Do-it-yourself stork for the garden: three unique ways to craft from improvised materials. Do-it-yourself stork from plastic bottles - nothing complicated! Stork from improvised materials with hands

It is very easy to make from plywood. To do this, you do not need to look for a place in the garage or rent a storage room: a spacious kitchen and mother-in-law, a big lover of crafts, are enough.

To make the process go quickly, purchase a six-millimeter sheet of plywood and paint from the building materials market, which are used to update the facade of the house. The tool, if not enough, ask a neighbor or rent it. Do-it-yourself stork for a garden is an interesting craft, but a little capricious. Patience is the main condition when doing work, otherwise you can drag out the work so much that they would rather buy metal figures than wait for inspiration to find you.

To make a stork for the garden with your own hands in a matter of days, follow the tips:

1. A piece of plywood should be rectangular, with sides of 850 and 580 millimeters.
2. Paint is better to take white. Buy black and red dye for it. With proper breeding, you will get an exceptionally stable color.
3. Do not refuse waterproof varnish: it will help protect your product from atmospheric precipitation.
4. Sandpaper is enough and half a meter.
5. It is better to use an electric jigsaw.
6. Brushes are up to you.

With the help, transfer the outline of the stork to plywood, if the drawing is already applied to a thin sheet of newspaper, plug in the power cord of the jigsaw and carefully cut out the body of your stork. In order to “put the bird on its feet”, you can also cut out a stand from the remnants of plywood.

Sand the edges with pieces of sandpaper, cover with the first layer of varnish, let dry. Now you can take on the paint. Cook 3 types - red, white, black. The first tone is on the nose, the second on the body and up to the middle of the wing, the third is allowed to empty places. Leave for 8 hours. Check the paint for strength and apply another layer of varnish on top.

On the legs, you can start up or thin fittings. Fasten it to the body and stand, cover it with red, deepen the places for the eyes with a few blows with a hammer, fill in the potholes with black and leave for a day. If there is no fittings, then you can use the old Stork for the garden with your own hands and bridge it on the roof ridge if you wish, if you screw the body to the mop, the wide part of which goes under the rafters, where it is nailed.

What else can you do for the garden with your own hands? Fly agaric from hemp and basin, animal figurines from cans, a unique bed in pink tones.

But the stork is somehow closer to the heart of a Russian person. This noble bird can also be molded from gypsum and clay, and one plastic bottle, 500 grams of gypsum, gauze bandages and metal rods that bend well, 3 cans go to it

Natalya Vladimirovna Zhulina

At the end of summer in our kindergarten has become a tradition at the end of the summer to hold an exhibition crafts made from natural materials. In this I decided make a picture of different seeds, cereals and branches.

Equipment and material:

1. White list paper.

2. Background paper.

4. Acrylic varnish, brush.

5. Simple pencil.

6. Scissors.

7. Pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds.

8. Buckwheat, rice cereals.

9. Branches, straw, moss.

10. Red, black gouache.

11. Pistachio shell.

On a white sheet, draw a pattern of a bird.

Cut out.

We take the background sheet and draw the contour of the bird according to the template.

We apply glue to the image, and start laying out the head and body of the bird from pumpkin seeds.

We make a bird's wing from sunflower seeds.

Legs from buckwheat.

We make the beak from rice cereal and paint it with red gouache, we make the eye from pistachio shells, paint it with black gouache, and for the expressiveness of the look we apply a drop of white gouache.

From branches, straw and moss making a nest, waiting for everything to dry, stick,

then we cover everything with varnish, wait for it to dry and insert it into the frame.

The picture is ready.

The stork spent the summer with us,

And now he is staying somewhere.

For this work, I received first place and was awarded a diploma.

I will be glad if someone master class - useful in working with children.

Thanks for attention.

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Many old pictures depict a stork with a baby. Among the Slavic peoples, it is customary to believe that this particular bird is responsible for childbearing and well-being. If storks settled on the roof, the house will be full of happiness and children's laughter. And if you haven’t settled, then a wonderful stork with a baby can be made with your own hands from improvised material and installed on a skate or on an apple tree in the center of the garden.

bottled happiness

It will take

To make a stork out of plastic bottles for the garden, we need to prepare the following materials:

• empty bottles;
• thick wide board for the base;
• a rod or thick wire for legs;
• a piece of foam 10 cm thick;
• corrugated hose from a vacuum cleaner;
• 2 plastic canisters with a volume of 5 l;
• metal mesh for wings;
• stapler.

Master class on making happiness

It only takes a few hours of passionate DIY work to make almost real storks appear on the paths of your garden.

• Cut out a head with a beak from a piece of foam, draw eyes or glue black beads with your own hands.

• Cut out a two-piece beak from a dark bottle and glue it in place.

• We begin the master class on making the torso by cutting off the handle in the canister. Then you need to bend the mesh in the shape of a canister with your own hands and cut off the excess.

• To make the legs, bend the bar and fasten its ends to the board.

• We are holding a master class on the preparation of plastic feathers.

• We attach the feathers to the canister, starting with the tail.

• The master class on fitting the neck begins with attaching the reinforcement wire. Then a hose is put on it.

• Attach small "feathers" on the neck with tape.

• Fix the feathers on the grid.

• The stork for our garden will stand with its wings folded, so we simply fasten all the feathers with a stapler with our own hands, overlapping each previous row by a third.

• We finish the master class by connecting all the details and decorative tinting of the eyes, beak and legs. This bird can be installed with your own hands in the depths of the garden for the whole summer. It will not deteriorate from the rain and will not fly away.

Today's fashionable toys are hand-sewn from ordinary fabric according to simple patterns. We will not fully describe the master class for their manufacture.

• Cut out the details of the craft from the fabric, sew and stuff with any filler.

• Separately, you need to make a beak (can be made of cardboard) and attach to the head. It remains to make clothes, glue eyes, wrap the baby and hand it to the stork.

Of course, you cannot place such a wet bird on the branches of the garden, but it can decorate a flower pot on the windowsill.

Another way to make your home rich and happy is to make a stork on a nest. As a basis, you can take patterns of a tilde bird. Cut feathers out of plastic white milk bottles, fasten them together and make wings, decorating the ends with real feathers. Place a few white feathers on top of your head. Form a tail out of real feathers, sew or glue eyes and a tie, and plant the bird in the nest.

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These two rag birds cannot be left on the paths of the garden, and the master class for making the first stork requires a lot of time and materials. Do not be upset and just make a nest and cut a flat bird out of textolite or plywood. Color it in, give it a string bag with a baby doll in its beak and that's it, the stork with the baby has already settled on your roof.

A decorative stork made of plywood with your own hands will decorate any adjoining territory. Playgrounds, summer cottages looks boring without any kind of decorations. A well-groomed flower bed will attract even more attention and please the eye if it is supplemented with a fake bird shown in the photo. There are many variations on the manufacture of artificial birds, made from all sorts of improvised materials, which sometimes you can’t even imagine in the form of crafts.

Some animals require special skills, abilities and take a lot of precious time, so it is better to take on a job that will surely turn out to be effective without painstaking efforts. One of these creations is a stork made of plywood with his own hands.

Why stork? The answer is well reasoned. Even little child it is known that this noble bird personifies peace, tranquility, family well-being, fidelity, constancy. Many beliefs and signs are associated with the location of the stork nest, their annual return and offspring.

How to start decorating

It has been proven and tested in practice that all ingenious inventions are simple and accessible to everyone. So this unpretentious composition is acceptable in terms of material costs and complexity for people who seek to embellish and ennoble not only their territory, but also the surrounding space.

You will have to work with plywood. Quite suitable material for those who are trying to learn the lessons of carpentry. The material is easy to cut, although it is quite strong and dense. It can be processed without grinder, using sandpaper. After coating with several layers of drying oil or varnish, it is generally not subject to swelling, delamination, cracking due to external effects of precipitation and temperature changes.

Garden plywood storks are made from medium grades and thickness of wood board. It is impossible to exclude the influence of environmental factors, but looking for the most expensive and high-quality plywood for outdoor exposure is an unreasonable decision. Therefore, it is meaningless to describe in detail the characteristics of the material. Whatever you get, from that an excellent creature from the feathered family is molded.

You need to start by roughly representing the actual size of the bird in order to know the specific parameters of the consumable. Plywood sheets come in different sizes, but there is no need to cut a two-meter bird. If a stork settles in the front garden, then a small bird will fit into this space, perhaps more than one. And if you mount it on the pediment of the house, a good example in the photo, then it is advisable to make a larger decor so that it is visible from afar and not lost.

How can such beauty be lost, even if the color scheme is simple and at the same time bright. Running a little ahead, you will have to stipulate that the color of the finished stork, cut and assembled with your own hands, includes only three colors: gray, red, black.

Based on the description of a stork for a summer residence or a garden, you can already draw up an estimate of materials for its manufacture:

• plywood sheet;
• paper or finished sketch;
• pencil, scissors;
• jigsaw;
• paint with a brush;
• ship varnish.

Work sequence

You can cut a stork out of plywood in a matter of hours. Sleight of hand and imagination will speed up the process without hindrance. The first step is to draw it. Everyone imagines what a stork looks like, but not everyone will be able to portray it.

Drawings of a plywood stork in the photo simplify the first step. It remains only to project them onto a large paper format. As you can see in the proposed sketch, a pattern, compasses and other technical tools will not be useful. Anyone can draw two ovals and connect them with smooth lines. Try to depict a bird with a long neck, beak and wings in such a way that the silhouette resembles a representative of the stork order. The better the proportions are respected relative to the template, the more likely it is to get a similarity to the source.

Next, the drawn silhouette must be cut out. The plywood stencil is ready. All stages of creating a symbol of devotion and good luck are within the power of even a schoolboy, so the participation of children will not hurt. The paper stork must be placed on a plywood sheet and lightly attached with buttons, a stapler, tape, whatever comes across. Outline with a pencil. The lines should be clear in order to preserve all the smooth curves of the body and the sharp angles of the beak, tail and wings when cutting. Now you can start cutting. At this stage, haste and strong pressure on the jigsaw is useless. You have to work without haste.

The plywood stork template will be completely ready after its careful grinding from all sides. The first grinding is done with coarse sandpaper, after which it is necessary to walk a couple of times with fine-grained sandpaper, including cuts. When the surface becomes smooth, without burrs, the most beautiful stage of creating a creation with your own hands begins: the assembly of all parts into a single product.

Screwing on the legs and gluing the wings is quick and easy. If the stork settles in the garden, it must be installed on the base. Take a small wooden block, drill holes in it, generously coat them with wood glue and insert the legs. Drying of the wings and support will take a little time. It is advisable to press with a clamp and fix the wings with the body.

Then it's time to color the bird. The most popular and suitable paint is acrylic. The color sample is shown in the photo: the beak and legs are red (can be dark orange), the body is light gray, the plumage of the tips of the wings and tail is black, the eyes are marked with small black circles. Cover with varnish when the paint dries.

That's the whole procedure! A video with a lesson in making a magic bird is attached.

Crafts arrangement

It is not enough to make a stork out of plywood. Regardless of the location of the plywood stork, you still need to make a nest for it. It will even resemble the present, because it will have to be built from thin twigs. On a horizontal surface, the nest should become like a stork. The same wide, deep. On the gable of the roof, the nest can also imitate the nest. Make it voluminous so that the composition looks complete.

If desired, the stork is paired. Then he is not alone. "Procreating" miracle birds is inexpensive, so after a few training sculptures, you can take on more complex and labor-intensive designs.