Burlap birds. Master Class

Would you like to make one or a bouquet of them?

These birds look very nice. 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 are tinted with gold on their abdomens, 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.

And 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:

The template is a paper pattern. (You will find it under the cut)
Sackcloth
Heat and Bond is a kind of glue (there are many different ones) that is poured between rags, and then they are ironed, and they stick together. Such material was used by the author of the master class. But for my taste, it is better to use thermal interlining.
Filler. For example: polyfill, cotton wool, synthetic winterizer, what is available or what do 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 muschkovin in color and appearance
Needle and thread
Sewing machines (optional)

And here is our template. Print, cut out.

For cutting, we use both burlap and lining. We need a lining so that the stuffing does not stick out between the rare threads of burlap. And we will use glue interlining as a lining (or glue it on a special glue). At the same time, it will strengthen the decorative but loose burlap, and protect the toy from sprinkling and spreading.

Cut out the bird pattern, leaving a seam allowance for sewing. Sew them, but don't forget to leave a hole at the bottom (where two pins are marked on the pattern). Through this hole we will stuff the toy.

After filling, the hole is carefully sewn up with an inconspicuous seam.

Now we take the wire and make a tail out of it. To do this, it must be bent as in the photo.

Curving the wire blank of the tail, we wrap it with a rope. In some places it is necessary to drop a drop of glue on the wire so that the rope holds tightly. Every few turns. Leave a bare end. We will stick it in the body.

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

Wings are made the same way. Only they have, as it were, two feathers, and not three, as on the tail.

We attach the wings to their places on both sides.

Now in the fingers we turn the rope into such decorative spirals.

We glue these decorative ornaments on 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 paint over the beak with black acrylic paint. And the eyes are made of beads.

In order for the bird to be hung, for example, on a Christmas tree, you need to attach a loop to it.

The loop is also glued with glue.

Here is such a bird in the end. She is ready and very sweet in her naive country way. But you can still, as I wrote at the beginning, slightly tint it in some places with gold or coffee paint.

Bird crafts have always been very popular among lovers of home art. Particularly relevant are the figurines of feathered creatures on Bird Day, which is celebrated in 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 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 young children to complex ones that schoolchildren can easily master with the help of adults.

We bring to your attention a few 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 subtleties of this fascinating process and be filled with new bright ideas.

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

Step one, Cut out the body of the peacock along with the head from the foam, not forgetting to make small indentations in place of the eyes. We fasten it to a wooden block with a metal rod, which plays the role of legs.

Step two. We make a sufficient number of 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 with a stapler.

Step three. Cut out a beak from a red plastic bottle and fasten it in place. Next, we gradually glue the feathers on the body of the bird with a glue gun, starting from the tail and ending with the neck. We attach the feathers a little overlap, as shown in the photo. Do not forget that medium-length feathers are for the body, and meek ones are for the neck.

Step four. We cut out a crest of any shape from colored plastic, which our imagination tells us, and glue it on the head. Using acrylic paints, draw the eyes of a peacock. You can glue cilia cut from a transparent plastic bottle to them.

Step five. We proceed to the manufacture of the tail, using an abrasive mesh for this. We make holes at the base of the feathers and attach them to the grid with a thin wire.

We start making the tail from the end, gradually laying feathers on top of each other in rows until the luxurious long tail of the bird is fully formed. After that, we attach it to the body and settle the peacock, made with our own hands from plastic bottles, on a plot among flowers and greenery.

Do-it-yourself firebird from salt dough - master class

By the Day of the Birds, together with the children, you can make a voluminous firebird from salt dough. The work will take little time, require very few materials and provide the children with a cheerful and festive mood.

We will need: salt dough, gouache or watercolors, 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 color them in different colors. To do this, add gouache or watercolors to each piece and knead it slightly again. Next, draw a sketch of the firebird and sculpt the details of the bird on it: wings and torso. Dry them in the oven at low temperature.

Step three. We make a tail fabulous bird. We draw stencils of feathers and sculpt them from pink and blue salt dough on them. Dry the feathers in the oven. Next, we paint all the details of the bird with paints, cover with colorless varnish, and connect. We make a colorful festive panel with crafts. Salt dough firebird is ready!

Cotton pad birds - 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 involved in making birds from cotton pads.

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

Operating procedure:

We take 5 cotton pads to create one bird. 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 discs 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 - this will be our wings.
We glue the eyes and beak cut out of a piece of colored paper to the head and decorate the bird with a ribbon. A cute chick made of cotton pads for Bird Day is ready!

Colored paper owl - master class

Cute owls for the celebration of Birds Day at school can be made with your own hands from colored paper. We will need directly 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 crush the middle so that we get ears.
We cut out a heart from paper and glue it to the bottom of the cylinder - these are the paws of an owl.
We cut circles of the same size and stick them on the central part of the cylinder as plumage. In order for the circles to give the craft volume, it is better to stick them with double-sided tape.
We cut out a triangle of the same color as the paws, and glue it at the top of the plumage - this is the beak.
Lastly, we glue the eyes by cutting out circles for them from black and white paper. The handmade owl is ready!

Do-it-yourself bird of paradise made of polymer clay - master class

These delightful birds of paradise are made of polymer clay that hardens in air. This modern material is also known to us under the names "self-hardening plasticine", "mass for modeling" and "velvet plastic". For the manufacture of charming feathered creatures, we need aluminum wire with a diameter of 1 mm, polymer clay, foil, scissors, round nose pliers, a stack, a glass for rolling clay, a little patience and diligence.

Operating procedure:

We create three birds at once at once - while we are sculpting one, the rest dry up. We cut the wire twice as long as the planned tail. We wrap half of the wire with foil, crushing it and forming the body of a bird.
We make paws from wire, as shown in the photo, and insert them into the body. We take a piece of clay, form it in the shape of a sausage, then roll it out and flatten it. We carefully pull out the wire from the bird, place it inside the clay sausage, rolling it up with a glass. We insert the finished colored ponytail back into the body. In the same way, we make blanks for 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 all the foil is covered. We will get three blanks of bright birds.
Starting from the center, stick around the paws. Then we take a piece of clay of the corresponding color and make cheeks, crown and beak. From balls of black clay we sculpt eyes, not forgetting to squeeze out the upper and lower eyelids around them with a stack.
We create a tail and crest. To do this, cut off several wires of the length we need and roll them into clay. When it dries, round off the ends with round nose pliers and insert the details of the tail into the body of the bird. We make shorter feathers from thin clay sausages by twisting their tips.
We make the effect of plumage by applying pieces of clay rolled out in the form of droplets on the body and working with a needle in the direction of feather growth. With the help of a needle, we make feathering all over the body of the bird. For shine, the eye can be varnished. A wonderful do-it-yourself bird of paradise is ready!

More ideas and schemes for bird crafts from various materials

For needlewomen who are familiar with the isothread technique, it will not be difficult to create pictures with beautiful white swans with their own hands and decorate the holiday with them, dedicated to the day birds. Threads for creativity are better to take floss or iris. From 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.

From woolen threads, a very charming feathered creature is obtained. It can be easily created with your own hands according to a simple and understandable scheme.

And according to this scheme, by introducing children to the 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.

A charming bird can even be made from a strip of colored paper and a clothespin.

A do-it-yourself bird for Bird Day can be planted in a nest glued from paper plates.

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

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

Svetlana Bolshakova

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

The very first birds of happiness, wood chips birds, were an attribute of any Pomeranian home. bird hung over the table, and when a samovar was placed on the table, then the bird started to spin, obeying the streams of hot steam. Bird of Happiness - amulet, the keeper of the hearth and well-being. Already 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. bird i. 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 circles

3-4 circles in the center, when winding, we make 1 cm longer - put a finger or a pencil, it will be a beak

We make a beak, tightly winding 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 large eye needle for this.

small piece twine we make out the bird's head, wrapping it above and below the beak

After about 2 cm, we wrap the neck with a red thread

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

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

We divide the wing into 5 equal parts and start wrapping the "feathers" in a checkerboard pattern

We also make out 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 little Martinichek pupae. And for April, you can make a Verbnitsa doll, or an Easter doll, or Vesnyanka, or you can make a bird Happiness. I want to do everything, 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 connoisseurs of folk dolls and needlewomen, about a doll for the month of May. It is recommended to make 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 advise me?

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