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Watch the video, If you are too lazy to read
Watch the video, If you are too lazy to read
Making cute knickknacks with your own hands has always been one of many people's favorite hobbies. And if you also teach your children to this activity, it almost turns into a family tradition. Such joint creativity not only strengthens the psychological compatibility of families, but also helps develop creativity and intelligence in the younger generation, as well as strengthen fine motor skills, produced in the process of making small and amusing things.
Today we will tell you and show you how to make a cheerful snowman with your own hands that can not only decorate your New Year's holiday, but also serve as a kind of anti-stress, like those that so popular today with many people who love to sort through something soft and tender in their hands.
To work, we will need:
balloons;
flour;
plastic bottle;
threads;
scissors;
a small spoon;
marker.
So let's get started:
1. First we need to make a device with which we, in fact, will create our snowman.
We take a small plastic bottle and use scissors to cut off the neck from it.
2. We should have a kind of funnel.
3. Now we take the balloon and pull its tip over the threaded part of the neck of our funnel.
4. Using a spoon, tightly fill the ball with flour through the funnel. For a more dense filling, push and compact the flour with a spoon inside the ball.
5. When the density of the workpiece reaches a sufficient level, take a thin thread and bandage the ball.
6. Cut off the excess part of the ball with scissors.
So our first snowman ball is ready! You can wrinkle it in your hands, and this will already have the same anti-stress effect that we talked about at the very beginning.
But let's not stop! We're making a snowman, aren't we? So we'll prepare two more balls of the same exact kind.
7. Now we take a thicker thread to make hair for our snowman, and wrap it around our fingers in several turns.
8. Then we tie the resulting skein in the middle, cutting the edges of the thread to make a kind of bow, which we will use as a snowman hairstyle.
9. We fix our “hair” on the top of one of the manufactured balls.
10. Well, now with the help of a felt-tip pen you can decorate our snowman. As you can imagine, there is absolute creative freedom here.
Now look at how this whole process looks on video.
That's it! Our anti-stress snowman is ready!
But this technology can be used to make not only a snowman.
For example, you can take balls of different colors — let's say red, yellow and
green. And now we will have a fun anti-stress traffic light. And if you also
involve the child's fantasies in this creative process, then the
most unprecedented images and ideas are revealed here!