In autumn, the time comes when in kindergartens and schools teachers ask parents and children to participate in exhibitions of crafts made from vegetables. Many willingly participate, undeservedly bypassing the attention of such a vegetable as onions. Crafts from onions can be very interesting. Onion is also an affordable and easy to process material. It is easy to cut, pierce, the bulb has a convenient shape. What to do crafts from a bow with your own hands, this article will teach you!
Cipollino
For Cipollino, take three medium-sized onions. For the head, a slightly sprouted vegetable is best. Taking the usual awl, make small holes for the eyes, mouth and nose. Fill the openings with seeds. For example, make your eyes from grape or apple seed, your nose from corn grain, and your mouth from viburnum seed. The remaining bulbs are the torso of our fairy-tale hero. Cut off the tops of the fruits, carefully insert thin twigs or toothpicks there and connect the bulbs together. To attach the head to the body, cut off its root part and put on a toothpick. Doing such crafts from a bow with your own hands is not at all difficult.
Do not forget to find twigs for the manufacture of the hands and feet of your Cipollino. It is better if these branches have branches at the end, so you imitate the fingers. Also take a small onion, cut in half and attach with a toothpick to the lower base of the torso. Hero's shoes are ready! Crafts from onions delight both children and adults.
Onion chrysanthemum
Very often, parents and teachers offer children to make paper flowers. Why don't you make onion chrysanthemum? Take a small white or red onion. Clean it and cut about a half centimeter below and above. Take a sharp knife and cut the onion in half from the top of it.
Do not reach the end somewhere around 0.5 cm. We make the same cuts along the entire diagonal of the fetus. But watch out for the depth of cut - if you back off a little, the flower will not bloom, and if too much, it will simply fall apart. In addition, the thinner the layers, the more finished the flower will be more beautiful. When the knife is finished, dip the bulb in a container of water at room temperature so that the fruit completely disappears under the liquid. Wait an hour! During this time, the chrysanthemum will bloom in the water. If you want to get colored chrysanthemum, add dyes to the water. Crafts from onions, photos of which you see on the page, can be very beautiful.
Onion husk applications
Some people prefer non-traditional methods of working with vegetables. For example, crafts from onions can be done with the help of its husk. Onion peel is a very interesting and easy-to-use material that has a chic color. The husk is removed very carefully, it can not be wrinkled. Filmed material is steamed in water (hot) for about 10 minutes. Then the husk is ironed. You can also paint the material with potassium permanganate or wood stain.
Before starting work on the application, sort the husk in a light and dark shade. As a basis, take silk, velvet or cloth, previously stretched on a stretcher. The use of cardboard or thick white and colored paper is also acceptable. Great for crafts made from onion peel purple and blue shades. Black color will reduce the amount of work, but beautifully shade the golden color of the husk.
How can I work with peeled onions?
Crafts from onions can be real works of art. But how to work with onion peel? There are several methods:
- Sticking the material on a fabric base, where the drawing is already applied. Each piece is smeared with PVA glue and glued to the sketch, fitting it to the previous one.
- Transfer parts to thin paper - in this case, the husk is transferred to thin paper with glue on thin paper, then the parts are very carefully cut from the wrong side. Finished fragments are glued to the cloth.
Crafts from onions: flowers from the husk
To make such a craft, careful preparation is necessary. Dry the onion to be wetted, cut the rhizome and carefully pull the top. The husk must neatly come off the fetus. This is the future inflorescence! For the stem, you can use the rods of cereals, garden or marsh plants. The upper edge of the stem is greased with glue and carefully attached to the onion peel bud. Separate pieces of husk are glued to the bud in the form of petals. Such a bouquet will look great in a wicker vase.
Onions are a natural and environmentally friendly material. Working with him cannot harm your child; on the contrary, he will become familiar with nature and work. By turning on fantasy, you can come up with a lot of onion characters and create them yourself right there. Funny caterpillars, turtles, watches, various little men - the list goes on and on, the limit to it is your imagination!