Matryoshka with his own hands of puff pastry, plasticine, fabric or paper

Matryoshka is a beautiful painted doll of cylindrical shape. Traditionally, it is made of wood and has inside a cavity in which there are similar toys, but a little smaller. In this case, they are necessarily inserted into each other. Any tourist for anything will not leave Russia without this chubby beauty in a bright sarafan and scarf. It has long won worldwide fame and is now considered not just a traditional souvenir, but one of the cultural symbols of our country, along with Dymkovo toy, samovar and balalaika. In this article we will tell you how to make a nesting doll with your own hands from various materials: salted dough, cloth and even paper. We advise you to make this work with your child, he will enjoy both the creative process and the result.

Master class: a textile matryoshka. With our own hands we will make a hand-made articles of cloth

A beautiful matryoshka doll can be made of textiles quite simply. If you are at least a little know how to sew, pay attention to the next simple and interesting workshop.

How is matryoshka performed by yourself? First, you will need to prepare the following materials and tools:

• Cotton cloth of different colors (plain white, beige, burgundy);
• Motley fabric with a floral pattern;
• Sintepon;
• Lace;
• Threads;
• Brush;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• acrylic paints.

After acquiring all the necessary and preparing the workplace, you can start creativity. Matryoshka with your own hands made of cloth is very simple. You can use this pattern.

Technology of making crafts from textiles

Now let's talk directly about how to sew a matryoshka with your own hands. First, we take a white cloth, matched for the top of the toy, and fold it twice. We transfer the pattern to it, but not all, but only its upper part. Cut out the contours and get two blanks that will become the face and the back of the toy. In one of the details we make a circular hole. Next, we take a cloth of beige color and cut out of it a small square. From the dark red fabric we cut out a strip, it becomes a doll handkerchief. Also prepare a strip of lace, equal to the length of the burgundy material. Now we sew a lace braid with a dark red strip from one side. Turn the part and iron with iron on the front side. On the prepared beige square from one edge we put a blank of a scarf. From above, we close these two parts with a white cloth with a hole cut out in it. Fix all the elements with pins and sew with a seam (or loop). Turn the product over, cut off excess beige and dark red materials. The result is a head with a face and a handkerchief on his forehead.

We continue to create with our own hands a colorful souvenir of textiles

We begin to make the body of the doll. To do this, we take motley material with a floral print and add it in half. We cut the bottom of our nesting doll (the lower part in the pattern). And now we add all the details (the head, the back of the head, two body elements) with the front side inward, a little back from the edge, mark the contour with a pencil and we pour out the product on it. Attention: we do not sew up the mattresses yet. Through it we will fill the puppet with a sintepon. We cut off excess material, turn out the toy and fill it with sintepon. It is necessary to distribute the filler evenly and spread it. After that we sew the bottom of the toy with a hidden seam. Well, now we decorate the matryoshka at our discretion: we sew lace to the trunk (on the border of white and multi-colored materials), beads, sequins, beautiful buttons. With a pencil, we look at the eyes, eyelashes, eyebrows, nose and lips. We paint them with acrylic paints. We paint cheeks with blush. That's all, our textile matryoshka is ready!

We make a craft from a salted dough

A magnificent painted matryoshka can be made not only from textiles, but also from other improvised materials. For example, very interesting crafts are made from salted dough. Try to make such a doll with your child, modeling not only brings satisfaction, but also develops small motor skills. So, let's discuss how the matryoshka is made with its own hands from a salted dough. In fact, it's also very simple. First, you need to make a dough. We offer you such a tested recipe. Take 1 glass of salt (small, extra), 2 cups of flour, 250 ml of cold water and mix the ingredients. To them, add 1-1.5 st. L. Vegetable oil. The dough according to this recipe is elastic and soft. Now from the cardboard we make the workpiece - we cut out the silhouette of the matryoshka doll. With a rolling pin, roll out a piece of dough, giving it an oval shape. In this case, its thickness should be at least 6 mm. We put a cardboard silhouette and cut out the trunk of a matryoshka doll. Next, we make a face (a small circle). A little later - handles, and then attach them to the sides of the workpiece. Using the stack, draw eyes, mouth, cheeks. Now leave the workpiece to dry for a while.

Bright matryoshka doll. With your hands we paint the product with watercolor

First, paint the face of our matryoshka and palms with a beige paint. Then we paint the handkerchief with watercolor. Blue paint draws sleeves, and white - shirt. Any bright watercolor make out a skirt. If desired, you can draw a pattern on the sarafan, for example, flowers, geometric shapes, etc. Now we proceed to the most difficult part of the work - draw eyes, a nose and sponges. Do not forget about the hair dolls. If desired, we also decorate the shirt, performing various patterns on it. After drying the paint, we cover the product with varnish. That's all, a matryoshka made by yourself! It can be glued on cardboard, zadekorirovat background and framed in a frame. So you will have a beautiful panel.

We make a nesting doll made of paper

Together with your children, you can make a funny doll of cardboard. To work, you need some materials and tools:

• Dense white A4 paper;
• paints;
• scissors;
• Ruler;
• glue stick;
• White cardboard;
• Substrate for excision.

You will also need a computer and a printer. After preparing the necessary "consumables", we proceed to work. First, print this template. Then cut out the details from the paper. We apply the resulting blanks to the cardboard, draw them around and cut them out along the contour.

Drawing on our crafts

Now we proceed to decorating the matryoshka. Gouache or watercolor we begin to draw all the details. Pink paint make out a handkerchief, beige - face and pens. We paint the skirt with red paint. The sleeves of the shirt can be made light green or blue. The hair of the pupa is brown. Next draw small details - eyes, lips, nose and cheeks. We decorate the handicraft as you like, for example, we draw flowers on the hem of the sarafan or any fantasy patterns. The second part (the back of the doll) is also painted with gouache and leave the craft dry. After that, glue together the top and bottom of the projections with both parts using a glue stick. Now the craft became stable. Nesting doll made of paper. By analogy, we make another pupa of a smaller size. We hope you and your children liked our master class.

Instead of concluding

So, in this article we told how it is possible to easily and simply perform a bright and elegant doll - a matryoshka doll. From salty dough, paper and fabric, you can make great interior things with your own hands and, what is more important, use your free time with pleasure, attaching your child to creativity. If desired, the matryoshka can be made from any other materials, for example, plasticine, ready-made mass for modeling, "cold" porcelain and even knitting threads. Do and go for it!