Does the child need to make a toy from vegetables? Crafts from potatoes and carrots are made quickly and easily. In addition, it is the most affordable and cheapest material. Working with him is easy. Even a preschooler will cope with this task. Read, choose ideas. Try to implement them with your children!
Simple crafts
For different ages, things that differ in level of difficulty can be performed. It is enough for small children to use the form of a vegetable in order to finish drawing or gluing their eyes to get an animal. Older children who already know how to handle a knife safely can be invited to make a figurine of the individual parts of potatoes, carrots, zucchini, eggplant or try yourself in a form of creativity like carving. This is art cutting for vegetables and fruits.
So, start with the simplest:
- Take potatoes and carrots (it can be with herbs).
- Cut off the base for stability. In carrots with tops, remove the nose to save the “braids”. If you find a fancy potato, try to keep it as much as possible. Better fix the object on a solid base with matches or toothpicks.
- Glue the finished plastic eyes, which are sold in the departments for needlework or gift wrapping. You can use peas of black pepper, dried cloves (spices), setting them on matches, toothpicks, needles.
- From sticks of artificial or natural origin, make pens, legs.
Simple crafts from potatoes and carrots are created in a few minutes. Take additional materials according to the age of the child. Young children can simply draw eyes with a felt-tip pen if they still cannot work with pins and other small items.
Carving
Particularly impressive are crafts made from potatoes and carrots made using this technique. It is an art carving for food. Most often used vegetables, fruits, berries. Professionals perform such products using special cutting tools. A beginner can try his hand using a regular knife or peeler. Tools should be sharpened as sharply as possible.
Two methods of working with materials are used:
- Cutting a shape from an entire object.
- Assembling a composition of chopped parts.
Pupils will be able to master crafts in this technique. For example, the flowers shown in the photo above are made from slices of carrots. Start with the simplest option, which is located in the lower right corner.
It is easy to make a rose in the second way. Peeler cut thin strips of carrots and twist them in a spiral. To connect, take parts of toothpicks. In addition, you can try to cut out the simple shapes of the petals and leaves with a regular knife to assemble a composition from them.
Necessary tools and materials
So, to do crafts from potatoes and carrots, in addition to the vegetables themselves, you will need the following:
- connecting elements (toothpicks, matches, sharpened sticks);
- knife for making the base;
- decor to make eyes, nose, mouth (peppercorns, beads, pins with heads);
- felt-tip pens, plasticine for decoration;
- peeler and carving tools in case of complex crafts.
From such simple and affordable materials you can get wonderful things.
DIY carrot crafts
The most common product topics are as follows:
- animals;
- birds;
- fairy tale characters;
- little men.
Use both whole objects and its individual parts. You can cut any shape.
DIY carrot crafts can be made only from one material or with the addition of other vegetables and herbs. A large field for creativity is given by slices of carrots both round and at an angle. Of the first, flowers will be obtained if the edge is cut off in the form of petals, of the second - leaves. Thin parts can even be processed with scissors.
DIY potato crafts
They are made in the same way as from carrots. You can connect the individual parts with matches, toothpicks, cut out the pattern and complex shapes on the surface, arrange the processed sections, cubes, etc.
If you have objects of different sizes at your disposal, they are easy to combine, getting original crafts from potatoes. The photo clearly demonstrates the simplicity of creating caterpillars from small elements that are usually thrown away when excavated at a summer cottage.
If you find an instance of an unusual shape that is characteristic of this vegetable, use its uniqueness to the maximum. Often come across such samples that practically do not require additions.
If you want to surprise others with originality, make delicate DIY crafts from potatoes. From the root crop, you can cut flowers, leaves, letters, numbers.
Combined Products
The most unusual crafts that are easy to make are obtained by combining several different vegetables, herbs and other materials of different textures. Unleash your own imagination. Perform crafts from potatoes and carrots with your child. You can use the ideas presented in the photo in the article, or come up with your character. We propose to make an old forest man. For the feet and palms, take the halves of small potatoes, arms, legs, make the nose of small carrots. It will turn out a funny fantastic hero.
You can supplement the product with threads. A horse’s mane and a man’s hair are made of yarn. Unusually look "dressed" vegetables. A simple sarafan or shirt can be obtained by wrapping a piece of cloth around the carrot and stitching it with a pair of stitches in different places.
Plasticine is useful as an additional material. Eyes, noses, tails, ears and all kinds of decor are molded from it. Matches or toothpicks are used not only as fasteners. They are suitable for simulating hedgehog needles. Just stick them in the potato, and the craft is ready. By the way, you can work with both raw and boiled vegetables. If this area of creative activity interests the child, he will be able to make edible decorations for a festive or everyday table, and not just the obligatory tasks of the teacher.
So, you can make crafts from potatoes and carrots for school or kindergarten quickly and at minimal cost. It all depends on the complexity of the object that you want to receive, and the age of the author of the work.