Crafts made from natural materials
The hedgehog is a prickly creature, but very charming. Moreover, in cartoons he is usually a positive character. Therefore, children take up work with pleasure.
Since the hedgehog is a forest dweller, the first thing that comes to mind when talking about crafts is natural materials: cones, seeds, pine needles, etc.
Collecting natural materials will require a walk to a forested park area, where you and your child can enjoy the fresh air and beauty of nature.
Let this be a pleasant bonus and a charge of creative energy before starting work.
Hedgehog made from seeds
To make such a craft, you can use both whole seeds and husks. It will also require a base into which the seeds will be stuck. Plasticine, polymer or natural clay, and salt dough are suitable for these purposes.
The plasticine base does not need additional decoration, but the clay and dough need to be painted upon completion of the work, drawing out the details.
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In order for the “Hedgehog” craft made from seeds to turn out neat, the husks or seeds, which act as needles, need to be stuck into the base evenly, in rows or in a circle, maintaining a reasonable density.
If your hedgehog made from seeds is an applique, then it is better to depict needles using husks, which are easier to glue onto thick paper or cardboard.
Cut out a hedgehog figurine without needles from paper and glue it onto the sheet. Apply an even, thick strip of PVA glue to the top edge of the back and let it “set” a little.
Then carefully lay out a row of husks, outer side facing up. Wait a little so that it sticks slightly.
Then apply the next bead of glue, placing it directly under the top row. A little glue should also get on the bottom of the husk. Glue the second row slightly overlapping the first. And so on.
The picture can be supplemented with decorative elements - apples and mushrooms on the back of the hedgehog. Using the same method, you can make an applique using dry autumn leaves as needles.
Hedgehog made of cones and plasticine
We will need:
- cones (one cone per hedgehog);
- plasticine of various colors.
As you can see, nothing complicated. Let's start making crafts.
For the muzzle, take brown plasticine, roll it into a ball and stick it to the tail of the pine cone blank. Let's form a hedgehog's face with our fingers.
Roll a small ball from black plasticine. Stick it in place of the nose.
Four sausages made of brown plasticine will become the legs of a hedgehog. Stick them to the bottom of the cones on four sides.
We make eyes from white plasticine. Let's roll two balls out of it. Using dots of black plasticine we will add realism to the eyes and stick them to the muzzle.
We need another piece of brown plasticine for the mouth, we sculpt it right under the muzzle.
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To get an autumn hedgehog craft, plant it on dry leaves and decorate it with fungi or a plasticine apple.
Hedgehog made from pine needles
When it comes to hedgehog needles, I remember the rhyme: “A spruce tree looks like a hedgehog: a hedgehog is covered in needles, and so is a fir tree.” Making the autumn craft “Hedgehog” is an excellent occasion to remember the observation of a children’s writer. Here you will need a viscous plasticine base and pine needles.
True, spruce needles are a bit small, but pine and cedar needles are just right. In addition, they are more convenient to use, since they are attached to the branch in small “bundles”. These “tufts” need to be stuck into the base - you will get a very cute hedgehog.
In a similar way, you can make a cute craft using small twigs, acorns, ash winged seeds, small dried spikelets or sharp narrow leaves.
Imagination and a thirst for experiment will suggest the best solution on how to make a Hedgehog craft from natural materials in a simple, beautiful and unconventional way.
Hedgehog made from burdock thorns
This option will appeal to those who are comfortable with threads and needles, because using burdock thorns in crafts will require a textile base.
In this case, it is best to sew the hedgehog’s body from felt, wool or other fabric to which the burdock clings well. Fill the body with cotton wool or synthetic padding.
Attach the thorns on top. Let their burdock essence serve the good and development of your baby’s creative abilities!
Origami
Excellent materials for themed children's creativity are paper and cardboard. With their help, you can create original images, while simultaneously mastering various techniques for making homemade items.
Consider the idea and choose the one you like best: flat or three-dimensional applique, postcard or model. What your hedgehog will be like depends only on ingenuity, skill and hard work.
Decorative items
Toothpicks are needed not only to lure a child or to feed guests beautifully. They are very helpful in decoration. You can get inspired by master classes on toothpick crafts for beginners https://dnevnikmastera.ru. Many artists first glue together small canvases from toothpicks, and then draw beautiful miniature pictures. They can later be used for wall decoration or, as is now popular, scrapbooking.
We often want to put photos in a prominent place. But there is no framework for this. Place the toothpicks in a row; for convenience, you can secure them tightly onto the cardboard with a distance of no more than half a millimeter. Wrap them in a checkerboard pattern with a thin thread, preferably as tightly as possible, row by row. This is how you create a canvas of toothpicks.
To expand it, every second toothpick needs to be moved to the side, and instead of it, wrap the next one horizontally. Remember that you need to prepare a hole for the photo in advance. We glue a photo or cardboard photo pocket to the back. And we decorate the frame on the front.
Flat and semi-flat applique
Everything is simple here. The basis is colored cardboard or a pre-prepared picture.
Details - prickly back (brown, gray, black colored paper) and muzzle. They are glued to the base end-to-end, so that there is no gap. The eyes and nose can be completed with a felt-tip pen or paint, or they can be done in the same way using applique.
On the back of the hedgehog you can place his “prey” - an apple, a mushroom, etc. To make the applique semi-flat, you need to mark the corners on the back part in different directions and carefully cut them.
Bend each cut element outward. During the gluing process, make sure that the bent elements do not stick or become smooth.
An option for activities with the little ones: glue the body of a hedgehog without needles to the base. And the baby himself can glue the “needles” to it.
These can be brown, black or multi-colored triangles, rectangles or leaf shapes. The child will be pleased with himself after making such a “Hedgehog” craft with his own hands!
Foam or vegetable base?
The second, no less popular option for making a fake is to use foam plastic, or fruits, vegetables, nuts - anything that grows and has at least slightly suitable geometric parameters.
When choosing between polystyrene foam and fruits, you need to consider both the pros and cons of each material:
- It’s easier to make fake toothpicks with your own hands from a plant base. Often it (for example, an acorn) already has the required size and shape, which will simplify the manufacturing process;
- It is more difficult to prepare a foam base. But a fake made from it can last much longer. It is also easy to combine polystyrene foam with other synthetic materials, such as glue. You can use glue with fruits, but not as effectively, without a guarantee that everything will go as it should.
Volumetric applications
Such works look very impressive and will undoubtedly delight the young creator, his parents, and teachers. They are more labor-intensive and require a certain skill. The basis is the same.
The main part on which (or under which) three-dimensional elements are glued is the body of the hedgehog.
The prickly back with triangular needles is cut from a sheet of colored paper and glued to the base only with the central part so that the “needles” are free. The body part is glued on top and shaped.
The triangles are slightly bent from the sheet, creating volume. You can bend each of the triangles in half vertically - this will look even more interesting.
Glue the body onto the base. Glue triangle needles (or their combinations on a strip) in rows from the tail, overlapping. In this case, apply glue only to the base of the triangles, leaving the tops not glued.
After the application has dried, ruffle the needles a little, creating volume. This option allows the use of different shapes as needles: narrow strips, semicircle or semi-oval, leaves. Color is at the discretion of the creator or manager.
This method is similar, but a little more complicated. Needles are narrow strips of paper, the ends of which are glued together to form a loop. The loops are glued onto or under the base, forming a semi-volume image. You can also glue origami modules.
Cut several strips of fringe and glue them one by one to the body, applying glue only to a flat surface.
The fringe of each subsequent strip should hide the place of the previous gluing. At the end of the work, the hedgehog needs to be slightly fluffed up.
Hedgehog-accordion
Fold a sheet of colored paper in half. To the top part, near the fold, glue a hedgehog's face cut out of thick paper with drawn eyes, a nose and a mouth. Fold the sheet like an accordion.
Fold the accordion in half and glue the outer planes adjacent to each other together. The paper “Hedgehog” craft is ready! Decorate it as you wish.
Hedgehog using the palm technique
This craft can be offered even to very young children. It is necessary to prepare in advance a thick sheet of white paper with the outline of a hedgehog drawn with a marker.
Then the child is asked to draw needles for the hedgehog by placing his palm on the sheet, after dipping it in a saucer of brown and gray gouache.
Hedgehog based on a cone
Make a cone (ball) out of thick paper and glue it together. Trim the edge.
If the first row of needles needs to be made monolithic with the body, then it is better to make the cone larger and cut the aligned edge with corners or regular straight cuts. Bend the corners or cuts outward.
Cut a few more similar strips with corners or cuts. The cuts should be approximately the same size, but the part of the sheet for gluing should be different: the deeper the row, the larger.
Glue the strips inside the outline one after another. Fold the cuts outward.
You can choose a simpler option by gluing strips of different lengths in rows to the inner edge of the cone: the closer to the muzzle, the shorter, the further away, the longer. At the end of the work, decorate the face by gluing or drawing the eyes and nose of the animal.
Orange hedgehog
Pomander is an exquisite air flavoring agent. A wonderful DIY hedgehog craft. Stick a clove into a whole orange, in rows, in 0.5 cm increments. These are hedgehog quills. The eyes and nose can also be made from cloves or drawn with a marker.
For greater effect, make several pomanders - hedgehogs, place them on a flat dish, decorated with dry red, lemon maple leaves, rowan tassels or small spruce branches.
Hedgehog from a disposable paper plate
Fold the plate in half. Using a felt-tip pen or pencil, outline the outline of the muzzle and the outermost row of needles. Cut along the intended line without bending the plate.
Mark the border for cutting the needles with an arcuate line. Cut the edge of the plate with a fringe, without going beyond the marked border. Fluff the fringe, paint the face or the entire craft.
Paper and cardboard can be considered the most convenient for children's creativity in general and for making children's crafts "Hedgehog" in particular. But fantasies using other available materials are no less interesting.
Pin cushion
Draw two elongated drops on a piece of fabric. One is a third larger than the other. Cut out. Sew together, leaving a small hole for stuffing. One part will bulge a little, this is normal.
Fill the pillow with any available material: cotton wool, pieces of fabric, padding polyester, whatever. Sew up the hole. Shape the pillow into a hedgehog shape. Attach a small black circle of fabric - a nose - to the sharp tip of the drop, and embroider the eyes with colored threads. Stick a lot of needles and pins into the back.
Crafts from scrap materials
When thinking about how to make a hedgehog craft, take a careful look around. You will definitely have available tools and materials at home that will help you surprise everyone with your creativity and skill!
You can start with ideas that lie on the surface - use matches, toothpicks, cotton swabs cut in half as needles. They are easy to stick into a plasticine base, which even a child can handle making.
More complex options will require adult participation. So, when making a hedgehog figurine from a plastic bottle, you need to cut through its upper part, highlighting the corners of the needles, with sharp scissors or a stationery knife. This cannot be entrusted to a child.
But he can handle bending the needles and painting the figurine on his own. A hedgehog's coat can be imitated using plastic cups, stapled and slightly cut along the edge.
But such a product will require a fairly large base, which can also be made from a large plastic bottle.
If you still can’t decide on the choice of technique and material, take a look at the photo of the “Hedgehog” craft, and it will immediately become clear to you which of the options and types of applied art will suit you best.
Manufacturing options
We offer several master classes that will tell you step by step how to make a hedgehog from a zucchini.
With toothpicks
A small zucchini hedgehog with apple berries on toothpick spines looks cute.
To create it you will need:
- 1 visually suitable zucchini;
- large berries to imitate apples.
Suitable berries for crafts include viburnum, rose hips or rowan. You can string mushrooms and so on onto the spines. To decorate the eyes and nose of the vegetable animal, three cherries will be useful. They are quite capable of being replaced by grapes, plums or three black olives. It is better to make the paws of a forest dweller from potatoes. Toothpicks are used for needles.
First you need to prepare a picturesque natural bedding for the squash hedgehog. He will sit comfortably in an improvised clearing of fallen leaves and spruce branches.
Next, you need to place the hedgehog right in the middle of the clearing, and start decorating the eyes and nose.
The paws must first be cut from a raw potato tuber. Now the hedgehog looks like a real one, and working with it is much more interesting.
We create a needle-shaped back from pointed toothpicks.
You need to put cooked berries and mushrooms on the sharp “needles”, or you can also put whole sprigs of berries.
The remaining material (mushrooms, berries, etc.) should be laid out in the clearing so that the thrifty hedgehog will later return for them. After all, he is preparing for winter in the most careful way.
All that remains is to name the hedgehog with some cute name and present it to the audience at the harvest festival. All adults and children will be absolutely delighted. You will definitely want to take a photo with such an animal and take it home with you. Or make one yourself.
If there is no harvest celebration planned, but there is a trip out of town for barbecue, such a hedgehog will definitely come in handy as a present for the owners of the house. They can decorate the table as a symbol of autumn. Such an unusual gift will put you in a good mood.
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