Did you know that plastic bottles, which we come across almost daily, are one of the most affordable and durable materials for needlework. These bottles are varied in shape, color, volume, size, which in turn gives almost limitless scope for imagination and children's creativity. From the usual plastic bottles can be done like this simple crafts, as well as complex ones, which can easily become an interior or garden decoration. Products from plastic bottles can be made anywhere and at any time of the year, thereby “breathing” a “second life” into them. Therefore, we are in no hurry to get rid of this invaluable material for creativity! In this master class I will tell you how to make funny piglets with your own hands using plastic bottles. These piglets can be used as flowerpots for home flowers, or as a flowerpot for growing any vegetation, or simply as a decorative element in your garden, flower bed or personal plot. Even a child can easily cope with this task, so you can safely involve children in the work! So, let's begin…

To work we will need:

1. Plastic bottle 5 liters;
2. 1.5 liter plastic bottle;
3. Scissors;
4. Paint for coloring piglets;
5. Black marker or acrylic paint, brush;
6. Foam sponge for coloring;
7. Plastic eyes for crafts;
8. Glue Moment;
9. 1 sheet of white A4 paper.

To make a large pig, you need to take a 5 or 6 liter plastic bottle; small piglets can be made from 1.5-2 liter plastic bottles. Before starting work, we get rid of all the stickers on the bottles; to do this, we lower them into a bowl of water for a while, after which the stickers are very easily removed. We also get rid of the handle on the bottle, just cut it with scissors.

First, let's make ears for our piglet. We cut a one and a half liter bottle into 3 parts, as shown in the photo.

For work, we leave only the middle part, which we cut into two parts.

To make the ears the same, I recommend making patterns for them. We draw a figure of an ear on a sheet of paper, and at the bottom of the ear we draw a rectangle, 1-1.5 cm wide. Cut out the paper ear.

We apply ear patterns to each piece of plastic bottle, trace it with a pen or with a simple pencil and cut it out. You should end up with two identical ears.

Now let's attach the ears to the piglet's body. We make two cuts on the top of the bottle; the length of the cuts should be equal to the width of the rectangle that we left at the bottom of the ear.

We insert the ears into the cuts and bend the rectangles.


If everything is done correctly, the ears should stay tight and not fall out.




Now we take the paint and cover the whole pig with it, as they say: from head to toe.

I used alkyd paint, which I still have after the renovation, thanks to it the pig will be able to “walk” on personal plot and he will not be afraid of either rain or snow. If you plan to “keep” the piglet exclusively at home, then you can paint it with acrylic or gouache paint. The most convenient way to paint a pig is with a foam sponge, which is easy to do yourself: we secure the foam with a clothespin. After painting, you need to wait until the craft is completely dry.

When the paint has completely dried, you can start decorating the pig. We glue plastic eyes onto the animal's face and draw eyelashes with a black marker.

If you don’t have plastic eyes, it doesn’t matter, the eyes can be drawn with a simple pencil and decorated with acrylic paints. On the patch we draw nostrils with the same black marker, and at the bottom we draw a smiling mouth.

Using a sponge, lightly colored with pink paint, we draw the rosy cheeks of the pig.


Here we have such a cute and cute little pig!

A small note: if you plan to use the pig as a flower pot or plant pot, then cut out a small rectangle on the top, on the back.

If you want to decorate your garden, yard or country cottage area, then do not rush to buy ready-made expensive products, because you can make a lot of interesting and useful things with your own hands, using already unnecessary items and even waste materials, like plastic bottles.

Plastic bottles make very funny and cute little animals, for example, hedgehogs, penguins, kittens and even piglets. Try to make such bright and cheerful pigs with your own hands, especially since piglets from plastic bottles can be very multifunctional, bringing not only aesthetic pleasure, but also benefits.

A few secrets and nuances of making crafts

It is not for nothing that this material is considered the most popular among craftsmen for decorating cottages and gardens, because it is very cheap and accessible, very light and pliable to work with, and unpretentious. You can transform a plastic bottle into any product, use it as a basis for working with other materials or as an independent raw material, give it any color you want, work with the shape and decide on the purpose of your future craft.

For example, a pig from a plastic bottle can serve you as a beautiful and original decor, be a convenient flower bed, stand, piggy bank and even an educational toy for a child.

There are many master classes with detailed instructions, which describes step by step how you can make a pig out of bottles with your own hands. Some master classes also offer step-by-step photographs, so if this is your first time planning to do something like this, don’t worry - you’ll definitely succeed. Of course, all piglets are different, they are different from each other, and this is very cool, because you, too, can make a unique craft.

Plastic bottle is easy to cut sharp knife, scissors, you can also melt the edges with a lighter, glue parts to it and paint it to your liking (it is preferable to use special enamel and glue for plastic, however, you can also use ordinary spray paints in cans; acrylic paints also hold up well and are durable ).

To prepare the bottles for use, you need to wash them and remove the labels from them. This process will be much easier if you first soak the bottles in water - then all you have to do is peel off the labels. Plastic labels can be carefully cut and then removed.

Let's get started

First, let's try to make the simplest craft - an educational toy for a child.

1. We will make it from a liter or one and a half liter plastic bottle. You don’t even have to paint it, but simply sew a cover on it, for example, from felt or plush fabric. He will dress up to the beginning of the bottle neck.
2. Most likely, you will need a pattern - sew four legs to the case, having previously filled them with padding polyester or other filler, a tail (can be twisted from wire and covered with fabric) and ears.
3. Glue the pig's eyes (special plastic ones with a moving pupil inside), you can also cut them out of paper or just draw them.
4. The plastic cap will act as a patch, so it needs to be painted accordingly.
5. The child will be interested in “feeding” the piglet with acorns, chestnuts or large beads.

You can get a similar pig if you paint the bottle pink and use plastic to make all the necessary parts for it: ears, a tail, legs from the legs of the necks and from corks (you can even use spools of thread). It is interesting to make a pig with its mother or a whole large family of pigs at once (for the mother, choose a large bottle, for example, a five-liter bottle).

1. Wash and dry the bottles you will be working with.
2. For the pig's legs, you will need to cut the legs from the necks of bottles (one liter at a time). Also cut out ears and a tail from plastic.
3. Bend their bottom edge and use wire to attach them to the head.
4. Then attach the legs (with covers) and the tail - also using wire.
5. Paint the product, and when it dries, glue on the eyes (you can also use buttons), draw a snout and a mouth on the cap-nose.

Make a hole on top and you will have a piggy bank. You can also decorate crafts according to your taste and desire: stick on sequins, sparkles, beads, make applique or other decor.

Some master classes show how to make a pig from one bottle with your own hands, while others show how to make one from several, connecting them and thereby forming different parts of the pig’s body. Sometimes plastic cups and pieces of pipes are used for the legs. The elements can be attached with glue (either simply on top of the plastic base-body, or in the slots-holes made), as well as using wire.

It is almost impossible to imagine modern life without plastic bottles. A particularly large amount of containers accumulates in the hot summer months. Do not rush to completely part with the waste material, the funny pig will become original decoration dachas for a long period. The following publication is devoted to the design of a piglet from a plastic bottle with step-by-step instructions and photos.

Materials at hand for a plastic pig

Plastic containers with a volume of 5 and 6 liters have a striking resemblance to the outline of a pig, and they will become the basis of the craft. In addition, you will need material for making ears, legs and the familiar curl tail. Of the available materials, it is worth taking care of the availability of:

• scissors and a stationery knife with a sharp blade;
• black marker;
• pencil and paper;
• glue intended for plastic;
• wires;
• waterproof paint for exterior use;
• brushes, in the absence of aerosol cans.

Usually legs plastic pig cut from 0.5 liter bottles, so you should have containers of the appropriate volume on hand in the amount of 4 pieces. You will also need a 1.5 liter bottle for cutting out the ears. The absence of one or another additional elements For decorative finishing the piglet is not an obstacle to the creation of a plastic figure. The good thing about the creative process is that it allows you to show your imagination and use non-standard materials at hand.

Fantasy is the key to successful creativity

Traditionally, a piece of wire helps to achieve a curled shape for a pig's tail. If you don’t like a hook that is too thin or you haven’t found a suitable piece, it can be successfully replaced by a narrow strip of a plastic bottle left over from the legs.

Pig face from a bottle - special place for experimental ideas. The easiest and fastest way is to draw eyes with a marker. Whether it will be a sad or mischievous pig is up to the craftsman to decide. Original beady eyes are made from convex buttons, the loop of which is secured with wire in a plastic bottle. An expressive element of the muzzle can be made from self-adhesive film by painting the pieces the right colors marker.

The neck of a plastic bottle is a snout that also needs improvement. But the formation of the image is carried out at the final stage of making the pig.

Comment! Small bottles for legs will successfully replace plastic cups that contained yogurt or other small containers for fermented milk products. PVC pipes- another option for modifying the legs of a piglet.

Pig color Pink colour- not a dogma. In nature there are black, beige and spotted individuals. Therefore, the craftsman holds all the cards, or rather the paints.

Decorative pig

A pig from a plastic bottle is formed quite easily and quickly; the simple process consists of the following steps:

The funny pig needs to find a worthy place in the garden. It can be placed on a small hill or the area around it can be cleared a little.

A single figure most often needs additional elements.

There are many options for creating an interesting composition. Decorate a clearing with fly agaric mushrooms or make offspring for a pig from plastic bottles small size- it’s up to the craftsman to decide.

Crafts with a practical twist

Landscape design is an extremely exciting activity. The stereotype that such pleasure is available only to wealthy people is wrong. The beauty lies in the ability to transform a space with simple objects. One of the most common design methods original flower beds is to prepare a container for them in the form of a plastic pig.

The initial stage is practically no different from the design of decorative plastic crafts. The only point is that a rectangular or oval-shaped hole is cut into the bottle on the back of the pig.

Advice! It is not necessary to bother yourself with forming a drainage layer before planting flowers. Several holes on the piglet's belly ensure the smooth removal of excess moisture.

When the pig is collected, the bottom of the plastic bottle is covered with fine expanded clay, and nutritious soil is distributed on top. The miniature flowerbed is ready for use. It is not necessary to equip a flower garden with legs. To prevent the pig with flowers from turning over, you can first make a hole at the bottom and secure the craft with a wooden peg. The flowerbed looks original when the pigs various sizes placed on the stump and near it.

People with imagination began to turn unnecessary plastic bottles into very interesting elements decor for decoration local area, garden or vegetable garden. And this topic spread very quickly. Today you can see different flower arrangements from plastic bottles, images of animals, figurines. An undoubted advantage in creating such a fake can be considered very low financial costs, as well as the time spent minimal amount time. In today's master class we will make a wonderful pig from an already unnecessary used plastic bottle.

Let's create a pig from a plastic bottle with our own hands in MK

If you collect plastic bottles and don’t know what to do with them, then the idea of ​​​​creating decorative elements is just for you. Plastic piglets are a very common craft. They are usually created very bright and funny. You can also make flower pots from plastic bottles, again with the image of cute pigs, and place them on the balcony or loggia.

Before you start creating plastic piglets, you need to decide on their appearance and size to understand what capacity bottles are needed. Great for such purposes plastic containers from under the water, vegetable oil, beer, liquid soap, powder or detergent. The larger the capacity you take the bottle, respectively, the bigger size there will be a pig. The selected plastic bottles must be washed before work and all stickers removed, and if painting is intended, then before this procedure, degrease the surface of the bottle - this way the paint will adhere better. Acrylic paint is best for painting. If you use another paint, there is a very high probability that the paint will peel off quickly.

Before starting work, novice needlewomen also need to remember that for safety reasons, before assembling all the parts of the craft into a single whole, they must be melted so as not to cut themselves if you are careless. This can be done with a candle.

In order to make a cute pig from an already unnecessary plastic bottle, you will need the following materials and tools:

• Plastic bottle with a volume of at least 5 liters;
• Plastic bottle 0.5 l (4 pcs.);
• Plastic bottle 1.5 l (1 pc.);
• Scissors;
• Pink paint;
• Wire;
• Brush;
• Black buttons or beads (2 pcs.);
• Paper (1 sheet);
• Simple pencil;
• Glue;
• The marker is black.

Most of the declared materials, if necessary, can easily be replaced with some others. For example, if you don’t have four 0.5 liter bottles on hand to make legs from, you can alternatively replace them with yogurt cups or any plastic pipe. If you have pink paint in a spray can in your stash at home, you don’t have to buy paint in a can; you can also use existing paint. If you don’t have wire at hand, then a thin wire cut from a bottle can be an option to replace it. plastic tape. If there are no unnecessary buttons, you can simply draw the pig’s eyes with a marker.

We present to your attention step-by-step instructions for creating a plastic pig with photo accompaniment of the steps taken.

When all the tools and materials are prepared, you can begin the creative process of creating decorative item in the form of a plastic pig.

Let's get to work. Take four 0.5 liter plastic bottles and cut off the top part along with the lid at an angle. These bottles will make legs.

Let's take a sheet of paper and a simple pencil and draw a sketch of a pig's ear. Next you will need a 1.5 liter bottle from which a pair of ears will be cut. Both the top part of a plastic bottle and the middle part are suitable for these purposes.

The next step is to prepare the pig's body. Let's take the largest bottle with a volume of 5 liters and use a knife to make slits: 2 holes for the ears (in the front, not far from the bottle cap), 4 slits for the legs. If you decide to make legs from yogurt cups, then you don't need to cut anything out, as these legs are simply glued on. Another hole is needed to attach the tail.

When all the elements are ready, you can assemble the pig.

Here the piglet is collected. Now you can start coloring it. We take a brush, paint and thoroughly cover the plastic pig with pink paint. Let the paint dry well. When the pig is completely dry, you need to take care of its eyes and snout. We will make the eyes using buttons or simply draw them with a marker. We will also draw holes on the patch with a marker.

If you really enjoyed making this pig and would love to do something similar again, then you will love the idea of ​​​​creating a pig flowerbed in which you can plant flowers.

At the end of the master class, we would like to recommend watching several videos on creating cute and funny plastic piglets.

Video on the topic of the article

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The symbol of the coming 2019 is a yellow pig. In this article we will look at several simple step-by-step master classes on how to make a piglet with your own hands.

We will show in detail how you can make your own from materials that can easily be found in every home, such DIY crafts for the year of the pig as a piggy bank, we will make piglets from dough, we will make simple crafts for kindergarten, we will learn how to sew a pig from children's tights and socks, we will make a pig-ball from threads, we will make a coffee toy, and we will also learn how to sew a tilde pig from fabric. And at the end of the article you will find a video bonus: making a pig from pompoms as a gift for New Year. So, if you're ready, let's get started!

Papier-mâché: piggy bank

To make a funny papier-mâché piggy bank we will use toilet paper or newspapers, acrylic putty, acrylic paints, PVA glue, inflatable ball, foil, foil reel.

First of all, you need to inflate the balloon. Then we apply several layers on inflated balloon prepared scraps of newspaper soaked in PVA glue and water - so that our piggy bank is not soft, but strong enough and let it dry.

In a plastic bucket we will prepare the papier-mâché mixture: tear toilet paper or napkins into small pieces and add PVA glue. Mix everything properly! We coat the future pig with the resulting “chewed paper”.

When the papier-mâché frame dries well, the ball must be carefully burst and pulled out. Now we need to close the hole through which we pulled the ball out: to do this, we will seal it crosswise masking tape and apply papier-mâché, leaving a small rectangular hole - this will be a slot where money is thrown.

We divide the foil reel into four equal parts - it will serve as legs for our pig. Glue the legs to the pig with masking tape. Then we apply papier-mâché. The inside of the legs must be filled with something heavy - this will make our pig more stable. Sand or some small sand will do metal object– for example, a nut or screws.

We make a snout for the pig from foil, under it you need to form a mouth (upper and lower lip).

Now we need to sculpt eyes and ears for our pig - they can be made either from the remains of papier-mâché or sculpted from clay.

The flexible wire will serve as a tail for the pig: twist it, covering the tail with the remains of papier-mâché. After our pig has completely dried, it must be properly treated several times with acrylic putty and then wiped with a cloth dampened in water - this will level the barrel of the pig.

Our piggy is ready for painting!

First you need to apply dark paint, you can use several different shades. Then red paint is applied to the craft with a sponge.

Then - pink, and as the final stage - pink and white paints are applied. The last step is to apply it to protruding surfaces. white paint. Our piggy bank is ready!

We offer you another piggy bank option, step by step execution which you can watch in the video:

Pig pendants made from salt dough

As a wonderful souvenir gift, you can also make a pig pendant at home from materials that can be found in every home - flour and salt. It is very easy to make such a pig, it turns out very cool and is suitable as a mascot that any child will be happy with, or as a craft for kindergarten. Below are step-by-step instructions on how to make such a souvenir.

Simple DIY crafts for kindergarten

Products that can easily be made include a paper craft, a costume for a children's party - a mask and pig ears, as well as a pig in a pen. Let's take a step-by-step look at how easy it is to make these crafts yourself.

Paper craft

To make such a toy paper souvenir, we will need: a pencil and a black marker, a ruler, colored paper– pink or red, as well as silver, stapler and glue, pre-prepared plastic eyes, ribbon for decoration.

The body of our pig should be voluminous; For this we will need colored paper - pink or red. We cut out an even rectangle from paper, connect the edges with glue or a stapler so that we get the base body for our craft - a tall and wide tube.

Next, we make the base for the pig’s muzzle: we take paper of two different colors, from one we cut out a larger circle - the head of our piglet, and two small triangles-ears, from the second - a smaller oval-patch. You can take pre-prepared plastic eyes for the pig, or you can cut them out yourself from other colored paper.

Now we need to connect all the parts we cut out: bend them and glue the ears and snout to the head in sequence. On the patch we will add nostrils and a smiling mouth underneath. We draw eyelashes on the eyes.

Now you need to cut out the remaining details from multi-colored paper - for the pig’s belly we’ll take a silver color, and red for the front legs and tail. We glue the prepared parts: we glue the long legs on the sides of the pig's body, the tail - to the back of the craft, the tummy - in the front.

We tie a thin ribbon around the pig's neck and tie a smart bow. Our pig is ready!

The finished paper pig craft can be presented as a New Year's present, and it will also look good on a decorated Christmas tree as a toy.

You can also make the following craft from cardboard:

Costume: mask and pig ears

It is very easy to prepare such a costume for a children's party yourself, since it does not require sewing and its production will take only a few minutes.

For a costume consisting of a pig's snout, ears and tail, we will need:

• felt or fleece pink and white flowers,
• scissors,
• glue,
• stapler,
• paper cup,
• elastic pink ribbon,
• thin elastic band,
• white thin plastic hair hoop.

First we make the ponytail: cut a piece of felt fabric - it should be a little longer and wider than a piece of wire. We put the wire inside a rectangular piece of fabric, wrap it and carefully glue the fabric.

Then we take an elastic band, fold it like a belt, attach the tail we prepared in the middle and fasten it with a stapler or glue. Curl the tail like a pig. One piece of the costume is ready!

Now let's start making the patch. To do this, take a cardboard cup of small diameter, apply a piece of pink felt to it, trace and cut out the resulting circle - this will be our patch. Cut off the top of the glass so that the height of the glass is one and a half to two centimeters.

We cut a rectangular strip of the same width from the felt so that we can wrap our cup. Now we glue our cut out parts to the cup: a circle to the bottom, a rectangular strip along the entire cup. It turns out to be a cute pink patch!

We cut out two small oval parts from white felt - nostrils. Glue it onto the patch exactly in the middle.

We make two small holes on the sides of the cup into which we insert a thin elastic band. We tie an elastic band inside the cup-patch on each side into a large knot. We try our nose on our head; it should hold tightly enough so that it does not fall off, but also does not press too much. Our nose for the pig costume is ready!

Let's start making ears. To do this, we need to cut two large pieces in the shape of pig ears from the pink felt. Then we take our hairband, gather our ear, clamp it and wrap it around the headband, secure it well with glue.

Our costume for the holiday is ready!

Pig in the pen

To make such a textile craft we will need:

• empty plastic bottle with a volume of 0.5 liters,
• plastic eyes,
• 4 plastic lids,
• a piece of light felt or felt material,
• a small piece of flexible wire
• a piece of padding polyester,
• nylon white stocking,
• colorful paper,
• several wooden skewers,
• skein of twine,
• shoe cover cardboard box,
• gouache red and white,
• clear varnish,
• hot glue,
• a few pebbles, acorns and twigs.

First, prepare a pen for the pig: turn the box upside down, glue it required amount wooden skewers around the entire perimeter.

We glue the box with inside Using green paper, we weave a fence from twine around glued skewers. We put acorns and pebbles in the pen, put a plastic jar - a feeder for our pig, and arrange tree branches. Our pen is ready!

Now we make a pig from a plastic bottle: we cut the bottle into several parts - the bottom, the middle and the neck. Connect the neck to the bottom and glue it using hot glue.

Using scissors, carefully cut out the mouth under the neck of the bottle. We cover the bottle with padding polyester and also make a mouth hole using scissors.

We tighten the stocking around the body of our workpiece, cut out a hole-mouth and secure it with hot glue.

Our stocking knot on the neck of the bottle must be closed with a snout: to do this, cut out a circle from white cardboard, cover it with nylon, tie it with thread - our snout is ready.

The knot on the bottom of the bottle must also be closed with a wire tail, which we first cover in the area of ​​the butt with nylon.

Cut out the pig's ears from light felt and glue them to the head.

Preparing the legs: take plastic stoppers, we cover them with padding polyester and nylon, tighten them with thread, fasten them and glue them to the pig’s body with glue.

Prepare the gouache: mix red and white colors to make pink. We paint our pig evenly. Apply clear varnish on top. After the craft has dried, glue on the pig’s eyes and nostrils. Our piggy craft in the pen is ready!

We sew a pig from children's tights

Making such a souvenir will not take much time; for this you will need synthetic padding, children's tights or socks and a little imagination. The piggy craft is easy to complete by following the step-by-step instructions below. Ready? Then let's get started!

Socks also make good piglets:

Pig ball made of threads

To make such original crafts we will need the following materials:

• pink threads/yarn,
• colored paper,
• scissors,
• round or oval inflatable ball,
• PVA glue,
• a plastic cup,
• needle.

First we need to prepare the base - the body of the pig: for this we will take a balloon and inflate it to the size we need. Now we pierce the plastic cup right through with a needle: the resulting holes should go near the very bottom of our cup. We will pour PVA glue into it, and we will pull the thread through the holes so that it passes through the glue poured into the cup.

We wrap our inflated ball in a chaotic manner with a thread dipped in glue to create as many weaves as possible. The larger the layer of wound thread, the stronger the craft will be. You can stop gluing the ball when it is almost hidden under a layer of thread.

It is necessary to remember that the glue takes a long time to dry, about a day, so such a craft must be prepared in advance before the holiday.

After the glue has completely dried, you need to pierce the ball with a needle and carefully remove it from the craft.

The legs of a piglet are made in the same way: a sausage ball is inflated, wrapped with thread, then after the glue has dried, the ball must be carefully burst and removed from the legs.

Now you need to glue the legs to the body; While the glue dries, we can start making the pig's face. To do this, on colored paper we first need to draw all the necessary details - a snout, eyes and ears, then cut them out and glue them onto the pig’s body.

Then you need to stretch a long thread and secure it with a loop knot - it will come in handy if we want to hang our craft on the Christmas tree.

Coffee toy

A New Year's piggy souvenir in the form of a coffee toy is also easy to make, its design is quite simple, but it will have an exquisite aroma of coffee, vanilla or cinnamon and will give its new owner only positive emotions. Let's start creating a coffee toy!

The technique for making such a souvenir is quite simple, and to make naf-naf we will need: light calico, light threads, stuffing material - padding polyester or foam rubber, vanillin or vanilla sugar, cocoa, instant coffee, cinnamon, scissors, PVA glue, needle, old Toothbrush, gel pen, small container for diluting fragrance, brushes, acrylic paints.

First, you need to prepare and cut out a template - you can attach tracing paper or thin paper to the monitor screen and trace the outline of the toy from the photo.

The toy can also be cut out to any size; to do this, just click on the picture and its size will increase. It is also advisable to transfer the cut out pattern to thin cardboard - it is more practical and convenient.

Now we will need our pen - we will use it to trace the resulting pattern; This should be done on fabric that is folded in half; if you plan to sew more than one toy, then you need to leave a space on the fabric between the patterns for a seam allowance of about 0.5 cm, while the seam itself is best done not along the drawn line itself, but nearby: the mark from the handle will not be noticeable if the fabric gets wet.

It is necessary to sew two layers of fabric along the line at the same time; the seam begins and ends between the hind limbs of our craft, leaving about 2 centimeters unsewn - this hole is necessary to make it more convenient to stuff the pig. Also, you can’t cut the seam threads so that it doesn’t come apart when we turn and stuff our pig.

We also cut out triangular teeth at the seam allowances, leaving a distance to the seam itself of about 0.2 cm - this will allow the seam on the toy to remain smooth and not bulge in different directions.

Now we turn it inside out and stuff the stitched pig; For particularly narrow spaces, the ends of folded scissors are suitable. We fill the toy with padding polyester using the unsewn holes: the more padding polyester there is inside, the more “plump” and “pot-bellied” our pig will be. It is necessary to carefully sew up the holes through which we stuffed our pig and thread it - this will help us easily hang our pig to dry.

Now let’s prepare the flavoring for our craft: dilute 40 ml of boiling water in a prepared container and add a teaspoon of coffee. Then the remaining ingredients - vanilla, cinnamon, cocoa - add about a quarter of a teaspoon to the resulting mixture.

Stir everything thoroughly and cool. Then you need to add about half a teaspoon of PVA glue to the mixture and mix thoroughly.

Apply the resulting composition to our pig with a toothbrush so that the fabric is stained and not completely saturated.

Now we need to dry our toy; To do this, hang it on a rack in the oven, turned on at low heat, for a quarter of an hour.
If, after drying, there are still wet spots on the toy, you need to turn off the oven and dry our workpiece in this way.

After complete drying, the fabric soaked in the coffee adhesive solution will become rigid, and any funny design can easily be applied to it.

Let's start coloring - first with a simple pencil to outline the details, and then with the help of acrylic paints. After the paints have dried, you can attach a loop or magnet to the coffee toy - then you can hang it on christmas tree or on the refrigerator.

It is advisable to avoid getting the toy wet. Our wonderful DIY coffee pig is ready!

Sew a tilde pig

In order to make such a wonderful souvenir, we will need a printout of the pattern, cut out and transferred to the selected material. The best material for such a toy is natural, plain light fabric, such as linen, cotton, calico, poplin. You can take materials left over from old clothes or a new piece of fabric.

The pattern itself consists of several parts - the pig's body, ears and legs.

The fabric must be folded in half, the pattern pieces placed on top and traced; Don't forget to leave 0.5 cm on the seams. Now we cut out the resulting parts and sew them together as shown in mk.

Be sure to leave holes for filling the craft with stuffing and in order to sew on the pig's tail. Next, we need to sew the resulting parts together and turn them inside out. We fill the craft with filler, for example, padding polyester, holofiber, padding polyester; You can also put a flavor sachet into the pig.

It is necessary to sew the legs and ears to the body of the pig using a hidden seam. We decorate the muzzle: you can glue plastic eyes, sew on beads, embroider with threads or paint, nostrils can be drawn or embroidered with floss; You can paint a blush on the pig’s cheeks, so it will become more elegant.

In order to make the last detail of our pig doll - the perky tail - we will need to cut out a rectangular piece of fabric that is suitable in size, and sew a piece of flexible wire into it.

We fix the tip of the wire inside the tail with glue.

After the glue has dried, pull the second, free end, and it will take the shape of a pig's curled tail. We sew the tail into the body of our toy.

See below for a few more options for textile piglets:

Video bonus: pompom pig

This video presents a master class that step by step reveals the process of making a pig from homemade pompoms.

All presented in the article step by step instructions Making homemade souvenir toys of a pig - a symbol of the coming 2019 - is very simple; to repeat them, you need simple materials, which can be found in every home. With a little patience, skill and care, you can make any of these toys yourself.

You can arm yourself with threads and nails and make paintings in the style of pig string art:

A pig souvenir is a gift that will not leave anyone indifferent; it will give joyful emotions to everyone! Dare and create with our master classes!

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