A great way to hang out with your kids is to get creative together. Plus, it's a lot of fun and rewarding. These activities will bring you closer together and accelerate your child's development. Making animal crafts with your own hands will be useful for the parents themselves.
Original items created with your own hands may well decorate any room in the house, and they can also be presented as a gif.webpt.
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For adults and children's crafts, almost any material at hand can be suitable:
- Beautiful leaves;
- Chestnuts;
- Cones;
- Acorns;
- Vegetables;
- Fruits;
- Cardboard;
- Colored paper;
- Plasticine;
- Plastic products;
- Puff pastry;
- Twine;
- Stones;
- Plywood, etc.
In fact, the list is endless, and all this is used in the manufacture of crafts. You just need to set a goal, for example, how to make an animal craft and show your imagination.
The most popular options:
From paper
The most common material for making pets is paper. When working with such material, the child will learn how to use scissors and a ruler.
Dog
The work is as follows:
- Draw and cut out the body of the dog on colored paper;
- Also make the head, eyes, mouth and nose separately;
- Cut out the missing parts: ears, paws, tail;
- Glue the main parts on white cardboard first, then add small elements;
- If desired, you can endow the dog with specks and other distinctive features.
At your discretion, you can make parts of the body in different colors. That's all the application is ready!
Bookmark kitten
With such a craft, the kid will be able to decorate his favorite book, but all you need is:
- Cut out a 12x12 cm square from paper (colored on both sides);
- Draw it with a pencil and a ruler into four parts 6x6 cm;
- Cut off the top left element;
- Draw a line from the top left corner to the bottom right;
- Cut off the outer triangular shapes;
- Gently fold the inner triangles on top of each other (the workpiece should be 6x6 cm);
- Glue the triangular fragments together, forming a corner.
- Design a bookmark as follows:
- Cut out the ears and nose of the kitten from paper;
- Glue them to the bookmark, as well as eyes made from a suitable and affordable material;
- Paint on the mouth and antennae.
The cute bookmark is ready!
In addition to pets, you can create any kind of wildlife. For instance:
Penguin
To create an applique with a penguin, you need white, black and orange paper. Work process:
- Cut an oval (body) from black paper;
- Make the eyes the same;
- White paper will be used to make the breast, it must be cut out in the shape of a heart and glued to the black oval;
- Attach eyes;
- Paws and beak are made of orange paper (they must be cut out in the appropriate shape);
- Glue all the details.
The penguin is ready!
From natural materials
From such materials as: cones, nuts, peas, polystyrene, cardboard, beads, fabric, etc. You can create crafts of wild animals, insects, pets.
ladybug
It's easy for a kid to create a ladybug using half a walnut. You also need black cardboard and paint. Need to:
- Divide half of the shell with a pencil, the head and wings;
- Paint the back red and let dry;
- Cover the insect's head, wings along the contour and characteristic dots on the back with black paint;
- Make the eyes white;
- Cut and glue the legs from black cardboard.
That's all!
Mouse
The other half of the shell can be used to create a cute mouse:
- Paint the floor of the nut with gray;
- Draw a muzzle;
- Glue voluminous ears made of colored paper;
- Make a nose from a pea of black pepper;
- Add a tail from a suitable rope.
The network has posted a lot of photos of animal crafts made from nuts, they will help to bring unrealized ideas to life.
Rabbit
You can make a rabbit from peanut pods:
- Glue the eyes on top of the pod, make a nose out of beads;
- Cut out ears and paws from gray material;
- Form a scarf from a thick thread and tie it around the rabbit's neck;
- For stability, glue the product to a solid base.
Little bird
It is possible to create a bird from a pine cone, which can be used as a souvenir or a Christmas tree toy.
For work you will need:
- Big boss;
- Styrofoam ball (head);
- Cardboard;
- Glue;
- Paint;
- Black beads (for the eyes);
- Cone-shaped rhinestone (for the beak).
Having prepared everything you need, you need to:
- Cut out cardboard wings;
- Glue them to the bump;
- Glue the head on top of the cone (on its wide part);
- Paint over the workpiece well;
- Attach eyes and beak.
Cotton wool
Crafts from this material are voluminous and soft. Perhaps that's why the kids enjoy working with him. From cotton wool, animals such as a polar bear, a lamb, a fluffy rabbit, etc. are very good.
Polar bear
To make it you need:
- Draw the outline of the bear on a piece of blue paper;
- Coat the inner area of the contour with glue;
- Fill this part with pieces of cotton wool;
- Make the nose and eyes from a suitable black material (beads, felt, etc.).
A wild animal made in this way will look like a cute pet.
Lamb
Making a sheep is also easy to do:
- Draw a circle (body) on cardboard;
- Cut out the muzzle with ears and paws from black cardboard;
- Glue the paws to the body;
- Roll up cotton balls, of a certain amount, and fill the area of the body with glue smeared with them;
- Glue the head;
- Draw a face.
From plastic bottles
Plastic is a very popular material among creative people. For example, you can create objects with the image of an animal from bottles.
Cat pots
An original planter can be made in the following way:
- Mark the required height of the pot;
- Draw cat ears on one side above the mark;
- Cut and paint the workpiece white;
- Decorate the ears and paint the nose with pink acrylic;
- Use black acrylic to paint eyes, mouth and mustache.
Turtle
Cutting off the bottom from the green plastic bottle, you can make a turtle, you just need to:
- Circle the bottom on colored cardboard;
- Draw the head, legs and tail;
- Cut out the image of a turtle;
- Fill the bottom of the bottle with beads and beads;
- Cover with glue and attach the body made of cardboard.
Done!
In any case, the result depends on the accuracy of work, personal imagination and the availability of material corresponding to the ideas.
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