Handcrafted owl cardboard, fabric, natural material: preparation of tools, choice of templates and ready-made ideas for decoration

Incredibly intelligent and beautiful bird - an owl, is considered a symbol of wisdom. To have a live bird at home can only a few. And so want to admire these birds in person. But there is a solution - handicrafts. You can make an owl as in nature, or unreal fairy tale. The main thing - to approach the matter with a soul.

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Tools for work

The following items may be needed in the process of creating smart owl heads:

PVA glue;
hot glue gun;
colored paper;
colored cardboard;
plastic bottles;
paper for quilling;
set of plasticine;
string and twine;
herbarium (dry leaves, flowers, grass);
natural materials: cones, poplar down, twigs;
kitchen grater;
corrugated cardboard;
cloth and felt;
discs and corks;
buttons and tile;
wood;
scissors;
knife.

Ideas for handmade owl crafts

Handicrafts are now at the peak of fame. Special stores sell everything you need to make an incredibly beautiful owl craft. But also at home of improvised means to create creative birds.

Owls can be fabric or wood, paper or plastic, etc. There are a great many manufacturing techniques.

Made of felt and cloth

Any scraps of fabric will do for the creative process. You can use old jeans, an old-fashioned skirt of dense fabric, chintz, and so on:
To create a fabric owl, you need to chalk out an owl silhouette on the wrong side of the fabric, not forgetting the ears (the outline will look like an "ear" oval).
Sew the two parts together, leaving three centimeters of unstitched bottom to turn the product.
Then through this hole fill the body of the bird with absorbent cotton, padding or old cut-up rags.
Sew on the wings (you can volumetric) or stitched in the form of application before sewing parts.
Eyes and beak made of felt or buttons.
Torso optional add owl legs with three toes (made of fabric brown or flesh-colored), but if the ability to sew is not fantastic, then let the craft with hidden feet.
The owl is decorated with bows, beads, ribbons, fabric and felt flowers.
It is easy to sew an owl out of socks. For sewing, cut off the top part of the sock, but leave a neat triangle on top to form a head.
Fill the body with any filler, close the "insides" with the upper fabric and sew a corner to the body (a beak).
Eyes are made from large buttons, fabric and felt.

Mosaic tiles and buttons

Very beautiful and unusual look work in the mosaic technique of buttons and broken tiles:

On cardboard or on a canvas stretched on the frame, draw the outline of the future bird and begin to lay out the buttons mosaic.
Sewing buttons are attached to hot glue from a gun.
Small holes and gaps can be filled with beads, glass beads, rhinestones, sequins, beads, because buttons are now very expensive, and making a button owl can cost women needleworkers a penny.
A mosaic of broken (broken in the bag with a hammer) ceramic tiles are laid on a solid base (you can take an old tray or wooden plank, on which you can fix the elements with glue).
When doing this, a tile-laying product for tiling or plaster (cement) mortar is used.
On the applied wet base with a wooden skewer draw an owl, and begin to lay out a mosaic pattern.

Very original mosaic looks in the kitchen or bathroom.

Made of cardboard

For children's owl crafts, a popular handmade material - colored cardboard - will do. In kindergarten, children can cut out owls drawn on cardboard with scissors using a template or their own drawings:

Add them eyes, ears, wings from thick or colored or cardboard paper, gluing on the torso.
Attach "chicken" feet by cutting them out of the same material, but in a different shade.
To make the owl look more aesthetically pleasing, it is made of two layers, between which the paws are inserted. Then the bird will not only be beautiful on the front, but also on the back.
Also, between the two cardboard bodies, you can fasten a small piece of string (jute, crochet thread) on top. In this case, the owl will also become a fun decoration for the Christmas tree or a decoration for a child's room.

From paper

The most commonly used crafts in work with children are paper applications, because it is very easy to make them:

You need to prepare a white sheet of paper.
On a colored sheet of brown depict an owl.
The figure is cut out with scissors and glued to the surface of white paper.
Next, in the same way, but choosing appropriate colors, draw eyes, wings (in another shade of brown or beige) and three-toed feet like chicken feet.
All elements must be carefully cut out and glued to the body, and the owl's legs to the bottom of the figure.
If desired, the bird is decorated with different elements of needlework.

The technique of quilling

To make an owl in the technique of paper twists, you need in advance to cut thin (1 cm) paper colored strips or buy a ready-made set

All owls in quilling are collected from round and oval twists.
To get a drop-shaped curls, oval fingers give the desired shape.
First, make 1-2 large round twists, and then twist as the size of parts decreases.
Assemble the bird on cardboard gradually step by step securely gluing the right elements, as shown in the photo.

Made of wood

There are craftsmen who created masterpiece owl sculptures from a single piece of wood with a knife, but this is not a craft, but a folk craft:

For children and adults who like to work with wooden materials, uncomplicated crafts of owls from wooden waste - saw cuttings are excellent. The latter, if desired, can be made yourself from trunks, logs or logs.
Wooden owls will wonderfully decorate the garden, yard area, homestead plot.
Select a suitable cut of a tree. It is attached round eyes made of small sawtooth branches or iron lids from cans and bottles (screwed on self-tapping screws or attached to hot glue). Or make eyes out of buttons.
Wings and feathers are painted or glued small sawtooths (shavings).

Beautifully made wise owls from the bark of trees (birch and others).

An owl wreath made of twigs

First, a wreath is mastered from natural materials - twigs. From branches and twigs form something like a nest, but with an empty bottom. The branches are tied with jute so that the wreath does not disintegrate.

In this case the body of the owl will be a wreath. Now all that is left is to make eyes and paws: they are made from cardboard and glued to the wreath. Handicrafts are decorated with ribbons, beads and other handmade decorations.

From cones

It is very easy to make an owl from a cone. To do this, take a good strong cone and attach ready-made eyes to it on white circles of cardboard (because owls have big eyes):

The protruding ears are made from leaves.
The nose can be made from a large sunflower seed or dried orange peel, or plasticine.
To make the owl craft look like an autumn composition, the owl is placed on an improvised twig with moss and leaves.

From flowers

Toys made of fresh fragrant flowers are very popular now. Such beauty is sold in flower stores. But you can try to make a "live" owl yourself (especially if there are a lot of flowers in the garden).

To work take: a floral sponge, a sharp knife (clerical), a basket with a closed bag or film bottom, wire, satin ribbons and decorative elements.

Creation process:

Using a knife, make a small sculpture of an owl out of foam.
Using a glue gun attach the eyes (ready-made, for plush toys or plastic (running) for crafts).
Beak cut out of foam and glued beige satin ribbon.
Inserted in a sponge on a toothpick dipped in hot glue.
In the basket is placed a sponge filled with water (for fixing the body and weighting the craft).
The bird, cut out of the oasis, is left in the water until it is completely saturated. Allow the excess water to drain off.
Put the sculpture on the foam in a basket and fix it to the base with wooden skewers (piercing the creation in different places).
With fresh flowers are cut carefully with a sharp knife buds with a stem of 2 cm. Start filling the owl flowers, leaving no gaps. In the place of the wings take florets of a different variety.
The empty base in the basket can also be filled: twigs, grass, flowers, small spruce branches, etc.

For the owl of fresh flowers to enjoy for a longer time, you need to pay attention to the cuts of the stems (they are made obliquely, so that water can flow better).

From leaves and dry grass

With younger children can make crafts from a herbarium - dried leaves and grass:

On a cardboard sheet pencil outline the figure of an owl, with emphasis on the details.
And then begin to create applique, selecting the appropriate leaves and grass in color and size.
The material is glued to the paper completely or only the top, creating a three-dimensional feathering effect.
Eyes are drawn or made of colored paper.

From corks

If you attach cut out of felt miniature eyes, wings, ears, beak to a large bottle cap (for example, champagne) with hot glue you will get the cutest little owl. And attached to the top of a chain or wire with a ring to turn the handicraft into a cute keychain.

From disks

Another interesting option for mosaic technique is the owl out of old disks. You can find such an item in almost every home. The discs are cut with scissors. Draw a bird on cardboard and glue a mosaic pattern on top.

With plasticine

Children adore modeling with plasticine. It is very easy to make an owl from such material:

First, mold the torso from a single piece or from two balls - large and small, joining each other.
The wings are made of plasticine droplets and attached to the body.
Then use a special knife to make an imitation of the feathers on the body and wings of owls.
Eyes are made from pairs of white, brown and black (for the pupils) circles.
Ears are made from triangles.

Braided from twine

Take household rope: twine, jute, etc:

Fill two balls (any color) of different sizes with air.
Rope spool is lowered "to bathe" in PVA glue.
Then wind the soaked twine on the balls and let them dry.
After the product has dried, the balls are pierced with a needle.
They attach cardboard eyes and a beak, ears from a bundle of thread.
On the neck of the owl tie a beautiful scarlet ribbon with a bow.

Made of corrugated cardboard

Pretty and fast funny owls are made of corrugated cardboard:

On a simple heavy paper, draw templates of different birds of the owl family.
Applied to the corrugated cardboard, tracing with a pencil and carefully cut out with small scissors or a scalpel (on a solid surface that is not sorry to damage).
Eyes are made from buttons or glass bottle caps from lemonade or mineral water.

From a plastic bottle

To quickly make an owl, take a normal plastic bottle, cut off the top (10 cm), neck and bottom (10 cm) with a sharp knife:

Insert the top into the bottom and turn the bottle upside down.
Begin to paint the bird.
Draw large eyes, beak, wings, eyebrows. It is better to work with acrylic paints.
In conclusion, after the work dries, the owl from the bottle is covered with varnish.

From a kitchen grater

A very creative owl is created from an ordinary kitchen grater, out of use

The eyes are made from two baby food (or other) lids, the eyeballs and pupils from lemonade and beer iron lids.
The ears are formed from an iron handle-holder (you can ask the head of the family: you have to use force).