The children love the dwarfs and their stories. They are fascinated and often dream of a small dwarf world. Cute dwarfs tinkering with children will undoubtedly help to make their little ones quickly transferred to a fantasy world. In the following article you will find great handicraft projects for the small fairy tale characters for young and older children who guarantee a lot of fun. Let yourself be inspired by our ideas!
How do the gnomes look?
The sweet elves from mythology are small, very similar creatures that often live in underground dwellings and are excellent miners and weapons. The good -natured gnomes usually have rounds, thick bellies and choppy, white beards. As far as your clothing is concerned, they wear colorful pointed caps, chic vest and solid shoes. When the next handicraft afternoon is due to your children, you can imitate the small mythical creatures from different handicraft materials.
Dwarfs tinker with children from felt, fabric and wool
In order for your self -made gnome to take shape, you must first make the body. For example, you can use fabric or felt. If you like to sew, you can make a small bag from any remnants of fabric that your child fills with cotton wool. If you do not have a cotton wool at hand, you can use lentils or rice for filling, which also give the gnome the necessary hold.
For the small body you can also use an old sock that you simply knot after filling. You can also make a cute dwarf with children from wool. For the little head made of wool, you first have to wrap a thin strand around your finger. Wrap down thin wool around the resulting tuft until you get one large enough. Then place two lanes on the table and place the ball in the middle.
Now you have to tighten all four ends of the wool over the wool ball and tie it around your neck. For more stability, you can make a solid cone out of the wool that you push under your head. Of course, a gnome must not stay without a pretty pointed hat. Depending on the desired size, cut out a circle out of fabric or felt and make a triangle out of it. Now put the fabric together like a school bag and sew the edges together. If you want, you can turn on the edge and sew a bell to the top of the hat. A piece of handicraft wire can keep the hat upright. The long dwarf beard also belongs to the dwarf tinkering with children. You can either leave the beard from the felt, shape from cotton wool or maybe get synthetic fur. You can attach the self -made beard under the hat.
All you have to do is attach the small round nose. Take a wood or plastic bead and glue on the beard. The pretty dwarf is now finished and your child can now use this figure to put herself into the fairytale world from the Snow White and the seven dwarfs or play the fairy tale. The homemade dwarf is a great decoration for the children's room or for the table for a thematic party, a birthday or on various other occasions. The elves are also an excellent Christmas decorative idea. You can place the small figures under the Christmas tree or design them as ornaments for the fir tree. If you want to tinker larger dwarfs, you can use empty glass bottles for the body and use the original gnome as a winter decoration.
Simple ideas from natural materials
You can do dwarfs with children with different materials that nature makes available. Great dwarf figures that adorn the children's room can be designed from fir or pine cones. Collect beautiful cones on the next walk in the park, which preferably stand well. You can use a small cotton or styrofoam ball as a head for the small tap gnome. Larger wooden ball are also ideal for this. If desired, your children can paint the face on the ball and shape and stick a tiny nose from cotton wool. As eyes, you can also use wobbly eyes from the craft shop or make yourself. Now all you have to do is make and attach the hat made of felt. Cut a semicircle out of fabric residues or felt, roll it as a staned hedge and stick the cut edges together. If you want, you can equip the gnome with a scarf for the cold days.
The chestnuts are also an ideal handicraft material for the pretty mythical creatures. Take a chestnut and drill holes for your arms, legs and head. You can make your arms, legs and neck out of toothpicks. Let your child paint a face on a smaller chestnut and put your head on your neck. Knot a scarf around the neck of the dwarf so that the pretty gnome can survive the cooler days.
Tinker wine cork dwarfs with felt
If you have old cork at home, you can make small gnomes with little effort. Drill two holes in the cork on the side, in which you stick arms from pipe cleaners. Glue a wooden bead for the head and make a warm coat and cap from felt. These tiny elves are a suitable decoration for a houseplant and for the window sill.
Homemade elves made of wooden sticks
These simple but effective dwarf garden markers are an excellent idea for small garden gnomes made of natural materials. All you need for this fast handicraft project are thicker branches that you cut out in the desired greetings and tip it at one end. There will be the gift cap of the gnome. Then give your child a face to the wooden garden gnome. Hats in different colors look great and enable them to get a quick orientation between the beds. School children are welcome to label the individual markers.
Use toilet paper rolls!
With the very young children you can make sweet paper gnomes made of empty toilet paper rolls. This great handicraft activity supports the development of your child and trains the handling of scissors and adhesive. If you want to do the seven dwarfs, you need paper in several colors that are glued to the role. Each dwarf wears a different vest or coat and you can easily distinguish them in playing. The children can either paint the face and the beard or cut out and put them together out of colorful paper. You can also cut out the hat out of paper in a suitable color and stick it onto the roll.
If you want to make cute gnomes made of paper with your children, you have the option of folding origami dwarfs. Children are naturally curious, ready to learn and enjoy it. If you are looking for an exciting job for older children, this handicraft technique is very fascinating for the little ones. Origami requires a lot of practice and is also complicated, but promotes the skill of the little hands. Your active support is needed here. On the Internet you will find numerous video folding instructions that lead you step by step to a beautiful gnome figure. The demanding task and the enchanting results will proudly make your child.
Create sweet accessories from ironing beads
If your child is just as fascinated by the ironing beads as from the mythical creatures, you can also design tiny elves from the colorful plastic beads. With the appropriate template, you can create gnomeline figures according to your own idea. With practice and a little patience, you will succeed in conjure up a very personal keychain for your child or nice thematic decoration for the children's room. With dwarfs from ironing beads you can also design other creative accessories. If you want to inspire your children even more, you can also build a dwarf house for the homemade gnome outside in the garden.
Idea for a seven-dwarf costume
A great idea for carnival or for a thematic garden party or a children's birthday is a fun dwarf costume. You do not necessarily need to get extra special clothing for this, but can use normal everyday clothing. Pants in green or brown and a green blouse with a vest will serve you well. For the great children's costume you naturally need a large, white beard and the typical pointed cap. You are welcome to attach a rubber band to the hat so that it stays on the head when the child lets off. On request, you can stick angel hair around the hat. You can make a noise beard for the costume from angel hair. If an artificial beard from Christmas is left, you are welcome to use it for the dwarf costume.
Vlieswatt that you hang over a piece of hat rubber creates a perfect beard. Caps will certainly also be well received. Different small accessories, such as a sack for the tool for mining or a lantern, round off the unique costume. Do you want to organize a motto dwarf party for your child where your child plays with his dwarf guests outdoors? Then it is worth doing thoughts about the games, eating and drinking, about the decoration and the sex. With this in mind, you may be able to tinker a gnome for every small guest of honor and place it on the plate. If your child await several guests, you can also design the pointed hats from paper.
