For the New Year holidays, a green beauty, a Christmas tree, appears in every home, which everyone decorates with special trepidation. Most people buy a huge amount of all kinds of Christmas tree balls at the nearest supermarket, but some still strive for uniqueness, which means they make Christmas tree decorations with their own hands.
In this article, the News portal “Vtemu.by” has prepared for you several simple master classes and ideas for making Christmas tree decorations in the form of the symbol of the upcoming New Year 2022, the Rooster.
And if you are ready, then let's get started...
DIY Christmas tree toy Cockerel in an egg
Absolutely everyone will love these charming homemade Christmas tree decorations.
To make this you will need chicken eggs, food coloring or acrylic paints, yellow knitting threads, glue, live eyes and decorative rope.
Break the chicken egg so that there is a hole on the side of the shell. Remove the white and yolk, rinse the shell and let it dry thoroughly.
Now start painting. You can paint eggshells with food coloring, as many do for Easter, or use acrylic paints. While the shells are drying, you can start creating the cockerels themselves.
Make pompoms from yellow knitting threads. Glue live eyes and beak to them. Place the yellow rooster chick inside the colored shell.
Glue a decorative rope to the top of the shell, using which you can hang the toy on the Christmas tree.
Crafts made from salt dough - rooster
Another popular material for children's crafts is salt dough. It’s not difficult to make, sculpting is as simple as using plasticine, but the figures are stronger and more durable—you don’t have to worry that your child will break everything just because he squeezed his fingers on the toy a little tighter than necessary.
Salt dough cockerel recipe:
Mix 200-250 grams of flour and half a glass or a little more fine sea or regular table salt in a bowl. Add about 150 grams of water and mix everything thoroughly. At the end, pour in 20-30 grams of glue - it is better to use PVA so that the dough holds its shape better and the figures do not fall apart.
Next, we begin to sculpt the figure - we make a body, add a head, attach wings and a tail to it, and also do not forget about the comb and beak. Afterwards we paint with gouache or some special paints. We make all the parts separately, and then glue them together with glue or water. To make small parts and shape them, use a scalp or a thin and sharp knife; when working with children, it is better to take safe plastic tools - a spatula or something that will help you make cuts and create the necessary elements.
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Video: DIY Christmas rooster craft
DIY Christmas tree toy Rooster made from paper
Another option to make a Christmas tree decoration by 2022 is to use a ready-made paper blank and colored pencils.
Print the blank on thick white paper. Use decorative rope to make a rooster's legs, then glue paper feet to each end of the rope.
Using multi-colored pencils or markers, decorate the craft.
And now your Christmas tree toy Cockerel is ready.
Volume craft rooster with children
If a flat figurine is not to your liking, why not make three-dimensional crafts in the shape of a rooster, which you can give to children in kindergarten and give to friends for the New Year? We have already talked about how to knit a cockerel with hooks or sew scraps or fabric - this is the most popular way to make voluminous toys. Crafts for the garden for the year of the rooster are easiest to make from paper, napkins or plasticine, and if everything is clear with plasticine, then with paper you can use various methods, for example, first make a cone from colored paper, and only then turn it into a rooster. You can also use techniques such as volumetric quilling or plain or corrugated paper, origami, papier mache and the use of complex patterns and patterns. Some even manage to make a rooster out of cotton pads and sticks, and for a Christmas tree out of Christmas balls, cereals, pasta, coffee beans, pine cones, chestnuts, acorns and other natural materials.
DIY Christmas tree toy Rooster made of felt
Multi-colored felt is considered an excellent material for making all kinds of crafts. This material has bright and rich colors, does not require additional processing of the edges, and is easy and pleasant to work with.
We bring to your attention several ideas for felt Roosters that you can make with your own hands.
We knit a cockerel with crochet and knitting needles
For women who know how to knit, this would be an ideal option to make a cockerel. This knitted rooster will decorate your kitchen or bedroom, and is also suitable for a gift.
To make this craft you will need:
- 4 black buttons.
- Textile. An old sheet or other thick fabric may come in handy. You can choose the color you like best.
- The hooks are small.
- Threads 4 colors. You can recycle old sweaters that are no longer needed. These can be wool or cotton threads.
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You can make a symbol as follows:
- First of all, make a pattern of a cockerel on paper or old wallpaper. Cut it out carefully with scissors.
- Transfer it to the fabric, keeping a slight margin of 5 millimeters for the seam.
- Now tie the cockerel's head and body. Gray threads are suitable for this.
- Knit the tummy in brown.
- Make the comb and beak red.
You can knit individual parts or make the entire cockerel. Fill the toy with padding polyester, cotton wool or pieces of fabric that need to be finely cut. Sew buttons on the symbol of 2022 instead of an eye. You can replace the buttons with beads from an old necklace. The craft is ready.
DIY Christmas tree toy Rooster (felting)
Do you know the felting technique? Then feel free to get to work. Felt the cute little roosters and then use glue to secure each one in a nutshell.
If desired, the shells themselves can also be decorated with acrylic paints.
Cockerel
Cockerel for a competition made of threads.
To create this cockerel we will need the following material: 1. threads of red-yellow shades and black; 2. thick cardboard; 3. brown, red and black colored paper; 4. PVA glue, titanium or moment. Tools for work: 1. scissors; 2. pencil; 3. hook.
We take thick cardboard, I got it from a box. We outline or draw the cockerel ourselves, I enlarged mine. We finish drawing the elements and boots.
Cut it out, I cut it with kitchen scissors.
We cover the back with any paper or wallpaper.
I was so carried away that I forgot about the ugly sidewall. It’s better to decorate it now, shown in photo No. 22. So, take red threads and wrap them around your palm. Cut off the thread. We cut our bunch and chop it finely.
As small as possible, this is on the scallop. For the “feathers” we will cut them to different lengths.
Coat the scallop well with PVA glue.
We fill it with threads without sparing, immediately creating volume.
We twist the sulfur thread into a circle for the eye and glue it
Next, we finish the neck by cutting threads of different lengths to make the cockerel livelier.
Now the wing, this is the most voluminous element.
Now the shoes. First, red threads, white hem, black sole and heel with black cardboard.
Wings. We form a “feather” in our hands and glue all the feathers together.
Tail. Spread it well with glue. We mentally divide each feather in half, fill the upper part with longer threads, and the lower part with small ones.
Using threads we create volume.
In the next feather, the threads are found on the previous feather. We finish all the feathers to the end.
We cut all the threads into 15 cm.
We form loops and tie them with thread at the bottom.
. I remembered that the sidewall was not decorated. I decorated it with a knitted braid (you can also use napkins twisted into stripes or a braid woven from 3 threads)
We glue titanium or moment with glue.
And to finish, we strengthen our threads with hairspray.
The photo, unfortunately, does not convey the volume and all the beauty of the Cockerel. It’s a pity that more photos of the finished Cockerel cannot be uploaded, everything was taken by MK
The work was done in 3 hours, it may seem difficult, but this is only at first glance. I wish everyone good luck in the competition and in the New Year. And my Cockerel is the symbol of 2022. will wait in the wings to change the monkey and take its place on the door. Thank you for your attention.
