Christmas tree toy: do-it-yourself paper cockerel. We craft with children. Step by step master class.

Christmas tree toy: do-it-yourself paper cockerel

The cockerel is the hero of many children's folk tales and songs, games and nursery rhymes, books and cartoons. Bold and bright, the first one to rise in the morning with the sun, bringing joy to the house! Every kid knows the song "Cockerel - cockerel - golden comb, butter head, silk beard". Let's make such a bright cheerful cockerel - a paper toy - on our Christmas tree along with the children.

Materials and tools for making a cockerel - toys for the Christmas tree

To work you need:

• self-adhesive film in different colors or colored paper different colors,
• white cardboard,
• scissors,
• template (cockerel template for download is given below).

How to make a toy - a cockerel on a Christmas tree with your own hands: a step by step description

Step 1. Making a cockerel template for appliqué.

- In this master class, we will take this drawing of a cockerel as a basis.

We cut out a cockerel blank from white cardboard - our template - go to the second step.

Step 2. Prepare paper or film for application

Prepare pieces of multi-colored self-adhesive film, self-adhesive colored paper or plain colored paper in different colors.

I liked working with the cuts of film that the designer of the post office ads gave me. I cut off pieces of film so that the white bottom layer is visible - the film is easier to remove. And again, the issue of solving environmental and economic problems: the use waste material in making toys.

Step 3. Making an application

Cut the film or self-adhesive colored paper into small pieces. We stick them on a cut-out blank - a cardboard template. Let's start work from above, sticking pieces of film around the cockerel's eye.

Choose the paper color of your choice.

Step 4. We continue the application

Step 5

At this stage, it is best to cut off pieces of film / paper with pointed triangles of the same color and stick them on the previous rows of film, imitating the plumage of a cockerel. Pieces of the film are glued on top of each other with an overlap so that there is no gap in the cardboard.

Then we paste a series of pieces of film of a different color, doing the work in the same way as the previous row.

Step 6. We make a multi-colored cockerel's tail.

And now we will stick the film along the lines of the tail - row by row, until we completely glue the cockerel's tail.

Pieces of film in rows on the cockerel's tail should preferably be arranged so that paper of different colors is nearby. Then the pieces of paper of the next row will not merge with the color of the previous row.

Step 7. We complete the manufacture of the Christmas tree - the Cockerel toy.

We glue multi-colored pieces of film on the remaining open part of the workpiece. Now what a beautiful, bright image of a cockerel is obtained!

Step 8. We make out a Christmas tree toy.

• To decorate the eye: first stick a white-gray circle of film or paper, and black on it.
• Stick pieces of red film / paper on the workpiece in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe crest, beard and beak (the beak can be decorated in brown or yellow - if desired).
• Turn the piece over wrong side and cut off excess pieces of film along the contour of the entire workpiece.

In such a bright outfit, the cockerel is ready!

You can use such a blank for postcards, gift wrapping, interior decoration. And you can make the same application on the other side of the template, so that the toy turns out to be double-sided, then tie a thread and hang the toy on the Christmas tree.

The most long-awaited holiday for kids and adults is the New Year, which everyone is looking forward to. Decorating the apartment so that it feels like the arrival of something fabulous, unusual is a matter of paramount importance. Despite the fact that the 21st century is in the yard, many are interested in how to make DIY Christmas toys for 2017. In this article, we will look at various options for making Christmas tree decorations for the New Year.

Rooster on the Christmas tree

Next year is the year of the Rooster, so you can create it from paper or other materials and hang it on the Christmas tree. You can make a lot of these cockerels and collect pendants into a garland to decorate your home. If you are going to make a paper cockerel, take cardboard as a base, which you will glue on both sides.

1. You will need multi-colored sheets of colored paper (you can use colored cardboard) and a sheet of cardboard. Draw the silhouette of a rooster on cardboard and cut it out.
2. Using a cardboard blank as a template where necessary, draw the details on colored paper (cardboard): head, torso, wings and tail - pre-fold the sheets in half so as not to waste time preparing blanks for the second side.
3. The next step: cut out our blanks.
4. Now we glue the parts from colored paper (cardboard) onto the cardboard blank. After the cockerel has gathered into a whole picture, you can decorate it with sparkles, beads - whatever comes to mind.
5. Make a hole in the workpiece, thread the ribbon and hang it on the Christmas tree.

You can make a similar toy out of felt and also use it to decorate the Christmas tree.

Draw a pattern by hand or use any ready-made one, for example, this one:

Homemade cockerels made using the origami technique will look original.

pillow toy

A difficult, but very exciting activity in making toys is the creation of a pillow in the form of a symbol of the year, which will delight you not only in the year of the Rooster, but much longer. You will need a pattern, fabric, filler, felt (depending on the model chosen), threads and needles. Here the matter is small, we circle the pattern, sew the details, leaving a hole to fill the pillow with filler. We turn it inside out, put the filler inside the toy, sew it up to the end.

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Photos and patterns

There is also a more complex plan with fabric painting - this is batik, thanks to which the pillow will acquire a bright color. After you have circled the cockerel on the fabric, paint it with special paints, they can be replaced with gouache if you mix it with PVA glue. We leave for a day for the paint to dry, and continue to finish the pillow in the form of a rooster.

From salt dough

At a competition, children are often asked to bring something to school. New Year's crafts. Make it from salt dough. Crafts made of bioceramics can also be a great gift from children to grandparents. Moreover, this occupation is so exciting that it fully claims the status of a hobby.

Before you make a toy out of salt dough, you need to prepare the dough itself. To prepare the dough, use fine table salt, ordinary wheat flour and water in a ratio of 2:4:2, respectively. First, flour and salt are mixed, and then warm water is added, thoroughly kneading the dough for at least 10 minutes.

There is another recipe for making dough. In this case, flour and salt are taken in the same proportions, only the flour is sifted beforehand. You need to take a little less than 1 1/3 cups of water. The cooking method will be different. According to this recipe, water must be brought to a boil and salt should be dissolved in it. Only then flour is added.

When the dough is ready, start making crafts. If you are doing crafts with your child, simplify the task by taking cookie cutters, for example, in the form of Christmas trees or bunnies - you will get wonderful Christmas decorations. Make a toy (you can use beads or beads for decoration), do not forget to make a hole at the top. To harden the toy, it is left for 24 hours or baked in the oven. After the toy has hardened, it is painted acrylic paints, gouache, watercolor, allow to dry well and cover either colorless varnish for nails, or nitro-lacquer on wood. A thread or ribbon is threaded through the hole. Here's the New Year's gift.

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Soap figurines

Soap is always useful. A little unexpected, but soap can also be used to decorate the Christmas tree. Soap toys for the Christmas tree are made by hand. The process is simple. First, we rub the baby soap on a coarse grater, melt it in a hot bath (make sure that bubbles do not form), pour the liquid into a mold and leave it to harden.

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1. If you want to make a colored soap with a pleasant aroma, then add dyes to the base - it can be either food coloring or the juice of berries or vegetables, such as cherries, beets, carrots. The smell can be given with the help of perfumes or fragrances.
2. If instead baby soap use a ready-made transparent soap base, then you can make soap with a “filler”. After you half fill the form with melted soap, let it brew for 20-30 minutes, put a slice of lemon or orange on top, coffee beans and fill the form to the end with soapy liquid.
3. So that the soap also has a useful cosmetic effect, ground coffee is added to the base, which will work as a scrub, various oils, lemon zest, ground cereals. Such a toy, which in combination will also be an excellent gift, will obviously not be left without attention.

big toys

Using threads, you can also create wonderful decorations without small size- giants. It is enough to inflate the balloon, wrap it with a thread dipped in PVA glue and leave it for 24 hours. After drying, the ball is burst, leaving an airy New Year's toy made of threads, which for decoration can be covered with silver or gold paint, decorated with beads, beads, sequins, ribbons. Pass the tape, and the accessory is ready. If you prepare two or three balls of different sizes, you can make a snowman.

Christmas trees are made from threads according to the same principle. As a base on which you will wind the thread, use a Whatman cone. You can make such a toy in miniature if you take a simple sheet of cardboard instead of whatman paper. Light beads, ribbon bows are useful for decoration.

By the way, use a paper cone for the base if you are going to make Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden. It is enough to glue such a cone, paint it or make clothes out of paper or fabric. The head can serve as an inflated balloon ik with a painted face.

For giant toys, boxes of household appliances are also useful, which can be pasted over with foil, colored paper, appliqués, or even made into a Nutcracker.

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Snowmen

Snowmen from socks - there is nothing more primitive, but it looks very original. To do this, we fill the sock with sand, buckwheat, and with the help of threads we give it a shape, sew on buttons. You can make a base from a white sock, and clothes from a colored one. Pretty snowmen are also obtained from an unnecessary light bulb, they simply paint it with the help of acrylic paints and decorate it with cotton wool and sparkles.

Little accessories complete your festive table. We paint wine glasses with acrylic paints. If you know how to draw, then you can easily cope with this work, if not, then use stencils. Be careful as paint may bleed.

Sweet decorations

The following options are clearly for the sweet tooth.

Caramels

The appearance of Christmas decorations can be deceiving, because they may well turn out to be sweet candies. It's very simple: first, mix 300 g of sugar and 100 ml of water, put on fire, stir until the sugar melts and the syrup begins to boil, acquiring a golden hue. The finished syrup is poured into molds, pre-lubricated with vegetable oil, and left to cool completely until the caramel hardens. Then we carefully wrap the candy in crispy polyethylene, tie it with a ribbon and you can safely hang it on the Christmas tree. It is even easier to melt caramel in molds.

Candy tree

The New Year cannot do without a Christmas tree, a Christmas tree made of sweets is not only a decoration, but also delicious gift to please your friends or family. But even a small child will cope with the manufacturing technology:

1. Make a cone out of cardboard, glue it or fix it with a stapler.
2. Use the same stapler or glue to attach the candies.
3. Lightly wrap the Christmas tree with tinsel.
4. Ready.

A lot of toys can be invented from improvised materials, the most important thing is imagination and the desire to do something unusual.

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Despite its simplicity and cheapness, paper is one of the most interesting materials for crafts and creativity, because you can make so many different beautiful things from it with your own hands: appliqués, flat and voluminous origami figures, whole quilling paintings, luxurious panels and much more.

In addition, there are so many varieties of paper and such a diverse range of colors that with its help any creative ideas and ideas will certainly be able to find their embodiment.

Try to start with the manufacture of not very complex products. For example, with some variation of the image of a cockerel.

What can he be?

Many master classes are devoted to creating a cockerel out of paper with your own hands. You can make it yourself different ways, depending on what image is expected, as well as on the purpose of manufacturing this product:

• if a child needs crafts in kindergarten, then help him do the application with his own hands. To do this, you just need to print out the template, cut out its details, and then use them to make the same elements, but from colored paper. Glue all the details on the cardboard to make a cockerel. Complete the application - draw or also make grass and flowers out of paper, a sunny sky, grains for a rooster, you can even create a whole family by adding a hen and chickens to it. It will turn out very nice if you take thick, shiny or velvet paper. You can decorate the craft with sparkles;

• the appliqué can also be experimental - for example, try gluing details from feathers and corrugated paper onto a blank of a cockerel figurine, but not just like that. If you dip the color corrugated paper into a bowl of water and rinse it a little there, then the water will be colored, and the paper will get interesting and divorced - this will add originality to the applications and make the craft unique;

• another interesting option for do-it-yourself appliqué is to make a lot of blanks from children's palms circled on paper, then cut them out and randomly glue a cockerel to the blank-body, adding some more elements;

• with small children, it is easy to make a voluminous cockerel with your own hands, which will become a wonderful character in paper puppet theater productions and come in handy for staging various fairy tales. To make it, you will also need a template from which you will need to cut out the details. The base and body of such a cockerel will be a cone (it needs to be glued), and a cylinder-shaped head will be attached to it. Bend the rectangles along the fold lines, and form the wings, tail, scallop and beak from the stripes. Glue all the details (see assembly diagram);

• it’s even easier to make a figurine from a paper cone with your own hands - cut and glue a cone from colored paper, and glue eyes, a beak (folded triangle), a comb, feathers and a tail from many stripes, as well as accordion paws to it;

• very peculiar crafts are obtained in the technique of simple and modular origami, the rooster will be described below;

• using the paper-plastic technique, you can also make interesting modular figures with your own hands - for this you will need a diagram and a template, according to which you need to cut and glue the parts, and then model a cockerel figure;

• if you have at least minimal skills in the quilling technique, you can create entire paintings and panels. The easiest way is to use a ready-made bird template, on which you just need to attach multi-colored shapes. For the manufacture of more complex products, you can see a special master class. Some masters even combine various techniques, for example, the body and head of a rooster are made of paper pulp or papier-mâché, and the tail, scallop, wings and other details are made using the quilling technique (“droplet” element);

• similar to quilling, it will turn out to make a cockerel from corrugated tubes twisted from multi-colored corrugated paper;

• beautiful and original figurines can be made from the same papier-mâché and even from paper egg trays.

Making a cockerel using origami technique

1. A beautiful cockerel is quite easy to get after some manipulations with a square sheet of paper. Mark the fold lines and fold the sheet diagonally. Then bend the corners of the inflection lines.
2. Bend about half of the paper figure back and fold it on both sides.
3. Bend the top corner up and in, and then turn the pleat inside out.
4. Then the upper corner is bent to the right and again inward, and the fold is first inward and backward, and then inward and forward. After that, the corners are bent from both sides into the figure.

To make a modular cockerel, you will first need to make separate modules for it (about four hundred pieces), and then connect them together.

We make a cockerel from paper egg trays

1. To make an original and beautiful cockerel from paper egg trays, take the tray, disassemble it into cells and cut out, as it were, individual tulips.
2. Then glue together using thin paper.
3. Cut out a cockerel beard from the tray and make a beak.
4. Prepare cardboard blanks and start gluing feathers in rows from small to large.
5. Make the belly of the cockerel like this: paste over the balloon with scraps of newspaper and white paper. When it dries, cut it into two parts (they do not have to be equal).
6. Take the larger one and put the smaller one in it. Start assembling the cockerel by attaching the wings, tail, paws and muzzle with all the details.
7. Paint the product with mother-of-pearl acrylic paints, changing colors and shades to make the rooster bright and colorful.
8. To make it stand well and stably, you can attach it to a stand, and decorate the empty top with painted eggs or other decor.

Classic Christmas balls in 2018 will not surprise anyone! Every year, non-standard decorations, intricate DIY crafts, and original details in home decor are increasingly valued. Let's learn how to make trendy Christmas toys that all your guests will appreciate!

Christmas toys made of felt

How to make a Christmas toy with your own hands from felt at home?

Do-it-yourself felt products are at the height of fashion! Such toys can not only be hung on the Christmas tree, but also presented as a New Year surprise gift to relatives and friends. Crafts from this interesting, and at the same time very malleable, material are not at all difficult. The toys will turn out beautiful, as if a real master professional worked on them!

To start making New Year's toys from felt with your own hands, you should prepare:

• Multi-colored pieces of felt: the more colors you can get, the more opportunities for your imagination.
• Scissors;
• The material that will serve as a filler for toys: it can be cotton wool, synthetic winterizer, paralon or other soft filler;
• Glue;
• Beads of different colors and shapes: round or in the form of sticks, matte or shiny - take a little of each;
• Needle;
• Threads;
• Sequins or sequins for decorating toys;
• Cardboard;
• Narrow ribbons to make loops out of them.

Have you prepared all materials? Great. Now let's get to the patterns. They will serve as the basis for future toys. If the experience in creating felt toys yours is small, use our templates, they should be cut out of thick paper or cardboard. So the toys will keep their shape.

Don't forget the filler! Flaps, cotton wool, synthetic winterizer.

Now, with the help of small details, add eyes and a nose to the snowman, hang toys on a felt Christmas tree (for example, using sequins or beads), add sparkle to Christmas balls.

You can make not only toys from felt, but also make a full-fledged Christmas tree that will delight you more than one New Year. Make a cardboard cone of the required size, wrap it with green felt. Use pins to secure your handmade toys to the felt tree. See what a New Year's beauty can turn out:

DIY Christmas decorations from old light bulbs

Everyone in the house has old burnt out light bulbs, which, for some reason, have not yet been thrown away. So they are gathering dust somewhere on the distant shelves. It happens that there are not even lamps left in the apartment, wherever they fit - everything has long been replaced with new ones, but the bulbs of the old models remained.

We know how to use them on the eve New Year holidays! Here is a master class for making Christmas toys from old light bulbs with your own hands.

Prepare:

• Several light bulbs different sizes;
• Paints;
• Tassels;
• Varnish for fixing drawings;
• Buttons, straw, ribbons, colored paper, glitter - everything you can find for additional decoration of our products.

For those who do not know how to draw at all, or who want to involve children in making, you can use the decoupage technique (cut out images from festive paper napkins and apply to the lamp smeared with glue). Attention! If children are involved in the manufacture of Christmas tree decorations from lamps, make sure that the work goes on the table and the lamp does not break if it falls.

Gouache or oil paints will go well on the dry surface of the lamp. Also, paints for porcelain and glass are suitable, but their price is much higher than usual.

After the drawing is ready - let it dry and with a clean brush cover with a thin layer of varnish to fix it. Again, let the new Christmas tree toy dry a bit. Now show your imagination in decorating the top. See what everyone can do!

Decoration-embroidery for Christmas tree and home

Craftswomen who love to embroider - for you! To begin with, you should choose a drawing-scheme with the image or plot that you want to depict on the toy. Here are some examples:

Next, complete this pattern with special threads for embroidery on fabric or canvas (in the case of cross stitch). The finished embroidery can be fixed on the finished felt toy, pasted on christmas ball or immediately use as a base for crafts.

Decorations from old CDs

CDs are becoming a thing of the past, so give them a second chance! This time they will come in handy for decorating your holiday tree.

You can paint them with paints, and then thread a festive bright ribbon into a hole in the middle and thus hang the craft on a Christmas tree or a door. To make it easier to apply paint to the surface of the disc, we advise you such a life hack: put the disc on paper, circle the outline with a pencil and cut it out. Now, using ordinary glue, fix the paper on the entire surface of the disk - that's a great canvas for future creations!

Also, the disk can be cut into small triangles. Take the Christmas ball that you no longer like and glue it with parts of the disk. Thus, you will get a real disco ball, in which the light from the lanterns of the festive garland will beautifully bounce. Glue with the shiny side.

Attention! The corners of parts of the disk may be sharp. Therefore, we ask you to be especially careful if you are doing this craft with children.

And also, if you know how to crochet, it will be very beautiful to tie the entire plane of the disk with thread patterns. You get a beautiful figured mesh resembling a snowflake.

You can use beads, sparkles, as well as semolina - all this will imitate snow and its magical shimmer.

By making such Christmas decorations with your own hands, you not only have a great time doing creativity with your family, but also get a boost of positive energy and magical festive mood. Therefore, New Year's Eve simply must be unforgettable, and all wishes made under the chimes will come true!

So that the symbol of the new 2017 is favorable to you, and the Fire Rooster protects all the days, it is best to appease the cockerel with a hand-made craft. Such a unique handmade will not only be a great gift for relatives, friends or acquaintances in new year's eve but decorate your room, give it a special touch.

The rooster is a difficult symbol, this poultry loves only everything natural, so that there is coziness and comfort everywhere, but at the same time it does not tolerate dullness. To make DIY crafts for the new 2017, you need to turn on your imagination and Creative skills. Below we have selected detailed master classes, about how to make a do-it-yourself craft dedicated to the symbol of the upcoming 2017 - the Rooster. To do this, you can use pieces of multi-colored fabric or paper, threads and other materials. The ideas that we offer are easy to implement and do not require certain skills, only desire and imagination are needed. You can embody your ideas with children, creativity is great for development fine motor skills, and joint activities with a child will bring you even closer to each other.

If you are planning to do a do-it-yourself craft for the new year 2017 with your children, then most of all they will like a rooster molded from plasticine mass. To do this, you only need multi-colored plasticine or modeling dough.

First you need to make from plasticine yellow color three balls small, medium and big size- the head, neck and the body itself, now they need to be connected to each other, gently smoothing the borders. On the sides of the body, it is necessary to make two incisions into which the wings of the rooster will be attached. A scallop is formed from red plasticine, a beak from orange, and eyes from black.

To make a tail for a craft with your own hands, you can choose several colors at once, roll up several sausages and flatten them, build a fan out of them and attach them to the body. Now the symbol of the new year 2017 needs to be made wings, red plasticine is suitable for this, it is necessary to make two wings of a triangular or teardrop shape from it. The feathers can be shaped with a sculpting knife or a piece of plexiglass. And as wings it is better to use the feathers themselves, cut them out of colored paper.

Pillow as a gift

A perfect gift for family and friends for the New Year 2017 will be a pillow with a picture of new year symbol— Rooster. Such a do-it-yourself craft will not leave anyone indifferent, and if you decide to make a pillow for yourself, it will give comfort and coziness to any room. A cute accessory will enliven the interior of a nursery, bedroom or kitchen, hens and cockerels will be able to fit into your favorite style. It is very easy to create such a New Year's miracle. The idea is to applique the image of a cockerel onto a ready-made pillow, however, if you have sewing skills, you can design a pillow or a pillow yourself.

First you need to make a pattern of body parts from sheets of paper, then you need to attach the patterns to pieces of fabric and cut out the details. Then all parts are sewn onto the pillow base, flowers, insects and any other decor that will help revive the finished picture will become a wonderful decoration for the symbol of 2017. In addition to the owner of the year, you can make some cute chickens with your own hands by making them from fabric, choosing bright color combinations. Relatives and friends will appreciate such an unusual craft.

paper cockerel

An excellent gift for the New Year can be a cockerel or chicken made of paper. It is very easy to make and no special creative skill is required.

The main thing is to prepare the necessary materials:

• scissors;
• several sheets of colored paper;
• glue;
• several paper boxes of various sizes.

First you need to cut upper part boxes, along the fold lines to half the height of the box itself, make cuts. To form the wings, tail and head, it is necessary to bend the cuts. The wings must be rounded off with scissors. For the tail, make several cuts to the very end, give the head the shape of a triangle. To make the cockerel bright, it needs to be pasted over with multi-colored paper.

Postcard with a cockerel

So pleasant to congratulate your family and friends on the new year 2017 beautiful New Year's card with the image of a rooster, made by hand. For this craft you need quite a bit:

• scissors;
• paper;
• Double-sided tape.

And of course, a little imagination and desire.

Templates for the background and figurines of the symbol of the New Year can be found on the Internet, printed on a color printer, and then cut out. If you have the skill of an artist, then you can draw on your own.

A blue color is suitable as a background for crafts, it’s good to add a few snowflakes to it, and scrapbook paper with a New Year’s image already applied is ideal for the background.

Next on inside we glue the cockerel figures with double-sided tape and attach them to the postcard to get a three-dimensional drawing, you need to cut the same figure out of paper two more times and stick it on top of each other, clearly aligning the contours.

Then you can make an inscription, congratulating everyone on the New Year 2017! And inside the postcard you can write poetic congratulations. We think that everyone who receives such original craft, will be very nice. The ideas that you embody in creativity always delight the soul and heart of a loved one!

knitted gift

For those who know how to knit, a knitted potholder is a great solution, which is also great as a hot coaster. Such crafts for the new 2017, made by hand, will be an excellent decor for any kitchen and add a special flavor to the interior.

For a knitted symbol you will need:

• the remains of threads of four colors (yellow, red, brown and white), both woolen and cotton are suitable;
• four black buttons;
• hook of medium thickness.

Tacking is performed as follows:

• first you need to make a pattern of the future rooster on paper or fabric, draw its outline;
• then the torso and head of the bird are knitted from brown threads;
• a shirt-front is knitted with white threads;
• red threads are suitable for the comb, and yellow threads for the beak.

You can knit a cockerel as a whole, or separately in detail, and then sew them together. Next, steam the new tack well. The gift is ready!

Cockerel antistress toy

It would be a great idea to make a funny New Year's anti-stress toy with your own hands, many people simply adore things of this kind. Such a cockerel can not only be crushed, but put on a shelf as a decoration, and it will delight the eye with its unusual appearance all day long.

To do this, you only need pieces of multi-colored fabric, it is better to take cheerful colors, a thread with a needle, a special filler for anti-stress toys (you can also take ordinary cotton wool).

• cut out a square from the fabric;
• from a red piece we make a scallop and a beak;
• we sew details on the corner of the square;
• inside the resulting cavity we place cotton wool or other material;
• then you need to sew the edges so that you end up with a pyramid.

New and original toy ready, we are sure that it will appeal to all relatives and friends.

Hens

Instead of a rooster, you can also make chickens; children will definitely like such unusual New Year's toys. To begin with, it is necessary to cut out the patterns of future birds from paper. Next, apply the details to the fabric and cut out the finished parts, then sew them together, stuffing the inner cavity with cotton wool.

The beak, scallop and eyes are made separately, then they are sewn to the finished toy.

You can decorate the chickens with different colored beads, rhinestones, or cut out flowers from colored paper and stick them on the body.

Cockerel in the shape of a heart

A great idea would be a gift for New Year to your loved one in the form of a heart-rooster. To make a toy, you need a piece of felt, from which you need to cut two parts in the shape of a heart. Next, the figurine is filled with cotton, a tail, scallop and beak are cut out of multi-colored fabric, and sewn to the heart.

So that such an original cockerel can be hung, you can sew a colored braid in the middle of the body. Similarly, you can make colorful Christmas decorations, for this you need to cut out small hearts. Such original jewelry always cheer up and will be a great decoration for any home interior.

Button figurines

And, probably, the cockerel made of multi-colored buttons will be the most unusual. You will need bright buttons of different sizes, rhinestones, glue and a thick sheet of cardboard. First you need to make a sketch of the future rooster on cardboard. Further, the image is made with buttons, and the gaps are filled with rhinestones. The finished picture can be placed in a frame.

Now you know that making a symbol of the coming year is very easy. The main thing you need for this is time, patience and a little imagination.