Handmade Deer

One of the characters with which Christmas and New Year holidays are related can be done without difficulty with a preschool child. It's about crafting a reindeer, which you can make with your own hands from a variety of materials - paper, cardboard, plasticine and even a plastic bottle.

Deer of cardboard

Before you make paper or paperboard deer with your own hands, prepare two sheets of thick cardboard red and white, scissors and four clerical pins.

1. Draw on the sheet of paper five parts: the body, horns, two legs and a tail. Cut out the templates.
2. Transfer them to a sheet of red cardboard with a pencil. Then these same details should be transferred to the white cardboard, but they should be traced with a margin of one millimeter.
3. Cut out all the details (they should all be ten). The red details are glued on the corresponding white. Thus, you will get a festive white border.
4. Attach the horns, legs and tail to the body. At the joints with the awl, make small holes, and then fasten the deer's article to the stationery pins.

The resulting deer can move its legs, lower and raise the tail, move the horns. Such an article can be used as a decoration for a postcard or a gift box.

Deer from a plastic bottle

Plastic bottles give ample opportunities for children's creativity. An amusing piece of deer will come out of you if you have a plastic bottle, a cotton pad, paint, cardboard box, scotch tape and cocktail straws at hand.

1. Make a fawn of the legs, combining some Scotch straws with Scotch tape. Stick them to a plastic bottle, which will be the deer's body.
2. From the cardboard box, cut out the horns. Attach them with tape to the bottle. Eyes and mouth - this is a bundle of scotch.
3. We cover the whole craft with paper tape so that it can be painted.
4. We fix all the parts in place (the tail is a wadded disc). And now we color our fawn with colors.

Types of materials

Paper and plastic should not be limited, because this wonderful crafts can be made from any material. So, small children will easily make an amusing deer of puzzles, and younger schoolchildren can show how to mold a deer from plasticine or polymer clay. Spruce bumps, matches, various twigs, spools from threads and even cork from wine bottles - all this can be used for creativity.

Ideas for creativity: