Find out how easy it is to craft a rooster from bottles, coffee beans, fabric. See how to make a rooster out of salted dough from egg trays. The upcoming 2017 will be the year of the rooster. There are various types of crafts to help craft this bird. They can decorate a Christmas tree, give to friends and acquaintances, thereby saving your money. Most of the crafts presented are made from junk or penny material.
Craft a rooster from egg trays
This is what a rooster can be made of. This is completely junk material, but it makes great crafts. For work you will need:
- egg trays;
- acrylic paints;
- thin white paper;
- cardboard;
- newspapers;
- scissors;
- glue gun;
- brushes;
- pencil.
From the protruding parts of the tray, cut blanks that are similar in shape to elongated petals. When you make the head of a rooster, you need to glue them together with thin white paper to create a semblance of a flower. Cut the beard of the bird from the side of the box. The rounded triangle will become its beak, this blank needs to be glued on the side. For the beak, you will need 2 such parts.
Using a glue gun, cut out the wings of a bird from cardboard, glue them with blanks from egg trays that look like leaves.
Most of your time will be spent waiting for the papier-mâché rooster's body to dry. Therefore, it is better to start working with its formation. Cut the newspapers into strips, dilute the glue with water in a 1: 2 ratio in a container. Dip the paper here, stick it on the inflated balloon. It will take more than one hour to dry this part. When this happens, pierce the ball with a sharp object and remove it through the small hole left.
This rounded blank must be cut into two unequal parts, insert the smaller one into the larger one to increase the strength of the part. Glue these elements together with a glue gun.
While the papier-mâché was drying, you had enough time to form the head and neck of the rooster. To the part, which looks like a flower with elongated petals, made using petals from an egg tray, glue two triangular beak blanks, a comb cut out of cardboard.
Insert the second one into this flower blank, then the third, fourth and fifth. The head and neck of the bird are ready. Glue this piece to the side of the half papier-mâché ball. To do this, use a glue gun to attach a strip of cardboard inside the neck so that it looks out from below. We glue this label to the half of the papier-mâché body.
To make a tail, draw semicircular lines on the lid from under the eggs, cut along them.
Glue the tail to the back of the body. That's it, you can paint the cockerel with acrylic paints when it dries, hand the craft to the addressee or put it in the most prominent place in your house, as a bright attribute of the holiday.
You can make a rooster with your own hands not only for the New Year, but also for Easter. Then you put painted eggs in his semicircular body, thus decorate the festive table.
Symbol of 2017 made from plastic bottles
If you decide to celebrate the New Year at the dacha, then make a rooster - a symbol of 2017, which is not afraid of either snow or water. Plastic bottles are perfect for this.
To make a rooster with your own hands for the Year of the Rooster, prepare all the necessary materials, in particular
- a five-liter canister;
- a plastic bottle with a volume of 5 liters;
- metal-plastic tube;
- 2 plastic bottles with a volume of 1.5 liters;
- corrugated pipe;
- thick copper wire;
- plastic bottles for feathers;
- perforated tape;
- acrylic putty;
- fine mesh;
- sandpaper;
- awl;
- construction foam;
- stationery knife;
- glue gun;
- self-tapping screws;
- scissors;
- screwdriver.
Right now, you will learn how to make a cock from bottles, step by step instructions will help with this. Make just such a structure using self-tapping screws, scissors.
Bend the reinforced plastic pipe to make two rooster legs out of it. Attach them to the five-liter canister using self-tapping screws. To make the neck of an animal, cut off a large sheet from a 5-liter bottle, roll it up in the form of an envelope, and secure with self-tapping screws. From 1.5 liter bottles, cut off their tops below the shoulders, obliquely. Put them on the top of the bird's legs, and attach these parts with self-tapping screws or a glue gun.
To make bird feathers, cut off the neck of the bottle. Using scissors, cut out 5 longitudinal feathers.
Put the corrugated tubes on the rooster's legs, begin to decorate the thickened parts with feathers. To fix them, make two holes in each with an awl, insert a piece of wire here that needs to be tied to the base.
Cover the body of the bird with feathers, starting from the point where the tail grows. We are not making out the back yet.
Roll the wire so that you get two legs, each with three fingers, put on these blanks pieces of corrugated pipes.
Cut out long and narrow claws from the bottom of the bottle. Attach them to a glue gun or to the "Moment of Installation".
Cover the resulting blank with spray paint, using one color for the torso and a different color for the legs.
Cut the head of the cock out of the construction foam using a utility knife.
Take sandpaper, sand this part with it, then apply acrylic putty.
When this coating is dry, smooth the surface again with sandpaper, then coat with PVA.
To paint well on the head of the cockerel, use a trick, having previously covered it with PVA. In this case, the paint adheres well, and its layer will be more durable.
From a fine-mesh mesh, cut out a part that will become the wings of the back and tail of a rooster, glue long blanks from a plastic bottle to it to decorate this part with feathers. At the top, the wings are made from corrugated bottles.
Paint the wings, when the solution is dry, attach this torso piece with perforated tape and self-tapping screws. Cut from 2, 5 and 2 liter bottles of elongated feathers, cutting each container into 5 pieces. Paint them on both sides, after drying, attach with wire to a metal mesh.
To make it easier to paint plastic bottles in a light color, take transparent ones, cut feathers from them for the back. Attach them with wire, 4 pieces at once for self-tapping screws.
Attach the bird's head to its place using long self-tapping screws, cover the already painted parts with plastic, paint the rest. Make spurs for the rooster out of the wire, after which you can put it in its intended place in the country or at home.
It's even easier to make the next bird out of plastic bottles.
To do this, you will need:
- two plastic bottles with a volume of 2–2, 5 liters with small necks, and one of the same volume, but with a large one;
- disposable plastic cups in two colors;
- disposable plates;
- wrapping paper or garbage bag;
- plastic ball;
- eyes for dolls;
- Scotch;
- stationery knife;
- glue;
- scissors.
Cut the first plastic bottle with a short neck below the shoulders, and process the second and third as well. Attach the other two to the first, so that on one side you get a blank for the tail, and on the other for the body and throat, connect the parts with tape.
For plastic cups, cut the top into strips 8-10 mm wide. In length, they will occupy a third of the height of the glass. Put these blanks on the high neck of the bottle, alternating in color. Cut the bottom of the last glass. Shred this container not only from one side, but also from the other side into thin strips. At the same time, the middle will remain solid.
Just below the rim of the plates, cut the semicircular feathers out of the plastic plates, and cut them on one side with scissors to create thin feathers. In the bottle, which is located on the opposite side of the neck, make an incision, insert the tail feathers here, secure with tape.
Attach the ball to the top cup, secure it with tape. Cover the tail cut with wrapping paper or a fan-cut piece from a colored trash bag. Cut the wings out of plastic plates, glue them to the sides of the bird with tape.
Cut the comb, beard, beak of the cock out of plastic plates. Make three cuts in the foam ball, insert these blanks here, glue them for greater strength of the connection. Take ready-made eyes for toys, or make them yourself from a white foam plate, cut out the pupils from a black garbage bag. Glue the eyes.
If you want to learn how to make a cock from bottles even faster, then watch the third master class in this section.
- Cut off the bottom of a large plastic bottle, put it on a fence peg or a stick specially dug into the ground for this occasion.
- If the bird will stand in the house, then glue its lower part with strips of colored paper, make the wings and comb out of cardboard of the appropriate shades. If the rooster is on the street, then these parts must be waterproof.
- Create stripes from colorful trash bags (by tying or gluing those), wings, nose, comb, colored plastic goatee.
- Take two white bottle caps, paint the pupils here with black acrylic paint, glue them to the head.
- The tail is made from bottles of different sizes and colors. Cut off their bottoms, chop them almost to the shoulders into thin strips with scissors. Insert one bottle into another, fix them with wire, tape or glue.
Salted dough rooster
Such a three-dimensional picture looks great, but it is performed in an unusual way.
To make such a panel, take:
- 120 ml of water;
- 180 g fine salt;
- 370 g flour;
- 1, 5 Art. l. vegetable oil;
- knife;
- acrylic paints;
- varnish;
- rooster pattern.
- You will make a cardboard image of this bird when you transfer the presented drawing to paper.
- Mix flour and salt, pour vegetable oil and water here. Knead the dough well, cover it with a cloth to stand for 20 minutes.
- Now you can roll it into a layer, put a template on top, cut a rooster out of salted dough along it. Using the same knife, apply streaks of feathers on the tail, wings, neck to the workpiece.
- If you want the bird to be voluminous, then separately sculpt the wings, buttons, the upper part of the scallop.
- Leave this creative result to dry the dough. To do this, you need to place the product in a well-ventilated area to give the workpiece greater strength. Dry it for a day in this way, then heat the oven to 50 degrees.
- Using two cooking spatulas, transfer it to a baking sheet lined with paper and sprinkled with flour. Reduce heat to low, dry at this temperature for 2 hours. Take out the product, cool it.
- Now we need to paint our fiery rooster with acrylics of different colors, and then varnish.
If you have a colorless nail polish, it works great for painting a rooster with salt dough. You can also sculpt a voluminous rooster out of salted dough. Then the figurine needs to dry well for two days.
Crafts roosters from coffee beans do it yourself
This is not a simple rooster, but a magnet. To do it, you need to stock up on:
- a piece of burlap;
- a piece of red felt;
- coffee beans;
- a sheet of cardboard;
- rhinestones and sequins;
- crochet;
- threads;
- glue gun.
Draw on cardboard the image of the future hero, which was a more realistic craft rooster symbol of 2017. With your own hands you will need to cut out the outlines of this character. It is also necessary to cut a semicircular wing from burlap and a comb with a felt beard.
Use a brown pencil to paint the cardboard body of the cockerel. At the bottom, using a needle, into which the thread is set to match, form two legs of the cock out of it, make the paws out of brown colored cardboard, like the blank of the tail, which needs to be glued into place.
Make a beautiful fluffy tail out of threads, glue it onto a cardboard blank. Also glue coffee beans on the body, bypassing the wing, and attach them to the ends of the legs. Glue a magnet on the back of your torso. Decorate the wing with sequins and rhinestones.
We sew, we knit, we embroider crafts of roosters
These needlework techniques will also help you create crafts for the year of the rooster 2017. If you know how to embroider, then the following diagram will help you. Thus, you can arrange a small decorative pillow, an apron pocket made of plain fabric, or make a panel.
If you decide to knit a sweater for a child as a gift, calculate the loops so that this poultry flaunts in the center in front.
The diagram shows which colors to use. To make them all look good, knit a white yarn sweater. If the listed types of needlework are still beyond your power, then make a cockerel on a stick from the remnants of ribbons, threads, and fabric.
Here's what to prepare:
- a square of linen fabric with sides of 15 cm;
- red canvas measuring 5 × 20 cm;
- multi-colored ribbons;
- soft filler;
- threads;
- jute;
- twig;
- red yarn;
- a needle;
- wooden stick.
- Fold the linen cloth diagonally, trim one corner slightly. Stitch one and the other side with a basting seam, but leave free space between these sides, which is marked in the photo with a pencil. Through it, you will subsequently fill the figure with filler, and insert a wooden stick here.
- Insert a twig into the cut hole at the corner, fix it with turns of red yarn. This is the head and beak of the cock.
- Fill the workpiece with padding polyester. Insert a stick there, secure this part by tying it tightly with red threads.
- Take a strip of red felt, fold it in half, and place it on one and the other side of the cockerel's head. Wrap the top and bottom with thread to separate the comb and goatee. Cut the beard at the bottom with scissors.
- Fold satin ribbons of different colors in half, attach them to the tail, tie with red thread. Also form the wings of the rooster, just sew them on the sides.
- Embroider the bird's eyes with black thread or make them from beads. After which the wonderful rooster symbol of 2017 is ready.
Check out another idea by watching the video. It tells how to make a rooster craft from nylon.
If the children want to learn how to make it out of paper, then show them the second video.
