Master Class "Ladybugs" For Garden Decoration

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

If suddenly you have a free evening at the dacha - spend it with your children, make decoration for your garden or, for example, flower pots

Currently, many different beautiful figurines are sold for garden decoration. But often their purchase hits the pocket of ordinary summer residents. And you want to have beauty in the garden. How to be? Let's make decorations ourselves from scrap materials! By the way, your children can help you in making, believe me, it will be very interesting for them.

Today we will make these cute ladybugs:

For work we need:

- halves from a plastic egg Kinder Joy (in one half there is a cream, in the other - a toy);

- gypsum;

- acrylic or any other waterproof paints;

- brush;

- a simple pencil;

- wire;

- a knife for cutting paper or a simple stationery knife;

- a paper cutting mat (you can use a stack of old unnecessary newspapers instead).

Gently outline the head and legs with a simple pencil:

We put it on the rug and cut the rim with a clerical knife, cutting out the legs:

We round off our legs at the ends:

The workpiece is almost ready. Now we make the antennae. To do this, cut off a piece of wire 6-7 cm long, then pierce 2 holes in the head and insert the wire into them with the ends outward:

We get such a blank:

Now we breed gypsum:

And we fill them with our blanks:

After that, we let our future ladybugs lie down for an hour and a half, so that the plaster of paris will grab and freeze even a little. Now we take our blanks, wipe them with a cotton swab soaked in alcohol (to degrease the surface) or just wash them thoroughly and gently with soap and let them dry. And we proceed to the most important process: coloring.

First, we apply the first layer of red paint (if you wish, the workpieces can be pre-primed):

After the paint dries a little, apply the second layer:

Apply a third layer if necessary. Then we paint the head with black paint and draw a line dividing the wings:

Now we draw circles (or stars, flowers, clouds, in general, everything that your or children's imagination will allow you):

We dry, and our cows are ready:

You can decorate with them anything you want, for example, a pot of petunias:

As you can see, in fact, making such a ladybug is not difficult. You need a little free time, a good mood and a desire to do something with your own hands. Together with your child, creating such a decoration, you will spend an unforgettable evening, and an exclusive will appear in your garden.