It is difficult to find a person who would not like spring. This is a sunny time, when nature gradually wakes up from sleep, the weather becomes warm, and the sun shines brighter. Spring will please you with a variety of holidays. In our country, it is customary to prepare for many of them in a special way, conducting certain ceremonies, preparing traditional dishes and decorating your home. You still do not know how to make chicken from threads? We bring to your attention several interesting ideas and many detailed instructions.
Do you know how to make pompons at home?
Beautiful chickens can be made from soft balls. But where to get the right pompons? Do not rush to tear off your favorite hat - it’s not difficult to make such decorative elements yourself from yarn and cardboard. Craft "Chicken from threads" looks best in yellow. Take a suitable yarn of any shade: lemon or almost orange. From the cardboard cut a circle with a hole in the middle, circle the workpiece and cut another one of the same part. Fold the resulting parts together. Now take the selected thread and wrap the circle, skipping the skein from the middle to the outer edge. As a result, you should get a circle with a hole in the center, tightly wrapped in thread. After that, cut the threads along the outer edge of the circle. Take a small piece of yarn and carefully pass it between two cardboard circles, and then tighten and tie. Your pompom is ready, you can carefully cut and remove the base, and fluff the resulting ball.
Pompom chicken: workshop
We have a pompom made of yarn, but how to turn it into a chicken? Everything is quite simple: cut out the legs, beak and eyes from the cardboard for the little chick and glue them to the workpiece. You can also use buttons, beads of the right size or factory-made sewing accessories to decorate. Visit the handicraft shop: here you will find beautiful eyes and other interesting elements. If you have thin multi-colored ribbons on hand, make a bow for the chicken and stick it on your head or breast, depending on which chick you want to make - a boy or a girl. The legs can be made of wire, and optionally wrap with thin red threads on top.
Interesting ideas and useful tips.
When making pompons, choose the right size for your workpiece. Remember: the outer diameter of the circle is the size of the finished product, and the larger the inner is, the more fluffy the finished ball will be. To make a chicken, just one pompon is enough. The craft will look even more interesting if you take two soft balls. Fasten the pompons together so that a blank resembles a small snowman. Next, decorate it to your liking. In addition to the beak, eyes and legs, wings and a tail can be made. Now you know how to make a chicken out of threads, try experimenting with the design of the figure - make an interesting hat or scarf.
Fine thread lace chicks
If you have at hand only thin threads, try making an openwork craft. The chicken from the threads and the ball turns out to be very cute, and it is not difficult to make such a souvenir, even a child can cope with this task. Take for the manufacture of such crafts yarn or thread for sewing / embroidery, as well as PVA glue. Inflate the balloon to the size of the desired craft and fix it. Easter chickens are especially tender and touching when light shades of yellow are used as the main color of the craft. Pick up the threads of a suitable tone and, after impregnating them with glue, start wrapping the blank. Many needlewomen advise to simply pierce the PVA bottle in the middle with a needle and thread and, if necessary, pull the end. Wrap the workpiece in all directions and then leave to dry. After complete drying, it is necessary to pierce and carefully pull out the ball. The resulting workpiece must be decorated - from the materials at hand make the chickens beaks and eyes. Very effectively such openwork crafts look like pendants. To hang the figures, it is enough to attach ribbons or cords to the top of them. Easter chickens made using this technique are very lightweight and can be hung on curtains, chandeliers and lamps, furniture.
Decor Ideas
What crafts and compositions can be made from little chickens? One of the most popular decor ideas is an Easter basket. Take the finished wicker product, for example, the remainder of the flower arrangement, and plant the chickens there. You can add flowers, twigs, bright ribbons and any decorative elements used to decorate bouquets. If you know how to make a chicken from threads, you can try to make a spring nest. As a basis for it, take real twigs or paper. Lay the selected material in the desired shape and fix it with bright ribbons or invisible threads. Put the nestlings in the nest and decorate additionally with small flowers, decorative feathers and beads. It will be interesting to look at the nest if you put several eggs in it. Use a whole shell from quail eggs or mold this mold from plasticine, polymer clay or other plastic material.
Chicken from threads: with your own hands you can make a whole brood!
In our country, sunny chicks are as popular a symbol of spring as the traditional
Easter rabbit in the West
. And this is not surprising, because the chickens are bright, cute and very touching. Invite your child to fantasize about what a thread chicken might look like. With your own hands, from the remains of yarn, you can make beautiful applications on cardboard and fabric. In the first case, you glue the threads gathered in bundles onto the base, in the second you sew. If you have enough yarn at hand, you can try and embroider an image of a chick. Now you know how to make a chicken of thread with your own hands. We wish you inspiration and creative success!