Handmade military crafts for school and kindergarten - a selection of interesting master classes with photo ideas

What kind of military crafts can be made at home

The first thing that comes to mind is a rifle, grenade or tank. But many people do not suspect that a child is able to make much more complex things - an armored personnel carrier, a ship, a submarine, a machine gun, an infantry fighting vehicle.

You can find crafts of all sizes, shapes and made from different materials.

Flat handicrafts

They are made in the form of a postcard or drawing. Postcard is often a standard size and is given as a gift for a memorable day, such as February 23. Paintings and drawings can be of any dimensions, which are limited only by the capabilities of the source material.

Dimensional handicrafts

They are used in children's war games with peers, they can be presented to their father or grandfather. The size of such a gift is limited mainly by the creative concepts of the home craftsman.

Tools, gadgets, materials required for production

The starting materials can be any, environmentally flawless:

1. wood;
2. paper;
3. plastic
4. foam rubber;
5. cardboard
6. fabric;
7. duct tape;
8. paints;
9. glue.

You will also need scissors and a jigsaw.

Paper crafts

Of thick paper or cardboard, using origami techniques, you can make beautiful airplanes or armored vehicles, and then color them beautifully. In a military vehicle of cardboard can put soldiers with machine guns and hand grenade launchers. All-terrain armored vehicle can be armed with a machine gun and cannon. Cardboard can also be used to make a fighter with a reverse sweep wing, an attack helicopter and a ballistic missile.

Modular origami

Modular origami has recently become widespread. This technique differs from the traditional so that the handicraft is not created from a single sheet of paper, and from individual modules. With this technique can achieve the illusion of a real three-dimensional object.

Armored vehicles from matchboxes

From this throw-away material you can make, for example, a tank. For this you will need:

1. 3 matchboxes;
2. A plastic tube for the barrel;
3. 9 dark buttons;
4. colored paper;
5. Scissors and glue.

The base of the tank is two matchboxes, glued narrow sides. The finished body is wrapped in green paper. For the wheels, dark buttons of appropriate size are used, four from each side, and the ninth is glued on top and will represent the hatch. Using a plastic tube about 3 cm long, the barrel of the tank gun is attached to the hull.

Ballistic missile

To make it, you need a medicine bottle, which should be emptied, cleaned of dirt and dried.

The container can be painted immediately or after wrapping with paper. The fairing of the rocket is made from paper in the form of a piece (cone) and is glued to the body from above.

Located at the bottom of the rocket aerodynamic stabilizers are made of cardboard. Cut out four triangles with sides 3 cm, color or glue them with colored paper. Use glue to fix the stabilizers to the hull, 5mm away from the edge of the blanks.

Crafts from plastic bottles

Such bottles are extremely popular as material for military-themed crafts. Military equipment often has cylindrical shapes, very similar to plastic containers. Therefore, they can easily be used to make crafts in the form of airplanes, submarines, rockets, and other weapons that have similar shapes.

Making airplane crafts with your own hands

Aircraft of the air force have a green coloring. For this reason, a green sprite bottle is very handy for making military aircraft. In the absence of such bottles, any available are used. Parts of the plane (tail fins, wings, propeller) are cut out of green cardboard.

Mark the bottle with a marker for further work. To do this, mark the attachment points of wings, tail feathers and other design elements. Then two sheets of cardboard are glued and allow the glue to dry. Another sheet of cardboard is a 4x30 cm piece for the wings, with the tip in the form of a semi-circle. Having drawn a sketch, you make a propeller and tail of the appropriate size from cardboard. Slots are cut in the marked places on the fuselage, and then the assembly is completed. Portholes, cockpit lanterns of the pilot and gunner are imitated photo-images.

Plasticine handicrafts

Such a picture-shaped handicraft must have a cord in order to be able to hang it on the wall. The base of the painting must have enough rigidity to prevent deformation. If you ignore this requirement and use a sheet of cardboard one layer thick, the craft can distort and lose its original shape

Work Steps:

• Glue two or more sheets of cardboard together and let them dry.
• Let the plasticine warm up by placing it in a warm place to give it plasticity.
• Make a pencil sketch of a future painting on the desired theme. Warm plasticine, piece by piece, overlap on the base, sticking to the plot and observing colors.
• To protect the handicraft from contamination and drying out, you should wrap it with food plastic film, and cover the back with paper or cardboard and staple it together. Such precautions will keep the work in pristine condition for many decades.

In case of difficulties, you should find the appropriate photos of the most successful military crafts or master classes with step-by-step instructions on how to make them on the World Wide Web.

The idea of military-themed crafts very successfully takes into account the availability and low cost of the original items and materials, some of which are trash and meant to be thrown away.

Combining different materials, mostly in camouflaging paint, you can make any kind of military equipment, from a torpedo boat to a cruise missile. Such crafts contribute to the development of children and adults not only creative thinking, attention and perseverance, but also respect for the military exploits of their ancestors and foster patriotism.

A gift with a military theme, made by hand, and given to your father or grandfather for Victory Day or Defender of the Fatherland Day, will bring joy and emotion to anyone who receives it.

Photo ideas of military-themed crafts