Hello again. Do you know, dear readers, what interesting, and most importantly, not quite ordinary DIY potato crafts can be made with a certain amount of imagination and a desire to create? Have you ever tried to do something similar yourself? I suggest you read my short review of potato crafts and it may very well be that you or your children will like something or come up with some interesting ideas in your bright minds.

DIY edible potato crafts

We all know what delicious dishes can be prepared from potatoes. Take for example potatoes, which are fried on skewers. And if you approach the process creatively and make just such potato heads.

You can’t say anything, a really original potato craft. But let me tell you guys, this is just the beginning.

You can make baked or fried potatoes, in the form of leaves or other shapes. Such crafts are made as follows: pre-peeled potatoes are cut into rounds of the desired thickness, and then the necessary figure is squeezed out using molds for making homemade cookies (forms made of tin are suitable). It remains only to cook all this and the original potato yummy is ready!

Another option is the edible potato hedgehog. The craft is simple, but at the same time original and tasty.

Let's now move on to the question of how to make children's crafts from potatoes with your own hands. Believe me, this is just a limitless field for imagination!

Potato crafts for kids

Of course, the very first thing that comes to mind is to make such funny little men or animals out of potatoes. For example, here is such a Mr. Kartofan.

For crafts, we need clean potato tubers, sticks, sewing pins with round heads and various lids or jars of yogurt for making hats. It is more difficult to collect all the components of this potato craft than to assemble the craft itself.

Another funny potato figurine made with sticks (or matches), buttons and pieces of paper or ribbons of cloth.

This also includes such funny works that depict various animals.

Here is such a parrot made of potatoes and pieces of bell pepper.

You can make a funny hedgehog from a potato tuber and matches or toothpicks.

How do you like this octopus?

And I also found such a cool homemade hippo on the net.

You can describe all kinds of potato crafts to infinity. These are snowmen, bear cubs, mice, fish, etc. Sometimes you don’t even need to do anything special, because the potato tuber already has outlines similar to some object or animal.
When starting any work, remember that the more developed your imagination, the more original ideas you can generate for your crafts!

The next idea for children's potato crafts is homemade stamps. They are made as follows: we cut the potatoes in half, then either cut out the stamp with a sharp kitchen knife, or use the same tin stencils for cookies to greatly simplify the process. After making such a stamp, it remains only to apply paint on it and you can use it!

Seal options and the prints obtained with their help are shown in the photographs.

Educational institutions sometimes require their students to create unusual accessories, decorations, and interior objects. Do-it-yourself potato crafts for school are very interesting, because they are easy to make, but it is possible to present them in a very unusual way. Consider step-by-step master classes on how to make interesting animals, birds, living creatures based on such a vegetable and what additional improvised materials will be needed.

What craft can be made from potatoes for schoolchildren

• Animals: bears, hares, giraffes, pigs.
• Insects: spiders, caterpillars, centipedes.
• Vegetables: carrots, onions, beets, cabbage, mushrooms, tomatoes.
• Pets: cats, chickens, dogs, mice, parrots, horses, lambs, cows.
• Marine life: golden fish, jellyfish, shells, turtles.
• Compositions of different types of animals in nature: sheep in the pasture, horses for a walk, turtles in the lake, hippopotamus in the swamp, snakes on a branch.

Step by step instructions for making

Do-it-yourself potato crafts for school should bring joy to the child who makes it. Such an activity will be interesting, so parents are required to pick up very spectacular materials: unusual potatoes, vegetables, glue, various sticks, plasticine, etc. If a child makes only one animal, then you should try to arrange it so that all teachers and friends like it. Consider step by step instructions for some easy do-it-yourself potato crafts for school.

Master class on making smeshariki from potatoes and plasticine

1. We take 4 medium-sized potatoes, wash them thoroughly, wipe them with dry napkins and put them in a warm place so that the vegetable dries out completely.
2. In the meantime, we prepare plasticine, for this we place the material on a battery, in a microwave oven or in the sun, so that it becomes malleable for modeling.
3. The “body” of each Smeshariki will be a potato, it must be wrapped in a thin layer of pastel-colored plasticine (peach, lemon, beige, pink).
4. We make the white eyes of each character with the help of nail polish or corrector, which is often used by schoolchildren.
5. We draw glasses, pupils, eyelashes and eyebrows for each smeshariki with a black or brown pencil.
6. The nose, arms and legs should be done with the help of multi-colored plasticine of bright colors. To do this, you need to warm up a small piece of material in your hands, mold a triangle or strip and press it tightly against the finished body.
7. One of the main decorations of Smeshariki is their upper part, which should be molded from plasticine in the form of a horn, a hat, needles, a crown with a bow.
8. When all Smeshariki are ready, it remains to supplement the craft with a beautiful landscape using leaves, pine branches, cones, small pieces of wood in the form of stumps.

Adorable couple of bears

1. We prepare the potatoes: we choose 6-7 raw potatoes of small size, about 3-4 cm in diameter. It is desirable that the shape of the vegetable is oblong. The color of potatoes is better to take a neutral brown or greenish.
2. We wash the vegetables using a brush to clean all the pieces of the earth.
3. Choose 2 small balls for the head. It is better to put an oblong potato across so that this part of the body is wide, not narrow.
4. For the body, take a slightly larger potato, set vertically.
5. Cut out 4 potato quarters to serve as legs.
6. Cut off 4 strips from potatoes to serve as hands.
7. Small pieces of vegetable with a semicircular skin will be the ears of the bears.
8. When all the parts are ready, we connect them with ordinary toothpicks, piercing one and the second part, which must be put together.
9. It is allowed to decorate crafts with plasticine flowers, berries or vegetables.
10. The eyes, nose and mouth of each bear must be cut out of colored paper, cardboard. They are easy to stick with glue or attach to a small piece of plasticine.

Original hedgehog with toothpick spines

1. We wash one medium-sized potato (if you want a bigger hedgehog, then you should take a large vegetable).
2. We prepare about 30-50 toothpicks, the more, the more effective the hedgehog.
3. We cut each toothpick in half and stick it into the potato so that there is an empty space in front for the muzzle.
4. It is allowed to make hedgehog eyes using raisins, dried mountain ash or other berries. It is also better to pin such elements on toothpicks.
5. The nose and legs of the hedgehog should be made carrot, it is advisable to wash the vegetable and cut into pieces.
6. In order for the potato hedgehog to look very impressive, it needs to be decorated with leaves, fruits and berries (as if they themselves were attached to the needles). For this, it is allowed to take apples, mini-zucchini, cucumbers, seeds or other natural gifts. You need to decompose them as fantasy tells.
7. The hedgehog craft will look even more beautiful if the animal is placed on bright yellow and red leaves that lie at the feet.

Making cheburashka with your own hands

1. Choose one large white potato. We wash it under running water with a brush to remove all dirt.
2. We dry the vegetable with dry napkins.
3. We cut the potatoes into strips, 1-2 cm wide. One vegetable should make 6-7 circles, but it is better if they are oval.
4. Using toothpicks, pin the middle circle (this is the head) to the largest piece (which will become the body).
5. Next, we fasten the ears with toothpicks, which you need to choose the same large size.
6. The outermost parts of the potatoes will make excellent legs.
7. Handles need to be cut from the remaining piece of potato, they will be small in size.
8. Eyes, nose and mouth of cheburashka must be done with spices, carrots, beets or cabbage.
9. So that the cut potato does not turn black, it must be greased with a small amount of oil or acidified water.
10. It is possible to decorate a cheburashka from potatoes with a hat, a flower, a leaf of an autumn tree.
11. A craft with several cheburashkas will be very original: mom, dad and child.

1. For such a simple craft, pick up 5-6 potatoes, two of which are large (this will be mom and dad), and the rest are medium in size (about 5 cm in diameter). The shape of vegetables can be either round or oblong, it does not matter much. It is better to choose varieties of pink, purple, beige with smooth skin.
2. Rinse all potatoes under water and dry with dry paper towels.
3. Prepare plasticine in black or dark brown, pink and burgundy. Warm it up in the microwave or on the stove.
4. With skillful children's hands, with the help of adults, blind the ears for all triangular-shaped piglets. Attach them to each potato. Keep in mind that the ears of mom and dad should be slightly larger than children's.
5. Twist the ball of plasticine and press it against the table, so you get a circle. Take a small carnation with a smooth hat and put 2 dots on the plasticine area, which will look like a pig's nostrils.
6. Carry out similar actions with other plasticine balls that will be used as the nose of each pig.
7. Attach circles of plasticine with holes to the potatoes, put similar eyes, but of a very small diameter.
8. It is imperative to roll up a small plasticine sausage and twist it. We attach such a tail to each potato. It is better if these parts are different for all piglets.
9. It is possible to decorate the composition of pigs from potatoes with vegetables, grass or leaves. The main thing is that such an addition looks organic. Successful work!

How to make a potato man

1. In order to make a potato man, you need: 1-2 medium potatoes, 5 toothpicks or thin wooden skewers, 1 small tomato and 1 large.
2. Rinse all vegetables and pat dry with paper towels.
3. From the first potato, cut 1 cm from one end and 1 cm from the opposite. This will be the body of the future man.
4. From the second potato we cut off a small ring, 0.5-1 cm wide, which will serve as the basis for the hat. We fasten this part to the base, the process of describing it in paragraph 3.
5. Cut out a heart from part of the second potato and attach it to the bottom of the structure that already exists. These will be the human legs.
6. From the remnants of the vegetable, we cut out the arms and attach them to the body using toothpicks.
7. Cut off the edge of a large tomato and attach it to the base of the hat. Such a red hat will look very good on potatoes.
8. Cut a small tomato in half. We attach one part of it to the head to make a nose. We will use the second one as a basket that a person holds in his hand.
9. We make the eyes of a little man using raisins, small berries or plastic balls.
10. We cut the mouth with a knife in the “head” of the potato.
11. We decorate the composition with small vegetables, berries and fruits.

How to make a snowman

1. In order to make a beautiful do-it-yourself potato craft for a school in the form of a snowman, you need to pick up 3 of these vegetables of different sizes (large, medium and small).
2. For work, we also prepare carrots, toothpicks and wooden skewers, paper, felt-tip pens, thick threads and any cap that looks like a bucket (possibly from old toys).
3. We wash the vegetables for crafts and dry them with a towel.
4. We prick potatoes on a large wooden skewer (allowed for two for strength) as they decrease. The bottom vegetable should be placed so that it is as stable as possible (this is the easiest way).
5. We pass a toothpick through the central potato and prick circles of carrots on it. These will be the snowman's hands.
6. We attach a cap to the head with glue.
7. We make the eyes of the snowman paper, and draw dark pupils in the center.
8. The mouth is also better to finish with a red pen or pencil.
9. The nose of the snowman will be small, it must be made from the sharp part of the wooden skewer.
10. We put the craft buttons with a dark felt-tip pen.
11. Cut off a few thick threads and glue them to the cut skewer. This will be a broom, which we attach to the snowman's hand. Work is ready!

Video

So that every parent can help their child make an unusual DIY potato craft for school, it is best to first consider some free video tutorials or recommendations for creating these accessories. Caring mothers and fathers understand that the more interesting the idea, the easier it is to involve the child in the work. From potatoes it is easy to make not only animals, but also plants. And if you combine all this into a single composition, you get a chic craft.

Rose

Potato craft is a fun way to turn an ordinary vegetable into quirky fairy tale characters, cartoon characters and make children's fantasies come true. Such crafts are especially relevant before the “Day of the Potato” and most often they are made for the kindergarten. And today, our selection of ideas is just dedicated to such crafts.

Materials that you will need for crafts:

• Potatoes of various sizes and shapes
• toothpicks
• Plasticine
• rowan berries
• Satin ribbon, threads, braid and other decorative elements.
• colored paper

Craft "Cat" from potatoes

The simplest craft, for the manufacture of which you need to connect 3 potatoes with toothpicks. Ears, eyes and mustaches are cut out of colored paper, and a bow flaunts around the neck.

Craft "People" from potatoes

There are many options for making little men, but in front of you is the simplest. We take large potatoes for the body, we make legs from smaller potatoes cut in half. The parts are connected with toothpicks. The handles are sticks, and the hair, eyes, mouth and nose are made of plasticine.

And if you want something more original, then you have a good example of a potato man. Pompoms are made from threads and used for arms and legs.

Craft "Bears" from potatoes

It is very easy to make a charming couple of cubs. And the process of cutting parts and assembling is described in great detail in this diagram:

And here is the result:

Another option Bear is a fashionista. All the details are made of potatoes, and the muzzle is made of plasticine, and the beads are made of mountain ash.

Craft "Horse" from potatoes

For crafts, 7 small potatoes were used, the connection was toothpicks. The tail and mane are made of woolen threads.

In fact, there are still quite a few interesting options, which can be listed indefinitely. And as you can see, the manufacturing process is not much different. The main thing is to come up with an interesting image and you can safely embody ideas. And if you don’t have any, then I offer you a list of interesting ideas, who else can be done.

Potatoes are a very popular material for making children's crafts. However, there are a number of restrictions for making figures from raw potatoes. This is due to the fact that the tubers immediately darken on the cut. Therefore, only whole potatoes are used in the craft.

The beauty of this autumn tuberous vegetable is that, without any modifications, some specimens are already ready-made figurines of animals or fairy-tale characters. In collaboration with nature, you can easily show the world an invaluable example of design art. Needed: attentiveness, a couple of suitable details, such as a hat, etc., and a good degree of luck.

If you decide to make crafts from potatoes, do not be afraid to supplement them with other vegetables. From such bold combinations, a meek sheep or a wayward giraffe can turn out.

Raw Potato Crafts

Lamb

The following are involved in the manufacture of sheep: cauliflower - it turns out a white curly coat, a potato - it serves as a muzzle, and a couple of small white onions or radishes in the form of trusting eyes.

Giraffe

To create a giraffe, you need carrots. The orange queen of vegetables is the best for the neck. From potatoes, the head and torso of a guest from Africa are obtained. It is convenient to make craft legs and horns from twigs.

You can make a giraffe without using a carrot, it will be replaced by an even long twig.

In the following crafts, only potatoes are used with small additions of threads and branches.

horse

From three oblong potatoes, it's easy to make this simple craft. This craft is quite suitable for creativity lessons in kindergartens. From sticks - legs. From potatoes - head, neck and torso. From threads - a mane and a tail. From acorn hats - hooves.

Deer

Here is another children's potato craft. We need two tubers for its manufacture, one of which is twice as large as the other. From a small potato we make a head: we outline the eyes with carnations (this seasoning is sold in any grocery store), we form horns from sprawling twigs. We make the hind legs from single branches growing at an angle. The front legs are just two straight branches. We strengthen all four legs in a larger potato. The small branch will be the tail. Both parts of the body are connected by a toothpick.

birdie

By the same principle, you can make a bird. Body and head made of potatoes. We make out the beak of the craft from two seeds. Paws, like those of a deer, are made of twigs. Tail - colored feathers. You can also make a perky crest on your head.

Hedgehog

Perhaps the potato hedgehog is the most favorite children's craft of all time. It can be made from potatoes or apples. There is only one manufacturing technology: several dozen toothpicks are strengthened into a potato or apple body, these are hedgehog needles. Eyes and nose can be made from black peppercorns (it is sold in the same department as cloves).

Crafts from boiled potatoes

Much more opportunities for modeling from potatoes open up if you boil it. In crafts, then it becomes possible to use not only whole tubers, but also segments.

Cheburashka

For this potato craft, you will need half a tuber, which will be the body. From half a potato in a smaller size - we make a head. white slices will be a face and a belly. For the ears, you will need another potato. Cut it in half and cut off the convex part from each half. The legs are also two halves of one tuber, placed cut down. Handles can be made from halves of two small potatoes. All parts of the craft are connected with toothpicks. We make a face from a carnation.

Bear

Potatoes can become a material for making such a welcoming bear. If, instead of a barrel of honey, you give him a tray of fruit in his paws, this potato craft may well participate in the “Gifts of Autumn” exhibition. The whole figure is made according to the principle of Cheburashka. To make hands, we mentally divide a half of a potato into four parts and cut out one of the parts. It is important to find the right potato for the muzzle.

If corn is the queen of fields, then potatoes are the king of handicrafts of designers from 3 to 12 years old. And their parents.

In this article, I have collected cute potato crafts that your kids can make with their own hands. Such crafts are suitable as competitive works for the autumn exhibition at school. I will tell you how to make such children's crafts from potatoes and give links to other competitive crafts on the theme of autumn. And also we have another big article, which contains ideas for crafts of their other vegetables - onions, cabbage, radishes, carrots, etc.

So let's see what kids can do with regular potatoes. Fun and easy crafts for kids.

Potato craft

MOUSE-NORUSHKA.

We will need a little fluffy wire for the ears and tail. Fluffy wire can be replaced with ordinary wire, smeared with sticky plasticine, which will give the desired thickness.

If desired, you can make a fluffy plasticine tail and ears. If you coat the wire with plasticine, then cover it with nail polish and, until the varnish is high, put more fluffy fibers on it - they can be made if you cut woolen threads very finely with scissors.

The legs are ordinary matches. If desired, at the lower end of each match leg, you can make SLIPPERS - round olives or pieces of potatoes, carrots.

Potato lion.

Children's craft.

To a large potato - on a toothpick (one or two) we attach a smaller potato (this will be the head on the body of a lion). Next, we stick a lot of orange wire into the head - this will be the lion's mane. But not everyone has fluffy wire. Therefore, I offer such decor options for this potato craft.

Can you make a mane from woolen threads- just confuse them with a ball or sausage and stick around the lion's head.

Can be dyed orange cotton pads. Dry them - pick them up in fluffy shreds and glue them around the head. Cotton wool is well attached to nail polish (the potato surface must be perfectly dry before gluing).

Craft from potatoes

for kids.

In this children's craft, the head is also planted on 2 toothpicks (on one it will spin, and on two it will be fixed at the turn and tilt we need).

Cut out the nose from a piece of carrot - we also put it on 2 toothpicks. Paws cut out of orange skins. You can add a tail and wings (for example, from onion slices). Or they can be drawn with gouache on the sides of the body of a duck).

You can make such an owl craft with your own hands from potatoes and other vegetables. The wings are cuts with a knife. Carrot beak. Eyes can be made from onion rings, round cucumber slices, or molded from plasticine.

If your potato has a process of a narrower shape, then you can use a knife. make a cut-heel on it, and we have a pig's snout. Add a mouth, ears, eyes and the pig is ready. You can paint the craft in a delicate pink color with gouache.

Craft from potatoes

UNCLE WALRUS.

Wash potatoes, dry. From fluffy wire we make hands. You can make hands from ordinary wire thickened with plasticine.

We cut out the eyes, eyebrows and mustache of the walrus from thick paper. If you don't have colored paper at home, you can cut out walrus parts from a thick washcloth.

If you are lucky, you can find potatoes that will resemble a fur seal with their relief. It can also be added to our walrus craft.

Step into the market- they sell irregularly shaped potatoes at a low price. Or go to hyper market, where in the vegetable department you yourself can choose bulk potatoes, poured in bulk into boxes.

Next to the walrus you can do sandy beach - on the lid of a shoe box. Place potato stones on the beach. Draw a seashore. Soak an egg carton in boiling water - when it swells, tear it into pieces. Beat with a mixer (or knead with your hands). And squeeze a rag onto a sieve - we twist the rag very, very strongly so that all the liquid is forced out. You will get sticky paper dough. From the incongruous sea with crested waves. We paint the sea in blue gouache, and the edges of the scallops in white - imitating sea foam.

We put our piece of the sea on the lid of the shoe box. We pour sea sand next to the surf - we make a beach area for our walrus. It is better to pour sand on PVA glue - let it lie down so that the glue grabs and then shake off the excess. So the craft will not crumble.

If desired, other characters can be launched into the ocean. Shark, crabs and more.

Below we see a shark made from eggshells. But according to the same scheme, you can make a shark in the form of potato crafts. We cut out the teeth and tail from paper and attach it to the potatoes - glue the teeth, insert the tail into the slot-slit.

And you can make it even tougher. Shark mouth cut in potato. Paint the inner cut soak with paint - like a red mouth. Along the edges of the mouth - from above and below, poke rows of short pieces of toothpicks - paint them with white gouache - these will be real shark teeth.

Crafts from potatoes

For small children.

My potatoes, dry. We smear it with nail polish - a thick layer and attach buckwheat groats to the varnish. Let's dry. And repeat the procedure in other bald places. It is better to make eyes and nose from plasticine - expressive ones will turn out - with white proteins and black pupils.

An apple for a hedgehog can be made using the papier-mâché technique. Soak an egg carton in boiling water. Knead the paper dough in your hand. Squeeze excess moisture through the fabric. Blind an apple to dry - a day or two. Paint with gouache, sprinkle with nail polish.

And potatoes can be overlaid with cotton wool. Add black plasticine legs. Sad eyes and nose. You will get a fluffy sheep craft.

You can find potatoes in such a shape that the muzzle of a lamb is a little more elongated and oval. So there will be more similarities.

Crafts from potatoes

and white radish.

The root of a white radish can participate as a partner vegetable in the manufacture of potato crafts. Potatoes will serve as the source of round shapes, while radishes will produce cuts of oval and cylindrical shapes.

And if you come across a large thick radish of an interesting shape, then it can become an independent craft for a competition in a kindergarten or school.

Potato head.

for kids.

You can make funny people out of potatoes. You can cut out ready-made facial features - from glossy magazines. Whole mouth and eyes. A wig can be made from finely cut woolen threads. From a washcloth or fabric. Or fashion plasticine curls.

You can decorate a potato head with junk or ornamental material. Or add vegetables for head design - bunches of cabbage for hair, carrots for the nose.

Crafts from potatoes

For girls.

You can make a potato princess. Great craft for girls. Can be used, sequins, sequins, adhesive rhinestones. Handles and legs are made of wire or toothpicks with the addition of plasticine.

And next to such a craft, erect a real toilet paper roll princess castle.

Crafts from potatoes

For boys.

And for boys, you can make man-made crafts from potatoes. Robots, spaceships, moon rovers and other equipment are interesting and exciting to make from potatoes. You can stick wires, screws into it, cut holes-pockets for batteries and drill passages for wires that will make the LEDs glow.

Here are ideas for pumpkin and chestnut robots that might inspire you to similar potato crafts.

What's stopping you from making a techno-knight out of potatoes? This will get even tougher. The main thing is to find more unnecessary pieces of iron in dad's closet. Well, coordinate your creative theft with your father when he comes home from work - so that it doesn’t turn out that you took expensive and valuable equipment for crafting.

And scary monster crafts are made from potatoes. Or aliens.

Crafts from potatoes

About cartoons.

You can make your favorite cartoon characters from potatoes and other vegetables.

We fasten all the details on toothpicks. To prevent the part from spinning, we fasten it to two matches. So the fixation will maintain the slope and angle of rotation we need. Small parts stick well with nail polish or rubber glue. And also on glue from a hot glue gun.

Your favorite cartoons can be made from potatoes with your own hands. Cheburashka and potatoes and Crocodile Gena from cucumber will be a good job for a craft competition at school or kindergarten.

Plasticine is perfectly attached to the surface of dry potatoes. Therefore, a team of Smeshariki can be made from round spherical potatoes. We add all the missing details from plasticine, paint the potatoes in the desired color with gouache (securing the painting with hairspray). We get an absolute resemblance to cartoon characters.

You can sew felt and fabric clothes for potato heroes. To bring the resemblance to the original.

You can cut out the details of the character - a smile, the belly of a potato paw just with a knife.

You can cut clothes for crafts inside another vegetable. For example, the overalls on the minions below are eggplant halves, from which they took out all the pulp and inserted the potato bodies of the minions inside.

These are the ideas for crafts for children from potatoes that you received today. There is something to think about and fantasize about. Good luck with your ideas. Fast work. And win the craft competition.

Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site