On the theme "A Tale in the Garden", together with the children, you can make various crafts from what is available in the garden and in the garden. Cabbage, potatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables, fruits and berries - everything will go to work.
Children can quickly get bored with toys. In order not to spend money on new ones, show the children that the heroes of their favorite fairy tales can even grow in the beds.
Crafts from cabbage on the theme "The fairy tale grew up in the garden"
In autumn, this vegetable ripens for many gardeners. You can always find it in grocery stores.
Why not a fairy tale in the garden? To make such a craft, you will need:
- 2 fork of cabbage;
- Brussels sprouts;
- carrot;
- cucumber;
- sharp knife;
- Bell pepper;
- zucchini;
- box;
- moss;
- toothpicks.
Tear off the top leaves from the heads. Using toothpicks or wooden skewers, connect 2 forks together. Cut the zucchini in half, and use skewers to attach it to the bottom of the cabbage. These will be the paws of a hare.
Cut a cucumber in half and use toothpicks to turn it into this character's ears. A small piece of carrot will become the nose, and a piece of red pepper will become the mouth.
Place the bunny carrot in front of the bottom fork. Attach with skewers or toothpicks. Hide them under two cabbage leaves, which simultaneously turn into a cloak.
Take a low cardboard box, divide it into sectors with strips of cardboard. Put moss on the garden bed, put a hare here. And on another bed, Brussels sprouts will grow, as if it were white cabbage. Sprinkle some peat on the garden bed to make it look like soil.
Decorate the next bed in the same way. Here you will plant the carrots that the hare loves so much. It can be a well-known fairy tale in the garden, or you can invent it with your child. Make eyes for the hare out of white ovals of cardboard, drawing blue pupils. Use toothpicks or wooden skewers instead of a mustache.
Show your child how a fairy tale grew up in the garden, for example, "Ryaba Chicken".
Take:
- white cabbage;
- onion;
- raisin;
- twigs or straw;
- flat basket;
- a napkin.
Place the napkin in the basket. Place the head of cabbage on top. Turn some of its leaves into wings, cut off with scissors. Make a tail out of others in the same way. Place small twigs between the napkin and the head of cabbage.
Peel the onion, leaving the ponytail. It will become a beak. Using a toothpick, attach 2 raisins as eyes. Taking a wooden skewer, cut it in half and attach the onion with these parts to the top of the head of cabbage. Now on this head you can stick a comb and a beard made of plasticine.
You will have a modern fairy tale in the garden if you make the heroes of the history of Smeshariki. Take a cabbage, using toothpicks, attach a radish, peeled from the skin, cut in half, to it. The pupils and nose will be black olives, and the red tomato will be the nose of another hare.
From red bell pepper you need to make mouths for the characters. And the legs are made of carrots or potatoes. Two cabbage leaves will become ears.
See what other cabbage craft can be. Use it, and you will have an interesting fairy tale in the garden. This beast is the hero of many magical stories. To make him so adorable, take two cabbage leaves and turn them into ears. Attach curly parsley at the top so that it turns into hair. From the cucumbers you need to make the front and hind legs, attach the carrots to the front ones.
Make the eyes out of painted cardboard by gluing them. Also attach a button nose.
Turn cabbage leaves into a sail with your child. Create a fairy tale about pirates. Turn zucchini or large eggplant into the ship's hull. Here you will need to cut out the windows with a small sharp knife. Remove the top and pulp in this area. You string cabbage leaves on a wood skewer.
By the way, you can make such crafts from zucchini so that the fairy tale in the garden is interesting and unusual.
Play together with the children a magical story with fabulous shoes. With their help, you can quickly move from a distance. To do this, you must first mark with a knife where you will need to cut the skin. Do this and then remove the pulp with the same tool and hand.
Make a magical character out of a zucchini. Create hair from threads, glue small leaves to make them a belt. Such work can be attached with skewers to a thick sheet of foam. Decorate it.
Crafts based on Uspensky's tales can also be made from what grows in your garden.
Cut off the tail from one zucchini, connect with the second with skewers. Make the cut part more straight, attach it at the top. This will be the driver's cab. Using toothpicks, attach the breadsticks to the sliced courgettes to secure the wheels.
Crafts based on the tales of Ershov also come from vegetables. A whole settlement will fit on such a whale fish. Let the child mold inhabitants from plasticine, attach tree seeds, grass here to turn these materials into vegetation. It's just as easy to glue a cardboard tail, as it is to make facial features for a whale.
Heroes of Smeshariki will be able to drive around in such an elongated car made of zucchini. You will make them yourself from potatoes, onions, pears.
The locomotive from Romashkovo will leave on schedule, you will have an interesting fairy tale that grew up in the garden. You will make it from yellow zucchini.
The same vegetable will turn into a beautiful snail. And make a house for her from a pumpkin.
A close relative of zucchini, squash will become the main attribute of a modern fairy tale. From it you will make a UFO. The legs will be carrots. Use the slices of this vegetable to make portholes and the upper part of the ship. Cut off the top of a pumpkin or zucchini, scrape out the pulp, secure this cap with wooden skewers.
Watch master classes on making crafts from natural materials
Crafts for a fairy tale in a potato garden - step by step photos
This popular vegetable can be crafted into various famous characters.
To make a Cheburashka, take a few potatoes. Cut off a small part from one side to indicate the hero's tummy. Cut the second one in half. These will be the ears of the Cheburashka. To make its head, also cut off some of the flesh of the rind. Attach your ears here with toothpicks. Then, using the same wooden materials, fix the head on the body. The handles will be two small potatoes, and the legs will be one, cut in half.
Attach the whites of the eyes from the radish, make the pupils from the olives. The pepper will become a bright mouth.
To make a hedgehog, just stick a toothpick or match into part of the washed potato. You can prick berries on these needles, paint your eyes and mouths to get facial features.
Sometimes you can find interesting specimens of vegetables and already get ready-made heroes. If you want a vegetable tale, then see if the potato reminds you of someone.
If you need to make a duck, potatoes are also useful. Take two copies and place the small one on the large flat. Cut out orange citrus paws and beak. Attach these parts with toothpicks. And dry clove seasoning will become eyes.
You can make wings, paws and a beak from carrots to get such a duck - a craft from vegetables.
If you have a fairy tale "Three Bears", then make each of the potatoes in the same way. Small baskets can be made from this vegetable and put into their hands. The first will have honey, write about this on the outside of the potato. The other will contain berries.
You can also make a table from potatoes. To do this, cut a half from it and cut off the semicircular part at the bottom. Set on small potatoes.
If the main character of the fairy tale is a cat, make it from this vegetable, as well as from plasticine. Turn the pieces of fishing line into a mustache.
If the child likes the fairy tale "Three Little Pigs", potato crafts can be like this.
Wash the potatoes, dry them. Then have the child glue the pieces on a plate of matching colors to transform them into facial features, ears and tail.
If you need an article on the theme of the fairy tale "Masha and the Bear", see the next one.
The bear is made up of potatoes. The head for Masha can also be made from this vegetable, just like the body. Sculpt facial features from plasticine, dress the girl and make hair out of threads. A beautiful fish will turn out from carrots.
Crafts from a cucumber - a master class and a photo
This is also a very popular vegetable for creativity. It is dense so it is easy to shape it. If you have a Cheburashka made of potatoes, then Gena the crocodile is made of cucumbers. Cut off the tip of one cucumber so that the vegetable turns into the head of Gena the crocodile. The second cucumber will become its body, make a cut at the bottom to establish this detail. Add a hat, paws and a scarf.
If you decide to play the fairy tale "The Frog Princess" with your child, then see how to make one of the main characters of this story.
Cut a piece from the cucumber, this will be the body of the frog. Make Christmas trees from halves of cucumber circles, make a head from the same vegetable. The eyes will be two halves of a plum. Make an arrow out of a wooden skewer, sticking the tip on one side, on the other side - a stopper. Make a crown and decorate this place with greenery.
A fairy tale from the garden will also allow you to make magic shoes from a cucumber.
First outline these two vegetables with the edge of a knife, then remove any excess. Make bright details with radishes or leaves.
For the child to know the fairy tale "The Golden Key", show him how to make the tortoise Tortilla. Take a head of cabbage and use toothpicks to attach cucumber slices to it. You will attach the tip of the cucumber from the side of the face to make this character's nose. Bend the glasses out of the wire, sew a cap out of the fabric for this character.
You can also make a car out of a cucumber. To do this, cut out a circular notch and remove the pulp. Plant radishes here, which will turn into a funny bird. The wheels will be cucumber circles.
If a character like a shark is needed for a magical story, you can also create one from a cucumber. See where you need to trim off the excess, and where to attach the pieces of this vegetable in the form of fins and tail.
Here's a carakul shark. With the help of it, you can recreate the famous works of Chukovsky. And here is another option that will help create this character. As you walk through your vegetable garden, find a curved cucumber. If you like, chunks of green pepper will become the tail and fins.
If you want to read Chukovsky's poem about Tatosha and Kakosha to your child, make these characters from a cucumber. To do this, create teeth with a small knife blade, and then attach the paws and tail. A piece of carrot or pepper will become the tongue.
Crafts for the fairy tale "Cipollino"
As you know, various vegetables, fruits and berries are involved in this story. Show your beloved child how to create these kinds of crafts. Chippolino is created from onions. Take this vegetable, use plasticine to make it more realistic.
This plastic mass will help you transform the lemon so that it turns into a characteristic character. You will make 2 sisters of cherries from these berries, but decorate their faces with plasticine. You will make a body and arms out of it, and turn corrugated paper into beautiful dresses.
Various fruits and vegetables from the garden will be used. Make a radish and the corresponding fruit, and pears and apples will become other characters. Facial features can be drawn with paints or felt-tip pens, and also use plasticine for this.
Make a costume for the pumpkin. And create a house from planks or strips of cardboard.
Here's how to turn vegetables, fruits and berries into heroes of magical stories. Look at crafts on the theme of a fairy tale grown on a garden bed, so that together with your children you can make stories about magical stories from vegetables and fruits.
See what fruit and vegetable crafts you can also make.
