What crafts to make from eggplant?

Eggplant crafts are suitable not only for an exhibition in a kindergarten, but also for decorating a festive table. Since many of them are created using a knife, the creative process must be carried out under the supervision of an adult.

If the eggplant craft is being prepared for a specific event, then it is better to do it the day before so that no products start to flow. Only those materials that have the maximum possible shelf life should be used in the basis. All vegetables and fruits must be washed and dried before starting the creative process. For greater stability, it is recommended to fix the details on toothpicks, otherwise the composition will fall apart at the most inopportune moment.

Crafts for kindergarten are usually simple, so that even the smallest can cope with them.

If a holiday on the theme of autumn is organized in a kindergarten, then together with the parents it will be possible to make an unusual vase from a vegetable. To create a craft, you will only need a medium-sized fruit itself and a special knife. The creative process begins with the fact that the top is cut off one side of the eggplant, and the core is cut out of it with a special tool. On the other hand, it is also worth trimming the edge for stability.

It is also possible to make a funny eggplant hedgehog. In addition to a small fruit, you will have to use toothpicks, dried leaves and plasticine. The eggplant itself is used as the body of the animal. Its surface is buried with toothpicks, and a nose and eyes are molded from plasticine. The basis for the craft, that is, a clearing, is obtained from a box lid decorated with dry leaves. Fruits and mushrooms sculpted from plasticine are put on the needles of the animal.

Purple glossy vegetables are great for whales or killer whales. For example, to make a couple of powerful marine mammals, you will have to prepare 3 slightly curved eggplants and 1 sweet pepper of a light green or yellow hue. The tails of two purple fruits are removed, the remains of sepals are carefully scraped off. The third is cut into parts. Its severed nose, split in half, will become two distinct tails, and the wedge-shaped stripes with a small cut will become dorsal fins.

Whole eggplants are formed with wedge-shaped notches running along, into which the fins are inserted. It is convenient to fasten these parts with a toothpick stuck near the future tail. The finished tails are attached to the body of the whale with toothpicks. Creature eyes are obtained from allspice peas, also planted on sharp wooden sticks. For more expressiveness under the peas, you can add a circle of sweet pepper. The smiling mouths of animals are cut out with a knife. Finished products are placed on chard or Chinese cabbage leaves.

Eggplant shoes are created in just a few minutes. The "insides" are cut out at the fruit, but if desired, a jumper is left in the middle, after which a heel from a piece of carrot is attached. Finished shoes can be decorated with stars or flowers cut from carrots, as well as a corn leaf insole.

It will become even more interesting for a child to create an eggplant machine if you place Smeshariki inside it - the heroes of a children's cartoon. The list of required materials includes a couple of eggplants, a potato, an onion, an apple, a pear, thin clear plastic from a bottle, a toothpick, and plasticine. It is also worth preparing a reliable basis for the craft, for example, a board. The first eggplant serves as the basis for the car, and the wheels are cut from the second, which are attached to toothpicks. You can immediately make headlights from a couple of pieces of yellow plasticine for a car. The windshield is conveniently obtained from a piece of a plastic bottle that is simply inserted into the eggplant.

The potato is used to make a bear, the bulb is used to make an elk, an apple is used to make a pig, and a pear is used to make a rabbit. Parts of muzzles and all the necessary details are molded from plasticine. Toothpicks are also useful for fixing animals on the machine. By the way, the craft in the form of a car looks very unusual, in which frogs from halves of bell peppers ride instead of smeshariki. It is worth mentioning the possibility of making wheels from cucumber or carrot circles, as well as complementing the composition with a carrot wheel.

To make do-it-yourself eggplant crafts in the form of a boat, the first thing you need to do is cut the fruit into two halves. Next, you have to work with only one of them, so the second can be immediately postponed for another product. The half of the vegetable is cored so that the sides remain intact. Further, a small incision is made in its middle, inside which a stick is inserted, previously cleaned from the bark.

A very simple craft is made from a small eggplant and a couple of round onions. For work, you will also have to prepare colored paper, toothpicks and a cardboard box. The eggplant is cut in half and peeled from the inside with a spoon. This should be done with great care so as not to violate the integrity of the peel. A piece of paper is glued to each toothpick in such a way as to make an oar. If you stick the pieces of wood correctly into the bulbs planted in the boat, they will automatically lock inside.

For the exhibition at the school, following a simple master class step by step, you will be able to make a funny eggplant penguin. In addition to the vegetable itself, work will require several toothpicks, the fruits of carrots or sweet bell peppers, several black peppercorns or clove stars. The main processes have to be carried out with a knife, so it is better not to do them without adult supervision. The creation of a penguin begins with the fact that the lower part of a medium-sized eggplant with a green stalk is cut off with a thickness of about 4 centimeters - this will give stability to the craft. Next, the fruit is set vertically, and a part of the upper layer of the rind is cut off with a sharp knife to make a belly.

On the sides (on both sides), cuts are made on the eggplant. The resulting wings are raised up by hands, if desired, a thin circle of carrots is placed under them. An animal's muzzle is formed in two ways. In the first case, with the help of a toothpick, two recesses are pierced on the stalk, into which peas of pepper or cloves are then inserted. In the second case, by analogy with the tummy, two oval cuts are made directly above it.

In the middle of each, dark berries or halves of olives are attached to a toothpick. The cut end of the carrot is fixed in place of the beak. Additionally, the penguin can be decorated with red pepper paws, carrot buttons and other details. So that the craft does not darken over time, it is better to treat the cut sites with lemon juice or citric acid crystals.

The zebra made from eggplant also looks elegant. The skin of the two fruits selected for creativity is cut into strips. The first vegetable will become the head: it will need to be decorated with eyes made of olives and ears made of colored paper or prunes. In the second eggplant - the body - you will need to cut off the top slightly obliquely. Between themselves, the two main parts are fixed with toothpicks. It is also possible to make the body of an animal from a small eggplant, from four toothpicks and cherry tomatoes - its legs, and the cut off tip of the fruit - a muzzle.

It is almost elementary to make a funny person out of the purple fruit. It is enough to attach plastic eyes for dolls, a nose made of a large pompom and a mouth made of colored paper or a strip of carrots. The creation of a dolphin or a shark is not particularly difficult. In both cases, the creatures simply cut out a muzzle with special features, and the fins and tail are created from an additional fruit of the same vegetable, by analogy with a whale. Making an eggplant house will be interesting. Cutting it off on one side and thereby setting it vertically, it remains to extract the "insides" from the fruit and carefully cut through the windows and the door.

If, in addition to eggplant, there is also cauliflower on the farm, then it makes sense to adapt vegetables to create a sheep. In addition to the main ingredients, you will also have to prepare the fruits of radishes and carrots, toothpicks and a knife. First of all, one third of the stem is removed from a large eggplant. A small strip is also cut off the remaining fruit to make the product more reliable. Lamb ears are cut from the scraps, which are inserted into the eggplant head using cuts.

White radish, peeled, is good for the eyes. A couple of thin circles are cut from this fruit, which are immediately strung on toothpicks and inserted into the eggplant.On top of them, it is necessary to fix two smaller dark circles - for example, from the same eggplant. Below from the place of the dried inflorescence, two perpendicular incisions are made for the nose and mouth of the lamb. Thin strips made of carrots are immersed in them. The cauliflower is disassembled into inflorescences, at the base of each of which a toothpick is inserted. "Curls" are stuck all over the eggplant body of the animal, except for the muzzle.

It is impossible not to mention the helicopter made of the same purple fruit. Carrots, toothpicks and a knife will go to his company. The first step is to clean the slightly curved eggplant with a tail at the front to create a windshield in the helicopter. A couple of circles are cut from a thick carrot, the thickness of which is half a centimeter. At the base, the wheels are attached with toothpicks.

The propeller is also obtained from root crops cut lengthwise into slices. Those of them that turn out to be triangular, in the amount of four pieces, will do. To make the details the same, they can be adjusted with a knife. A column 4–5 centimeters high is cut from another carrot, on which the propeller can be mounted. This part is also placed on the eggplant with a toothpick, and the propeller plates are fixed on it one by one.

For information on how to make an eggplant penguin, see the next video.