Making a plane from a vegetable marrow

Everyone knows that vegetables are essential food items. They contain a lot of vitamins and nutrients, without which the human body cannot function normally. However, vegetable products can not only be eaten. You can make a lot of unusual crafts from the same zucchini. Such an interesting creative process develops children's imagination, helps to restore broken connections in the brain in adults. And the crafts themselves turn out to be very unusual.

Every parent is accustomed to the fact that for the creative upbringing of a child, you have to stock up on a lot of stationery. These are colored paper and cardboard, paints and pencils, glue and scissors, felt-tip pens and plasticine. For more complex crafts, you have to purchase scrapbooking paper, embossed knives, fabric, ribbons and much more. But when asked to bring vegetables to kindergarten for a creativity lesson, many adults find it bewildering. It is impossible to immediately understand that, for example, pepper is needed to create a craft. However, parents still bring the required ornamental materials, and in the evening, picking up the child, they see the creation of their child, which he made with his own hands.

For children's creativity, educators recommend using unpretentious vegetables. One of these is zucchini. You can make a lot of interesting things from this product, for example, a vase, various figures, animals, cartoon characters. It is with great pleasure that they cut out houses, caskets from zucchini, try to make crafts in the form of transport, for example, a car or a ship. So, from a long zucchini you can make an airplane.

This kind of work is suitable for children in the older group of kindergarten. Alternatively, this craft model can be used in a labor lesson in elementary school.

In addition to an elongated and convex zucchini, you will need carrots and several toothpicks. The process of work itself should proceed without haste, step by step according to the presented master class.

• Before you start creating, you need to prepare the vegetables. Zucchini and carrots must be thoroughly rinsed under running water, then dried with a towel or soft cloth.
• For each vegetable, you need to cut off the sides, but do not throw them away. In further work, they will still come in handy, since they will play the role of wings.
• Cut off a small circle from the carrots.
• Next, the main part of the zucchini is taken and connected to the lower wings with toothpicks. This is how the aircraft acquires the fuselage.
• Toothpicks are stuck into the lower wings so that they stand vertically.
• On top of the toothpicks, the second side part of the vegetable is strung, transforming the wings.
• It is important to take into account that the middle part of the upper wing should have a rounded notch so that the base and padding fit snugly together.
• It is equally important to double-check that the length of the lower and upper wings matches each other. Otherwise, you will have to cut them.
• The upper wing must be fixed to the base of the vegetable marrow with a toothpick. And also it is necessary to check all the parts for the strength of the connection.
• A round piece of carrot is used to create a decoration for the front of the plane. For this, cuttings from the irregularities of the wings and a circle of carrots are taken. Carrots are placed against the nose of the aircraft, blades made of scraps are superimposed on them, and this structure is fixed with a toothpick.
• It remains to make the tail of the plane. To do this, a circle is cut from the carrot and cut in half. The halves are joined at the center and attached to the rear of the aircraft.

Zucchini and zucchini, despite the generalized characteristics, still have a lot of differences.

• Colour. The usual zucchini has a light skin color, sometimes even white. Zucchini, on the other hand, has a green peel, sometimes a black or yellow variety can be found. The zucchini skin may have streaks or specks. This variety of color palette plays an important role in the creation of vegetable crafts. It is from zucchini with a pattern that it will be possible to create the image of a ship or a submarine.
• The size. Zucchini can have different lengths and circumferences. Zucchini, on the other hand, must be cut from the garden when its length reaches 15 cm. However, to create creative masterpieces, it is better to leave a couple of fruits unpicked until they reach the required size.
• Taste qualities. Few people know, but zucchini can be eaten raw. For the aesthetics of serving, you can create an oblong container from this vegetable, where the prepared dish will be laid out.
• Outer sheath. In this case, we are talking about the peel. In zucchini, in contrast to zucchini, it is soft, pliable. Accordingly, giving the craft an external decorative pattern is as easy as shelling pears.
• Storage duration. Unlike zucchini, uncut zucchini can be stored for quite a long time. Accordingly, this vegetable can be used as an ornamental material even in the winter season.

Having figured out the differences between zucchini and zucchini, you can begin to get acquainted with the master class "Crocodile on the plane", where zucchini is the main material for work. In addition to him, you will need carrots, beets, about 5-7 gherkins, plasticine, toothpicks and a plastic bottle.

• In zucchini, you must carefully remove the stalk, it is best to cut it off. Next, you need to cut out the cockpit for the pilot.
• The cucumber must be divided in half lengthways - these will be the wings of the plane.
• Now the carrots are taken. It needs to be cut into circles, and then select several rings for the steering wheel and chassis.
• A screw should be prepared from the beets.
• Next, you need to take the gherkins, connect them with toothpicks to make a crocodile. The pilot's head should be made of plasticine.
• The prepared elements of the aircraft must be fixed with toothpicks on the base of the aircraft.
• Cut out the windshield from the wall of the plastic bottle and insert it into the soft base of the zucchini right in front of the cab.
• It remains only to put the pilot in the cockpit.

Zucchini is not the only one that can play the role of the main element of creating vegetable crafts. Cucumber, eggplant and radish can turn from a common product into a work of art. But it is much easier to work with these types of vegetables, they are soft, pliable, which cannot be said about radishes or carrots. By the way, it is carrots that occupy the highest level among vegetable crops, which can be used for the creative process. For example, cut flowers out of it.

• The carrots are washed, peeled, cut into 3 equal parts. The thicker piece will act as a vase.
• The middle part of the carrot is cut into circles. A flower is cut from each circle.
• The harvested flowers are strung on toothpicks and inserted into the middle of the vase.

Vegetable ice cream is quite an interesting, and most importantly, useful craft. To prepare it, you need cauliflower and carrots. The amount of these products depends entirely on the number of servings of healthy ice cream.

• First of all, the carrots must be washed thoroughly, and then put in a glass. The height of the cup should match the length of the vegetable. In this case, carrots play the role of a waffle cup.
• A toothpick is stuck in the center of the carrot from above, a sprig of cauliflower is strung on it.

By the way, some crafts can even be cooked later. However, this will be very difficult, because each individual vegetable is individual: if the cauliflower needs to boil for 10-15 minutes, then the carrots should simmer in boiling water for about 30-40 minutes. As a hint, vegetables can be cooked before creating a craft, the main thing is to carry out the work process as accurately as possible.

To make handicrafts from vegetables beautiful and of high quality, you need to heed a few tips from experienced craftsmen who have more than once created vegetable masterpieces from a variety of garden crops.

• Before starting work, vegetables must be thoroughly washed and then dried with a towel.
• Use wooden toothpicks, plastic skewers or floral wire as connectors for vegetable elements.
• When choosing foods to craft, keep in mind that some vegetables have a short shelf life. For example, tomatoes. They will flow very quickly, and their empty insides will shrink.

For information on how to make an airplane from a zucchini, see the next video.