Find out how easy it is to make a rooster craft from bottles, coffee beans, and fabric. See how to make a salt dough rooster from egg trays.
Craft rooster from egg trays
This is what you can make a rooster from. This is completely waste material, but it makes wonderful crafts. To work you will need:
- egg trays;
- acrylic paints;
- thin white paper;
- cardboard;
- newspapers;
- scissors;
- glue gun;
- tassels;
- pencil.
Cut out bird wings from cardboard using a glue gun and cover them with leaf-like blanks from egg trays.
Most of your time will be spent waiting for the body of the papier-mâché rooster to dry. Therefore, it is better to start working with its formation. Cut newspapers into strips, dilute glue with water in a 1:2 ratio in a container. Dip the paper here, stick it on the inflated balloon. It will take more than one hour for this part to dry. When this happens, pierce the ball with a sharp object and remove it through the small hole left.
This rounded piece needs to be cut into two unequal parts, insert the smaller one into the larger one to increase the strength of the part. Glue these elements together using a glue gun.
While the papier-mâché was drying, you had enough time to form the head and neck of the rooster. To the part that looks like a flower with elongated petals, made using petals from an egg tray, glue two triangular beak blanks and a comb cut out of cardboard.
Insert a second one of the same type into this flower blank, then a third, fourth and fifth. The head and neck of the bird are ready. Glue this piece to the side of the papier-mâché ball half. To do this, use a glue gun to attach a strip of cardboard inside the neck so that it looks out from below. We glue this label to the papier-mâché half of the body.
To make the tail, draw semicircular lines on the egg lid and cut along them.
Glue the tail to the back of the body. That's it, you can paint the cockerel with acrylic paints, when it dries, hand the craft to the recipient or place it in the most prominent place in your home as a bright attribute of the holiday.
You can make a rooster with your own hands not only New Year, but also on Easter. Then you put in his semicircular body painted eggs, decorate your holiday table this way.
Symbol of 2017 made from plastic bottles
If you decide to celebrate the New Year at the dacha, then make a rooster - a symbol of 2017, which is not afraid of either snow or water. Plastic bottles are perfect for this.
To make a rooster with your own hands for the year of the Rooster, prepare everything necessary materials, in particular
- five-liter canister;
- 5 liter plastic bottle;
- metal-plastic tube;
- 2 plastic bottles with a volume of 1.5 liters;
- corrugated pipe;
- thick copper wire;
- plastic bottles for feathers;
- perforated tape;
- acrylic putty;
- fine mesh;
- sandpaper;
- awl;
- construction foam;
- stationery knife;
- glue gun;
- self-tapping screws;
- scissors;
- screwdriver
Bend a metal-plastic pipe to make two rooster legs. Attach them to a five-liter canister using self-tapping screws. To make the animal’s neck, cut a large piece of cloth from a 5-liter bottle, fold it into an envelope, and secure it with self-tapping screws. From one and a half liter bottles, cut off their upper parts below the shoulders, diagonally. Place them on the top of the bird's legs, and also attach these parts with self-tapping screws or a glue gun.
To make bird feathers, cut off the neck of the bottle. Using scissors, cut out 5 longitudinal feathers.
Place corrugated tubes on the rooster’s legs and begin decorating the thicker parts with feathers. To secure them, use an awl to make two holes in each, insert a piece of wire here that needs to be tied to the base.
Cover the bird's body with feathers, starting from where the tail grows. We are not finishing the back yet.
Roll the wire so that you get two paws, each with three fingers, and place pieces of corrugated pipes on these blanks.
Cut long and narrow claws from the bottom of the bottle. Attach them to a glue gun or "Moment Montage".
Cover the resulting blank with spray paint, using one color for the body and another color for the legs.
Cut out the cockerel's head from construction foam using a utility knife.
Take sandpaper, sand this part with it, then apply acrylic putty.
When this coating has dried, make the surface smooth again with sandpaper, then coat with PVA.
To ensure that the paint adheres well to the cockerel’s head, they use a trick by first covering it with PVA. In this case, the paint adheres well and its layer will be more durable.
From a fine-mesh mesh, cut out a part that will become the wings, back and tail of the rooster, glue long blanks to it from plastic bottle to decorate this part with feathers. The wings at the top are made from corrugated bottles.
Paint the wings, when the solution has dried, attach this body part using perforated tape and self-tapping screws. Cut elongated feathers from 2.5 and 2 liter bottles, cutting each container into 5 parts. Paint them on both sides, and after drying, attach them to the metal mesh using wire.
To make it easier to color plastic bottles light color, take transparent ones, cut them into feathers for the back. Attach them with wire, 4 pieces at a time on self-tapping screws.
Attach the bird's head to its place using long self-tapping screws, cover the already painted parts with plastic, and paint the rest. Make spurs for the rooster from wire, after which you can place it in its designated place in the country house or at home.
It's even easier to make your next bird from plastic bottles.
For this you will need:
- two plastic bottles with a volume of 2–2.5 liters with small necks, and one of the same volume, but with a large one;
- disposable plastic cups in two colors;
- disposable plates;
- wrapping paper or trash bag;
- plastic ball;
- eyes for dolls;
- scotch;
- stationery knife;
- glue;
- scissors.
For plastic cups, cut the top into strips 8–10 mm wide. In length they will take up a third of the height of the glass. Place these blanks on the high neck of the bottle, alternating in color. Cut off the bottom of the last glass. Chop this container not only on one side, but also on the other side into thin strips. The middle will remain intact.
Just below the rim of the plates, cut out semicircular feathers from plastic plates, cut them on one side with scissors to create thin feathers. In the bottle, which is located on the opposite side of the neck, make a cut, insert the tail feathers here, and secure with tape.
Place the ball on the top cup and secure it with tape. Cover the cut area for the tail with wrapping paper or a piece cut in the shape of a fan from a colored garbage bag. Cut out wings from plastic plates and glue them to the sides of the bird with tape.
From plastic plates, cut out the comb, beard, and beak of the cockerel. Make three cuts in the foam ball, insert these blanks here, and glue them for a stronger connection. Take ready-made eyes for toys, or make them yourself from a white foam plate, cut out the pupils from a black garbage bag. Glue on the eyes.
If you want to learn how to make a rooster out of bottles even faster, then watch the third master class in this section.
- Cut off the bottom of a large plastic bottle, put it on a fence peg or a stick specially dug into the ground for this occasion.
- If the bird will stand in the house, then cover its lower part with strips of colored paper, make the wings and comb from cardboard in the appropriate shades. If the rooster will be outdoors, then these parts should be waterproof.
- Create stripes from colorful garbage bags (by tying or gluing them), wings, nose, comb, beard from colored plastic.
- Take two white bottle caps, paint the pupils here with black acrylic paint, and glue them to the head.
- The tail is made from bottles different sizes and colors. Cut off their bottoms and use scissors to chop them almost to the shoulders into thin strips. Insert one bottle into another, secure them with wire, tape or glue.
Salt dough rooster
Looks great like this three-dimensional picture, but it is performed in an unusual way.
To make such a panel, take:
- 120 ml water;
- 180 g fine salt;
- 370 g flour;
- 1.5 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
- acrylic paints;
- rooster template.
- You will make a cardboard image of this bird when you transfer the presented drawing onto paper.
- Mix flour and salt, pour here vegetable oil and water. Knead the dough well, cover it with a cloth to rest for 20 minutes.
- Now you can roll it out into a layer, put a template on top, and cut out a rooster from salt dough using it. Using the same knife, apply feather veins on the tail, wings, and neck to the workpiece.
- If you want the bird to be voluminous, then separately sculpt the wings, buttons, and the upper part of the scallop.
- Leave this creativity to dry. To do this, you need to place the product in a well-ventilated area to give the workpiece greater strength. Dry it for 24 hours using this method, then heat the oven to 50 degrees.
- Using two spatulas, transfer it to a baking sheet lined with paper and sprinkled with flour. Turn the heat to low and dry at this temperature for 2 hours. Take the product out and cool it.
- Now we need to paint our fiery rooster with acrylic different colors, and then with varnish.
If you have clear varnish for nails, it is perfect for painting a salt dough rooster.
You can also sculpt a three-dimensional rooster from salt dough. Then the figure needs to dry well for two days.
DIY roosters made from coffee beans
This is not a simple rooster, but a magnet. To make it, you need to stock up:
- a piece of burlap;
- a piece of red felt;
- coffee beans;
- a sheet of cardboard;
- rhinestones and sequins;
- crochet;
- threads;
- glue gun.
Use a brown pencil to color the cardboard body of the cockerel. Below, using a needle with a matching thread, form two legs of a cockerel from it, make the paws from cardboard painted in brown, as well as the tail blank, which needs to be glued into place.
Make a beautiful fluffy tail out of threads and glue it onto a cardboard blank. Also glue coffee beans to the body, bypassing the wing, and attach them to the ends of the legs. WITH reverse side Glue a magnet onto the torso. Decorate the wing with sequins and rhinestones.
We sew, knit, embroider rooster crafts
These needlework techniques will also help you create crafts for the year of the rooster 2017. If you know how to embroider, then the following pattern will help you. This way you can arrange a small decorative pillow, a pocket of an apron made of plain fabric, or make a panel.
If you decide to knit a sweater for a child as a gift, calculate the stitches so that this poultry is displayed in the center front.
The diagram shows which colors to use. To make them all look good, knit a sweater from white yarn.
If the listed types of needlework are not yet within your capabilities, then make a cockerel on a stick from the remnants of ribbons, threads, and fabric.
Here's what you should prepare:
- square of linen fabric with sides 15 cm;
- red canvas measuring 5×20 cm;
- multi-colored ribbons;
- soft filler;
- threads;
- jute;
- twig;
- red yarn;
- a needle;
- wooden stick.
- Fold the linen fabric diagonally, trim one corner slightly. Sew one and the other side with a basting stitch, but leave the space between these sides, which is marked with a pencil in the photo, free. Through it you will subsequently fill the figure with filler, and insert a wooden stick here.
- Insert the twig into the cut hole in the corner and secure with twists of red yarn. This is the head and beak of a cockerel.
- Fill the blank with padding polyester. Insert a stick there, secure this part by tying it tightly with red thread.
- Take a strip of red felt, fold it in half, and place it on one and the other side of the cockerel's head. Wrap thread at the top and bottom to separate the comb and beard. Cut the beard at the bottom with scissors.
- Fold satin ribbons of different colors in half, attach them to the tail, and tie with red thread. Also form the wings of the rooster, just sew them on the sides.
- Use black thread to embroider the bird's eyes or make them from beads. After which the wonderful rooster, the symbol of 2017, is ready.
Check out another idea by watching the video. It tells how to make a rooster craft from nylon.
If the children want to learn how to make it out of paper, then show them the second video.
Beautiful New Year's crafts are great for decorating your home, school classrooms and rooms. kindergarten. Such products can be easily made by both children and primary and secondary school students. Do-it-yourself bright rooster made from paper, cotton pads, plastic bottles does not require any special skills - they can be easily made from inexpensive and simple materials. And to make the symbol of the 2017 New Year a bright fiery one, you can use different combinations of materials with colorful colors. The considered toy master classes with photos and videos are great for quick execution. They can be used for entertaining handicraft activities in schools and kindergartens. The article also presents original craft for parents - a rooster costume for a matinee.
How to make a beautiful Rooster symbol of 2017 with your own hands - an idea for kindergarten
Very bright and beautiful craft For the New Year, the rooster can be made from such simple materials as plastic bottles and plates, glasses. The unusual symbol of the year, the rooster, is made with your own hands quite quickly. It can be made to decorate a corridor or office or bedroom. The colorful craft will fit perfectly into the overall interior and will be a wonderful addition to the New Year tree.
Master class materials: bright DIY rooster craft
- plastic bottles (brown) – 3 pcs.;
- plastic plates (red and yellow) – 2 pcs.;
- plastic glasses (red and yellow) – 5 and 6 of different colors;
- disposable spoon – 2 pcs.;
- yellow ball (for the pool);
- stapler, marker, tape.
Master class on making a rooster with your own hands - an interesting decor for school and kindergarten
- The top parts of the bottles are cut off and firmly fastened using regular tape as shown in the photo.
- The upper parts of disposable glasses are cut into fringes and placed on the bottle one by one. 2 top glasses and cut into fringe on the other side.
- The sides of disposable plates must be carefully cut off. Internal sides finely chop with scissors to create a bright fringe. Connect the parts together with a stapler.
- We make a small cut on the bottle and insert the prepared tail into it.
- We decorate the tail with gift or wrapping paper. Wings are cut out from the remaining parts of the plastic plates and attached to the body using double-sided tape. The ball head is also attached to the craft with double-sided tape.
- A comb, beak and “earrings” are cut out of plastic plates. The parts are glued to the rooster's head with double-sided tape. Eyes are made from disposable spoons and glued to the head. The pupils are marked with a marker.
- Additionally, you can make a small stand. For example, from a flower pot.
Original do-it-yourself paper rooster for school and kindergarten - crafts with photos and videos
It is very beautiful to make a rooster - the symbol of 2017 - with your own hands using plain paper. This craft can be supplemented with a magnet, photo, to get original decoration for the refrigerator. Both kindergarten kids and school students can make a simple rooster out of paper with their own hands. Entertaining New Year's craft Can handle even babies 3-4 years old.
DIY materials for the “Rooster Magnet” master class for kindergarten and school
- multi-colored paper;
- glue gun;
- PVA glue;
- magnet, photographs.
A simple and understandable DIY master class - New Year's rooster 2017 for school and kindergarten
Do-it-yourself soft New Year's toy Rooster for the senior group of kindergarten and school
Not just paper or plastic crafts can be prepared in the form of a symbol of the New Year 2017. To solve this problem, you can also use felt. Beautiful New Year's toy a DIY rooster can be a wonderful gift for mom or good friend. The idea is suitable for middle and high school: children from primary school and it will be difficult for a kindergarten to make such a New Year's toy.
Materials for the master class DIY Rooster toy for the New Year 2017 for school
- felt;
- beads;
- needles, threads;
- padding polyester (can be replaced with regular cotton wool).
Step-by-step instructions for the master class: DIY New Year's rooster as a gift
Unusual DIY crafts for the Year of the Rooster 2017 - for school and garden with photos and videos
Every child and adult knows how pleasant it is to give and receive. New Year's gifts. For such an occasion, children can make a simple craft, which can become an excellent decor for the kitchen, room, or hall. It’s not at all difficult to make gifts for the Year of the Rooster with your own hands: you just need to follow the instructions given and ensure that they are executed correctly.
Materials for the master class: DIY paper rooster
- paper plate;
- newspapers;
- paper tape;
- dye;
- PVA glue.
An interesting master class for kids - simple DIY crafts for the Year of the Rooster
Do-it-yourself small New Year's rooster made from cotton pads - crafts for school and kindergarten
A funny little rooster can be made from scrap materials. Regular cotton pads are great for this task. Even primary and secondary school students can make a small rooster with their own hands in kindergarten. preparatory group. This fun craft is a simple children's applique.
New Year 2017 is the year of the Red (Fire) Rooster, and the most popular gift will be its figurine or image. The Krestik needlewomen have a good tradition: to New Year's holiday prepare thoroughly. 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 - exciting process creation of this very symbol in various techniques handmade.
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?
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 http://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 complement the card with voluminous snowflakes and adhesive half-beads that imitate christmas balls etc. etc. Give free rein to your imagination with your baby))
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8 more templates for coloring, as well as 2 step by step instructions for drawing more realistic roosters you will find 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 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.
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, laid out from 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).
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.
You can also buy knitted cockerels from Svetlana.
Felt roosters
The fastest and easiest options for creating a symbol of 2017 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
Photo from the site http://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 http://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 http://mmmcrafts.blogspot.ru
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 http://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 according to ready-made patterns. Her Rooster is made from faux fur, but who’s to say that this doesn’t happen or that he’s not good?)
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:
If you don’t want to make a souvenir in the shape of a rooster, then you can decorate any wooden surface image of a rooster. The scope for creativity here is simply limitless!!! Here are just a few examples for inspiration:
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).
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
It's no secret that plastic bottles are an inexhaustible source of the most unimaginable ideas for creativity. What experienced needlewomen don’t make of them! Empty plastic containers are especially in demand for the production of currently popular landscape decorations. Thus, a bright rooster made from the most ordinary plastic bottles will not go unnoticed on any personal plot and will become its real decoration. To make this figurine, you will need a little time and a few bottles, and a master class with step-by-step photos will help you with this.
We make a rooster from plastic bottles with our own hands in a step-by-step tutorial
Required materials:- 5 liter canister (for example, from under liquid soap);
- plastic bottle 5 l;
- two 1.5 liter plastic bottles;
- metal-plastic pipe for legs 60-70 cm long (or two pieces of 30-35 cm each);
- several screws 1.5 cm long and 5-6 cm long;
- copper wire about 2-3 mm thick;
- a piece of foam;
- aerosol paints in bright colors;
- acrylic construction putty;
- glue “Moment”, PVA;
- stationery knife, scissors, screwdriver, sandpaper.
The color of the bottles and the presence of minor defects are not particularly important, since the rooster figurine will be covered with paint. Before use, it is advisable (but not necessary) to rinse all containers and remove labels.
It is better to work with tools with gloves so as not to get hurt on the sharp edges of the plastic, and when painting with an aerosol, wear a respirator.
Formation of the rooster's body:- The neck of the canister will be the base for the rooster's neck, and the bottom will be its back. Using a sharp utility knife, cut off the protruding part of the handle from the canister. In the area of the back and tail of the future figure we make a cut in the shape of the letter “P”. In fact, we do not completely cut off the bottom of the canister and its side almost to the very neck. We move the resulting corner back about 3 cm and fix the plastic with two small screws. This is where the tail will be attached.
- For a rooster's neck, cut off the neck and bottom of a 5 liter bottle, cut the bottle lengthwise and form an envelope. If necessary, remove all excess plastic. Using two large self-tapping screws, attach the resulting envelope to the top of the canister.
- We form the legs of the rooster. We cut holes in the bottom of the canister and insert a metal-plastic pipe bent in half into them. If necessary, cut off the excess part of the pipe and give it a shape. In order for the figure to be more stable, it is necessary to space the leg blanks wider. In this case, the rooster will “walk”.
- We make blanks for the hips. To do this, we cut off the necks of 1.5 liter bottles and form a corner for the best fit of the thigh to the canister body. In the shape of a corner. We put the bottles on the rooster's legs, neck down, and attach them to the bottom of the canister with small self-tapping screws.
Let's proceed to the most important part of the work - decorating the rooster. In order to make a base for attaching feathers, you will need dark figured bottles.
We begin to cover the body of the rooster with elements cut out from bottles, starting from the hips. We fasten each element with self-tapping screws in at least two places.
We don’t use any patterns, we just cut a piece from the bottle, try it on at the attachment point and, if necessary, cut off the excess.
We begin to cover the body of the rooster with plastic, starting from the back. We gradually move to the neck, leaving its back surface free. Due to the convex pattern on the bottles, the feathers of a rooster are imitated.
We form the clawed paws of the rooster. To do this, cut off pieces of thick copper wire the right size and make identical frames in the form of curved paws. We put pieces of corrugated pipe on each frame element. We insert a tail of wire into the holes in the center of the legs. We cut out claws from scraps of transparent plastic and glue them onto each finger using Moment glue.
Using aerosol paints, we paint the rooster's body bright blue and its paws yellow. To receive rich color Apply paint in several layers.
Making the head.While the paint is drying, we begin making the rooster's head. To do this, draw a sketch on a piece of foam plastic and cut out the resulting design using a stationery knife. Ideally, the head should turn out to be three-dimensional, with all the anatomical features of the structure of a bird's head.
We process the workpiece with sandpaper, removing excess and adding some decorative elements. We apply thick layer acrylic-based putty; after drying, coat it with PVA glue.
We paint the head using acrylic paints and a brush. Eyes can be drawn or glued ready-made.
Making wings.We make the wings from wire mesh. We cut off the excess and use construction adhesive tape to attach the feathers cut from plastic.
We paint the blanks and mount them to the body using self-tapping screws. At the same time, we cut out long feathers from transparent plastic bottles and fix them on the surface of the neck.
Attach the head. Coloring long feathers yellow paint, protecting the rest of the figurine's surface plastic bags. After drying, we add the finishing touches: highlights on the feathers, smooth color transitions and shadows.
The rooster you made yourself from plastic bottles is ready! Now you can place it in the most prominent place in your garden.
Video on the topic of the article
You can make many similar crafts from used plastic bottles. We invite you to watch video tutorials that will help you make something unusual out of plastic with your own hands.
I would like to introduce you to the cockerel Petrunya.
Not a single yard in a village or village can do without this magnificent bird. So I made myself a friend, a bright and majestic owner of the yard!
I will be happy to share with you the stages of its production (based on the idea of making birds from plastic bottles by Alena Zinovieva).
To make the mold we need:
1) 5l. canister (I use liquid soap),
2) 5l plastic bottle,
3) metal-plastic pipe (leg height approximately 30-35 cm),
4) two 1.5 l. plastic bottles for thighs,
5) screws, scissors, stationery knife, screwdriver.
For fastenings, I use these self-tapping screws (I buy them by weight at hardware stores).
Small (about 1.5-1.6 cm) - for attaching feathers and component parts to each other.
Large ones (about 5-6 cm) - for attaching the head to the neck.
1) Move the top of the canister about 3cm.
2) We bend the metal-plastic pipe (shape the legs), in my case, the rooster is walking (the right leg is pushed forward), and attach it to the canister with self-tapping screws.
3) For the neck, from 5l. bottles, fold the envelope, attach it to the canister with self-tapping screws.
4) From 1.5 liter bottles we cut out two “thighs”, which we attach to the canister with self-tapping screws.
For the feathers, I used bottles of this shape. We cut off the long neck, cut the bottle into 5 feathers (we are guided by the protrusions on the bottom of the bottle), and use the upper part of the feathers.
We begin to cover the body from the “thighs”. Disconnect them from the canister for convenience.
1) attach the corrugated tube to the neck of the bottle,
2) attach the feathers using wire.
We attach the finished legs back to the canister.
Starting from the back, we cover the entire body, except the back, with feathers (we attach it to the canister with self-tapping screws). We leave the back of the neck open because there will be other feathers there.
The next step is to start making the paws. From 2.5mm copper wire (or any other wire, preferably rigid, but not steel, which bends), we bend the shape of the legs (you can see more details in MK Filin). We create the effect of paws from a corrugated tube. We insert the remaining tail between the metal-plastic pipe and the corrugated tube. You can also fill the bottom with glue for strength.
We cut out claws from the bottom of the bottle (photo). They should be narrow and long. We fasten them with glue (I use “Moment of installation - liquid nails”).
We paint the body and legs using spray paint (I use universal enamel from KUDO).
We cut out the head from construction foam using a stationery knife, it is very sharp and the cuts are smooth and not torn. If the cutting process seems complicated to you, cut out all the parts separately! Then they can be glued together with glue.
Using sandpaper (medium), we bring it to the shape we need.
We treat the surface with acrylic putty, wait for it to dry completely and sand it again until smooth. After that, we treat it with ordinary PVA glue, so the paint adheres very well.
We begin to paint the head (you can use acrylic paints, it’s more convenient). Glue on the eyes (I bought them at a fabric store).
After fitting the head to the body, the husband said that the comb turned out not like a rooster’s, but more suitable for a chicken. I decided to redo it. I made a pattern out of paper (I tried it on for a long time to make it larger). I transferred it to foam plastic, cut it out and glued it in place of the previous one.
Using wire, we begin to attach the long wing feathers. The back remains open.
I cover the top of the wings with these feathers from 1.5 liter corrugated feathers. bottles The last row goes to the bend, into the inside of the wing.
We paint it with paint, let it dry well and attach it using perforated tape (sold in any hardware store) and self-tapping screws to the body. We bend the mesh for attaching the tail (you can increase its length and the tail will turn out richer).
Let's start making the tail.
We cut feathers from 2l or 2.5l. bottles into 5 parts. We paint separately on both sides (first we applied black, after drying a little blue)
We attach it to the mesh using wire. After coloring, I cut the feathers in half again, so the tail turned out to be more magnificent.
For the feathers on the back, I cut the feathers different lengths, from transparent bottles (this makes it easier to paint yellow), approximately 2-2.5 cm wide. I attached it to the back using self-tapping screws, 3-4 pieces at a time.
