Owl made of natural material with their own hands: instructions, master class

Various crafts can be built using natural materials, which Mother Nature herself offers to the master. For others, the creative skills of the needlewoman will be required, and for others - only the imagination of the artist. For example, an owl made of natural material can be made by hand with the help of cones, paper and glue, and can be turned from a piece of wood. But let's look at specific examples of crafts.

Natural materials from which you can make an owl

Children are very fond of making figures and toys from everything they can find around them. If an owl made of natural material is made by the hands of a small creator, different twigs and pebbles, leaves and acorns, shells from walnuts and eggs, cones and seeds of plants, feathers and shells, grain coffee and rice, and much more will be used.

Yes, and adults are little inferior in this occupation of kids. Even from a simple piece of driftwood they are ready to create a real miracle.

The main thing in this business is to give flight of your imagination. And then even a very young children can get an owl made of natural material. With their hands, children easily create real masterpieces of artistic skill.

The use of an owl made of natural materials

There are interesting variants of crafts that bring people benefits. It can be not only figurines of an owl for decorating an interior or gift-souvenir, but also much more.

For example, an owl is amazing - an article made of natural material that acts as a Christmas tree decoration. Also beautiful are hand-made cup holders, magnets on the fridge, pencils.

Very creative looking items decorated with halves of walnut shell. These can be wall clocks, picture frames and photographs.

Also, children perfectly succeed in the brooch-owl made of natural material. With their own hands they easily master such a miracle.

Brooch or magnet "Owl in feathers". Master Class

As a gift to mom, grandmother or sister, you can make a beautiful creative brooch. And for the father, brother and grandfather, the original magnet, made by own hands, will be a wonderful gift.

In order to make an owl made of natural materials in the form of a brooch or a magnet, clay, salted dough, plastic clay or cold porcelain will be required .

1. Soft mass for molding spread on a flat surface so that it resembles half of an owl.
2. The top part (head) is neatly covered with buckwheat or coffee beans. In some cases, you can use beads or small beads. It should be left empty okolaglaznye circles.
3. Eyes are made of beads, buttons or clerical buttons, on the point of which the balls are attached from the mass. After drying, the pupils are painted in black. The button itself is attached flat, so that the pupil is outside.
4. The beak of an owl perfectly replaces a sunflower seed.
5. The entire body of the bird must be covered with feathers, sticking them into the mass. Bottom, in the region of the tail, they should be longer than on the abdomen.
6. On the back of the craft, you need to attach a magnet or pin.
7. Now the owl must be very dry and hardened - an artifact made of natural material.

Owl of leaves. Instruction for manufacturing

Very much it is pleasant to children to do hand-made articles, using the autumn foliage surprising on the beauty.

It is pasted onto the template in such a way that the upper row slightly covers the bottom, imitating the feathers of the bird.

• For an owl of leaves to be stable, use half the cardboard cylinder from the toilet paper as a template.
• If the bottom is sealed and the top is left open, a pencil can turn out.
• Paws of the bird can be molded from plasticine and attached from below - this will make the craft more stable.
• Eyes of an owl can be made from metal covers from glass bottles, plastic covers from jars for gouache or yoghurts, juices.
• In the middle of the lids, reinforced with a flat side inward, glue the black buttons or beads. Although it may be appropriate to use coffee beans or dried berries of the appropriate color.
• The beak of an owl can be molded from plasticine or glued from cardboard.
• In some cases, instead of a cardboard cylinder, use a shell of a chicken egg.

Owl from the shell of the egg

To work the master will need an ordinary raw egg. The inside of it can be used for its intended purpose, gently blowing out. This procedure is performed by an adult. Before blowing, the egg is pierced with a needle on both sides and starts to blow into one of the holes. Empty shell before work should be dried.

Further, the algorithm repeats the described variant with an owl of leaves. Although they can be replaced with pieces of brown paper, buckwheat. Or you can just paint the shell in the right color, glued on the shell, eyes, nose and triangular ears, cut from cardboard.

For stability (if this owl is not a Christmas tree toy), plasticine feet are used as a stand.

Master class making owls of cones

If you worry about having a cone in the house for the new year in advance, it will be possible to prepare a nice Christmas tree toy. Make it simple enough. And now an owl of fir cones - goggle-eyed and ruffled - is ready to decorate the New Year tree.

The first step is to prepare the details.

1. Watercolor or gouache you need to paint the very bump.
2. The "hats" of acorns will serve as eyes for the bird of wisdom. They are colored white. In the middle of each "cap" (when the white paint dries), a black pupil should be made.
3. Eyes fastened to the top of the cone with plasticine or glue so that between them there was a protruding scales.
4. It is her (scales, located between the "caps" acorns) should be painted with a contrasting bright color. It will mimic the beak of a bird.
5. Regular chicken feathers can be painted in bright colors. It's good if they have a small amount of fluff. They are attached to the sides of the cones and from behind. This creates the appearance of the wings and tail.
6. You can make ears from the cardboard and fix them on the sides in the upper part of the cone.

It should be noted that for an owl, a cone can be installed either upward or downward. Here is a photo, when the scales are directed upwards.

That's ready figurines of a cool owl. If you plan to hang it on a tree, then attach a thread loop to the central upper flake or attach a hook from the wire.

Owl, carved from wood

The tree is a rather complex material for processing. Therefore, crafts made from it are usually only available to adults who have good knowledge of the tools. The simplest version will be an article made in the style of symbolism. An owl made of wood can be made from two parts: the head and the trunk.

The head is cut in the shape of an ellipsoid - a three-dimensional shape, in a section representing an oval. The head will be attached horizontally elongated part. From the bottom of the ellipsoid, so, where it is planned to grip it with the trunk, it is necessary to carve a rounded dent, equal in diameter to the upper part of the trunk.

Even on the head, you can make a notch under the eyes. They can also have a spherical shape.

The trunk is made in the form of a cone, with a cut top. And its wide part looks up. The base of this figure is made spherical. The drawing presented here clearly shows what this figure looks like.

The finished parts are either stiffened or left loose so that the figure can be collected and disassembled. Eyes are painted in black. If desired, the owl can be covered with a clear varnish.