Shrovetide doll. Shrovetide doll - master class

Maslenitsa doll is an important attribute of the spring holiday of the same name. It is burned on the last Sunday of the Carnival to spend the winter and meet the spring, to cleanse the soul before fasting. Nowadays there are several varieties of dolls that make for this holiday.

Option for mass festivals

For wide festivities, the doll is made larger (more than a meter). The principle of creating a simple: you need to make a "skeleton" and build up the body. Prepare in advance the festive bright clothes for the doll, straw, stick, white pillowcase and paint. Now let's start the creative process:

1. Take two long sticks (1.5 and 1.8 m), cross them perpendicular to each other, and then tightly attach with nails or ropes. Sticks perform the role of a skeleton, on which hands, body and head will be built up.

2. On a horizontal stick on both sides straw is applied and wrapped with ropes. You determine the thickness of your hands yourself. For example, in places where the sleeves should become a flashlight, stack the straw more.

3. On the vertical stick, attach the straw and small rods to form the body. The Pancake doll is not a fragile girl, and therefore the body must be corpulent. Breasts do individually from the balls: corner pillowcases stuffed with straw or rags, forming a ball, and attach to the poles. So do with the second ball.

Dressing a doll for a holiday

As soon as you build sticks and branches to sticks, decorate the doll. For a scarecrow, you can take any dress, sweatshirt, handkerchief. If the Maslenitsa doll participates in mass plays, drawings, then find bright folk dresses and sarafans.

After you put on a dress, work over your head. Stuff a white pillowcase with straw or rags, forming an oval. Do not allow the appearance of some hills and tubers on the face. The fabric should not shine, so you can put the ball in the second pillowcase.

Attach the head to the stick. Hide the rags under your dress. Top the handkerchief. If there is a tow, make a braid out of it and attach it to your head, and tie it with a handkerchief. Now you can draw your eyes, eyebrows, nose, freckles and mouth. If you want, you can also make a nose ball and sew to the face.

While the paint dries, work your hands. You can put on mittens, stuffing them with straw. More often to a head or a dress sewn multi-colored tapes.

How to make a doll for Pancake week for children?

Toddlers in preschool establishments in order to get acquainted with the holiday make bright unusual dolls. They go to groups, sing songs, participate in contests, introduce customs. To make a doll, take the following:

• Two sticks or slats for the base;
• Dress or bright cloth;
• Straw or patch;
• Multi-colored tapes;
• White pillowcase;
• A little synthepon;
• cardboard;
• paints;
• scissors.

Fix the sticks with a cross: the horizontal rack will be hands, fasten it close to the head. Now put on the dress. If you will sew an outfit, then proceed as follows:

• Sew long sleeves and put on a horizontal stick. They should hang 30 centimeters down. Finish the ends of the sleeves with tassels or fringe.
• Then attach the skirt. To create lush shapes, grab a newspaper, twist it into a roll, bend it in half and attach it to a stick. You need to fasten the newspapers so that when bending, the roll will stick out and hold the forms.
• Now you sew the top of the dress. At the bottom of the joint decorate ruches.

Make the head of the doll

Now we turn to the manufacture of the head. We will have an unusual Shrovetide doll. The craft will be with a spring character, cheerful and fervent thanks to freckles and tails.

• On the cardboard, draw a circle with nine triangles (like the rays of the sun). Do not forget to outline the neck below, drawing a rectangle.
• Now you glue a large circle to the circle, fill it with a sintepon.
• Paint the face. Tone make it yellow (under the color of golden pancakes). Draw a big mouth, like a clown. Place freckles under the eyes and on the nose. Draw a nose with a potato or make of a fabric.
• To the triangles on the back side, attach the bundles from straw or pakli and decorate the front side with ribbons.
• Now attach the head to the stick. From a cardboard or a fabric cut out a circle, close the underside of a head. By the way, at the bottom you can attach long earrings. Cover the neck (rectangle) with a cloth or sew a collar.

The doll is ready for the holiday!

Home Puppet Maslenitsa: master class

Dolls do not only for festivities, but for the home. Home carnivals all year not only decorate the home, but also protect the house from adversity. Such dolls were given to newlyweds, childless couples, parents.

The charm was made in two ways: with and without pancake. Consider the first option. We need:

• A branch in the form of a slingshot;
• A glass bottle;
• Bright cloth for the outfit;
• Red ribbon;
• Yellow or red pancake material;
• White fabric for the face;
• Sintepon;
• Needle and thread.

Bridle the branch to the bottle, which must be stable and withstand the weight of the doll. If you take a copy with uneven ends, then the doll will turn out to be playful. In a white flap, put the sintepon and form a ball. Tie up the threads, get a head. In the same way, make two balls for chest from colorful colorful fabric.

Now go to your hands. Sticks can be stitched like a pencil or wrapped in a white rag, forming a palm. Take the colored fabric, on the diagonal begin to wind the sticks, bandaging them at the base of the thread. Now use the thread to bind the head.

Assembling dolls

Make a skirt. To do this, take a long flap, wrap around the stick and press it, creating ruffles. Tie them straight under the armpits. Next, fasten the chest of two balls. Finish the ends of the fabric like frills on a dress.

Decorate the irregularities with an apron and belt. To do this, take a small flap for the apron, lean against the body, with a wide belt (red ribbon), tie it under the chest and tie a red bow from behind.

Then go on to decorating the head. You tie a red ribbon, it will be a ponoynik. On top of tying a handkerchief and decorating the neck area. Note that Shrovetide - a doll (photo with a pancake is presented above) is created without scissors and needles. The fabric tears at the flaps, but is tied with threads.

Damn you have to sew two circles. Treat its edges with a zigzag. The size of the pancake should correspond to the scope of the hands. On the wrong side, sew two eyelets into which you put the doll's hands. You do not need to draw a face.

The second version of the home doll

The rag-tag home doll Maslenitsa can hang on the wall. It is done in the same way as the previous ones, but of a small size (no more than 25 cm). These dolls were not burned, but were created for gifts to relatives. For example, young families with such an offering went to the mother-in-law for pancakes or received this thing as an amulet.

For this doll, the base is made of birch branches. First, from a white flap, form a head and tie it with threads. Then attach it to the stick. Next, determine the intersection with another stick and connect them with ribbons or ropes.

Now you dress up Maslenitsa in a smart dress. Sleeves can be made of dark fabric, for a lower skirt, take a snow-white flap, and on top put on a smart embroidered shirt. Head adorn the slant and handkerchief.

In this version, there must be a red color in the clothing, belt, apron (as a symbol of protection). In the sleeves came a tape, for which the doll was attached to the wall. But if it was heavy, then fasten the loop and hang on the carnation.

Peculiarities of making dolls

In Russia, various types of dolls were made: some were burned, others were kept at home. Wards never thrown, they were passed by inheritance. Each doll had its own secrets of manufacture.

A great Shrovetide doll (pictures of festivities you can see above) should contain three elements: birch "skeleton", straw and sawdust in the head. This personified fertility and yield. Before burning people thought of desires and tied red ribbons to the sleeves of the doll. Together with the scarecrow, all the old things were destroyed.

At home oberegov hands must be raised up, keep the pancake and have a red color in the attire. Such a thing could be made from birch branches, straw or rags, but without needles, scissors, glue.

Another kind of homemade carnival made with red ribbons. During family quarrels the woman told the doll her offense and tied a knot on a dress or ribbon. On Forgiven Sunday, this doll, together with pain and resentment, was burned at the stake. Such amulets were kept in the red corner of the house and were exhibited on the windows only on the Shrove Tuesday.