In his fairy tales, P.P.Bazhov describes the magical world in a rather interesting way. He writes in such a way that everything he talks about, one wants to see and feel in the real world.
That is why crafts based on his work turn out to be quite interesting and unusual, and sometimes even difficult to perform. In this article you can find instructions on how to make some of the crafts based on Bazhov's tales with your own hands.
Craft based on the famous tale "Silver Hoof"
In order to make this craft, you will need:
- Foil.
- Pencil.
- Cotton swabs.
- Cotton pads.
- Colored paper.
- Colored cardboard.
- Styrofoam, if any.
- Glue.
- And just a little bit of your imagination.
Well, or if you didn't have anything at hand, and the craft needs to be shown tomorrow morning, then you can get by with a sheet of paper, a pencil, cotton pads or sticks and some kind of cereal.
Instructions:
- First you need to make a sketch of the drawing on colored paper. Decide in advance what kind of background you will have. You can repeat the composition or draw your own.
- If you have polystyrene, then you can cut the moon, stars, wood, goat, house, stars and whatever you want from it. And then paste over it with colored paper or decorate at your discretion.
- If the foam is not at hand, it doesn't matter! You can get by with cardboard. Also cut out all the necessary shapes from it and decorate.
- Place all the finished shapes on colored paper according to your sketches and glue them.
- Now it's time to decorate! For snow, you can use cotton pads or cotton swabs, or in general just cotton wool.
- Glue the cotton wool in the right places, namely, on the roof of the house, on the road, on the tree and wherever you see fit.
- And also you need to make a snowfall. Take small pieces of cotton wool, roll them into lumps and glue them all over the format.
- It remains to make a snow frame. Again with the help of cotton wool. Paste it around the edges of the paper. This will add volume to the craft.
Voila, our children's craft based on one of Bazhov's fairy tales is ready!
You can also cut various figures out of polystyrene, glue them on colored shiny paper and you will already get a rather interesting composition.
"Silver hoof" from improvised means.
This option is for those who have completely forgotten that tomorrow they need to hand over their work, and the clock is long after midnight.
In the budget version, you can do this:
- Draw a composition on a piece of paper.
- Decorate with colored pencils, paints or paste over with colored paper.
- Croup to depict the stars, having previously painted it.
- With the help of cotton wool, make snow wherever you see fit - on the roof, road, trees. Your goal is to add volume to the work.
And now the simplest hand-made article is ready.
Malachite Box
This craft, based on Bazhov's fairy tale, is quite difficult to perform, but interesting. In the future, it can be used as a real box.
To make such a craft, you will need:
- Thick cardboard.
- White acrylic primer.
- Acrylic paint in three colors: black, green, gold.
- Texture paste.
- Various metal decorations.
- Something that will be used as a handle, eyelets and legs.
- Stationery knife.
- A simple pencil.
- Ruler.
- Glue.
- Sandpaper.
- Brushes.
- Skillful hands!
Instructions:
- Six rectangles with dimensions of 13x18 cm should be cut out of cardboard - two bases, 5x13cm - two lateral short sides, 5 x 17.6 cm - two lateral long sides.
- Glue the short sides to the base first, and then the long ones.
- Measure from the edge 4 cm. There will be loops at this point.
- Cut out two rectangles from cardboard with dimensions of 5.3x18 cm and 12.4x17.4 cm.
- Glue them so as to close the hinges.
- Glue a rectangular piece with a size of 9x14 cm on the lid.
- Cover the surfaces of the box with acrylic primer on all sides. Both outside and inside.
- Next, apply the textured paste over the entire surface.
- When the paste is dry, glue the handle.
- For decoration, you can cut out the silhouette of a lizard using a stencil on the primer itself.
- Sand the surface with sandpaper.
- Decorate the box to your liking with acrylic paint.
- Glue the necessary details and decorations.
Craft "Snow House"
According to the tales of P.P. Bazhov, you can make such a craft with your own hands. In order to make such a house, you will need:
- Cotton swabs.
- Plasticine.
- Cardboard.
- Paper.
- Glue.
- Cotton wool.
Instructions:
- Make a "sausage" of plasticine to make a tree trunk.
- Cut the cotton swabs in half and stick them into the plasticine barrel so that you get a tree.
- Fold a rectangular sheet of paper the size you want the roof in half.
- Glue cotton swabs on the paper parallel to each other to make a roof.
- "Build" a house from cotton swabs like from real logs. Don't forget to grease them with glue.
- Glue all the details on cardboard, compose.
- You can make a goat from plasticine to complement the craft.
- Glue cotton wool on cardboard, which will hide all gluing of parts and will act as snow.
Scratchboard illustration
You don't need glue to make this craft!
For this you will need:
- Cardboard - you can take any color or just white.
- Wax crayons - to color the white cardboard.
- Candle or wax.
- Anything sharp to scratch out the drawing.
- Black paint and a little shampoo.
Execution technique:
- Take cardboard, if you want the background to be colored, paint it with crayons, and if not, then walk over the entire area of the cardboard with a candle or wax.
- Mix black paint with a drop of shampoo and paint over the cardboard.
- Let the paint dry.
- After the paint is completely dry, you can scratch out the pattern.
- Draw anything, let your imagination run wild! And remember - the main thing is that the craft should be on the theme of Bazhov's fairy tales.
You can look at other photos of crafts based on Bazhov's tales, get inspired and come up with something of your own.
Photo of crafts according to Bazhov
