Mill from newspaper tubes (master class for children)
Melnitsa-iz-gazet
Newspaper tubes are a fertile material for crafts with children. Creative activities with them not only develop fine motor skills of the hands, teach accuracy and patience, but also stimulate the development of imagination and design skills. We bring to your attention a master class on creating a windmill from newspaper tubes, specially adapted for children (preschoolers and younger students), without complicated steps and tricky techniques.
What you need to prepare for work:
- newspaper tubes (we told how to make them quickly and easily with the children);
- thick opaque paints (gouache, acrylic);
- 2 brushes, thin and thick;
- glue stick;
- scissors;
- cardboard (any color, not glossy);
- pointed skewer;
- stationery gum;
- green tinted (or plain double-sided) paper;
- large stapler;
- some brown cardboard and brown foam rubber;
- a square piece of corrugated cardboard, laminate or any other solid base for crafts;
- coarse hemp thread or thin twine for decoration;
- paper tape.
Step 1: make a house from newspaper tubes
First, we make the base of the mill house out of cardboard. To do this, cut out a rectangle and glue it along one edge - we get the base of a cylindrical shape. We also cut out a circle, make a cut from any edge to the center of the circle and glue it - we get a cone for the roof. For strength, the bonding points can be additionally fixed with a stapler. It is not yet necessary to connect the cylinder and cone to each other.
Then we glue the cylinder with newspaper tubes. This is much easier to do if you insert a bottle of a suitable diameter inside it. It is most convenient to apply glue to each tube and carefully place them one by one on a cardboard blank, waiting for the previous tube to stick a little.
The glue should be sticky enough (Informat and Brauberg brands came up to us). Having covered the entire cone with tubes, let it dry.
Then paint with brown acrylic paint.
Now let's take a look at the roof of the mill house. You can pre-paint the cone, but you can not do this. We cut the bunch of tubes in half, put them together and tightly tie them with a rubber band, stepping back about 1.5-2 cm from the edge.
We fluff the tubes in different directions and put the resulting “cap” on the cone. If everything turned out well, apply glue to the surface of the cone and glue a “cap” on it.
Of course, there will be many passes and empty places on the roof. We fill them with segments of tubes.
It should turn out like this:
We paint the roof and let it dry.
Now you need to connect the roof and the base of the millhouse together. To do this, we glue the inner surface of the cone and cylinder with long strips of adhesive tape, fastening them together.
Step 2: make a windmill for a windmill from newspaper tubes
The windmill is very easy to make. We take 4 newspaper sticks of the same length (their length is about 20 cm in the photo), fold it as shown in the photo, and fasten it with several stapler staples.
Glue short tubes at the ends of the blades.
We paint the windmill.
In addition to the windmill itself, you need to think over the system for attaching it to the mill, because we want its blades to rotate like real ones. To do this, take a pointed skewer and carefully pierce the roof of the house through and through. You can use an awl for this. We break off the excess part of the skewer. We put it on the pointed end in sequence: a circle of foam rubber with a diameter of about 1.8 cm, then a cardboard circle with a diameter of 2 cm. Then we glue the protruding tip with another circle of soft rubber with a diameter of a little more than 1 cm. Like this:
On the other end of the skewer, we simply prick 1-2 circles of foam rubber. Thus, the windmill will be well fixed, and the wand will definitely not prick anyone.
Step 3: connect all the parts together and decorate the craft beautifully
The mill itself is almost ready. We make a “forged” door for it, and wrap the elastic band on the roof with a thick layer of hemp thread. The base of the craft (corrugated cardboard, plywood, a piece of laminate, etc.) is pasted over with green colored paper.
We make weaving. To do this, we cut several tubes from one edge, unbend the edges and glue the posts onto a strip of cardboard. We made a wattle fence with a slightly curved shape.
Then we glue the resulting wattle fence onto the base, and fix the house on it. We paint the wattle fence, braid it with a hemp rope, cut “noodles” from green tinted paper, imitating grass, and also glue it here and there on our composition. The mill from newspaper tubes and cardboard is ready.