Paper crafts in elementary school
You can make many fun toys out of paper. You can play with these toys, you can give toys as a gift. We suggest making a cow from colored paper.
Paper cow. Step-by-step instruction
Materials
Multi-colored cardboard
Markers
Scissors
Work sequence
Cut out a rectangle from dark cardboard, bend it and glue it together as shown in the picture. This will be the cow's head. Cut out an oval from pink cardboard, and a shape for the horns from yellow cardboard. Cut out an oval from white paper and glue it onto the cow's head blank. Cut out ears from cardboard.
Form the cow's head. Draw eyes on white cardboard, cut out and glue. Use a marker to draw the details. Cut out a blank for the body from dark cardboard and twist it into a tube. Cut out the legs with hooves and the tail. Glue the head to the body using a strip of cardboard. Glue the remaining parts to the body.
Color the picture
A cow stands in the meadow
And chews grass.
Since Lord Krishna is the favorite of cows and a cowherd boy, in almost any game cows are at least desirable. Lots of cows. Or at least a small herd. We often imagined cows - beans, pebbles, plasticine sculptures of our mother.
Collecting a dozen Schleich or Gulliver cows is a good option, but too expensive. And recently, during the baby's nap, I made a small herd out of cardboard. Regular colored cardboard for children's creativity. But the result is so cute that we decided to expand this collection, since Daya appreciated the figures.
I really like this option - the colored side inward. They are somehow very calm, but not boring. When I got my hands on a figured hole punch, I wanted to make spots with it too.
While playing with such cows, you can safely tell your child that Krishna has red, yellow, white and black cows in his herd. Act out scenes of cows returning from pastures, with Krishna playing special melodies on the flute and calling the cow leaders of certain groups. Kids can be told about why the Lord got the name Govinda - this happened during Govardhana-lila, a very interesting description of which can be read.
We played like this: we raised Govardhana Hill from Lego and hid cows under it, while I talked about everything that was happening.
Again, while playing, you can count cows, learn colors, shades - even if you make a herd of four colors, you can make just the yellow cows completely different in shades. We made the colored part of our herd from double-sided thin cardboard and paper. The colors were those that were at home.
You can download the templates by which all these cows are made (there will be a link a little later)
And it all started with these very simple cows from an ordinary box))). You can take any template you like - I just searched on Google for “cow silhouette” (you can just as well write “cow silhouette”) - there are a great many of them. I printed it out, cut it out, outlined it on cardboard, cut it out, plus a very simple stand - a grass tussock made from the same cardboard. Incisions are made in it (and a small one in the leg too, for better fixation). These cows are very cool to paint. Moreover, it is the kids who produce the most interesting work - only the colors are best given those that do not turn into dirt when mixed.
We played goshala with these cows. They remembered how after church they went to feed the cows, how wet their noses were, how the calves sucked milk, and how these cows were milked, and then the milk was delivered in cans to all the houses. They even remembered the tractor that brought a huge cartload of fresh grass every morning. About how affectionate cows are, how grateful. They remembered how the horns felt to the touch, how smooth the fur was. These memories are so vivid for the baby, so he always plays games related to goshala very willingly and with great joy.
Print Thanks, great lesson +3
A cow in the form of a toy can be made by the child himself. For example, from paper. And in order for it to turn out as high-quality and accurately as possible, download the template and move on to the first stage.
Necessary materials:
Step-by-step photo lesson:
Download the template and print it on thick paper. Now you can start cutting out elements from it. There are 4 of them in total: a tail, a muzzle, a body with a head and a small element to add volume.
We begin to create a cow from the largest element. We bend all sides along the dotted lines. A small part near the ear should be cut with scissors, up to the vertical dotted line.
We glue all sides of the workpiece to obtain a square body shape.
Now let’s add another detail to the muzzle, which will be voluminous. To do this, you need to prepare one part. It looks like a white stripe with dotted lines. It should be bent along the lines and glued to form a rectangle. Then we apply glue to most of the rectangle and lean it against the bottom of the muzzle.
Glue the lower part of the muzzle to the cow's head.
Now you should make a tail for the spotted cow. To do this, take the part and bend it along the dotted line. We apply office glue and apply it to the back of the body.
Now the paper toy in the shape of a cow from the template is ready. Let the glue dry thoroughly and secure all the glued elements together so that the child can play.
Which pet is sung in many songs and Russian folk tales as a good nurse? Of course a cow! Start your child's acquaintance with this wonderful animal with fun and easy paper crafts.
In this article we offer simple master classes that will help you make a cow craft with your own hands.
DIY cow
Craft Cow
To make such a chess cow, you will need the following materials: a ready-made cow template (attached below), scissors, black colored paper and glue.
Print the finished cow template on thick landscape paper. Then carefully cut out. Cut narrow strips of paper from black double-sided colored paper and thread them into the workpiece in a checkerboard pattern (see photo).
Now you need to glue the head, legs, tail and udder to the checkerboard body of the cow.
The finished craft can be an excellent decoration for a greeting card or the main character of a three-dimensional applique.
How to make a cow with your own hands?
DIY Cow craft
To make such a voluminous craft, you will need a small box, four cardboard toilet paper rolls, black paints, white paper and a black marker.
If necessary, the cardboard box must be covered with white paper. Then glue cardboard sleeves to the box to create legs.
Knitted cows
Knitted cows (amigurumi)
All toys are knitted.
We knit the body of the cow: on two stocking needles we cast on six loops, knit them with knit stitches and distribute them onto three knitting needles - there should be 2 loops on each knitting needle, we knit them in the round:
1st row - we knit two from each loop, knitting a loop from the loop of the previous row.
2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, 10th rows, knit with facial loops without increments.
3rd row - *from the first loop we knit two knit stitches, one knit stitch *from one stitch we knit two stitches, one knit stitch.
5th row - *from one - two knit stitches, knit 2*, from one - two, knit 2.
7th row - *from one – two loops knit, 3 – knit*, from one – two, 3 – knit.
9th row - *from one - two knit stitches, 4 - knit stitches*, from one - two stitches, 4 - knit stitches.
11th row - *from one – two loops knit, 5 – knit*, from one – two, 5 – knit.
12th, 13th rows - we knit all the loops with facial loops.
14th row - *from one - two knit loops, 6 - knit *, from one - two, 6 - knit.
From the 15th row we knit (twenty rows) - all loops - knit without adding.
Then we start decreasing: first we decrease -*knit two loops together with a knit stitch, 5 knit stitches*, two knit stitches together, 5 knit stitches.
Knit two rows without decreasing. Then in every second row we decrease on each needle: *two stitches together, knit four*, two stitches together, knit four. Fill with filler (sintepon). On the knitting needle, two loops should decrease in every second row until two loops remain on each knitting needle (crochet the remaining six loops into one loop) and crochet the cow's tail with air loops at the end of the tail, make a thickening-tassel: four half double crochets we knit from one loop and tighten and hide the cut of the thread. 
Legs of a cow: on the body of the cow we cast on three loops and knit with a circular strand of three loops - ten rows, then we knit the hoof, adding two loops on the knitting needle in every second row (until there are six loops on the knitting needle), filling the hoof with padding polyester, making a decrease Each row has two loops on each needle. We crochet the remaining six loops, cut the thread and hide the end of the thread. We do this for four legs. We distribute buckets randomly on the body (by eye)
We knit the face of a cow: cast on six loops on two stocking needles, knit with knit stitches, distribute two loops onto three knitting needles, close in a circle:
1st row - knit two stitches from each stitch.
2nd, 4th, 6th rows: knit with facial loops without increments.
3rd row - knit two knit stitches from each stitch (there should be eight stitches on the knitting needle).
5th row - *from one loop, two, knit two*, from one two, knit two. But we do this addition only on one knitting needle (to get the lip of a cow).
We knit the 7th - 16th rows with facial loops (without additions).
17th row - on one needle (on the one that was added), * knit two together, knit one, * knit two together, knit one.
Then we knit several rows with facial loops without additions. To the height of the cow's muzzle, we fill it with filler (sintepon) and make a choke in every second row on each knitting needle, decrease two loops until two loops remain on the knitting needle, crochet six loops into one loop, tighten and cut the thread.
Cow's ear: cast on five loops. 1st row - facial loops. 2nd row - purl loops. 3rd row - add two loops. 4th, 6th, 8th rows - purl. 5th, 7th rows - facial loops. 9th row - we make a decrease: two together, knit, two together. 10th row - purl. 11th row - we make a decrease (three loops remain on the knitting needle). 12th row - purl. 13th row - from three loops we knit three loops together with knit stitches. Next we knit the purl row, we knit the last loop from the fabric of the already knitted half of the ear and we get an increase. In the front row we also knit the last loop from the last loop of the previous fabric. The ear should be double. When the second half is equal in height to the first, close all the loops. We knit the second ear in the same way.
We knit horns: we cast on three loops, then after three rows we make an increase (there are five loops on the knitting needle), after five rows we also make an increase (there are seven loops on the knitting needle), we knit several rows with regular stockinette stitch, then we make a decrease according to the same pattern as the increase We tighten the last three loops, leave a long thread and sew along the edge of the horn, tightening it a little so that the horns are rounded.
Assembling the cow: Then we sew on the eyes from beads on the muzzle, embroider the mouth, sew on the ears and horns. Sew the head to the body, the cow is ready
