Handmade animals with clay, paper and other hand-made materials (62 photos)

Working with salt dough

1. Salt Dough. Perfect instead of the usual plasticine. The material is much safer and cheaper.
2. How to get "homemade" plasticine. Requires a glass of slightly warm water, three cups of flour and a glass of fine salt "Extra" (can be replaced with regular). Then thoroughly knead the dough.
3. Processing of the handicraft. Having created a toy, it is placed in an oven with a low temperature and not tightly covered with the door. This procedure is repeated for three days. Food coloring is added to the dough immediately or after the oven.

Hint: the handicrafts should be small for normal drying. For convenience, the following scheme is suggested: create the animal parts separately, then, starting with the largest, all fasten together.

Pink Piglet

1. For the body to make an oval of dough.
2. Glue a circle-five and a tail.
3. Prepare two triangles for the ears, four small circles, which will turn into feet.

You can paint the chubby pig with pink paint, and use a black marker to draw eyes and outlines.

Cute good-natured bear

1. Make a round ball of dough for the future head.
2. Make a muzzle and ears.
3. Next comes the creation of an elongated body.
4. Attach a paw bear.
5. Secure the head animal toothpick, sticking it into the body instead of the neck.
6. Model will be more interesting if you add a paw object of some kind of dough. For example, an apple, a drum, or a pot of honey.

Pompoms turn into animals

Nice soft, and durable toys are made from wool balls.

Making working pompoms:

• Cut two "bagels" out of cardboard with holes in them.
• Put them together, wrap yarn on the base of the circles.
• Yarn on top of the line cut.
• Pull the rings apart on different sides, and fasten in the center with yarn and tie firmly.
• Pull out the cardboard carefully.
• Here it is - a pompon for any craft.

Caterpillar .

1. Several pompoms glue.
2. On the last glue tongue and eyes.
3. Attach small horns of the caterpillar.

Master class on the use of sleeves

What a surprise - beautiful, good animal crafts can turn out even from the sleeves left over from toilet paper. Indeed, there is no limit to human imagination.

Gray bunny

1. From the gray cardboard cut one whole circle (for the head) and two more halves for future paws.
2. Then put the sleeve down a hole, glue a circle underneath it.
3. On this circle to put paw-semi-circles.
4. Now cut out the nose lobe and ears from pink paper and glue.
5. Glue 6 straws instead of a mustache under his nose.
6. Eyes draw on white cardboard or buy ready-made in specialty stores.
7. On both sides of the nose glue a piece of absorbent cotton.

Such a bunny can be adapted as a stand for pencils. The child will be very happy to use the thing in a useful way.

Hint: penguins, lion cubs, elephants, and monkeys are funny and charming.

Natural cones - you can't think of a better one

Beautiful crafts are born from inedible components, like cones or leaves. Animals made of natural material, perhaps, look the most natural.

Tip: If you need cones opened, you should first put them in an oven heated to 250 degrees for 2 hours, and then cool them down. Conversely, to keep the cone's original appearance, without opening, you need to dip it in carpentry glue for 30 seconds.

The best toy, made by children's hands, is the figure of hedgehog from a cone.

For creativity prepare:

• An open cone.
• A piece of brown felt.
• Glue.
• Two small black beads and one large bead.

Step-by-step steps:

• Cut out the muzzle in the form of a heart from the felt.
• From the beads glue the nose, from small - the eyes.
• From the remaining piece of fabric, cut two ears.
• Glue the ears to the pinecone, then the muzzle.

A New Year's idea: a wonderful composition will be made if several hedgehogs are placed on green spruce branches.

Tasty Creations

Very interesting and appetizing look animals made of berries, vegetables, fruits. Any of them can turn into an animal, it would be a desire.

Pumpkin

There are many variants of various round-shaped characters from this vegetable plus cardboard, glue, scissors, paints. And ready - a wise owl, a sad panda, a playful cat, an eared bunny. Develops children's imagination and the ability to see an animal in a familiar product.

1. Turtle - half of a pumpkin will serve as a shell, one-third of a rounded cucumber will become a head with glued eyes, and the four parts of the elongated cucumbers, serve as legs.
2. Another version of the turtle: half of an orange oblong pumpkin placed on four thick discs of large carrots. The tail is also a carrot. The head is made of half of an elongated potato, attached to a skewer. Eyes made of black rowanberries or grapes are planted with toothpicks.

Zucchini

1. A very simple model of a pig out of a white oval short fruit. It is enough to glue a thick layer of cucumber instead of a heel. Insert two toothpicks with a round end, imitating the nostrils, thus securing it to the flat part of the zucchini. Two half rings of green cucumber will replace the ears. And the peas black rowan will serve as eyes.
2. Piglet with a tail and ears made of pink paper. Also pick a compact white zucchini oval shape. At the end, which is thinner, glue swirled tape paper tail. On the other, thickened side, plant pink ears. Cut out of black paper round eyes and flirty eyelashes. In place of the heel glue half of a Kinder Surprise.

Zucchini

1. No less adorable get a whale. Very simple, and no unnecessary details. An elongated dark green fruit, thickened on one side, is taken. From the pea pods are attached with toothpicks fins and tail. Two peas are the eyes. Instead of a fountain, stick a stalk of curly parsley into a small hole.
2. Sometimes one side of the fruit is curved, and this will come in handy. As if a little whale is playing in the sea. From blue cardboard you can cut out a tail, fins, a strip of smiling mouth and fountain. All sequentially glued. From the paper also glue the eyes.

Eggplant

A blue vegetable with a rounded tip can turn out a stunning penguin. It is enough to cut the skin in the form of a white breast and tummy. On the flat side, cut off the layer, so that the beauty stands steadily. From the scraps, glue the flapper arms separately or notch the skin off the sides. From the carrots cut out three-fingered paws. It remains to glue the eyes and that's it.

The baby will love the shiny and smooth whale fish. Carefully cut off the bulge on one side along the torso to give the vegetable stability. Then cut the tail out of the trim and insert it into the cut prepared for this purpose. The fins, too, are simply pinched off by notching the skin. Where the muzzle is implied, cut out the mouth, opening it. The place for the eyes, too, first cut out in elongated triangles, inserting a red rowan or cranberry. Instead of a fountain, fix a long radish, beautifully carved with a tulip.

Cabbage

Take a small cauldron of attractive red cabbage, and place it sideways with skewers on four sturdy plums. Wrap the two outermost leaves slightly backwards to make large ears. In the center, stick a small burgundy beet with a long twisted tail, which will immediately turn into the trunk of a wonderful elephant. The only thing left is to glue or insert ready-made toy eyes.

Cauliflower allows you to create different poodles for all tastes.

In an oval small potato, insert one inflorescence pointed like a tail. Four paws prepare from elastic round inflorescences of the same size, as if a poodle stands on long paws with a fluffy bottom. For the head, pick up a twig with a "chub" and "curls" on the sides and attach it obliquely so that the cut stem serves as a nose, with a pea stuck on the tip, and black eyes inserted.

The inflorescences perfectly resemble the wool of a lamb, so you can't do without this animal. You should try to choose a piece so that you can only slightly tweak the four legs at the dense part of the stems with a knife, preserving the lush oval torso, cutting out a small tail. Then fix the head from a separate inflorescence, sticking in the eyes. To place such a charming little charm will want on a plate with succulent greens.

As an option, a neat mushroom mushroom is excellent for the head. If you fix the hat to the torso, and the mushroom leg cut out a muzzle, adding eyes and ears.

Fruits

Very tasty hedgehog from pears and grapes will be able to make a small child. For the base take a pear and peel the narrow side. Put grapes of any color on a toothpick, so that the needles stick out about 1 cm. Stuck in tight rows in the unpeeled round part. On the tip of the muzzle attach half an olive or black grapes, put clove stars instead of eyes.

The mouse-rat out of lemon will be quite appropriate for the coming year. The three-year-old kid will be a wonderful helper with pleasure, inserting into the slits the parts that his mother will prepare.

A quarter is cut along the length of the lemon for the calf. A tail and ears are cut from the trimmed zest. From the sharp end are poked with cloves-eyes. The ears are inserted into the slits. Toothpick fastens the tail. The whiskers are thread, stitched with a needle or pieces of thin wire.

Sometimes vegetables themselves suggest unusual ideas of reincarnation of familiar products in different animals. It is only necessary to look closely and understand who exactly resembles a freakishly shaped vegetable. Then join the child, giving him a couple of hours of your time to help translate your fantasy into a real exclusive creation of hands.

This is just a small fraction of the suggestions for making animal crafts that are made very quickly and easily. After viewing the many photos on the Internet, parents are sure to have a desire to create their own unique masterpiece together with their children, born of joint inspiration.

Photo ideas of homemade crafts in the form of animals