Handmade Snow Maiden: original ideas and step by step instructions with photo examples for children in kindergarten and school

The New Year is not far off and it is worth thinking about what new Christmas toys will add to your collection. The main characters of the New Year tree are always Ded Moroz and Snegurochka.

The figure of Santa Claus is often sold in the store, and the figure of the Snow Maiden is difficult to buy. We offer you options for handmade crafts. Such work is convenient to create yourself because you can match the size of the Snow Maiden to the size of Santa Claus and make a New Year's Eve couple in the same style.


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The application of the Snegurochka handicraft

The craft can be put next to Santa Claus under the tree, you can make an applique and give it to relatives. The snow moth doll will serve as a talisman for you for the whole next year.

As a Christmas toy, you can use the figure or airy crafts, which can be suspended from the ceiling of the room.

If you manage to create a large figure, then interesting photos next to such a beauty will make you and your guests happy.

Simple craft ideas

Your creativity in creating a New Year beauty knows no bounds: drawn and decorated with cotton or cotton disks, made in the form of applique, three-dimensional big or small Snegurochka will diversify the room.

If you create such a work with a small child, the simplest solution will be creativity in the form of applique. If you want to make a large figure and you have time - you can knit such a beauty or make it from thread.

Volumetric Snow Maiden from paper

For work you will need:

  • Paper in blue or blue and white,
  • Cotton cotton or absorbent cotton disks,
  • Store-bought eyes or beads for eyes and mouth,
  • Glue,
  • White or yellow yarn,
  • Scissors.

From a sheet of blue make a stable cone, aligning the edges of its base. Prepare the details of the work:

  1. Cut out the head with the neck from the white sheet.
  2. Attach it to the eyes, mouth and hat.
  3. From the yarn weave braid and attach to the head.
  4. Cut out the hands and mittens to them in white.
  5. Hem, clasp and hat are decorated with absorbent cotton or cotton disks.
  6. Glue the head and braid to the product.

Your New Year's Eve beauty is ready. If you wish, you can apply tinsel, rain or glue sequins and snowflakes.

Applique

There are many options for creating an interesting and original applique. To begin with, it is necessary to draw a template of the Snow Maiden on a sheet:

  • You can use paper as elements of the applique and cut out details of the applique to glue them to the base.
  • Template of a sheet of blue glue to the base and decorate with a slash of yarn, sequins, make a fluffy hat and bottom of clothes from absorbent cotton or tinsel. Use beads, beads or sequins to decorate the clasp.
  • In the tear-off mosaic technique, fill the pattern with paper or napkins.
  • Use buttons, pebbles or pasta painted blue. Glue them to the template with a glue gun.
  • You can use different materials as filler for the pattern, from absorbent cotton to paper. What kind of appliqué you will have depends on your imagination and materials. You can make a combined appliqué, using different materials. You can use semolina as a fur coat.

From cardboard

Sturdy construction of cardboard will allow the craft to be stable and last for many years with careful storage:

  1. From a sheet of blue cardboard we make a cone - the torso.
  2. From the second sheet of paper we make two identical cones - hands.
  3. We glue the hands cut out of this color mittens.
  4. From the white paper, cut three 2 cm wide strips along the length and, having rolled it in half, make vertical cuts in it to get the puffiness.
  5. The resulting strips are glued to the bottom of the garment, the sleeves and to decorate the clasp.
  6. Arms cones are attached to the body with pencil glue.
  7. Draw head on white paper and glue it to cardboard.
  8. Cut out and glue the hat.
  9. Make the collar collar: double folded strip of paper notched vertically and twist the ends with a needle or rod. Paint the face with felt-tip pens.
  10. Make two braids out of yarn or thread and attach them to the head.
  11. Connect the head and down to the torso.

Made of felt

Sew a Christmas beauty out of felt can be small children. For such a craft, cut out two parts of the template for the Snow Maiden and her head:

  • In the main part of the cut a round hole for the head.
  • Stitch thread halves of the main parts and two parts of the head.
  • Both parts filled with absorbent cotton or padding.
  • Head sewed into the hole in the main part.
  • Braids of yarn attached to the head.
  • The face is drawn with felt-tip pens or decorated with beads.
  • If you sew the loop, then what a figure can be hung from a Christmas tree or on the ceiling.

From plasticine

The youngest children love to model with plasticine, give them this opportunity in preparation for the New Year:

  1. Make two small and one large balls of blue plasticine, which we turn into cones for the body and arms.
  2. From two identical white balls make two thin sausages for the fur coat.
  3. Use them to decorate the fur coat.
  4. From the two white balls make a trim for the sleeves.
  5. From the two blue mold mittens.
  6. Glue the hands to the body.
  7. From the ball blue make a hat, flattening it with a finger.
  8. From half of the pink balloon make a head.
  9. With a toothpick connect the head and hat. The edges of the cap is decorated with white fluff.
  10. Glue the head to the body.
  11. Model eyes, nose, mouth and braid and connect.

From fabric

To start preparing the base of the body:

  • On a stick we wrap the fabric tightly and, having wrapped it with a white cloth, we pull the threads in two places: defining the head and the torso. To shape the body, you can add absorbent cotton.
  • In the same way to make the hands.
  • On the body figure from a rectangular cloth to sew a fur coat.
  • Put the coat on the base of the work.
  • Paint a face with markers.
  • Sew a hat or make a crown.
  • Attach a braid of thread or yarn.
  • Place the stick on the base.

If you have a plastic toy doll, you can sew an outfit for her Snegurochka.

Origami .

  1. Square of size 15 cm to roll in half.
  2. Unfolding the workpiece, bend the two vertical edges of the strip width of 0.5 cm, 2 cm below.
  3. The upper corners of the square fold to the center of the triangle and bend back.
  4. Lower corners to bend up and turn the whole workpiece.
  5. From the bottom strip 2 cm to make edging coat.
  6. We make the head from a square 9 cm wide, folding it diagonally.
  7. Fold the corners to the center, fold the edges in half in the center again.
  8. Lower triangle bend back and turn the job.
  9. Long triangle can be folded in half to make the braid neater.
  10. From the two squares of 2 cm, folded diagonally to make mittens.
  11. Vertical corners to bend to the center and bend the bottom corner. We have mittens.
  12. From a rectangle make a hat, bending the top corners down.
  13. The upper triangle to bend down and fold the bottom strip up.

Connecting all the parts, you get the original work, made in the art of origami.

The original Snow Maiden by hand

Snow Maiden for New Year decorations can be made not only the traditional way, but showing ingenuity and applying their skills can use any improvised materials. The materials can be beads, plastic bottles, thread, napkins.

With beads

For this kind of work prepare a wire and beads of the same diameter so that the wire can easily pass through the hole in the bead. Weaving from beads begins from the top of the product - a cap, and in a spiral beads are strung on the wire, increasing the diameter of the bottom of the product:

  • In the center let white beads to decorate the coat with a clasp.
  • The bottom of the piece is also made white as a fur coat trim.
  • When working on the face, be sure to keep the proportion so that the eyes are the same distance from the sides.
  • Beads of blue, white, red, and yellow are used for the work.
  • Such a handicraft can be made in any size, and it will never break. In case of any deformation, the work can be easily corrected.

From a plastic bottle

  1. For the basis of the work, the top of a plastic bottle with a lid 16 cm long is taken.
  2. The cork is wrapped with a 10 cm wide strip of yellow corrugated paper, leaving the ends for the braid.
  3. Face template with a hat or kokoshnik glued to the head.
  4. Make a fringe of white corrugated paper and glue it to the clasp, neck and hem of the coat.
  5. From a strip of plastic bottle width of 10 cm, cut out two arms, gluing them with glue Master. Bottom sleeves decorated with fringe.
  6. Decorate the dress with snowflakes or sequins or decorate with corrugated paper.

From napkins

Three-layer napkins should be divided into layers before work. Napkins are used in different colors or painted:

  • Folded in four layers, staple them together and cut out a circle.
  • The top layer is pulled out, and you get a flower.
  • Such colors are glued frame bottles, cones or ready-made dolls to get Snegurochka.

From threads

An interesting activity wrapping balloons with threads will appeal to children:

  • Three balloons are inflated to the right size.
  • If you plan to make a large figure, the balloons should be fully inflated.
  • Each balloon is wrapped with thread or yarn.
  • Two balls are wrapped with blue yarn and one white.
  • Well dab the threads with PVA glue. After the glue dries well, we pierce the balls and remove them from the parts.
  • They can be glued to each other with a glue gun.
  • Face decorate with beads or buttons.
  • You can sew a hat from fabric or make a headdress.

Knitted

For those who know how to crochet, it is not difficult to knit a beautiful Snow Maiden from thread as a doll. The basis for tying can take foam balls or make a frame of wire.

You can use any yarn: from cotton thread to grass. Such dolls can be presented to friends and family as a New Year souvenir.

It's up to you to decide how to decorate your room for New Year. Showing creativity and imagination, using different materials you can make a whole collection of snow maidens, which will serve as a good New Year's gift and decorate the room.

Handmade crafts, not only decorate the room, but give pleasure from the work done.

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