Crafts from onions: we fantasize with children

In the autumn, it's time, when in kindergartens and schools teachers ask parents and children to participate in exhibitions of crafts made from vegetables. Many willingly participate, undeservedly avoiding the attention of such a vegetable as onions. Crafts made from onions can be very interesting. In addition, the onion is an affordable and easy-to-handle material. It is easy to cut, pierce, the bulb has a convenient shape. How to make crafts from onions with your own hands, this article will teach you!

Cipollino

For the "Chipollino" craft, take three medium sized bowls. For a head, a slightly sprouted vegetable is best. Taking a normal awl, make small holes for the eyes, mouth and nose. Fill the openings with seeds. For example, make eyes from grape or apple pits, a nose from corn grain, and a mouth - from a seed of a guelder-rose. The remaining bulbs are the torso of our fairy-tale hero. Cut off the tops of the fruit, carefully insert thin branches or toothpicks into it and join the bulbs together. To attach the head to the body, cut off the root part of it and put it on the toothpick. Such handicrafts made from onions are very easy to make. Do not forget to find twigs for the manufacture of hands and feet of your Cipollino. It is better, if these branches will have branches at the end, so you imitate your fingers. Also take a shallow onion, cut in half and attach with a toothpick to the lower base of the trunk. The hero's shoes are ready! Crafts made from onions are pleasing to both children and adults.

Chrysanthemum from onions

Very often parents and teachers offer children to make paper flowers. And why do not you make onion chrysanthemum? Take a small white or red bulb. Clean it and cut about one and a half centimeters below and above. Take a sharp knife and cut the bulb in half from its upper part. Do not reach the end somewhere 0.5 cm. We make the same incisions along the entire diagonal of the fetus. But watch out for the depth of cutting - if you retreat a little, then the flower will not dissolve, and if too much - it will simply fall apart. In addition, the thinner the layers, the more ready the flower will be. When the work is finished with the knife, lower the bulb into a container with water at room temperature so that the fruit completely disappears under the liquid. Wait an hour! During this time, the chrysanthemum in the water will dissolve. If you want to get a colored chrysanthemum, then add dyes to the water. Archery, the photo of which you see on the page, can be very beautiful.

Applications of onion peel

Some people prefer non-traditional methods of working with vegetables. For example, crafts made from onions can be done with the help of its husk. Onion husks are a very interesting and easy-to-use material that has a chic color. The husks are removed very carefully, it can not be crushed. The taken material is steamed in water (hot) for about 10 minutes. Then the husks are ironed. You can also paint the material with potassium permanganate or stain for wood. Before working on the application, sort the husks in a light and dark shade. As a basis, take silk, velvet or cloth, pre-stretched on the stretcher. It is also acceptable to use cardboard or thick white and colored paper. Great for crafts made from onion husks of purple and blue hues. Black color will reduce the amount of work, but it will beautifully shade the golden color of the husk.

How can I work with the onion peel?

Crafts from onions can be real works of art. But how to work with onion husks? There are several methods:

• The gluing of the material onto the fabric base, where the pattern is already applied. Each piece is lubricated with PVA glue and pasted onto the sketch, adjusting to the previous one.
• Transferring parts to thin paper - in this case the husk is transferred to thin paper with the help of glue, then the parts are cut very carefully from the wrong side. The finished fragments are glued on the cloth.

Crafts from an onion: flowers from a husk

To make such a craft, you need a thorough preparation. Dry the bulb to wet, cut the rhizome and gently pull the top. The husk must leave the fetus gently. This is the future inflorescence! For a stem it is possible to apply rods of cereals, garden or marsh plants. The upper edge of the rod is greased with glue and gently attached to the onion bud from the husks. Separate pieces of husks are glued to the bud in the form of petals. Such a bouquet will look great in a woven vase.

Onions are a natural and environmentally friendly material. Working with him can not harm your child, on the contrary, he will be attached to nature and work. Including fantasy, you can come up with a lot of characters from the bow and then create them yourself. Funny caterpillars, turtles, watch, various little men - the list can go on forever, the limit is your imagination!