How to make Santa Claus out of plastic bottle step by step with photo
This master class is intended for teachers, educators, parents, and, in general, creative people.
Description of work: craft is intended for decoration New Year's interior, can be used as a giant toy on christmas tree, can be an original gift for a child, and can also be used in various games with children.
Target: creating a Santa Claus toy from scrap materials at minimal cost.
Tasks:
- show the possibilities of use waste materials when creating toys for children;
- develop imagination and creative abilities;
- bring joy to children.
Master Class:
For work we will need: a plastic five-liter bottle, pieces of white and blue fabric (I used the remains of white fleece and blue velvet - very convenient fabrics for sewing toys), pieces of dermantine and artificial leather, synthetic padding, red pompom, black beads, white and black sewing threads, awl, scissors, measuring tape, Moment glue and details for a boot pattern for a large doll.
To begin, we cut out a square of blue fabric slightly larger than the bottom of the bottle, while cutting out small squares in the corners so that we can then glue this blank to the bottle and cover its bottom.
Now let's start making boots for Santa Claus: cut out 2 bottom parts, 2 sock parts and 2 parts of the main part of the boot according to the pattern (note that the photo shows a pattern for half of the main part!).
As a result, we ended up with 3 parts for each boot.
Now we sew all parts of the boot with black threads and leave only the heel unstitched. This will make it easier for us to attach the boots to the bottle.
Next step: we need to attach the boots to the corners of the bottle. To do this, we place the boots on the corners of the bottle and, using an awl, make holes in the top of the boots immediately through the boot and through the bottle. We pass the threads through the holes and tie the boots to the bottle (you can attach them with glue, but threads are more reliable).
These knots will later be covered with Santa Claus' fur coat.
Let's start making the head. We apply padding polyester to the top of the bottle and secure it with threads.
Immediately glue a triangular piece of fleece just below the padding polyester - this will be the face of Santa Claus. We also tie a loop of white thread to the handle of the bottle, using which you can hang the toy on the Christmas tree.
Then we cut out the blue fabric for the hat into a cone and sew it together. For the white border, cut out a strip of white fabric and sew it along the edges of the hat, putting a strip of padding polyester inside.
We fix the hat with glue, and sew the top of the cone with threads.
For the fur coat, we will need 2 small rectangles for the sleeves, and one large rectangle of the main part with rounded upper corners (all sizes of the fur coat parts were determined by eye by applying the fabric to the bottle).
A strip of white fabric is also sewn along the edges of the fur coat, into which a strip of padding polyester is inserted for volume, as for a hat. (The sleeves are also sewn)
We leave one edge of the fur coat without a white stripe. It will close with the other edge when fixed to the bottle.
Now we fix the fur coat to the bottle using Moment glue.
Cut a strip of white fabric about 50 cm long for the belt and tie it in the middle of the bottle with a simple knot.
In the same way as a fur coat, we sew sleeves and palms from white fabric, sew them together and sew them to the fur coat.
Now let's take care of the face: to the white fabric of the face we sew an oval-shaped piece of padding polyester for the beard, then above it a narrow strip of padding polyester for the mustache. Sew a red pompom for the nose above the mustache in the middle. For maximum effect of the naturalness of the beard and mustache, comb them along the edges with a comb. For the eyes we sew on five beads of black beads.
All that remains is to make a bag with gifts: we sew a bag from blue rectangular fabric, put a spruce twig, golden meshura in it, Christmas decorations, that is, everything that is at hand. We tie the bag with white rope. If you are giving Santa Claus to a child, you can include a bag of sweets.
So our Santa Claus is ready!
How our Frost has such a beard!
(Yes, yes, yes! Such a beard!)
Like our Frost has such a red nose!
(Yes, yes, yes! That's such a red nose!)
Like our Frost has these boots!
(Yes, yes, yes! These are the boots!)
Santa Claus is a hundred years old! And you're naughty like a little kid!
Good Grandfather Frost brought us all gifts!
Santa Claus is ready and waiting under your Christmas tree New Year's Eve, but the trouble is - he is alone. Isn't it time to think about his granddaughter Snegurka?
How to make it? Same as :)
From:
- a plastic yogurt cup (Actimel or Imunele)
- cotton wool
- cotton balls
- cotton pads
- yellow wool threads
- starch
- glue
- paints
- and pasta :)
The basis of the Snow Maiden is a bottle covered with cotton pads using paste. Read how to cook it.
To work with the paste, you need to cool it and pour it into a plate.
Prepare cotton pads and pads and a clean plastic bottle in advance.
This action can also be performed by a child. We take cotton pads and dip them one by one into the paste and glue them onto the bottle. I needed 6 discs to cover the entire bottle. The seventh disk was glued on top of the neck. Then it will be very convenient to attach the Snow Maiden’s head to it.
The head and hat are made from a cotton ball dipped in paste, the hands are made from cotton pads rolled into a cone. All cotton elements need to dry thoroughly before they can be worked with further.
When all the parts have dried (and this happened the next day for us), you can start painting. I chose gouache paints, blue color. The gouache is easy to apply, opaque and hides small irregularities in the snow maiden’s fur coat. This work is quite capable of being done by a child.
The paint has dried, which means you can grab your head... snow maidens :)
We paint a dried cotton ball pink and draw the Snow Maiden’s face on it. We braid the braid from yellow threads and glue it to the head with PVA glue, glue a hat on top, which we decorate with cotton wool.
While the head is drying, we work on the body.
We glue the hands with glue, decorate the fur coat with cotton wool and white snowflakes.
Snowflakes are small pasta that was previously painted with white gouache and dried. The pasta sticks perfectly with PVA glue or regular stationery glue.
Now all that remains is to connect the head with the body and here she is, our Snow Maiden:
Snow Maiden
I live with Grandfather, Grandfather Frost
The cheeks are rosy and tender, like roses.
The blizzard braided my brown hair,
The winds made the sled so that it could slide down the mountain.
I congratulate you all on a happy holiday,
Happy and wonderful New Year!
Comments
Elena 2011-12-14 10:38:19
Thank you very much! In kindergarten they told me to do some kind of craft, I went on the Internet for a long time, decided to try it and it worked, the child in kindergarten was praised and said that he was the best!
AnswerIrina Samoilova
For manufacturing this craft will need two empty plastic bottles, glue gun and a little imagination. Santa Claus let's make it from a 5 liter bottle, and Snow Maiden from 1.5 liter empty plastic bottle.
Bottles wrap it in blue or red cloth. These are our fur coats Father Frost and Snow Maiden. I simplified the work a little and used children's tights.
We make hands from cotton wool and fabric of the same color and sew them with threads to our product.
Snow Maiden we make braids from cotton wool or woolen threads and a hat. For the hat, you can use any empty cream jar, covering it with fabric of the same color as the fur coat.
We design the face according to your wishes.
Then we make a hat for Grandfather Frost and decorate it and the hat Snow Maidens using tinsel.
Now we use tinsel to decorate our fur coats Father Frost and Snow Maiden. Sleeves first
Then the hem
And of course the collar
The Snow Maiden is ready.
Grandfather frost We make a beard from tinsel. To do this, first glue the tinsel onto cardboard cut out in the shape of a beard, and then glue this cardboard to Grandfather Frost.
And the final touch. What kind of grandfather Freezing without a staff and a bag of gifts? We will make a staff from a pencil or any stick. To do this, you need to wrap the pencil in foil.
And decorate with tinsel. The top of the staff can be decorated with a perfume cap.
For a gift bag, you can use any elegant gift bag, of which there are a lot now. It needs to be stuffed with cotton wool and tinsel to make it look full.
Glue the staff and bag with gifts to Grandfather Frost.
That's all. These are so cute Grandfathers I got Frost and Snow Maiden.
They decorated our group in kindergarten.
6 days before the New Year it dawned on me that we don’t have Snow Maiden. This year this thought did not occur to me, apparently due to an overabundance of emotions (the first New Year in my house), there was no time for that!
But we were better prepared for the 2017 meeting. Well, now to the point!
You will need: fleece (blue and white), padding polyester, threads, 3-4 mm backing to hold its shape, scissors, glue (preferably a hot gun), PVA carpenter, approximately 0.5 bottle, cereal.
We pour cereal into the bottle (in my case, buckwheat) so that our Snow Maiden is stable. We cut out a semicircle from the backing and form the base for the fur coat.
We cut out a semicircle from blue fleece and glue it to the bottle. We straighten the cuts and cover them with white “fur”.
Let's prepare the head. Of course it's great if you find a head from an old doll. And it’s better if it fits in size (let it be larger in size rather than smaller).
Make a hole in a plastic Christmas ball. We cut off the fastening with scissors and cut out a circle with scissors that fits the diameter of the bottle neck. Even nail scissors did the job with ease.
We paint the ball with high-pressure paint in two or three layers. While it's drying, we make the hands. We take a soft wire and fold it in half (I bought it at a garden store), wrap it with padding polyester and secure the edges with thread. We sew sleeves. My Snow Maiden will have a muff. It's too painstaking to make two hands and mittens.))
We collect the image. Choosing decor:
We attach the wire from the back, simply twisting it. But I caught the sleeves a little with thread and glue.
We hem the bottom of the fur coat. The rope in the photo is also useful - this is our Snow Maiden’s braid.
We sew a fleece cape (I found one with snowflakes). We cut out a semicircle and trim the edges with white fleece. You can use a sewing machine, of course, but I harnessed something by hand and created the Snow Maiden in half a day, as they say, with my own hands))
Sew on the stand-up collar. It's easy to cut - just a rectangle.
Let's work with the hat - we form a circle with grooves in the shape of a ball (head) and attach either fleece or cotton pads inside, for volume, well, like, she’s not bald here, but with rich hair!!! We process the edges with white “fur”. I hid padding polyester inside for volume.
We mask the glue and cuts with a white collar fleece. We fasten the pigtail to the wire at the back and try on the head, hat, and cape.
Draw a face with a pencil. If you knew how many times I erased and drew again... You can also draw eyes and a mouth on paper, and then glue it on. When you are satisfied with the result, color it!
Place the head on the neck with a lid. I couldn’t figure out how to secure the ball (you can make holes in advance and secure it with wire around the neck) and just installed it on the lid, and then glued the collar of the cape to the ball. That's why I let my hair braid under my cape.
The Snow Maiden is ready. She took her place under the Christmas tree with Santa Claus.
Hello, dear friends! December has come, which means it’s time to start preparing for the New Year, cut out different snowflakes, make New Year's toys, which you can then use to decorate the Christmas tree together with the kids. Although our weather is not at all winter, it rains almost every day, but we hope that one day we will get up in the morning and, looking out the window, will be surprised to find that the first snow has fallen.
I can’t convey this feeling of joy in the first snow, something mysterious and coming from childhood...)
Well, today I will tell you how to make a Snow Maiden with your own hands. In kindergarten, we have a competition every year New Year's crafts, last time I, you can take a look and remember how to make it. And then I also wrote that maybe next year we will make a Snow Maiden, so I am keeping this promise.
Although the kindergarten hasn’t announced anything about any competition yet, I know that it will still happen, so I decided to prepare for it this year without haste, as is usually the case, and not in a hurry. And you may need and find my master class on making a Snow Maiden useful.
I'll tell you the truth, this one winter craft It was not easy for us in terms of assistants). The daughter is already a good helper, but the son is still the destroyer of everything), I had to hide in another room and jerkily finish the Snow Maiden. My husband and I started making it together while our son was sleeping, and I finished it alone while my husband was busy playing with the children.
My daughter wanted to help me, but then my son started crying, if she went to me, she had to sit with her brother too). I can’t wait for the two of them to sit next to us and be able to really help us).
To begin with, I purchased all the materials necessary to create a Snow Maiden with my own hands. We also had to buy a plastic bottle; we don’t buy either sparkling water or plain water, so we didn’t have a single bottle at home. The photo of the materials does not include all the tools for creating the Snow Maiden; I have posted the most basic ones.
How to make a Snow Maiden with your own hands
Tools and materials for making the Snow Maiden:
- Sintepon approximately 60 cm (it is better to take a double one)
- Copper wire approximately 50 cm long with a diameter of 2 mm.
- Any blue material for a fur coat you can find (I bought regular curtain fabric of blue color 50 cm)
- 1.5 liter plastic bottle.
- Small skein of light yarn (for making hair for the Snow Maiden)
- Acrylic paint white
- Gouache blue, blue and black, pink
- Thin brush
- Medium thickness tape
- Styrofoam white egg (I bought it at a craft store, they had different sizes, I chose the size that suited me)
- White satin ribbon 4 cm wide
- White satin ribbon 2.5 cm wide
- Blue satin ribbon 2.5 cm wide
- Glue gun
- White threads, needle
- Self-tapping screw at least 4 cm long
- Thin silver tinsel - 1 m.
- Snowflakes for decoration
- Scissors
- Universal glue moment
- Stationery knife
Last year we made Grandfather Frost from a five-liter plastic bottle, and today we’ll see how to make a Snow Maiden from a plastic bottle of only one and a half liter, the grandfather’s granddaughter should be miniature).
We wind copper wire around the neck of the bottle so that there is an equal amount of wire on both sides, from which we will make the handles of the Snow Maiden. We bend the wire to the bottle and then spread it slightly to the sides. You can secure the wire with tape.
At the next stage, we cut off a piece of padding polyester that can be used to wrap a plastic bottle; this will be the basis for the Snow Maiden’s future fur coat. I don’t give exact sizes, because the bottles can be different, and so can the padding polyester.
I think based on the photo and especially the video, you will be able to cope with this task. Sew the edges of the padding polyester with white thread.
Now we cut out a strip of padding polyester and wrap the arms with wire to give them volume; you can secure them with tape or use glue.
Now we need to cut out the material for the fur coat itself. To do this, we measured the Snow Maiden’s height and estimated the approximate width so that the fur coat would be more spacious at the bottom. Cut out two cone-shaped pieces. The width at the bottom is about 25 cm, at the top it is 17 cm.
You can immediately cut out small rectangles for the sleeves of the fur coat and cut out the mittens.
You can sew together the details of a fur coat, sleeves and mittens using sewing machine, and just by hand, we sewed it on a machine, so, of course, it’s faster. My husband was in charge of sewing the parts of the fur coat; he mastered the machine better than me).
We put the blue fur coat on the Snow Maiden, we ended up with a slightly long size, I just turned it up, then this part will still be covered with padding polyester. Then we put on mittens and sleeves.
We trim the lower part of the fur coat with a strip of padding polyester, and we also use padding polyester to make edging for the lower part of the sleeves. The edging on the sleeves can be glued; to do this, lubricate the sleeve material itself with glue and apply padding polyester to it.
Now you need to close it with a piece satin ribbon the upper part of the Snow Maiden's chest, simply cut out a piece to size and glue it on using hot glue or regular glue.
Our neck was left open, we needed to cover it with something, I decided to do it with a white satin ribbon 4 cm wide. I simply wound it like a scarf and secured it with hot glue, as a result, a strip of ribbon went down the middle of the fur coat and I I also decided to use it in an interesting way.
Twist with thin mirusha and secure to the fur coat as a middle pattern. For the belt for the Snow Maiden's fur coat, I took a white ribbon 2.5 cm wide, tied it in a bow and tied a belt of thin tinsel on top.
To complete the costume work, all that remains is to sew a hat for the Snow Maiden. To do this, I cut a circle with a diameter of about 15 cm from the same fabric as the fur coat.
She strung it in a circle on a thread and pulled the thread off. I filled the middle of the hat with a little padding polyester. I sewed a padding polyester ribbon along the edges, the so-called edge of the hat.
You can glue a snowflake to the Snow Maiden’s hat as a decoration. To decorate the fur coat, I also glued a couple of snowflakes to the bottom, you’ll see in the photo.
What to make the Snow Maiden's head out of
Now, in my opinion, the most difficult part of the work remains - painting the face. In general, I know how to draw a little, but the face is such an important part that if you ruin it, it means ruining the entire Snow Maiden craft with your own hands.
For the Snow Maiden's head, you can, of course, take a head from an old doll that is the right size for you, the eyes and nose and lips are already drawn there, screw it on and rejoice).
But somehow I didn’t dare rip off the head of any of my daughter’s dolls, especially since they are not that old, my daughter is only 5 years old, and the “oldest” doll is even younger.
In general, I bought egg-shaped foam at a handicraft store; this size was just right for the Snow Maiden’s head. First of all, you need to screw a self-tapping screw at least 4 cm long into the cork.
Then coat the self-tapping screw with glue (just not hot, any other, for example, a universal moment) and screw it into the lower part of the head, after cutting off a small circle of polystyrene foam.
When we do the face painting, we will simply screw the head on the cork to the bottle and it will hold perfectly.
My husband advised me to level the foam head with putty before starting to paint the face. But I decided that I would not use it. Which I later regretted a little.
We all know that the polystyrene foam has small dimples and this certainly prevented the paint from applying well, but nothing that happened, you see now in the photo, seems like nothing, as they used to say in our village, will work in the countryside).
Since the foam egg is white, I decided to make the complexion at least a little similar to the real one. To do this, I mixed white acrylic paint on a palette (we had ceiling paint left over after renovation, but you can buy a small jar of white acrylic paint at any stationery store) and pink gouache, which turned out to be a slightly pinkish color.
I covered the front part of the egg with this paint, as well as half of it, because the other half will still be covered by hair. Once coated with paint, leave it to dry for two hours.
I tried to cover it with just gouache, but it didn’t work out that way, it immediately curled up on the foam into small droplets, but mixed with acrylic it fits well, and if the head were even without dimples, it would be the perfect tone.
After the face has dried, you can start drawing the eyes, nose and lips.
How to draw the eyes of the Snow Maiden
First, you need to divide the face lengthwise into two equal parts and somehow mark it, I used a simple pencil, this is done so that the eyes, mouth and nose are located symmetrically in relation to each other.
I drew the eyes, nose and lips first with a simple pencil, I recommend that you first practice on a regular piece of paper to get at least a little experience in your hand.
Now you need to mix white acrylic paint with black gouache and use a thin brush to paint the Snow Maiden’s eyes and eyebrows, as well as her nose.
I painted the pupils with blue gouache mixed with acrylic paint, and the pupil itself is painted dark blue. I also used blue gouache to paint slightly blue shadows above the eyes to make them more expressive.
I painted the lips with pink gouache mixed with acrylic paint. You can brown the Snow Maiden’s cheeks using regular lipstick.
I immediately forgot about this, and when I had already shot the video I remembered, well, I think that you yourself would have guessed that something was missing. And brown the Snow Maiden’s cheeks.
Now you can screw the Snow Maiden’s head to its rightful place). After screwing the head on, I discovered that the neck looked somehow completely ugly and I had to wrap a little more padding polyester around the neck, you also look at the situation, if everything looks good, then you may not need padding polyester.
How to make the Snow Maiden's hair
Now you need to make hair from yarn. To do this, I unwind the length I need and wind the right amount of yarn, depending on how thick the hair I want to get.
Then we tie the hair in the middle with a thread from the same yarn, from below on one side and on the other we straighten the strands using scissors.
Now you need to attach the hair to the head. To do this, lubricate the sides of the head itself with hot glue, apply the hair and level it out. The most pleasant thing for me was to braid the Snow Maiden’s braids), we secure the braids at the bottom with a satin blue ribbon 2.5 cm wide. I took ribbons to match the color of the fur coat.
Now you, dear friends, know how to make a Snow Maiden with your own hands, I hope MK will be useful for you. You can also watch the video, although the process as such is not shown in full, but I tell you the steps, the video will help you clarify many points that perhaps were not clear from the photo.
Sorry for the somewhat dim video, actually I didn’t intend to film it at all, then in the middle of making the snow maiden I suddenly decided that it would still be useful, so you won’t hear my voice right away, at first there will be a few moments in the photo.
How to make a Snow Maiden with your own hands video
P.S. After writing this article, I went to the kindergarten to pick up my daughter and do you know what I read in the announcement for parents?
Dear parents! We are holding a competition "The Snow Maiden is the granddaughter of Father Frost", you need to make a Snow Maiden with your own hands, works are accepted until December 15")))
And the teacher says to me: “We really want to take first place again,” because our last one took first place in kindergarten, they even gave us a certificate))) a small thing, but nice)
I even started smiling, because we had already created our own Snow Maiden and even shared a master class with you, so my intuition told me that we were making a Snow Maiden this year for a reason)! On Monday we will bring our creativity.
God bless you!
With respect and love, Elena Kurbatova.