Potato is a very popular material for the manufacture of children's crafts. However, for drawing up figures from raw potatoes there are a number of limitations. This is due to the fact that the tubers immediately darken at the cut. Therefore, in the handmade only whole potatoes are used.
The beauty of this autumn tuber vegetable is that, without any modification, some specimens already represent ready-made figures of animals or fairy-tale characters. In co-authorship with nature, you can easily show the world an invaluable example of design art. We need: mindfulness, a couple of suitable details, such as a hat, etc., and a great degree of luck.
If you decide to make pottery crafts, do not be afraid to supplement them with other vegetables. From such daring combinations, you can get a meek lamb or a wayward giraffe.
Crafts from raw potatoes
Lamb
In the manufacture of lamb are involved: cauliflower - it turns out a white curly coat, a potato - it serves as a muzzle, and a pair of small white bulbs or radishes in the form of gullible eyes.
Giraffe
To create a giraffe you need carrots. The orange queen of vegetables is perfect for the neck. From the potato, the head and torso of a guest from Africa are obtained. The legs and horns of the craft are conveniently made from twigs.
You can make a giraffe and without using carrots, it will replace a smooth long twig.
In the following handicrafts, only potatoes with small additions of threads and branches are used.
Horse
Of the three oblong potatoes, just do this simple work. This craft is quite suitable for lessons of creativity in kindergartens. Of the sticks, legs. Of potatoes - head, neck and trunk. From the thread - mane and tail. From the acorn hats - hooves.
Deer
Here is another children's craft made of potatoes. We need two tubers for its production, one of which is twice as large as the other. From a small potato we make a head: we plan nails of an eye (this seasoning is on sale in any deli), we form horns from sprawling branches. The hind legs are made from single twigs growing in angle. The front legs are just two straight branches. We strengthen all four legs in larger potatoes. A small twig will be a tail. Both parts of the body are joined together by a toothpick.
Birdie
By the same principle, you can make a birdie. The body and head of potatoes. We make out the beak of crafts from two seeds. Paws, like a deer, from twigs. Tail - colored feathers. You can make and on the head of a provocative tuft.
Hedgehog
Perhaps the hedgehog from potatoes is the most favorite children's craft of all time. It can be made from potatoes or from apples. The technology of production is one: several dozen toothpicks are strengthened in a potato or apple body, these are hedgehogs. Eyes and a nose can be made from peas of black pepper (it is sold in one department with a carnation).
Crafts from boiled potatoes
Much more opportunities for modeling from potatoes are revealed if it is boiled. In crafts then it becomes possible to use not only whole tubers, but also segments.
Cheburashka
For this craft of potatoes will need half a tuber, which will be the trunk. From half a potato in size smaller - we make a head. White slices
Bear
Potatoes can become a material for making such a welcoming bear. If instead of a keg of honey to him in the paws to give a tray of fruit, this hand-made potato can quite participate in the exhibition "Gifts of Autumn". The whole figure is made on the principle of Cheburashka. For the manufacture of hands half of the potatoes mentally divide into four parts and cut out one of the parts. It is important to find a suitable potato for the muzzle.
If the corn is the queen of the fields, then the potato is the king of the creative work of designers from 3 to 12 years. And their parents.