Well, we all know the carrot is one of those products, without which no cook can do. This delicious and healthy vegetable is found everywhere, however, food can not only fill the stomach, but also make the eye feel better. Not an exception and carrots.
Carrots are an excellent material for creativity, and make carrots different crafts with their own hands to the force even a small child. We suggest you to have a little fun and create your own carrot collection.
How to make flowers from carrots?
Beautiful carrot flowers can be made in carving techniques. Who else does not know is the art, which consists in artistic cutting of fruits and vegetables, as well as other natural materials such as wood, ice, stone, etc.
- We clear one medium carrot and make a pentagon from it. Along each face, we cut the "petals" of the flower, without lowering the knife to the end. At the edges of each petal we cut the corners, making them sharp.
- In the same way, we continue to cut the petals in checkerboard pattern. The rest of the middle is sharpened and the flower is ready!
How to make a rose flower from carrots?
- Long and not very thick carrots cut into vegetable wool plates. Then, to make the carrot elastic, let it sit for a few minutes in salt water, then spread it on the towel so that the moisture absorbs.
- We take one plate and turn its edge into a bud. Then we start the plate to turn away from ourselves, and the bud to ourselves. We screw up to the end and the resulting rose is fixed with a toothpick.
How to make a lump of carrots?
- We clean the carrots of medium size and cut off a straight piece. Using a knife, make a square "tail" of the future cone and attach the carrot to an oval shape.
- Starting from the thick edge of the workpiece, we begin to cut out the scales in a circle, the depth of the slot is 2-3 mm. Next, cut the carrots down the cone, forming a volumetric pattern of the first row. Continue to cut the scales in a checkerboard pattern, each time again pruning the pad for the next row.
- The resulting cone should be lowered for 15 minutes into ice water. The cone will open and be cleaned of small crumbs.
Crafts of carrots
From carrots you can make an interesting fox work. For this, we need 2 carrots, a cabbage leaf, prunes and a knife.
- We clean one carrot and cut out of it a muzzle with ears, paws and a tail. From the other carrots we cut out the trunk. We compose a fox figure, neatly spreading on a plate and fixing the elements with toothpicks or matches. From prunes make a nose and eyes, and from the cabbage leaf collar. The chanterelle is ready!
Also from carrots you can make a cute pig. This requires large carrots, peas of black pepper and toothpicks.
- Cut off the carrot a narrow part, and then use a knife to round the wide edge. From the other carrots we cut out the heel, the ears, the hoof and the tail. Let's proceed to assembly. On the narrow edge of the workpiece with the help of toothpicks we fix the heel, and under it we cut out the mouth. We fasten the legs on both sides with toothpicks and fix the ears. Instead of the peephole, we insert the peas of black pepper, and behind it we fix the tail. So we got a funny pig.
Arrangement of carrots and potatoes
Applying vegetables in handicrafts can create a funny little man from carrots and potatoes. For the craft, you need 1 carrot, 1 potato, toothpicks and a knife.
- From the carrots we cut 5 rings. From 2 we make feet, 2 more rings - palms, and from the last - eyes. We connect the elements carved from carrots with potatoes with toothpicks, we insert eyes, we cut out the mouth with a knife and make a hairdress from toothpicks. Carrot and potato man is ready!
Fantasize and, perhaps, you will get new, own crafts that can not only please the eye, but also to arouse the appetite! And also you can make crafts from other vegetables, for example, potatoes or zucchini .
