Crafts made from plastic bottles are very simple and easy to make with your own hands. In this article we will tell you how you can make church models from ordinary plastic bottles.
It is worth noting that many bottles already have a dome shape, this greatly facilitates the production of church models.
As you can see in the photo, the top parts of the bottles are used in this composition.
The pictures are printed on self-adhesive paper using a regular inkjet printer and glued on top of the bottles, sprinkled with glue and glitter. In addition, beads and foil were used to make crafts from plastic bottles.
Quite affordable materials for making crafts with your own hands, isn’t it?
And this craft from a plastic bottle is made using papier-mâché technology, which is when paper is torn into small pieces, the bottle is coated with glue and pasted over with pieces of soft paper in several layers.
After this, the homemade craft can be painted with acrylic paints or gouache.
This plastic bottle mockup is even easier to make. Acrylic paints were used. Gold paint can be purchased at an artist's store, but otherwise all crafting items are sold at an office supply store.
This installation uses cutting windows in plastic bottles, the domes are made of polymer clay, we wrote about it in the article. You can take it already golden in color, or you can paint it.
As you can see, there is nothing complicated in making homemade crafts from bottles! This is a very simple activity and you can do it with your child.
More crafts from plastic bottles:
Helicopter from a plastic bottle - make a model of a helicopter.
Water rocket - we make a rocket using water-air fuel.
There are several options for creating a paper church. Any of them requires a certain skill and perseverance. For example, to glue a temple out of paper with your own hands will require a lot of effort and time. This is a rather complex, voluminous work that requires knowledge and skills in working with paper, as well as scissors and glue.
How to make a church out of paper?
First you need to find a scheme according to which the process will take place. It is advisable not just to find it on the Internet, but to print it out. It would be ideal if the diagram also includes step-by-step instructions. Please read it carefully before you begin.
Preparing to Establish a Church
Before you actually start cutting anything out, you need to free up your workspace by removing all unnecessary things and papers. This must be done to avoid the possibility of losing small parts. Before cutting out the components from the sheet, lightly press down all the folds using a ballpoint pen with a dry tip or something similar. The main thing is not to scratch the surface of the paper. This simple solution will help make the bends along the line much neater.
Advice
It's a good idea to use a ruler when folding the paper on straight sections. To create the inside fold, place the ruler so that it is along the fold line. And then lift the paper, pressing it against the edge of the ruler.
A church made of paper is an excellent decoration, as well as an excellent gift into which you can put all your warmth, care and love. The first thing to start with is to draw the so-called “building pattern”. It is advisable to do this on thick white paper. Next, all components need to be carefully cut out. You can find a pattern on the Internet - there are a great many different options. If you have no experience, start with the one that is simpler. When all the parts have been successfully cut, bend them along the pre-designated fold lines. Thus, the walls of your church are ready, all that remains is to carefully glue them to the cardboard platform - the base of the church.
Domes are an essential element of any temple. This means that the paper structure also needs them. The “pattern” for them can be found on the same drawing where the “patterns” for the walls for the church are. Alternatively, you can simply search for it separately on the Internet. It goes without saying that church domes should not be white. Here everything depends solely on your imagination. So, blanks for domes can be pasted over with yellow or orange paper, or you can use silver and gold foil for this.
Be careful
When gluing white paper with colored paper or foil, you need to try to make the whole process as smooth as possible. You shouldn't have any folds. Do everything so as not to accidentally crush the workpiece, because the quality of the domes and the appearance of the entire structure directly depend on its quality. When the paper patterns are ready, you will need to cut out windows in the paper walls very carefully. If you don’t want to cut them out, then you can do it easier - draw with pencils or paints. Lastly, all the parts are assembled and glued. It is necessary to smear the seams with glue so that it does not protrude and is not visible, otherwise the church will not have a neat appearance.
Sequence of gluing a paper church
The “patterns” of all the walls will need to be bent along pre-designated lines, then the walls will be glued to the cardboard area. When all the walls are glued to the site and the glue has dried, you will need to “attach” the domes on top. You can glue them with the same glue that held the walls together. As an option, you can color the cardboard area with colored pencils or paints, or go even further - glue small pebbles and sand to it, and also, for greater realism, make a fence out of matches or toothpicks. Creating an environment is entirely up to your imagination and capabilities. Any paper craft involves a wide range of imagination and creativity.
Conclusion:
A paper temple can be a worthy decoration for any interior, as well as an excellent gift for a friend or loved one. Its creation is a fascinating, but also difficult task that will require accuracy and endurance, as well as perseverance. You need to choose a time when you are not in a hurry, arrange a workplace for yourself, and then actually take on the temple itself.
Church made of paper using origami technique
Paper Church
Origami Church - Easy Paper Crafts
The Church of the Transfiguration is one of the wooden churches located on the island of Kizhi, on Lake Onega, northeast of St. Petersburg. The church is made entirely of wood, without a single nail, 37 meters high with 22 domes, giving it a very characteristic and fairy-tale appearance. It is believed that the main construction of the church was completed in the 16th century, but it was destroyed in a fire caused by a lightning strike. The church was rebuilt in 1714. The wooden churches of Kizhi, including this Church of the Transfiguration, were registered as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990.
In order to assemble a model of the church, you will need to download the drawings and print them on A4 format. Study the drawings first to understand which ones to print on regular paper and which ones on thick paper. (Drawings in English)
Print the downloaded PDF files on your printer.
Cutting
Step 1 Before you start cutting out parts, clear your workspace of unnecessary things and papers so that you do not lose small parts.
Before cutting parts from the sheet, lightly press down the folds with a ballpoint pen with a dry tip or something similar. The main thing is not to scratch the surface of the paper.
This will help you make neater curves along the line.
Step 2 Cut each sample individually, leaving enough margin around the edges.
Step 3 Once you have cut out the piece, carefully write the number on the back so you can keep track of which pieces you have.
Step 4 Carefully trim off any excess margins on each piece.
Step 5 Always cut along the outer edge of the black line. That way, when you start assembling the pieces, they will fit together well.
Folding parts.
Use a ruler when bending straight sections. For the inside fold, place a ruler along the fold line. Then lift the paper and press it against the edge of the ruler.
External bend. To make an outer bend, place a ruler on the edge of the table and place the template on top. Carefully align the fold line with the edge of the ruler and fold the paper down.
Curved parts To give the part a natural bend, you need to rub it on the corner of the table. This will make gluing easier.
You can also wrap the part around a pencil, and then unfold it and give the part the desired rounding radius.
Gluing
Waiting for the glue to dry completely is key to ensuring good model assembly results.
If you have glue on your hands, you will ruin your models, so make sure you keep your hands clean at all times and wash your hands immediately, or dry them with a damp towel.
Step 1 Use clear, quick-drying glue. Optimally - PVA. Squeeze a small amount of glue onto a piece of cardboard or plastic.
Step 2 Then, using a strip of construction paper or cardboard like a spatula, scoop out the glue. Remember to apply glue to only one side of the spatula.
Step 3 Use this spatula to apply an even, thin layer of adhesive to the flap for bonding.
Step 4 Hold the parts tightly in the gluing area until the glue dries completely.
Step 5 Assemble the parts separately and wait until they are completely dry before assembling the entire model!
Hello everyone! Handicraft Tuesday on the ShkolaLa blog! Get your golden hands ready. Today we will make a very interesting school craft for the week of Orthodox culture. Does this happen at your school? We have them from time to time) So they asked us to do something suitable.
And we decided to make a church. We thought for a long time about what, and how? We thought and thought and came up with an idea. We will make a church out of a plastic bottle. The main thing is to choose a suitable bottle so that its upper part is shaped like the top of a church. And we found one like this, from under mineral water.
Well? Begin?
Let's prepare the necessary materials:
- shoe box lid;
- plastic bottle;
- rope;
- wire;
- braid and lace for decoration;
- plasticine (we chose white and blue);
- cardboard or baby foam (aka foamiran);
- cotton wool;
- PVA glue;
- double sided tape;
- white paint;
- brush;
- scissors.
First, let's prepare the base of our craft. Paint the shoe box lid with white paint.
Set the box aside to let the paint dry. And we will prepare planks for the fence that will enclose our church. They can also be cut out of cardboard. We used colored foam for children's creativity (foamiran). We drew stripes and cut them out with scissors.
The tips of the boards were sharpened to give the fence a more natural look. The “planks” are ready.
Now we glue them to our base.
And we move on to constructing the main object of our craft.
Take a bottle and cut off the bottom part of it. Something like this.
The top of the bottle also needs to be cut off. This is quite problematic, since the plastic at the neck of the bottle is quite hard and thick. We heated the knife over the gas and slowly cut it off.
The time has come to take care of how our future church will be attached to the foundation. Using a marker, mark a horizontal line on the bottom of the bottle, approximately 2 cm from the edge. And segments were drawn down from this line.
We cut the bottle along the marked lines with scissors and folded the resulting strips. Looks like flower petals.
Let's start decorating our church. Let's add it to the desired shape using plasticine.
How to make a cross? Very simple. We took a beautiful decorative blue wire, since our church will be all blue and white. But you can also use regular wire and then simply wrap the cross in foil.
Well, we first bent the wire in half and bent its tails to the sides.
And then like this. It turned out to be a cross!
Now we stick the cross into the top of our crown.
We take double-sided tape and cover the walls of the church with it.
Gradually, starting from the bottom, we remove the top layer of double-sided tape and begin to wrap the walls with rope.
And so on to the very top of the wall, to the beginning of the dome.
We mark doors and windows on the walls using blue lace. We made a door in the front. A thin strip of lace was glued to the top, and a silver braid to the bottom for beauty.
The windows were arranged like this: two on the sides, one on the back.
Let's start decorating the dome. We roll balls from white and blue plasticine, turn them into cakes, and glue them in rows to the dome, starting from the bottom.
Each next circle overlaps a little with the previous one. As does each top row to the bottom. The higher we rise, the smaller the cakes become. This is how the dome turned out! Beautiful?
We can say that we built a church.
We will install it on our base.
Remember when we cut the bottom of the bottle into petals? Now we glue double-sided tape to these petals from below.
We made the strips that are on the back side of the church a little shorter in order to install the building as close to the base wall as possible. Then we remove the top layer of tape and glue the building to the base. It holds very tightly and will not fall anywhere.
All that remains is to decorate the space surrounding the church. You can make it summer, glue some grass, make trees with your own hands and “plant” them around. But we took a different path, faster and simpler. We made a winter camp. Everything around the church was “covered with snow.” We made snowdrifts from cotton wool. And they “cleared” the path to the doors. A path made from a piece of padding polyester. All this was glued to the base using PVA glue.
So our blue and white church is ready)
I have already gone to the school exhibition.
Now, friends, you know what to do if a week of Orthodox culture has started at school. We hope our step-by-step master class will help you)
By the way, I think that our composition for Christmas with angels could also be a craft on the theme of Orthodox culture. You will find a master class.
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Happy creativity!
Always yours, Evgenia Klimkovich.
Master class on making a Gothic cathedral using the Kirigami technique.
Dumler Tatyana Petrovna, fine arts teacher of MAOU gymnasium No. 56 in Tomsk
Purpose: This work is intended for little artists who like to use different materials; for their teachers and parents.
Target: making the facade of a Gothic cathedral from paper.
Tasks:
- introduce the kirigami technique;
- develop accuracy and perseverance;
- develop imagination, spatial imagination, love of creativity.
Materials: sheet of white paper, scissors, pencil
Today we will get acquainted with the features of Gothic architecture.
The words “Gothic”, “Gothic” come from the name of the warlike barbarian tribe of the Goths, who dealt a mortal blow to the great Roman Empire. Medieval art began to be called Gothic because people then thought this art was rude, barbaric, and not similar to the usual ancient art.
In the Middle Ages, the power of the church was so great that even kings were forced to submit to it. Religion required a person to renounce everything earthly; he had to think only about God. And people began to build temples of unprecedented architecture. The high vaults of the cathedrals, the colored stained glass windows through which rays of light poured, the solemn sounds of the organ - all this captured the imagination of people, instilled in them the idea of the holiness of divine power, and turned them to religion.
Gothic style originated in the middle of the 12th century in northern France; in the 13th century it spread to the territory of modern Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Spain, and England.
The main decoration of the city was the cathedral, which was built over tens and sometimes even hundreds of years. Gothic cathedrals seem light and transparent from the many huge windows. They seem to be woven from stone lace. Steep slopes of roofs, pointed arches, high towers topped with thin spiers - everything creates the impression of a rapid rush into the heights. The height of the towers of the largest Gothic cathedrals reaches 150 meters.
Buildings in the Gothic style were usually built in big cities - they are easily recognizable by their pointed arches, high pointed towers, and large windows with stained glass images on biblical themes. And the sunlight, penetrating through them into the temple, created unique lighting effects.
In the Middle Ages, the skill of masons greatly increased, which made it possible to create complex architectural forms and enormous size of buildings. Typical early (French) Gothic buildings had a central portal with large rose windows above them.
I propose to my students to make the facade of a Gothic cathedral using the Kirigami technique. Kirigami is a type of origami that, unlike its other types, allows for cutting out individual paper parts using scissors. In Japanese, this word means nothing more than cutting paper (kami - paper; kiru - cut).
This unusual and fascinating art is quite young. Its founder is considered to be the Japanese architect Masahiro Chatani, who was the first to decide to make a couple of cuts on a paper figurine to make it easier to fold. The Kirigami technique is widely used by many designers in interior design, creating various decor, and also when decorating gifts.
For work we will need a piece of white paper, scissors and a pencil. We repeat the rules for working with scissors and get started!
Fold the sheet in half. The result is a book. It will need to be divided into three equal parts (you can use a ruler) and bent.
Smooth out the fold lines well.
Next, unfold the sheet and fold it into an accordion along the fold lines.
Take the central part of the accordion in your right hand, and turn the side parts out and connect them together. They are on the left.
Using a pencil, outline the contours of the central part of the tower and the side parts.
We cut along the contour, combining the side parts for a neat symmetrical cutting.
Now we will outline the portal - the decoratively decorated entrance to the cathedral. The arc line on the right side is marked with a pencil.
We make a cut along this line. We bend it. It is important to smooth out the fold line; I bend it in one direction and the other.
We return the door to its place and make two more parallel cuts to the fold line.
Let's repeat the same on the left side. We outline an arc line, make a cut, and bend it.
It is better to cut two side parts together at once. Then we add two parallel arc lines and cut to the fold line.
Now we will outline the window openings - tall, narrow, arched. We draw two lines above the portal - a straight line at the bottom and an arc at the top.
We cut, bend, smooth the fold line well.
Let's make more windows on the left side, making it a little more complicated. Two pairs of lines, one larger, the second inside smaller.
We make cuts along the lines, bend them in different directions, and smooth them out.
And let's try to depict a rose - a large round window, often found on the facades of Gothic cathedrals. Draw a semicircular line.
The easiest pattern to cut out is triangles. We outline them and collect them in the center of the window.
Cut it out.
We have outlined the most basic architectural elements. You can further complicate the façade, add a pinnacle (decorative turrets), cut a wimperg (a pointed gable above a portal or window opening), or any appropriate cuts. But this is at the request of each author individually. And we unfold our workpiece and prepare for the next stage.
If all the fold lines are well smoothed, then the folding process will be easy and fun. Press on the middle of the central window and bend it inward.
Repeat the same with the side windows.
Bend the doors inwards too. Smooth out the fold lines.
We made cuts above the doors, this is an imitation of numerous arches above the portals. Bend one inward.
Let's look at how you can make a window with a more complex shape on the sides. Press on the center, bend, smooth.
From the inside we press on the center of the small windows and bend and smooth them out.
The guys really enjoy working with this technique. The boys themselves help their classmates cope with difficulties. The end result is a wonderful result!