Coming very soon New Year sheep. It's time to take care of the symbol of the coming year; with it prosperity and success will enter the house. The sheep is a cute creature and many people wonder how to make a sheep with their own hands. A craft made from scrap materials will be a wonderful gift for loved ones. Be sure to involve your children in the creative process; they will enjoy this activity.

Let's look at a few of the most interesting options execution. Each sheep turns out to be interesting and original. At a minimum, this creature will perfectly decorate your green beauty.

How to make a sheep with your own hands from paper

Paper is a very pliable and flexible material. Many fakes and various decorations are made from it. Make sure for yourself that there is nothing complicated about it. With these detailed lessons you will understand how to make a paper sheep.

First option

Required material:

• A4 sheet of paper;
• scissors;
• felt-tip pen.

Technique:

First, cut out a square from a landscape sheet and bend it in half. You can use colored sheets, such as velvet material (Fig. 1). The front side of the future animal should remain outside. Place the workpiece in front of you, bend the two upper corners and the lower left one inner side(Fig. 2). Using a pencil, draw the approximate contours of the sheep. Using scissors, cut out the paws and face of the animal (Fig. 3).

Horns are drawn on a separate piece of paper. They are cut out and glued to the places where the horns are attached (Fig. 4).

After all the components are in place, you need to draw a face using a felt-tip pen. The option with glued eyes looks better. Such an animal can be placed under a small Christmas tree or presented as a gift.

Now you know , how to make a sheep with your own hands from an ordinary sheet of paper.

Second option

Origami is a well-known technique for creating interesting shapes using a regular sheet of paper. The main thing is to bend the lines correctly and follow the instructions in detail.

Technique:

1. Take an A4 sheet of paper, make a square out of it and fold it in half;
2. You will end up with a rectangle. Now bend the bottom corner on the left side to the top line of the figure;
3. Bend the triangle along the left side and immediately straighten it;
4. We open the square obtained on the left side and use ivy in the form of a triangle along the rectangular workpiece;
5. We bend the edges of the resulting triangle towards the center;
6. The corners open up and flatten out; we demonstrate the left side in a larger version;
   
7. The triangle is bent in half and then similar actions are done with the second half of the triangle. Bend the corners from top to bottom;
8. The same manipulations are performed with the remaining triangles. Bending occurs from oneself, then the first corners are unbent;
9. One layer is released, and the fold is connected to the fold lines;
10. The corners stretch out on different sides;
11. After these steps, we pull out the corner according to the diagram:
12. The corners are bent, getting the corner ends bent away from themselves;
13. The upper corners are bent along the marked lines, the corners of the second layer go back. The emerging muzzle must be raised from below;
14. The lamb's muzzle is obtained by bending the corners away from you;
15. The right side of the fake bends towards the muzzle;

We answered your question how to do it New Year's lamb from paper. Now let's look at other options for making fakes.

It’s very easy to make a cute toy out of cotton wool, which is in every family’s medicine cabinet. You will receive a cute animal that will delight not only you, but also your loved ones. The lamb is easy to make and will be an unexpected surprise for the main gift.

How to make a sheep from cotton wool

Main material for manufacturing:

• newspaper sheets;
• plastic straws;
• cardboard;
• cotton balls;
• adhesive base.

Now let's look at the steps of how to make a sheep from cotton wool. The main thing is to take your time and be careful, it will depend on appearance toys.

Making crafts:

1. We take several sheets of paper and begin to crumple them into a ball. This is what the base for our sheep’s body will look like.
2. We cover the second sheet with glue, making the lines thin without observing geometry.
3. It is important to strengthen the body and increase its volume. To do this, you need to glue a sheet of glue to the first lump. Just don’t press too hard; repeat the procedure at least 10 times.
4. Leave the resulting workpiece alone for three hours. It is better to place it closer to the heating device. The body should not be wet.
5. We make the paws from plastic baby drink straws. We make four holes in our coma, securing the limbs of the sheep in them.
6. The ideal solution for imitating an animal's fur coat would be smooth balls of cotton wool. They can be purchased in the intimate hygiene department.
7. There are two ways to glue the balls to the base. In the first, we apply the adhesive base to the cotton balls and press them tightly to the body. The second method is to apply a thick layer of glue onto a wad of paper and gradually apply cotton pompoms.
8. We fill the entire space with cotton balls. It is important to fill in all the gaps, do not write them off, do it carefully.
9. We cut out the muzzle in the form of an oval from black cardboard. Don't forget about the ears and expressive eyes. We combine all this into a single composition and glue it to the body of the New Year's symbol.

Agree that such a beauty can be placed not only under the Christmas tree, but also on New Year's table. You can create a whole family and move it around the apartment. An alternative would be sheep made from candy. You may ask how to make a sheep out of candy. In fact, the technology is similar to that presented above. Instead of cotton balls, you should use candy. Today there is a huge range of sweet products on the market. suitable shape. Candy lamb can be used as a gift, especially for children.

In the next master class we will look at how to make a sheep from cotton swabs.

How to make a sheep from cotton swabs with your own hands

Material used:

• cotton swabs
• cardboard
• clothespins, 2 pieces
• scissors
• felt-tip pens

Making crafts from cotton swabs:

1. We cut out two ovals from cardboard - the body and the head.
2. We cut off only the heads of the sticks. We glue them to the head of the future animal to create an imitation of ears and fur on the face.
3. The fur coat on the body is made using the same technique.
4. We design the face of a cute creature. The character of the sheep depends only on your imagination.
5. Two ovals are connected into a single structure using glue. Clothespins are used as legs.
6. You can attach postcards to clothespins with nice wishes. For example, place such messages throughout the table, this will definitely bring smiles to the faces of the guests. If desired, you can create a three-dimensional sheep from the same material. All you need to do is find the Kinder Surprise egg.

1. We make several holes in the Kinder Surprise mold and make a loop. The holes are made using a hot needle.
2. You shouldn’t cut the base of the stick right down to the root, leave 5 millimeters. This will make your task easier.
3. Now, without haste, each stick is inserted into the hole. Before doing this, it is better to dip each head of the stick in glue.
4. A cotton swab is inserted into the place of the future muzzle. Cotton wool is attached to it using glue.
5. Cover the formed muzzle with paint. You can use additional shine, which will give festive mood. Draw the eyes and other important elements of the face.

In a short period of time you will make such a cute little sheep.

You can decorate the wool with beads or seed beads. You may ask how to make a sheep from beads. The Internet is full of various weaving patterns.

Very cute animals can be made from ordinary woolen threads. Check out the easy way how to make a sheep from pompoms.

How to make a sheep from pompoms

Material for creativity:

• light woolen threads
• scissors
• wool for felting
• felting needle
• cardboard
• wooden sticks
• glue.

Making a sheep from pompoms:

1. We make a dense pompom from threads, this will be the future head.
2. Glue the eyes or sew on decorative beads.
3. Ears are made using patterns from cardboard or fabric, which hardens through the use of glue.
4. We also make the body of a pompom, only its diameter should be three times larger than the head.
5. A wooden stick is cut into four equal parts. Wrap wool around each piece and use a needle to form a tight shape.
6. All parts are held together with glue. Using decorative ribbons and flowers, decorate the New Year's symbol.

Now each of you knows how to make a sheep craft with your own hands in a short time.

Useful tips

A sheep made with your own hands from scrap materials is a wonderful gift for friends and loved ones.

You can make this craft for the New Year with your whole family or with your children.

Since the sheep is a symbol of the coming year, you can make a small souvenir to hang on your christmas tree, or simply as a gift to loved ones.

DIY sheep 2015

You will need:

· Fuzzy yarn

· A piece of cardboard 7 x 12 cm for the sheep and 7 x 4 cm for the lamb

· Scissors

· Twine

· Wire

· Black polymer clay

· PVA glue

1. Cut cardboard rectangles to form pompoms. Cover the cardboard with tape to make it easier to remove the yarn later.

2. Wrap yarn around a cardboard piece: 120 times for a large part, 75 times for a small one.

3. Carefully remove the wrapped yarn by bending the cardboard piece slightly. Tight tie twine around the bundle yarn. Cut off the ends of the twine.

4. Now cut the loops.

5. With sharp scissors Trim the pom pom to give it a slightly oblong, tight shape.

6. From black polymer clay make a slightly oblong head, four legs and two ears (optional). Insert a wire into each piece.

Bake polymer clay parts in the oven at 95° C for 20 minutes on foil.

7. Spread the yarn where you want insert head, and apply a little glue. Cut the wire if it is too long and insert the head. Then fluff the yarn back up.

8. Do the same with legs and ears.

9. Turn the sheep over and check its stability. When the glue dries, the sheep is ready.

DIY New Year's sheep

Lamb made from cotton swabs

DIY sheep toy

Such an original sheep can be made from unused car wash mitts, an old pair of black mittens and a pair of black gloves.

1. Cut finger from one mitten.

2. On the other mitten, cut along the side on the opposite side of the finger. Stop when you reach the length where the finger connects.

3. On the same mitten, cut cuff.

4. Sew the finger to the open side of the second mitten (turning it inside out first). Sew up the mitten completely.

5. Do slit in the middle of the glove, corresponding to the size of the cuff of the car wash mitten.

6. Cut off the part with the index and middle fingers from the gloves. These will be legs.

7. Cut off one of the gloves thumb For tail.

8. Turn the white mitten inside out. Need to unpick seams for small ones holes for legs and tail.

9. Fill the legs and tail with unused gloved fingers. Thread them through the holes and sew them to the white mitten.

10. Turn the white mitten inside out. Fill in any material (you can use leftover mittens and gloves).

11. Sew on the head. Wrap the opening of the head around the cuff of the white mitten and sew.

12. Add eyes.

Sheep - symbol of 2015 (video)

Sheep made of polymer clay (master class)

DIY sheep craft

You can make such a simple sheep craft even with small children.

You will need:

· Disposable paper plates

· Cotton balls

· Double sided tape

· Black paper

· Popsicle sticks

In the New Year, it is customary to exchange gifts of a certain theme. The coming year is dedicated to the symbol of the sheep. Everyone is trying to buy toys, postcards, and souvenirs with this symbolism. But you can create a gift with your own hands. Today we invite you to learn how to make a sheep with your own hands in different variations.

What gifts can you give?

• Key rings. Beads will make beautiful keychains. The sheep can be made voluminous or flat. In the last version, you draw an image on a sheet of paper, count the beads, weave with a fishing line and a needle, connecting the rows together like Easter eggs.
• Magnets. Embroidered, beaded or sewn sheep, New Year's scenes look great on the refrigerator. You can make unusual magnet toys. To do this, sew small sheep and glue magnets on their legs, then the lamb will be able to change the position of its legs.
• Cloth. Scarves, mittens, can be decorated with sheep in the style of a Norwegian pattern. If so, you can create colored lambs.
• Souvenirs (needle beds, biscornu, krivulka, zigugu). Find any cross stitch patterns with a New Year's theme, embroider and give an unusual shape to the souvenir.
• Origami. A modular sheep can become a decorative addition to any home.
• Amiguri. Small ones are very popular miniature toys amiguri. They knit very quickly and are used as decorative items, key rings, and car pendants.

Variations of New Year's symbols

• Pendants. You can make hanging toys for babies. Sheep can be made in black and white, but you can diversify them with colorful pom-poms, flowers, and birds.

• Stuffed Toys. Use pekhorka, pom-pom yarn, to knit sleep toys. You can sew them from felt. Tilda's lambs are especially unique (for them you should make a sheep stencil in advance).
• Postcards. Any material is used (paper, beads, accessories, paints, fabric, threads) to create sheep. Postcards can be made flat, voluminous, with a surprise, or decorative.
• Christmas decorations. Knitted or sewn lambs can hang on the Christmas tree and delight the eye with bright colors (use glitter paints for this).
• Covers. Bags, cosmetic bags, and cases for mobile phones can be sewn, knitted, embroidered with a New Year theme and given to anyone, regardless of their gender or age. Particularly original are the covers in the shape of a three-dimensional lamb, that is, the sheep’s head is knitted, stuffed and sewn to the bag. Also, don’t forget to sew on the legs of such a sheep.
• The New Year's symbol can be presented in any way. The main thing is that the gift is useful and practical. You can create a whole composition. For example, beaded trees, and under them a flock of sheep.

Original craft: sheep made from cotton swabs

Such a lamb can become an element voluminous postcard, Christmas tree decoration or an independent souvenir. To create it we will need:

• white cardboard;

• cotton buds;
• glue;
• markers;
• Popsicle sticks or clothespin halves;
• scissors.

How to make a sheep with your own hands from cotton swabs? From cardboard, cut out a large oval for the body and a small one for the head. You cut the cotton swabs almost to fit the cotton base, only leaving centimeter lengths for the ears. One sheep can use more than a hundred cotton swabs. Cover the body in a circle with cotton scraps so that the sticks are not visible. Then the illusion of curls is created.

Then you make the head. First, glue on the ears, and then a few sticks of curls in the form of bangs. Draw eyes, nose and mouth with a felt-tip pen and glue them to the body. If the lamb goes for a postcard or Christmas decorations, then cut the wooden ice cream sticks in half and glue them to the wrong side of the body.

You can decorate the craft with white cardboard or paste it over cotton swabs, creating a three-dimensional product. By adding halves of clothespins you can give the sheep stability. You can also glue white cardboard with New Year’s greetings on the wrong side.

Christmas tree toys: DIY sheep

Small crafts are suitable not only for souvenirs, but also for decorating a Christmas tree. Consider a master class on creating a miniature sheep. You will need the following material:

• for the body, paws;
• wine stopper or float;
• glue “Super Moment”;
• or any other thick rope;
• white and black wool;
• paper clips for ears.

Making a sheep craft is not difficult, but it will require patience, since the work is jewelry. Use cork to form a sheep's head. You pierce it with a wire, the end of which you bend to fix the position. From other identical wire pieces you make paws with part of the body.

Attach them to the wire coming from the head and solder them (in extreme cases, you can wrap them with thin wire in the style of a ganuteli). Wrap the neck and body with twine, increasing the desired thickness. Then you wrap the head, paws, and body tightly with black wool, coating the surface with glue.

Creating curls

We continue to look at how to make a sheep with your own hands. Bend the sheep's legs to give it a stable position. You make the ears from paper clips or any wire. Wrap it with black thread, connect it into a loop and “increase” the volume with wool. Leave small ends of the wire to coat with glue and stick into the head.

Now you make curls. To do this, wrap it around a fork or metal plate. white wool, as when creating pom-poms. On one side you fasten with a single-color thread so that when cutting the other end the threads do not fall apart. Cut off the second edge stationery knife. Lubricate the resulting bundles with glue and cover the entire body with the head.

If necessary, use scissors to trim the sheep's wool. Glue the eyes onto the face (you can find ready-made running small eyes on sale, or you can use wood beads). You can move away from the classic version and make multi-colored sheep.

Felt sheep

Such toys can be used for keychains, Christmas tree decorations, decorative souvenirs. From white felt you cut out the body, tail, legs, head with ears, and from black material - curls and flowers. Instead of felt, you can take any other non-flowing material.

You start work from the head, sew the parts together and insert the padding polyester. You can use a solid filler, on which you cut out the same sheep stencil and sew all the layers together. Immediately embroider the mouth, sew on the eyes, curls. Then you work on the torso. First, sew decorative flowers onto it. Next, sew together the parts of the body, sewing on the legs and tail in the right places. Don't forget to fill it with padding polyester. This is a version of a whole lamb, but how to make a small colored lamb?

Cut out two pieces of felt for the body (like a round cloud), head, ears (like droplets), curls (like an oval cloud). Four oval stripes for the legs, one piece for the nose (heart). You sew the head together, sew on the ears, fill it with padding poly, then attach the curls on top. Glue on the nose, embroider the eyes and mouth. Next, sew the torso together, inserting the legs. Attach the head on top and decorate with a bow and the same ribbon.

Lamb-Tilda

Tilda sheep are adored by children because of their simplicity and softness. As a rule, terry cloth is used for fur, and linen material is used for limbs and face. On this moment There are many patterns, but you can create it yourself. The easiest option is to make a sheep like a doll for the New Year. Let's look at how to do this in detail:

• Sew together the paw parts. Sew the linen pattern on one edge. Fill with padding polyester.
• Sew the body from fur fabric. Sew on the arms and legs. Fill with padding polyester.
• Sew the head in three parts: two terry and one round linen face. Sew on eyes and ears, embroider a nose, draw cheeks acrylic paints. Fill it with padding polyester and attach it to the body.
• Sew a skirt from multi-colored scraps and put it on the sheep.

Beaded lamb

How to make a sheep from beads? Today you can find a lot of patterns for weaving lambs, both volumetric and flat, from beads and beads. Flat ones turn out sketchy and are more suitable for keychains or postcards. Goats are braided from the head down, and sheep from the back of the body to the head. Then the parts are simply connected to each other and a denser product is obtained. Using this technique you can make colorful animals.

But voluminous sheep look more natural. The very first option is to braid a ball and bead for the body and head. The braiding is reminiscent of strawberry braiding. For curls, make loops. You also weave the ears with a loop.

If you don’t know how to weave with beads, then combine two techniques (this will be the second method). For example, you sew the head and body from fabric and filling, and sew on the curls and legs with beads. You will get original souvenirs. You can also combine crochet with beadwork. For magnets, sheep are embroidered on canvas, cut and magnetic tape is glued to the wrong side.

Postcards and panels

Very easy to create Greeting Cards. The easiest way is to stick an applique on ready-made postcard blanks. On the outside you decorate the plot with beads, threads or other materials. Children like to glue a Christmas tree out of pompoms onto cards and decorate them with paper balls and stars.

If you want to make a card yourself, then fold the cardboard in half. Use scissors to shape the size and edges of the card. On the outer side, apply a schematic design, glue and a bead base or threads (it is better to take wool, crumble it finely and glue it). The first craft that you glue onto a cardboard base is suitable for a postcard.

If you paint white thick cardboard, and make the foreground or main details voluminous due to paper applications, beads, threads and other materials, you will get the basis for the panel. Simply insert the story into a frame without glass and hang it on the wall. For example, you can make topiary this way.

Panel options

Cut the foam ball in half and glue it onto cardboard. Draw a trunk, fence or vase. Cut a yogurt bottle lengthwise, wrap it with multi-colored threads, and glue it to cardboard. Cover the ball with flowers, pompoms, and decorative elements.

You can use foam balls to make the head and body of a sheep, which you will cover with pom-poms or beads. Or glue a finished animal created in origami style onto cardboard. A three-dimensional sheep is inserted into a frame without glass.

For preschoolers, another gift option is suitable. Print Cover it in the places where the fur should be with a thick layer of plasticine. Then roll balls from napkins, crepe paper or foil. Attach them to plasticine. You can paint the head and legs with gouache or also cover them with plasticine.

If the balls are not large, then the craft can be placed under glass. Otherwise, buy special plasticine that hardens quickly and is not affected by temperature. Creating such crafts is as simple as making a sheep out of paper, but the result will be more interesting.

We embroider a sheep

Depending on the plot and size, the New Year's symbol can be presented in the form of a picture or a souvenir. Let's consider several gift options.

• Pincushion. Embroider two identical squares, finishing the edges with a “back needle” stitch. Next, use these stitches to connect the two embroideries to each other. Sew a loop in the middle, stuff the product with synthetic padding, and drag decorative tassels along the edges. It turns out to be a beautiful souvenir pincushion. It can be used as a car decoration.
• Magnet. Embroider the lamb pattern, trim off the excess fabric, and trim the edges. Apply magnetic tape. The result was an original do-it-yourself sheep.
• Biscornu. Embroider two squares New Year's patterns. You also process the edges with a “back needle” seam, but start sewing the parts from the middle. That is, you place the edge of one embroidery on the middle of the other half, and pull the needle through the stitches. You can string beads for decoration. Fill the biscorn with padding polyester and sew to the end of the edge. Decorate the middle of the product with a button and pull through a loop.
• Sachet. This embroidery can be designed in the form of candy or a bag filled with aromatic herbs.

Stuffed Toys

We suggest you consider how to make a small sheep with your own hands (about the size of your palm). Such toys can become a decorative element of a home, car or educational children's rugs. For the master class you will need the following materials:

• felt;
• two beads;
• threads;
• satin ribbon;
• padding polyester;
• knitting threads in the form of balls;
• black and brown floss.

On felt, schematically designate the body of the sheep, drawing an oval head, legs, and tail. Sew the parts together, cut the fabric so that when you turn it inside out there is an even seam. Stuff it with padding polyester and sew up the product.

Now, using threads that match the knitting thread, take the bump, sew its ends and sew it in a lump to the sheep, starting from the head in a circle. Then sew on the ears from loops satin ribbon. All threads, knots, tails are hidden under the “wool”. Next, use black thread to sew the beads onto the muzzle, and use brown floss to embroider the nose and mouth, bring the thread to the middle of the back and make a loop. It turned out to be a beautiful fluffy sheep with your own hands!

Knitted lambs

Knitted toys are increasingly in demand among children. Sheep can be dressed up in different dresses and skirts, but if you use special yarn with different bumps, lumps, and long piles, you can knit original lambs with natural wool.

Let's learn how to create such a craft using small sheep as an example. Such amiguri are used as decorative decoration, and if you sew on a loop, you can hang it in your car. Let's look at how to make a multi-colored sheep. To do this, take knitting threads: cotton of three different colors and yarn with fibers or knobs for wool. You start knitting the sheep from the muzzle.

Crochet a circle, forming it into a hexagon. Next, you knit without any increases, getting a hat like an acorn. Then you narrow the number of loops to create a long pumpkin shape with a wide end. Having finished knitting the muzzle, fasten the threads with the bumps and knit the wool on the head. Create ears using a cotton hook and sew them on. You make the eyes from beads, and embroider the nose and mouth with a “game”.

Knit from threads with cones an oval or round shape. Separately make the front and hind legs, adding multi-colored cotton. Finish knitting them with threads with cones. Sew the limbs and head to the body. Stuff all parts of the body with padding polyester. The result is a bright sheep made with your own hands.

One of the main joys New Year's holidays- present. We all look forward to the morning of January 1st to discover the treasured bundle under the Christmas tree. Traditionally, along with personal gifts, it is customary to give souvenirs with the symbols of the coming year to family and friends. It is believed that such small gifts contribute to good luck and prosperity in the new year. The coming year 2015 will pass under the sign of the Green Sheep, so gifts made from the wool of this animal will be relevant first of all. If you prefer to give your loved ones handmade crafts, then we want to offer you a simple and unusual master class with photo - a sheep from cotton pads.

Necessary materials:

• white and black cardboard
• cotton pads
• PVA glue
• simple pencil
• scissors
• red yarn
• eyes from old toy(can be replaced with cardboard)

Lamb made from cotton pads: step-by-step instructions

Volumetric sheep made from cotton balls: step-by-step master class

This simple version of a New Year's craft will allow you to create a voluminous figurine of a sheep that will definitely delight your family.

Necessary materials:

• paper or newspaper
• black juice tube
• scissors
• black colored paper
• cotton balls
• duct tape

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Crumple the paper or newspaper into a small ball - this will be the basis for the body of our sheep. Wrap it tightly with adhesive tape (scotch tape)
   
   
2. We will make legs from a juice tube, so we need to cut it into 4 equal pieces
   
3. Using scissors, you need to make 4 holes in the ball-body, insert tubes there and fix them with glue
   
4. Then we will begin to form the wool. Apply glue to cotton balls and carefully glue them to the body
   
   
5. From black paper we cut out oblong ears and a sheep's head. Glue the ears and eyes onto the face
   
6. We connect both templates (head and body) with glue. Our cute fake sheep is ready!

A beautiful New Year's sheep craft, created with your own hands, will be a wonderful gift or addition to a gift for a loved one.

Do you make New Year's crafts with your own hands with the symbol of the New Year? Every year Chinese calendar has its own symbol in the form of an animal. So the next year 2015 will be the year of the blue sheep (in another version of the goat). The question may arise: how are they related to each other? handmade and symbols of the new year. And the answer is simple. There is a belief that if you give a souvenir on New Year's Day with an image or in the form of an animal - a symbol of the coming year, then for the whole year this souvenir will become a kind of talisman, bringing good luck and success to its owner. So, if you make such a souvenir with your own hands, and not just buy it in a store, then it will have an even greater value. positive energy, due to the piece of soul of the master who created it put into it. That is why we advise you to familiarize yourself with our master class on New Year's crafts, a sheep - the symbol of 2015. We propose to perform it in mixed technique, which will allow you to once again practice the skills and knowledge related to previously acquired various types handicrafts. Since the technique is mixed, you will need a variety of materials and tools for New Year’s crafts:

• The clay dries quickly in air. It is also sometimes called hardening modeling paste. It is advisable to purchase one that is white, but if you find a different color, it is also not a problem, since the hardened product can then always be painted with acrylic paints in the desired color.
• Acrylic paints (gouache can also be used, but after drying it can still smudge, unlike acrylic paints). Actually, the entire range of colors is not necessary; you only need pink (can be replaced with red) and white.
• Yarn. Because next year- the year of the blue sheep, then better color choose the appropriate range of yarn. In our example, the thread sectional dyeing and it contains both white color (natural for sheep) and blue-blue (for the sake of the symbol). The quality and thickness of the thread does not matter.
• Felt. In blue and white, a little bit of each, you can use leftovers from past craft projects.
• Eyes for toys.
• Cardboard. It is necessary for making a pompom. It is not necessary to take it new and good, you can use some unnecessary cardboard packaging, because after the pompom is ready, the cardboard blank will become unusable.
• Cord.
• A decorative ribbon or ribbon if you plan to make the toy hanging.
• Sewing threads to match the felt.
• There are two types of glue: “Moment. Crystal" and "hot" silicone glue.
• Scissors.
• Needle.
• Brush.

New Year's craft The sheep is not made very quickly, since clay is used in the work. Despite the fact that it is considered quick-drying, the rate of hardening still depends on the size of the product; the larger the object molded from it, the longer it takes to dry. That is why we recommend starting work on the sheep from the clay modeling stage. So that while work continues on other parts of the craft, the head (it is the one that is molded from clay) has time to dry. Making a head for a sheep is not difficult. First form a ball from a small piece of clay, and then give it the shape of an elongated sheep's muzzle. Make eye sockets into which the eyes will then be glued. If you haven’t found decorative eyes, you can also make them from clay by rolling two small balls and attaching them to the eye sockets. Then, when the workpiece is dry, you simply paint them and draw the pupil. In addition to the eye sockets, press several grooves on the sheep’s face to indicate the sheep’s nose and mouth (see photo).
Don't forget to mold the sheep's dangling ears. Glue them to the head; to do this, lightly moisten the parts with water. To get rid of cracks that have appeared on the clay, also wet your hands with water and smooth the entire surface of the craft. You will get a head like this. Now you can put it out to dry.
We continue the master class on DIY New Year's crafts. While the sheep's head is hardening, you can proceed to making its body. To do this, you will need to make a pompom that perfectly imitates shaggy sheep skin. We have already published articles on our website more than once about how to make a pompom with your own hands. But as they say, “Repetition is the mother of learning,” so we will once again show the stages of its production. To begin, cut out two identical circles from cardboard. The size of the pom-pom itself will depend on their size, so focus on the size of the sheep’s molded head so that the pom-pom - the future body of the sheep - looks more or less proportional. So that it is not too small or too large relative to the head.
Inside each circle, cut out the central part, the smaller the hole, the less fluffy the pompom you will get, provided that it is completely wound. And vice versa, if the hole is large and then completely filled with yarn, you will get a very fluffy pompom.
Place both cardboard blanks next to each other, aligning them. Wrap the yarn so that the inner hole is almost completely hidden.

After spreading the cardboard slightly, insert scissors between these parts and cut the yarn exactly in the center.
Place a piece of the same thread in the middle and tie it tightly, wrapping it around several times before doing so.
The cardboard can be removed and there is a pompom in front of you. Just so far its shape is not correct - correct it with scissors.
Since this craft is not planned to become an exact copy of a real sheep, we suggest making not only legs for the sheep, but also “hands”, dressing them in winter fashion - in felt boots and mittens. Cut these pieces out of blue felt. Their shape and size are arbitrary. Make double quantities of each pair.
Cut the cord into four lengths: two longer and two shorter. Tie a knot on one side of each piece.
On the tip of the cord, which is without a knot, sew on both sides parts of felt boots (for long pieces) and mittens (for short pieces), as shown in the photo.
Cut out strips of white felt large enough to cover felt boots and mittens. The result will be an imitation of a fur edge.
We continue the master class on creating New Year's crafts. Now is the time to check whether the sheep head has hardened. If yes, then you can continue working by following our step by step instructions. If not, you will have to wait for this moment and then continue. So, if the clay was white, then you can safely leave everything as it is, but if the color was not suitable, then paint it with paints. Afterwards, tint the sheep's nose, lips and the inside of the ears a little pink. We didn't have pink paint in stock, so we had to mix white and red to the desired shade.
Using Moment glue, glue in the sheep's eyes. This glue works well for this purpose.
But the head itself needs to be glued to the body (pompom) with “hot” glue, since “Moment” will not cope with this. To do this, warm up a special glue gun well and apply softened hot glue to the pompom, slightly spreading the protruding threads.
If you plan to hang this New Year's lamb somewhere, then cut a ribbon of a suitable length and glue first this ribbon, and then the sheep's head on top. Glue in the legs and “handles” of the sheep in the same way, and the knots will help because the gluing area increases due to them and over time the lace will not come off.
Our master class on creating a New Year's craft with your own hands has come to its logical conclusion. The sheep is ready. You can give it to someone as a souvenir, or you can keep it for yourself and it will become a good talisman for 2015.

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