Do-it-yourself Christmas tree toy rooster for a child. How to make an applique "Cockerel" from cotton pads with your own hands

What can you do with your own hands for the New Year of the Rooster 2017? Bright, unusual, simple and more difficult crafts! Our ideas for creating New Year's toys and souvenirs will help you make original crafts for the New Year to decorate your home or office, kindergarten or school, or simply serve as assistants in creative development and pleasant spending of your leisure time.

DIY crafts for the new year 2017 with photos and master classes for them

And let's start our series of ideas with crafts from the most common material!

Paper cockerels:

Well, now it's time to show what kind of crafts our children will make with great pleasure. For schoolchildren, it is more suitable to make.

And for children in kindergarten a craft is suitable in the form of this one, made by cutting, designing and gluing.

In addition, in kindergarten, you can make a simple one for the new year 2017, with which you can later decorate the group.

Now we smoothly move on to modeling from salt dough.

Dough cockerel:

New Year's craft from salt dough - can be performed as Christmas tree decoration, a magnet for the refrigerator, or serve as an element of the decor of the New Year's table.

Well, if you feel a charge of energy and skill in yourself, then you can make and present such a souvenir to a loved one.

Craft: plasticine cockerel

Modeling from plasticine is a simple and exciting activity, but sometimes, in order to make something interesting, there is simply not enough imagination. That is why we thought about it in advance and did it.

DIY Christmas souvenir from coffee beans

Christmas crafts: do-it-yourself cockerels from fabric

Textile cockerel in the well-known Tilda technique is not a simple product, you need to have the skills of cutting and sewing, as well as be able to make blind seams. But if you really want to make such an unusual soft toys in honor of the new year, then feel free to go and see the work of our master.

Crochet cockerel: master class

Crocheted crafts for the New Year of the Rooster are great for those who like to fill their home with thematic decor and coziness. Master class on has step by step photos, a detailed description, and most importantly a knitting pattern.

Easter is a wonderful holiday that not only adults but also children are happy with. This Christian holiday has its own traditions. But it is worth saying that it is customary to make all kinds of crafts for such a holiday. Today we will offer you interesting crafts for Easter 2017, which you can do with your own hands from cotton pads... Don't be surprised at this. Indeed, many interesting crafts can be made from cotton pads. Of course, you will need handy materials to create such crafts. Therefore, remember this moment.

Easter crafts from cotton pads

Plastic spoon cockerel.

Fun Craft - Cockerel is very easy to make. Prepare for this occasion a couple of discs, a plastic spoon, white paper, glue and parts for decorating your face.

Progress:

Wings should be cut out of a sheet of white paper.
Then it is worth attaching a spoon to the wings.
Next, glue the second cotton pad to the spoon.
Now we make out the cockerel. We attach to it details that were previously cut out of colored paper.

Owl made of cotton pads.

This craft is simple in its execution. Adults and children can participate in its creation. To create a craft, take:

cotton pads and PVA glue,
colored cardboard of any color and colored paper,
buttons and scissors.

Progress:

To make an owl, all the details should be cut out symmetrically. It is worth starting work from the head. Cut off a third from the first cotton pad. In this case, most of the disc will be the head. And the smaller part of the disc will mimic the eyebrows of an owl. Therefore, the smaller part should be folded in half and cut. In this case, it is worth making uniform cuts along the rounded side.
To make the torso, take the second disc and fold it in half. On this disc, you also need to make cuts that will imitate the feathers of an owl.
To create the wings, another disc must be folded in half and both sides must be cut along the rounded side.
Glue the blanks that you cut out to the cardboard. First, the wings are glued, and on top of them you need to glue the body.
After that, it is worth glueing the head and placing eyebrows on it.
Now it's time to glue the button eyes and a paper triangle, which will be the nose of the craft.
Next, you should complement your composition with a tree branch and stars.

Composition for Easter from cotton pads.

Easter crafts made from cotton pads can be a wonderful gift for any person. In addition, such items are free to participate in the Easter exhibition. So, in order to make this craft, you need to prepare:

gouache paints and a sheet of cardboard,
a brush and foam tampons,
cotton pads and glue,
brown woolen threads,
sequins and plasticine,
braid, seeds and scissors,
cocktail tubes.

Progress:

On a piece of paper, you need to draw a green background. Use a swab for this.
We paint cotton pads yellow.
It is necessary to make a tree from brown threads.
It is necessary to make willow buds from cotton wool.
Next, you need to make chickens from cotton pads.
We make letters XB from the braid and glue them to the composition.
For the Easter picture, it is worth making a frame. Use cocktail straws for this.

Cockerels from cotton pads. Various options.

The first version of the chicken is made from cotton pads. Take 3 cotton pads. And be sure to color them. Cut out individual elements from paper and glue to the chicken. Also, do not forget to add cereal to your chick.

To create the next chicken, use the yellow yarn. Grease the disc with glue. Cover it with yarn. The rest of the details are cut out of colored paper and also glued.

Another cotton pad chicken.

And in the creation of this composition, a chicken will participate, which can be made from plain cotton wool.

Application - lamb.

The lamb applique is very easy to make. In your work, you should use cotton swabs and disks. You will also need colored paper to create flowers. To create such a picture, be sure to choose bright colored cardboard where the rest of the parts will be attached.

Postcard using cotton pads.

A wonderful postcard can be made by using individual elements of cotton pads. In work you will need:

cotton pads and colored paper,
finger paints and PVA glue,
eyes.

Progress:

First of all, two chickens must be cut out of paper.
We use cotton pads to cut out shells for eggs.
From the green paper, you should cut the weed out and stick it on.
Now glue the eyes and beak to the chickens. You can also glue a bow for decoration.
After that, use your finger paints to paint the grass and clouds.

Easter bouquet.

If you take a blue cardboard and draw a twig with black paint on it, and make leaves from cotton pads, you can get a beautiful twig of pussy willow.

Finally

In this article, we have listed interesting crafts from cotton pads for Easter for you. Of course, you can add your imagination or additional details to these crafts. As a result, you should end up with something stunningly beautiful.

As a rule, for the main holidays in schools and kindergartens, they are asked to make crafts with their own hands - the fruit of the efforts of the children themselves or together with their parents. Having made a craft in the shape of a cock or a chicken, you can apply it twice: for the New Year 2017, since this is the year of the rooster, and also, since this bird is a symbol of a light religious holiday.
What is the easiest craft to do? Probably a craft. Therefore, in this article, I have selected three options for crafts that can be done without much cost and skills.

To make chickens and cockerels you will need:

colored paper
PVA glue
pencil
scissors.

Craft Rooster in the shape of a basket:

Print the template on white or colored paper.

Cut with scissors.
If you printed the template on white paper, then paint it with paints. When the paint dries, glue the product, forming a box with the appearance of a cockerel.

Then glue the beak, comb and wattle from colored paper or polystyrene foam. Then add eyes and feathers.
Everything! The cockerel is ready with your own hands! Fill the box with a surprise gift such as candy or cookies.

Craft Rooster in the shape of a cone.

Below I have presented a number of bird-shaped crafts, the basis of which is a cone formed from colored paper or cardboard. Cut out the tail and wings in bright, contrasting shades or to match the body. The beak, beard and legs should be red.

We fold a semicircle made of bright colored paper in the form of a cone, fix the edges with glue or double-sided tape. Glue the cut wings symmetrically on both sides of the cone.

The scallop consists of two parts, which we glue on the crown of the cockerel.

On the craft where there are long legs, we make them like this: we cut out two strips, 0.5 wide and 25-30 cm long, fold them in the form of an accordion and glue them to the bottom of the cone.

We make the tail of the cock from strips about 1 cm in size. Glue the back of the product.

Draw the eyes with a marker or glue them from circles of colored paper.

We cut out the eyes from paper or draw with a felt-tip pen.

You can decorate the cockerel with colored glitter, confetti ...

Craft Rooster from a plate

Another, no less interesting option for making a cockerel is a bird made from a disposable plate that flies in the air, decorating any room, both an educational institution and at home.

Materials you need:

paper or plastic disposable plates
ribbon or thread for hanging
stapler
wire or thick yarn.

Cut strips out of colored paper to create a scallop, beak, wings, and legs.

Staple them where you want them. The feet will be secured with wire or heavy yarn.
Glue a circle of black paper or buttons, creating eyes.
Attach the thread to the garment and hang it in the intended place.