Crafts "Insects"

In the courtyard of spring, it's time when the first spider beetles appear, we suggest that you introduce your baby to the surrounding world and make insects themselves with your own hands. We'll try to make a beautiful dragonfly out of ordinary beads and pieces of organza along with the baby.

Dragonfly from beads and organza

You will need:

• strong wire of yellow color;
• a little red organza;
• 4 large glass beads and 5 smaller ones;
• hairpin;
• golden ornaments for wings;
• silicone adhesive;
• nippers and scissors.

Let's get to work:

1. Cut out four pieces of wire, each of which is 14 cm. These are blanks for the wings. For the calf, we prepare a piece of wire 17 cm long.
2. We attach the shape of the wing of a dragonfly to the carved wire, and the first pair of wings should differ slightly from the second, as you remember the front wings of the dragonfly somewhat more voluminous.
3. We fix the resulting wings with large beads, leaving the ends of 1 cm.
4. Then cut out the fabric according to the prepared patterns. We glue the wire base on the organza with the help of glue. And we remove the excess tissue. They can be scorched with a cigarette lighter or a red-hot knitting needle, but only with caution. you can spoil the thin fabric.
5. In order not to see the place of gluing, we will put on the wings the selected ornaments, in our case this is a 3D contour.
6. As long as the wings dry, let's make our abdomen a dragonfly. At the very end of the slightly curled wire we will place before us the harvested, smallest beads. It will be more interesting if closer to the head of the dragonfly, the beads are larger than the tip of the tail. At the top leave 3 cm of wire free.
7. For the antennae, we take the hairpin and bend it with the pliers, as tightly as possible, so that in the middle it enters the largest bead. On each barbel string on one small glass bead. Then fix it all with silicone adhesive.
8. We collect all the details together.

All right, the dragonfly is ready.

Crafts of insects made of paper

And of course, how to bypass the technique of origami? We will tell you how to make insects from paper using the example of ladybug.

You will need:

• red paper;
• black cardboard;
• black felt-tip pen;
• black thin wire;
• eyes (ready-made or homemade);
• glue;
• scissors.

Let's get to work:

1. Sheet of red paper is folded in half along, then crosswise and unbend.
2. We turn the square and bend it diagonally, unbend it.
3. From the square we make the basis of the work - the triangle, for this we simply bend the sides of the square.
4. From the black cardboard we cut out a template of the abdomen with legs.
5. We put the abdomen on the red triangle and draw a pencil around the outline, cut out the model.
6. We glue the red body to the black base.
7. Color the head with a black felt-tip pen and draw the dots on the back.
8. Remained nuances, attach eyes and do antennas.

The ladybug is ready.

Crafts of insects from improvised means

Using ordinary sticks, pebbles, leaves and plasticine - you can make a large collection of insects. Use the pictures presented by us as a sample.