All children, and adults too, are always interested in making a toy themselves. A self-made product is original and exclusive. This craft can be presented as a gift.
To do this, it is good to choose material that is affordable and inexpensive. Vegetables as material for crafts are becoming increasingly popular. First of all, due to its availability, you don’t have to buy them at all, you can grow them in your beds. And if you have to buy, then inexpensively. There is no need to specifically search and get tools for working on crafts, for this you can take ordinary kitchen knives or carving knives - figured cutting vegetables and fruits.
Zucchini is well suited as a material for creativity. It is moderately hard and not too soft, but such as needed. In addition, it does not turn yellow on the cut and has a diverse skin color.
What crafts can I make from zucchini? Quantity can be limited only by the imagination of the creator. For example, such a craft from a vegetable marrow as a ship is quite simple to make. For this, a long fruit is taken, cut lengthwise into two parts, pulp with seeds is selected, a little pulp is left for the “sides”. Then the vegetable is pierced through with wooden sticks so that these sticks protrude 7-8 centimeters beyond the edge of the vegetable marrow. It will be oars. Two more sticks will be needed for the construction of sails. As a sail, a cabbage leaf is suitable. You need to pierce it with the "mast" and insert the sail into the base of the squash. A second sail is made in the same way. Using a sharp knife on the side of the ship, you can write its name.
Most often they make such crafts from zucchini as cars. It’s not difficult to make a “squash cabriolet”. To do this, cut the “salon” in the middle part of the vegetable. As wheels, you can take rings cut off from a smaller fruit, strung on wooden sticks - axes. Also, wheels can be attached from an old broken toy. Headlights will turn out of carrots.
From a fruit of irregular shape - expanded from one end like a pear, a car with a roof is cut out - windows are cut in the middle part of the vegetable. And the narrow part is the "nose" of the machine.
Zucchini crafts such as various animals and fish are very common. For example, a shark can be quickly made by cutting its mouth and eyes in a vegetable. The parts cut off from a smaller zucchini or cucumber are attached using matches or toothpicks, fins are obtained.
Unusual crafts from the zucchini are vases, teapots, on which patterns are cut with a curly knife, contrasting with the main color of the craft. For example, if the vegetable is dark green, then the cut curls will be white or light green in color.
Beautiful crafts from the zucchini are obtained in the form of a train, an airplane, as well as an entire zoo of animals - these are penguins, ducks, pigs, and many other birds and animals.
Let the crafts from the zucchini are short-lived, but in the process of working with them, children receive the necessary skills: attentiveness, perseverance, patience, and also develop motor skills of the hands.