Watch the master class online: Master class on creating a “Mouse” toy

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The New Year is approaching, and it's time to think about how to prepare your home for this holiday. It is traditional to put up a Christmas tree and decorate it with colorful garlands and toys. But if you approach interior design properly and try in the smallest detail, you can create the desired ambiance using completely unconventional methods.

For example, make cute crafts with your own hands with the symbol of the coming year. In 2021 it will be a mouse (or a rat), so cute animals made from a variety of materials will be the topic of our conversation today.

In this article, I have collected as many as ten master classes that tell in detail about what products can be made for the upcoming holiday. Most of the ideas are aimed at children, so adult readers of this article will find it too easy. However, you can use them as a basis for your own, more complex ideas, or use them in your work if you happen to be a teacher or educator.

I look forward to your comments under the article and suggestions on how to improve this or that idea. Or maybe you can share a link to a photo of your product created according to one of the lessons? Both will be just wonderful! In the meantime, I propose to move from theory to practice and get acquainted with our first little mouse.

How to make the symbol of 2021 Rat from nylon

Although, in fact, the word “mouse” is not entirely appropriate here. In the first MK, we will take on the implementation of a rather complex idea and make an entire animal king ourselves! And not from any standard materials, but from nylon. The result will be impressive. However, you can see everything for yourself in the photo.

Necessary materials:

5 liter plastic bottle;
Nylon tights;
Sintepon;
Foil and yellow rope for crown;
Bright fabric;
Wide ribbons: red and black;
Unnecessary bow;
Gilt button;
Toy eyes;
Plaque from the belt;
Thread and needle.

Subsequence:

We stuff nylon tights with padding polyester and make muzzles out of them for the mouse king.

Let's start with the nose. To do this, we stitch our workpiece in the right places, tightening it with threads.

The heads may turn out a little different - it’s even more interesting. After all, each head has its own character!

From two halves of a nylon track we make ears for one head. We also stuff them with padding polyester.

We repeat the same for the remaining heads.

Now it's time to make the body. We wrap a five-liter bottle with padding polyester and put tights on it.

Sew three heads to the resulting base.

We make paws from small pieces of nylon.

We also sew them to our craft. Glue on toy or painted eyes.

Now all that remains is to make an outfit for our mouse king!

We sew a high collar from a piece of bright fabric. There are no exact sizes, because the size of the toy will be different for everyone. We decorate it around the edges with ribbons. We make a mantle from the same materials.

We make a real belt from a wide black ribbon and a plastic plaque.

We put it on the toy. We make cuffs from the same tape.

We open the bow so that the king has a frill.

This is what it will look like.

A wide red ribbon and button turns into a beautiful ribbon that can be thrown over your shoulder.

We make the base of the crown from wire. Wrap it in several layers of foil.

And then we decorate with a yellow rope.

We put the crown on the king.

Sew on the collar and put on the raincoat. Don't forget about the ponytail! The author of this description knitted it and stuffed it with padding polyester. You can go another way - for example, sew it from a piece of fabric.

The craft is completely ready. Look how gorgeous the mouse king turned out! This toy will definitely take first place at any exhibition.

Let's see what other toys can be made from similar materials. What do you think of this sweet couple?

This baby, in my opinion, will also be an excellent decoration for the house for the New Year holiday.

Such babies, too, I’m sure, will delight everyone.

In general, as you can see, there is plenty of room for creativity here! Imagine and realize your ideas in this unusual technique.

Mice made of paper and on paper

Crafts with children

Let's start, as usual, with the simplest ideas that our beloved children can implement. Geometric shapes (triangles, circles and ovals) can easily turn into funny little rats and mice. Parents just need to cut out blanks from paper:

Mickey is a mouse)

Let's complicate the task a little by adding smooth lines. See how easy it is to make mice from disposable paper plates:

A popsicle stick or pencil can be a great base for creating a craft for your little one to play with and engage in!

A mouse bookmark will be useful for reading ♥ From decorative paper, cut out 2 parts of the body of one mouse (a right angle where the nose is). Apply glue to the outer edges and connect both parts together. Glue on a couple of ears, 2 paper circles for the eyes and one for the nose. Glue a string - a mouse tail - inside the bookmark.

The bookmark could be like this:

The base is assembled like this:

For invited guests and signing gifts, you can make cards in the form of mice:

Turn the letter “M” into a mouse, and your 2021 New Year’s decor is ready!

Postcards with the symbol of the year

You can also make cards with your children. An openwork napkin in the shape of a heart will serve as an excellent basis for applique:

Place a piece of paper on the tablet screen or computer monitor to outline the outline of the gray mouse, and for the white one, cut out a circle and a heart from the paper. Mice are perfect for decorating a postcard

By cutting out an elongated silhouette of a mouse from paper, you can make a postcard like this:

It's quite easy to make cards with Mickey Mouse:

Let's move on to more complex postcards.

Let's imagine that there are mice here too