Find out how easy it is to craft a rooster from bottles, coffee beans, fabric. See how to make a salt dough rooster from egg trays.

Craft a rooster from egg trays

Here's what you can make a rooster. This is completely junk material, but wonderful crafts are made from it. 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 the rooster, they need to be glued together with thin white paper to create a semblance of a flower. Cut out a bird's beard from the side of the box. The rounded triangle will become its beak, this blank must be glued on the side. For the beak, you will need 2 such parts.

Cut out bird wings from cardboard using a glue gun, glue them with blanks from egg trays that look like leaves.

Most of your time will be spent waiting for the body of the papier-mâché rooster to dry. Therefore, it is better to start work 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 for this part to dry. When this happens, pierce the ball with a sharp object, take it out through the small hole left.

This rounded workpiece 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 with a glue gun.

While the papier mache was drying, you had enough time to form the head and neck of the rooster. To the part that 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 papier-mâché balloon half. To do this, we attach a strip of cardboard inside the neck with a glue gun so that it looks out from below. We glue this label to the papier-mache half of the body.

To make the tail, draw semicircular lines on the lid from under the eggs, cut them out.

Glue the tail to the back of the body. That's it, you can paint the cockerel with acrylics 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 on New Year but also at Easter. Then you put colored eggs in his semicircular body, decorate the festive table in this way.

Symbol of 2017 from plastic bottles

If you decide to celebrate the New Year in the country, 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 everything necessary materials, in particular

• five-liter canister;
• plastic bottle of 5 liters;
• metal-plastic tube;
• 2 plastic bottles 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 rooster from bottles step by step instructions will help with this. Make this design using self-tapping screws, scissors.

Bend the metal-plastic pipe to make two legs of a rooster out of it. Attach them to a five-liter canister with self-tapping screws. To make the animal's neck, cut a large canvas from a 5-liter bottle, fold it into an envelope, and secure with self-tapping screws. From one and a half liter bottles, cut off their upper parts below the shoulders, obliquely. Put them on the top of the bird's legs, also attach these parts with self-tapping screws or a glue gun.

To make bird feathers, cut off the neck of a bottle. Using scissors, cut out 5 longitudinal feathers.

Put corrugated tubes on the legs of the rooster, start decorating 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 where the tail grows. The back is not finished yet.

Fold the wire so that you get two paws, each with three fingers, put pieces of corrugated pipes on these blanks.

Cut long and narrow claws from the bottom of the bottle. Attach them to the glue gun or to the "Installation Moment".

Spray paint the resulting blank, using one color for the torso and another color for the legs.

Cut out the head of a cockerel from the construction foam using a clerical knife.

Take sandpaper, sand this part with it, then apply acrylic putty.

When this coating dries, smooth the surface again with sandpaper, then coat with PVA.

In order for the paint to lie well on the cockerel's head, a trick is used, having previously covered it with PVA. In this case, the paint adheres well, and its layer will be more durable.

From a fine mesh, cut out a part that will become the wings, 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 mortar dries, attach this part of the torso with perforated tape and self-tapping screws. Cut from bottles of 2.5 and 2 liters of elongated feathers, cutting each container into 5 parts. Paint them on both sides, after drying, attach with a 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 a time for self-tapping screws.

Attach the bird's head to its place with long self-tapping screws, cover the already painted parts with polyethylene, paint the rest. Make spurs for a rooster out of wire, after which you can put it in its intended place in the country house or at home.

Even easier to make the next bird from plastic bottles.

For 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 trash bag;
• plastic ball;
• eyes for dolls;
• Scotch;
• stationery knife;
• glue;
• scissors.

Cut off the first plastic bottle with a short neck below the shoulders, process the second and third in the same way. Attach the other two to the first one, 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 adhesive 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 off the bottom of the last cup. Chop this container not only on one side, but also on the other side into thin strips. The middle will remain intact.

Just below the rim of the plates, cut semicircular feathers from plastic plates, cut them with scissors on one side to make 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 cut for the tail with wrapping paper or a piece cut out in the form of a fan from a colored garbage bag. Cut wings out of plastic plates, glue them to the sides of the bird with tape.

From plastic plates, cut out a comb, a beard, a cockerel's beak. Make in foam ball three cuts, 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 on the eyes.

If you want to learn how to make a bottle rooster even faster, then check out the third tutorial in this section.

1. 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.
2. If the bird will stand in the house, then paste over its lower part with strips of colored paper, make the wings and scallop from cardboard of the appropriate shades. If the cock will be on the street, then these parts must be waterproof.
3. Create stripes from colorful trash bags (by tying or gluing those), wings, nose, comb, beard from colored plastic.
4. Take two white bottle caps, draw pupils here with black acrylic paint, glue them to the head.
5. The tail is made from bottles of different sizes and colors. Cut off their bottoms, chop with scissors almost to the shoulders into thin strips. Insert one bottle into another, fix them with wire, tape or glue.

Salt 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 st. l. vegetable oil;
• acrylic paints;
• rooster pattern.

1. You will make a cardboard image of this bird when you transfer the presented drawing to paper.
2. Mix flour with salt, pour vegetable oil and water here. Knead the dough well, cover it with a cloth to rest for 20 minutes.
3. Now you can roll it into a layer, put a template on top, cut a rooster from salt dough on it. With the same knife, apply veins of feathers on the tail, wings, and neck to the blank.
4. If you want the bird to be voluminous, then separately mold the wings, buttons, and the upper part of the scallop.
5. Leave this result of creativity for the dough to dry. To do this, 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.
6. With two spatulas, transfer it to a baking sheet covered with paper, sprinkled with flour. Make a minimum fire, dry at this temperature for 2 hours. Remove the product, cool it.
7. Now we need to paint our fiery rooster with acrylics of different colors, and then with varnish.

If you have clear nail polish, it's great for coloring the salt dough rooster.

You can also fashion a voluminous rooster from salt dough. Then the figurine needs to dry well for two days.

DIY crafts of roosters from coffee beans

This is not a simple rooster, but a magnet. To make it, you need to stock up:

• 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 an image of the future hero, which was a more realistic craft for a rooster symbol of 2017. With your own hands you will need to cut out the contours of this character. It is also necessary to cut out a semicircular wing from burlap and a comb with a beard from felt.

Color the cardboard body of the cockerel with a brown pencil. Below, with the help of a needle, into which the thread is set to match, form two legs of a cockerel out of it, make paws out of cardboard, painted in Brown color, as well as a tail blank that needs to be glued into place.

Make a beautiful fluffy tail out of threads, glue it on a cardboard blank. Also glue on the body, bypassing the wing, coffee beans, attach them to the ends of the legs. FROM reverse side Glue a magnet to the torso. Decorate the wing with sequins and rhinestones.

We sew, knit, 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, a pocket of an apron sewn from 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 sweater from white yarn.

If the listed types of needlework are not yet within your power, then make a cockerel on a stick from the remnants of ribbons, threads, fabrics.

Here's what to prepare:

• linen square with sides 15 cm;
• red canvas measuring 5 × 20 cm;
• multi-colored ribbons;
• soft filler;
• threads;
• jute;
• twig;
• red yarn;
• a needle;
• wooden stick.

1. Fold the linen diagonally, trim one corner a little. Stitch one and the other side with a basting stitch, but leave a free space between these sidewalls, which is marked in the photo with a pencil. Through it, you will subsequently fill the figure with filler, insert a wooden stick here as well.
2. Insert a branch into the cut hole in the corner, fix with turns of red yarn. This is the head and beak of a cockerel.
3. Fill the workpiece with synthetic winterizer. Insert a stick there, secure this part by tightly tying it with red threads.
4. Take a strip of red felt, fold it in half, put it on one and the other side of the cockerel's head. Wind the top and bottom with thread to separate the comb and beard. Cut the beard at the bottom with scissors.
5. 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.
6. Embroider the bird's eyes with black thread or make them from beads. After that, the wonderful rooster symbol of 2017 is ready.

Check out another idea by watching the video. It tells how to make a nylon rooster craft.

If the children want to learn how to make it out of paper, then show them the second video.

To appease the patron of 2017 - the Red Fire Rooster, to attract happiness, health and love to the house, you need to appease him. One of the ways to serve a characteristic bird is to make a symbol of the coming year with your own hands. Among the ideas of crafts: paper origami, cross-stitch and stitch embroidery, fabric toys, pot holders, plaster crafts, button applications, beading.

The rooster is a domestic bird with a difficult character, preferring order in everything, home comfort and unquestioning obedience. Therefore, when making the symbol of 2017 - a rooster, it is necessary to take into account the characteristics of the nature of the bird, your imagination and ready-made ideas proposed by the needlewomen in today's article.

The photo below shows original ideas, do-it-yourself master classes on making the symbol of 2017, which can be reproduced not only by adults, but also by children. Such an activity will strengthen family ties, help in the development of your beloved child, decorate the house and attract good luck in the new year.

1 master class - embroidery on a pillow

Cross-stitch or satin stitch embroidery on a decorative pillow is a bright solution for decorating an apartment and a good gift for relatives and friends. Such an accessory will fit into any room, whether it is a bedroom, a nursery or a kitchen. And most importantly, it will become a unique design solution and a talisman for the whole year.

To embroider a cockerel on a pillow, you will need a paper pattern (diagram), a hoop, a pencil, floss threads, a needle and scissors.

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To reproduce it, it is necessary to attach the finished scheme to the pillowcase using the hoop so that the canvas is placed in the middle of the product. Next - follow step by step instructions like the photo below:

2 master class - a cockerel on a Christmas tree in the form of a toy

You can decorate the New Year's beauty not only with balls bought in the store, but also with non-standard solutions made by yourself. The craft "Cockerel" made of felt or any other dense material will become the talisman of all family members and a miniature image of the symbol of the year.

To create such a craft, you will need one of the patterns proposed in the photo below and improvised tools (materials of different colors, threads, scissors, filler).

3 master class - potholder in the form of a rooster

In the kitchen of a good housewife, there are always oven mitts. Therefore, it will not be superfluous to sew another one, in the form of a symbol of 2017. A bright and beautiful cockerel made of fabric will become an indispensable assistant in the kitchen, a design detail in the interior of the kitchen and a small talisman.

4 master class - button rooster

Such a master class can be repeated not only by adults, but also by children. To make such a craft, you will need white cardboard, buttons of various shapes, sizes and colors, stationery glue, a rooster pattern, a frame for the finished application.

5 master class - paper origami "Cockerel", schemes

The symbol of the year 2017 in the form of origami will be an interesting educational craft for kids preschool age and primary school children.

6 master class - beaded rooster, schemes

Beaded products have always been considered original jewelry that can be used to decorate home decor, used as gifts, souvenirs and even amulets. And if you already have beading skills, then this is an occasion to make the symbol of the year 2017 with your own hands. In the photo below, step-by-step diagrams of a beaded Rooster:

Crocheted rooster, patterns:

Rooster-tilde, pattern:

Chickens from yarn step by step:

Hen made of polymer clay, photo:

Rooster from plasticine in stages:

Symbol of 2017 "Rooster", ideas for decorating an apartment

You can decorate an apartment with the symbol of the year in different ways, from cockerel toys for the New Year tree to non-standard solutions - a garland of toys handmade, figurines on festive table, crafts placed on the windows and walls of the apartment, furniture and even chandeliers.

The photo below shows the most original ideas, with the help of which the interior of any room will become truly New Year's and festive.

A craft in the form of a rooster is not only a decoration for a room or a New Year tree, but also a wonderful gift that can be presented to friends, relatives and acquaintances. It will be nice if you make a cockerel with your children. There are many options for how to make a rooster with your own hands. Plasticine, fabric, paper, plastic bottles and much more are suitable as a material.

Rooster from plasticine

To make this simple craft, you need to prepare multi-colored plasticine. Material yellow color roll into balls of different sizes. Connect them to each other in such a way as to get the body, neck and head of the rooster. Carefully level the joints of the balls.

Imitation of feathers can be done using longitudinal cuts. To make a scallop, you need a mass of red. Next, attach black eyes and an orange beak.

The tail can be made from the brightest shades of plasticine. To do this, you need to cut the mass into small pieces, knead each portion and roll it first into a ball, then into a long sausage. Collect the resulting details in a bouquet - the tail is ready, it remains to attach it.

Wings are best made from triangular and teardrop-shaped cakes. For them, red plasticine is suitable. Draw feathers on the wings with a stack and stick to the body. In order for the craft to be stable, the paws must be made using matches.

paper cockerel

To make a rooster with your own hands from paper, you will need the following materials:

• Scissors.
• Colored paper.
• Box.
• PVA glue.

From the box, cut off the part that closes it. Along the fold lines, make cuts half the height of the box. Bend two opposite parts along the incisions. These will be the wings. The remaining parts are the head and tail. Carefully round the wings, and cut the tail with longitudinal stripes. Cut out the head in the form of a triangle. It remains to decorate the craft, make a comb and earrings.

plastic bottle product

For making a rooster waste material necessary:

• Three plastic bottles.
• Yellow ball from a dry pool.
• Disposable plates and glasses in yellow and red.
• Black marker.
• stapler.
• The adhesive tape is simple and double-sided.

Cut off the top of three plastic bottles, then connect them with tape to make a torso with a neck.

Cut disposable cups into strips from the edge. Decorate the rooster's neck with them. To do this, place the glasses upside down one above the other, alternating colors. Glue the head from the yellow ball onto the double-sided tape.

Cut off the edges of red and yellow disposable plates. Cut the resulting arcs from the inside, imitating feathers. Collect feathers in a bouquet, fasten with a stapler. It turned out the tail, which must be inserted into the incision on the body of the rooster. The joints can be masked with wrapping paper.

Attach wings, beak, eyes, comb and beard cut from colored disposable plates with adhesive tape. The craft is ready.

How to sew a rooster out of fabric

For work you will need:

Draw a sample craft on cardboard and cut it out. Then cut it into individual pieces. You can use a stencil. Match each detail with separate pieces of fabric and cut out in duplicate.

White fabric is suitable for the head, blue-green for the upper part of the wing and body. Cut out the lower part of the wing and tail from black fabric. Next, make a scallop, beard, paws, beak and eyes out of colored paper. It remains to sew all the details with each other.

There are many different ways how to make a rooster from natural material. It all depends on skill and skill. A simple craft will turn out if you put a rooster template on a wooden sheet or plywood and circle the contours. Then cut out the pattern with a knife or jigsaw. Further, the product can be painted with paints.

A more complex option is to carve many strokes and details on the tree. This is done using additional tools. Depending on the desire, carving a rooster from wood can be voluminous or flat. Having the skill and scheme for assembling the product, you can make a rooster from several parts.

Jute lamp

For the master class you will need:

• Jute threads.
• PVA glue.
• File.
• Pins.
• Paper.
• Pencil.

First you need to draw a silhouette of a rooster. Put the resulting drawing into a file. Moisten the jute thread in glue and spread along the lines of the pattern. Make another such pattern in the same way. Thus, you get two cockerels. To make the base, wrap a plastic jar with threads. When the glue dries, pull out the jar. The jute tube is ready.

To connect electricity, you will need a cartridge, a cord with a switch and an LED light bulb. Next, connect the wire and cartridge, screw in the light bulb. Place the cartridge in a jute tube. Stick the design on a tin cover, which is also pasted over with jute thread, you get a stand. It remains to collect the cockerel - the lamp is ready.

Panel of buttons

To create a craft you need:

It is important to choose the shades of the buttons to avoid sharp transitions. For example, the paws and comb will be made of red buttons, the head will be yellow, and the neck will be orange. For the tail, it is better to use several colors: blue, purple, lilac. To decorate the body, you need to mix the buttons of all these shades.

Cover the cardboard with fabric and draw the silhouette of a rooster. Then start filling in the outline. Before gluing the buttons, they need to be laid out in size. Fill empty spaces with beads.

balloon toy

A voluminous craft will turn out from balloons and threads. For this you will need:

• PVA glue.
• Yarn in yellow, red and orange.
• Two balloons.
• Colored paper.

Inflate one large balloon, the second smaller. Moisten the yarn with PVA glue and wrap the balls.

After the glue is completely dry, pierce the balls with a needle and pull them out of the thread frame. You get the head and body of a rooster, they need to be fastened together.

To decorate crafts you will need colored paper. It is important that several bright colors are used in the manufacture of the wings and tail. The comb, beak, eyes, earrings and paws can also be made from colored paper. Attach all parts to the body. If desired, paws can be made of wire, then the craft will be stable.

Making a candy bowl

Using egg cartons, you can make a beautiful candy box in the form of a rooster. For this you need:

Cut the cones cut from the tray into four petals. These will be feathers. Cut each cone on one side.

The preparation of the head and throat is done according to the principle of building feathers to the cone. For example, for the head you will need 5 feathers, for the throat 6 feathers. The third cone (the beginning of the neck) of 8 feathers, then 10, 12. The sixth blank of 8 feathers will no longer be in the form of a cone, but in the form of a fan. This detail will close the beginning of the back. Feathers are fastened together with adhesive tape.

Next, draw a scallop on the box and embed. To make a beard, you can take two side parts of the cells. Cut out two cones for the beak.

To form the head and throat, it is necessary to glue all the cones, starting from the smallest. Attach a beard, beak and comb to the head.

Cut out the wings from the box and glue them with feathers using the same cones. Tail feathers in the form of arcs are also cut out of the tray.

A plate for sweets (aka the belly of a rooster) is made using the papier-mâché technique. It is necessary to inflate the balloon, glue it with strips of paper and newspapers dipped in PVA glue. Make at least four layers, with the first and last layer being white paper.

When the glue dries, burst the ball and cut the workpiece into two parts. In this case, one half should be larger than the other. To make the bowl strong, you need to place a small part in a large one. Glue the parts together.

Attach the head of the rooster to the bowl, then glue the tail and wings. Next, the candy bowl needs to be decorated. Colors can be chosen to your taste, shiny and pearly paints are suitable.

Continuation of the master class

According to the eastern calendar, every year passes under the sign of one or another animal. In 2017, this sign will be the Red Fire Rooster. How to earn his favor so that he "give" only positive emotions and pleasant events? To meet him, you should make the symbol of 2017 with your own hands. There are several options for how to do this.

Panel and application

A wall panel depicting a Rooster is an excellent decoration, astrologers recommend hanging it in the kitchen. And fabric applications are perfect for making cushion covers. All these things can simply be an interior decoration or part of a gift for the holiday.

Button panel

Perhaps this is one of the easiest crafts. To create it, you will need:

• rectangular sheet of cardboard
• suitable frame,
• fabric (plain or with a small pattern),
• quite a lot of buttons (about 100 pcs. different sizes and colors)
• clear glue,
• simple pencil.

The most difficult thing about how to make the symbol of 2017 with your own hands in the form of such a panel is to choose the shades of the buttons well so that there are no sharp transitions. So, red buttons are chosen for the paws and scallop, yellow for the head, and orange for the neck. It is best to make the tail multi-colored (blue, lilac, purple, etc.), and in the middle of the body all these shades should connect.

The fabric is covered with cardboard, gluing it on the reverse side, and then the outlines of a rooster are drawn on the fabric with a pencil to make it easier to fill the contour. The buttons must be laid out (first large, then small) and only then glued. Free places can be filled with beads.

Felt applications

If you need to make an application with the image of the Rooster - the symbol of 2017 - with your own hands, then it is best to use templates simple shapes. This will make it easier to sew the pieces onto the fabric.

1. First you need to find a pattern or draw it yourself on thick cardboard and cut out every detail: an egg-shaped body, scallop, wings and beak.
2. Now you need to attach these templates to the fabric and circle (it is best to use a special crayon or with a simple pencil) and then cut. The fabric must be contrasting: if the background is dark, let the bird be light and vice versa. Moreover, the scallop, beak and wings should differ in color from both the background and the body.
3. It remains only to sew the details to the background. It is best to do this by hand, but if you have a good sewing machine with a choice of stitches, then you can use it.

When the applique is done, it is sewn onto a ready-made cover made of dense fabric, put on a pillow and placed on a sofa.

Stuffed Toys

Often as a gift or just to decorate the interior, they make Stuffed Toys with your own hands: the symbol of 2017 can be sewn or knitted. They are usually crocheted, and sewn from some dense fabric. A synthetic winterizer, holofiber or synthetic winterizer is used as a filler. In some cases, foam rubber is also suitable.

Sewing

A pattern for a cockerel can be found or made independently from cardboard. You should get 2 parts of the body, as well as a scallop, beak, beard and 2 wings. They are best made from felt so as not to process the edges.

1. Fold the fabric from which the torso (together with the head) will be sewn in half with the right side inward. Attach the pattern, circle and cut 2 parts at once, taking into account the allowances for the seams.
2. Cut out a comb, beak and beard from red felt. Fold the body parts right side together, placing the comb, beak and beard inside and sew everything together, leaving room for stuffing at the bottom. Turn out, fill, sew up completely.
3. It remains to make a cockerel paws and eyes. The paws are made of cord or twine, and the eyes are made of black beads.
4. Wings are sewn to the toy last. They are also made of felt, but preferably not red.
5. A bunch of thick threads for knitting is rewound with a thin thread and sewn in place of the tail.

The toy is ready. If its size is quite large, then you can leave it as it is. For small crafts, a loop is sewn on top to hang them somewhere (for example, under a chandelier).

Knitting

The figurine of a rooster is rather complicated for those who have never made knitted toys. But for those who know how to crochet, it is worth trying to make it.

1. First you need to cut out a full-size "egg" from dense foam rubber.
2. Then dial 4 air loops and close them into a ring. Next, the foam "egg" is tied in a circle from the bottom up - this will be both the torso and the head. Acrylic threads are best.
3. According to the same scheme, the beak is knitted (with threads of a contrasting color) and sewn to the head. Black buttons or beads are sewn in place of the eyes.
4. The scallop, wings and paws are knitted separately and sewn to the body.

Small multi-colored cockerels that can be placed on the table near each plate will look very original. After the gala dinner, guests will be able to pick them up as a keepsake.

whistle

Making the symbol of the new 2017 with your own hands, sometimes non-standard materials are chosen for crafts. For example, clay. For those who know how to handle it, it will not be difficult to make a whistle:

1. Knead a piece of clay the size of half a fist in your hands, and then roll it into a ball.
2. Pressing the ball with your fingers, form a hollow figurine of a cockerel. It is important that the head, beak and comb stand out well. If it is not possible to sculpt the paws - it does not matter, you can simply make a flat abdomen, and then the figure will be stable.
3. Now you need to take a wooden stick and make a hole in the figure from the side of the tail, and the second hole is made from above just below the back.
4. In this form, the whistle must be dried by placing it in a box with several holes for ventilation for 2-3 days. And then - burn in the oven (45-50 minutes at a temperature of 220 C °).

The whistle is ready, it remains only to color it. If it turned out not very smooth, then it can be slightly sanded sandpaper and then varnished. For coloring use special acrylic paints for glass and ceramics.

paper decoration

If there are children in the house, then they will surely like the idea of ​​​​making a symbol of 2017 with their own hands out of paper. This craft can be hung on a Christmas tree.

1. From any colored paper (preferably red, yellow or orange, because these are the colors of the symbol of the year), roll up the cone and glue it.
2. Now you need to make a tail, it should be multi-colored. For him, paper is cut into strips and loops are made. They must be glued to the cone at the back at the bottom.
3. Wings are made in the same way as the tail.
4. To make a scallop, you need to glue the strips to the top of the cone and twist them, sharply running the sharp side of the scissors over them.
5. The eyes of such a Rooster are simply drawn or glued on small circles of white paper, and circles of black on them. For the beak, a rhombus is cut out, folded in half and glued under the eyes.

The most difficult thing for a child is to make paws correctly. They are made from the same strips of paper as the tail, folded like an accordion, and glued to the wrong side of the cone from below.