Hedgehog craft: from paper, from chestnuts, from seeds, from cones (120 photo ideas)

If a hedgehog is a stress-relieving animal, then its origami figurine will probably have this property. To check the assumption, just fold the animal out of paper. For several years now, live hedgehogs have been restoring peace of mind and balance to visitors to the special Harry Cafe in the center of Tokyo. The animals in the establishment are friendly; they are used to visitors often picking them up, petting them, taking pictures and feeding them mealworms.

Do you want the same “anti-stress” hedgehog for yourself? Of course, keeping a nocturnal animal at home is troublesome; instead of sleeping, you will have to listen to rustling and stomping, and in the morning you will have to clean up the consequences of vigorous activity. Another thing is a paper hedgehog - it will only bring joy from both the creative process and the result.

How to properly prepare natural material

There are several rules for collecting natural material. Any natural material must be collected in dry weather, not after rain. It's better to do this in the summer. It is preferable to pick the cones from the branches. Fallen cones may be in the ground, cobwebs, grass, or there may be insects in them.

After collecting the cones, they need to be inspected and cleaned if necessary. Dry wet buds on a radiator. Under no circumstances should wet natural material be stored in a closed plastic bag. Plant seeds and leaves must also be clean and dry.

Remember: natural material collected in dry weather is stored better.

Squirrel costume

Most often, you need to make a squirrel costume for a girl, but you can also try to make a mischievous boy squirrel. To make a squirrel costume, you will have to purchase a piece of red faux fur.

A terracotta-colored dress or suit will become the basis for creating an image. In addition to this, you will need ears - triangular pieces of fur, which for a girl are attached directly to the tops of their braids, rolled into snails, and for a boy - on a small knitted hat.

The main decoration of any squirrel is, of course, a fluffy tail.

How to make a tail for a squirrel?

First, a frame is made from wire. A cover made of faux fur is pulled over it and sewn to the hem of the dress or the panties of the suit. To prevent the furry miracle from falling down, otherwise it will turn out to be a fox instead of a squirrel, it should be raised and secured with thin fur harnesses like a backpack.

The boy will really like this papier-mâché acorn, reminiscent of the one that the prehistoric squirrel from the funny cartoon “Ice Age” was constantly running around with.

The squirrel girl will not refuse a basket containing nuts in gilded foil, almost like in “The Tale of Tsar Saltan.”

Squirrel costume for girls:

Tutu skirt, white lace blouse, necklace, ears on a headband using the kanzashi technique and a tail made of organza or tulle, socks or knee socks, shoes or slippers.
We recommend adding a big bump to this suit, so the image will be brighter.
Hairstyle: a braid or 2 buns on the sides, or 2 braids, it is important that the headband stays in place and does not fall off.
To make the tail stand, we sew a button on the dress or skirt and take a hat elastic or any other thin one and sew it to both sides of the tail. So that they are worn like a backpack to match the blouse and then are not visible.

Video ideas for a squirrel costume:

Detailed video on how to make ears on a hoop for a squirrel costume:

Squirrel Costume Necklace:

From the cones

This craft can be done with 2-year-old children. You will need: a pine cone, white, gray or black plasticine, 2 black peppercorns.

From plasticine you need to mold the hedgehog's muzzle in the form of a cone, with the tip slightly raised up. It is good to stick the wide part of the plasticine cone to the back of the cone.

Insert peas into the plasticine - eyes and nose. The paws and tail are also sculpted from plasticine and attached to the pine cone. You can use more plasticine and mold not only the face, but also the body of the animal.

Then insert several pine or fir cones into the plasticine body with the blunt side. You will get a big hedgehog. Cone needles can be decorated with a ring of dried orange or a cinnamon stick. The hedgehog craft made from pine cones is ready!

Materials for creating a hedgehog

In the process of creating crafts for a living space, it is worth relying on environmentally friendly materials. Therefore, ideas on what to make a hedgehog from are based on this basis. In addition, children are involved in the manufacturing process.

Let's consider suitable materials:

Clay. Not the most accessible material. However, thanks to its use, children, adolescents and adults will be able to develop various useful skills: accuracy, fine motor skills, discipline, attentiveness.
Plasticine. Widely available and inexpensive material. Thanks to sculpting, it is easy to create any version of an animal, even one similar to the cartoon character “Hedgehog in the Fog.” Children love to work with plasticine, but it is necessary to explain the nuances of use and safety.
Colored paper. Thanks to the material, you can use several options for solving the problem. The hedgehog is laid out in the form of an applique on paper, a three-dimensional work is made from a cardboard base and covered with colored paper.

Don't forget about other continents: dried pine cones, cotton wool, beads, embroidery. They are also in demand and suitable for teaching children.

From seeds

To make a hedgehog craft from seeds, you will need: sunflower or pumpkin seeds, white or black plasticine (contrasting to the color of the seeds), 2 buds of dry cloves and 1 black peppercorn.

From plasticine, mold the body of a hedgehog in the form of a droplet. The sharp part is the spout; insert a black peppercorn into it, just above the clove eyes. Next you need to determine the middle of the back. From the middle back, insert the seeds one by one into the plasticine. Further from the middle towards the muzzle. Sculpt small ears and paws and stick to the body.

How to make ears for a bunny?

So it turns out that you will only have to work hard on making the ears, which are always on the top of the bunny’s head; sometimes in stores they are sold in ready-made form.

Don't forget about overalls, they are suitable for very little ones who also want to be bunnies.

The base for the ear is cut out of thick cardboard and covered with white fabric or faux fur.
A small piece of fur is left for the tail.
The inside of each ear is made of colored fabric: blue is suitable for a boy, and pink is suitable for a girl.
The finished ears can be sewn to an elastic band that is tied under the chin, but it is much more convenient to attach them to a plastic hairband.

Video on how to make ears from a headband?

From paper

To create a paper hedgehog craft you will need: 1 sheet of blue or green cardboard, colored paper of various colors, paper glue, a black marker or felt-tip pen.

Fold a sheet of double-sided colored paper in half lengthwise and iron it so that there is a clear line. Unfold the sheet. On the smaller side, fold the strip perpendicular to the fold, 5-6 cm wide. Unfold. Make a cut from the bottom along the fold line of the strip to the middle of the sheet.

Fold the resulting strip upward along the fold line and glue it. On this strip draw the outline of the hedgehog's face, eyes, antennae, ear and nose. Trim the muzzle along the contour without cutting it from the main sheet of paper.

Fold the free sheet of paper into an accordion shape, the fold width is about 1.5 cm. Bend the resulting accordion upward along the line of the first fold and glue the 2 free sides of the paper together. It turned out to be a hedgehog.

Glue the resulting figure onto a sheet of cardboard, you can add a paper applique to the background: grass, mushrooms, decorate the hedgehog itself with an apple made of colored paper.

Very simple option

The next origami hedgehog is intended for children or beginners. It folds from one square sheet in just 9 steps. The model was developed by British designer Tony O'Hara.

Step-by-step instruction:

Fold the square diagonally. Let's reveal.
Bend the left corner by about 0.5 cm.
We fold the same side again, aligning it with the center of the figure.
Turn the workpiece over.
We make folds along the dotted lines.
Fold the figure in half “valley”.
We bring the corner indicated by the arrow inward. We outline the fold on the right.
We also remove the upper triangle inward, thus giving the back of our hedgehog a roundness.
We bend the corners on the right.

We make origami hedgehog eyes from beads, draw needles and a nose with a black marker.

Autumn craft

To create the “Hedgehog” autumn craft, you will need tree leaves, pine or fir cones, foil, waste newspaper or paper, a glue gun, a plastic eggplant lid, acorns, a sprig of rowan, chestnuts and other natural materials, plastic fruit, 1 sheet of cardboard.

Leaves from trees can be pre-dried between the pages of books. If the leaves have just been collected, they need to be ironed through a sheet of paper with an iron at medium power. The leaves will become smooth and will not wrinkle when dry.

Newspaper or unnecessary paper needs to be crumpled and formed into a lump in the form of a drop. Wrap this form well in foil so that it does not unfold. The result is the body of a hedgehog - the basis for the craft. Using a glue gun, glue the lid of the eggplant onto the thin edge of the base - this is the spout. Make eyes from acorn caps or cut out 4 paper circles: 2 larger white ones, 2 smaller black ones.

Let's start putting together the composition. Glue tree leaves onto the cardboard so that the outer edges of the leaves face outward and cover all the edges of the cardboard. If the leaf petioles are long, they need to be trimmed. Glue the hedgehog's body into the middle using a glue gun, lubricating the bottom well with glue. It's the turn of the cones.

Glue must be applied to the blunt end of the cone and pressed well to the base. You should start from the hedgehog’s forehead and gradually fill the entire back so that there are no gaps. So, where there are gaps, add acorns, chestnuts, maple seeds, other natural material, plastic fruits. Decorate the top of the hedgehog with a sprig of rowan.

Serving napkin

An origami hedgehog can turn into both a practical bookmark and an elegant table decoration. Making a figurine of this animal from a napkin is not at all difficult.

Step-by-step instruction:

Align the bottom edge of the napkin with the top.
Fold the workpiece in half from left to right.
Fold the napkin diagonally.
We bring the right corner inward using a reverse fold.
We bend the outer layers indicated by arrows.
We repeat the same technique with the next layers.

We continue to “unfold” our napkin.
Each time we change the angle of the valves slightly.
Fold in the bottom tab.
We hide the sharp corner.

By varying the size of the napkin, you can make a whole family of hedgehogs:

From chestnut

To make a simple children's craft “Hedgehog” from chestnut you will need: plasticine, chestnut.

The chestnut can be taken already peeled, or with a prickly outer shell. This way the hedgehog will be really prickly.

Use white or yellow plasticine to form a cone-shaped face for the hedgehog. Attach small yellow plasticine ears. Make the nose out of red plasticine, the eyes out of blue - by rolling into balls. Stick the muzzle to the chestnut. Glue plasticine paws and a tail to the bottom of the chestnut.

If the chestnut is without a prickly peel, you need to add plasticine needles to it so that the plasticine matches the color of the chestnut. You can decorate the back of the animal with a plasticine mushroom. The craft is ready!

Making a headdress for a hedgehog

The hat is made on the basis of an old panama hat or cap. Needles are attached to it, which are simply made from foam rubber strips for insulating windows.

This strip is cut into pieces of the required length.

Sew the needles to the headdress starting from the top of the head in a spiral, and then tint the tips of the spines with acrylic and leave until dry.

In a similar way, needles are attached to a cape - a rectangular piece of fabric with a drawstring at the collar into which a ribbon is inserted.

Bright leaves are cut out of colored cardboard and glued to the cape. It will be difficult for a child to carry a basket with real apples, so you will have to make light fruits from polystyrene foam, which is used for wall insulation.

Apples or mushrooms are cut out with a regular stationery knife and painted with acrylic paints. Several of these apples can be glued to the needles with silicone glue.

Educational video master class on sewing a hat for a hedgehog costume:

From leaves

On a sheet of cardboard you can make an applique craft from tree leaves. You can take leaves from any tree. Iron the leaves through a sheet of paper. Draw the outline of a hedgehog on the cardboard.

Glue the leaves onto its back using PVA glue or a glue gun, distributing them so that it looks like a prickly hedgehog. Don't forget to draw a mouth, an eye and a nose.

Now you know several easy ways to make a hedgehog craft with your own hands.

Bookmark

If your child does not like to read, you can fold a corner bookmark in the shape of a hedgehog and place it in a book of fairy tales. And then offer to get acquainted with interesting stories about this animal together. The hedgehog is a frequent hero of Russian fairy tales, strong, independent, able to stand up for himself and others. There is a lot to learn from him, and a funny bookmark will make reading even more fun, quietly involving the child in the game.

Step-by-step instruction:

For the bookmark you will need a 15x15 cm square in a brown or gray shade.
Fold it diagonally with the colored side facing out.
We bend the top of the triangle to the base.
This needs to be done only with the first layer.

Bend the left corner towards the middle.
We repeat the same action on the right.
Opening the last folds.
Raise the right corner up.

Repeat step 8 on the left.
We fill both valves into the “pocket”.
The bookmark corner is ready. We insert dark brown paper inside. We outline the needles of our hedgehog on it.
We cut out the blank and glue it into the corner.

Be sure to draw the eyes and nose for the bookmark.

Photo of hedgehog crafts

Makeup for children's New Year's costumes

All that remains is to warn parents about the makeup. You can draw a nose, mustache or other details that will highlight the image. But for this you need to choose high-quality paints so as not to get a banal allergic reaction instead of the happy feeling of a fairy tale.

So, if in your dreams a child already sees in his hands the main prize of the New Year's holiday for the best carnival costume, do not let things take their course. Call on your creativity and start creating an exclusive costume for your child with your own hands.

Very soon the most favorite holiday for children and adults – New Year – will be knocking on our doors. And with it, it’s time for matinees in kindergartens and at all kinds of New Year’s trees. It's time to think about creating an original and fun costume for your beloved children, grandchildren, nephews and godchildren.

One of these options could be the image of everyone’s favorite hedgehog (photo), especially since you can recreate its characteristic features in a huge number of ways. And it is not at all necessary to resort to the services of sellers of ready-made suits. Creating a holiday outfit will not take much time, a variety of materials can be used, and the result will definitely bring joy and childlike gratitude, which no amount of money can buy.

Hedgehog costume for girls: quick and easy

It is quite easy to repeat the idea of a cape costume, which, of course, can be used for boys and girls with equal success. But still, a costume in the form of a cape will be more interesting for little princesses in the sense that such a thing can easily be worn on any beautiful dress.

By following the instructions for making a cape, you can get the following result, changing the materials to your taste and their availability in the house.

Examples of ready-made capes for a hedgehog costume

Cape with “needles”

As they say, everything new is well forgotten old. Here we will offer a design option for a children's carnival costume, which was taken from a book of the late twentieth century. This product is quite easy to reproduce. To sew a cape you will need:

Any fabric of a suitable color (fleece, velor, fleece, cloth).
Material for needles. The authors suggest that craftswomen use plastic bags, but you can also use just fabric that has a different texture from the main fabric. These needles can also be stuffed with filler, then they will stick out and further enhance the resemblance to hedgehog spines.
Cardboard and elastic band for a mask.
Glue, thread and scissors.

The hooded cape can be fastened with buttons or strings, and the nose can be made of foam rubber, a large round button, or similar materials.

Pattern and description for a hedgehog costume in the form of a cape with a mask

Hedgehog using the “blade” technique

A three-dimensional craft is obtained by gluing parts with their half-planes. The more “folds” are prepared, the larger the craft element will be.

A fly agaric, a cloud, and especially a hedgehog will look good in this technique.

To work, you will need colored paper, PVA glue, a sheet of white cardboard, or a lid from a candy box.

An outline of a cloud is cut out from white paper folded 4 times. The cloud should be symmetrical relative to the central fold axis. The legs of a fly agaric are cut out of white paper in the same way.

The hat is cut out of red paper folded in four. All parts must be symmetrical relative to the fold line.

Then the fly agaric caps are glued to the legs.

To create volume at the hedgehog's needles, 4 circles with jagged edges are made from dark brown and light brown colored paper. The teeth should also be symmetrical relative to the inflection line.

Afterwards, the parts are sequentially glued onto the prepared base - the sky should be blue and the grass should be green.

Clouds are glued onto a blue background using the “blade” technique.

The actual face of the hedgehog and the blades of its needles are glued onto the green background. The blades must be placed in a horizontal direction.

Fly agaric blades and cloud blades should be placed in a vertical direction.

As you can see for yourself, a cute forest dweller can be made from almost everything you see around.

We wish you and your children good luck and creative discoveries.

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