- Dos cajas de cereal
- Silicon fio y caliente
- Papel crepe blanco y negro
- Papel lustrillo amarillo
- Lápiz
- Tijeras
- Cordones elásticos
- Foami amarillo y negro escarchado
- bolsa de basura
Hello community! I hope you are very well, for my part I have decided to share something that fills me with great emotion to do, although I have never really liked crafts because I consider myself very bad at it, at this stage of my life I have had to learn a little about everything, because being a mother is that, you always need to have an excess of imagination.
Recently at my son's school they announced that they would have a carnival party on February 17, where the children must dress up with reusable materials, the teacher chose the costume theme for each child, as they will have this party with a Venezuela theme In the case of my son, he had to dress up as a turpial, a beautiful bird symbol of Venezuela.
When I read that message from the teacher, I was excited and very nervous at the same time, because I really didn't know if I could handle that challenge of making a costume and I didn't know where to start either, so I analyzed the situation and thought that the main thing would be create some wings that represent the colors of this beautiful bird, with a lot of nerves and few expectations I started to work and for these turpial wings I used the following materials:
- Two boxes of cereal
- Silicon cold and hot
- Black and white crepe paper
- Yellow polish paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Elastic laces
- yellow and black GLITTER foami.
- Garbage bag
To make these beautiful wings it took me almost a full day, I started last night, I resumed this morning and I just finished this afternoon, the truth was that it was very difficult for me but I did my best.
I started by organizing all my materials and sketching the shape of the base of the wings on the cereal box, since the cereal box is very thin I made the same shape 4 times to join each piece and make it thicker so that I could support much better, to glue it much better and faster, use hot silicone.
After gluing these pieces and creating the base of the wings, I had to place something on it that would allow me to make the shape of the wings and at the same time help as a support when gluing the "feathers" in my case I chose a black garbage bag, but it could perfectly be a wrapping paper or any other material that is light, glue the bag around the base of the wings separately.
I cut the garbage bag on both sides giving it a more oval shape similar to the wings, but I was still not convinced about the space between the two wings, so I decided to glue a piece of bag in the middle to cover that space, now look for my black crepe paper and cut lots of feathers to stick on the bag using cold silicone, I started from the bottom up so that the shape of the feathers made sense.
Little by little I was gluing each black feather, until I reached the middle of the wings where I decided to intersperse with white, so I did the same procedure with white crepe paper, and then with yellow polish paper on the white, until I filled it completely.
So that the inner part of the wings would not look so empty, I decided to add feathers on that side, I had made a simpler plumage but in the end I decided to add more feathers as I had done before to make it look more beautiful.
I cut many white feathers of different sizes and glued them to the inside, under these white feathers I put some black feathers with glitter foam, I still had to cover the part of the cereal box that was still visible, for this I used yellow foam and cut out similar to the shape of the cereal box, it was a little difficult because the size of the foami sheet was very small compared to the cardboard, but I tried to figure it out.
I glued the pieces and with glitter black foam I covered the thick part in the middle where the cereal box is.
Finally, I used two small elastic strings to stick them between the cardboard base in the middle, thus creating the holes where my son could put his little arms and show off his wings.
The only thing left was he put on his wings, I got very nervous but it turned out very well and he was excited to have them on, now I need to make him a mask that looks like a bird, but I was too exhausted to do it today so soon I will show that result here too, I hope you liked it and it served to give you some ideas if you need to do something similar, I loved it and it has even given me ideas to make wings for myself.
So cute! Good job!
Birds 🐦 💜
Thanks alot 🤗
Que creativo y original y los niños contentos que lindos dios los bendiga ...gracia por compartir
Muchas gracias! 🙏
Qué gran desafío, pero sin dudas lo lograste!! Quedaron hermosas las alas y se nota mucho la creatividad y la paciencia que pusiste al armarlas🌷🌷 te felicito!!❤
Gracias 🤗🥰🥰
Se ve que se toma su tiempo y lleva su trabajo pero las alas quedaron muy bien y lo mejor es que usaste material reciclado! Muy buen trabajo. 👌
Muchas gracias! sii la idea es hacer magia con lo que podamos reciclar 😁 saludos