Homemade Monkeys: Handmade Crafts

The symbol of 2016 is a monkey. Therefore, for any holiday, homemade monkeys will be in place. A gift made by one's own hands was always appreciated more than the purchase. Think about which material you work the easiest, and proceed.

Polymer clay

Polymer clay - a good material for beginners needlework. It easily takes any form, and if you know how to work with plasticine, then you will cope with the task. A monkey from clay will be produced with:

• Polymer clay brown, yellow and black. This is for creating the animal itself. For a scarf and a hat any shade is suitable.

• Acrylic paints in black and white.

• Brushes.

• Stacks or improvised materials such as forks, knives and other objects with pointed edges.

• The knife.

• Magnet.

How to make a monkey from clay

1. Take a polymer clay of brown color and make an oval for the trunk and a circle for the head. These are the main details. Press your fingers over the top of the oval so that you can easily glue a circle there.

2. Connect the parts together.

3. Blind two paws. These are "sausages", which narrow downwards.

4. Make a tail.

5. From the yellow polymer clay, mold the muzzle. It can be just an oval, half the size of the head or tapering downwards.

6. Make a small circle for the ear and squeeze it slightly from the bottom. On the same principle, create a second ear.

7. The eyes can be made of black clay. If you have black beads, then use it.

8. Make a small brown triangle - this is the nose.

9. Draw a smile on the monkey with a streak.

10. Draw a needle of the monkey's hair with a needle, marking the strokes.

By this principle homemade monkeys are molded. Next they need to decorate

Ideas for decorating

From different colors of polymer clay, you can create decorations for a monkey:

• Blind a wreath for the animal.

• Give a monkey a branch, banana or other fruit.

• Blind hat and scarf.

Paint will help finish the work, draw details. Carefully read the instructions on the package with polymer clay and bake the craft.

Beads

Weaving from beads is a simple and very fascinating activity. Basic knowledge will help you create not only figurines, but also decorations, decor elements. Monkey bead can be made even without using a fishing line. Draw a picture of the animal on a thick paper. Calibrate the beads of the desired color. This is important, because all the details will be in sight. Now you simply glue the required colors onto the cardboard. A good option for those who can draw.

To weave a bead from a monkey, you will need:

• Beads of red, black, orange colors.

• Line.

• Scissors.

We make a monkey from beads

1. Thread 13 red beads on the wire.

2. The second end we pass approximately through the center of all beads. The ends of the wire should be directed towards each other.

3. Now string one orange, five red and another orange bead. The second end of the wire passes through them.

4. The fourth row of the plait in this order: red, yellow, black, yellow, black, yellow, red beads.

5. The fifth row: red, two yellow, black, two yellow, red.

6. At one end, we put on eight beads. We fasten between the second and third row, then we pass the wire down. The same with the second end. Ears turned out.

7. Now, by the same principle, we continue to weave the trunk. First comes a row with six red beads, then - with eight.

8. At one end thread 11 beads and pass through them back, without capturing the latter. The same with the other hand.

9. Then follows two rows of eight red beads.

10. The next row is four red, one black and four red beads.

11. Then nine red ones.

12. At one end thread 19 red beads and do the same as with the paws.

13. Now, at the end on which there was a tail, string two beads, and on the other - six. First fix the four beads of the second.

14. It should be that on each side to the wire there are two beads.

15. String on each end of 15 beads and return, without capturing the latter. Legs turned out.

Homemade bead monkeys can serve as a keychain, which will always remind you of the symbol of the New Year or of the giver. The color scheme can be changed.

Salty dough

We make a monkey from a dough called salted. This is a special mixture that can replace gypsum or clay. You can create an animal just like it was made from polymer clay. Only in the end it is necessary to paint by hand.

It will take:

• Salty dough.

• Paints.

• Stack.

• Thick thread.

• Glue.

Progress:

1. Blind a small oval, which will play the role of the body.

2. Now make an oval for the head and one smaller for the muzzle.

3. From two circles the size of a muzzle we make ears.

4. Correct the muzzle and make a heart out of the oval.

5. Roll three small balls for the eyes and spout.

6. Stretch out the mouth.

7. Make the tummy in the form of a circle. In size, it is equal to the ears. And on it we glue a circle.

8. Do your hair.

9. Draw the muzzle, creating a strip between the nose and mouth.

10. We depict the wool with stacks, drawing strokes.

11. We sculpt a butterfly.

12. For the legs on the legs, form a triangle, slightly bend the edges, make the fingers a match. For paws on hands - the same, only it is less.

13. We paint details.

Now connect the legs to the body. But it will be much more interesting if the role of the legs and hands plays a thread. Homemade monkeys from salty dough are ready. It remains to wait until the work hardens.

Wool

Monkeys made of wool are very similar to living animals and look good in the interior. For work you will need:

• Wool is brown, white, yellow, sand, bright yellow and light yellow.

• Needles for felting (№36, 40, 38).

• Glass eyes, carpet for felting.

• Wire.

• Artificial eyelashes.

• Super glue.

Create a monkey from wool

1. Sweet together the oval and the circle. Should be the shape of the head.

2. In the shape of an oval, make a trunk, seal it to the head.

3. Give the body volume.

4. Tint all, except the muzzle, with brown hair. The muzzle should be sand. Draw a smile.

5. Make nostrils and seal to the muzzle, form eye holes.

6. In the shading, make the region of the bridge of the nose.

7. Glue the eyes.

8. Blend the blanks for the eyelids and insert them into place.

9. Around the eyes tinted light yellow wool.

10. Make your eyes clear with white wool. Fold a little to the bottom of the eye.

11. Adjust the wrinkles on the face.

12. Fold your ears.

13. Add a little fur on the body to the abdomen and chest area.

14. Wrap the wire with wool, shape the arms and legs, and weld them to the body.

15. Create fingers from the wire.

16. Add some wool to make your fingers volumetric and more realistic.

17. Sand the paws with needles.

18. Fold them in place.

19. Treat the monkey with the back needle No. 40.

20. Tint dry with pastel.

2nd. Create a banana. Make the fruit itself and the four parts of the rind. Then connect together and give the paws to the monkey.

Other materials

Homemade monkeys are created from different materials. The most accessible to all is the paper. You can work in different techniques: quilling, scrapbooking, origami, modules. The first is especially noteworthy, because you can create almost any picture, and there are no difficulties in this. The technique is usually used to decorate postcards. Find a beautiful image of a monkey, pick up colors and create.

With a monkey, you can even entertain a child. Dip the baby's pen in brown paint and attach to a sheet of paper. Now imagine that the thumb is the head, and the rest are the paws that hold the branch. Draw a composition or dock.

You learned how to make a monkey from any material. It remains to choose whom and for what holiday to please with hand-made.