Potato crafts with their own hands - interesting master classes on creating animals and cartoon characters

Preparing the material for the crafts

Before you begin making the crafts, it is necessary to correctly select and prepare the material. It is necessary to choose potatoes, suitable in shape and size, wash them thoroughly from dirt and dry them with a soft towel.

Also prepare other handy materials that you may need to make a craft:

• glue,
• plasticine,
• colored cardboard,
• markers,
• thread,
• cotton disks,
• toothpicks,
• Other vegetables: carrot, tomato, cucumber or fruit: apple, etc.

Interesting potato crafts for the exhibition for kindergarten and school on the theme: the animal world

How to make a hedgehog out of potatoes with needles from toothpicks

• To make a hedgehog, you will need potatoes of medium size, if you have a desire to make a large hedgehog, you need to choose potatoes larger.
• Then you should prepare toothpicks of 40-50 pieces and break them into two parts. The more needles the hedgehog has, the more interesting it will look. The next step is to stick toothpicks with the blunt end all around the perimeter of the potato, leaving only the front part empty, where the muzzle will be located.
• Hedgehog eyes are made simply: to do this, two small holes are pierced with toothpicks in the snout, and balls rolled out of black clay are placed in them. You can also use peas of black pepper to create the eyes.
• Next, the mouth of the hedgehog is cut out of a carrot, and also with the help of a toothpick is attached to the potato.
• To create the legs of the hedgehog, you need to cut a potato ring into four pieces and attach each leg to the body of the hedgehog on toothpicks.
• To create a more spectacular image of the hedgehog, you need to pick up bright leaves, vegetables or fruits, such as an apple, which will be attached to the needles. Hedgehog hoarding food for the winter, always looks more interesting.

How to make a hedgehog out of potatoes with buckwheat needles.

A hedgehog with needles out of buckwheat can be made just like using toothpicks, only the needles will be replaced by buckwheat. The grits are attached to the potatoes by simple hand pressure, which is not very difficult. Any child can easily cope with the manufacture of such a hedgehog.

Potato crafts on the theme of fairy tales and cartoons

The Little Hen out of potatoes

1. To make everyone's favorite character: the little hen will need three potatoes of different sizes. One - of medium size and stretched shape will go on the body. The body is placed horizontally against the base - a plate on which to sit the nest. Smaller, round-shaped potatoes are attached to the potato torso on one side with two toothpicks, this will be the head of the hen.
2. A triangle is cut out of a carrot, this will be the beak of the hen, which is attached to the head with a toothpick. Also from carrots are cut out details in the form of a flat tulip - these will be the paws of the chicken, scallop and tail, all parts are fixed with toothpicks to the potato torso.
3. Wings can be made from orange peels, pre-cut a certain shape and also fastened on toothpicks.
4. The eyes of the grouse hen are made from dried cloves. To do this, poke holes in the head of the hen with a toothpick, and in each hole is inserted the tail of dried cloves.
5. The nest can be made in the form of a basket of folded twigs made of brown plasticine.
6. At the final stage, the smallest potato is taken and placed on a plate, a nest, where the hen is placed, it will be an egg, which the hen lay.

Cheburashka out of potatoes

1. To make a potato pig, you need to pick a large-sized tuber, preferably oblong in shape, so that when you cut it crosswise to a thickness of 1-2 cm you get rings of different sizes. You should get 7-8 circles from one tuber.
2. The largest sized circle is selected under the body, smaller circles are attached to it on a toothpick - this will be the head of the Cheburashka.
3. Then you choose two identical potato circles, which will be the ears of the Cheburashka, and attach them to the head on toothpicks.
4. The extreme parts of the potatoes make great legs, and the skin is removed from them. The legs are also attached to the toothpicks.
5. To make the Cheburashka have a finished image, you need to make eyes from cloves and mouth from carrots. You can add a hat, so the cartoon will look more effective.
6. All parts before starting work on the handicraft should be smeared with water and citric acid or sunflower oil, so that it has a long time maintained a beautiful appearance.

The potato snowman

1. To make a snowman out of potatoes with your own hands, you will need to pick up 3 potatoes of different sizes: large, medium and small. Attach parts of the snowman with toothpicks in descending order of size: the smallest will be the head.
2. On the head fix eyes made of black plasticine, a nose, which is cut out of carrots and mouth.
3. On average potato fix vertically 3 balls of plasticine, they will be buttons.
4. Hands snowman are made from twigs of wood. They can also be used to make a broomstick snowman.
5. As a bucket on his head you can use a suitable cap from a marker or any toy similar to the bucket. You can also use an elongated tomato, cut it into two parts and the one that fits better attached to the head of the homemade snowman.
6. On the neck of the snowman is tied a scarf, cut from a thick felt fabric.

Yes, you can make a huge variety of handicrafts from potatoes. And do not necessarily adhere to strict recommendations for creating homemade crafts, look at online photo ideas. The main thing is that during the creation of their competition work of potatoes for kindergarten or school, the child can show their creative imagination and realize their amusing ideas.

Photo ideas of homemade potato crafts