“Matryoshka” made of paper. Master Class. Craft “Matryoshka” from scrap materials How to make a Russian nesting doll out of paper

Matryoshka, or as Americans call it Russian doll, is clearly in fashion now. A huge number of various variations on the matryoshka theme can be found on the Internet. While preparing for a lesson with the children (I had to replace our favorite teacher before the New Year), I found idea for an unusual nesting doll: either postcards or toys. We sculpted it with the kids and their mothers. And it was the mothers who were especially delighted :)

Matryoshka: postcard, craft, toy

1. This time we did not create a template, but took the template from here.
2. I cut out the matryoshka doll itself from colored cardboard, and the face, hair and flowers from flexics. If you don’t have flex, you can use anything (cardboard, colored paper, fabric, napkins).
3. The parts can be glued to a glue stick or double-sided tape.
4. I drew the face and flowers with markers.

This simple children's craft will delight kids, because it can easily be fold into an accordion, and then spread it out again, and so on 100 times, until something comes off... Well, it happens :) Or you can give it to someone and the nesting doll will proudly stand on the nightstand and remind you of the diligent little artist.

Real Russian beauties, nesting dolls in bright scarves, settled in my dacha. And no one believes that I made them myself!

I got the desire to make large nesting dolls after watching the film “New Adventures of Italians in Russia.”

Of course, my nesting dolls are not so huge, but they also look quite impressive.

Preparation of materials
We will need two 30-liter beer bottles. To open them, first you need to bleed the air from each one, pressing hard on the middle of the cork, and then saw off the cork with a hacksaw blade and wash the bottle well.

For the top of the large nesting doll, I took a 5-liter bucket, for the middle matryoshka, I took a 5-liter round bottle and cut it in half; I used the top. I made a small nesting doll from a 5-liter bottle and a 1-liter mayonnaise bucket.

Working with foam
Turn the bottles over and foam the bottom to create a flat surface. After drying, trim off the excess.

We turn the bottles over again and apply the top part to each one. We position it in the center and foam the joint with a thin layer (glue it together).

Building up the top
We extend the top of a large nesting doll. To do this, cut out a circle from foam plastic equal to the diameter of the bottom of the bucket, 50 mm thick, and glue it with Liquid Nails glue. After drying, cut the foam so that it forms a semicircle. Photo: Blank for a large nesting doll

For a medium matryoshka, cut off the neck of a 5-liter bottle and glue a circle cut from any plastic bottle onto this place using Liquid Nails glue so that the head of the matryoshka is round. For strength, you can glue a strip of plaster bandage on top. Photo: Blank for a medium matryoshka doll

To round the head of a small nesting doll, we use a foam semicircle, according to the same principle as for a large one. Photo: Blank for a small nesting doll

Primer and putty
We wrap our nesting dolls with strips of fabric soaked in liquid cement (at the rate of 1 part cement and 3 parts sand). After 2 days, sand it a little so that there are no protruding lumps. Photo: Preparation in cement “bandages”

We prime and cover the surfaces with facade putty, without touching the bottom.

Bringing beauty
To make the nesting dolls stable, dilute a thick cement solution (1:3) and make cakes of the same diameter as the bottom, 1.5–2 cm thick. Place the figures tightly on them. Photo: Blank on a cement stand

After drying, sand, prime and paint. I painted the face and hands with acrylic paints, the clothes with alkyd paints, and made the bottom black. Then I secured everything with spray acrylic varnish. Photo: Finished nesting dolls

The matryoshka dolls turned out to be a sight for sore eyes!

Matryoshka made of clay and plasticine

To work, we take a lump of clay and try to make a matryoshka doll. But no matter how hard you try, the sides of the nesting doll may turn out to be uneven. To fix this, we’ll make a template from thick cardboard.

We place the sculpted product on a pottery wheel or sculptural machine, attach the template to the figurine and turn it along with the wheel. The template itself will cut off the irregularities, and where there is a depression, add clay or plasticine.

And one more tip: to save clay and make the toy lighter, take a regular teaspoon and remove a little clay from the base. You can make a surprise - make a small nesting doll and cover it with a large one.

If it turns out that you don’t have clay or you are making a matryoshka doll in winter, use plasticine. And to make it more convenient to paint the resulting product, apply a little flour, talc or starch to the plasticine. This must be done so that the water-based paint, which is then used to paint the matryoshka doll, adheres well. Plasticine processed in this way can be painted with gouache, watercolor, tempera and even oil paints.

Papier-mâché matryoshka

A large fake nesting doll can be made using the papier-mâché technique (in French this means chewed paper). The essence of this technique is as follows: small pieces of loose paper (newsprint, packaging) are placed on an object (bowl, vase, etc.) in layers, covering each layer with potato paste.

There can be from 6 to 10 layers, depending on the size and shape of the product. After the paste has dried, the resulting form is removed. It’s easier to do this from a tray or saucer, but it’s not easy to do it from complex items (a jug, a vase). In this case, papier-mâché is cut into 2 halves, then, after removing them, the halves are glued together. The surface should be smooth, and if there are dents, they are primed with putty or carbolate, and the protruding tubercles are removed using sandpaper.

Matryoshka on a jar

A glass jar will serve as a good basis for making nesting dolls.

Take a glass jar of the required size (baby food, half-liter, 3-liter bottle) and close it with a lid. Let's form the sides and head of the nesting doll from plasticine. Then, using the papier-mâché technique, we begin making the toy.

To ensure that the finished paper product leaves the mold well, lubricate it with oil or Vaseline.

Tear the newspaper into small pieces and, having welded the glue, start gluing the matryoshka doll. We advise you to alternate a layer of newspaper with a layer of, for example, gray wrapping paper. After making 2-3 layers, let the work dry, then glue again. Cut the finished work into 2 halves with a sharp knife. Lubricate the edges of the cut with PVA glue and connect. You can tie them with thread. Glue the joint again. Sand the product with fine sandpaper, paint your nesting doll with water-based paint and paint it. To protect your work from exposure to water, coat the painting with varnish.

Matryoshka from a balloon

A large matryoshka can be made using a balloon.

Place it on the base (roll a strip of cardboard into a ring), it will be more stable.

See pictures.

Today I will tell you how to do it paper matryoshka dolls. These funny dolls fold into one another, like real nesting dolls. All you need to make this craft is cardboard or thick paper, a little creativity and a little time. Try making fun paper nesting dolls with your children!

How to make matryoshka dolls from paper

To make fun paper nesting dolls, first download the archive with pictures and templates. Print out the designs of the nesting dolls on thick paper or thin cardboard. Please note that each of the 7 nesting dolls has a front and back side. Cut out the paper blanks for the nesting dolls and glue each doll so that it has a colored back on the back and a beautiful face on the front.

When the blanks are glued and dried (you can put leaves with nesting dolls under the press), carefully cut the handles along the solid lines and bend them down along the dotted line.

Along the dotted lines, you need to bend the paper so that each nesting doll has a blouse of 2 halves and a pocket from the bottom. Bend the handles, they will hold the blouse so that it does not open.

When all the paper dolls are ready, the nesting dolls can be collected one into another. To do this, each smaller doll is inserted into a pocket that bends down from the bottom of the larger doll.

The matryoshka doll has always been considered a native Russian toy. It demonstrated the culture of the Russian people of various provinces, their traditional folk decorations. To this day, the nesting doll is considered to be an exclusively Russian souvenir, which symbolizes the image of motherhood and fertility. The traditional nesting doll is made of wood, but today’s craftsmen do not stop at this material and offer us many options: made of fabric, papier-mâché style, felt, plastic bottles, paper and much more. In this article we suggest you sew a matryoshka doll with your own hands.

Pattern structure

As always, before you start sewing any product, you need to decide on a suitable pattern. In fact, a pattern for a nesting doll will not give you much trouble: you can draw it by hand, adhering to the basic requirements, or you can download it on the Internet.

We offer you several photos of the most popular patterns:

Next you need to select the appropriate material. You can use any fabric that you have at home; it can be colored scraps of various textures and sizes, or some unnecessary thing. For decoration you can use buttons, satin ribbons, lace, beads, sequins, whatever your imagination tells you.

For clarity, we invite you to consider a detailed master class.

Let's get started

We will need:

• suitable fabric;
• lace for decoration;
• filler;
• scissors;
• needle and thread according to color;
• acrylic paints and brush.

1. Let's prepare our pattern.

This nesting doll will consist of three main colors: the top is white fabric, flesh-colored is the face of our matryoshka, the bottom is red fabric.

1. Let's start from the top. From white fabric we cut out 2 identical parts according to the pattern.

In one part we make a hole for the face.

We cut a narrow strip from the red fabric and sew lace onto it. With this element we will cover part of our face, imitating the handkerchief on our nesting doll.

When sewing, so that our parts do not move, attach them with pins.

This is how it should turn out:

1. Now let's move on to the bottom of our doll. To do this, according to the pattern, we also cut out 2 parts from red colored fabric and sew them with the parts of the face and back of the head. Having connected all the parts together, we sew them along the contour. Be sure to leave holes so that you can fill the nesting doll with filler; these places are marked with dotted lines on the pattern.

We turn the finished product inside out and stuff it with filling, after which we sew up the bottom with a hidden seam.

1. Our matryoshka is ready, all that remains is to paint her face with acrylic paints.