird craft is not at all difficult to do in literally half an hour. In the meantime, it can be used to decorate a hall for a holiday, so that when guests come, there is a festive mood, it is cozy in the room. And moreover, on any holiday, such a decoration will be appropriate.
Craft Blue Bird from a stencil is performed according to the same rules, but when creating a cardboard silhouette, you immediately need to draw a tail of 2-3 feathers, then decorate it with a carved pattern.
In this case, the wings are made from a flat paper ribbon, also decorated with a carved pattern.
Bird from a light bulb with feathers
If the old down jacket is torn, the light bulb in the chandelier has burned out, then it's time to go shopping. And from a down jacket and a light bulb, you can make an adorable bird. Needed for work:
- Light bulb;
- Tennis ball;
- Silicate glue;
- White acrylic paint;
- Colored paper.
Progress:
- The lamp should be painted white - the glass part and the base if it is transparent or only the base if it is made of frosted glass.
- On the base, you need to apply a little glue, next to the glass part, wind a lace or yarn on top.
- It is immediately advisable to make a small loop, with which you can then hang the craft.
- You need to put a tennis ball on the base, after making a hole in it, glue it to the threads.
- Glue a scallop of red paper and a paper beak on the ball. Apply glue to the entire remaining area of the ball and dip it in padding polyester or down from a down jacket.
- Next, you need to glue the paper wings and tail to the glass part. Then glue is applied to the lamp, as well as to the ball, and immersed in the fluff.
- You can also glue paper paws to the bird, make a stand in the form of a nest.
- To do this, you will need a small plastic container - a jar of yogurt, a jar of cosmetics, the lower part of a bottle of mineral water.
- It is necessary to glue fabric, branches to it. It is advisable to use glue special for fabric, colorless, or use double-sided tape.
- Be sure to make eyes from dark patches or beads, sequins.
- They can also be drawn with a marker before the feathers are glued to the tennis ball.
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