Crafts for boys have a wide range of different themes as well as a choice of materials. Almost all boys from a very early age begin to be interested in various products that they can make with their own hands.
They can also make not only works as decoration or simple crafts, but also items that will be practical and functional, useful for home use.
Ship
This product is not so difficult to make, so you can entrust the craft to a small child.
Attention! A child cannot build a sailboat on his own; he will need the help of an adult.
Look at pictures of ships with the boy and decide on the model of your sailing vessel. A plastic bottle is used as a basis. In order for the ship to float on the surface, you need to select the appropriate box, which will serve as the foundation for the craft.
In order for the mast to hold, you need to cut a hole for it. The mast itself is made from a skewer or other stick. To ensure it holds tightly, secure it with a glue gun.
The rest of the design - sails, pennants, flags - are made of colored paper. Give your boy the opportunity to fantasize.
The ship is not so difficult to make, so you can entrust the craft to a small child
Read more: Options for creating paper boats of varying complexity.
Applications
A very popular technology due to its versatility. It consists of gluing fragments in a certain order.
It doesn’t have to be paper; they use cotton pads, fabric, seeds, cereals, pasta, leaves.
Rocket
The craft is made entirely of paper. Children 6-7 years old can make it with their own hands, even without the help of moms and dads. To make it, the following parts are cut out:
- rocket body;
- bow;
- window and part for the stand.
First the body is glued together. The upper part should be in the form of a cone. Two cuts are made on the stand: one at the top, the other at the bottom. The parts are connected. Porthole windows are glued to the body part. 4 cuts are made at the bottom. The rocket is installed on a stand.
The craft is made entirely of paper. Children 6-7 years old can make it with their own hands even without the help of moms and dads
Description of Samodelkin
The appearance of Samodelkin also has two options. The first belongs to its ideological creator, Georgian director V. Bakhtadze. His version of Samodelkin is a magnet with wrenches for hands and gears for a head. An obligatory detail is a unique image of the Georgian “svanturi” hat.
- Cartoon: The Adventure of Samodelkin
- Released: 1957
- Director: Vakhtang Bakhtadze
(Still from the Soviet cartoon “Self-Made Athlete.” Author: Georgia-film, 1962)
There is another Samodelkin. In the image of the editor of “Funny Pictures” Sazonov: a battery with legs-springs, arms-plugs and a head-bolt with a nut.
- Magazine: Funny pictures
- Released: 1958
- Artist: Anatoly Sazonov
(Cover of the publication “Funny Pictures”. Samodelkin in the image of the letter -Y. Author: Viktor Pivovarov, 1979)
Later, the wife of Vakhtang Bakhtadze (in their creative tandem the phrase “wife-screenwriter” was added) published several books about the adventures of Samodelkin.
- Book: The Adventures of Samodelkin, 1959
- Book: Samodelkin in space, 1974
- …and others
- Writer-screenwriter: Nina Binashvili
(Cover of the publication “Funny Pictures”. Author: Publishing House “Funny Pictures”, June 1994)
Airplane
Boys love cars, airplanes, and boats. Making them is also a fun activity. For example, making an airplane out of paper with your own hands is not so difficult. To work you will need:
- Matchbox;
- colored cardboard;
- white sheets;
- glue and scissors.
Make a white matchbox base out of paper - this will become the cockpit for the pilot. After this, cut a strip of thick colored paper and fold it in half. This blank is glued to the box as the tail part. Its base is made of cardboard; several rectangles are cut out for this purpose.
On one of them the corners are rounded, and the second is folded. Afterwards, these parts are glued and glued to the tail of the aircraft. After this, the wings are cut out of cardboard and glued to the box. Finally, the propeller is cut out and painted.
Idea! Such a souvenir can serve as a gift to a peer.
Boys love cars, airplanes, and boats. Making them is also a fun activity.
From the history of the magazine “Funny Pictures” and its heroes - funny people
This magazine has a clearly fixed birthday - September 24, 1956. On this day, the first issue of the magazine “Veselye Kartinki”, the second Soviet magazine for preschoolers (the first was “Chizh”), was published.
A happy (and large) father was the decree of the party and government “On the development of children's literature and children's periodicals,” issued at the beginning of 1956. A few months after its appearance, the number of children’s magazines in the country doubled - already in September, “Young Technician”, “Young Naturalist” and “Funny Pictures” were added to “Pioneer” and “Kostru”, which published their first issues. This is what the debut looked like.
To say that the initiative was successful is to say nothing. The circulation of “Funny Pictures” at its best reached 9 million 700 thousand copies. At the same time, the magazine was not just popular - it was an extremely profitable media project. Despite the penny price of 15 kopecks, it brought huge profits to its founder - the Central Committee of the Komsomol. The magazine’s employees liked to boast that “Funny Pictures” alone earned more money than all the magazines of the Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house.
What are the reasons for success?
Firstly, the small scale of the project. In my deep conviction, all breakthroughs are made where there are no large budgets, where there are no plans to distribute medals, where no one from the authorities calls, puts pressure or pulls.
“Funny Pictures” was created as a small niche project from which no one expected anything special. The best indicator of the boss's attitude was the office of the editor-in-chief. The first editor-in-chief, the famous artist Ivan Semenov, came to Veselye Kartinki from Krokodil, where the editor-in-chief had a huge nomenklatura office with “turntables”. In “Pictures” he had a small closet, which he shared with the publication’s response section, so he didn’t even draw in his office, but went to the common room, where there were special tables for artists.
Secondly, creative freedom. “Funny Pictures” was, it seems, the only publication in the USSR that was not published. All published magazines were brought to the censors at Glavlit, even “Fish Farming and Fisheries,” even the magazine “Concrete and Reinforced Concrete.” There was such a thing, but what? Now you laugh, but the circulation, bai ze wei, reached 22 thousand copies, one and a half thousand of which were sold for foreign currency to foreign subscribers.
And no one carried “Funny Pictures” anywhere. To send the magazine to press, the signature of the editor-in-chief was sufficient.
Thirdly, the leader. According to the norms of those years, the editor-in-chief had to be a party member. The problem was that there were almost no communists among the artists - at all times they were freemen. As a result, the famous artist Ivan Semenov, who was a member of the party, but definitely not a career communist, was appointed editor-in-chief of Funny Pictures. Ivan Maksimovich joined the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) at the front in 1941, when the Germans were marching east, and communists who were captured were shot on the spot.
According to the memoirs, this former naval sailor and handsome man was an ideal leader of creative people. I never shook hands, and only asked about the outcome - but here I asked harshly. And he also had one important quality for the head of a media project - he was an unusually calm person. It was almost impossible to piss him off. The artist Anatoly Mikhailovich Eliseev, who worked in “Pictures...” from the first day, told me such a case in an interview.
Semyonov was famous for his multi-figure compositions, which only took about fifteen minutes to look at. Like this, for example:
One day, one of the magazine’s artists brought from Finland a lead blot purchased in a “joke shop” that was indistinguishable from the real thing. We decided to play a prank on the editor-in-chief, who, as usual, was drawing in the common room. They waited until Semenov had almost finished the composition, filled his pipe and went out to smoke - and placed a blot on the almost finished drawing.
Semyonov is back. Saw. He stood up like a pillar. He chewed his lips. He dropped something dark and heavy, like a cobblestone: “Assholes!”
He sat down, moved the “ruined” drawing onto the next table, sighed, took out a blank sheet of paper and, looking to the right, began to draw everything again.
In general, I ruined the prank for people.
But much more important than party affiliation was the fact that Semenov, both according to official and unofficial ratings, was considered one of the best book graphic artists in the country and therefore was a very authoritative person in the professional environment.
“It’s bad, brother, you know the Magyars!” Illustration by I. Semenov for “The Good Soldier Schweik.”
This allowed him to assemble the fourth component of success - a team. Already in the first issue, funny pictures were drawn by the best children's graphic artists in the country: Konstantin Rotov, who came up with the appearance of the old man Hottabych and Captain Vrungel, Alexey Laptev, who drew the classic Dunno, Vladimir Suteev (classic illustrations for Cipollino, although why am I bashing, who doesn’t know Suteev?) , the aforementioned Anatoly Eliseev. In the first year, they were joined by Aminadav Kanevsky, Viktor Chizhikov, Anatoly Sazonov, Evgeny Migunov and a whole constellation of first-magnitude stars.
Well, the last component is production technology. To produce the magazine, Semyonov quite successfully imported and adapted the “crocodile” system for preparing issues, built on the principle “coming up with a joke and drawing a joke are different types of brain activity.” No, there are, of course, exceptions, like Viktor Chizhikov, who came up with most of his projects in VK, starting with the debut “About the girl Masha and the doll Natasha,” but on the whole...
This is how this system was described by Felix Shapiro, editor of the magazine “Funny Pictures” from 1956 to 1993:
Among the magazine’s employees were the so-called “themists” - those who are good at coming up with stories to draw and can share them with others. Our theme team were brilliant. (For example, the famous director Alexander Mitta began as the theme artist in “Funny Pictures” - VN) They came to the so-called “dark meetings” with their sketches. The meetings took place in a room with many, many chairs and only one table. Ivan Maksimovich was sitting at the table. He looked at everyone and asked: “Well, who is brave?” One of the thematic artists would come out and give him their sketches. He showed them to everyone present and monitored the reaction: if people smiled, the sketches were put aside. If there was no reaction, go to another one.
According to stories, they sometimes walked out of “dark meetings” laughing to the point of hysteria. And in general, judging by the memoirs, the work was most reminiscent of the Strugatskys’ “Monday begins on Saturday” - with practical jokes, teasing, periodic drinking of famous drinks, but most importantly - reckless love for their work.
They made the best children's magazine in the world and wouldn't settle for anything less.
A magazine with which the best artists in the world did not hesitate to collaborate: Jean Effel from France, Raoul Verdini from Italy, Herluf Bidstrup from Denmark.
But all good things come to an end sooner or later.
Semyonov’s “Funny Pictures” ended in the 70s. The new editor-in-chief Ruben Varshamov was doing completely different things than Semyonov, and was friends with completely different people. That’s why I made the magazine a means of material support for nonconformist artists involved in “contemporary art.” “Temists” ended, Viktor Pivovarov, Ilya Kabakov, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Valery Dmitryuk and other future icons of modern Russian art began to draw in the magazine.
The symbol of these new “Funny Pictures” was the logo drawn by Viktor Pivovarov:
But that's a completely different story...
at the stage of creating the magazine “Funny Pictures”, they came up with a mascot for him - a shaggy magical artist in a black hat, blue blouse and red bow.
Here are five facts about this very interesting character.
Fact one . Pencil was born on September 24, 1956, which means he will retire soon. On this day, the first issue of the magazine “Veselye Kartinki”, the first Soviet magazine for preschoolers, was published. In it, young readers, among other things, were introduced to the club, which then had only five members. The presentation began, of course, with the chairman.
Here is this page:
Fact two: The creator of the Pencil is the first editor-in-chief of “Funny Pictures”, People’s Artist of the USSR Ivan Maksimovich Semenov. Even if today’s main source of information about the world around us—Wikipedia—convinces you that this is not so, do not believe it. It was this great illustrator who came up with and drew a magical artist with a pencil instead of a nose.
And it is no coincidence that, for example, Viktor Chizhikov, who began working in “Funny Pictures” as a third-year student at the Moscow Printing Institute, invariably drew his teacher with his favorite character. For example:
Or here:
Fact three. The magazine became a bomb, its popularity was incredible, and young parents were ready to pledge their souls for a subscription to “Funny Pictures.”
The Club of Merry Men in general and Pencil in particular were incredibly popular, and soon became heroes not only of magazine comics, but also of cartoons.
Their film debut was the film “Exactly at three fifteen...”, directed by Boris Dezhkin and Evgeny Migunov already in 1959, three years after the creation of the magazine.
Drawings by Evgeny Migunov have been preserved, where he developed the character Pencil for this cartoon.
Then came the tape “Where did I see him?” 1964, which Dezhkin had already done solo - Migunov had by that time left animation for book graphics, where he soon became a star of the first magnitude.
The pencil also appeared as part of the club in the animated anthology “Firefly No. 8”,
and solo - he recited Mayakovsky’s poem “What is good and what is bad” on the screen in the cartoon of the same name.
His work in animation ended with the 1996 film “Funny Pictures. Fantasy in retro style" - the diploma work of Roman Kobzarev.
Pencil has not yet been offered any more roles.
Fact four. After cartoons came the turn of literature. And that is to say - almost all members of the Club of Merry Men were heroes of literary works, and only two - Karandash and Samodelkin - were exclusively magazine and cartoon characters. Semenov suggested eliminating this shortcoming to Yuri Postnikov, who wrote under the pseudonym “Druzhkov.” By that time, they had been working together for many years - it was Yuri Druzhkov who made the literary basis for the comics about the “Soviet Tintin” - Petya Ryzhik, which Semyonov published in the magazine from the first issue.
In 1964, a “true fairy tale” called “The Adventures of Karandash and Samodelkin” was published, illustrated, of course, by Ivan Semenov.
20 years later, in 1984, after the writer’s death, the second book, “The Magic School of Pencil and Samodelkin,” was published, illustrated by Viktor Chizhikov.
Well, since the 90s, regular continuations of the franchise have been written by Yuri Druzhkov’s son Valentin Postnikov, sending Karandash and Samodelkin either to Antarctica, or to Mars, or on a “dryndolet”.
Fact five: On the other side of the Earth, in Australia, lives the twin brother of our Pencil. Also in a blouse and with a bow.
Anticipating the inevitable questions - our Pencil is three years older, the Australian magic artist appeared in 1959. The clone's name is Mister Squiggle, and he was the star of a show of the same name that ran on Australian television for forty years, from 1959 to 1999.
Mr. Squiggle is a puppet with a pencil instead of a nose, who at first completed the “scribbles” sent by children and turned them into full-fledged paintings, and then grew into his own hour and a half show with invited guests and concert numbers.
In February 2022, grateful Australians released a series of $2 coins to celebrate the 60th anniversary of their iconic childhood character.
And our Pencil didn’t even receive a postage stamp for his anniversary.
And this is very disappointing.
We lend our story about the forgotten superheroes of Soviet children - members of the Club of Merry Men.
Last time we talked about Pencil, today we’ll talk about his best friend - Samodelkin.
Samodelkin is almost like Homer. Seven ancient cities argued for the right to be called the birthplace of the blind storyteller. There are fewer contenders for the title of creator of Samodelkin, but there are also enough.
Even the main source of knowledge about the modern world, Wikipedia, in the article “Samodelkin” recently cited two names at once.
At first she stated:
The character was created by Soviet artist and animated film director Vakhtang Bakhtadze.
and later clarified:
In the early 1960s, books by the writer Yuri Druzhkov were published, who, using the idea of V.D. Bakhtadze, made Samodelkin and his friend Pencil the main characters of his books.
Behind all this, Samodelkin’s true homeland, the magazine “Veselye Kartinki”, was somehow lost.
What really happened?
In fact, the real creator of the image of Samodelkin known to us is the artist Anatoly Sazonov, who invented and drew it for the magazine “Veselye Kartinki” in mid-1958. Here is the author's image of this character.
The date is established quite accurately, because at the beginning of 1958 there were only five cheerful men - Karandash, Buratino, Cipollino, Gurvinek and Petrushka. Here, for example, is a drawing by the famous artist (and editor-in-chief of the magazine) Ivan Semenov from the January issue:
Here is a page from the July issue. Pay attention to the frame.
As we can see, the company added the then rapidly gaining popularity of 4-year-old Dunno and Samodelkin, invented specifically for the magazine. Later, in order to dilute the exclusively male company, Thumbelina will join them, and this will already be the canonical composition of the Club of Merry Men.
Where did the “Georgian version” come from? The fact is that in 1957, the Georgian animator Vakhtang Bakhtadze came up with a robot assembled from construction kit parts and called it “Samodelkin”. This is what he looked like - quite a Georgian-looking mechanical man in the famous svanuri cap.
The first cartoon with his participation, “The Adventures of Samodelkin,” was released in 1957, and later Bakhtadze made many more films with this hero, the last one dating back to 1983.
It cannot be said that these cartoons became very popular, but the first one made quite a splash, and even received an award at the 1st All-Union Film Festival in Moscow.
I note that there were plenty of animators among the employees of “Funny Pictures” - the same Sazonov was a very famous production designer and taught the skill of an animated film artist at VGIK for many years.
It turns out to be an interesting chain. In 1957, the Georgian “Adventures of Samodelkin” received a prize, and in 1958, its own Samodelkin appeared in “Funny Pictures”. But also a cheerful robot assembled from parts.
It seems that the magazine simply borrowed the name and idea of the character from the Georgians, but came up with their own visual image.
And don’t rush to stigmatize anyone - don’t forget that the Soviet Union had a special attitude towards copyright. On the one hand, copyright was respected to a certain extent, money was strictly awarded for the use of someone’s works, even restaurant shopkeepers made neat deductions to the authors of songs performed in taverns.
On the other hand, exclusivity of rights was not welcomed at all.
It was impossible to say: “Cheburashka is only mine, bring me the money, and don’t dare use it without an agreement with me!” Successful discoveries were quite officially replicated at all levels and in all areas, and, for example, confectionery factories produced Cheburashka candies without asking anyone or paying anyone anything. Simply put, you will always get paid for your specific book, but the character you created is a national treasure. Otherwise, Chizhikov with his Olympic Bear would have been the richest man in the Soviet Union.
One way or another, Samodelkin immediately became a full member of the club.
I note that the image did not take hold immediately and at first varied slightly. For example, Samodelkin, drawn by Migunov for the first cartoon about the Club of Merry Men called “Exactly at three fifteen,” is somewhat different from the original.
Samodelkin very quickly gained popularity and even acquired his own column in the magazine.
In general, the robot turned out to be a very successful find for a children's magazine, and other publications followed the example of “Funny Pictures”. In the Pioneer magazine, for example, in the early 60s, there appeared its own robot column presenter named Smekhotron.
The last question remains - what does Yuri Druzhkov, mentioned in Wikipedia, have to do with the image of Samodelkin?
The correct answer is novelization.
I already told this story in the previous chapter.
The last thing I want to say is that Samodelkin turned out to be probably the most popular of all the characters in the Club of Merry Men.
Even today it is used in the tail and mane by all and sundry.
Samodelkin is an “online store of steel containers”, it is “everything for low-rise construction”, it is “sale of garden gasoline and electrical equipment”, it is “wholesale and retail trade in building materials, fasteners and tools”, it is “development and sale of electronic systems and ignition circuits for boat engines”, this is “the largest trading platform for buying and selling handmade works and designer items” - and all this is only from the first page of Yandex.
But perhaps the most unexpected use of this name was the experimental psychedelic film “Samodelkin’s Way,” filmed in 2009 “based on the text of the same name by the artistic group Inspection “Medical Hermeneutics” (P. Pepperstein and S. Anufriev).”
As I already mentioned, the magazine “Funny Pictures” unexpectedly turned out to be closely connected with the artists who created “modern art”.
PS When this text was already written, thanks to the famous animation historian Georgy Borodin, the “missing link” of this investigation was found - the comic book “The Story of a Stranger” from the June issue of “Funny Pictures” (No. 6 for 1958), which I missed.
As you can read by looking at the small print, the artist is Anatoly Sazonov, and the author of the text is Nina Benashvili. The same Nina Ivanovna Benashvili, who, as a staff writer at the Georgia-Film film studio, wrote the scripts for all of Vakhtang Bakhtadze’s cartoons about Samodelkin.
And who, apparently, is the real author of the character assembled from parts. The same one was called Helmarjve Ostate in Georgian (literal translation - “right-handed master”), and in Russian simply Samodelkin (by the way, a quite common Russian surname. Not the most common, but recorded at least since the end of the 19th century).
So the correct answer to the question from the title will be the following: Samodelkin from “Funny Pictures” is a half-breed, he has a Russian father and a Georgian mother. And with Samodelkin from Georgian cartoons, they are stepbrothers.
PPS When one of my friends read this text, he said the following, I quote: “Once I had the opportunity to communicate with a Hindu (more precisely, a Tamil) from Madras on one resource. As a child, he had a favorite Russian book, translated into Tamil, about Pencil and Sambarakarma. I must admit, I didn’t immediately understand what kind of book it was and who Sambarakarma was. The man complained that the book was lost long ago, and he would gladly buy a translation, if not into Tamil, then at least into English, to read to his daughter, but, unfortunately, it seems that Druzhkov’s books are not published abroad now. But it turns out that they were even published in India.”
So Sambarakarma was added to the company with Samodelkin and Helmarjva Ostate. I wonder if there were other options?
Source
Magazine cover of the June 1983 issue
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Interesting homemade products from the supplement to the magazine Young Technician
Three to twelve
Plasticine car
First, you should select the desired color and roll out the plasticine into a tube, one of the sides of which should be thinner. Now flatten the sausage. Wheels are made from dark plasticine (black or dark blue). Next you need to twist two white tubes.
One of them is attached along the entire length to the car body. After this, a ball is made from dark plasticine, which is divided into 3 parts, a second white stripe is attached to it, and the whole thing is installed on the body of a racing car. All is ready.
Plasticine car
Cotton pads
This soft material is sure to please children. Crafts made from it, touching and cute, usually take the form of appliqué or mosaic.
The discs can be used either in their original form or, being painted, glued in whole or in part, making the applique three-dimensional, and serve as both independent elements and details for a picture made according to a template.
Candy soccer ball
This soccer ball can be made as a gift, as it consists of candies. Prepare the following material for work:
- candies whose candy wrappers are black and white;
- toothpicks;
- scissors and glue;
- ball and mesh, which can be found in the floral departments.
First, the ball must be wrapped in a net, otherwise it may crumble when making the ball. A toothpick is stuck into each candy. Now gradually insert them into the ball, forming a soccer ball pattern.
This soccer ball can be made as a gift, as it consists of candies
Origami
A very common type of creativity of varying levels of complexity.
In addition to the long-familiar airplane and boat, there are many other interesting works. You can find entire manuals on the Internet and in bookstores, including diagrams with detailed collection instructions.
Using diapers as a gift for a newborn boy
This gift of diapers for boys can be given to a baby. New parents will appreciate stocking up on essential items.
To give an exclusive gift to new parents, prepare the following tools for work:
- 15-20 diapers;
- skewers;
- sky-colored ribbon;
- sliders;
- fabric scraps.
The diapers are rolled into a shape that resembles a boat. Now secure them with blue tape. The sliders are placed on top, attach the scraps to straws or skewers to make sails, and secure them to the resulting boats.
This gift of diapers for boys can be given to a baby
Trimming
Trimming is a way of creating textured compositions that resemble a carpet.
It is not necessary for a younger student to aim for a full-fledged landscape. With this technique, it’s enough to start learning how to design the elements of a drawing.
To create the elements you need squares of corrugated paper and a match. Cover the match with paper so that it takes the desired shape and glue it to the drawing.
Race car for a first grader
Eight-year-old children can already do many easy crafts with their own hands, without parental help. You need to start with simpler products. For example, invite your child to create a racing car.
For this you will need:
- cardboard from the set;
- a sleeve that comes in toilet paper;
- felt-tip pens with scissors.
A hole is made in the middle part of the hub where the rider himself should sit. Wheels and steering wheel are cut out of cardboard. Let your child paint them and install them on the body.
If the boy has small toy men, then one of them can be seated in a homemade racing car.
Eight-year-olds can already do many easy crafts with their own hands, without parental help.
Dinosaurs
The theme of huge prehistoric animals is popular thanks to a large number of films and cartoons featuring them.
For preschoolers, you can suggest making simple dinosaurs from plastic or cardboard disposable plates.
Pirate ship for ten year olds
From the age of 10, a child can be offered more complex designs that use glue, scissors, and more details. At this age, boys' imagination is better developed, so more options for crafts can be offered. One of them is a pirate ship on which robbers roamed the seas.
Prepare the following tools:
- a small box (for example, a juice box);
- straw;
- foil;
- colored paper;
- Matchbox;
- soft wire;
- pencils;
- scissors;
- ruler;
- adhesive tape;
- glue.
The box is covered with paper of your favorite color. After this, two strips with a width of 4 cm and a length corresponding to the body of the box are cut out of the foil. Holes are made in the strip. The pirate flag is also cut out of foil. The strips are glued to the side of the ship. And the mugs are towards the bow of the ship. A straw is attached to the top of the ship, to which a sail made of colored paper is attached. The matchbox is covered with paper (red) and glued to the deck. A steering wheel is made from wire and attached to the ship. To prevent the product from sinking in the water, it should be covered with tape on the side.
Photo frame with colored pencils
This craft is also suitable as a gift for a friend or sister. Get your child interested and explain that a homemade gift is much better than a store-bought one. If desired, he can supplement the homemade gift with a purchased gift.
This craft is also suitable as a gift for a friend or sister.
For such an original photo frame, you need to take thick cardboard or a ready-made store-bought photo frame. Pencils of different colors, but of the same size, are glued to the edges. Everyone has small pieces of pencil left, sharpen them so that they are all the same. Using a glue gun, glue them to the edges of the frame.
Bushings and plates
Disposable cardboard plates and toilet paper rolls also make interesting decorative items. Cut into rings, pressed along the edges and glued together, you get flowers or snowflakes - it depends on how the craft is painted.
The design of a snowflake can be complicated by additional parts glued between the “petals.” From whole sleeves, supplemented with flat elements, figurines of elephants, tigers, bunnies, hedgehogs and many other characters are obtained.
Cardboard plates can be the basis for a hedgehog craft, turn into bird wings or a peacock tail, become a chicken or fish, a turtle shell, a sun circle or the core of a flower. They make wonderful carnival masks and costume elements. They will serve as the basis for applique and panels.
Lego crafts
If you don’t want to sit with your child and control the process of making crafts, then buy a Lego set for your young creator. He will independently make various figures from the construction set. This is great for shaping thinking.
Attention! Just don’t give this toy to very young children, as the construction set contains many small parts.
Boys enjoy assembling ships, cars, planes and other types of transport from Lego. You can build a whole police city, where there will be houses and residents. All you need is a child's imagination. And parents will be able to relax during this time.
Boys enjoy assembling ships, cars, planes and other types of transport from Lego.
Characteristics of Samodelkin:
- Height – small, no more than 20 cm in size;
- The weight is heavy (considering that instead of a body it has a magnet or a battery, and the rest of the parts are made of iron);
- Character – inquisitive.
The purpose of creating a robot: to teach boys the intricacies of working with tools and creating various crafts. When the editors of the magazine realized that there were many girls among the readers, Samodelkin “learned” to cut out dolls and design clothes.
Crafts made from plywood
Another type of material for crafts for boys is plywood. It is often used in labor lessons for older children who are already 10 years old. Since you already need to use cutting objects as tools, namely a jigsaw and files.
But the crafts turn out great. In this way you can make a toy for your younger sister or brother, any type of transport, a painting, a kitchen board for your mother, etc. The craft can be decorated with paints and varnished. It will turn out very beautiful.
Another type of material for crafts for boys is plywood.
You might be interested in: Making a cool paper gun with your own hands.
Plastic fantasies - for all occasions
This amazing, multifaceted and plastic material just begs to be picked up: cut, design, paint, glue! Together with your children, you can use it to make toys, crafts for classes and competitions, and decor for your home, garden, and cottage.
Both the neck and bottom parts of plastic bottles make beautiful flowers - you just have to cut and bend the petals, and from their middle parts - leaves. The top of a liter bottle connected to the bottom of a 2-liter bottle is a fungus, 2 connected bottoms complemented by a leaf are an apple.
More complex designs, requiring cuts and joining different parts of bottles of various sizes using fasteners, are figurines of animals, men, cartoon and fairy-tale characters and fantastic creatures.
In addition, every day crafts made from plastic bottles are increasingly used not only for decoration, but also as functional elements: structures for seedlings, watering, washing, illumination and much more.
Robots from various boxes
Even a child can do this craft. You just need your mom's help. Take boxes of different sizes from your supplies. Two of them should be slightly smaller than the others. These will be the robot's legs. Now each box needs to be covered with colored paper. You can take different colors, it will be more fun.
Now start assembling the robot itself. The largest box is the body part, the smaller box will be the head. And two identical boxes - legs. Hands can be made from wire, which is lined with cotton wool and wrapped in material. Further, the process depends on the imagination of the mother and child. Glue eyes, nose, mouth, you can make antennas on the head, various buttons, etc.
Even a child can do this craft. Just need mom's help
A child who does something independently develops logical thinking, imagination and creativity. Such children will always do well in school. And most importantly, the child develops a love of work.
Pine cones
You can make wood crafts with the boys. If you've collected a bunch of pine cones and are wondering what you can do with them, pine cone gnomes are a great idea. You will need small pine cones, wooden beads with holes, and felt for the hats and mittens.
Make felt hats for the gnomes. Then glue the beads to the top of the pine cone, glue the hat to the top of the wood bead and the mitten to the pine cone. Finally, if you want, you can draw small faces.
