Swan craft: step-by-step instructions and 70 photos of making beautiful swans

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Modular origami swan

A more complex and beautiful option is modular origami swan. Creating masterpieces using this technique requires patience. Below is a description of how to properly make an origami swan. To create such a figure you will need 800 triangular modules.

Let's start with a description of creating triangular modules:

To obtain blanks of the required size, you need to divide a sheet of A4 paper into 4 equal parts.
Fold this piece of paper in half horizontally. Then we mark the middle with a fold vertically and fold it towards it from the middle of the side to the center. There should be a corner.
Turn the workpiece over. We bend the small corners from the edges to the bottom line of the large corner.
We bend the resulting edges inward along the line of the large angle. Fold inward along the center line.

Next, we’ll look at how to properly make an origami swan from modules.

You need to make the required number of modules.

Making the base for the swan. We place two modules next to each other. We insert the third module from above, connecting the first two at the corners. We add the fourth to the first two and again add the fifth from the top, etc. We insert another row on top. You should get three rows of 30 modules each. We connect the resulting accordion into a circle, connecting the edges of each row with a module.

We turn the base inside out, you should get a flower with a flat bottom. On this basis we make the body of a swan. We take the module and connect the ends of the two closest modules with it. We leave the first module loosely planted to mark the beginning of the row, and all the rest are pressed tightly to the bottom row. Together with the base there should be twelve rows.

Next we make the neck. To do this, using the same principle as described above, we install two modules and connect them together with a third one. We connect this module with the tips of the first two with new two modules and so on until we get a long, beautiful neck. Bend it a little to make it look like a swan.

Next we make the tail. We count eleven modules from the neck and the edge from the module near the neck. We put two modules on top of each other to give more volume. We do the same on the other side.

Now we form the wings. We fill the rows in the same way as on the tail, placing two modules on top of each other. We begin to build rows from the neck. Then we reduce the wing, for which we leave one corner of the module near the tail and return to the neck.

We fill the rows until one module remains unfilled, just like in the tail. We make the second wing exactly the same as the first. To add volume, we put three modules on the last row. We beautifully bend the wings and tail outward.

We make another module from red paper - this is the beak of a swan. We connect the final modules of the neck with it. If desired, the neck can be lengthened a little more. Near the beak we draw eyes. The beautiful swan is ready.

Such a luxurious craft can be an excellent gift. Modules can be made from colored paper, then the swan can become rainbow or chessboard, as your imagination dictates.

Whatever method you choose to make a paper swan, it will certainly be a beautiful craft that will entertain both adults and children.

Features of paper birds

Geese are divided primarily into wild and domestic. Their differences are:

Domestic geese are bred from greylag geese and swan goose. More often than not, their plumage is white rather than grey. Domestic geese are also divided into species, which are bred depending on what is required from them in the end. Most often these are feathers, down, meat, eggs, liver.

You need to pay attention to all these details when making a themed craft, since many nuances are of great importance. Wild geese have more variation in appearance. In particular, by the color of the plumage, so if this matters, be sure to pay attention to the ornithological department.

Where can crafts on this topic come in handy?

Paper geese can be useful for individual (independent) crafts, or in any composition. The latter can be an option for decorating ponds, lakes and other bodies of water, since geese are waterfowl. They are also integral guests of farms and rural yards. When studying domestic and wild birds, you may need to make a separate paper craft - a goose. In many cartoons, fairy tales and children's songs, these birds are the main characters (“Swan Geese”, “Two Cheerful Geese”, “Nils and the Geese”, “Golden Goose” and others). To recreate their plot or perform a performance, you need figures and masks of the main characters.

Examples of ready-made crafts made from paper and cardboard

Geese crafts made from paper and cardboard can be different: appliqués, three-dimensional figures, origami, etc. Each option can be useful in one or another creative work. You should choose depending on the specified topic or the characteristics of the task.

How to make a bird using tires?

You can make a figurine using tires.

For this you will need:

chalk;
tire;
dye;
screws;
drill;
jigsaw

A bird figurine is made as follows:

First you need to prepare the tire for the upcoming work. The tire should not have any bends.

The head needs to be drawn across the entire width. You need to start drawing from the beak (it should be rectangular in shape). Next, you should continue to draw the head. It needs to be wider than the beak.

The next stage is drawing the neck. A line should be drawn to the center of the circle from the bird's head

Often the cut lines may not coincide with the drawn neck, so they must be drawn carefully to avoid falling into existing cuts

When the beak is drawn, you need to mark the bird's tail with a thin line.

Next, you need to turn the tire out and give it the shape of a bird. The large part should be concave inward. It will be the support of the finished craft.

The neck needs fastenings to hold it in place, so a few holes need to be drilled and the head secured to the plate.

Having cut out the eyes for the bird from rubber, you need to screw in the screws.

The finished figurine must be painted. If you wish, you should try making a lawn near the bird or placing it in a car tire that is painted the color of lake water.

Method 1

The simplest option is also called “crane” or “dragon”. A photo of an origami swan made in this way can be found in any origami book or on the Internet.

At first glance, folding such a figure is difficult, but if you figure it out, it can be done in literally five minutes. To create such a swan, we will need scissors and plain white printer paper.

So, consider the sequence of folding a swan:

Cut out a square from rectangular paper. To do this, we pull the top side to the side by the corner so that they coincide. Cut off the remaining strip at the bottom. You can use special origami paper; it has a square shape. Fold the square diagonally. We fold the resulting triangle in half again, connecting the sharp corners together. We unfold and fold the square into a rectangle.

It is important that all fold lines are in the same direction. We fold along the resulting fold lines so that we get rhombuses on both sides, with a cleft in the middle. We add the corners of the rhombus to this crevice. Turn it over and do the same on the other side. We pull the corners from the crevice on both sides

This is the head and tail of our swan. You need to pull them and the wings will spread out on the other sides. Bend the head down and the swan is ready. If you gently pull his head and tail, he will move his wings.

Classic origami swan

Next, we will look at step-by-step instructions on how to make a much simpler and more understandable swan, which can be created from such improvised material as paper, but it will be no less beautiful.

Maybe someone will like it even more than our previous version. All you need is a piece of paper and a pair of your wonderful hands. Let's not make long introductions, let's get started.

The first thing you do is take a square sheet of paper and fold it well diagonally and unfold it. Next, bend the sheet on one side so that the corners meet in the middle, as if you were making an airplane. Now you need to slightly bend the corners that are connected in the center to an equal distance.

We take the nose of the “airplane” and bend it upward in a place that cuts off approximately one third of the nose of our craft. And finally, bend the tip a little to make a beak

Our beautiful bird is ready. The swan is a very complex figure and it may happen that you do not fully understand the manufacturing process. To do this, below we have attached photo instructions for making a swan craft.

Natural materials: collected pine cones and leaves

Looking at simple photos of swan crafts made from natural materials, you can stock up on the necessary elements in advance. For a beautiful bird on a stand you will need one opening fir cone, which must first be painted white with acrylic paint.

It is necessary to mold the bird's curved neck and head from plasticine, attaching the leaves to it; the eyes and beak are attached to the head using durable glue.

Read here: Animal crafts: life hacks for beginners on how to make interesting crafts in the form of animals (130 photos)

All elements of the craft must be connected; to make it more presentable, the swan is placed on a stand; it can be a pre-painted old disk or painted cardboard.

Geese-swans - a toy with a bag, how to sew it yourself

A great idea and quite easy to implement, and most importantly - practical, you can store something in the bag. You can try to sew such a bird with your child. The size of the bird and the bag is at your discretion. Author of the master class Anastasia Dorozhkina These geese-swans are sewn according to a pattern from the Norwegian designer Tonne Finanger. Her charming toys are known under the brand Tilda or tildyki. The size of the bird depends on the size of the bag. In the photo there are geese with bags - 20 by 25 cm and 25 by 30 cm

Cut out the head, beak, wings and paws. We do not provide a life-size pattern - the templates are so simple that you can draw them yourself in the size you need.

The beak parts are stitched to the cut out parts of the head.

Place both pieces of the head together and stitch.

4. Cut off the allowance close to the stitching, notch the allowance in the corners of the beak and neck for better turning.

Now all the parts are ready for turning and stuffing.

Sew the parts of the wings and paws along the lines indicated on the pattern and stuff them with padding polyester.

To create a fold of the foot, sew a fold on the front of the paws in the place indicated on the pattern.

We are preparing the bag. Tonne Finanger suggests sewing it from one piece of fabric with a seam at the back, and sewing the two-piece drawstring separately. That's what I did for the first goose. Then it seemed to me that it could be done simpler.

And for the second goose, I cut the bag from two panels - front and back, along with a drawstring, adding 10 cm to the height of the bag for it.

Sew on eyes, head, wings...

10.

... and paws. I almost forgot about the loop. It's simple. Attached to the back of the neck. The height is somewhere in the middle of the neck. For one goose I made a loop from a thin satin ribbon, it seemed a bit flimsy. For the other one, I took purchased cotton bias tape, laid it with a web, and glued it together. Such a solid loop came out. You can stuff a goose with bricks. 11.

Insert a cord into the drawstring. And now the sweet couple has moved on with their own lives.

Christmas goose with apples and prunes in the oven (step-by-step photo recipe)

And of course, if winter is in full swing, then everyone needs to know the holiday recipe for this occasion. This is exactly what we will talk about now. I hope that you like it and that you will be happy to use it again.

I wanted to surprise everyone once again, so I found another way to cook goose with soy sauce for a beautiful crust and a piquant taste in combination with honey. Although the second ingredient is not felt at all, it only gives a greater goldenness.

You will need:

Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvhsyplQA-I

Stages:

1. Marinate the goose one day before baking in the oven. To do this, combine in a cup:

salt;
soy sauce;
honey;
spices for cooking, for example for chicken.

2. Massage the workpiece thoroughly, rubbing in the pickling mixture.

3. Wrap the carcass in cling film and refrigerate for 1.5 days or at least one.

4. The next day, stuff the goose with pieces of apples, quince and prunes well steamed in water. You can take one thing from this list. Tie the hole with toothpicks and twine.

5. Cover with foil and place on a baking sheet. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake for 2 hours. Then tear the foil on top and coat the carcass with the released fat. Place it back in the oven once opened. And so soak it in fat every 20 minutes. As a result, the goose should sit warm for 3-3.5 hours.

6. Enjoy the golden treat with the flavorful filling inside. After all, it is very tasty. It takes a lot of time, but it's worth it. The meal is just a bomb! Eat for your health. Good luck!

This is how the selection turned out. I hope you now know exactly how to properly cook a goose so that its meat is not tough, but soft and juicy. After all, everyone wants it to melt in their mouth. Therefore, I advise you not to overcook (overdry) it in the oven, and if necessary, lubricate the entire surface with the released fat. And then you are guaranteed a golden and ruddy crust, and even with a crunch. Take into account all the tips and recommendations for cooking, because a lot depends on the weight of the bird and, of course, on the marinade.

Use the suggested recipes all year round, but I strongly recommend taking a closer look at them for New Year and Christmas. Stuff it with all sorts of different fillings to make a super-duper and amazingly rich side dish. Don't forget about the garlic cloves, they add such a tang - great.

Textiles - felt and towels

Towel swans greet tourists in almost every hotel, many of us have photos with them. And many have already learned how to roll them with their own hands. And felt bird brooches or toys will be a wonderful gift for little fashionistas. Making both of them with your own hands is very simple; even a novice needlewoman can cope with the task.

Working with felt

A toy or brooch can be made voluminous or flat. The principle differs slightly, as does the set of materials and tools:

felt and padding polyester;
paper for patterns;
scissors, thread, needle;
pencil or marker.

Patterns can be borrowed from experienced craftswomen or drawn yourself. You need a minimum of parts, and most importantly, they must match each other in size.

If this is your first experience, you can limit yourself to creating a figurine from a minimum number of parts - a body and wings. In addition to them, you will need to cut out a small red beak.

We cut out 2 body parts and 4 wings. If the wings are adjacent to the body, then 2 parts will be needed.

We sew the body of the bird together, leaving a small hole to fill it with padding polyester. We hammer the padding polyester with a thin wooden stick. We collect wings using the same principle. We fasten the elements with threads or glue, decorate, and sew on a red beak. If this is a brooch, then attach a pin to the reverse side.

Making a toy is more labor-intensive work. In the lower part of the swan's body you will need to decorate the abdomen using an additional detail. We make the wings voluminous. The elements must be fastened firmly so that they do not come off during the game. It is better to embroider the bird's eyes with black thread.

Video tutorial:

How to fold a swan from a towel

In order for the bird to turn out beautiful and keep its shape, you will need a towel with high pile or made of dense material. Making a figurine with your own hands is not difficult; it does not require special skills. In addition to the main element, decorative elements may come in handy - colored napkins, artificial or fresh flowers, ribbons, thin rubber bands to match.

Master Class:

a clean, ironed towel is visually divided in half along the widest side;
fix the center and begin to twist the rollers, preferably at the same time, trying to make them as elastic as possible;
when the rollers are twisted, the workpiece is turned over and the neck or head of the bird is formed from the sharp end;
from the second towel they make either a beautifully designed rounded back or a tail made of folds.

Video tutorial:

Big swan from children's hands

An excellent option for decorating a group in kindergarten is to create a large paper swan from children's handprints. All you need is paper and glue.

How to do:

The first step is to cut out the base of the swan with a small oval body, spread wings, graceful neck and head.
Next, each child traces their palms on a piece of paper and then cuts out the resulting shape.
The swan's wings are decorated with carved palms, like feathers, pointing the fingers away from the bird's body. The prints should be placed overlapping, starting from the edge of the wings. One handle should be placed in the narrowest part of the wing, two in the second row, and three in the third. When the wing acquires a more uniform structure, the number of palms should be left unchanged, placing each rad in a checkerboard pattern in relation to the previous one.
Then the resulting figure is decorated with a beak and eyes.

Useful tips

There are a few more recommendations. They will also come in handy when building a barn for geese with your own hands:

Breeding often starts with a small number of birds, for example, a dozen. It is not difficult to build a suitable goose barn here. The skills acquired will be useful in the future, during expansion and new construction.
Don't forget about the correct location. It is better to choose the south side of the site for the poultry house. Entrances and windows are located in the same direction. This saves electricity, improves bird health and egg production.
Before releasing the geese, the room is prepared. First they disinfect. Take store-bought formulations or make your own. For example, add 2 kg of lime and 200 g of salt to 10 liters of water. Then ventilate for several days. If necessary, they drown it.
The project takes into account the possibility of building a vestibule in front of the entrance to the poultry house. This room prevents cold air from entering the barn.

Construction of a goose barn is an important and uncomplicated matter. If everything is done correctly, it will be possible to provide the bird with optimal living conditions.

It is advisable to use high-quality materials that are resistant to moisture.

Making modular origami

This type of origami is very complex and requires diligence and painstakingness. You will have to make many parts out of paper, and then connect them, nesting one inside the other, which is why this technique is called modular. However, the result fully justifies all these difficulties. Even the creation process itself captivates you so much that you won’t notice how time has flown by. However, let's get started.

The actual modules

The first thing you should do is learn how to make modules. To do this, take A4 format and cut it into thirty-two equal rectangular parts. Done? Great, now we fold each resulting rectangle in half, lengthwise and crosswise.

Now we wrap the edges towards the center and turn the resulting product over. You should have a small distance left between the corner you folded and the triangle.

Next, simply lift the ends up and fold the triangle, the module is ready. We will look at step-by-step instructions on how to make a beautiful, graceful origami swan from paper below.

Assembling the craft

We proceed directly to needlework, take three pink elements and place the tips of the other two in the pockets of one of them.

Next, we take two more modules of the same color and attach them to the previous formation by analogy, the tips into the pockets. We continue to do this until we get a ring with an outer and an inner row, thirty modules in each. Essentially, you first have a chain, the ends of which you connect with the last module.

We make the next, third, row from thirty orange elements that need to be connected in a checkerboard sequence. Similarly, assemble the fourth and fifth rows.

The next step is to carefully turn the edges of the craft up. Next, we take thirty elements and lay out the sixth row by putting them on top.

And now comes the crucial moment, we make the neck and wings. First we choose where to place the head. We have chosen, take two adjacent corners of the elements, here we will make the neck. To the left and right of the head we form layers of twelve yellow modules. As a result, we get twenty-four elements in the seventh row.

Next up is the tail, it is made in the same way as the wings, only we reduce it one module at a time. This part will require twelve green and three blue elements.

The neck is made quite simply, we take one module and insert it into the pockets of another, that’s all. All that remains is to insert into the red module seven purple and 6 elements of blue, cyan, yellow, green. We form the neck and attach it to the body between the wings.

The last thing to do is base the bird. It will consist of two rings, the first has thirty-six modules, the second has forty. We connect them by analogy with the neck.

Our beautiful bird is ready, you can place it in the living room or your room. It will please your eyes for a long time.

Soft toy swan pillow.

Hello Country of Masters and its inhabitants!

I sewed this beautiful swan! I sewed it for two days from faux fur. The neck is framed. I stuffed it with synthetic padding. I made the eyes from buttons. I made the eyelids from lace. Here we are!

Eh...how nice it is to rest your head on it! No wonder, he’s a pillow!

My swan is separate.

And this is me at work.

Patterns. Everything is easy and simple, take two A4 sheets, glue them with tape and draw a swan! The base of the neck is 6 cm and then it gradually narrows to 3 cm. If you don’t count the neck, the height of the swan is approximately 18 cm, and the height at the base of the tail is 15 cm .Length approximately 28 cm.

Oh, sorry, it’s not written like that in the photo. The width of the head is 7.2 cm.

For the back, draw a huge drop, something like this. I had complications with it, I had to cut it, so it’s better to try it on first, and then cut it if it’s too long.

Donyshko. Length 15cm, width 7cm.

I apologize for the quality of the photo. This is a black gap between the head and the beak. The width of the strip is 1 cm. The narrower side is sewn to the beak, the 4 cm side is sewn to the head. Sorry, I forgot to take a photo of the beak, but it is easy to draw, the beak is approximately 6 long, 5cm.

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Mikhail Stelmakh - Geese-swans are flying

Uncle Nikolai had to fight the evil spirits the most in our village. Wherever he caught her. And in the smokehouse, where the devil met his soot-painted witch-mistress, and in the pantry, where the unscrupulous demon feasted on lard, and in the tops, where the devil climbed for free to eat fish, and under the bridge, and in hollow willows, and in wells, and in those straw measures with which the heelless one measures the sparrows for dinner.

And although the evil spirit tried in every way how to outwit its enemy, nothing ever came of it. Uncle Nikolai always became a winner. During his life, he cut off so many tails, hooves and horns from evil spirits that all this would not fit on a cart.

“If there was a buyer for this product, then I would have more money than garbage,” Uncle Nikolai boasted.

And his wife cackled at such disgrace and raised her hands to the images, and then clenched her fists at her husband...

I was not as brave as Uncle Nikolai, and did not have his ax, so at night I trembled and froze over those fairy tales, from which, as if from a bag, various horrors poured out. But when the heart had already stopped from fear, relief came: somewhere very close, the voices of roosters pecked in the dead of night. That’s why I still love that time when roosters drive away darkness and evil spirits with their wings, and start a new day with singing.

After some time, my mother found out about my tricks with the night light. And I was the only one to blame for this. Out of some terrible fairy tale, so many devils, goblin and water devils, descended on my poor head that they, becoming insolent, began to peek out from all the cracks, stick out their tongues and even fly around the room. I carelessly looked at the pole above the bed, saw a devil on it and screamed. True, it immediately turned out that it was not the devil, but grandfather’s black pants. But this mistake cost me dearly: my mother began to lock the bowl in the chest at night. There was no way I could get to him.

So for the first time, evil spirits wanted to separate me from the printed word. And that wasn't the worst of all. The terrible thing began much later, when the evil spirits sorted out, but did not forgive, my books and in every line they looked for hostile manifestations, various apologetics, perversions, peasant narrow-mindedness, peasant small-proprietary tendencies and some other rubbish...

Uncle Nikolai, how sometimes your ax was not enough to at least chop off the tails of that evil spirit that got into the word like a moth into an apple... But I’ll return again to the ill-fated bowl.

I spent several days trying to get to the chest this way and that, looking for various keys in the pieces of iron, but nothing came of it. But disappointment did not hang around me for very long. A few days later it occurred to me to dream up my own lamp. I did it cheerfully, quickly and simply: I used my grandfather’s hacksaw to open the bottom of the French cartridge, pulled pressure from below into the neck, passed it all through the core of a corn cob and used it to tightly seal a small can of gasoline.

I don’t know if my mother was happy with her invention, but mine just laughed at me. My mother noticed that something was happening to me, incredulously touched the lid of the chest, and I, in order not to burst into tears, ran out of the house.

But making a bowl was much easier than getting a book. In search of her, I walked around almost the entire village, lost my little childhood treasures, and sometimes even climbed onto a side street or towers where chickens were flying. This is how I became acquainted with barter farming back in the twenty-first year.

At the fair, for the thin book “Three Bags of Laughter,” I gave the shameless shopkeeper five whole eggs, found on the towers in the nest of that pied bird that always tries to secretly hatch chicks, because I really wanted to laugh. But it’s not without reason that they say: God bless the merchant, but the devil knows the good. Someone told my mother about my bargaining, and at home I had seven griefs for these three bags of laughter... That’s how you find out that laughter and sin live next door.

My distant relative Giwa laughed the most at these bags of laughter. Having learned about my business, he even danced on his current, and all his curls, which were cramped under his hat, danced. I knew well how to tease Gibe: under the mutton cap there were mutton curls. But this time nothing could anger the cheerful guy. His elongated eyes, with cheerful distrust, which already at the age of fourteen looked mostly from under his brows, simply watered with laughter.

- Here is kumertsia, so kumertsia: what’s good is what’s looped! - holding his hat in his hand, Giwa danced around the barn and could not grab the flail. And for this the small thresher could have suffered a lot.

Givin's parents really wanted to be rich, but in such a way that it would seem to all people that they were poor, like church mice. The damned pursuit of wealth taught them not to take care of themselves, nor their children, nor their cattle, nor their word, which, where it was necessary and not necessary, was cunning, deceitful and poor.

- Are these oxen? - Uncle Vladimir waved his hand at his good, steep-horned beast. “It’s not a burden, but the bones and diseases sewn into the skin are wasted, only food is wasted.”

People heard every now and then that Uncle Vladimir would produce fewer kopecks in the field, haystacks in the meadow and potatoes in the garden; they sympathized with him to his face and laughed behind his back. So that neighbors and uninvited guests would stop looking at him, the careful uncle cunningly attached a latch to the hay doors: close the door behind you, and the latch from the outside itself goes into its slot, and whoever approaches the threshold sees that there is no one at home. When someone turned to Uncle Vladimir for a loan, he first became deaf, and then either remained silent, or said such things that he would at least take the saints out of the house. Even in 1921, when our people were handling millions, Uncle Vladimir, as he said, did not have a penny to his name.

- Where do you put them, Vladimir: either you salt them, or ferment them, or eat them fresh? - Uncle Nikolai sometimes asked under a glass.

Then Uncle Vladimir would become dumbfounded, squirm, gasp with indignation, or for a long time extract from himself “uh-uh” and defend himself from the offender with a raised scribble of his index finger.

But Uncle Nikolai knew how to cut off this “uh-uh.” He looked at Uncle Vladimir with innocent eyes, shook his head, and then leaned towards his ear:

“And in the village, do you hear, a rumor has spread that you measure money by standards,” from such a guy Vladimir immediately blushed like a flower, grabbed his hat and ran home.

The most interesting thing was to listen somewhere in the conversation between Uncle Vladimir and Uncle Kolya. Uncle Vladimir, after drinking a glass, became even poorer, and the real beggar Uncle Nikolai became rich, like a tsar. He was similar to our last emperor, only he had a longer mustache and a bigger soul.

- Is it rye this year? - Uncle Vladimir was so sad, propping his head with his hand, that it seemed that a tear was about to drop into the bowl of dumplings. - Just screenings and grain, not rye.

- How did I get born? Put the grain in an armful, like firewood,” Uncle Nikolai said without blinking an eye. “It’s been a long time since there was such a paradise in my barn.”

“Some people are lucky,” Uncle Vladimir’s wide-eyed expression showed envy. “And then everything fades before your eyes: one misfortune leaves the yard, and a fresh one enters the gate.” You have nothing from the moon, nor from the sun, nor from a cow's milk, nor from a pig's hooves. Even my black pig failed: she farrowed and suppressed her offspring.

“Have you really suppressed everything?” - Uncle Nikolai is sincerely surprised, as if he doesn’t know that Vladimir’s sow crushed only one piglet.

“Consider it all, down to the last hair,” Uncle Vladimir becomes even more sad and closes his eyelids. - And how many of those piglets were there? My pigs are also trying to switch to cow offspring.

Uncle Nikolai's eyebrows slyly jump up and even tremble with hidden joy:

- And my motley one, you hear, like a rabbit, she tries: if she doesn’t turn fourteen, she will bring sixteen, and everything is like molting.

- Sixteen!? - Uncle Vladimir exclaimed in surprise. - What are you talking about, Nikolai!? Can't be!

- Is it too far for you to go? Ask my neighbors. They are all jealous of me, just like you. Why, the neighbors - the landowner from Litin came, shook his money over my ear for half a day - gave all the money for a sow, but I wouldn’t sell it even for a bag of chervonets.

“Hm, you’re lucky, and how lucky you are—happiness itself is shaking your bag.”

- I haven’t seen this. “I won’t say what I didn’t see,” Uncle Nikolai let a roguish smile stretch across his chin.

- And where do you put your piglets? - Uncle Vladimir asked impatiently.

“We take it out to market and eat it ourselves; everyone here is somehow accustomed to pig meat.” What kind of master would I be if I got up or went to bed without her?

And everyone except Uncle Vladimir began to laugh, knowing that Uncle Nikolai had only steaming potatoes for breakfast and dinner...

Vladimirov’s children had a completely different character and, where possible, laughed at the tricks of their parents. And now Giwa fell to the crack of the gate, and then he laughed quietly:

How to make a swan from paper or napkin

Use step-by-step photographs of the process of creating a swan. Origami requires that the fold lines be clearly marked; to do this, it is recommended to run your hand or a ruler along the fold. So:

You need to place a triangle in front of you so that its reverse side “looks” at you. Then it needs to be bent in half lengthwise. Then fold it in half again and straighten it, marking the fold line, which shows the middle of the sheet or napkin;
after that, in the middle you need to bend the edges-triangles, then turn the created workpiece over. Then you need to bend the corners that remain below, but you need to bend them in such a way that there is space between these corners and the upper triangle. The edges need to be folded up and the triangle folded in half;
A module has been released that is made of two corners and two pockets, which are used to create the finished structure. It is into these pockets that we will insert the corners of the modules of the new row. There are several different options for connecting parts to create a large DIY paper “Swan” craft.

Swan made of paper or napkin: diagram

If you want to learn how to make a swan from different materials, you need to know how many parts of a certain color you will initially have to make. Our bird will be created with a color transition. Ranging from orange underneath to light purple on the tips of the wings, with a red beak and black eyes. If you want to create a boat out of paper, you won’t have to strain for long, because you only need one A4 sheet of paper.

Full job description and parts list

Next, for the design we will need one red element for the beak. To create a large body, wings and neck, you need 90 yellow ones, from which three layers will come out, 136 pink ones, 60 yellow ones, 30 pieces in any layer.

Then 39 blue and 78 green, for the neck and ends of the wings - 36 blue and 19 purple. And if you want to make a snow-white swan from paper or napkins, the pattern includes 458 elements and a bright-colored beak.

Any row of our volumetric fake consists of thirty parts, which are made along a chain and closed into a ring. During assembly, hold the structure firmly with your hands. Two rows are installed at the same time: first, three parts are assembled according to our scheme, then another module is attached to the top and bottom. Then you need to attach the remaining parts, and the last one is to close the ring.

What to build from

Different materials are used for construction. Common ones include the following:

Bar. Suitable, for example, 100 by 100 mm, 50 by 150 mm. You can take an inexpensive one, not planed.
Large logs.
Boards. A good size is 25 by 150 mm.
Foam blocks.
Brick. Take silicate 250x120x88 mm (one and a half).
Insulation - mineral wool, polystyrene, polystyrene. Artificial material is suitable for rooms with higher humidity. Eco- and mineral wool do not allow air to stagnate and allow it to pass through well.
Roofing felt, slate, and tiles are suitable for roofing.
Sand.
Granite or crushed gravel. It is advisable to take a medium size: grains of 10–40 mm.
Cement M400 or M500. It produces concrete B15 (M200).
Polyethylene film with a thickness of 200 microns.
Plywood, plasterboard, OSB, DSP.
Pure water. In cold weather, the concrete is heated slightly to prepare it.

The amount of material depends on the area of the gooseneck. For example, they estimate the area of the wall. Then it is divided into the size of one foam block. Get the right amount. It is better to take materials with a small reserve. The rest is calculated using the same principle: boards, bricks, roofing felt, etc.

Prepare the tools:

hammers;
shovels - bayonet, shovel;
saws;
axes;
drills;
fasteners: screws, nails, corners, etc.;
roulette;
level;
rope (cord), pegs;
concrete mixer

Swans for landscape design

An original flowerbed, a mini-pond or its imitation, proud stately birds on the surface of the water - what could be more beautiful in the courtyard of a house or in the shade of trees in the country. The market offers a huge selection of landscape decorations, but zealous owners make them with their own hands from the most ordinary items that can no longer serve their intended purpose - plastic bottles and bags, car tires.

The easiest way is to make a beautiful figurine from wire, an old plastic bottle and matte white polyethylene. An elastic wire is threaded through the neck and bottom of the bottle, which will serve as the body, and a tail and neck are bent from it.

The neck and tail are wrapped with isolon tape with a thickness of 3 to 10 mm. The bottle is filled with the same material.

Polyethylene is cut into strips, one of their sides is turned into fringe. The entire figure is tightly wrapped with blanks

It is important to consider how many ribbons you will need to decorate your landscape decoration

We fix each row with tape. The rows should be arranged so that the base of the figure does not “peek out” from under them.

After the blank is covered with “feathers” made of polyethylene, all that remains is to design the bird’s eyes and beak and find a place for it in the garden.

Tire flowerbed step by step

To create such a swan with your own hands, you will need certain skills, physical strength, and special tools.

You need to prepare:

an old unnecessary tire, an elastic metal rod and thin wire;
chalk or a felt-tip pen contrasting with the color of the tire, paints and brushes;
an electric jigsaw, files for it with a “reverse” tooth, a drill with a set of drills;
pliers, a construction knife, a grinder or a metal file.

Before you start working, you need to mark the tire - draw the head, neck and tail. The head and neck should occupy half of the entire circumference, the tail should be about 25 cm long.

It is better to cut rubber with a jigsaw. We insert the file into the hole previously prepared with a drill and get to work. We set the speed to the minimum so that the material does not burn or tear. We cut the tire symmetrically on both sides, for example, a few cm on one side, then the same distance on the other side of the part.

The cut tire must be turned out. You can do this yourself, but it is better to enlist help.

Along the entire length of the workpiece, paired holes are drilled at a distance of 15-20 cm and wire staples are inserted into them. A metal rod is attached to them and bent in the shape of a swan.

The work is finished, all that remains is to paint the craft and install it.

Video tutorial:

It’s not worth taking on complex models right away. Start with simple options, gain experience, interest your loved ones, and involve them in creativity. Handmade items are unique and look much better than mass-produced items.

Goose profile (budget option)

There are no local goose in our area now (thanks to the valiant land reclamation workers - they defaced the lands and abandoned them), and migratory goose can only be caught in bad weather, or rather bad weather: squally wind, snow, rain. For this reason, it is impossible to use “inflatable” bags and weather vanes; simple profiles remain.

I made the patterns based on photos from the Internet, it is necessary to carefully adjust the sizes that match each other (in the photo they are indicated in the same color).

To make the profiles, I collected all the fiberboard scraps left over from construction work around the house. It is highly desirable that all fiberboard be the same thickness. This will significantly speed up the manufacturing process, and assembly and installation of profiles during hunting will require much less time.

To save more material, it is more convenient to first cut out several blanks of all types and then lay them out on pieces of fiberboard in various combinations (“mixed”), filling the “voids” of some patterns with the “bulges” of others. As long as I don't make a mistake with the count. I did it like this: crows and parts No. 6 - 2 pieces each; No. 4, 5 - 17 pcs.; No. 1, 2, 3, 7 – 36 pcs. The total size of the assembled profile is 1.2-1.4 times larger than a natural goose.

I cut it with a jigsaw on a table without a tabletop - very convenient. I processed all the edges (emery cloth was stuffed onto a block). The tubes were taken from an old TV antenna and ski poles, length 7-10 cm. Cuts for assembling the vertical and horizontal parts of the profile and in the tubes are best made with a cutting wheel. With the thickness of my fiberboard being 3 mm. Right in the store I picked up a cutting wheel with a thickness of about 2.7-2.9 mm, installed it on a circular saw and sawed through all the fiberboard blanks and tubes in about 30 minutes. It turned out quite dense and easy to assemble. After installing the tubes on the profile (I did it with a 3.5-4 mm bolt-nut and slightly riveted it), wipe them with a wet cloth and dry them thoroughly (preferably with a fan).

I painted it with a primer in an aerosol package: easy, quick, non-glare, excellent adhesion to all materials. I laid out many profiles at once (how much space there was) and first applied one color to everything (black as the predominant one), then gray. I only used these two colors. No “feathers”, etc. I did not draw small details. Then he turned it over to the other side and repeated. Install a fan above your head, otherwise you will be covered in paint fumes, it’s good to use a respirator.

I made some of the racks from a flat strip (as much as I found), the rest from 6 mm. wire rod or 5 mm. steel wire (difficult to process and worse to drive into gravel).

Since the profiles must be strictly oriented in directions, the tubes are slightly flattened to prevent rotation. Just slightly, so that there is some freedom to “move” the profile at a small angle from the wind. For the same purpose, the round posts are slightly “twisted”. The “device” in the photo with the racks is needed to: a) press the racks into the ground (a hole for insurance against slipping); b) pull out the racks when removing the profiles (insert the tip of the rack into the hole and, tilting the “device” at an angle, pull it up). For installation on water or in hummocks, there are several racks 75-80 cm long. On rocky spits and frozen ground, it is good to hammer the racks with an anchor from a rubber boat (I have a square or flat profile - I will post a photo in homemade products).

All this “stuff” fits into two bags (one profile, the other small, stand-up) and can be easily carried with one hand.

The trophy of the first trip barely entered the oven.

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From paper palms

You will need corrugated cardboard for the base and for the stand, several sheets of A4 paper in white and/or black, red self-adhesive paper, a pencil, white and/or black gouache, an art brush, a water container, scissors, a table knife, eyes and glue. pencil.

In the end you will have a pair of beautiful swans of the same color, white or black, or contrasting ones, like yin and yang.

The process looks like this:

Mark silhouettes on corrugated cardboard. Carefully cut them out. It is better to do this not with scissors, but with a knife to avoid nicks and creases. Two bases are ready

Please note that one piece should be slightly larger than the other, since the male is always larger and taller than the female. Cover both bases with white and/or black gouache. There should be no unpainted or weakly painted areas. Beak decorator made of self-adhesive paper

Make the eyes from decorative material or pushpins. There should be no sharp ends sticking out from the back of the cardboard. The plumage in the form of white and/or black paper-cut palms will be the main surprise. To do this, fold each sheet of paper in half, trace your palm, or assign it to the children. Cut along the outline. Now, in the direction from the upper edge of the wing to the body, overlap the resulting feather palms onto the cardboard, without leaving any voids. The glue is applied only to the level of the paper wrists, and the fingers should be free. The swans are ready. To ensure the stability of the structure, all that remains is to prepare stands from semicircular cardboard blanks. Make two 4 cm deep slots in them on the rounded side at a distance of 8 cm from each other. Place the stands parallel to each other at some distance. Attach a larger swan to the slots located a level higher, and a female to the bottom row. Paint the coasters so that they do not stand out.

Adviсe

If you are making a pair of swans, make sure your towels are of equal thickness and size for a flawless result.
You can make little baby swan from hand towels. Try making a swan family out of towels!
You can add tails to your swans. A simple "paper fan" made from a disposable hand towel works very well for this - or you can make a triangular shape from a body towel and a hand towel by folding the two corners together. Fold one corner down slightly so that it is sandwiched under the swan's entire body. By placing these towels on the swan's back (from the back), you will give it wings and at the same time prevent it from falling.
If you want to make "12 Days of Christmas" for someone, then you can make a lot of swans called "7 Swimming Swans". Place 7 white bath towels in the bathroom and fold them in the shape of swans. For added beauty, place a few hand towels under them while the water underneath is light blue.

DIY towel swan: step-by-step master class

Even beginners can roll a swan out of a towel. You don't need to be an expert in needlework to do this.

At the same time, such a surprise can be a pleasant surprise for your other half, which will once again remind her of your endless love.

Let's figure out how to twist a swan step by step.

First of all, you need to take a large bath towel (if you want to make 2 or 3 swans, then increase the number of towels accordingly).

The first thing you need to do is find the center of the towel. To do this, you need to fold both long corners. After the center is found, the left side should be rolled up (the roller should be in the upper part).

Then the rolling procedure described above must be repeated on the other side. Thus, it turns out that the left and right parts in the form of rollers “meet” in the middle.

Next, you need to find the pointed edge of the towel and unfold it (as a result, it should become the head of our swan).

Now we bend the neck (it is necessary to create a more pronounced bend to make the towel more similar to a real bird).

Thus, the process of making a swan is completed. This is a traditional classic option.

If you decide to make not one swan, but several at once, then the remaining birds are created by analogy. The second swan can be placed next to the first or turned “face to face”. The last option will add a special romance to your figures.

Goose stuffed with buckwheat and mushrooms

How about one more experiment? I propose to make a special goose with a rather satisfying and unique filling, namely mushrooms and buckwheat. How do you like this idea? Side dish + meat = two in one. Cool!

You will need:

Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUkpleDyYhg

Stages:

1. Do the preliminary work 2 days before baking the goose so that it turns out soft; it cannot be cooked immediately. Tar the poultry well and remove the internal fat. Leave it in the refrigerator for a day, and on the second day soak it in a strong saline solution, take 75 g of salt per 1 liter of water.

After the required amount of time has passed, rub it with black pepper, dry garlic and Dijon mustard on all sides. Cover with a lid and wait 2-3 hours in a warm place.

2. An hour before baking the bird, take the buckwheat and boil it in water until tender. But first fry in a frying pan with one tablespoon of vegetable oil. At the end of cooking, add 1 tbsp of soy sauce to it.

3. Cut half of the total number of mushrooms into slices, the rest will be needed whole. Chop the onion into cubes and fry in a frying pan with vegetable oil until soft, then add the chopped champignons and simmer until tender. Pepper it. Mix buckwheat with mushrooms and taste.

Fill the belly of the goose with the filling and tie it, sew it with toothpicks, and then with thread. Also tie the paws so that they do not separate during baking.

4. In this state, place the goose on a couple of sheets of foil and wrap the top with foil too. Bake the bird in the oven at 180 degrees for 4.5 hours. And half an hour before the carcass is ready, place whole champignon mushrooms, caps down, next to them on foil, add salt, pepper and a small piece of butter.

5. The goose turned out beautiful and rosy, if you want more goldenness, then place the delicacy in the oven for another 15-30 minutes at a temperature of 180 degrees, but without foil. Before serving, remove all toothpicks and strings. Then cut the meat off the bone and serve it temptingly on a sumptuous plate. Happy discoveries!

How to decorate a swan from a towel

The classic version, which involves rolling up a swan from one towel, can be improved by using several terry cloths, adding a tail or making more voluminous wings. They can be taken in identical or contrasting colors. Additional decoration is also possible.

For newlyweds, a pair of swans is usually performed in the form of the bride and groom. For these purposes, appropriate decor is used, for example:

various ribbons (satin, chiffon, nylon) - they are used to make bows, flowers, or additionally fix figures;
fresh and artificial flowers (on the stem, buds and petals);
toppers and nameplates.

On the newlyweds' bed you can see swans wearing a hat and a veil.

To create a romantic atmosphere, fresh flower petals are also used as decoration.

Additional details

When the traditional method seems boring to you, then use a few useful tips. They will help you.

To roll up a swan, you can use not only white towels, but also experiment with brighter colors and shades.
To give volume to the figure, the bird needs to spread its wings.
As an additional element, you can take another towel, from which you can make a beautiful tail (it can also be a different shade).

Making towels from swans is appropriate not only for newlyweds. You can surprise your significant other with such a surprise after several years of married life together.

A master class on creating a swan from a towel is in the video below.

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