Crafts - do-it-yourself birds from different materials. Burlap birds

Bird crafts have always been very popular among lovers of home crafts. Figures of feathered creatures are especially relevant on Bird Day, which is celebrated in the spring on April 1 in kindergartens and schools. The holiday is dedicated to the return of migratory birds and marks the onset of spring and the renewal of awakened nature. On this day, children of all ages make bird crafts, and older schoolchildren make birdhouses and hang them on trees.

Bird crafts can be made from a wide variety of different materials: cotton pads, colored paper, plastic bottles, salt dough, natural and any available materials. There are many options for creating birds - from simple ones for small children to complex ones that schoolchildren can easily master with the help of adults.

We bring to your attention several lessons on creating birds with your own hands with step by step instructions, diagrams and tips. We hope that they will help you learn all the intricacies of this fascinating process and be filled with new bright ideas.

We will need: plastic bottles of various colors, polystyrene foam, a wooden block as a stand, a metal rod, foil and thin colored plastic, a glue gun.

Step one: Cut out the peacock's body and head from foam plastic, not forgetting to make small indentations in place of the eyes. We attach it to a wooden block using a metal rod, which plays the role of legs.

Step two. We make enough peacock feathers from plastic bottles of different colors. We will need three types of feathers: long for the tail, short for the neck and a little longer for the body. To do this, cut off the bottom and neck of the bottle and cut it lengthwise into 3 parts.

We round one end of each strip with scissors and cut its edges into thin strips so that it looks like a bird's feather. We decorate the rounded end of the feathers intended for the tail with two or three multi-colored ovals made of foil and plastic. You can attach them using a stapler.

Step three. We cut out a beak from a red plastic bottle and fasten it in place. Next, using a glue gun, we gradually glue the feathers onto the body of the bird, starting from the tail and ending with the neck. Attach the feathers slightly overlapping, as shown in the photo. Do not forget that medium-length feathers are intended for the body, and meek ones for the neck.

Step four. We cut out a tuft of any shape that our imagination dictates from colored plastic and glue it onto the head. Using acrylic paints, draw the peacock's eyes. You can glue eyelashes cut from a transparent plastic bottle to them.

Step five. Let's start making the tail using an abrasive mesh. We make holes at the base of the feathers and attach them to the mesh using thin wire.

We start making the tail from the end, gradually layering feathers on top of each other in rows until the bird’s luxurious long tail is completely formed. After that, we attach it to the body and place the peacock, made with our own hands from plastic bottles, in an area among flowers and greenery.

DIY firebird made from salt dough - master class

For Bird Day, you and your children can make a three-dimensional firebird from salt dough. The work will take little time, require very few materials and will provide the children with a cheerful and festive mood.

We will need: salt dough, gouache or watercolor paints, colorless varnish.

Step one. Making salt dough. To do this, mix a glass of flour with a glass of salt and knead the dough by pouring 100 ml of brewed starch into it. We prepare it as follows: dilute a tablespoon of starch in 100 ml of cold water and pour a glass of boiling water into this mixture.

Step two. Divide the salt dough into 5 pieces and paint them in different colors. To do this, add gouache or watercolor paints to each piece and lightly knead it again. Next, we draw a sketch of the firebird and sculpt the bird’s details on it: wings and body. Dry them in the oven at low temperature.

Step three. Making the tail fairy bird. We draw stencils of feathers and use them to sculpt them from pink and blue salt dough. Dry the feathers in the oven. Next, we paint all the parts of the bird with paints, cover them with colorless varnish, and connect them. We decorate a colorful festive panel with crafts. The salt dough firebird is ready!

Birds made from cotton pads - master class

Another very cute craft that is perfect for decoration. kindergarten on the wonderful holiday Bird Day. It's easy, fun and very fast. Young children can be introduced to making birds from cotton pads.

For creativity we will need: cotton pads, wooden skewers, colored paper, narrow colored ribbons, plastic eyes, glue and scissors.

Operating procedure:

To create one bird we take 5 cotton pads. We cut one disk into two halves, and leave four whole.
We fix two pairs of cotton pads on a skewer with glue so that it is inside. One pair of disks plays the role of the bird's head, and the other - the body.
We glue the halves of the cut cotton pad to the body on both sides - these will be our wings.
Glue the eyes and beak, cut out from a piece of colored paper, to the head and decorate the bird with a ribbon. A cute chick made from cotton pads for Bird Day is ready!

Owl made of colored paper - master class

You can make cute owls for celebrating Bird Day at school with your own hands from colored paper. We will need the colored paper itself, scissors, Double-sided tape and glue.

Operating procedure:

We make a cylinder from a sheet of colored paper, glue its edges on one side, as shown in the photo, and press down the middle so that we get ears.
Cut out a heart from paper and glue it to the bottom of the cylinder - these are the owl's feet.
We cut circles of equal size and glue them onto the central part of the cylinder as feathers. In order for the circles to give volume to the craft, it is better to stick them with double-sided tape.
We cut out a triangle of the same color as the legs and glue it to the top of the plumage - this is the beak.
Lastly, glue on the eyes by cutting out circles for them from black and white paper. Your handmade owl is ready!

DIY bird of paradise made of polymer clay - master class

These adorable birds of paradise are made from air-hardening polymer clay. This modern material is also familiar to us under the names “self-hardening plasticine”, “modeling mass” and “velvet plastic”. To make charming feathered creatures we will need aluminum wire with a diameter of 1 mm, polymer clay, foil, scissors, pliers, stack, glass for rolling out clay, a little patience and diligence.

Operating procedure:

We create three birds at once - while we are sculpting one, the rest are drying out. We cut the wire twice as long as the planned tail. We wrap half the wire with foil, crumpling it and forming the body of the bird.
We make legs from wire, as shown in the photo, and insert them into the body. We take a piece of clay, shape it into a sausage shape, then roll it out and flatten it. Carefully remove the wire from the bird, place it inside the clay sausage, rolling it up using a glass. We insert the finished colored tail back into the body. In the same way we prepare the remaining two birds.
We take a piece of blue, yellow and red clay, roll them out and gradually, smearing them with our fingers, stick them around the birds until the entire foil is covered. We will get three blanks of bright birds.
Starting from the center, we stick around the paws. Then we take a piece of clay of the appropriate color and make the cheeks, crown and beak. We sculpt eyes from balls of black clay, not forgetting to squeeze out the upper and lower eyelids around them.
Create a tail and crest. To do this, we cut off several wires of the length we need and roll them into clay. When it dries, we round off the ends using pliers and insert the tail parts into the bird’s body. We make shorter feathers from thin clay sausages by twisting the ends.
We create the plumage effect by placing pieces of clay rolled out in the form of droplets on the body and working with a needle in the direction of feather growth. Using a needle, we create featheriness throughout the bird’s body. To make the eyes shine, you can coat them with varnish. A wonderful hand-made bird of paradise is ready!

More ideas and patterns for bird crafts made from various materials

For needlewomen familiar with the isothread technique, it will not be difficult to create paintings with beautiful white swans with their own hands and decorate a holiday with them, dedicated to the Day birds. For creativity, it is better to use floss or iris. On the wrong side of the cardboard we draw a swan and draw waves. We divide the drawing into details, drawing figures of different sizes, and embroider using the isothread technique.

Woolen threads make a very charming feathered creature. You can easily create it with your own hands according to a simple and understandable scheme.

And according to this scheme, by introducing children to creativity, you can make a bird of happiness from a beautiful bright fabric.

Even small children can create such a colorful bird from circles of colored paper.

You can even make a charming bird from a strip of colored paper and a clothespin.

A bird you made yourself for Bird Day can be placed in a nest made from paper plates.

Simple clothespins in the hands of a craftswoman can turn into an extraordinary fairy-tale bird.

And finally, ideas for bird crafts made from natural and improvised materials: cedar or pine cones, painted feathers, cardboard and plasticine.

Svetlana Bolshakova

Birds made from jute twine I saw them on the Internet and immediately fell in love with them. I started looking Master Class. And where do you think I found it? Yes, here, at MAAM, with teacher Natalya Stolyarevskaya. I made my first two birds using her MK. Now I’m doing another one according to MK craftswomen, but more on that later.

The very first birds of happiness, chips birds, were an attribute of any Pomeranian home. Bird hung over the table, and when the samovar was placed on the table, then the bird began to spin, obeying the streams of hot steam. Bird of Happiness - amulet, keeper of the hearth and well-being. Later birds began to be made not only from wood chips, but also from straw, cattail, paper, fabric, etc.

I'll try to tell you how I did it I'm a bird. You can also look at Natalia Stolyarevskaya.

The bird is made from jute twine and bright threads, I have "iris". Wrapping the book twine, the number of turns should be divided by 5, I do 20 laps

When winding, make 3-4 circles in the center 1 cm longer - place your finger or pencil, this will be the beak

We make a beak by tightly wrapping red threads around this centimeter, starting from the head and then back. We cut the thread and hide it under the winding. I used a needle with a large eye for this.

A small piece twine we decorate the bird's head by wrapping it above and below the beak

After about 2 cm we wrap the neck with red thread

Making the wings the same way as the body birds, tie it in the middle and insert it into the body, like the hands of a doll

We fasten it with a thread below the wings and make a protective cross, like a folk doll

We divide the wing into 5 equal parts and begin to wrap the “feathers” in a checkerboard pattern

We also decorate the tail, cut the threads of the wings and tail

Here the bird is ready, you can hang it from the ceiling

I started making, as I wrote in a previous publication, a calendar with folk dolls. I will talk about it in detail later, when I do it, but now briefly. For the month of March I made small Martinichek dolls. And for April you can make a Verbnitsa doll, or an Easter doll, or a Vesnyanka doll, or maybe a bird Happiness. I would like to do them all, but there is not enough space. While I made a little bird

Here is a piece of the calendar circle

I wanted to consult with you, dear experts of folk dolls and needlewomen, about a doll for the month of May. They recommend making a Cuckoo doll. But I don’t know how to perform it in a small version, or rather I’m afraid that it won’t work. Which doll can you recommend for me?

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Let me start by saying that I was definitely lucky with my students. Although there are many of them (39), they are so smart (although they cannot be singled out by.

Hello, Dear colleagues MAAAmovians! I would like to offer you a simple origami master class “Bird of Happiness”. We will need: - Colored.

Purpose: To consolidate the primary colors (blue, red, yellow, green). Develop creative skills, creativity and imagination. Objectives: Learn carefully.

Do you want to make one or a bouquet of them?

These birds look very beautiful. In general, burlap is a very interesting material for creativity. With a certain approach, it can sparkle with very new and unexpected “colors”. For example, imagine (or even just try): if such birds were tinted with gold on their bellies, cheeks and wings with a dry brush. It will turn out very rich and beautiful. The main thing here is not to overdo it. Still, burlap requires a certain simplicity.

Or you can make them in a completely different style. For example, coffee. Burlap and coffee are a wonderful combination. In general, yes, burlap is a wonderful material.

Required materials and tools:

Template - a paper pattern. (You will find it under the cut)
Sackcloth
Heat and Bond is a glue (there are many different ones) that is poured between rags, and then they are ironed and they stick together. The author of the master class used this material. But for my taste, it’s better to use thermal non-woven fabric here.
Filler. For example: polyfill, cotton wool, padding polyester, whatever is available or what you like best.
Black large beads or beads - two pieces.
Black acrylic paint
Thin brushes
Glue gun or Moment-Crystal glue
Flexible but not too thin wire
Jute twine or coarse linen rope - should match the muskwort in color and appearance
Needle and thread
Sewing machines (optional)

And here is our template. Print, cut out.

For the cut we use both burlap and lining. We will need a lining so that the stuffing does not stick out between the sparse threads of the burlap. And we will use adhesive interlining as a lining (or we will glue it with special glue). At the same time, it will strengthen the decorative but loose burlap and protect the toy from falling apart and falling apart.

Cut out the bird pattern, leaving seam allowances for sewing. Sew them together, but be sure to leave an opening at the bottom (where the two pins are marked on the pattern). We will stuff the toy through this hole.

After filling the hole, carefully sew it up with an inconspicuous seam.

Now we take the wire and make a tail out of it. To do this, you need to bend it as in the photo.

We wrap the bent wire blank of the tail with a rope. Here and there you need to drop a drop of glue onto the wire so that the rope holds tightly. Every few turns. Leave the tip bare. We will stick it into the body.

This is how we stick the tail into its proper place. Don't forget to seal everything well with glue.

Wings are made in the same way. Only they seem to have two feathers, and not three, as on the tail.

We attach the wings to their places on both sides.

Now we roll the rope in our fingers into decorative spirals like these.

We glue these decorative ornaments onto the wing, body and head of the bird. See how it was done in the photo, or come up with your own options. But in this case, circles of rope cover the place where the wings are attached, which makes the bird even neater.

Now we paint over the beak with acrylic black paint. And the eyes are made of beads.

So that the bird can be hung, for example, on a Christmas tree, you need to attach a loop to it.

The loop is also glued with glue.

This is the bird we end up with. She is ready and very sweet in her naive village manner. But you can also, as I wrote at the beginning, slightly tint it in some places with gold or coffee paint.