Various and unusual DIY potato crafts will be of interest to children and adults. This material is very pleasant to the hands, plastic.
The natural shape of the potato allows you to create any objects and thematic compositions. In addition, creative material is always at hand.
Materials and tools
Craft potatoes are not only enjoyable and convenient. He can help out in a situation when it is necessary to do a craft or to keep the child busy with something, but there is no suitable material at hand.
Even the most ordinary photos of potato crafts will captivate the child, and the necessary supply of main materials is always kept in the house.
The child's fantasy will turn on both when viewing photographs and when selecting material. One has only to rummage in a vegetable box and see what this or that potato looks like.
What you need for work:
- Whole potatoes of different sizes without cuts, sprouted eyes or damage
- Plasticine for joining potatoes and other parts
- Toothpicks or other wooden sticks
- Corrugated board or wooden planks for the base of crafts
- Beads, cotton pads, other items for decoration
- Markers of different thickness
- Colored paper, paper ribbons for craft decoration
- A cutting board that will be comfortable to work on
- Scissors and knife
Important! When choosing potatoes, you can introduce your child to the natural geometric shapes of a circle or oval, as well as different sizes and how they fit together. The child will be able not only to understand, but also tactilely feel the difference.
Hedgehog
Crafts from potatoes for children should be started with the simplest options, for example, with a hedgehog. This toy can be made very quickly.
Moreover, you can even make a whole family of hedgehogs from potatoes of different sizes.
Operating procedure:
- Select the desired potato and mark the hedgehog's belly. To do this, cut off some of the potatoes from the longitudinal side a little. This will make the craft more stable.
- From one end, where the face will be, you need to make a spout. This will be a piece of a toothpick or match. You can also use a small bead.
- Use beads or paper and markers to shape the eyes. You can draw a mouth with a marker.
- A large number of toothpicks will serve as needles - you just need to stick them into the hedgehog's body.
- At the end, the craft must be glued to a cardboard or wooden stand. The craft can be decorated with leaves cut from colored paper. So it will look picturesque.
Snowman
In order for the child to better understand how to make a potato craft on his own, he should be entrusted with making a snowman. To do this, the young sculptor will need to pick up potatoes, connect them together and decorate the craft.
The procedure for making a snowman:
- Pick up three different sized potatoes. Consistently connect them together using ordinary toothpicks. Potatoes are connected according to the principle of a pyramid from the largest to the smallest.
- On the underside of the largest potato, you need to cut a small piece so that the craft gains stability.
- On the top potato, you need to draw the face of a snowman. A spout is made from a piece of carrot. The eyes are designed with beads or a marker.
- Handles are made from small circles of carrots to a snowman. They are also attached to the body with toothpicks. A cap from a cream or shampoo will serve as a headdress for the snow man.
- The craft remains to be fixed on a piece of cardboard. You can decorate the space around the snowman with spruce branches.
Advice.It is better to connect potatoes with each other not with one, but with two parallel toothpicks.
Bear
A real bear will become a complex and interesting master class on creating crafts from potatoes. To create this shape, in addition to whole potatoes, you will also need a knife to form additional details.
Step by step order:
- Pick up two potatoes of different sizes. The larger one will be the body and the smaller one the head. Cut a small piece from the top of the large potato. Then plant a small potato in this place and secure with toothpicks. Then the figure of the bear will turn out to be stocky.
- For the legs, you need to choose one small round and one small oblong potato. Cut in half, they will create paired legs that need to be attached to the body with toothpicks.
- The face of the bear can be shaped with a marker, beads and pieces of paper. White paper circles will be the whites of the eyes, you need to draw the pupils on them. Make the nose out of a bead, and draw a marker for the mouth.
- The decoration of the craft will be a barrel of honey, which must be made out of half a potato. In this case, you need to cut a depression in the potato, so the pulp of the vegetable will more resemble honey.
- Ears can be formed from the carved flesh of the keg. These parts are also attached with toothpicks.
- It remains to glue the craft to the base and arrange the space around with the help of spruce branches or dried cranberries or acorns.
Advice. Instead of a keg with honey, you can make a container with any dried berries: cranberries, sea buckthorn or lingonberries. To do this, the potato barrel must be filled with a small amount of berries, which must be fixed with glue.
Cheburashka
The fabulous character Cheburashka can also be made from potatoes. To create this figure, you will also have to cut out the details with a knife.
Step-by-step instructions for making potato crafts:
- Choose two potatoes of the same size - this will be the body and the head. On the middle part of the body, a small piece should be cut off to indicate the belly. On the head, you also need to cut off a larger piece and outline the face.
- Ears must be formed from a slightly smaller potato. To do this, cut the vegetable in half. They are attached to the head with toothpicks.
- The arms and legs must be made from two small potatoes by cutting them in half. Details are attached to the body with toothpicks.
- In the final, you need to draw a face for Cheburashka and the craft is ready. It needs to be fixed on a cardboard base. You can decorate it with dry flowers.
Kitty
An interesting and creative idea for crafts from potatoes will be to create a cat. Moreover, a child can make a portrait of his pet from these vegetables.
To create this craft, you will also need carrot pieces.
Procedure:
- Pick up two different sized potatoes. The small vegetable will become the head, and the large vegetable will become the body. They must be connected together with toothpicks. In this case, it is necessary to indicate the pose of the kitten: he can sit or stand.
- Legs must be cut out of the carrots, which will be oblong and triangular ears. Also, a tail is formed from the carrot. The details need to be attached to the torso.
- In conclusion, you need to draw claws on the legs with a marker, and a face on the head. The craft can be installed on a cardboard and decorated with dried grass.
Advice. For complex parts: legs, ears, you can use plasticine. This will make the crafts look more lively and tidy. Beautiful figurines will inspire your child to create new characters.
Photo of crafts from potatoes
