Few people know that April 1 is celebrated not only as April Fool's Day, but also as International Bird Day. But this holiday is well known to teachers of preschool and school institutions.

By the middle spring month, teachers and their pupils begin to make handicrafts related to birds. For example, just as numerous bird feeders appear on the trees before the cold and hungry season, in spring the guys try to provide housing for their feathered friends.

Of course, wood crafts that require planing, sawing, and using a dangerous tool to create them are not suitable for all ages. Toddlers who go to Kindergarten are unlikely to do the job.

You can celebrate the wonderful holiday Bird Day by creating a bird craft. Feather figurines are made from a wide variety of raw materials using felt, woolen threads, colored paper, plastic bottles, autumn leaves and others, as long as your imagination is enough.

Sometimes parents are faced with the problem of how to make a bird from the materials at hand. There was already information above that there are practically no restrictions. Presented on the site step by step instructions for beginners, they will prompt new ideas for creativity.

Master class on how to make a bird for the little ones

A few ideas for original crafts able to master even small children of dosadovskogo age.

You will need colored paper, paper bookmarks with an adhesive strip, glue stick, scissors, toothpicks or thin sticks and plasticine or clay.

From colored paper, make circles (according to the desired number of birds). Circles can be of different diameters. Fold each circle in half. Glue bookmark strips on the inside.

Glue a triangle on the other edge - this will be the bird's beak. From the outside, stick the wings all from the same bookmark paper. Attach a toothpick or stick inside and stick it into a piece of plasticine. You can draw bird eyes.

For the next craft, you need white or colored paper, scissors and pencils.

Circle the palm of your hand (yours or your child's) on paper. Cut out the outline with scissors. Thumb is the head of a bird. The rest are tail and wings. Draw a beak and eyes. You can paint the body. The bird is ready!

Another version of the bird with your own hands from improvised materials. Prepare cotton pads, wooden barbecue sticks, scissors, glue, ribbons for decoration or beautiful threads.

On a wooden stick, glue two cotton pads (the skewer should be inside). And just below in the same way, glue two more. Get a little snowman.

Cut one cotton pad into two equal parts. Glue them to the lower disks on a stick - these are the wings. Cut out eyes and a beak from colored paper. Glue to the top disks. For beauty, you can tie a beautiful ribbon around the "neck" of the bird.

paper owl

You will need toilet paper rolls, cardboard or heavy paper, colored paper, paints, scissors, and glue.

If there are no ready-made cylinders, glue them from improvised materials: paper or cardboard. From one end, bend the top of the cylinder inward and make sharp owl ears. The photo of the bird shows how to do it.

From colored paper, cut out many circles with a diameter of up to 1 cm. They should be the same size. Glue the circles on the cylinder.

Cut out a triangle beak and stick it in place. From black and white circles, collect the eyes of an owl and glue to the cylinder. The owl is ready!

Crafts of birds from threads

Let's talk about two ways to make a bird out of thread with your own hands.

You will need yarn, cardboard, needles, scissors.

From cardboard, make blanks for creating pompoms: circles with a diameter of 5 and 2 cm, inside cut out circles with a diameter of 2 and 1 cm, respectively. Wrap the threads on the cardboard. The interior space must be completely filled.

Cut the threads along the edge, thread the thread, remove the pom-pom from the cardboard and tighten the thread. Straighten the threads to get fluffy ball. Make a smaller pom-pom as described above.

Connect two pompoms. On the smaller one, which is the bird's head, sew on beaded eyes and a fabric beak.

For the second method, three colors of yarn, scissors, and thin wire are needed.

From one color of yarn, make a bunch of threads 13 cm long. From the other two bunches of 9 cm. Their thickness should be approximately the same.

Put one of the short ones in the middle of the longest skein. Bend a long skein and tie at the base. Do the same with the short one. Place the third bundle under the knitted threads.

Roll up a tight ball of cotton and put it down all the threads. Gather all the ends together so that the ball is inside. Tie the yarn with thread. Trim the ends of the bird's tail with scissors.

Sew or glue on beaded eyes and a fabric beak, such as felt. From a thin wire, make bird paws and fix them in a filament body.

felt bird

Very cute crafts are made from fabric. The procedure for creating a felt bird is described below.

• Find on the Internet or use the given bird pattern. Print and cut out the felt pattern.
• Sew from the wrong side, leaving a small opening.
• Stuff the figurine with cotton or stuffed material.
• Close the hole carefully with a blind stitch.
• Eyes and beak can be drawn or sew on with beads and fabric.

Now in your arsenal of ideas there are several on how to create birds from improvised materials with your own hands. Maybe ready-made options will push you to new searches and creative achievements!

DIY photo of birds

Needlework is a very delicate art that requires painstaking work and considerable perseverance. Wanting to create something great with their own hands, beginners spend a huge amount of time honing their skills. One of the masterpieces of handmade style is the Tilda Bird.

The success of this toy lies in the fact that the range of its use is huge. It complements any room: in the bedrooms it serves as a decor, it can be combined with all sorts of designs; decorates tablecloths and napkins in the kitchen; in the hall is successfully located as an accessory and decoration on the Christmas tree during the New Year period.

Pattern classic birdies Tilda is very simple. It includes the base - the head and breast, as well as the pattern of the wings. As a beak, you can use an ordinary toothpick, having previously painted it in required color, or just covering clear varnish. Paws can be created using wire. Then the bird will be able to hold onto the cage or perch with them.

Tilda is recommended to be sewn from fabrics of different colors and textures. So, you can experiment with shades and choose the best options for different designs. The breast can be made lighter and more solid, while the wings will look great from a colorful dark fabric. Everything in the work is built on harmony and combination.

And here is another bird pattern.

Sewing pattern

1. We apply the pattern to the fabric.
2. Cut out with large sewing scissors.
3. Fold the cut fabric right side to each other and sew.
4. We twist and carefully score textile doll Tilda stuffing.
5. Carefully sew up the remaining holes, making miniature stitches.
6. Sew the wings to the body.

You can decorate the toy as you like - with braid around the neck, flowers on the head, buttons instead of eyes, various sequins and Swarovski stones. Tilda birds will look great even as a keychain, talisman or brooch jewelry. It all depends on your taste and mood.

There is also a beautiful bird with a house.

The sewing pattern is the same, only the beak is made beforehand.

If you want to get to work, and are willing to put in quite a bit of effort to create a beautiful masterpiece, you will need: a pattern, fabric, thread, needles and accessories. Come and be sure that such a songbird will delight you both in winter and in summer.

Tilda puffin

In Russia, often children's toys were at the same time amulets. One of these fun for kids was the bird of happiness. Fairy-tale birds were made by hand from improvised materials (wood, straw, fabric, etc.) and hung over the cradle. Whether this increased happiness in a peasant family is unknown, but where children are loved and they try to make various toys for them with their own hands, it certainly lives.

You will need:

• a beautiful piece of fabric;
• any filler (cotton wool, rags, synthetic winterizer);
• red thread number 10.

Work order

• Cut out a square beautiful fabric. For the amulet, the fabric is laid tear with your own hands. Fold the fabric diagonally and form the beak of a bird of happiness by wrapping even number of times with thread. Make 3 knots by wrapping and slipping the spool under the thread, tightening and not tearing off.

• Right next to the knot, put some cotton wool and form a head with your own hands.

• Secure again with a few turns of thread and 3 knots. Don't break the thread.

• We make the wing of the bird of happiness. Divide the remaining fabric into three equal diagonals and tie the last one closer to the head.

• Throw the thread over the neck of the bird of happiness to the other shoulder and make the second wing.

• Make a waist. Should be on the back "Veles Cross". For this odd make the number of turns in one direction diagonally, and the same number in the other.

• Thread a thread under the cross and hang the bird of happiness from the chandelier.

The photo shows how to make a bird by cutting out only two parts from any piece of fabric according to this pattern. Please note that the drawing shows a pattern of the tummy and half of the back. For the back, the fabric must be folded in half with your own hands. Then the parts must be cut out, retreating 5 mm at the seams and sewn.

This simple soft toy very easy to make. It can be complicated by sewing on a large black beak, and you get a cheerful crow. For those who do not know how to make a fire bird, this pattern can also be a hint. All you need to do is sew a long beautiful tail, pin a small crest and the toy is ready.

AngryBirds - city crow

This angry crow toy appeared, like many others from the famous cartoon. It is better to sew AngryBirds from thin drape, felt or velor. It is necessary to cut out the details of the bird from a fabric that will not crumble. The photo shows the pattern without seam allowances.

You need to start sewing the crow from the body, collecting it with your own hands in 4 segments with a seam over the edge. We sew the beak separately. We fill it and the crow with any filler. We sew all the details, glue the eyes and eyebrows. Everything, the crow is ready.

This handmade soft toy can become a convenient accessory as sofa cushion. And replacing the small beak with a wide one and removing the scallop, you get a charming duck.

Both the rooster and the duck are sewn in the same way and very simply. Sew a square bag, then fold the top corners together and sew perpendicular to the bottom. Stuff and attach beak, crest, eyes and wings.

You can make such an owl needle case with your own hands from two small pieces of fabric, cutting them out, as shown in the photo. For the body, you need to cut out the two parts shown. On one of them, sew a forehead, eyes and paws with your own hands, sew a bag, fill it with cotton wool and attach wings.

Colorful bird: photo master class

Cloth bird: video

The craft is very simple to perform, the bird does not need to be painted, but just choose the right fabric. For volume, stuff the craft with rags or cotton wool.

Hello dear readers! This master class is dedicated to feathered creatures. Today we will learn how to make a fabric bird with our own hands. With a small piece of fabric and thread, you can easily make a beautiful dove or even a firebird. Involve children in this activity - they will definitely like to make small birds - small ones.

When you have a lot of these dolls, you can hang them in the garden or in the yard on a tree. In this way, in the old days, at sunset, winters attracted the sun and real migratory birds, which brought spring warmth with them.

DIY materials

For work, you will need pieces of thin matter of any plain or variegated colors. It is not necessary to take a new fabric, old pieces are also suitable for crafts.

Prepare also threads and cotton wool. Threads can be taken any - cotton, woolen. They can be in the tone of the fabric or, conversely, contrasting. It is desirable that the threads be soft and not very thin - it will be more convenient for children to work with them.

We lay out the material on the table and cut out a square of 20 × 20 cm. It will turn out beautifully if the edges of the patch are fluffed up a little and make a fringe. You can cut a square with serrated scissors, then the edge will turn out to be zigzag.

Fold the flap diagonally twice like an envelope and bandage inner corner thread - this will be the future beak of the bird.

We roll a tight ball with a diameter of about 1.5 cm from cotton wool. We put it under the beak and tie it with a thread - we get the head of a bird. You can immediately make a loop for which the toy will be hung.

Then we take another ball of cotton, give it oval shape and put it under the head - this will be the torso. After that, carefully straighten the flap. It is desirable that all the folds are evenly distributed.

We take a long thread, put it under the head and cross-tie first the back, and then the abdomen of the bird. Tie the ends under the tail and cut off.

The beak can be left white, or it can be painted black or red with paint or a felt-tip pen. It turns out here is such a white dove.

You can make birds from colored patches. These dolls also look very cute.

Try to make a fabric bird with your child. This activity develops very well fine motor skills and the skill of tying knots. And in conclusion, I want to recommend to all mothers one wonderful book-benefit "Baby's First Crafts" . It is available electronically and absolutely free. The book contains a lot useful material for developing activities with kids from 1.5 to 5 years. Agree, it is very convenient when the most best instructions for activities with children. I hope you get a lot of ideas and advice from there.

Good luck in your work! Nadezhda Goryunova