How to make a snake with your own hands. Three original crafts

The original toy snake will become an excellent talisman in the year of the Serpent. It can be sewn from the fabric, knit from yarn, weave from the beads and even roll out of the towel. How to make a snake with your own hands made of fabric or other materials?

Snake made of cloth

In order to make a snake, you need two pieces of tissue green or brown. One of them can be shade lighter than the other. You will also need wire, sintepon, puppet eyes, which can be found in the sewing accessories store.

Draw patterns of 4 parts: the trunk, the neck, the chin and the head. Transfer the patterns to the fabric and cut out the details, leaving the allowance for the seams. Sew the parts so that the snake's body looks like a long narrow pouch. In the trunk, insert a piece of wire wrapped in a sintepon. Syntepona take a little more, so that the body of the snake was sufficiently tightly filled.

Sew the head parts and fill them with sintepon. Sew the head to the body, placing it on the end of the wire. Snap your eyes on the face of the snake. Torso decorate the body with a line of rhinestones. The wire will allow to bend the snake, to give it any shape. A snake can be put in a "column", folded with a ringlet.

How to make a snake with your own hands from beads?

For the volume snake, you need green, orange, yellow, gray beads and wire. The technique of volumetric weaving is used. With this method of weaving, we obtain rows arranged above one another. The top of the woven strip will be the back of the snake, and the bottom - the tummy.

The first row forms the tongue of the snake. Make it orange. Dial 3 beads. Pass the end of the wire through the end beads in the opposite direction. Tighten the ends of the wire. Type 3 beads at the end of the wire, repeat the previous operation, pulling the beads to the finished part of the toy. Fold the ends of the wire together and string 3 beads. It turned out a tongue.

Now make out your head. For the lower tier, take the yellow beads, and for the upper one, take the green beads. Bring 2 beads to one end, pass the second tip of the wire in the opposite direction. You have a lower tier. Dial 3 beads and again pass the other end of the wire in the opposite direction. Weave the snake in this way to the end. Make a row of 3 beads, then of 6, 7 and 8 beads. Then make one row of 7 and 6 beads.

Weave the body, making rows of 6 beads. After several rows, narrow the weave to the tail until you bring it to the two beads. How to make a snake that will keep the shape? Insert a thick wire into the toy. Pass the wire through the final bead, fix the wire and cut off its remains.

How to make a snake with your own hands from a towel?

Take a bath towel measuring about 70 by 140 cm. Spread it carefully on a table or bed. The two upper corners of the rectangle bend towards each other. Roll a towel roll. Fold the harness ring. Place the neck of the snake, bend its head in your direction.

As you can see, making a snake is not at all difficult. A bright snake of beads will cheer you up, and a funny snake from a towel will amuse the children and amuse the household. Now you know how to make a snake with your own hands.