See how to make a samovar with your own hands from paper tubes, from threads, from jute, from sweets. You will also learn about the history of the samovar.
Samovar? an ancient item of Russian everyday life. Now you can make decorative analogs from sweets, newspaper tubes and even from a thimble.
The history of the samovar for children
Before creating such interesting crafts with your children, tell them about the history of the samovar. Thus, you will introduce children to the national culture, help them broaden their horizons, teach them to love their homeland even more!
Tell the kids that the samovar is for heating water. Hence the name of this word, which consists of two parts "sam" and "var". That is, he boils the water himself, as if boiling it. In the upper part of the samovar there is a recess where the teapot is placed, so that this drink becomes even more fragrant and has time to infuse in optimal conditions for it.
They say that the first samovar was brought by Peter I from Holland to Russia. But this is a legend. Since it is known that in Russia this apparatus for boiling water appeared already half a century after the death of the emperor.
Tea appeared in Russia at the end of the 16th century. In this regard, it was necessary to boil water for him. Therefore, the samovar has become very popular in Russia.
But first, in the 18th century, there were sbitinki and samovar kitchens. Here sbiten was prepared from water, herbs, honey, spices.
Tula is considered the birthplace of the Russian samovar. Since these things started to be done here. But in documentary evidence, you can find information about what samovars began to be made at the Ural plant. The first unit was very large, weighed 16 pounds, and was made in the middle of the 17th century.
In the 19th century, the kerosene samovar was invented. At the same time, 28 factories were already opened in Tula, where many of these popular household appliances were produced.
The shape of the samovar was different: ovoid, similar to an ancient Greek vessel. Travelers could take a small road model with them on their trip. She had removable legs. Such a samovar could be cubic, rectangular.
In the 19th century, conical, smooth, faceted, spherical samovars appeared.
After the invention of electricity, wood-fired samovars and mains powered bumps became popular. They can be plugged into an outlet after filling with water and quickly boil the liquid for making tea.
If you are going to tell children about the samovar, then reveal to them an interesting fact. So, in Tula in 1922, a huge samovar weighing 100 kg and a volume of 250 liters was made. The water heated up in just 40 minutes and stayed hot for 2 days. Therefore, during this time, one could drink aromatic tea. This samovar was made of gold and presented to the politician Kalinin.
Here are some interesting facts about the Russian samovar you learned before you start making it from different already modern materials.
How to make a samovar from paper tubes - master class and photo
If you have many sheets of stationery white paper, then use it. Each sheet will need to be folded in width into three pieces and cut. Then take a knitting needle and wind the tubes around it.
In total, you will need about 1000 pieces. You can involve all your family in this slow occupation, and if there is an opportunity at work to do this during a break, then create them there.
If there is no paper, replace it with unnecessary newspapers and magazines. Such waste material will allow you to make a samovar for free.
Color the straws if you wish. For this, a stain of the desired color is suitable. Some of the tubes may turn out to be white, and the other - colored.
Take 4 paper tubes, place them parallel to the work surface. Place the same amount perpendicular to them, take two times the same amount and place them diagonally.
You will have a figure with eight rays. Take a tube and start braiding the blanks with it in a checkerboard pattern. As a result, you will have a bottom. Then split the tubes that came with the kit in half. And already braid the rays, consisting of two tubes. Now you need to give the workpiece a rounded shape. Take a suitable bowl or jar and, after creating the bottom, weave the sides already on it. You can alternate between white and colored tubes.
If desired, use a teapot, can, or 3 liter jar to make the shape you want. Then also first create the bottom, then attach the blank down to the selected container, lift its tubes and fix them temporarily with a soft rubber band.
When you decide how to make a samovar out of paper, you can decorate it, then it will look spectacular. Take a ruler with a circle, put a tube previously rolled into a spiral here, or twist it immediately in this circle. Then you will have an element of perfect evenness.
Now you can make various quilling shapes out of it. Flatten this spiral on both sides, you get the shape of the eyes. And if you do it on one side only, then you get a drop. To make a triangle, you need to mark three corners on the circle. But first, make the turns more relaxed. Then start sticking them to your work. In the bottom row, you can fix certain quilling elements, then again twist the tubes a little and again glue other quilling blanks.
So finish the samovar to the top. Then, on one side and the other, leave a few tubes to weave two handles of the samovar out of them. Then it remains to make a cover for this item. For the base, also use a suitable container, such as a bowl. You will be creating a lid based on this shape.
How to make a samovar from a thimble with your own hands?
Surprisingly, wonderful things are made from this needlework, for example, samovars. Take:
- thimble;
- bead;
- ten-kopeck coin;
- beads;
- eyelets;
- glue Moment wagon;
- accessories for beads;
- pliers.
Take two fittings, use the pliers to give them the shape of the handles. Then glue the blanks on both sides of the thimble. Take a coin, glue the eyelet to it, on which the crown is pre-glued. On this cap, make two more decorations, these will be the tops of the nails and the hardware.
Bend the carnation. This will be the spout. You also need to attach a bead here. To make the samovar stable, you glue the crown and grommet down to it.
DIY candy samovar - master class
Here's how to make a samovar so that you can store sweets in it or create this product based on such sweets.
See how to create the foundation for such a creation. Take penoplex and cut out the following parts from it. The photo shows which ones.
Now see how to lay them out and how to glue them. There will be both the base of the samovar and its lid.
Then you will need corrugated paper. Cover the workpiece with this material. Take the braid, decorate the seams with it. The beads will help to make the legs of the samovar. Create a handle. To do this, take cardboard, roll this rectangle into a tube and glue the edge. Then paint this blank or also cover it with corrugated paper.
Insert the beads from the sides into the tube and glue them. Take the wire, roll it up so that you get such decorative elements. Stick them in place. The wire can also be painted or wrapped with corrugated paper and glued. You need to glue the tape on both sides of the handles.
You can decorate the lid and the samovar itself with the same light braid. Now you can put candy inside to keep these sweets here.
And if you want, then when deciding how to make a samovar, create it with sweets. Such a samovar can be presented, put at home in the most conspicuous place in order to admire it for the time being. When you crave something sweet, you can eat a little candy. And if your loved ones come to visit, then you will put such an attribute on the table to everyone's delight. And there will be a wonderful tea party.
To do this, you need to make a samovar, as in the previous case. Cover the created samovar with golden corrugated paper. Then start sticking the same semicircular candies here in two rows. It will turn out to be a wonderful craft.
DIY thread samovar
See how to make a samovar from yarn.
The product keeps its shape due to the plastic bucket from under the mayonnaise. It is inside. You can put various sweets here in order to then open such a samovar and enjoy them.
Does this product have a main body? body and top? lid. Therefore, the samovar will close well.
First, take a hook and a ball, knit a circle, the diameter of which is equal to the bottom of the bucket. Divide the resulting number of loops by 4 and start adding evenly to make a lush part below.
Add to the middle of the sidewalls, then work using the stitches you have. When you get to the top, start decreasing. As a result, you should have a circle equal to the diameter of your pot.
Make a groove with an awl in the mayonnaise bucket, in its upper part, fasten this part with the one tied with a thread.
Take a wire, wind the yarn on one side of it. Do the same on the other side. But first, you need to fix several beads in the center.
You will get these handles. Insert the ends of the wire into the desired place in the samovar and fix them.
To make the samovar more magnificent, you can wrap the bucket with a padding polyester, and then put it into the knitted part.
Now it's time to crochet the lid as well. It will also be semicircular. Make several holes in the lid of the plastic bucket and, using thread and yarn, sew it with a piece of the samovar knitted from yarn.
To keep the samovar stable, you can use the CD box as a stand. You need to tie it up.
To connect the samovar to this part, take a strip of cardboard, roll it up in the form of a ring and glue it with tape to fix it. Tie this piece with the same yarn. Decorate the samovar to your liking. You can make him eyes. And the crane will become the nose. It must be made from a piece of wire. Insert it in the right place, wrap with threads. Here's how to make a samovar from yarn.
Jute samovar - master class and photo
Here's how to make a samovar from this affordable natural material. First you need to build a frame. To do this, take a regular jar. What shape it will be, so will the finished product. Take regular dark and bleached jute. Cut off three threads from the dark, fold them together, grease with glue and attach to the jar. In the same way, fix all other dark jute tapes around the perimeter of this container.
To make a samovar from threads further, take another tape of three ropes, stick it on top of the first one. Thus, seal all these parts. They will consist of a double row. But you will make these uprights more voluminous. To do this, you also need to cut off 3 threads from the bleached jute, then you need to put them on the jar over two rows of dark stripes so that you get stronger stands.
Well coat these blanks with colorless glue. Now let them dry completely on the jar. Only then peel off from it.
You can first attach cellophane to the jar, then it will be easier to detach the vertical posts from this base.
Here's what you should get. If you see excess glue, then remove it with scissors, sandpaper.
Now you need to make the lower and upper parts of the samovar. They will be round. To do this, take a plastic bucket. Use its bottom and top. Cut 3 ropes from the jute, wrap them around the bottom of the bucket, grease with glue.
Allow these blanks to dry completely, then you will glue them from the top and bottom to your uprights.
To make it easier to carry out this work, you can place the jar near the support so that it will hold your workpieces for a while.
Now you can proceed to decorating the samovar. To do this, draw or print the pattern you like on paper. Put it in a file, straighten it. Now, according to the picture, place the jute ropes, flowers and use glue to give them strength, leave to dry.
You can also make patterns from bleached jute and dark jute. Then first create them from regular twine, and only then use white to make the same curls. When they are dry, start gluing them between the adjacent edges of the samovar.
Upstairs you can make jewelry from these circles. It is also more convenient to do this using a template. When you attach these blanks, make double rings, coat them with glue, let dry and attach a small ring just below the circles, and a large one just above them.
Take jute, grease the end of the thread with glue, start to fold the spiral. You can use a template for this. If you wish, pre-cut segments from this rope and start making such a bottom from the outside, moving inward.
Also, grease all this with glue, when it dries, attach the workpiece in place. Take four ropes from dark jute, place them on a flat surface and glue them together. You will end up with a flat ribbon. When it's dry, wrap it around the glued round bottom.
Here's how to make a samovar next. To do this, you need to create its leg. First make a wireframe for this part. Then make two jute circles. To do this, first create a tape of 4 ropes in the same way. Glue them together, then shape them into a ring. On top you need to glue a white jute ring.
Take 8 wooden skewers and wrap rope around each. Glue them evenly on the bottom ring, then glue on the top ring.
Find the bottom third of this leg and wrap it with bleached jute ropes. Below this blank, extend several rows of dark jute.
Now you need to create various curls and glue them to the free space. These can be rings, drops, and other patterns.
For now, leave this part to dry thoroughly, and take care of the upper part of the samovar yourself, it has just dried up during this time. To do this, create a ring of the same diameter as the one above the small circles, glue the pattern between these two circular rings. He could be like that.
The samovar should be on a level surface. To do it, take skewers, there should be two large and 4 smaller ones. Wrap them with thread, having previously cut them at an angle. Fill the 2 resulting legs with different patterns. Place them, connect these blanks with two more segments. Insert a leg into the middle of this part, which by this time could also dry out.
Make samovar handles. To do this, take paper and cut a 6 by 15 cm rectangle from it. You will need 2 pieces. Roll each to form two small tubes. Then wrap them with dark jute rope. Twist the white one in the form of a spiral and glue it into the hole of the first workpiece. Then close the second hole. In the same way, you will design the second detail.
Use bleached jute to create a ribbon. To do this, you need to glue four ropes together. Then you will wind them on both sides of one piece. Then you will make curls to turn the accessories into embellished samovar handles. Glue them to it.
To create a samovar spout, cut out two different sized rectangles. Wrap each with bleached jute and glue this string to the given paper. Make two round pieces from the same jute blanks to cover the spout on both sides. Insert one piece into the other. Glue them together.
Create small curls to decorate the spout of the samovar. Then you need to make one large spiral to create a handle for the spout, with which you open it to pour boiling water.
It remains to create the lid of the samovar. To do this, draw an even circle with a compass and put this masterpiece in a file. Take a thread, place it over the pattern. Grease the second strand with glue and attach to the first. She, too, will repeat the outline of the circle. This will position these strings close to each other.
Now take a ruler with round holes and use it to create many small identical circles. You will glue them on the back of the newly created large ring.
Take the threads, bend them, glue them together and shape them in the shape of petals. Drawing such figures on paper attached to the file will also help to achieve evenness.
Glue several of the same lengths together to create a bracelet look. You will wrap it with bleached thread on the outside. Then make the bottom with dark jute twine. Wrap it with white twine. Create several identical drops from the same two materials, glue them here perpendicular to the main shapes.
Glue the piece of wood to the one you just created. Glue a bead into each hole. You will get a beautiful lid for a samovar.
The whole samovar is decorated with the same beads. See how charming it turns out.
Here's how to make a samovar from a variety of materials. Learn how to craft it from a plastic bottle.
And how to make a samovar using origami, the second video will tell you.
