If you want to find new ideas for crafts made from natural materials, you should pay attention to the possibilities of working with vegetables. For example, you can make an animal figurine, airplane, train, car or ship from a zucchini with your own hands. In this article, we dwell on the latter option.
Carving
The use of vegetables for the manufacture of decorative objects is not only the direction of children's creativity. In restaurants, at celebrations, edible decorations are used quite often. Now carving is very popular. It is an artistic cutting of fruits, vegetables, less often fish and meat products. In this way, multi-object compositions are created in the form of flowers, animals, letters. They can be performed in two ways:
- Cutting out a whole vegetable.
- Composing an object from prepared elements made from different vegetables or one, for example, zucchini.
To create a ship, you may need both methods. Professionals work with special tools, for a beginner it will be enough a sharp knife, a peeler and scissors. Making crafts from vegetables for school or kindergarten, in any case, you will have to cut some parts of vegetables. In addition, it gives a greater variety of opportunities for the creative process. With this method, you can make an airplane, and a train, and a ship from a zucchini with your own hands. Moreover, both voluminous and embossed, on the surface of the vegetable itself.
Crafts from zucchini: a variety of options
This natural material in gardeners is usually abundant. Use it in business. The shapes and shades of zucchini are diverse, which again makes it possible to use them as the basis for figures of animals, aircraft, trains, cars. Children love to create something new and unusual from simple forms and objects. Only the ships from the vegetable marrow can make many options. You can make a whole flotilla of different sized vegetables.
In general, other crafts can be made from zucchini:
- penguin;
- mumps;
- hare;
- a cat;
- a turtle;
- Shark
- horse;
- Crocodile Gena;
- a whole tea set;
- souvenir in the form of slippers;
- steam locomotive with wagons;
- sailboat;
- whatnot;
- spaceship.
The list goes on, but it’s better to move on to practice.
Submarine from the zucchini
For this craft, almost nothing extra is required. The main thing is to choose an appropriate elongated vegetable. Then do the following:
- Make a cabin from another zucchini. Take a small whole vegetable and cut it in half or use a portion of the large and trim the shape.
- Make the blades of the screws from two sections connected together.
- Connect all additional parts to the base with toothpicks or matches.
- Try to install the craft on a solid base or cut the bottom of the product so that your submarine does not swing or fall.
Do-it-yourself warship made of zucchini in a few minutes. To give greater realism, attach a small figure of a diver to the board. It can be printed on a printer and pasted with tape.
Craft from a vegetable marrow: a ship with sails
For this option, you will have to make a little more effort. Additional tools and materials will be required.
So you will need:
- one zucchini for the base, the other for decor;
- mast sticks;
- matches or toothpicks to connect parts;
- knife, spoon.
A ship from a zucchini with your own hands is done step by step as follows:
- Put the vegetable in front of you.
- Cut off the top along the entire length. Leave, therefore, a little more than half the vegetable.
- Remove the core with a spoon, align the inner surface. Seeds do not rush to throw out. They can be used as decoration.
- From the second zucchini, cut a thin layer of pulp along with the peel. This rectangle will be the canvas of the sail. If you need several, repeat the action as many times as necessary.
- Take the prepared sticks and pass through the sail. Holes are best done previously with a knife or the sharp tip of a peeler.
- Fasten the masts with sails at the base of the ship. Sticks should be finely ground.
- Decorate the ship with your own hands: make several round slices from a zucchini of smaller size and fix them on toothpicks along the side or cut a pattern.
- Make oars from ice cream sticks or other items of a similar shape. They can be built from toothpicks and seeds previously removed from the core.
In general, your craft is ready. You can also supplement it with figures of people on board: the captain and his crew.
If you want to make a modern ship, then you will have to cut portholes on the sides, put pipes and fences on the deck. It’s better to pre-draw a sketch of a future craft or find a finished image of a realistic ship. So it will be easier to maintain proportions and plan the sequence of work.
Combination with other fruits and vegetables
Any craft from a zucchini (ship, plane or train) will look more spectacular if you use a combination of contrasting colors, textures and materials. For a sail, for example, you can use cabbage, beetroot or other dense leaves and even flowers (see photo below). A bright helm is easily cut out of a circle of carrots. The decor on board is made from beans, peas, berries. In a word, if you are not limited to a specific task, use any combination of natural elements for crafts.
Combination with artificial materials
You can make a ship from a zucchini with your own hands using elements of non-natural origin, if this is allowed in your case. Any contrasts look spectacular. For example, supplement the ship with a net or fabric sails, use rope ladders made of twisted wire.
You saw that it’s not difficult to make a ship from a vegetable marrow with your own hands. Adding elements of other vegetables and objects of artificial origin, you can get a variety of original crafts.