Matryoshka is a symbol of Russia, a wooden doll with a secret. Its secret lies in the fact that inside this doll sits another one exactly the same, but painted differently. Inside that doll sits another one, then another and another. Until you find the smallest doll that can no longer be divided. A matryoshka doll is usually made in the form of a doll depicting a woman, but sometimes craftsmen make various matryoshka dolls. Matryoshka was called “matryoshka” because previously the most common female Russian name in pre-revolutionary villages was the name Matrena, or Matresha. This name is based on the word "mother". That is, the nesting doll has become a symbol of a mother who has a large family and has excellent health. Matryoshka is ancient symbol fertility and motherhood.
Today we will not make a matryoshka doll, but we will construct it using materials that are unconventional for matryoshka dolls. Namely, for our craft we will take the usual dense one, called multi-colored. You also need to prepare decorations for the matryoshka doll. For decorations, take beads, beads, braid, and sparkles. Let us begin, dear friend, our work.
Making a matryoshka doll
- To begin with, as usual, you need to organize workplace, on which you will make yours.
- Now, according to the template, the contours of which you must first draw on tracing paper and then transfer to cardboard, you will cut out a matryoshka figure from the cardboard. This will be the basis of ours.
- Using the same template, cut out the parts of the matryoshka costume from fabric and glue them to our matryoshka base.
- Next, using the template, cut out the head of the matryoshka doll from paper and also glue it to the base.
- Now, according to the template, you need a circle, and draw the face of a matryoshka doll on it. Glue the face to the base of the nesting doll.
- Decorate the nesting doll using braid, beads, and sparkles.
Look what a beautiful matryoshka doll you have made. You can use your craft as a gift for friends or relatives. Or you can just hang it in your room as decoration.
Matryoshka made of clay and plasticine
To work, we take a lump of clay and try to make a matryoshka doll. But no matter how hard you try, the sides of the nesting doll may turn out to be uneven. To fix this, we’ll make a template from thick cardboard.
We place the sculpted product on a pottery wheel or sculptural machine, attach the template to the figurine and turn it along with the wheel. The template itself will cut off the irregularities, and where there is a depression, add clay or plasticine.
And one more tip: to save clay and make the toy lighter, take a regular teaspoon and remove a little clay from the base. You can make a surprise - make a small nesting doll and cover it with a large one.
If it turns out that you don’t have clay or you are making a matryoshka doll in winter, use plasticine. And to make it more convenient to paint the resulting product, apply a little flour, talc or starch to the plasticine. This must be done so that the water-based paint, which is then used to paint the matryoshka doll, adheres well. Plasticine processed in this way can be painted with gouache, watercolor, tempera and even oil paints.
Papier-mâché matryoshka
A large fake nesting doll can be made using the papier-mâché technique (in French this means chewed paper). The essence of this technique is as follows: small pieces of loose paper (newsprint, packaging) are placed on an object (bowl, vase, etc.) in layers, covering each layer with potato paste.
There can be from 6 to 10 layers, depending on the size and shape of the product. After the paste has dried, the resulting form is removed. It’s easier to do this from a tray or saucer, but it’s not easy to do it from complex items (a jug, a vase). In this case, papier-mâché is cut into 2 halves, then, after removing them, the halves are glued together. The surface should be smooth, and if there are dents, they are primed with putty or carbolate, and the protruding tubercles are removed using sandpaper.
Matryoshka on a jar
A glass jar will serve as a good basis for making nesting dolls.
Let's take glass jar the right size(from baby food, half-liter, 3-liter bottle) and close it with a lid. Let's form the sides and head of the nesting doll from plasticine. Then, using the papier-mâché technique, we begin making the toy.
To ensure that the finished paper product leaves the mold well, lubricate it with oil or Vaseline.
Tear the newspaper into small pieces and, having welded the glue, start gluing the matryoshka doll. We advise you to alternate a layer of newspaper with a layer of, for example, gray wrapping paper. After making 2-3 layers, let the work dry, then glue again. Cut the finished work into 2 halves with a sharp knife. Lubricate the edges of the cut with PVA glue and connect. You can tie them with thread. Glue the joint again. Sand the product with fine sandpaper, paint your nesting doll with water-based paint and paint it. To protect your work from exposure to water, coat the painting with varnish.
Matryoshka from a balloon
Matryoshka big size can be done using a balloon.
Place it on the base (roll a strip of cardboard into a ring), it will be more stable.
See pictures.
The school set a task - to make it for the fair matryoshka from scrap materials. The task is not easy. No one in our family knits or does wood carving. In general, there are no talented and creative individuals among the household members. We sat down and thought together about what materials we could use for the craft.
We found the following for the job:
- roll-on deodorant bottle
- a printout from the Internet with an image of a matryoshka doll
- paints
- two pieces of fabric of different colors
- landscape paper
- PVA glue
- Super glue
- colored paper
- white napkin.
First, we decided to give the deodorant bottle the shape of a matryoshka doll. To do this, the bottle was roughly divided into three parts: head, torso, legs. We tore the A4 paper drafts into small pieces and began gluing them onto the plastic in the area of the doll’s shoulders. We diluted PVA glue with water. The leaves were completely wet and gently stuck where we needed them. There were no problems with the expansion of the torso. After finishing the work, the craft was put aside for a day, giving the paper time to dry completely.
A circle of colored cardboard was glued to the bottom of the bottle. The diameter of the circle is 0.5 cm wider than the diameter of the bottom of the bottle. Next, like plasticine, they rolled the wet paper into a tube and, smearing it with glue, laid it on the protruding part of the cardboard base of the craft.
It's time to take it out of the chest cotton fabric. For the dress we chose a white cut with a small flower. We measured the length and width we needed by placing the matryoshka doll on the material. To prevent the fabric from puffing up in convex places, grooves were cut along the edges of the cut out rectangle. We thickly smeared the bottle with undiluted PVA glue and wrapped it with a cotton rag. We again put the craft in a secluded corner to dry completely.
They spent a long time drawing the face of the nesting doll, but nothing good came of it. The child suggested printing out a coloring book from the Internet. We followed his advice and cut out the finished face. The doll's cheeks and lips were painted after gluing the paper to the surface of the bottle.
A nesting doll scarf was cut out of plain red cotton. Of course, at first we planned to use lace and floral prints when creating the headdress. However, they soon abandoned this idea, they were afraid that the final image of the nesting doll would dazzle the eyes.
We put the scarf on the head and added to the edges of the headdress the required form, and the result was recorded using superglue. We consulted with the child and decided that the craft was ready. However, then they changed their minds and made hands out of napkins and colored paper for the nesting doll.
The white sleeves are rectangles rolled into a tube. We select their length according to the size of the bottle. From colored paper we cut out mittens and a single flower for a nesting doll scarf. The purpose of the flower is to hide the traces of superglue that have appeared on the red fabric.
Now craft “Matryoshka” from scrap materials definitely ready. We hope that the jury will like the result.
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Currently, hand-made things and toys are gaining great popularity. What could it be the best gift as a keepsake or souvenir than ours national toy Matryoshka. This bright charmer with a snub nose is known throughout the world as a symbol of Russia, and you can buy her in almost any souvenir shop in our country.
Initially, Matryoshka was carved from wood, decorated with bright colors and giving each one individuality. But now sewn soft Matryoshka dolls are gaining popularity. In addition, you can make it yourself from paper or papier-mâché.
Such a bright toy can become a worthy decoration any interior and will bring new colors and originality of Russian culture to it.
The technology for making nesting dolls from scrap materials is not too complicated even for beginners or children. Matryoshka dolls are wonderfully made from scrap materials - plastic bottle, paper, or cardboard, scrap scraps. A textile nesting doll is easy to sew and decorate, so the master class will be useful, for example, for a lesson at school or kindergarten. And a New Year's nesting doll for the Christmas tree, made with your own hands together with the children, will delight you for many years.
Textile Matryoshka: sew it yourself
So how to make a Matryoshka from fabric with your own hands? For such sewing, it is enough to have time, scraps of fabric and imagination. The more varied the designs on the scraps used for sewing, the more interesting and original our Matryoshka will turn out.
Operating procedure.
You can decorate the Matryoshka to your liking by sewing or gluing beautiful ribbons and beads, drawing large eyes, a nose and a mouth on her face with multi-colored acrylic paints or pencils.
In addition, you can sew several toys of different sizes and, sewing a pocket to the largest Matryoshka, put them there. This is it family of toys made with your own hands will look very original as a gift.
There are many ways and tips on the Internet on how to make a Matryoshka from fabric and you can choose the one that suits you.
Gallery: DIY Matryoshka souvenir (25 photos)
We make Matryoshka ourselves
In addition to a sewn toy, it can be made from papier-mâché, plasticine or paper.
You can purchase a blank for painting Matryoshka in a specialized store for handicrafts and creativity. This toy also can be painted and decorated on one's own. Usually used for painting acrylic paints- they are more durable and do not fade. In addition, to preserve the color of the product, the toy can be coated with a transparent varnish on top.
Matryoshka, as one of the symbols of Russian culture, is known to everyone. Of course, upon hearing this name, many imagined classic version- a cute, cozy, wooden doll that can accommodate a number of smaller copies of itself. However, in our article we will not talk about it, although the topic is the same. Our case is an excellent solution for kindergarten teachers, for group lessons with children, developing their precision of movements and eye. Well, the emotions of children and their parents are priceless. It’s so nice when a baby gives his mother a gift made with my own hands. This “work” is carefully stored, and will subsequently evoke many pleasant emotions and warm nostalgia for the bygone childhood years of your now adult son or daughter.
In our article we will talk about making matryoshka dolls from paper. With enough effort, a child can achieve a good result and please his dear mother with an unexpected, but such pleasant surprise. We offer you two fairly fast and simple ways making this wonderful toy.
"Matryoshka - accordion"
"Matryoshka - accordion"
To make such a nesting doll we will need:
- Thick colored double-sided paper in two colors, for forming a matryoshka sundress and sleeves. In order to make a face and a scarf, you can take paper of other colors, or you can complement the matryoshka doll with a ready-made template for a face and a scarf, although, in our opinion, this should not be done. What is important is not the artistic value of the craft, but its originality and the love with which it is made.
- Scissors
- Felt pens (for drawing faces and small details)
- Threads
We form the matryoshka sundress and sleeves. For a sundress, take a piece of paper of the required size and fold it like an accordion, making sure that the folds are even and symmetrical to each other, and are at an equal distance from each other. When the paper is folded like an accordion, bend it in the middle and glue the touching sides-edges together. We get this figure (see photo above).
To make nesting doll sleeves, take a piece of paper smaller than for a sundress and fold it like an accordion in the same way, but do not glue it together. When the paper is folded like an accordion, fold the resulting multilayer strip in half. We fix the bend with thread. On the inside of the fold, coat an area of approximately one centimeter with glue, and glue the accordion-sleeves to the so-called sundress. You should end up with something similar to what is shown in the photo below.
So, the body and arms of our future matryoshka are ready. Let's start making the most important part - the head of the nesting doll. To do this, we need to draw two handkerchief templates on a sheet of thick colored paper, as in the photo at the beginning of the description of this method, and cut them out. Please note that the back of the scarf template is cut slightly differently. A corner of the scarf is formed, falling down onto the back. Then a small oval is cut out of a sheet of white thick paper - this will be the face. The face template is glued to one of the handkerchief templates - the front part. Small details are drawn with a felt-tip pen: eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, rosy cheeks. Then, using glue, we attach to the body of the sundress, first the template with the face, then the template for the back of the scarf. Glue the edges of both parts together. The matryoshka accordion is ready. If you leave a long enough thread on the bend of the sleeves that are glued to the body, such a nesting doll can become interesting Christmas tree decoration
We will need:
- Dense colored paper different types
- Scissors
- White cardboard
- Plastic magnet
- Markers
- Pencil
- Eraser
- Viscose napkins in different colors
On white thick cardboard we draw the silhouette of the head and body of the nesting doll. This will be the main, largest nesting doll. We make it from two fragments. This is a torso with a pocket and a face with an upper part of the torso, which covers the small nesting dolls in the pocket (which are made according to the same pattern, but simplified - only the torso with a head and a pocket)..
On the cut out white matryoshka template in its upper part we glue a background made of thick colored paper such as papier-mâché, or a background made of viscose napkin. This will be the color of the nesting doll scarf. You can glue a strip of plastic magnet under the background. This will subsequently help the second part of the craft (the head) to be attached to the first.
We make a head and part of the body from thick colored paper, as shown in the photo above. Cut out the face and hair separately from thick colored paper. We draw small details of the face with a felt-tip pen. Under one of the layers of paper you also need to glue a plastic magnet, as with the previous template.
Next, we glue a pocket made of thick colored paper to the bottom of the nesting doll, covering it with glue only along the edges. In order to avoid errors in the coincidence of parts of the product, it is recommended that all subsequent parts after the formation of the initial template be formed according to its sample. To do this, when forming a particular part, you can attach the template to it and trace it with a pencil, and only then cut it out.
Put it in a pocket
Next, we form from paper required amount Fewer nesting dolls. They are made in a similar way, only the front part is formed directly on the basis of the background, without removable fragments. All that remains is to fold the nesting dolls in increasing order (in size) into the pocket towards each other, and original craft ready.
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Conclusion:
Homemade paper crafts develop creative thinking child, help improve fine motor skills hands A themed crafts, such as in the last video, can be unobtrusively used to teach your baby, helping him learn to recognize colors, shapes, and seasons.
