Which pet is sung in many songs and Russian folk tales as a good nurse? Of course a cow! Start your child's acquaintance with this wonderful animal with fun and easy paper crafts.
In this article we offer simple master classes that will help you make a cow craft with your own hands.
DIY cow
Craft Cow
To make such a chess cow you will need the following materials: a ready-made cow template (attached below), scissors, black colored paper and glue.
Print the finished cow template on thick landscape paper. Then carefully cut out. Cut narrow strips of paper from black double-sided colored paper and thread them into the workpiece in a checkerboard pattern (see photo).
Now you need to glue the head, legs, tail and udder to the checkerboard body of the cow.
The finished craft can be an excellent decoration for a greeting card or the main character of a three-dimensional applique.
How to make a cow with your own hands?
DIY Cow craft
To make such a voluminous craft, you will need a small box, four cardboard toilet paper rolls, black paints, white paper and a black marker.
If necessary, the cardboard box must be covered with white paper. Then glue cardboard sleeves to the box to create legs.
We will need: 2 large plastic bottles, 4 cardboard toilet paper tubes, laces for making a tail, cocktail tubes for making an udder, toothpicks, an awl, scissors, a knife, glue, paint, brushes, a lot of old newspapers, tape.
1. First of all, let's make the tail. We make a hole in the bottom of the bottle and fasten a string in it. To do this, we pull the lace from the other side through the neck and make a knot that prevents this end of the lace from passing through the hole in the bottom of the bottle. We pull the lace on the other side and cut it in such a way as to ensure the formation of a tail of a given length.
2. Tie a knot on the other side of the lace (not shown in the photo). If necessary, add a wad of crumpled newspaper to the outside of the bottom and secure it with adhesive tape.
The back of a cow in the future will look like this:
3. In this case, a specially shaped bottle was used to make a neck for the cow. However, you can make a cow without a neck. All you have to do is make the muzzle and ears, and you can also add horns. To make a mouth, you need to cut off the spout of the bottle, then you will get a wider hole.
Fold a thick strip of newspaper and twist it along the snail, leaving one end free (do not twist the snail all the way. Secure it with tape and insert the snail with the free end into the hole of the bottle.
4. Let's make ears from another bottle. At the end of each ear we additionally provide a rectangular protrusion to secure it in the cut-out hole of the bottle. We make 2 cuts in the appropriate places of the bottle and insert the ears into them.
The results are very “real” ears.
This is what the finished cow's head will look like.
5. Toilet paper roll tubes will be used as cow legs.
We make 2 semicircular cuts opposite each other at one end of the tube to be connected to the bottle.
6. Attach the tubes to the bottle using tape.
In the photo you can see what our cow's legs will look like.
7. We make an udder from cocktail tubes. Roll a small ball of newspaper, then form a U-shaped strip from a cocktail straw. We punch 2 holes in the places where the tube is bent. We insert toothpicks through these holes and stick them into the paper ball.
8. If necessary, trim the toothpicks. We make another pair of teats and attach the udder to the body of our cow. The horizontal part of the U-shaped strip will be covered with paper.
9. Now it's time to apply layers of papier-mâché. We will apply 6-7 layers of newspaper; to make each layer, we immerse the newspaper in glue mixed with water. For the top layers we use a more concentrated mixture of glue and white newspaper margins. At the end, we finish drawing the eyes, nostrils and other details. We hang a bell around our neck.
A cute cow for your summer cottage can be made from a plastic bottle. It is desirable that the bottle be large enough in size and square in cross section.
In this case, the ease of making this one is simply amazing. Some companies sell drinking water in square plastic bottles, but more often construction and automotive fluids are packaged in such bottles. In principle, anyone can implement an idea for a garden in the shape of a magic cow.
Why is the cow magical?
A cow on the property is a natural phenomenon. But the magic begins with understanding that the cow is actually a symbol of wealth. This animal not only gives milk, but also attracts material values, that is, wealth. Remember the definition of “cash cow”. Is it true that this applies not only to dairy products?
Agree, implementing symbolic ideas for the garden is very interesting. can play a role in this matter. After all, you can create any animal, any flower, any symbol from plastic bottles. Let them decorate the site and at the same time attract love, luck, money, success, etc. to us.
Magic cow: stages of transforming crafts from plastic bottles
In principle, there is not much work to implement this idea for the garden - a magical cash cow.
- You only need 1 bottle. Whole. And you don't even have to cut it.
- It is advisable to immediately fill the bottle with sand - to give stability to crafts made from plastic bottles.
- Paint the bottle with brown/black, white, pinkish cow paint. In principle, the color of the paint may be different. Don’t listen to advisers who claim that cows don’t exist that color – your cow is magical.
- The legs of a craft made from plastic bottles - a magic cow - are simply made from pieces of plastic pipe. You can secure it by heating a section of a plastic pipe over a fire and quickly placing it against a plastic bottle. In this case, the parts will be “welded”. But you can use other fastening methods: make slits, screw it with wire, glue it, etc.
- The ears and horns of the garden crafts will definitely have to be inserted into the slots. You can make them from an ordinary plastic bottle of any capacity - just cut it out.
Making a cute cow from a disposable plate! Making crafts from unnecessary things is not only a way to usefully spend your free time with your child, but also an opportunity to teach him to be more attentive and careful about items that are meant to be thrown away.
At the same time, it is convenient to use various packaging, boxes, as well as. As an option, you can invite your child to make a funny cow.
What you need to prepare in advance for work:
- two white paper plates;
- black and yellow paint (black paint can be replaced with shoe polish);
- brush;
- white album sheet;
- black marker;
- pink and black paper;
- glue;
- scissors.
Let's get started.
On one plate, using a brush, apply random strokes of black paint - like spots.
To make it more interesting for your child, you can use black shoe polish and a brush instead of paint and a brush. Black colors can be successfully replaced by brown and orange - with them you will get a cow of a different color.
We paint the second plate yellow. Then we cut off its edges, giving them the shape of cow horns. You can first cut out the horns and then carefully paint them.
While the paint dries, we do other work.
On a landscape sheet, we draw eyes with a black marker: first we draw two large black dots, then we draw ovals around them.
We draw on the eyelashes. Cut out the eyes from .
We cut out a circle from pink paper, draw two large dots on it (nostrils) and an arc - the mouth. It turns out to be a muzzle.
From black paper we cut out two ovals with pointed edges - ears.
Glue the eyes, muzzle, horns and ears to the spotted plate.
The horns and ears can be attached using a stapler to help them stick better.
This cow craft made from paper and disposable plates can become another one of your child's own farm. It will decorate any courtyard and home.
Since Lord Krishna is the favorite of cows and a cowherd boy, in almost any game cows are at least desirable. Lots of cows. Or at least a small herd. We often imagined cows - beans, pebbles, plasticine sculptures of our mother.
Collecting a dozen Schleich or Gulliver cows is a good option, but too expensive. And recently, during the baby's nap, I made a small herd out of cardboard. Regular colored cardboard for children's creativity. But the result is so cute that we decided to expand this collection, since Daya appreciated the figures.
I really like this option - the colored side inward. They are somehow very calm, but not boring. When I got my hands on a figured hole punch, I wanted to make spots with it too.
While playing with such cows, you can safely tell your child that Krishna has red, yellow, white and black cows in his herd. Act out scenes of cows returning from pastures, with Krishna playing special melodies on the flute and calling the cow leaders of certain groups. Kids can be told about why the Lord got the name Govinda - this happened during Govardhana-lila, a very interesting description of which can be read.
We played like this: we raised Govardhana Hill from Lego and hid cows under it, while I talked about everything that was happening.
Again, while playing, you can count cows, learn colors, shades - even if you make a herd of four colors, you can make just the yellow cows completely different in shades. We made the colored part of our herd from double-sided thin cardboard and paper. The colors were those that were at home.
You can download the templates by which all these cows are made (there will be a link a little later)
And it all started with these very simple cows from an ordinary box))). You can take any template you like - I just searched on Google for “cow silhouette” (you can just as well write “cow silhouette”) - there are a great many of them. I printed it out, cut it out, outlined it on cardboard, cut it out, plus a very simple stand - a grass tussock made from the same cardboard. Incisions are made in it (and a small one in the leg too, for better fixation). These cows are very cool to paint. Moreover, it is the kids who produce the most interesting work - only the colors are best given those that do not turn into dirt when mixed.
We played goshala with these cows. They remembered how after church they went to feed the cows, how wet their noses were, how the calves sucked milk, and how these cows were milked, and then the milk was delivered in cans to all the houses. They even remembered the tractor that brought a huge cartload of fresh grass every morning. About how affectionate cows are, how grateful. They remembered how the horns felt to the touch, how smooth the fur was. These memories are so vivid for the baby, so he always plays games related to goshala very willingly and with great joy.
