An excellent master class with step by step photos will teach you how to make an insect. Make them from natural materials, plastic bottles, paper, candy, and even junk material.
Amuse your little ones by making insects with them. These small animals can be crafted from leftover materials.
How to make a spider with your own hands?
You will get a wonderful soft spider with bendable legs. To do this, take:
- pieces of fur from some old thing;
- stationery knife;
- glue "Moment";
- synthetic winterizer;
- pliers;
- two beads;
- cardboard;
- wire.
Now you need to cut 4 pieces with pliers. One is 4 cm long, the second is 12 cm, the third is 16 cm.
Place a ruler on the back of the fur and cut this material into strips 1 cm wide. Be careful to cut through only the flesh and leave the fur intact.
Lubricate the back with glue, put the wire here, pull on the opposite long edges of the fur and glue these blanks.
In this case, one part of the head and two parts of the back must be made of fur, and one part of the head, taking the skin. Place these templates on the back of the materials and cut out with a utility knife.
To make the spider further, fold the pieces with the wrong side out and sew over the edge. In this case, leave the place on the neck unstitched for now.
Through this hole, you turn the double piece out onto the front side. And there will be skin on the abdomen.
Fill the blanks with padding polyester and close the gaps using a seam over the edge. Place your head against the back, insert a couple of pieces of wire into the seam and attach using a hot glue gun. Sew these parts together. The wire is needed in order to make a bend between the back and the head.
Now place the feet on the working surface so that the short ones are in the center and the long ones are at the edges.
Sew them to the bottom of your head. Attach the eyes. Such a wonderful spider will turn out.
See how to make insects from disposable spoons. A master class and step-by-step photos will help you with this.
How to make a ladybug - master class and photo
To make such insects, you will need:
- plastic spoons in the amount of 3 pieces;
- black, white and red acrylic paint;
- scissors;
- brush;
- thermal gun;
- black button.
Use scissors or a heated knife to separate the upper parts from the spoons. If you want to make three ladybugs at once, then you will need to paint 6 blanks in red, and three more blanks in black.
When the acrylic is dry, take two red spoons and glue them together slightly overlap. Glue the black spoon down.
Glue a small black button in front, and if not, then cut off the base of the disposable syringe, paint it black.
Gently draw small black circles on the wings of the butterfly.
Cut pieces of thin wire and glue them as a mustache. And paint the eyes of a ladybug with white paint.
Here's how to make this kind of insect. If you wish, craft three more girlfriends for him. You can play with these figures with your child.
Make an edible ladybug if you wish. This can be given as a gift or made as a decoration for the festive table.
Candy ladybug
Here's how to make this type of insect. First take:
- bulk foam;
- candies;
- toothpicks;
- Scotch;
- corrugated paper in two contrasting colors;
- scissors.
Use a knife to cut off any excess from the styrofoam. You should get such a blank.
Attach toothpicks to the back of the candy with tape.
Cut the crepe paper into strips of 4 x 20 cm. Wrap the candies with them. You will have such adorable paper flowers.
Now cover the head of the ladybug with a wider strip of brown paper, then start attaching flowers here.
Cut out the base for the craft out of plywood and attach a blank of green paper here by facing. To do this, you need to cut it into squares with sides of 4 cm, then screw them onto a thin pencil blade and glue them on a plywood base.
In the center of this stand, place this ladybug made of sweets.
How to make insects from plastic bottles with your own hands?
Such insects are durable, since this material will withstand low temperatures, summer heat, and precipitation.
Take:
- transparent plastic bottles;
- scissors;
- beads;
- thin wire;
- acrylic paints.
If you can, draw a freehand butterfly. If not, then use a template. Place it on the surface of a plastic bottle and cut it out.
If you wish, color the butterfly first or do it in a later step. String the beads on the wire folded in half, and bring the two ends forward to form the antennae. On their ends you need to glue one bead or one piece of beads.
This plastic bottle butterfly will decorate your garden or city yard. Make a bigger one if you wish. The head and body for her are made from 2 liter bottles or slightly larger capacity, the wings must also be cut from the bottles. These blanks are fastened together with wire and painted.
Also, this material will make a large spider. Check out the needlework process. Take:
- plastic bottles;
- pliers;
- awl;
- wire;
- cans with black paint.
If you have dark bottles, then use them, if not, in this case, take bottles of a different color, then you will color them.
Take 28 bottles and cut in half. At the same time, leave the corks wrapped on the necks of the bottles. Now you need to make 18 identical legs for the spider. To do this, first take a whole bottle and tie the 6 halves you just created to it with a wire. And the seventh part will be with a cork.
Now you need to sew these parts using wire. It will be easier to do this if you familiarize yourself with the following diagram.
You staple the workpiece as if you were stitching 2 pieces of fabric. Now you need to connect the made eight legs into one structure using wire.
Here's how to make an insect further out of plastic bottles. Wire the four bottles together. In this case, place the two extreme ones slightly below the central ones. Then add five more bottles here. It turned out to be a head with a chest. Attach the spider legs here.
To make the belly, take three bottles, and fasten four more on top. Then, from one and the second side, fix on the left and right one more bottle.
Now connect the abdomen to the main body and you can paint the spider. Of course, this is best done outside.
You can fix this insect on a wooden fence by first drawing a spider web on this vertical surface.
If you do not have as many plastic bottles or this master class seemed difficult to you, then look at another one. It only needs one plastic bottle. You need to cut off the top from it, and then chop the rest of the bottle to the bottom with a knife or scissors to get eight legs. Bend each one several times, then you get spider legs.
You can glue a plastic ball here, as if a spider is carrying its egg. Then it remains to paint the insect with black or other dark paint.
You can turn this ball into a spider's head by screwing three pairs of eyes from a children's mosaic here. Then you will sew a hat for him out of felt and lace. Decorate it with feathers and a pearl bow.
If you want to place your insects near or on a tree, then also craft one from a plastic bottle. You will get such a fabulous fascinating object.
Take:
- 2 liter bottle;
- branches;
- hay;
- polyurethane foam;
- brown paint;
- hot glue gun;
- sawdust.
Cut a hole in the bottle closer to the bottom. Then turn it into a hollow, but first add sawdust here. Then the structure will be more stable. Use a hot gun to make holes in the top of the bottle. This is where you insert the branches. Fasten them, lay them with cotton pads.
Now, starting at the top, apply the foam to the bottle. In this case, you need to hold on to the branches so that they do not change their position.
Most likely, one bottle will not be enough, so use two. When the foam hardens, paint the tree with brown spray paint.
To keep the hollow the same color, put a bag here for a while. When the staining process is over, take it out.
If you want to get a winter landscape, then glue some snowflakes here. Place berries, cones, artificial mushrooms, hay inside the hollow. It will be seen that the squirrel has made such stocks, place her figurine on the branch. And you can place insects on other branches.
If you can make a firefly out of a plastic bottle, then place it under the crown of this tree. In the dark, such an insect will sparkle and become an additional lamp and object of comfort.
Take a green plastic bottle and wrap wire of the same color around it in three places. You can pre-paint it or take a floral one.
Hide these insect legs on one side, glue the bottle with yellow paper.
To further make an insect, the name of which is a firefly, cut two wings out of cardboard. Glue them onto yellow paper. Make two eyes out of buttons or plastic rings by gluing them on the lid. Make antennae from soft chenille wire in the winding.
Place a stick glowing in the dark inside the bottle, after which the insect craft is ready.
You can make a firefly not only from a plastic bottle, but also from plastic packages from kinder surprises. Antennae and paws are glued to these containers. And you will draw or make the eyes from cardboard.
Inside each such toy, you need to put a small LED lamp.
In general, insects can be made from a variety of waste materials, for example, from the following.
Insects from egg trays - step by step master class
To make such a gallant ant, you will need:
- egg carton;
- scissors;
- black paint;
- brush;
- eyes for toys;
- chenille wire.
Cut three cells from a cardboard egg carton. Cover them with black paint on the outside and inside. When it dries, glue the eyes of the ant. If you do not have ready-made ones, attach blisters from pills or buttons as they are. But do not give small children such a toy.
Cut 6 straight lines from the black chenille wire or take three wires of the required size. Bend them and attach them to the back of the trays. You will get a wonderful insect ant.
Cardboard egg trays are a real find for mothers who like to tinker with children without spending any special money on it.
To make such a bee, you need to cut out two cells from the tray, paint them yellow. When the paint is dry, have your child paint black stripes on top. Take the eyes for toys, attach them, and the baby will cut the wings out of cardboard, which must be painted or yellow. Make paws and whiskers out of black chenille wire. The child will be happy to join you in the creative process.
Taking 5 cells from the trays, you can make a funny caterpillar, and even one cell will turn into an adorable spider. He will need to glue the legs and eyes.
And if you glue two cardboard wings to the caterpillar blank and paint them, you get another insect. Such a butterfly is also easy and simple to make.
It doesn't take long to create a ladybug either. You will make each such insect from two egg trays. Then they need to be painted and applied in a contrasting color to the back of the circle.
You will develop a child's imagination by showing not only how you can use waste materials, but also natural ones. This type of activity will also entertain the baby when you send him for a walk. After all, such insects can be done right while traveling in the park, in the courtyard of the house.
Insects from natural materials - how to do it step by step
Show your beloved child how 3 oval leaves can be turned into a butterfly blank. In this case, the big one will become the body, and the small ones will become its wings. The acorn cap will turn into the head of this insect, and two stems of grass - into its mustache. You can take openwork leaves of the strawberry type and place four leaves from flowers of a brighter color on top of them. You will also get a wonderful butterfly, and the rowan berries will turn into the body of a caterpillar if strung on a toothpick or on a sturdy twig. Such branches can be attached to one berry, and you get a wonderful spider.
You get a funny dragonfly or a fly if you take:
- maple leaves;
- twigs;
- rowan berries;
- salty dough.
Using salted dough, attach the above materials to a twig, as well as an acorn hat. If you want to make a fly according to this principle, then make the body out of an acorn, and for the eyes, take two acorn caps and two berries. Attach them using salted dough.
Another option is to take three circles of salt dough and a toothpick with which the main parts are attached. You can make an insect that flies this way.
Go for a walk, look with your child for such natural materials to construct these insects.
If you have older children, then they can make crafts from flowers and plants, which are also natural materials. Arrange the yellow dandelion flowers, forget-me-nots so that you get the head and body for a beautiful beetle. Make its legs out of blades of grass.
An adorable butterfly can be crafted from leaves, maple seeds, blades of grass and a couple of beautiful flowers.
If you have sweet pea petals or similar flowers, they will make an adorable butterfly.
Also, a beetle can be made from a similar natural material, for example, from rose petals, by gluing these petals to the markings of its head and body previously made on cardboard.
Pick up petals by color with your child, then you can make applications of picturesque insects from them.
If you want to see a video master class that tells how to make insects, then you have the opportunity.
The quilling technique will allow you to make such a voluminous hairy bumblebee.
And using the origami technique, you can make a spider.
