Today it has become popular to decorate your personal plots. In order not to spend a lot of money on decorative elements, you can do all the spring crafts yourself. For this, any improvised means are used, even that which had long been planned to be thrown away. One of the popular characters is a ladybug. Do it yourself garden figures in the image of this insect. Let's look at a couple of the simplest examples of how to make such a figure.
A whole family of ladybugs can be made from ordinary stones. It is only necessary to pick up stones of rounded shape and different sizes. Take black and red paint and paint boulders. Red is used for wings and black for dots and eyes. The result is bright and truly original sculptures. Although it is not necessary to take only two of these colors, you have a fantasy sculpture, which means that there can be any ladybug coloring. With your own hands, the completed figure should not only be lost among the greenery of your garden, the colors should be bright and contrasting. Such insects feel great on a flower bed or in the shade of a beautiful shrub. And they look especially impressive on a green lawn.
Consider another method of how to make a ladybug sculpture with your own hands. To do this, you will need an old ball, preferably a football, a round bowl, polyethylene, tile mosaic, water, tile adhesive, sand and cement. The ball is cut in half, the bottom of each half is lined with polyethylene. A solution of sand with cement is mixed at a rate of 3 to 1, water is added until a mixture is obtained that looks like a thick porridge. Fill each half of the ball with a solution and place them in round bowls to make the figures without a pressure sore at the base. Leave it to freeze, it takes at least 2 days. Take out the finished workpiece, if it turned out to be clumsy, then knead the liquid solution and use it to level it. After complete drying with chalk, draw the wings, spots and eyes of the insect. It remains with the tile glue to lay out the mosaic, and wipe the cracks with a special grout. To protect the figure from moisture, it should be covered with liquid sealer. It remains to carry the ladybugs to their permanent places.
And how do you make a ladybug costume with your own hands? And everything is quite simple. It will not even require patterns. It is enough to put on black tights on the child, the same turtleneck and skirt for girls or shorts for boys. From shoes, lacquered black shoes are best suited . It remains to make wings and antennae. A framework for wings is made of thick wire, which is covered with red material. Black dots can be drawn with a marker, or you can cut them out of black fabric and stick them on. Make antennae out of the rim and wire, on the ends of which attach red pompons. The Christmas ladybug costume is ready!
For a children's holiday table, you can make mini-sandwiches "ladybugs." A round cracker is taken, soft cheese is spread on it, and half of the cherry tomato in the form of wings is placed on top. Dots and insect heads are made from olives. And the greens will serve as a decoration. Here you have made a healthy and tasty ladybug sandwich with your own hands.