Making crafts from zucchini

School and kindergarten are often asked to bring crafts for an autumn holiday or exhibition. You can create such a craft from natural materials - for example, from different vegetables. In this article, we will consider a wide variety of ideas for creating crafts from a zucchini for kindergarten and school.

Squash can make a cool penguin. For making crafts, it is enough to prepare only 1 vegetable. First, you should very carefully and with a thin layer cut out the penguin's face on it. To do this, you should take a small and very well sharpened knife. After completing the preparation of the muzzle, you need to cut out the tummy. To shape the eyes, you should use black peppercorns. You can decorate the penguin's neck using an original bow. It is not as difficult to form this component as it might seem at first glance. First, cut a thin strip from the rind.

After that, the neck circumference of the future character must be measured with a ruler or tape measure. Next, a bow should be made from several strips, and then it must be attached in the appropriate place using toothpicks. The flippers can be formed by making a deep cut on the skin of the vegetable with a very sharp knife. These components are cut separately from the rest of the composition. Fingers should be visible on the fins. After that, the whole figurine as a whole on wooden sticks / skewers should be placed vertically.

You can make many different autumn crafts from a zucchini with your own hands, you just need to turn on your imagination.One of these crafts is a ship, the creation of which is a fairly simple and quick task. To make it, you will need one elongated zucchini, toothpicks, carrots, a sheet of paper, plasticine, a knife, scotch tape, and a few cabbage leaves. To begin with, you need to cut off an even part from the zucchini, and clean it out in the middle with a knife.

The latter is best left to an adult, as the child has a high risk of accidentally cutting himself. Next, using the same knife, we cut out the windows of the future ship - this task is also best entrusted to one of the parents. We put the zucchini aside and start peeling the carrots, after which we cut them into circles.

From these circles, you need to form a steering wheel, an anchor and other elements of the boat - we attach them to the zucchini with a toothpick. After that, we take cabbage leaves and fasten them also with the help of toothpicks, making a sailboat with their help. If you do not want to use cabbage leaves for crafts, you can replace them with ordinary paper squares measuring 10 by 10 cm. If necessary, these parts can be fixed with tape for greater stability. The boat itself is ready.

If you wish, using plasticine, you can add sailors and other elements to the boat, which will help make the craft more original. Let's pay attention to the fact that to create a ship you will need an elongated zucchini. But from a round zucchini it is quite possible to make a boat, acting on the same principle.

The process of making a car from vegetables is as easy as making a boat. To do this, you need small to medium-sized zucchini, toothpicks, a knife and plasticine. The workflow is quite simple: first you need to cut out the wheels for the car. To do this, you need to take the smallest zucchini and cut it into circles. Instead of zucchini, by the way, you can take carrot circles - it all depends on your preferences. We fasten the wheels with toothpicks.

In general, the process of creating a car is completed, if you wish, you can diversify it with additional details from other vegetables or plasticine - for example, dazzle headlights, drivers and passengers, or add a steering wheel.

It is also easy to make Smeshariki from zucchini - it can be either the Krosh hare, or the Sovunya owl or the Ping penguin. You can make almost any character from zucchini, you just need to turn on your imagination and let your imagination run wild. And if necessary, the zucchini can be covered with the color you need, be it yellow, blue or purple, which will allow you to recognize a specific cartoon character in your craft. Let's figure out how you can make Crochet from zucchini. The base for the rabbit will be a round zucchini. If not, then you can use a head of cabbage.

Among other things, you will need toothpicks, paper, pre-cut, or plastic eyes, as well as vegetables that will help you realize your idea. To begin with, choose a rounded zucchini, or take a head of cabbage. After that, let's start creating ears for the bunny. They can be made from an elongated oval zucchini by simply cutting it in half. If the zucchini is too large and bulky, trim it a little. Attach the ears to the body with toothpicks or matches. Add some durability to these parts with duct tape, if necessary. We also cut out all four hare's legs from zucchini, and put carrots in them. The final touch remains - the design of the face. Crochet is ready!

You can also make autumn crafts from a vegetable marrow in the form of a wide variety of animals, be it a swan, shark, pig, turtle or, for example, a toothy crocodile.All these animals are created according to approximately the same principle. Let's analyze a master class on creating one of the listed animals - a pig. You will need a small squash and a knife to work on this fall craft. The course of work is quite simple: we cut out the ears, patch, tail, legs and eyes of the animal with a knife. The muzzle, by the way, can be decorated with paper or plasticine.

However, this is the easiest way to create a funny pig. In order to craft an animal in a more sophisticated way, in addition to zucchini, you will need carrots, buttons, a bottle cap, thick thread and toothpicks. Zucchini will serve as the basis for the body. The ears and legs of the animal must be cut from the carrots. The face will need to be decorated with two dark buttons and a bottle cap - all this is attached to the zucchini with glue or double-sided tape. We complete the work by gluing the tail of the animal. Ready!

A squash machine is a very simple craft that preschool children can make without any problems. The basis for such a product should be made in the form of a whole, long and thin vegetable. Further, it remains to work only on the small components of the composition. The wheels can be made from a couple of circles cut from fresh carrots or other squash. The finished elements are attached on both sides of the machine using toothpicks.

You can take a small cherry tomato for the role of a driver of a vegetable car. The windshield will be obtained from a piece of zucchini that has an arched shape.

The exhaust pipe should be cut from any product with a tubular structure. To do this, you can install a dense celery branch or other similar component.

A cute squash piglet will be collected like this.

• First, you need to cut off the entire skin from the vegetable.
• After that, you will need to carefully cut the fresh cucumber into several neat medium-sized circles.
• Further, one circle, divided into 2 halves, can be fixed as the ears of a piglet.
• Now you will need to take a wide circle cut from a cucumber. It should be fixed on the pig's face - this will be a patch.
• As in the master classes discussed above, a variety of materials will be suitable for the design of the pig's eyes. You can use bright rowan berries or circles of black pepper.
• All the components cut from vegetables (ears, patch) will need to be securely fixed on the pig's body using toothpicks.
• To make the craft stable, you can cut a little from its bottom.

But students in grades 1, 2, 3, 4 and older can bring to the school autumn exhibition a more complex craft made in a special and relatively recently appeared technique called carving. This technique is also called culinary art, and both a girl and a boy can master it. With the help of carving, you can create any craft, for example, in the form of a house, cactus, snail, vase or a beautiful rose.

Such crafts are made using a variety of fruits and vegetables, for this you just need to arm yourself with a knife, stock up on perseverance, patience, attentiveness and time, because the process of creating crafts takes quite a lot of time. But at the end of the work, the result is pleasing and amazing. Such crafts can subsequently become an excellent decoration not only for the exhibition, but also for the festive table - however, there is such beauty, most likely, it will be very sorry.

Note that to create crafts in such an unusual technique to achieve the most beautiful result, you will need a Thai carving knife, other knives of different lengths and cross-sections, which will allow you to cut elements of various sizes and complexity, as well as culinary scissors and a vegetable peeler.

Well, we will consider the options for crafts using the carving technique below.

• For example, here is a whole composition of a vegetable marrow, the main participants of which are an owl and its owl.

• And here is the hedgehog, which can be decorated not only with mushrooms, but also, for example, with apples. By the way, you can make them from ordinary plasticine.

• And here is the cute frog.

• All kinds of flowers that look very beautiful can be made in this way.

• They do carving and various portraits using the carving technique, moreover, right on the zucchini. Of course, it will take a long time to create such crafts to reach the required skill level.

Zucchini can be called a rather unpretentious vegetable, due to which a variety of crafts can be made from it. However, in order to in order to please you with the result, we recommend that you be more careful when choosing a vegetable marrow, taking into account its color, its shape, and its dimensions. Before starting work on the craft, do not forget to thoroughly wash the vegetable, cleaning it from possible contamination in the form of dirt and dust. At the same time, we recommend giving preference to fresh vegetables, because stale vegetables can begin to wrinkle, which may well ruin the appearance of your craft.

To make your craft more original, bright and beautiful, feel free to use, in addition to zucchini, other materials, in particular, vegetables, fruits and berries. The use of decor in the form of beads, colored paper, beads or plasticine is allowed.

For information on how to make a turtle from a vegetable marrow with your own hands, see the next video.