Master class: “Easter chickens made from pompoms”
Very soon - the bright holiday of the Resurrection of Christ, Easter.
On such a bright day, I want to spread joy, so I propose to make two very easy to make, but so warm and fluffy chickens. You can easily make a whole family of chickens and give them to friends, decorate a holiday table, or place them somewhere in your apartment as decoration. These chicken recipes are so easy that you can make them with your kids. For your convenience, I will provide materials on each of the chickens separately, and, accordingly, a description as well.
Chicken first, freshly hatched, so very surprised
To make it we will need the following materials:
- yellow threads (it can be cotton, wool, acrylic, etc., that is, you can take any threads, I have half-woolen threads - I love how they fluff up after a haircut),
- round eyes (you can use two large beads),
- a little red cardboard (well, what kind of chicken is this without a comb!),
- glue (I have “Moment Crystal”),
- 2 cardboard circles or pompom holders,
- a needle with a thick eye (if you have small chickens and winding the threads is quite difficult),
- scissors (preferably with sharp tips).
So, first of all, decide on the size of the chicken - after all, it can be very tiny, or it can be quite an impressive broiler. My chicken is almost 8 cm and it is made from one pompom. As I already said, you can make pompoms using a special device, or you can also make them from cardboard circles. I will show both methods - choose at your discretion.
At this stage we will need two cardboard circles with the centers cut out. The outer diameter is the size of our chicken, and the inner diameter gives the different density of the pompom - the larger the cut out part, the denser the pompom will be.
We put two circles together and wrap them with thread.
Considering that my pompom is quite large, I did not use a needle. I unwinded about 10-15 meters of thread and folded it in eight. That’s what I wrapped it with - it turns out much faster.
When we fill it completely, we proceed to the next stage - cutting it. It is more convenient to use scissors with sharp tips; you can also cut with a blade or a stationery knife - whichever is more convenient for you.
We pass with scissors between two circles of cardboard.
When we have cut it to the end, we cut off a piece of thread (I took about 20-30 cm, so that it would be easier to hold and tie) and twist this thread in the middle between two pieces of cardboard and tie it tightly.
Are you tied tight? Now is the time to remove the cardboard - just cut it (or tear it) and pull it out, we no longer need it.
Now is the time to take our future chicken to the hair salon and give him a beautiful hairstyle. Trim the resulting pompom with scissors. My advice is to fray, remember the pompom, so that all the threads that want to separate from the total mass do so, and then just carefully trim off all the excess.
Further. I cut out a comb and paws from red cardstock.
First glue the legs.
This is what it looks like
At the very last moment I wanted to make round surprised eyes and an open beak out of cardboard. For the beak, I cut out two teardrop pieces, and used store-bought eyes.
The second chicken, already able to walk
To make it we will need the following materials:
- yellow threads,
- red thread (for wrapping paws),
- 2 black large beads (these will be eyes),
- 1 red cone bead (for the beak),
- wire for paws (or a nest from improvised means, then you don’t have to make paws),
- glue (I have “Moment Crystal”),
- devices for pompoms or 4 cardboard circles,
- scissors (preferably with sharp tips),
- round nose pliers (but this is only if you make legs from wire)..
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How to make chickens from pompoms for EASTER?
CHICKENS for EASTER made from pompoms. Master class from Irina Kosarchuk
Chicken first, freshly hatched, so very surprised
To make it we will need the following materials:
- yellow threads (it can be cotton, wool, acrylic, etc., that is, you can take any threads, I have half-woolen threads - I love how they fluff up after a haircut),
- round eyes (you can use two large beads),
- a little red cardboard (well, what kind of chicken is this without a comb!),
- glue (I have “Moment Crystal”),
- 2 circles or pompom holders cut out of cardboard,
- a needle with a thick eye (if you have small chickens and winding the threads is quite difficult),
- scissors (preferably with sharp tips).
So, first of all, decide on the size of the chicken - after all, it can be very tiny, or it can be quite an impressive broiler. My chicken is almost 8 cm and it is made from one pompom. As I already said, you can make pompoms using a special device, or you can also make them from cardboard circles. I will show both methods - choose at your discretion.
At this stage we will need two cardboard circles with the centers cut out. The outer diameter is the size of our chicken, and the inner diameter gives the different density of the pompom - the larger the cut out part, the denser the pompom will be.
We put two circles together and wrap them with thread.
Considering that my pompom is quite large, I did not use a needle. I unwinded about 10-15 meters of thread and folded it in eight. That’s what I wrapped it with - it turns out much faster.
When we fill it completely, we proceed to the next stage - cutting it. It is more convenient to use scissors with sharp tips; you can also cut with a blade or a stationery knife - whichever is more convenient for you.
We pass with scissors between two circles of cardboard.
When we have cut it to the end, we cut off a piece of thread (I took about 20-30 cm, so that it would be easier to hold and tie) and twist this thread in the middle between two pieces of cardboard and tie it tightly.
Are you tied tight? Now is the time to remove the cardboard - just cut it (or tear it) and pull it out, we no longer need it.
Now is the time to take our future chicken to the hair salon and give him a beautiful hairstyle. Trim the resulting pompom with scissors. My advice is to fray, remember the pompom, so that all the threads that want to separate from the total mass do so, and then just carefully trim off all the excess.
Further. I cut out a comb and paws from red cardstock.
First glue the legs.
This is what it looks like
Glue the scallop.
At the very last moment I wanted to make round surprised eyes and an open beak out of cardboard. For the beak, I cut out two teardrop pieces, and used store-bought eyes.
The second chicken, already able to walk
To make it we will need the following materials:
- yellow threads,
- red thread (for wrapping paws),
- 2 black large beads (these will be eyes),
- 1 red cone bead (for the beak),
- wire for paws (or a nest from improvised means, then you don’t have to make paws),
- glue (I have “Moment Crystal”),
- devices for pompoms or 4 cardboard circles,
- scissors (preferably with sharp tips),
- round nose pliers (but this is only if you make legs from wire)..
In my case, the chicken's head is 3.5 cm and the body is 4.5 cm. The head and body are made of two pom-poms. I made this chicken using pom-pom jigs, but if you don’t have them, cut out circles of cardboard as when creating the first chicken, just make a smaller circle for the head and a larger one for the body. Even if you don’t have a compass at hand, you can do without it, because in our kitchen we always have glasses, shot glasses and other utensils that can be traced and made into a circle. First of all we do the head.
We wrap it around each half and fold it to form a circle.
We cut along special grooves.
We cut a thread about 20-30 cm long and guide it along the grooves into the middle of the pompom and tie it tightly.
Once you have secured it well, you can remove the pompom device. We bend the halves and pull out our fresh pompom.
We trim it with scissors without touching the thread with which we tied the middle - it will be very useful to us.
Now we will make the body in the same way. But we don’t immediately disassemble our device, but after tying the pompom with thread, we thread a wire into the middle (I use an ordinary floral wire).
And we fix it simply by twisting it. Now we disassemble the pompom device and pull it out. We straighten the resulting pom-pom with scissors, never cutting off the long thread with which we tied the pom-pom. This is what should happen.
Now we add the head and torso. We take long threads and tie them together.
We no longer need the ends of the thread - we cut them off. You will get something like this.
It's time to make the paws. To do this, bend the wire, forming three fingers in front and one in back. My wire didn't bend very easily, so I used round nose pliers.
Now let's decorate the legs with glue and red thread. We start wrapping from the top of the leg (at the base of the pompom) and finish there. That is, we wrap the thread down the leg, over each finger and go up again, continuing to wrap.
All that remains is to glue the eyes and beak. For the beak I used a red cone bead.
The eyes are two small beads.
Voila! Our chicken is ready.
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Fast and easy
- ball. It can be any color. Anyway, we will remove it later and will no longer need it;
- glue. You can take simple PVA glue;
- water;
- needle;
- petrolatum;
- ribbon. With its help we will make a bow for the chicken.
- It is best to use cotton threads. They will quickly absorb the glue, which is what we need. Do not use nylon or silk threads!
- Water. With its help we can dilute the glue. The ratio should be 1:1. If there is no PVA glue, then you can use regular stationery glue. This will work great too.
- Glue.
You can glue the threads with glue in different ways. The first method: first we impregnate the fibers with glue, and then we wind them on a ball. It is this rule that we will be guided by when inventing crafts. The second method: we make a hole in the container with a needle and thread it through. The disadvantage of this method is that the glue will seep through this hole.
First, inflate the balloon to the size you want your bird to be. Now twist it well and smear it with Vaseline.
Please note that you do not need to leave a dry place on the ball, otherwise the chicken will not turn out.
Then we tie the ball with threads. We are waiting for a certain time. The threads must dry. After the fibers have dried, we pierce the ball or untie it. We take out the ball. Decorate the chicken's body.
The chicken's eyes and wings can be made from paper, and the eyelashes can be made from black thread. The beak can be made from yellow paper, and the legs from orange.
We decorate the head of our chicken with yellow threads. For this we can use yellow yarn. We simply cut the threads into several equal parts. We can make 12 parts. We gather the yarn into a bundle and tie it in the middle with thread. Let's fluff it up and glue it to the head of the craft.
Bow. It can be done not separately with the chicken hair, but together. To do this, you just need to tie it in the middle of the yarn not with a thread, but with a bow. Our craft is ready!
This craft in this master class can be done in half an hour, or even longer. Now, knowing the basics, you can easily make a snowman, a hare, a bun, and an owl. Everything depends on your imagination, as well as patience.
How to make a chicken from threads and a ball
A chicken made from threads and a ball will look more original, as it will be voluminous. For such a creative process you will need threads, glue and a small ball. In this case, you can use a round ball, but the chicken will turn out round, or you can find special small inflatable balls that can change their shape. In order to make a chicken out of a ball, it must be made in the shape of an oval or, better yet, in the shape of an egg.
When the ball is ready, you need to wrap threads around it, and the movements can be varied, the more intricate the better. In this case, each skein must then be treated with glue so that the next layer of thread will stick. For convenience, the threads can be immediately coated with glue, so as not to waste time applying it to each skein of threads. You need to try to ensure that there are as few empty spaces on the ball as possible.
After the entire ball is wrapped with threads, they need to be dried. As soon as the threads are dry, the ball is pierced and removed from the threads. Then all that remains is to decorate the chicken: you can cut out eyes, a beak and a crest from paper or cardboard. You can add other decorative elements if you wish.
Pom pom chickens
But you can make a chicken not only from threads. Many people make this craft from pompoms.
Here are the templates for making the desired craft:
Let's get started. Let's prepare two pom-poms. One should be slightly larger than the other. We can use these templates to make the body and head.
Let's take a larger template and a pompom. Let's put the warps together and wrap them with threads. We twist the thread equally around the entire circle in several layers.
Cut the threads between the rings.
We tie the center of the pompom between two circles.
Remove the circles and straighten the pompom.
To make the chicken head, follow the above principle.
It turns out like this:
We attach the pompoms to each other using the threads that remained after the bases.
Now the bird's body is ready!
Now the last thing left is to design the craft. To do this, cut out the paws, scallop, beak and eyes.
We attach a bow to the girl's chicken, and you can attach a tie to the boy's chicken.
Very beautiful and simple!
