To let the kids know which heroes of Soviet cartoons made their parents and grandparents happy, make together a Cheburashka, a Crow, a Wolf from Just Wait. Children and many adults love fairy tales. This is a kind world, where evil is certainly punished, positive heroes win. Kids will be happy to create fairy tale characters if the elders show them the manufacturing process. Children also like heroes of Soviet cartoons. Crafts on these topics will help viewers remember or get to know Cheburashka, Serpent Gorynych, Vorona and other characters.
Crafts on fairy tales with your own hands - Serpent Gorynych
But let's start with a cartoon known to kids to keep them interested. In the cartoon "Three Heroes", there are several wonderful characters at once, which are cute to children. There is also a dragon, they can mold it from plasticine. The magical stories about Shrek also have a similar character. And in Soviet cartoons, old fairy tales, the Serpent Gorynych often appears
To make this funny cartoon character, you need to put on the work surface next to your child:
- plasticine;
- a cloth for wiping your hands;
- plastic knife for cutting off pieces of mass of the desired size;
- a modeling board.
A step-by-step master class will show how to make the Serpent Gorynych.
The kid will roll 3 identical balls from plasticine. Since the Serpent Gorynych has 3 heads, we will make three identical blanks. Each of the balls must be pulled on one side, on the other, make a small thickened sausage, which will become the head.
The body of this fairytale character will look like a cone rounded at the bottom. It is also created from a ball, but larger than the head.
Let the child roll four balls, but small, they need to be slightly lengthened, bending to turn into paws.
Help your baby to attach the neck to the torso on one side of the head, paws on the other. To make a corrugated dragon spine, you need to roll up small balls, give them a triangular shape. They are fixed on the back along the spine of the fairytale hero.
As you understand, dragon wings are also made of two balls. But then they need to be flattened by hand, sharpened on both opposite sides, attached to this fabulous character.
Cutting through the lower part of the head with a plastic knife, you will create Gorynych's mouth. Use a match to make 2 punctures in the nose area to make this face detail. Three small sausages need to be rolled out of red plasticine, flattened, inserted into the dragon's mouth. Two green circles will become eyelids, two white ones - the whites of the eyes, two small dark ones - the pupils of one of the dragons. Do the same for the other two eyes.
Show your child how to make stripes on the dragon's legs with a plastic knife. Here's how to make the Snake Gorynych from plasticine.
Heroes of Soviet cartoons - Cheburashka
So that children know the heroes of Soviet cartoons, teach them how to make Cheburashka. Sit next to your child, place in front of him:
- corrugated cardboard brown and yellow;
- PVA glue;
- colored paper;
- eyes for toys;
- hot glue.
We make the head and torso of this character, using two round blanks for each of these parts.
For the head, first roll a yellow strip of corrugated cardboard so that it turns into a circle, gluing the PVA turns. Glue the beginning of the brown strip to the end of this tape. Twist a little more, glue and brown tip.
We will make the part for the back side only from brown cardboard, the tape from it must be twisted tightly.
Now gently press in the center of 1 and 2 of the blanks to extrude these parts outward. Match the prepared elements with each other, glue them with hot silicone so that the curved parts are outside.
We continue to make Cheburashka further. From a strip of brown corrugated cardboard, create a small circle. Bend it on one side of the workpiece so that it becomes convex. Shape it into a drop by pinching one end with your finger. Make the second part in the same way. Glue these pens to the fairytale character.
The ears are created in the same way as the head of the Cheburashka, only they are slightly smaller.
As you can see, they need to be glued to the head with a hot gun. Also, using melted silicone rods, reattach the eyes and the mouth and nose cut out of colored paper. The legs are made from 2 brown corrugated cardboard circles. Put them and the handles in place, fix them with hot glue. All that remains is to attach the bow, and the wonderful Cheburashka is ready.
To sew a cartoon toy, take:
- soft brown and yellow cloth;
- threads to match;
- red yarn;
- two circles of white felt;
- tracing paper;
- pencil;
- scissors;
- a piece of chalk or a remnant.
From brown fabric you will need to cut out:
- two parts of the head;
- four elements of the ear;
- two parts for the torso;
- 4 blanks for the leg and the same amount for the arm;
- brows;
- triangular nose;
- pupils.
Cut out the face and abdomen of the Cheburashka from the yellow fabric.
If you want to make the ears contrasting, then cut out the inner part of the ear from yellow fabric, stitch the details of the inner ear to the outer one.
- Let's start sewing. Place the yellow face detail on the brown head circle, zigzag seam these elements together. The tummy of a cartoon hero is decorated in the same way.
- Now you need to fold the two parts of the ears with the front sides to each other, stitch on all sides.
- Align the two blanks for the head with the right sides, put the edges of the ears here on both sides. Stitch without covering the neck area. Through this hole, you turn your head out. Fill it with padding polyester.
- Sew the details of 1 and 2 paws, as well as elements of the arms. On these blanks, leave the places not sewn on top in order to turn them through these holes and fill them with filler.
- Fold the arms and legs with the torso parts so that these elements are still inside. Sew along the edge, leaving the neck unsewn, through it you turn the workpiece out to the right side.
- Stuff your belly with padding polyester. Tuck the bottom of your head into your neck, close this gap with a blind hand seam.
This is how the heroes of popular Soviet cartoons and children's books are sewn.
How to make a moidodyr - a character of an instructive story
It was invented by the writer Chukovsky. Often in kindergartens or elementary schools this poem is filmed, and a Soviet cartoon was also created based on it. If you need to make a Moidodyr costume for a performance, then watch the next master class.
To make a fairytale hero costume, take:
- one box in A3 format, another in A4 format;
- knife;
- scissors;
- felt-tip pens;
- colored paper.
Take an A3 size box, cut a slit in it, as shown in the photo. When the boy puts on the Moidodyr suit, this hole will be on the neck and its upper part.
In the same container, you need to cut out holes for the hands. They will be round.
This is the upper part of the suit, for the lower one you need to make a sink out of a smaller box, A4 format.
Using a glue gun, connect both parts.
Measure the workpiece for the child.
If everything suits you, proceed to the design. Self-adhesive foil is perfect for this. Stick a light one on the sides and in the middle of the suit, and a dark one at the bottom so that it turns into a cupboard under the sink. Then draw with markers the facial features of the washbasin, its spout-faucet.
Do not throw away the cardboard scraps, make a bowl from one large one. Having cut out a part of a similar shape, you will need to draw on it the features of this household item using a marker. On one side of the washbasin, first glue a washcloth, and on top, slightly to the side, a basin.
The work has been completed. This is how the heroes of Soviet cartoons are created. Find out how you can make them from other materials. Even socks will do for this.
Do-it-yourself Soviet cartoon characters from socks
To make the famous crow from a children's animated film, take:
- a pair of striped socks, some are plain;
- scissors;
- 2 cotton pads;
- filler;
- two small dark buttons.
To get such a soft toy as a result, take 2 identical socks, it's good if they have bright-colored inserts on the heel and on the toe. Open both socks as shown in the photo. As you can see, one gets 2 large parts, the second seven small ones.
To make a crow's head, take the cut-off shaft of one sock, sew up the hole on the hands from below, fill it with filler, sew with a needle and thread at the elastic level, tightening the workpiece here to make a round head.
For this most popular hero of Soviet cartoons, or one of them, to acquire eyes, sew on a black button with a white cotton pad. Next, grind your eyes onto the sock, which has become the head of a crow.
Tie two narrow blanks in the form of ribbons together in the center. Sew the resulting bow onto the bird's head. Use dark thread to sew the stitches at the level of the nostrils to create the crow's nose.
Take the second part of the same sock, fill it with padding polyester, sew on the other side to make a round body. Also, using a needle and thread, attach it to the crow's head.
The two larger parts of the second sock will become the wings of the cartoon heroine. Sew each of them along the edge, leaving a small gap.
Turn the wing out through it, fill it with padding polyester. Now you need to sew it in its place, then also issue the second one.
The tail is created in much the same way, grind the edges of this piece, leave a small hole. Twist the tail through it and shape it with filler.
The semicircular blanks cut from a monochromatic sock will become the legs of a crow. First sew each along the edge, then turn out, shape with filler.
Using a thread of the same color, sew 2 stitches on each foot to mark the toes of this sock toy.
So, the heroes of Soviet cartoons can get a second birth. Kids will certainly love them, because they are so beautiful, soft, cozy.
You have learned how to make a Cheburashka from corrugated cardboard. Now look at how the most popular hero of Soviet cartoons (for many, he was) is made from fabric. A pattern will help you to sew a Cheburashka.
Do-it-yourself wolf from "Nu pogodi" made of polymer clay
To make this character, you will need:
- polymer clay of several colors;
- liquid plastic "Livid gel";
- plastic knife;
- stack with a tip in the shape of a ball.
Master Class:
- Take a gray polymer clay, mold an oval out of it. Make one half of this figure narrower than the first, it will become the mouth of a wolf. But that's just the top of her head. Make the bottom one from a piece of polymer clay of the same color.
- From the same mass, you need to pinch off two fragments, give them a triangular shape, stick these ears on the head of a wolf from just wait.
- Roll a round nose out of a piece of black polymer clay, and make eyes out of white. To keep the squirrels round and thin, run a stack ball over them, then reattach them, just like the teeth of a wolf.
- Use black polymer clay to create his hair from the handle. Use a toothpick to mark points in the area of the nose, and with a plastic knife, help to make the mouth more realistic by making an incision in this place.
- Pass the same toothpick into the wolf's head, fix it here with a piece of clay. Having torn off a piece of plastic mass, roll an oval out of it, give it the shape of a wolf shirt, put it on a toothpick.
- Be sure to make his flared trousers out of black polymer clay, below you can see paws made of gray plastic. Blind our hero's hands, if you want, put flowers made of polymer clay into them, which you can also make with your own hands.
- Depending on the type of plastic, you need to air dry or in the oven. After that, the sturdy figure is ready.
Make such crafts together with the children so that the children know which heroes of Soviet cartoons their parents and grandparents liked. Kids will also be happy to create fairy-tale characters, take the fruits of their labors to the competition or leave them to decorate the house.
If the kids are not yet familiar with an interesting cartoon, be sure to turn on the video player for them, let them follow the adventures of the hare and the wolf with interest.
It will be even more interesting for the guys to play with the sock crow if you show them which cartoon character she is.
Like the plasticine crow, Cheburashka will also fall in love with kids. So that they know this famous cartoon, the story of Gena the Crocodile, show them the plot.
