Crafts for young children: monkeys of cones

Nature offers us a large number of materials that can be used in creativity to create the most original and beautiful elements of decor. For example, monkeys from cones will be fine crafts that can be constructed with your child.

Handmade "Monkey" for young children

Make an article from natural materials is not so difficult. However, before that, you need to walk with the child in the park and find bumps or other natural components.

Manufacture of such articles has many advantages:

• The child himself chooses the materials with which he wants to work;
• Walks in the fresh air favorably affect the children's body;
• Such exercises have a beneficial effect on the development of the child (assiduity, hand mechanics, fantasy).

Necessary materials

To make a monkey from cones need a small twig and, of course, three lumps. One of them, the largest, is suitable for a monkey's calf, and two smaller sizes are needed to make the head and other small parts (eye, ear and nose).

Monkeys of cones

When all the materials are selected, they need to be connected together. The first thing to do is to separate small parts for the eye, nose and ears. They can be corrected with a knife or scissors so that all elements fit in size. This work is better not to trust the child, let him help (trying on ready-made elements to the head of a monkey from cones). The handicraft is almost ready, small details are glued to the head, which you need to fix on the main bump.

When all the parts are well fixed and the glue dries, you need to fix the tail. After the completion of the work, the handicraft is best fixed on any basis, so that it is stable and does not fall. For these purposes, a lid from a box or cans is suitable. Mount the monkey to the stand with plasticine or glue. If the toy is still unstable, then you can go the other way by attaching a string at the top and making a Christmas tree decoration.

Monkey from lump and clay

A funny craft can be made of clay and bumps. However, the absence of the first component should not prevent the production of a monkey. This material is easy to replace with ordinary clay. In addition, you will need to think about how to make eyes. In this example, green plasticine and black stones were used.

The first thing from clay or plasticine you need to blind the head of a monkey. It is necessary to roll two different in size balls and to blind them with each other. The connecting line is hidden and isolated muzzle and cheekbones. Now you need to attach the flat ears to the monkey's head and decorate your eyes from the green plasticine. They put pupils of black stones. With a toothpick make two nostrils and a long groove in the form of a wide mouth.

Then the monkey's head needs to be attached to the base of the cone. After that, you should blind the feet. All of the same clay or plasticine you need to roll four tubes. The ends of the forelimbs are flattened, giving them a palm shape, and to the rear attach small ovals, similar to the feet. A monkey from a spruce cone is almost ready, in the end of work it is necessary to attach paws and to plant a small animal on a stump from a half of a nutshell. In this case, the legs of the monkey should be bent at the knees.

If clay was used to make the craft, then it should be left to dry at room temperature. And after that, for a stronger fixation, it is recommended to glue everything together with glue.

And if there were a lot of natural materials in the forest, monkeys from cones will only be the beginning of the child's creative path. You can create a lot of little animals that will decorate the children's room, and the kid will learn how to handle natural materials correctly.