We are on the eve of the new 2017. People believe that in the new year everything will be in a new way, and it will certainly be better than the previous one. No wonder the favorite wish for the New Year is: "Let all the good things go with us in the new year, and all the bad things remain in the old."
Symbol 2017
Each coming year has its own symbol. In 2017, it is the Red Fire Rooster. The coming year belongs to the fire element, and therefore it will be bright, cheerful and with many memorable moments.
Since ancient times, people decorated their home with figurines, depending on what year came. When meeting the new 2017 year, make sure that you have a rooster figurine in your house, either purchased or created by yourself. According to legend, the image of this sonorous bird will bring good luck for the next year.
Options for performing the symbol of the year
What can you create a cock from? Yes of all! So, an excellent option for decorating a window is an image drawn in gouache. Stencils with the image of the symbol of the year also look great. To do this, you need to find a suitable image on the Internet, print it and carefully cut it with scissors.
Cockerels look very original, which play the role of an elegant fabric heating pad for a teapot. This fun and useful decoration can be sewn from material suitable for the color scheme, folded in several layers.
As an idea, roosters carved from felt are also perfect. They can be strung on skewers and decorate flowerpots with home flowers. Garlands of roosters strung on a thread will look beautiful.
Cock from sweets: master class
We will tell you how to make a rooster out of sweets. Such a symbol of 2017 will be colorful and vibrant, but also tasty. It can act as a great holiday gift to colleagues, relatives, friends and, of course, children. The latter, incidentally, should be brought in as assistants. They will be happy to wrap candies in corrugated paper and perform other simple tasks.
Materials
To create a cockerel from sweets you will need certain materials:
- Polyfoam of rectangular or square shape (it is better to select those types that are less crumble and disintegrate).
- Glue. It is best to use Dragon glue or a thermal gun with glue. If there are none, then you can use ordinary PVA glue.
- Candy. The rooster made of sweets will turn out to be bright and colorful if we use confectionery in original and shiny wrappers.
- Corrugated paper. It can be purchased at any stationery store. It can be white, yellow or red.
- Marker (in case we suddenly need to draw our eyes or some additional elements).
Workflow
Do-it-yourself rooster made of sweets is done like this:
- First you need to create an elongated torso of a bird from a piece of foam. To do this, take a sharp clerical knife. Gradually cutting small pieces of material, form the most similar figure of the body of a rooster.
- After that, cut out his head as well and use a wire or other connecting element to attach it to the body.
Once these manipulations are done, you can proceed to the decor of the composition "cock from sweets":
- To decorate the head and neck, it is necessary to cut several circles of different diameters from large to smaller. Each subsequent circle should be less than the previous one by half a centimeter.
- Then take the largest circle, connect its middle with the top of the head and press along the entire length. So do with all subsequent circles. As a result, you get a neck like a real cock in feathers. We use corrugated paper as a pen.
- Cut the same diameter circles of corrugated paper. They will need a lot. Fold 2 circles together, along the edge with the help of scissors make a fringe, not cutting to the center. In the middle, place the candy in a bright wrapper and fix it with wire. Such blanks will require 10 or more, depending on the size of the body.
After everything is ready, you can proceed to the assembly.
- Attach sweets with wire to the body over the entire area.
- Then draw the eyes, glue the beak and comb, as well as paper earrings.
That's all, our cock is ready! You can seat it either in a basket or on a dish. It all depends on your imagination.
Candy Bouquet: Rooster
A bouquet of sweets with the presence of the symbol of the year, namely the rooster, looks beautiful and original. To create it, you will need the following materials:
- Candy on sticks - cockerel shaped lollipops.
- Ordinary sweets.
- Cling film.
- Skewers.
- Fresh or artificial flowers, ribbons, tulle and so on.
The sequence of the bouquet
Conventional sweets must be wrapped (each individually) in cling film. Then attach to the skewers. Put a piece of polystyrene on the bottom of the basket or decorative flowerpot. Also special material that florists use for compositions is perfect. Insert the cocks evenly into it, alternating them with sweets, and fasten them well.
Lastly, decorate the composition with fresh flowers. The void is filled with tulle. To do this, it must be folded into several layers and cut into squares or circles. In the center, pierce with a wire stud and attach to the foam. You can optionally wrap the basket with ribbon and tie a beautiful bow.
If desired, you can decorate the bouquet with fir branches and add small Christmas-tree decorations. Candles will look very beautiful and mysterious as an addition to the bouquet.
The most important thing in creating a composition with your own hands is a great desire and rich imagination. You can create a panel with the image of a rooster made of sweets. To do this, you need a frame without glass and small chocolates. It is preferably round. But you can also combine sweets of different shapes.
Having picked up a suitable color scale, lay out the rooster shape with sweets, and the original New Year's panel is ready. It will be a great decoration at home, and after the New Year holidays it can be eaten by the whole family.