New Year 2022 is the year of the Red (Fire) Rooster, and the most popular gift will be its figurine or image. The needlewomen of Krestik have a good tradition: to prepare thoroughly for the New Year holiday. And this year will be no exception. Many of us will make or are already making a rooster with our own hands, or even not one, but several at once! After all, you must definitely please your family and friends with a handmade symbol of the year, and yourself with the fascinating process of creating this very symbol using various handmade techniques.
Creating a kind of GUIDE TO MASTER CLASSES from the Internet is also a tradition of our handicraft site, which was born a year ago. For you, dear craftswomen, we have selected only the best master classes online. Admire, look closely, discuss and choose the most colorful rooster! And then sew/knit/draw/blind/weave it. So, what technology can you use on the eve of the New Year holiday?
- Cockerels made of paper and on paper
- Crochet cockerels
- Felt roosters
- Fabric rooster: patterns, ideas, recommendations
- Rooster made of plasticine or polymer clay
- Rooster using Decoupage technique
- Roosters felted from wool
- Roosters embroidered with cross stitch, beads and ribbons
- We weave cockerels from beads
- Russian gingerbread "Cockerel", decorated with glaze
- Foamiran rooster
If you don’t have time to work, it doesn’t matter. The article contains links to craftswomen who sell finished works.
Cockerels made of paper and on paper
Making cards with the kids
If you are not a professional cardmaker, then before you start creating cards, be sure to read our article “Learning to make New Year cards with your own hands using the Scrapbooking technique.” In it you will not only find many ideas, but also get acquainted with the basic rules for creating postcards.
Any cockerel drawn by your child can be placed on a postcard. If it’s difficult for your child to figure out how to draw a rooster with his own hands, then show him this step-by-step instructions:
And then, it’s a matter of technology. Cut out the cockerel and make it the centerpiece of the composition. For example, your card can be this simple but cute. In your work, use New Year's paper and a bright red ribbon, add snowflakes, twigs and other holiday paraphernalia. Once you have a basic idea, the process of creating a card becomes much easier!
Photo from the site https://itsapatchworklife.blogspot.ru
If your child likes to color black and white pictures, give him this opportunity. Print the card template with a cockerel on thick cardboard and let your child get to work. Next, by cutting out a ball blank, you can add voluminous snowflakes to the card, glue half-beads imitating New Year's balls, etc., etc. Give free rein to your and your baby's imagination))
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You will find 8 more templates for coloring, as well as 2 step-by-step instructions for drawing more realistic roosters in the archive, which you can download quickly and for free!
Take note of the idea with a cockerel on a stick, like on Elena Yurchenko’s postcard. Her cockerels are cut out of felt, or you can cut them out of paper.
Roosters made of colored paper
An applique made of colored paper can also be placed on a greeting card. But such an application can itself act as a postcard. To draw and carefully cut out all the details, children will need the help of their parents, but they can glue them themselves.
Olga-15 suggests making funny cockerels out of paper in her master class.
The Rooster blank is a rectangular sheet of flexible paper or thin cardboard, folded in half lengthwise. Its size is 13.5x10 cm. We make 7–10 inclined slits along the fold line (approximately every 1 cm). Their angle of inclination is 50–70 degrees, and their depth is ¾ of the height of the folded sheet.
The author clarifies that the right edge of the workpiece (tail) must be bent inward and connected to the opposite edge of the workpiece (breast).
Ekaterina Ivanova in her video tutorial shows how to make a red rooster using the Origami technique:
Roosters using Quilling technique
A very interesting idea is to lay out only a luxurious rooster tail from quilling paper. It's not as hassle as laying out a whole rooster, and it can turn out very impressive! Here is a rooster without a tail as a basis (see the photo below for how it looked in the original).
Print it on a color printer, and then fantasize about the tail. As an example, here is one such work (although the tail here is modest, but you will try, right?))
And if you are not afraid to make a whole rooster using the Quilling technique, then you can use this ready-made postcard as a basis:
Or this template:
A cheat sheet on the basic elements of Quilling to help you:
Button applique
And here are absolutely stunning handsome roosters, made of multi-colored buttons, half-beads, rhinestones and beads! You can take the contours of the cockerels from our archive as a basis (link just above).
Balloon toy
A voluminous craft will be made from balloons and threads. For this you will need:
- PVA glue.
- The yarn is yellow, red and orange.
- Two balloons.
- Colored paper.
Inflate one big balloon, the second smaller one. Moisten the yarn with PVA glue and wrap the balls.
After the glue has completely dried, pierce the balls with a needle and remove them from the thread frame. You will get the head and body of a rooster; they need to be fastened together.
To decorate the craft you will need colored paper. It is important that several bright colors are used when making the wings and tail. The comb, beak, eyes, earrings and paws are also made from colored paper. Attach all parts to the body. If desired, the paws can be made of wire, then the craft will be stable.
Crochet cockerels
Many needlewomen are familiar with the crochet hook and will be happy to knit a cockerel from multi-colored threads. And Krestik will help you decide on a model and offer several master classes on this type of needlework.
Even a beginner can knit a toy using Tatyana’s master class Dreamfall2702.
This colorful symbol of 2022 is knitted according to the master class on the “Women’s School” website:
Anastasia Kononenko offers her version of the Cockerel - small but remote - on a plastic Kinder Surprise egg. We knit from Iris threads.
Master Elena_Lencho has prepared a master class on tying a rooster named Gordey and is ready to sell it to anyone interested.
Elegant polka dotted cockerels will decorate any interior!
Photo from Stip&HAAK website
The same cockerels, but with different eyes, look different. A craftswoman from Moscow, Ekaterina Cherkova (Nikuska), will be happy to knit an exclusive symbol of the year for you (email [email protected] ). Here are her polka dotted roosters:
Want to try your hand at it? You can knit an amigurumi rooster using this master class from AmigurushkaRU:
Craftswoman Svetlana Zabelina crochets bookmarks in the shape of cockerels. Also a great gift for those who love to read. The master class can be purchased here.
You can also buy knitted cockerels from Svetlana.
Photos of rooster crafts
What else can a cockerel be made from? Yes, from anything, from buttons or plastic bottles (you can decorate your garden with such a craft). It can be made of wood or thread, from old things or some other improvised materials, for example, disposable plates. A painting using the quilling technique with a cockerel - the symbol of 2022 - can also be an excellent gift. You can use satin ribbons, feathers and beads to make decorations for a paper or fabric cockerel.
Felt roosters
The fastest and easiest options for creating a symbol of 2022 are felt roosters. The material is easy to process, holds the shape of the toy well, and does not require processing of seams. On the contrary, hand stitches along the face of the product give it a special flavor and charm.
Photo from the site https://madeheart.com
Author - Kanaeva Anastasia
Photo from the site https://ktototam.ru/
A rooster figurine carefully cut out of thick felt will be both a Christmas tree decoration and a pendant.
Photo from the site https://ktototam.ru
And if you decorate the felt cockerels with embroidery, flowers and other decorative elements, it will turn out incredibly beautiful!
Photo from the site https://mmmcrafts.blogspot.ru
On the “Decorate Your World” website we found for you several more felt cockerels, but with patterns.
Daria Dar prepared in advance a video master class on sewing the symbol of 2022 from felt:
Fabric rooster: patterns, ideas, recommendations
If you have the talent of a seamstress, you can sew a symbol of the coming year from any fabric. Depending on it and the pattern, the rooster will turn out to be in the Tilda style, fantasy, funny, fairy-tale, cartoonish, natural, even anti-stress!
We have collected several patterns for sewing roosters from fabric in an archive that you can quickly and freely)
A bright fabric toy can be purchased here.
Author - Baranova Elena
Roosters in Tilda style
Well, how can we manage now in our lives without the tilde-Rooster? On the ToySew website there is a master class on sewing this popular toy.
Master Vetic on her blog posted patterns for the Rooster and Chicken Peas based on the tilde pattern. An interesting couple will turn out if you put in the effort and patience!
And for inspiration:
Cockerel Yurik from Orange Toys
Maria Fedorova made a funny video about her tilda roosters (the link to the patterns is in the description of the video!):
Coffee cock toys
Aromatic, or coffee, toys compete with tildes in popularity. There are roosters using this technique.
A coffee cockerel can be like this:
Photo from the site https://zabavochka.com
You can easily sew it yourself using one of the patterns suggested above. “Cross” talked about all the intricacies of creating coffee toys in this master class.
If you think that you cannot cope with such work yourself, contact a specialist. Yulia Charikova made enough branded toys with the smell of coffee and put them up for sale at this address.
Fur interior toys
Oksana Svyatkovskaya will show her vision of a rooster and show how to sew it correctly using ready-made patterns. Her Rooster is made of faux fur, but who’s to say that it doesn’t happen or that it’s not good?)
Cockerel Mr. Twister by Yulia Sokolova is also made of faux fur. It can be ordered here.
Another cockerel made of fur (this time natural):
Author - Kraevaya Irina (Fur Paws)
Rooster pillows are a first-class New Year's gift with the symbol of the year!
Rooster made of plasticine or polymer clay
Entertaining toys in the shape of a rooster are made from plasticine, cold porcelain, polymer clay or salt dough. You can involve children in the work. They sculpt with pleasure and paint with imagination.
With your help, the child will make a cockerel, following these step-by-step instructions:
The Risovandiya channel has prepared a video tutorial on how to sculpt a cockerel figurine from salt dough for children aged 4-6 years:
The polka dot cockerel is sculpted as follows:
Variations on the same theme, but with humor)
From salt dough, as well as from plastic, you can sculpt flat figures:
Photo from the site https://www.fler.cz
Admire the real Fire Rooster (author - Svetlana Belova)
In her video, Ekaterina Zabolotskaya shows how to make a magnet with the symbol of 2022:
Master class 5. Cockerel on a leg
Another idea for a table decoration that can become a real talisman in 2022, an Easter attribute, or just a beautiful piece of furniture in the Provence style.
Materials:
- Wooden board 20 mm thick (can be replaced with plywood);
- A piece of plywood for the wing, 6-8 mm thick;
- Wooden stick with a diameter of 10 mm and a length of 13 cm;
- Jigsaw with wood files (for finishing cuts);
- Sandpaper or sanding block;
- Drill and drill bit 10 mm;
- Finishing nails 20 mm;
- Pencil;
- Acrylic paints of the desired colors (not necessarily those in the picture), but it is better to make the comb red and the beak yellow;
- Brushes.
Instructions:
Step 1: Print and cut out the rooster template.
Step 2. Transfer the contours of the template onto the board/plywood and cut out all the details: the body of the cockerel, one wing (the figure will be one-sided) and the base in the shape of a square.
Step 3. Cut out all the parts of your craft, then sand the edges.
Step 4. Drill a 1 cm diameter hole in the base of the figurine to a depth of approximately 1.5 cm.
Step 5. Drill the same hole in the square base of the cockerel.
Step 6: Now attach the wing to the rooster's body using three finishing nails.
Step 7. Place a wooden stick into the holes in the cockerel figurine and into the square base.
Step 8. Paint the cockerel approximately as in our master class or to your taste. To create an antique effect, after the paint has dried, rub the cockerel in some places with fine-grit sandpaper.
Below are photo examples of rooster crafts that you can make with your own hands according to our instructions, but using other templates, paints and decorating techniques.
Rooster decorated using decoupage technique
Craft in the shape of a rooster, painted with slate paint
Rooster using decoupage technique
Roosters made using the Decoupage technique are also worthy! They will decorate the New Year tree and become a cute souvenir for loved ones. Directly Decoupage or painting on wood - it's up to you to decide. And we will tell you where you can buy blanks.
Wooden blank Rocking Rooster (manufacturer: Rukodelium)
In the workshop Everything for creativity (dljatvorchestva) there are a lot of blanks for painting and decoupage. Choose and create!
This is the beauty you can get:
Author - decoration & gifts Irina Chizhova (Decor-Gifts)
Author - Vasilisa
If you don’t want to make a souvenir in the shape of a rooster, then you can decorate any wooden surface with an image of a rooster. The scope for creativity here is simply limitless!!! Here are just a few examples for inspiration:
Decoupage of a cutting board (author - Marnush (Marina Nushtaeva)
Kitchen set “Cockerels” (author - Cozy things)
Clock "Peter the Cockerel" (author - Leonova Oksana)
DIY cockerel on a stick
To make such a fun craft you will need: double-sided colored cardboard and any stick.
From double-sided colored cardboard, cut out the necessary parts in the amount of 2 pieces: the body (oval) and wings (palms). Don't forget about the paws, comb and beak.
Roosters felted from wool
Some craftswomen make wool toys that look like real ones! Let's admire and be inspired! And if you really want to buy one of these beauties, then look for them at the Masters Fair (the link is on each photo).
Author - Tatyana Kononova
Author - Zhanna Bugrova
Author - Galina Rotar
Author - Natashakun
Elenia collected in one place many different Roosters felted from wool and suggested to MK how to create one of them. It turns out very cute!
Roosters embroidered with cross stitch, beads and ribbons
Perhaps you love embroidery more than other types of needlework. Then you can place the symbol of the year on a pillowcase, decorate it in the form of a panel, a picture in a frame or a brooch. The main thing is that the image of the Rooster warms your soul. And if you give away your work, find out the preferences of the recipient.
You will find more than 50 different patterns for embroidering roosters and cockerels in a special album for our VK group. There are miniatures and large colorful patterns for cross stitch, there are roosters using the Blackwork technique and several patterns for bead embroidery.
You can embroider with ribbons either on white fabric, having previously transferred the image of a rooster onto it, or on a special fabric for embroidering with ribbons with an already printed image. Such works look more impressive due to the beautiful background. Here is an example of one such print on gabardine (sold here):
And several finished works embroidered with ribbons:
DIY rooster made from colored paper
You can make these funny cockerels with your child in a matter of minutes.
To begin, roll up the bag as you would for seeds. Trim the edge so that the bag can stand.
Glue the following parts to the bag: scallop, beak, bushy tail, wings and accordion legs.
We weave cockerels from beads
Miniature beaded cockerels can be turned into a keychain or phone pendant.
To weave a flat rooster according to the pattern below, prepare round beads of black, yellow, light blue or dark blue, as well as white and red; brass wire (80 cm for the wings and 120 cm for the body).
Start weaving with the comb. After weaving the next 2 top rows, make the cockerel's beak. After the 4th row, weave a thread 20 cm long into this row. In the next row, thread the thread that you just added (this way you will make a thickening under the rooster’s beak). Then weave the remaining body and legs.
Weave the wing separately. Attach to the body as follows: thread the threads of the last row, which contains 5 beads, into the last 2 white beads of the row (marked with asterisks in the diagram). Tie the threads. If desired, the colors of the beads can be changed.
And 2 more patterns for weaving cockerels, this time voluminous:
And real masters of beadwork create masterpieces like these:
Button panel
To create a craft you need:
- Sheet of cardboard.
- Frame.
- Fabric (plain or with small patterns).
- Approximately 100 buttons of different sizes and colors.
- Glue.
- Pencil.
It is important to choose the shades of buttons to avoid sharp transitions. For example, the paws and comb will be made of red buttons, the head will be yellow, and the neck will be orange. For the tail, it is better to use several colors: blue, purple, lilac. To decorate the body, you need to mix buttons of all these shades.
Cover the cardboard with fabric and draw the silhouette of a rooster. Then start filling the outline. Before gluing the buttons, they need to be arranged according to size. Fill empty spaces with beads.
Russian gingerbread "Cockerel", decorated with glaze
Why not try baking a gingerbread in the shape of a fairy-tale Cockerel? We offer a simple recipe and method of decoration. Sweets are always welcome for the New Year's table!
Recipe
For 3 cups of flour you will need 200 g of sugar, 2-3 tablespoons of honey, 100 g of butter or margarine, 3 eggs, ½ teaspoon of soda and any spices - cardamom, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, cloves.
Before preparing gingerbread, be sure to sift the flour and enrich it with air - this will make your gingerbread more airy.
Place the butter and honey in a saucepan and melt over low heat, without bringing to a boil, with constant stirring. Add spices and soda. Add eggs, beaten with sugar, to the warm honey-cream mixture. Now you can add flour and knead into a soft dough, similar in consistency to plasticine. Using a rolling pin, roll out into a layer 0.5-0.8 cm thick. Cut out gingerbread cookies in the shape of cockerels or hens.
It’s easier to use a stamped die in the form of a rooster figurine. The moe-pechenie workshop sells cuttings that can be used to work with edible dough, such as gingerbread. But you can also fantasize, sculpt it yourself, imagine your Rooster.
Next, place the gingerbread cookies on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and bake at 180 degrees until golden brown. This is about 20–25 minutes.
Glaze
Decorate the cooled gingerbreads with protein glaze, for the preparation of which we use 1 egg white, 200 g of powdered sugar and 5-6 drops of lemon juice. Mix everything carefully with a fork, adding powder in small parts. Then we put the finished glaze into a culinary syringe or a pound stick (they can be replaced with a plastic bag with a small cut at the end) and apply the design to the gingerbread.
Author – StudyaAnna
DIY rooster from egg trays
To make a children's craft, you will need a cardboard egg tray, a cardboard tube, paints and two hard-boiled chicken eggs.
Cut out the necessary parts from a cardboard egg tray and attach a cardboard tube to them.
Paint the comb and beak with red paint. The eyes of the homemade Rooster will be two chicken eggs, which you can also decorate or paint with food coloring.
