From childhood, military affairs touches the souls of boys to the very depths. They like to play shooting games, plan trips, and make things with their own hands. So why not combine several activities at once and get the maximum benefit from them? Let's look at a few easy ways to make a craft.
The easiest thing you can do at home for war games is to make a rifle. If the child does it on his own, it is recommended to work with cardboard, because... He doesn't have woodworking skills yet. In addition, it is much easier to create a three-dimensional figure from cardboard.
How to make a craft tank
The tank is the king of the ground forces. With its simple design and small size, it can help develop hand technique at an early stage of creativity. Craft military equipment in the form of a tank is made from matchboxes, cardboard or plywood. The main thing is that the event takes place in several stages:
- Drawing of the future product for correct visual perception;
- Drawing drawing;
- Creating a tower, body, wheels and barrel separately;
- Fastening the parts in a certain sequence - a tower with a barrel, a body with wheels, a finished tower and a body with each other.
The wheels used are corks or bottle caps, cut out cardboard circles, as well as the chassis of worn out cars. The barrel can be made from a ballpoint pen, a plastic tube, a juice straw or newspaper. Often the tank tower is made from a plastic bottle or beer can. These and other materials are suitable for painting to give the tank a camouflage pattern.
Plasticine warrior
Plasticine is an excellent material for bringing creative ideas to life. You can sculpt soldiers in any pose, add grenades or machine guns, pistols or a spear to their hands. In this art form, you can use many techniques - smearing and rolling, pressing and joining parts together.
As it hardens, the plasticine figure becomes harder. If desired, you can change the soldier’s weapon and add small details - put on a backpack, binoculars, or bandage him if he is wounded in battle. If the soldier is tired, the plasticine can be easily crushed back into the chest and sculpted into a new battle character.
How to make a machine gun
Only hand weapons are made simpler than a tank. In particular, we are talking about the layout of the assault rifle. To create it you will have to:
- Lay out a large cardboard box;
- Draw a sketch of the weapon;
- Enlarge the sketch 2-4.5 times and transfer it through a stencil onto cardboard;
- Cut out a section of the layout;
- Attach the first piece to solid cardboard to cut out the second or third pieces;
- Glue the pieces with PVA glue and tie with tape.
The finished model made of corrugated cardboard is light and safe. To give a natural look, the machine can be painted and varnished. Such a military craft will not be suitable for kindergarten, but for home and outdoors it is a completely different matter.
Soldier
You will need: a toilet paper roll, half an Easter egg mold, cardboard, a pencil, scissors, paints, glue, a brush, a black marker, twine.
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- Draw the soldier's hands, a rifle, a circle with a diameter slightly larger than the shape of an egg, and camouflage patterns on the cardboard.
- Cut out the blanks and color them.
- Paint the sleeve green, wait until dry and glue on the camouflage patterns.
- Glue the soldier's handles to the sleeves.
- Glue the circle and the egg mold together, then glue it on as a hat.
- Glue the soldier's eyes and draw eyebrows, a nose and a mouth.
- Glue the twine to the rifle and attach it to the military man.
The soldier is ready!
How to make an eternal flame
The eternal flame is a very symbolic craft that adults will definitely appreciate. Moreover, girls can safely make this product. Making an eternal flame takes a little effort, time and consumables:
- A star with five ends and ten edges is drawn on a white sheet of paper;
- The drawing is transferred through a stencil onto a sheet of red or silver thin cardboard;
- The star is cut out and bent in different places;
- An orange napkin rolled into a tube is glued to the center of the star;
- The tube is trimmed in some places and unfolded to imitate a torch;
- The star is glued to a cardboard square and, if desired, decorated with green branches, St. George's ribbon, and various inscriptions.
Instead of an orange napkin, you can use a piece of cardboard that imitates a torch. But it will have to be painted in characteristic colors.
How to make budenovka
Although the main attention of the target audience is focused on technology, do-it-yourself military crafts are also outfits, including budenovka. In a lightweight version, it does not require fabric. You only need scissors, glue, red and green sheets of paper measuring 500x600 mm. Paper budenovka is made as follows:
- The green leaf is folded in half;
- The upper part of the sheet is folded into a triangle on both sides;
- The triangle is bent in the opposite direction so that eventually its upper edge protrudes above the side with a width of 50-60 mm;
- On the reverse side, the sheet is folded into a triangle thanks to ready-made folds; which unfold outward;
- The side is folded up, the product is folded in half vertically.
The finished budenovka unfolds conveniently and is suitable for decoration with a red star, which is cut out separately.
A gift for your beloved dad: a tank made of colored paper with your own hands
Despite the fact that such a tank can be easily made from paper, it looks attractive.
It is best made from a double-sided sheet of colored paper. You will also need glue, scissors, pencil, ruler, gouache.
We cut out two strips that will be caterpillars measuring 2*20 cm.
Glue the strips together in a circle.
For the base of the tank you need a 7*12 cm rectangle.
Step back 5 mm and another 2.5 cm from the edges and draw a line. Fold along these lines.
We make the same part, but 6*8 cm in size for the tank turret. Here we retreat from the edges by 5 mm and 2 cm.
For the barrel, measure a piece 4*8 cm and bend it twice along the length. Make small cuts to attach the muzzle.
Assemble the tank base and the turret with its muzzle together.
You can decorate the tank with a red star
How to make a craft machine gun "Maxim"
The popular machine gun is made on the same principle as an artillery howitzer. True, the barrel will have to be made of a larger diameter. Rolled corrugated cardboard will help you meet this requirement. Its reliefs are very similar to the cartridge compartments of the Maxim machine gun. You can also draw lines on a regular sheet of paper rolled into a tube. It is better to roll the sheet around a AA battery. A sting from the handle shaft is attached to the end of the finished chamber.
One more question: how to make a military craft “Maxim” with cartridges? The answer is simple - you need to glue a thread with black beads to the body.
The wheels for the themed machine gun also come in black and have holes. Therefore, it is better to make the chassis from cardboard circles that cut well. It is not necessary to supplement the finished craft with frames, but it is advisable. The main thing is that the machine gun is green.
Plasticine soldier
Every child has plasticine, and it’s quite easy to create something from it. Let's see how to make a beautiful soldier. First you need to decide on the color of the form. Having chosen a color, you need to take a little plasticine and make an oval, with a slight expansion on one side. He will fold his torso, and the widest side will represent the shoulders.
Next you need to make the legs. To do this, roll 2 identical sausages from plasticine with a thickening on one side. The thickened part will represent the thigh, it needs to be connected to the body. All that remains is to make the arms and head. With the head, everything is very simple, you need to roll up a ball of flesh-colored plasticine and place it on the body. Then, taking a little different plasticine, matching the color of the soldier’s uniform, mold a helmet on his head.
The arms are made in exactly the same way as the legs, only a little thinner, but with thickening on one side. They need to be attached to the body with their sealed sides.
All that remains is to use a toothpick to add details, such as seams on clothes and mark buttons. Ideal if you have a small weapon from a toy, purchased soldier. It can be given to plasticine, for greater ambiance. If there is plasticine left, you can use it to build an environment for the craft, this could be a shelter, walls, rubble.
How to make Katyusha
Children love to draw, and therefore they often have short pencils. They can be used as missiles for the famous Katyusha rocket. But first you need to create the rocket launcher itself:
- Thick cardboard is cut into two sheets - 60-100 mm and 80x120 mm;
- A matchbox is glued to the edge of a large sheet;
- Lids or plugs are glued to the bottom of the sheet with the “cabin”;
- A short sheet is placed on the edge and box of the truck;
- 4-6 pencils are glued to the edge of a short sheet.
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Other rectangular-shaped objects are suitable for making a “booth”. To make the craft as similar as possible to the Katyusha, it is recommended to draw windows, doors, camouflage, etc. in the finished design.
How to make a craft airplane
A modern attack aircraft is created from cardboard by cutting a pair of wings and a tail into the body. Next, pencils are attached to the wings, which perfectly imitate rockets. Such a design will have to be drawn and drawn first. When finished, it is hung on the ceiling, as shown in the photo of air force military crafts.
It is better to make a propeller plane from a plastic bottle. The fact is that the wings easily crash into it. At the end of the container itself there is a cone, to which it is very easy to attach a homemade propeller. The latter is made from a bottle cap ring and foil, which is attached to this ring.
Decoupage - quickly and efficiently
It is one of the easiest ways to make high-quality and beautiful crafts. Any available blank is taken as a basis - it can be a box, a casket, an affordable household item.
The further process depends on the imagination of the student and his parents:
- The blank is painted, inscriptions and thematic drawings are applied;
- Pictures, paper and foil clippings are pasted;
- Small new details are being added.
This is how a work of art turns out from an ordinary thing! A shoebox turns into a box with shells, and a pack of sweets turns into a soldier's packed lunch.
How to make a craft helicopter
For a helicopter, you will definitely have to have a bottle with a capacity of 0.35-0.5 liters on hand. Its third with a neck is cut and glued to cardboard in the shape of a spoon. The tapered edge of the cardboard is complemented by a rear wing with a hole for a screw. The rotating element for the helicopter tail is created selectively from the following items:
- Paper circle with holes;
- Folded foil in the match slots;
- Cover with internal holes.
A large screw is created from flat thin sticks. A hole is made in them for the neck of the bottle. So that the screw can rotate, the threads on the neck are smoothed with a file, and the neck itself is closed with a lid loosely.
- Since the chassis of a real helicopter is often hidden inside the body, it is recommended to install the themed craft on a wire sleigh.
