You can make a model of a village using different materials. Cardboard and paper are suitable for children, and adults can create it out of wood. Also, you will find a miniature "city in the country" and a reduced copy of the village. It is interesting to create small copies of houses, villages and entire cities. Such layouts will make it possible to make the layout of a future country house or build a whole city in a dacha, but in a reduced form. If you want a real country house in your apartment, only in smaller sizes, then buy a prefabricated wooden structure and glue the parts.
To instill interest in such activities in very young children, we suggest that you first start with a picture that will help to recreate a suburban corner.
How to make a winter painting with your own hands?
It consists of only two colors, but this does not lose its charm. For work you will need:
- sheet of whatman paper;
- wax crayons;
- gouache;
- PVA glue;
- cotton wool;
- sponge.
Show your child how to draw with crayons on a Whatman paper. Now let the kid feel like a real artist, dipping a sponge in paint, paint the background of the future picture.
When the paint is dry, you need to paint here with wax crayons. Help your child to depict village houses, let him draw the road and Christmas trees himself. He will also be able to create the features of future clouds and the sun. Now you need to apply glue to the markings and attach the twisted cotton wool here. Thus, the outlines of trees, clouds are created.
Also, you first need to create edging for trees and houses, and then fill them with soft cotton wool. Have the child also attach it with glue.
It remains to create the rest of the details from the twisted cotton wool, and after the glue dries, you can frame such a beautiful work.
In kindergarten, they are often asked to make crafts at home. This could be a mock-up of a village courtyard. See how to make it from scrap materials.
Craft a village courtyard for a kindergarten
To create such a layout of a village courtyard, you will need:
- cardboard;
- PVA glue;
- colored paper;
- scissors;
- twigs;
- miniature jigsaw or stationery knife;
- tree branches;
- acorns;
- figurines of the inhabitants of the village courtyard;
- plasticine;
- colored paper;
- hot glue gun;
- cardboard box.
The cardboard box must be cut so that the bottom and corner of the two walls remain, as well as themselves. The bottom of the cardboard must be peeled off with green paper to create such a beautiful grass. A house will be fixed on one of the walls, and the second and a fragment of the first should be painted. To do this, let the kid draw here with blue and white paints the sky with clouds, and when this background dries up, depict trees with leaves and green hillocks on it.
Tell him how to make a house out of colored paper. It needs to be glued to a rectangular sheet of cardboard, and acorns or hazelnuts should be attached to the side with a hot gun. They will become the ends of the logs.
A frame for windows should be cut out of colored cardboard, and glass should be made from white colored paper. Let the child first glue them on the marked places, and then draw pots with flowers here. Now you will need to glue the strips of cardboard so that they turn into frames.
The roof for the house is cut out of red cardboard or from ordinary gray, and a triangle of scarlet paper is already glued to it. The roof can be tiled, then you need to draw wavy lines in a checkerboard pattern with a pencil.
Here's how you need to follow up on the layout of the village. With his own hands, have the child cut a rectangle out of colored cardboard and fold it in half. To this bench at the bottom you need to glue small rolls of cardboard, which will become logs. A bench rests on them.
Nice to sit on it surrounded by flowers. The baby will create them from colored paper. To be able to admire a small pond, wrap it with acorns or nuts together with the child, and the baby blinds the water from plasticine, giving it a semicircular shape.
You can focus on highlights made from plasticine of other colors. Perhaps it will be a fireplace. Then you can put a few sticks here, which will give the picture more realism.
Make a visor on the roof, then you can put a toy cat here, attach it with silicone from a hot gun.
There will be room for other animals too. Have your child make a cardboard kennel for the dog. It is not difficult to create this structure. You will need to cut two identical walls for the sidewall and two for the back and front of the kennel, with a pointed top. In the front, you need to cut a large hole to put the dog here. The roof is created from a rectangle of cardboard that needs to be folded in half and glued.
The layout of the village will be incomparable if you, together with your child, create a lake with a bridge. Let your beloved child crumple the blue and white plasticine and cover the oval territory with it. This water is surrounded by acorns or nuts, glued directly onto plasticine or with a hot gun. Attach the duck and her babies in the same way. The bridge needs to be made of cardboard.
Using cardboard is also quite simple to create a stable, and to glue pieces of twigs on the roof, which will turn into a roof.
In the same way, a barn is created, where the heifer will live with the foal.
To make a pen for sheep, you need to cut out a wide strip of cardboard and glue it to the clearing, and also glue the ends to make a circle. Inside, you will place the sheep. Glue some twigs to the outside of this pen to make the fence look more realistic. Inside, you can place an inverted plastic bottle lid, into which you need to put food from green plasticine.
Such a layout of the village will accommodate many characters. The pigs will be next. The pen for them is made of twigs glued together.
Using the same material with your child, you can create a goat stall. And the roof is made for him in a very interesting way. To do this, you need to glue twigs on the old CD, and on top of them? hazelnuts. With the help of these same gifts of nature, you can decorate the cardboard walls of the building to make them look like logs.
The child will be happy to mold bowls from plasticine and put them next to the animals.
It remains to make small accessories:
- Make firewood from wine corks, which you need to cut lengthwise into 4 parts with a clerical knife and paint in the appropriate color.
- Also, with the help of it, a spinner is made for the well. You will need to make holes in the wine cork with an awl, thread a wooden skewer here and wind the thread. A shampoo cap is attached to the rope from below, which acts as a bucket.
- And the well itself was made from a bottle of Agusha yogurt. In it, you need to cut out the side walls, leaving only one vertical rack on both sides.
- A spit for a well is attached to them, and its roof is made of a bag taken from thermal milk. Now these masterpieces will be painted and admired the results of the work.
Who knows, maybe your child, when he grows up, will want to recreate such a model of the village, but already more realistic. We suggest that you familiarize yourself with one of these projects, which was created in England.
English village layout
Here is a small copy of the village of Borton-on-Water at a scale of 1: 9. The houses are made from the same material as the original. The craftsmen did their best, because they even made shop windows, signs, like in that real village.
The streets here are quite spacious so that visitors can freely walk and admire such a layout of the village.
The gardeners are also hard at work here. After all, ordinary trees near such buildings will look too tall. Therefore, low bonsai were used. They are pruned periodically to look like real trees.
Lawns are made in the English style and also require periodic maintenance. They are watered, fed, trimmed.
Do you think that only professionals can build such miniatures? No, if desired, people without special construction or architectural education can do this. You will be convinced of this now.
Miniature city in the country - layout
Please note that there are houses of various shapes and purposes, and even a reservoir with a bridge.
To have such a miniature on your personal plot, you first need to choose a place where it will be located. Draw a plan of houses and other structures first on a Whatman paper. Now we need to start creating individual objects.
By making templates out of plywood, you can pour cement into them and create some houses that way. Once dry, these structures need to be painted over and placed on a level cement pad or on blocks.
Fences can be wooden, they are painted to make it seem as if they are made of brick. It will be necessary to lay a canal according to the markings, which will turn into a river. Strengthen its banks with stones and cement.
Make a metal bridge or other material that is available in the country. If the river is not in the lowland and the water dries up, you can fill it by placing a special water pump at the mouth.
And if the reservoir is located in a low place and there are no problems with water, then you may need to install a solid bridge. So that you can walk on it, reinforce it with reinforced concrete pipes from below. Fill in the space between them and the bridge with stones and cement.
Of course, such painstaking work takes a lot of time. After all, you need to make not only the structure and other objects of the city, but also plant such plants that will look natural here.
You can start with a small section of a village or town. And if you like this kind of work, then make these settlements more numerous.
Such models of the village and city will allow any person to feel like builders of a large territory, architects and make dreams come true.
To make it easier for you to cope with construction work, first see how you can assemble a model of a house from wood.
The second video will teach you how to make a model of a village in order to then take the craft to kindergarten.
