Crow
To create this bird, you need to take 2 small pine cones, acorn caps and plasticine in three shades (yellow, white and black).
Connect the cones together as shown in the photo.
Make legs from acorn caps. Natural material can be fixed using a heat gun.
Instead of hot glue, you can also try holding the pine cones together with plasticine.
Make a beak from yellow plasticine. Black and white plasticine is needed to make eyes. And pieces of black material are suitable for forming bird wings.
This is such a funny crow!
It can be placed on a branch that will imitate a tree.
Selection of base material
Original birds can be made from a wide variety of materials:
- Colored or corrugated paper.
- Cardboard (regular or corrugated version).
- Plywood sheet.
- Gypsum. Gypsum birds have a rich relief and are an excellent structure for subsequent decoration.
- Felt. Felt birds are often used to decorate wall panels in the dining area, bedroom or children's playroom.
- The material of choice can be salt dough or polymer clay. The figures, sculpted from working mass, have volume and beautiful lines.
- Bird made of woven metal wire. Can be used as a pendant, a figure on a backpack, a medallion, or jewelry (especially if chenille wire is used).
- Bead weaving is also a possible option for the craftsman to work with. To work, you will need a pre-compiled weaving pattern and careful selection of beads.
Some bird-shaped crafts are used as New Year's decorations, a gift for a loved one, a souvenir for a friend, or an exhibit for an exhibition.
Plastic bottles for simple figures
Penguin, parrot and owl are the most suitable images that can be easily realized using small plastic containers.
The base can be painted, covered with paper or fabric. The parrot's head can be made by cutting off the rounded part of one of the bottles and attaching it to the neck of the other.
To make a base for an owl, just fix the bottle upside down. You can get a penguin figurine by masking the neck with a cap or top hat.
By looking at photos of ready-made crafts on the topic of recycling various containers, you can create a unique and fantastic bird with your own hands.
The hollow base made of bottles provides an important advantage - the head, wings and tail attached to the through axis can be made moving. To stabilize the figure, the bottle can be weighted with sand in advance.
Fluffy chickens
These pine cone birds are painted with yellow gouache paint. The scales are carefully covered both above and below. The beak and legs for the chickens can also be made from a sheet of thin felt, or you can simply cut it out of double-sided thick printer paper. And mold the head from plasticine, salt dough, or buy foam balls or beads in the store. They can be found in specialized departments for handicrafts, sewing accessories or stationery.
The foam head should be painted the same color as the feathers. After all, chickens are not only yellow, they can be black or motley. You can make your chicken's brood colorful. Glue on store-bought ready-made eyes or mold them from plasticine. You can also create them in combination. For example, the whites are made from plasticine, and the black pupils are made from acacia seeds by simply sticking them into plasticine balls.
To ensure that the head stays well on the top of the cone, it can be attached in two ways. Firstly, you can press a hole in the ball with an awl or a pointed stick and simply pull it onto the top scale. Secondly, you can cut off the top of the pine cone and glue the head into the resulting hollow.
Miniature owls made of clay
Polymer clay is an excellent material of choice for making souvenirs. Even without additional decorative processing, all figures have a pleasant natural color. And when decorating, the paint fits perfectly on the surface of the clay. Operating instructions:
- Knead the working mass in the prepared container.
- Make a figurine of a bird from clay.
- Using a needle and wooden skewer, give the bird relief lines for the image.
The finished product is dipped in milk for 5 minutes and then sent to the oven for firing. After drying, you can leave the natural shade of the craft or decorate it in any way.
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Birds made of yarn
The idea of making a bird out of yarn can be embodied in a flock of bullfinches or sparrows, or in a brood of funny chicks with fantastic colors.
Each bird is assembled from three evenly trimmed bunches - for the back (24 cm), wings and breast (18 cm each). A rectangular template of 9x12 cm is cut out of cardboard, onto which threads are wound alternately and cut off on one side. The winding thickness is the same for all parts and is approximately 3 cm.
The skein for the wings is secured in the center with thread to match the color. Then the breast is placed perpendicularly on a long skein, a girth is made and secured with thread.
The next loop is made so that you get two tassels at right angles. The skein for the wings is placed in the middle.
To form the body, a small paper ball is placed between the breast and back, which is clasped on both sides and secured with additional thread, the free ends forming the tail of the bird.
All that remains is to fold the wings over the back and tie them at the tail line. For the beak, a sunflower seed is used, which is secured with glue, and the eyes are sewn on from beads. The paws are made of wire, which is easily inserted into a soft base.
How to make a craft correctly?
There are several important rules that should be followed when creating crafts:
- strictly follow the instructions if it is made on the basis of a ready-made solution on the network;
- if all materials are not available, then you should look for analogues that are similar in appearance and properties, otherwise all the work may be done in vain;
- It is recommended to make blanks that will help you make not one, but several crafts at once, and will also “insure” in case one of the birds is damaged while working on it;
- If you want to learn how to make a bird craft for the first time, then it is best to look for options using the corresponding request on the Internet.
How to make a bird craft yourself?
To remove bird crafts with your own hands well, you need to find suitable instructions on the Internet and decide what materials will be used.
To begin with, you should choose the most affordable and simple options for crafts, so that the materials for them are inexpensive and easy to find.
Next, you need to find suitable instructions on the Internet or rely on your own preferences and experience if you have previously made other crafts.
Felt wall applique
A colorful applique on the wall can highlight any interior style. To work you will need felt of several colors, cardboard, scissors, threads, needles, templates for the main parts. Instructions on how to make a bird yourself:
- Cut out the main parts from felt - the wings, body, head and tail of the bird.
- Using the same template, cut out parts from cardboard.
- The details are sheathed along the contours with large decorative seams.
- Glue each piece onto the prepared cardboard base.
- Connect the parts together using hand stitches.
A bird can be represented as a figure with open wings (for example, an eagle). In this case, the felt fringe on the wings, freely flowing down, will look original.
Details to improve results
Master classes on making birds for kindergarten can be enriched with sophisticated elements, with which the final result will look much better.
So, for example, instead of a flat paper triangle for a beak, you can make a three-dimensional version.
To do this, it is enough to draw a simple diagram, taking into account the folds and a small indentation for gluing. You can make frequent cuts on the edges of the paper wings and tail, or cut them out of textured cardboard.
The best material for bird legs is wire. Three loops are made in the middle of the segment, then the ends of the wire are crossed and intertwined to ensure the stability of the legs. For greater realism, a tight binding is done with threads.
Cones, acorns, foam balls and other parts can be coated with decorative acrylic paints; painting in gold or silver looks especially impressive.
The eyes will become more expressive if you choose black beads or rhinestones that suit the size.
