Give gifts is sometimes more pleasant than getting. Especially in cases where the present is intended to a native person. And if it is made personally, pleasant emotions double. Without special difficulties, you can make a crawl with your own hands. It is made from various materials and decorated depending on the theme of the event. By the Day of the elderly person, you can draw beautiful portraits or make cards with congratulations and verses.
Creating flowers bouquets
The complexity of the manufacture of bouquets are different. For example, there are very complex compositions, the creation of which requires certain skills and knowledge from humans. And there are bouquets with which even young children can cope with. Such a gift can be a postcard with flowers from hearts.
To create it, you will need:
- scissors;
- pattern for making hearts, flower and foliage;
- pencils, paints or markers;
- glue;
- Cardboard of different colors;
- Several photographs of a small size of the person who intended a conceived gift for whom.
The creation process consists of several stages. The first thing should be cut with colored paper hearts. They should be from one-photon paper of one color. It will take about a couple of dozen hearts. Then they should be glued in the form of a flower. It will work out if you glue them to the base (cardboard) flashes in a circle. Such a handicraft made by your own hands will constantly remind the touching feelings of who presented it.
As a result, several identical flowers should turn out. And in their middle there must be photos of the recipient.
The skelter is drawn by a green pencil (or paints, felt-tip pen). You also need to not forget about the petals. They also need to attach them.
At the end of this process, you need to choose a poem or prose for congratulations, and then write it on a postcard.
How to make a grandmother and grandfather?
In addition to the postcard, you can make a cradle in the form of a grandfather and grandmother. At the same time, people's figures are made from cones. The manufacture of such a toy does not require much time, but it will rejoice the recipient for a long time.
To do this, you will need:
- paper of different colors;
- tool for making holes (hole punch);
- pencils, paints or markers;
- glue, scissors;
- Blanks of body parts made from cardboard;
- Templates that will be used to prepare cones;
- Threads required for knitting (color white or beige);
- wool.
The creation process begins with the manufacture of a template for the cones . Then, with the help of sewing, the holes should be made through which the threads are made.
After that, there are still two threads to the extensive threads of future dolls. As a result, they get fasteners for hands and legs.
The next stage is that the existing workpieces and legs are glued to the appropriate threads. "Heads", naturally, are attached with glue to the vertices of cones. If it is a doll - "grandmother", then do not forget to make hair. It is for this that you need a wool. But the doll depicting the "grandfather" should be glued with a mustache, bundlebards and eyebrows from the same material. For the color of the crafts, you can add a cone with various decor in the form of butt, leaves, beads or other elements.
You can still make a cradle in the form of a grandfather or grandmother from vegetables. Such a creative idea will have to do with all family members. For this, you will need the following materials:
- potato;
- pepper pepper;
- Tomato "Cherry";
- zucchini;
- corn;
- matches.
The manufacturing process is quite simple. To begin with, choose large potatoes (preferably pink color). Then make openings for the eyes and insert pepper peas in them or rowan fruits. The nose is made of matches with the fruits of the same rowan (or pea). But as a mouth just used tomato.
It will take corn or ordinary thread. The headdress is made of zucchini slice or even pumpkins. Well, we make hands from ordinary matches.
To complete the image of the crafts, it is enough to put a doll into the basket suitable in size, decorate it with a decorative napkin.
Other ideas
The applique of an elderly person is very original. From old computer discs. In this case, we are talking about panels, for the manufacture of which you will need several disks and multi-colored plasticine.
A composition is made from plasticine, for example, in the form of green grass, colors, birds and butterflies. After that it is attached to the rigidity of the base on the CD.
No less original on the topic of congratulations to the Day of the elderly man looks a box made by their own hands. For such a craft, you will need:
- old box of dense cardboard;
- self-adhesive paper;
- various kinds of rhinestones, beads and other decor items;
- Varnish for surface coating.
Distillary is made as follows.
First, it should be placed the box with paper, and then decorate it. For this, all sorts of beads, beads, cut-out decor elements and much more are used. After completion of the decoration stage, the casket should be covered with a varnish.
This box can be used to store jewelry, threads with needles, buttons and photos.
On how to make a postcard to the Day of the Elderly, see the next workshop.