A bit of astrology

The rooster will try to test many for strength, especially those who rely only on luck, and not on their own strengths and capabilities. The Fire Rooster will come into its own from January 28 and will rule until February 15, 2018. The Rooster himself is bright, sociable and elegant. In the coming year, the color of the Rooster and the element that it represents will be reflected in all our undertakings and life moments. The color of 2017 is Red, and the element of fire suggests an incredible desire for excellence, striving for high achievements and unsurpassed heights.

We are waiting bright year with a lot of impressions and events!

For needlewomen, it is worth preparing for the coming year. We have collected in the article several interesting and useful master classes that will definitely help you prepare gifts for your loved ones, decorate a house for the upcoming 2017. So what can we do to please? Fire Rooster, win him over and make the coming year easier, more enjoyable and more productive?

DIY red rooster

We invite you to arrange a holiday - a party in the style of a red Rooster. To do this, you need to decorate your home, prepare it for a party in an original and symbolic style. For such a decor, small details of the interior are suitable, which will allow guests to immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the holiday, plunge into a fairy tale and enjoy the coming New Year.

To make it, we need:

3 plastic bottles, 2 plastic plates, 5-6 plastic glasses of red and yellow flowers, 2 disposable spoons.

Tops from plastic bottles must be cut and fastened with adhesive tape, as shown in the picture.

From disposable plates we make such a wonderful tail for our Red Fire Rooster.

From the remains of the plates we make wings and attach the head of the Rooster, made, for example, from a pool ball.

We sew a dress for the New Year's party

What else is important for holding such a party? Of course the costumes! You can just dress in red - this color is a symbol of the coming year and the Fire Rooster will really like it. There is still time to sew a beautiful red dress for yourself, so you will be original, and the Rooster will definitely appreciate your efforts.

Well, let's take one of the master classes as an example. You will understand that sewing a Rooster to decorate your home, or as a gift to guests and loved ones, is not so difficult. A little love for needlework and a desire to please loved ones with the originality of your gift.

Sew a rooster pillow.

This pillow is perfect for your new year party! Guests can comfortably sit on these pillows and then take them home as a keepsake of the 2017 meeting!

And so, let's get started:

Here we will sew such a Cockerel, really handsome!

For tailoring we need:

• Textile yellow color(you can take any other color, or make several different ones) 25 by 56 cm
• Some fabric for decoration (red and polka dots)
• Threads, needles
• Scissors
• Filler (Hollofiber)
• Sintepon
• 2 large buttons

DIY rooster as a gift

All of the above ideas you can use both to decorate your holiday and for gifts on New Year.

Necessary materials:

Scissors
- a set of colored paper
- box
- PVA glue

Stages of work:

Prepare the boxes different sizes. From the box, cut off the part that closes the box, make cuts along the fold lines (they should be ½ the height of the box itself). Bend the parts of the box along the cuts. Two opposite parts will be the wings, and the rest will be the tail and head. Round the wings. Cut the tail to the very base. Cut the head, moving from the top to the very base, to get the shape of a triangle. Decorate the craft: make earrings and a comb.

DIY cockerel craft

You will need:

Plastic bottle - 3 pcs.
- a yellow ball from a dry pool
- red and yellow plates
- red and yellow disposable cups
- black marker
- stapler
- plain tape
- double sided tape

Work process:

From 3 bottles, cut off the upper parts, fasten them with adhesive tape to each other. Cut along the edge of disposable cups. They must be attached to the neck of the rooster with tape. Colors must be alternated. From disposable plates, cut off the edge, make cuts from the inside. As a result, you have feathers. Gather the tail and feathers with a stapler. Insert the tail into the incision. Cover the joint with wrapping paper. Wings also need to be cut from disposable plates. Attach the head with double-sided tape. Scallop, beak and beard cut out from red disposable plates. Insert the cut pieces into the cuts on the head. Eyes are also created from disposable plates.

Cockerel 2017 DIY

You will need:

Beads for eyes
- hot glue
- egg cartons
- primer
- acrylic paints
- balloon
- old newspapers
- scissors
- 2 beads
- PVA glue

How to do:

Cut two cones from the egg tray, cut one side of each cone. Connect the cut cones together with the cuts down. You will get one large cone with 4 petals. In order to create the neck and head, connect 5 cones together. At the top, they will expand and become larger in size. Cut out the scallop from the side of the tray. From the lid, cut out the beak, which will consist of two parts. Feathers are also created from cones. They are fixed on top of the cardboard with hot glue. The length of one wing is - 15 cm. Similarly, make blanks for the tail.

The next step is to create paws. From copper wire bend the shape of the paws. In order to give the desired effect, twist the corrugated tube. Insert the left tail between the corrugated and metal tube. For strength lower part fill with glue. Cut out the claws from the bottom. They should be long and narrow. They need to be attached with glue. Paint the legs with the body with spray paint.

Prepare a stationery knife and construction foam. All cuts should be neat and even. You can cut pieces individually. Lastly, glue them together. You can bring it to the desired shape with sandpaper. Treat additionally with acrylic putty, wait until it dries completely, plaster again and treat with PVA glue. It will allow the paint to take on better.

Start painting from the head. Glue the eyes on the head. To create a beautiful scallop, make a pattern on paper, transfer it to foam, cut it out, and glue it to a suitable place. Take care of preparing the shape for the wings. Leave the back open. Cover the top of the wings with feathers made from corrugated bottles. Fold the last row inside the wing. Paint over with paint, leave to dry, attach with perforated tape and a self-tapping screw. Make a tail. Take the mesh, bend it. Cut feathers from bottles. Paint them separately on both sides. Apply black first, and then a little blue. Attach the feathers to the mesh with wire. Once the paint is dry, cut the feathers into two more pieces to make the tail look even fuller.

You will like and.

For the back, cut feathers from a transparent bottle. The width of one feather should be approximately 2-2.5 cm. Attach them on the back at once, 3-4 pieces. Use self-tapping screws for fastening. When you fix the feathers on your neck, upper part cut. Glue the last row of feathers to hide the heads of the screws. Glue smaller feathers in the back of the head and on the side of the crest. Cover all parts that you have painted with construction tape and bags. First apply yellow paint, dry it. Add some orange stripes.

The finishing touch is blinders. Cut 2 strips, make an incision stationery knife. Insert them between the metal-plastic and corrugated pipes. Paint the craft with yacht varnish.

How to sew a cockerel with your own hands

You will need:

Cardboard
- thread, scissors
- orange, blue-green, black and white fabric
- tweezers
- cotton wool
- Scotch
- glue
- colored paper

Stages of work:

Draw a sample of the toy on a piece of cardboard, cut it out. Separately draw a wing, cut it out, see how they will look. Cut the sample into separate parts so that it is convenient for you to work further. Compare each piece of the sample with a separate piece of fabric, cut out each piece in turn from the fabric. Each part should be 2. Cut out the head from white fabric, the upper part of the wing and body from blue-green fabric, and the lower part of the wing and tail from black fabric. Make a beard, paw, beak, scallop and eyes from colored paper. Sew all the details for the head. There may be some difficulties with sewing on the comb. The fact is that it is wider than the head. It is better to sew it on the outside. Glue eyes from colored paper.

Do-it-yourself cockerel costume:

For the body, make allowances of 1.5 cm. Connect the details from the inside. Sew the tip of the foot inward. Sew the wings on the outside, put soft filler inside. If it is not at hand, ordinary cardboard will do. Sew the lower half from the outside, sew to the body, connect through the cardboard with a seam. Fit the body to the head. Sew the neck to the body. Fill the connected parts with cotton wool. You need to fill through the hole in the tail. The hole is very small, so you need to fill the craft with cotton wool in small portions. You may need to use tweezers. Sew the details of the tail with the outer seam, fill it with cotton.

Paws can be made from cardboard or a piece of fabric. Pick your fabric right size and colors, make some square pieces. Trim the ends, sew the oblong paws. Fill with cotton. Sew legs, wings, tail to the body. Cut off without touching the seams. DIY cockerel toy is ready.

Do-it-yourself cockerel made of paper.

This is the easiest way to create crafts. There are several ways. You can use the technique of origami, quilling, cutting with scissors, etc. paper craft can be put or hung on the Christmas tree, glued on the window, decorate festive table. An excellent solution is the decor of napkins. It will look quite restrained and at the same time - original. If you use origami, then the napkin can be immediately folded in the form of a cockerel. We will provide you with diagrams.

Cockerel do-it-yourself patterns.

Despite the fact that the New Year 2017 has not yet arrived, you can already plan souvenirs and gifts that you can present on New Year's Eve. The best gifts are those that are made by hand. After all, during their manufacture, you put your soul and a piece of love into them.

Even if you do not have the talent of a needlewoman, with the help of our article you can make a truly cute do-it-yourself symbol of 2017 (Rooster).

There are many crafts with the Cockerel: appliqués, volumetric paper figures, plasticine rooster, puff pastry figurine, knitted toy, embroidered picture. Choose the technique that you like and start creating beautiful new year gift.

To make a knitted warmer you will need:

• yarn of raspberry, beige, blue and yellow colors;
• hook number 3.

Creation of the body step by step:

Step 1. Take a raspberry thread and double knit a chain consisting of 55 air loops. Lock the chain into a ring.

Step 2 From rows 1 to 16, knit with a single crochet.

Step 3. From 17 to 41 rows also a single crochet, but decrease by 2 loops. Pull off the loops that remain with the working thread. Thread the end of the thread into the product.

To tie a scallop you need:

Step 1. With a yellow thread, knit 3 air loops and connect them into a ring. Knit 6 single crochets in the center of the ring. In each subsequent row, double each loop.

Step 2 Next, knit 4 rows with a single crochet. In the next six rows, decrease evenly in 1 loop. You will need to knit three of these details. To make the middle part of the scallop, you need to tie 3 air loops and connect them into a ring. In the center, make 7 single crochets.

Step 3. In the next row, you will have to double each loop and knit 7 single crochets in this way. In the next seven rows, remove evenly 1 loop.

Step 4 All three parts must be combined with each other and knit 1 row with a single crochet. Sew the scallop to the crown of the cockerel.

Beak creation:

Step 1. Tie three air loops with a blue thread and tie them into a ring. In the center of the ring, knit 4 single crochet.

Step 2 Now you should knit 9 single crochets, adding 1 loop in each row.

For making legs:

Step 1. Take a beige thread and make 3 air loops out of it, connecting them into a ring. In the center of the ring you need to knit 6 single crochets. On the next row, double each stitch.

Step 3. By the same principle, tie the second leg.

To make a flower, you need:

Step 1. Make 4 air loops, then connect them into a ring. In the center of the ring, knit 10 single crochets.

Step 2 First row: single crochet, then 5 air loops (knit the next row through one loop).

Step 3. Second row: in each cell of the previous row, 1 single crochet, 1 half crochet should be connected. double crochet, 1 double crochet, single crochet.

Step 4 According to this principle, tie 3 flowers of beige, yellow and blue.

Step 5 Sew them to the body.

A diagram that will help you create a cockerel for a New Year's gift is presented in this article. The most important thing to remember is to use large beads. It will make your work even more beautiful and voluminous. Yes, and there will be no such trouble as with small “grains”.

To make a beaded cockerel you will need:

• green, light green, red, blue, light blue, yellow and orange beads;
• brass wire about 2 meters;
• scissors or nippers.

To make this rooster, check out the parallel stringing technique and the “toward” technique. First start with the head, then move on to the body, while doing this, do not forget to braid the wire for future legs. Once you start creating the paws, you need to thread the wire only 1 time. Don't forget to add wires for each pen. Make the blue or light blue feathers the very last.

If you strictly follow the scheme, you will get such a wonderful rooster from which you can make an excellent keychain.

This souvenir is very easy to make, you can even connect children to making it. The creation process will captivate little creators and help them have some fun. To knead the dough, it is better to use a mixer. Thus, you will get a soft, homogeneous mass, pleasant to work with.

salt dough recipe

Take 200 grams of flour and half a glass of salt (fine). Pour in 125 grams of water, mix. And add 20 grams of PVA glue.

First, blind the head, beak, wings, tail and scallop. After that, connect all the details together, dry and paint as you wish. It is best to paint crafts with watercolor or gouache.

Creation tips:

• scallop - make a semicircle, cut and shape a scallop, as shown in the photo;
• beak - roll up a small carrot and cut in half;
• eyes - form two small balls;
• tail - make 4 drops, connect them together. Draw feathers with a toothpick;
• wings - roll up a drop, make cuts in it.

You can glue the parts with water or glue.

This cute figurine can become not only a gift, but also a decoration of your festive table.

Toy “Cockerel”

This small toy It can be a great present for family and friends alike.

To make a toy you will need:

• linen fabric - size 15 by 15 cm;
• red fabric - size 5 by 20 cm;
• synthetic winterizer or hallofiber (or other filler);
• satin ribbons(multi-colored);
• red threads;
• jute;
• threads;
• scissors;
• needle;
• birch branch;
• wand.

Step-by-step creation of a modular toy:

Step 1. Fold the linen square diagonally.

Step 2 Cut off one of the corners of the resulting triangle. It is in this hole that we will insert the branch.

Step 3. Sew the fabric on both sides, while leaving the place marked with a pencil, not stitched. You will need to push the filler into this hole and insert the stick.

Step 4 Turn the craft right side out and insert the twig into the beak hole.

Step 5 Fasten it tightly and tie the thread, as shown in the photo.

Step 6 Fill the cockerel's body with synthetic winterizer.

Step 7 Insert a stick into the same hole, wrap it tightly with a thread and tie the edge with the rest. Fasten with small knots.

Step 8 Fold a strip of red fabric in half, step back from the middle about 2 centimeters, tie it with a thread and make a knot. This will be the comb.

Step 9 Now you need to fold the long parts of the red stripe narrower and wrap your head around the sides, right under the bird's beard. Now this neck should be tied up with jute.

Step 10 Step back 2 centimeters from the tip of the tail and fasten satin ribbons of different shades with a red thread.

Step 11 From the remnants of these ribbons, you need to form the wings of a rooster.

Step 12 Add eyes and your souvenir is ready!

Such a gift will be not only pleasant, but also practical, because it will be able to keep the teapot warm for a long time.

You can give this bright Petya to your grandmother, sister or mother. We think they will be delighted with such a present.

This warmer is quite easy to sew, so stock up necessary materials and proceed.

To make a heating pad you will need:

• drawing of a warmer rooster;
• multi-colored fabrics of different textures;
• satin ribbons;
• buttons for the eyes;
• ruffle.

Step 1. Print out a drawing for a warmer rooster on paper. The drawing itself is shown below.

The following details are marked on the drawing:

1. torso - 6 parts;
2. head - 2 parts;
3. scallop - 2 parts;
4. beak - 2 parts;
5. beard - 4 parts;
6. wing - 4 parts;
7. tail - 2 parts.

Step 2 Staple cockerel

Those parts of the toy that you will sew from plain fabrics, decorate with bright appliqués from pieces of drape, cloth or elegant braid. Act purely at your own discretion, because this is an author's toy and there are no templates in it.

First of all, take hold of the “suit” of the rooster, which consists of six wedges. According to the same pattern, it is worth sewing a heating pad, shaped like a cone. The lining can be made from any filler known to you.

Once you have made the head, attach the eyes with black fabric or buttons. Sew on the comb and beak. Also fill with filler, for example, synthetic winterizer. Sew on the remaining parts of the bird and decorate as you wish.

It is worth noting that this heating pad can be used not only for the kettle, but also for pots and pans. To make it slightly larger than shown in the picture, simply increase the height and width of the wedges.

Such different roosters

Even people who do not believe in symbols too much can keep an image of a rooster with them, because everyone wants to lure good luck next year, and a beautiful cockerel always cheers up. New Year's crafts can bring bright colors to the house, school office, workplace or kindergarten room. Similar products can be made by both adults and children. Sometimes such crafts are taught to do at school, in labor lessons or in separate circles. Especially during New Year's Eve.

In the kindergarten, children enthusiastically sculpt a rooster with their own hands from plasticine, and at home you can sit down with a child and arrange an evening of manual creativity.

Bright fabric roosters stuffed with cotton wool or scraps;
made from a bottle;
paper cut;
embroidered on a tablecloth or scarf;
drawn on paper, then cut out;
assembled from designer parts, etc.

For the most part, the manufacture of crafts does not require large expenditures on materials. With the help of paints or multi-colored materials, you can add beauty to the product. Everyone can make their own rooster, and of any type: christmas toy a do-it-yourself rooster for children, a rooster pillow for beauty, an embroidered rooster cape for a teapot, etc. Even a New Year's costume in the form of a symbol of the next year.

Rooster from improvised materials

What will be required:

3 plastic brown bottles. These are from kvass;
2 pieces of red and yellow plastic plates;
plastic glasses, 5 red and 6 yellow;
disposable spoon -2 pieces;
the ball is yellow (these are taken for the pool);
markers, stapler and medium-width tape.

Procedure:

First, take three bottles and carefully cut off the top of each one. Tape together to form a triangle.

Cut the top of each glass with a fringe and thread them into each other, alternating colors: red-yellow. Cut off the top two glasses on the other side. Then attach the resulting to the neck of one of the bottles.

From disposable plates, the sides are carefully cut off, then the inner sides of each are cut with scissors to end up with a fringe. Fasten the parts with a stapler.

On the other bottle, we make a neat cut from above and insert the resulting tail, fixing it.

For additional volume in the tail are installed gift ribbons, you can cut another board of plates of other colors: orange or white. So the tail will be brighter and more magnificent. The remaining parts of the plates go to the wings, which are then attached to the body with double-sided tape. A head is made from a ball and also fastened with double-sided tape.

Take the remaining scraps from the red plates and cut out the scallop, beak, "earrings". Using double-sided tape or glue, attach the parts to the cockerel's head. The wide side of the disposable spoons serves as the eyes, and the pupils can be drawn with a marker. Try to make your own cockerel from rubber bands on the machine.

As a stand, so that the product stands on the table, you can adapt a flower pot. New Year's toy, a do-it-yourself rooster turned out to be big, bright and beautiful.

Multi-colored paper rooster

Via plain paper or cardboard, you can make a symbol of the next year. But then it will become a wonderful decoration on the wall or refrigerator, if you attach a magnet to the craft. You can also use the craft as a frame for photos of family members. Even kids in the garden or students at school in a labor lesson can make such a rooster.

What will be required:

Sheets of multi-colored paper;
glue gun;
white PVA glue;
magnet, cropped pictures.

Procedure:

Details for the template can be found on the net, or take the suggested ones. Cut them out of sheets of colored paper. Each part is marked with the color from which it is better to cut it. If there is no multi-colored paper, you can take plain paper and paints or felt-tip pens. Finished parts are attached to each other with a glue gun.

It turned out a nice ready-made rooster. After waiting for the glue to dry, to the product with reverse side attach a magnet. Can be hung ready product like paintings on the wall, then you need a thread and scissors.

Places on the wings and torso are suitable for shots. You can print high-quality photos for cropping. The main thing is to take photos that will not be useful for the album later, because they still have to be trimmed and glued.

Rooster - a symbol of 2017 with your own hands, you can make at home with the whole family, it will not take much time, it will bring a lot of positive emotions. But the whole year they will be guarded by a New Year's toy rooster, with their own hands, and bring good luck.

Rooster as a soft toy

The symbol of 2017 can be not only plastic or paper. Cockerel in the form soft toys made of felt is a great gift for mom or grandmother, a good friend or daughter. It can be hung on the Christmas tree as a toy or kept with you as a talisman.

What will be required:

A piece of felt;
beads different colors;
needles with threads;
synthetic winterizer (or ordinary cotton wool, fabric scraps).

Procedure:

Draw the future cockerel on paper, divide the drawing into details and cut them out, prepare pieces of fabric for the future product on them. Everything else is laid out on the table in an accessible area.

As you can see, we need scraps of felt of different colors: red, yellow and orange, depending on what color the future rooster will be.

The size of the parts will determine the size of the product.

From beads make eyes and sew to the body, cut out the beak, scallop and the rest, also sew to the body.

Wings are sewn along the edges of the body, then the front and back sides of the product are connected to each other. Fill the finished toy for volume with cotton wool or padding polyester. From above, for convenience, sew a ribbon or a piece of fabric. For him, the cockerel can be hung on a Christmas tree or attached as a keychain to the keys, for example, so that a New Year's toy rooster, with your own hands, is always there.

Little rooster out cotton pads

Nice idea for a craft. Can be made with kids kindergarten, like a cock made of fabric. Such a rooster will become the hero of a picture with a background, which is then convenient to hang on the wall. Ordinary cotton pads, which are full in the bathroom, will do.

What will be required:

Several cotton pads;
a sheet of cardboard;
watercolor or gouache paints;
glue;
plasticine;
table napkin, green.

Procedure:

Prepare and lay out all the necessary materials. Cut a sheet of cardboard into two equal parts. One of the cotton pads is first divided in half, then one of the halves is again divided in two.

Color the disks as follows: two whole and one half will be yellow (although you can leave it white, then the cockerel will be white), and small quarters will be red.

Cut one edge of the napkin, creating a fringe.

Glue dried discs to a sheet of cardboard, creating a cockerel.

From a fringe on a napkin, make grass and glue it to the picture, draw an eye on the disc. From plasticine, you can fashion a scallop with earrings.

You can also add a picture of plasticine or paints at your discretion. Here is such a New Year's toy rooster with your own hands made of cardboard, cotton pads and plasticine.

rooster doll

For needlewomen, a complicated manufacturing option will be to your liking. new year symbol in the form of a doll with a solid base - a frame with which the cockerel can be installed on a flat surface. Such a gift diversifies the holiday and you can give it to both an adult and a child. Such dolls are made from natural materials, moreover, with their own hands. This eliminates the possibility of allergies, and the finished toy can be treated with antistatic from time to time so that it does not collect dust.

In such a toy there are many thoughtful details sewn from different materials. They are fastened with fasteners made of buttons.

To make such a rooster you will need:

Several multi-colored scraps of fabric;
buttons are also different colors;
material for the frame, so that the toy stands and retains its shape - you need a frame for the torso and legs;
filler - cotton wool or synthetic winterizer, fabric scraps.

Procedure:

Details are first drawn on paper, then superimposed on the fabric. Each pair can be stitched with sewing machine so that the seams are even and small. Leaving a place for stuffing, which is then closed manually, with an invisible seam.

For greater realism of the wings and tail, it is not necessary to cut the edges, you can then flash the finished part twice after stuffing by hand, indicating the feathers on the wings and tail. All parts of the toy will be soft and voluminous. Such a New Year's toy rooster with your own hands will perfectly complement the interior or become a faithful companion for children's games.

New 2017 is the year of the Red (Fiery) Rooster, and its figurine or image will become the most sought-after present. The needlewomen of the "Cross" have a good tradition: to New Year's holiday prepare thoroughly. And this year will be no exception. Many of us will make or are already making a rooster with our own hands, or even not one, but several at once! After all, it is necessary to please relatives and friends with a handmade symbol of the year, and yourself with an exciting process of creating this very symbol in various techniques handmade.

Creating a kind of GUIDE TO MASTER CLASSES from the Internet is also a tradition of our needlework site, which was born a year ago. For you, dear craftswomen, we have selected a lot of only the best master classes on the net. Admire, look closely, discuss and choose the most colorful rooster! And then sew/tie/draw/blind/weave it. So, in what technique can you work on the eve of the New Year holiday?

If you don't have time to work, don't worry. The article contains links to craftswomen who sell finished work.

Cockerels made of paper and on paper

Making cards with the kids

If you are not a professional card maker, then before you start creating postcards, be sure to read our article "Learning to make New Year's cards with your own hands using the Scrapbooking technique". In it you will find not only a lot of ideas, but also get acquainted with the basic rules for creating postcards.

Any cockerel drawn by your child can be placed on a postcard. If it’s difficult for the kid to figure out how to draw a rooster with his own hands, then show him this step-by-step instruction:

And then, a matter of technology. Cut out the cockerel and make it the central part of the composition. For example, your postcard can be so simple, but cute. At work, use christmas paper and a bright red ribbon, add snowflakes, twigs and other holiday paraphernalia. When you have a basic idea, the process of creating a postcard becomes much easier!

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If your child likes to color in black and white pictures, give him the opportunity. Print out the rooster postcard template on thick cardboard and let the kid get to work. Further, cutting out the blank-ball, you can add a postcard voluminous snowflakes, glue half-beads imitating christmas balls etc. etc. Unleash your imagination with your baby))

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8 more templates for coloring, plus 2 step by step instructions for drawing more realistic roosters you will find in the archive, which you can download quickly and for free!

Take note of the idea with a cockerel on a stick, as on a postcard by Elena Yurchenko. Her cockerels are cut out of felt, but you can cut them out of paper.

Colored paper roosters

Colored paper appliqué can also be placed on greeting card. But such an application itself can act as a postcard. To draw and carefully cut out all the details, the children will need the help of their parents, but they can stick it themselves.

Olga-15 offers to make funny paper cockerels in her master class.

A Rooster blank is a rectangular sheet of flexible paper or thin cardboard folded in half lengthwise. Its size is 13.5 × 10 cm. We make 7-10 inclined cuts along the fold line (after about 1 cm). The angle of their inclination is 50-70 degrees, and the depth is ¾ of the height of the folded sheet.

Ekaterina Ivanova in her video tutorial shows how to make a red rooster using the Origami technique:

Roosters in quilling technique

A very interesting idea is to lay out only a luxurious rooster tail from quilling paper. It's not as confusing as laying out a whole cockerel, and it can turn out very effectively! Here is a rooster without a tail as a basis (how it looked in the original, see the photo below).

Print it on a color printer, and fantasize over the tail later. As an example - one such work (although the tail is modest here, but you will try, right?))

And if you are not afraid to make a whole rooster using the Quilling technique, then you can take this finished postcard as a basis:

Or this template:

A cheat sheet on the main elements of Quilling to help you:

Button appliqué

And here are absolutely stunning handsome roosters, lined with multi-colored buttons, half-beads, rhinestones and beads! As a basis, you can take the contours of cockerels from our archive (link just above).

Crochet Cockerels

Many needlewomen with a hook on “you” and will be happy to knit a cockerel from multi-colored threads. And "Cross" will help you decide on the model and offer several master classes on this type of needlework.

You can also buy cockerels knitted from Svetlana.

Roosters from felt

The fastest and complex options creating the symbol of 2017 - felt roosters. The material is easy to process, keeps the shape of the toy well, does not require seams. Vice versa, hand seams on the face of the product give it a special flavor and charm.

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Photo from the site http://ktototam.ru/

A figurine of a rooster neatly cut out of thick felt will christmas toy, and suspension.

Photo from the site http://ktototam.ru

And if you decorate felt cockerels with embroidery, flowers and other decorative elements, then it will turn out incredibly beautiful!

Photo from the site http://mmmcrafts.blogspot.ru

Roosters in Tilda style

Well, how can we do now in our life without the tilde-Rooster? The ToySew website has a master class on sewing this popular toy.

Master Vetic on her blog posted patterns of the Rooster and Hen Goroshkins based on the tilde pattern. An interesting couple will turn out if you make an effort and patience!

And for inspiration:

Cockerel Yurik from Orange Toys

A funny video clip about her tilde roosters was shot by Maria Fedorova (the link to the patterns is in the description of the video!):

Cockerel coffee toys

Aromatic or coffee toys compete with tildes in popularity. There are roosters in this technique.

The coffee cockerel can be like this:

Photo from the site http://zabavochka.com

You can easily sew it yourself using one of the patterns above. “Cross” talked about all the intricacies of creating coffee toys in this master class.

If you think that you can’t cope with such work yourself, contact the master. Julia Charikova has made enough branded coffee scented toys and put them up for sale at this address.

Fur interior toys

Oksana Svyatkovskaya will show her vision of a rooster and show how to sew it correctly ready-made patterns. Her Rooster is sewn from faux fur, but who's to say that it doesn't happen or it's not good?)

In the workshop Everything for creativity (dljatvorchestva) there are a lot of blanks for painting and decoupage. Choose and create!

This is the beauty you can get:

If you do not want to make a souvenir in the form of a rooster, then you can decorate any wooden surface with the image of a rooster. There is just limitless scope for creativity! Here are just a few examples for inspiration:

Felted wool roosters

Other craftswomen make wool toys just like real ones! We love and are inspired! And if you really want to buy one of these beauties, then look for them at the Masters Fair (there is a link on each photo).

Elenia collected many different felted Roosters in one place and offered MK to create one of them. Turns out very cute!

Roosters embroidered with a cross, beads and ribbons

Perhaps you love embroidery more than other types of needlework. Then you can place the symbol of the year on a pillowcase, arrange it in the form of a panel, a picture in a frame or a brooch. The main thing is that the image of the Rooster warms your soul. And if you donate your work, find out the preferences of the recipient.

Over 50 various schemes for embroidery of roosters and cockerels you will find in a special album