DIY crow soft toy. Ways to make a crow mask

Do you have a whole collection of mismatched socks and don’t know where to use them? No problem! Scissors, thread, buttons and a little padding polyester or other filling for toys and a couple of free hours. Let's open a family factory for the production of soft toys!

The best way to teach a child something useful is to make something interesting and exciting together. Some design and modeling skills will be mastered easily and simply if you try to sew at least one toy from socks with your baby.

Socks seem to be created in order to make a variety of toys out of them. This material is surprisingly diverse in terms of textures and colors. Smooth and terry, with and without fingers, long and short... All these qualities are simply a treasure trove of possibilities for creativity. Animals and birds, dolls, gnomes, all kinds of friends and girlfriends for children. And all this in just a couple of hours of work. Is not that great?

As you can see, everything is very simple and really fun and interesting! You can find out more about how to make a sock toy by clicking on the link below:

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Raven and crow... We meet some only in the mountains and other sparsely populated places, others surround us every day, as they settle next to people. Some are endowed with intelligence and wisdom, others are accused of arrogance and cunning. Kind of tricksters that don't let you get bored. There were so many crows in the works of the masters that the selection had to be divided into two parts. So, part one.

Irina Krylova from Moscow works with wool, creating toys, jewelry, scarves and mittens.

Wool, plastic paws, glass eyes

Keltma lives in Moscow, works as a ceramic artist, and also does dot painting, decoupage, embroidery and felting.

“It turns out interesting... If at an inopportune time and in an inopportune place some idea comes to your mind “to sculpt something”, and if you quickly sketch it all out on a piece of paper, and then, already at home, develop this idea, come up with everything, draw in detail, then I will never blind this work. It will remain on paper. I already have a plump notebook called “cemetery of ideas”. Probably this is because after drawing, I have already, as it were, “blended” - I know what, how and where to do it, and I lose interest in the work itself. But I wanted to sculpt this raven so much that I didn’t even start drawing. I came up with everything on the fly. And this is what happened: as always, the raven has a bottle inside, The height of the figurine is 38 cm. I used self-hardening plastic and acrylic paints for the work."

“I took particular pleasure in coming up with details: boots, an umbrella, a hat, all sorts of patches...”

And here you can view a detailed master class on the raven - http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/keltma/post183488758/
Part two, decoration - http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/keltma/post184233003/

Galina from Balakovo (Saratov region) is engaged in knitting and sewing. She shares the Kar-Karych pattern - http://www.liveinternet.ru/community/2296102/post189331775/

Elena Vasilyeva from Chelyabinsk creates rag dolls and handmade toys. The order was made for a member of the White Raven motorcycle club, in honor of his birthday.

A real man's activity, origami, was mastered by Yaroslav Terekhov from Moscow. It’s a pity that after exhibitions, after the hands of spectators, paper works become wrinkled. And after two years spent on the shelf, you can transform the toy.

A black raven sits on a cow's skull. And all around is parched earth, wolves howl, feather grass rustles, the prophetic Oleg hangs out right there - steppe gothic.
Raven - Beth Johnson, skull - Roman Diaz.

Evgeny Hontor from Moscow writes poetry, miniature stories, draws and creates animals, mainly fantasy ones.
“I create my animals from velvet plastic. This is a modern material, air-hardening polymer clay. After hardening, it does not deform or change shape. Does not require firing, the colors are easy to mix.
I have been modeling from velvet plastic since December 2006, since this amazing material accidentally fell into my hands. The technology had to be developed independently and learned through trial and error. Now I often use wire, beads, stained glass paints, semi-precious stones, acrylic, watercolors and even colored pencils as auxiliary materials.
Most of my creations have wings - firstly, simply because I like it that way; even in children's drawings, all the animals were winged. Wings are a symbol of dreams, freedom, striving for the sky and the sun. The second reason, technical, is that velvet plastic produces wool and feathers most effectively, recognizing a unique, recognizable style. Most often I create fantastic and fairy-tale animals - since childhood I have been inventing unprecedented animals, and also collecting their images in literature, cinema, and painting."

The raven was made for the wool sculpture master Voronikha. Velvet plastic.

kitsunehandmade from Moscow creates jewelry using stones, coconut, leather cords, and Czech glass.

Necklace "Raven Shaman". Quartz/painting, necklace: agates, mother of pearl, fittings.

Necklace "White Crow Shaman". Black agate, painted/varnished, black suede cord.

Continuing the theme of jewelry, I show the work of Natalia from Kyiv. She creates handmade jewelry. Master about himself: “The bulk of my work consists of jewelry. A separate website is dedicated to them. I also have a blog on which I try to write articles about handmade, interview interesting craftsmen and share the most interesting things in the world of handmade.”

The necklace is made based on the Kiri Moth drawing. Raven and leaves made of polymer clay, 3D glaze on top. I applied the contours of the raven (and some elements of the leaves) with a metallic gel pen, so that they shimmer and reflect the light. And also copper wire of two thicknesses, I worked with it for the first time, so the “twisting” and “flattening” are not ideal. The gears were fitted to me by a steampunk jewelry guru ellen_rococo , for which I thank her a lot :)
And a few details:

Jovita from Lithuania creates textile dolls with her family. This is a real family business. The works are created from natural materials - wool, fabric, wood... Toys travel all over the world, giving joy to each new owner.

Crow backpack

Merry crow

Here is her knitted crow made from stretch grass yarn.
“I literally knitted it in one go, the inspiration was enormous, I just couldn’t put it down until I finished it. Nika liked the bird, she was running around with it the whole holiday - and for me this is the best assessment of the work :)
There was almost no time to take photographs; I took pictures before leaving the house, while running, so the photos were not the best. The color of the paws and beak was not conveyed - in fact, they are bright orange-orange. "

Lyubov Brednikova from Nizhny Novgorod knits and crochets little animals, and then embroiders them with bright colors.

Here is her white crow Glafira. She is completely indifferent to jewelry, but loves to knit and collect balls.
18 cm. Alpina Andre, bleached linen, cotton "Narcis", colored "Iris"

Arttulip lives in Auckland (New Zealand) and loves to paint wood. Everything is used - boards, figures, ladders. She also creates interior decorations and figurines.

“Finally, I got together and made a crow to join the kitten from Lizyukova Street. Her name is Martina, because she lives on Martin Crescent Street.
The length of the crow is 52 cm, height 22 cm."

And a master class on how to create it - http://arttulip.livejournal.com/64708.html

Yulia Sevastyanova lives in Moscow. She enthusiastically creates dolls and sews toys. "I try to make my work original, not like others
toys. I use only my own patterns, develop original techniques for creating and decorating toys, thanks to which I no longer
I once found myself on the pages of specialized magazines with my master classes."

Quite an unusual and beautiful crow mask. It can be New Year's, carnival, and besides, the crow mask is made in different ways. Some of them are suitable not only for children, but also for adults.

A beautiful and stylish crow mask is easy to make; at the same time, it will be an excellent accessory for the New Year or other holiday.

Option with feathers

The question of how to make a crow mask should be answered: what should it be like? After all, using feathers and convex elements in your creativity, you can create chic options. You can choose absolutely any colors; it doesn’t have to be predominantly black. The important thing is that such a thing is suitable for both a matinee and a Halloween party, especially if you want to create an image like in the fable “The Crow and the Fox.”

Process of creation:

1. You need to take paper that will form the basis of the product. It should be tight. Fold a sheet of paper in half and create a mask template using scissors and a pencil. Such templates can be found on the Internet, but it’s easy to draw them yourself.
2. Next you need to draw holes for the eyes. Determine where the beak will be and draw a slit. It will need to be attached separately.
3. Then the product is cut out along the contour, as well as the planned holes inside. The distance between the eyes should be small. This can be done with children too.
4. Feathers need to be cut out of cardboard. No need to be lazy, cut them out larger, so the crow will be more beautiful.
5. An elastic band is attached to the wrong side of the craft, with which it will be held on the face. A simple sewing elastic band is suitable for this. To attach it, you can use a stationery stapler.
6. The beak is made of thick cardboard, bent in half.
7. Leave a couple of centimeters to glue the beak to the mask itself.
8. Glue the beak well to the base of the product.
9. Let's start decorating. The feathers will appear voluminous if you bend the lines in the middle.
10. A few small feathers will allow you to carefully disguise the area around the eyes.

Other options

A carnival raven mask can be created not only from paper, it can also be made from foamiran with your own hands or from foam rubber.

Another way is to use fabric. For this purpose, a hat is sewn, preferably black. Any pattern will work. The main thing here is to use a smooth fabric that will shine like a crow's feathers. After this, you can use real feathers or paper cut ones. If the feathers are real, then they are attached to the fabric with small stitches of black thread; paper feathers can be glued with glue. The beak, made of paper, is attached to the hat in the same way.

Oksana Pugina

For many years I have been interested in knitting and making crafts from wool threads. My hobby came in handy in my work - I organized a club "Magic glomerulus» and wrote an original program for the development of fine motor skills and creative activity of older preschoolers (an additional general education program for children of older preschool age). In classes, children learn to decorate woolen threads, to crochet. The kids like to be creative, but they are especially fascinated by creating with their own hands. toys. This is an exciting and interesting thing! But this is also a useful thing - they train attention, fine motor skills and perseverance, they also develop creative abilities and teach them to follow instructions. And most importantly, all these things will be made with your own hands! So let's do it a toy made from balls of wool -« Raven» .

For the manufacture of we will need toys:

Small glomerulus black for the head;

-clew more gray for the body;

Black cardboard;

Ribbons, buttons, pieces of fur;

Wooden skewer;

Ready-made eyes, but you can also make buttons or make them from cardboard;

PVA glue.

Cut out legs, wings, tail and beak from cardboard.

Using a skewer, we attach the head to the body.

Now we decorate the head - glue on the eyes, forelock, beak, bow, etc.

Glue the tail, legs and wings.

Our the toy is ready. Really lovely!

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Goal: to improve the ability to fasten and unbutton buttons and locks. Develop fine motor skills, memory, attention, thinking. Contribute.

This puzzle is made by yourself! Used: gift bag (both sides, one for the puzzle itself, the other for the sample, for the base.

The poodle got her hair cut yesterday. He became long-eared and thin. Everyone in the house said: “He’s not ours, he’s new!” He became funny and goofy.

DIY toy. Dymkovo young lady. Everything is made from waste material. To work you need to prepare: - a small plastic bottle.

Short-term educational practice “Do-it-yourself bilboke toy” The purpose of the CPC: To make with your own hands an exciting toy that develops the respiratory system, eye, reaction speed, coordination.

Master class “Do-it-yourself educational toy”. I was offered to make a toy with my own hands with my 3.7 year old son for a competition.

In Rus', children's toys were often at the same time amulets. One of these fun things for kids was the bird of happiness. Fairytale birds were made with their own hands from scrap materials (wood, straw, fabric, etc.) and hung over the cradle. Whether this increased happiness in a peasant family is unknown, but where they love children and try to make various toys for them with their own hands, it, of course, lives.

You will need:

• a beautiful piece of fabric;
• any filler (cotton wool, rags, padding polyester);
• red thread No. 10.

Work order

• Cut out a square of pretty fabric. Fabric is provided for the amulet tear with your own hands. Fold the fabric diagonally and form the beak of the bird of happiness by wrapping even number of times with thread. Make 3 knots by wrapping and inserting the spool under the thread, tightening and not tearing.

• Place a little cotton wool right next to the knot and form a head with your own hands.

• Secure again with several turns of thread and 3 knots. Don't break the thread.

• Making a wing for the bird of happiness. Divide the remaining fabric into three equal diagonals and tie the outermost one closer to the head.

• Throw a thread over the neck of the bird of happiness to the other shoulder and make a second wing.

• Make a waist. On the back it should be "Veles cross". For this odd Make the number of turns in one direction diagonally, and the same number in the other.

• Thread a thread under the cross and hang the bird of happiness from the chandelier.

The photo shows how to make a bird by cutting out just two parts from any piece of fabric using this pattern. Please note that the drawing shows the pattern of the tummy and half of the back. For the back, you need to fold the fabric in half with your own hands. Then the parts must be cut out, retreating 5 mm at the seams and sewn.

This simple soft toy is very easy to make. It can be complicated by sewing on a large black beak, and you will get a cheerful crow. For those who don’t know how to make a firebird, this pattern can also be a hint. All you need to do is sew a long beautiful tail, pin on a small tuft and the toy is ready.

AngryBirds – city crow

This toy - an angry crow - appeared, like many others from the famous cartoon. It is better to sew AngryBirds from thin drape, felt or velor. It is necessary to cut out the parts of the bird from fabric that will not fray. The photo shows the pattern without seam allowances.

You need to start sewing the crow from the body, assembling it with your own hands into 4 segments with a seam over the edge. Separately sew the beak. We stuff it and the crow with any filler. We sew on all the details, glue on the eyes and eyebrows. That's it, the crow is ready.

This handmade soft toy can become a convenient accessory as a sofa cushion. And by replacing the small beak with a wide one and removing the comb, you will get a charming duck.

Both the rooster and the duck are sewn in the same way and very simply. Sew the square bag together and then fold the top corners together and stitch perpendicular to the bottom. Fill with stuffing and attach the beak, comb, eyes and wings.

You can make such an owl needle holder with your own hands from two small scraps of fabric, cutting them out as shown in the photo. For the body you need to cut out the two parts shown. Sew a forehead, eyes and paws onto one of them with your own hands, sew a bag, fill it with cotton wool and attach the wings.

Colorful bird: photo master class

Fabric bird: video

The craft is very simple to make; you don’t need to paint the bird, just choose the right fabric. For volume, fill the craft with rags or cotton wool.

Necessary materials for work:

• textile;
• cotton wool;
• thread.

Cut a square from the fabric and fold it diagonally. Fold the corners into the middle, and bend them again. Then fold the piece in half, the shape will resemble a triangle.

Take a long thread, tie the end - you get a beak. Shape the head: place cotton wool inside, closer to the beak, and tie it with thread. Lay out the part, pull the corners to the sides - these will be the wings.

Place cotton wool in the middle for the body and tie it again with thread so that a piece of the tail remains. You can cross the thread through the middle again. The bright bird is ready.