How to make a peacock from natural material?
As you can see, the craft consists entirely of natural material. The only exception is plasticine, but this was used to a minimum.
To begin, glue the acorn to the side of the pine cone and a stand, thanks to which the peacock will hold a vertical position. It is better to make them from not very bright plasticine, for example, brown.
Next, make a beautiful peacock tail. Here you can show all your imagination and make, in fact, an applique of leaves, using small pieces of plasticine or PVA glue for gluing. You can stick smaller leaves of various colors onto a large maple leaf; even rowan berries attached to the edges of the maple leaf would be a good idea.
Make a small cone-beak from orange plasticine, and eyes from white and black. Glue these parts to the bird, attach a chic tail to the pine cone, and a small leaf on the head, which will serve as a crest.
The principle of making the main parts of the figure
Before making a peacock from plasticine, you need to think through the entire algorithm. The step-by-step implementation consists of the following steps:
- Divide a piece of plasticine of the main color into 3 parts, but not equal. You need to divide the entire piece in half, and then cut off another 1/3 part from one of them - this will be the head; the larger part is the tail; half is the torso.
- From a small part, first make a sphere, which then needs to be converted into an oval. This shape will be ideal for shaping the head.
- From the piece for the body, separate a small piece that will need to be rolled into a sausage - this is the neck. It is worth considering that in a peacock this part of the body is short and not too thick.
- The body is formed according to the same principle as the bird’s head.
- The third part should be divided into several equal pieces. Each part is a feather, so the more parts, the better. To do this, you need to roll out all the pieces into sausages, which should be approximately the same length and thickness. Flatten each element, forming a long teardrop-shaped oval.
A full-fledged plasticine peacock will be obtained only after assembly and finishing, which should be done according to the principle of pottery.
Peacock applique made from dry leaves
Peacock applique made from autumn leaves. The peacock is a majestic bird with a luxurious tail. It is unlikely that in nature you can find such a proud, handsome creature who never ceases to show off his huge feathers shimmering in the sun. We suggest that you and your child make an applique in the form of a peacock, using natural material in the form of a dry herbarium for this.
Autumn leaves will be an excellent puzzle that needs to be assembled into a beautiful picture.
Materials for work:
• leaves are preferably oblong; • lionfish seeds; • PVA glue; • half beads or sequins; • thin branches or tails from the leaves themselves; • paper.
What material should you choose for work?
A plasticine peacock should turn out bright and beautiful. It should be taken into account that a lot of material will be needed to make the figurine, since most of it will go to forming the bushy tail.
You need to choose bright colors that will be used to model the fan. You must definitely take yellow, red, light green or light green, blue. The main figure can be made from dark green, blue, brown or black plasticine.
To start making a peacock, you need to properly organize your workspace and choose a sketch. The complexity of the sketch, the number of small parts and elements depends on the age of the child and his skills.
Step-by-step making of a peacock from dry autumn leaves
1. First take glue, paper and leaves. Half beads will be needed at the end for decoration. Select oblong parts of the herbarium.
2. Glue an ash leaf horizontally in the center of the sheet. On one side, attach a perpendicularly directed acacia leaf to it.
3. Attach a small round head at the top.
4. Now you need to pay attention to the tail - fluffy and very long. Divide the lionfish seeds in half. Start attaching the oblong helicopters from the back, pointing down.
5. Use enough detail to create a beautiful silhouette down.
6. Glue a small beak in front, add a crest at the top. Draw a small eye on the head.
7. Use thin twigs to make the paw. Decorate the peacock's lush tail with half beads. Glue the wing onto the body using the same lionfish seeds. The autumn peacock applique made from leaves is ready.
Peacock from seeds
To make a peacock bird craft, you first need to show the huge tail of this bird, and in the given lesson for this it is proposed to use natural material - maple or ash lionfish seeds, which are easy to collect even near your home, dry and attach to cardboard using ordinary liquid stationery glue or even double-sided tape. In this case, the beautiful tail is made of natural material and complemented with plasticine parts. That is, the body, head and legs of the bird are made of it. Therefore, the craft turns out bright. If you wish, after work you can cover the tail with bright colors, for example, gouache, or leave it in its natural form.
Materials for making crafts:
- paper;
- cardboard;
- liquid office glue;
- plasticine;
- dry lionfish seeds;
- scissors.
How to make a peacock craft step by step
- Prepare any sheet for the background and cardboard for the base to attach the lionfish. Or initially use colored cardboard for the background.
- Start shaping the peacock's fluffy tail using natural material. Carefully tear off the helicopters and secure them with a fan. If you are using a thin sheet for the background, it is better to place cardboard under the seeds so that the liquid glue does not cause the paper to sag.
- Form a fluffy tail like a fan, layer the helicopters on top of each other and make the main decoration of the bird.
- Now begin to form the central part from plasticine, putting the resulting base aside for now and waiting for the glue to dry. Form a bright piece resembling the shape of a figure eight, for example, and green plasticine.
- Glue a small beak to this figure eight at the top, wings on the sides and paws at the bottom.
- Also glue on the eyes and forelock, and the central part of the peacock figurine will be ready.
- When the glue dries and the tail is ready, attach the plasticine part in the center, and the peacock will show off in front of you.
- This is how a peacock figurine is easily and simply made from natural materials and plasticine. Try the proposed method too. You can make other birds, but the peacock is famous for its noticeable tail, so I want to make it simply huge and tempting. Other dry material is also suitable - a herbarium from the leaves of willow, maple, and so on.
Application "Owl" from autumn leaves
You will need: autumn leaves, a sheet of cardboard, a sprig of wild grapes, a bunch of rowan berries, PVA glue, scissors, plasticine.
Master Class
- Select sheets of suitable shape.
- Take the yellow owl body sheet and shape it into the desired shape using scissors.
- Glue a green leaf as a head onto the cardboard.
- Make eyes from white and black plasticine.
- Glue them.
- Cut out a beak from a red leaf.
- Cut out the eyebrows from the yellow sheet, then glue them on.
- Select 2 green leaves of the same size and glue them as legs.
The “Owl” applique made from autumn leaves is ready!
Application “Autumn Landscape”
You will need: thick blue cardboard, PVA glue, brown plasticine, stack, rowan berries, autumn leaves of different colors, a simple pencil.
Master Class
- Roll a tree trunk out of plasticine.
- Roll up some branches.
- Glue the trunk and branches onto the cardboard.
- Press the plasticine with your finger, making the structure flatter.
- Apply cracks to the wood using the stack.
- Mark the boundaries of the tree's crown with a pencil.
- Break the leaves into small pieces.
- Apply glue to part of the tree and sprinkle with crushed leaves.
- Cover the entire crown of the tree with shredded leaves in the same way.
- Mark the boundary of the land with a pencil.
- Apply glue.
- Glue the chopped leaves.
- Glue the rowan berries and leave to dry completely.
Application “Autumn Landscape” is ready! I recommend watching the video master class!
What decorative elements can be used additionally
To make the figurine more colorful and bright, you can use other materials instead of plasticine to decorate the tail feathers and wings: beads, beads, rhinestones, sparkles, stained glass glue. It is necessary to apply several layers of circles from larger to smaller sizes, and at the top of each layered overlay, place a bead (pebble, pearl, etc.)
A plasticine peacock should also have eyes, a beak, legs and a crest. A head fan can be made from thin pieces of wire with one bead on top of each one. You need to prepare 3-5 such elements.
The paws can be ordinary matches, which then need to be stuck into an island prepared from plasticine. Additionally, you can use any techniques and materials to decorate your craft.
Application "Peacock" from autumn leaves
You will need: colored cardboard, PVA glue, scissors, gold and red autumn leaves, felt-tip pen.
Master Class
- Place 5 yellow leaves in a semicircle on the cardboard.
- Glue them.
- Place 7 smaller red leaves on top of the yellow leaves.
- Glue them.
- Cut out the peacock's body and glue it on.
- Cut out the beak and glue it on.
- Draw the eyes.
The “Peacock” applique made from autumn leaves is ready! I recommend watching this video!
Assembly
In the process of forming individual parts, the question arises as to how to make a peacock from plasticine more natural and “alive”. It all depends on the quality of assembly and processing of each element.
You need to connect the blanks of the head, neck, and torso together and attach each feather from the tail. To hide the transitions between parts, you need to use well-crushed plasticine. All cracks and joints are rubbed with a small amount of material.
Depending on the main color, an additional one is selected, which will be correctly combined with the main one. Wings are formed from it, which are made in the form of drops. To hide the connection of the tail feathers with the body, you need to make many small circles from an additional color and attach them at the base of the tail. A little extra color should be spread throughout the tail feathers.
Application "Fish" from autumn leaves
You will need: blue cardboard, autumn leaves of different colors, scissors, PVA glue, doll's eye.
Master Class
- Glue a yellow piece of paper in the center of the cardboard as the body of the fish.
- Glue 2 red leaves as a tail.
- Cut out a heart from a red sheet and glue fish as sponges.
- Cut part of the red leaf in half and glue it as fins.
- Glue the eye.
- Prepare twigs with green leaves.
- Glue them at an angle as seaweed.
The “Fish” applique made from autumn leaves is ready!
