Monkey from improvised materials: easy, simple and fast

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

To make a holiday gift or just to please a child, a monkey from improvised materials will help. But try to involve the child himself in the work. This will help him develop creatively and just cheer him up!

Buttons

You can decorate the nursery wall with a homemade picture. A do-it-yourself monkey made from improvised materials using buttons is quite easy, you only need:

• Sheet of cardboard.
• Scissors or utility knife.
• Pencil.
• Frame.
• Canvas to frame (you can use thick cardboard, box cover).
• Paints.
• Brown and beige buttons in different shades.
• Transparent super glue.

Progress:

1. Draw a monkey template on cardboard, immediately mark where the frame is located so that the drawing does not eventually go under it.



2. Cut out template.
3. Transfer the drawing to the canvas, but do not forget to finish the details (eyes,nose, mouth, muzzle and ears).
4. Color the picture. This is necessary so that after gluing the buttons the white background does not show through.



5. Insert the canvas into the frame.
6. Start gluing on the largest buttons, decreasing in size with each layer.



7. To make the eyes, break one large button in half. Close the broken points with other buttons.

The monkey from improvised materials is ready!

Picture on the wall

A funny monkey that can be used as a mask or hung on the wall, it will turn out if you use:

• Paper plate.
• Scissors.
• Paints.
• Glue.
• Printer, but if you can draw, then a pencil.

What to do:

1. Print the template (color it) or draw the monkey's face yourself.



2. Paint your plate the color you want.
3. Cut out the pieces.
4. Stick on plate.

It turned out to be a craft that you can use as a picture on the wall. But such a monkey from improvised materials can become a mask!

Mask

What to do for the mask:

1. Mark where the eyes will be located, you canalso note the mouth.
2. Cut holes.
3. Sew the elastic on the sides of the mask so that it can be put on the head. Or glue a stick (like an ice cream stick) to the back of the mask so that the mask can be easily brought to the face or removed.

Bird feeder

The outdoor craft monkey that you will learn how to make is not only beautiful, but also useful. After all, it will be created as a bird feeder. Materials:

• Two 2 liter plastic bottles.
• Sharp scissors.
• Tubules, wooden sticks or something similar (needed in order to make a "branch" for birds to sit on).
• Acrylic paints.
• Chenille (shaggy) wire.

What to do:

1. Cut two bottles in half and insert into each other so that in case of rain, water cannot seep through. Inside you can insert a bowl of a suitable size to pour food on it.
2. Cut holes for arms and legs.
3. Color the bottles.
4. Insert the wire into the holes made, twist inside the bottle so that it stays inside and does not fall out.
5. In the center of the sides of the craft, make two large holes, so that it is convenient for the bird to eat.
6. Insert the stick just below the feed holes.

Great decoration for the street is ready. The main thing is that everyone usually has all the materials at home, with the exception of wire, but you can replace it or create it yourself by pasting the usualiron wire cloth.

Soft toy

To create such a cute toy, you will need the leftovers of brown and beige fabric. But you can use other colors to create a creative fairy-tale animal. In addition to the fabric, you will also need scissors, threads in color, two black buttons, fluff (foam rubber, cotton wool) and glue. Progress:

1. For starters, it's better to draw all the details on paper, thereby making patterns.
2. Required details: torso (you can draw a template based on the shape of the torso from the photo, or just draw a circle for the head and an oval for the body), two small semicircles for the ears, two ovals for the arms, a large oval for the tummy, muzzle (you can make an oval a little smaller than the head, or a heart shape), a tail, legs, a triangular small nose, a banana and two small circles for the cheeks.
3. Now apply the templates to the desired fabric color and cut out. On brown fabric - two parts of the torso and tail, on beige - the belly, muzzle, four parts of the ear, arms and legs, on yellow fabric - two parts of a banana, on pink - two cheeks and on black - a nose.
4. Sew the buttonholes on the ears, using threads in the color of the fabric.
5. Sew the arms together, when you're done, fill the pieces with foam, then finish. Same with legs, tail and banana.
6. Start sewing two parts of the torso. After sewing a little, insert the ears between the parts, then the hands. At the very bottom is a place for a tail. If not finished, fill the toy with foam, finish.
7. Sew on the belly and muzzle.
8. Glue cheeks, nose and eyes on the muzzle. Sew the mouth with black thread.
9. Glue a banana to the arms and legs to the torso.

The toy is ready! You can also get a monkey from improvised materials for the New Year, pay attention to the options for how to do this.

1. Cut out a winter scarf from leftover fleece, felt or other soft fabric, tie it or sew it around your neck.
2. From cotton wool or cotton, make a beard, like Santa Claus. Put a hat on your head. To do this, cut out two triangles from red fabric, sew them together, and glue cotton wool around the edges.

Plasticine

Many children love plasticine, with it you can get a monkey from improvised materials. The photo above shows what it should look like, it's simple. But it will be more interesting if you use a bump instead of the body. This is not a typical approach and should be of interest to children.

A monkey made from improvised materials will keep children busy and will not require large cash costs for materials from parents, thus leaving the whole family satisfied!