We sew birds from fabric. Tilde birds or how to make cozy crafts for Easter with your own hands

Handicraft is a very delicate art that requires painstaking work and considerable perseverance. Wanting to create something magnificent with their own hands, beginners spend a huge amount of time honing their skills. One of the masterpieces of the handmade style is the Tilda Bird.

The success of this toy lies in the fact that the range of its uses is huge. It complements any room: in bedrooms it serves as decor and can be combined with all kinds of designs; in the kitchen decorates tablecloths and napkins; in the hall it is successfully placed as an accessory and decoration for the Christmas tree during the New Year period.

The pattern of the classic Tilda Bird is very simple. It includes the base - the head and chest, as well as the pattern of the wings. You can use an ordinary toothpick as a beak, having previously painted it in the desired color, or simply coated it with transparent varnish. Paws can be created using wire. Then the bird will be able to hold onto the cage or perch with them.

We recommend sewing tilde from fabrics of different colors and structures. So, you can experiment with shades and select the best options for different designs. The breast can be made lighter and more monochromatic, while the wings will look great in a colorful dark fabric. Everything in our work is built on harmony and combination.

And here is another bird pattern.

Sewing pattern

1. We apply the pattern to the fabric.
2. Cut with large sewing scissors.
3. Place the cut fabric right sides together and stitch.
4. We turn it inside out and carefully stuff the Tilda textile doll with stuffing.
5. We painstakingly sew up the remaining holes, making miniature stitches.
6. Sew the wings to the body.

You can decorate the toy in any way you like - with a braid around the neck, flowers on the head, buttons instead of eyes, various sequins and Swarovski stones. Tilda's birds will look great even as a keychain, talisman or brooch decoration. It all depends on your taste and mood.

There is also a beautiful bird with a house.

The sewing pattern is the same, only the beak is made first.

If you want to get down to work, and are ready to put in very little effort to create a beautiful masterpiece, you will need: a pattern, fabric, threads, needles and accessories. Get started and be sure that such a songbird will delight you both in winter and summer.

Tilda dead end

Hello, dear readers! This master class is dedicated to feathered creatures. Today we will learn how to make a bird out of fabric with our own hands. With a small piece of fabric and thread you can easily make a beautiful dove or even a firebird. Involve children in this activity - they will definitely enjoy making small birds.

When you have a lot of these dolls, you can hang them in the garden or yard on a tree. This is how in the old days, at the end of winter, they attracted the sun and real migratory birds, which brought with them the warmth of spring.

Craft materials

To work, you will need pieces of thin fabric of any solid or variegated color. It is not at all necessary to take new fabric; old pieces are also suitable for crafts.

Prepare also threads and cotton wool. You can use any thread - cotton, wool. They can be the same color as the fabric or, conversely, contrasting. It is advisable that the threads be soft and not very thin - it will be more convenient for children to work with them.

Lay out the material on the table and cut out a 20x20 cm square. It will turn out beautifully if you fluff the edges of the shred a little and make a fringe. You can cut the square using serrated scissors, then the edge will be zigzag.

We fold the flap diagonally twice like an envelope and tie the inner corner with thread - this will be the future beak of the bird.

Roll cotton wool into a tight ball with a diameter of about 1.5 cm. Place it under the beak and tie it with thread - you get the head of a bird. You can immediately make a loop by which the toy will be hung.

Then we take another ball of cotton wool, give it an oval shape and place it under the head - this will be the body. After this, carefully straighten the flap. It is desirable that all folds are evenly distributed.

We take a long thread, put it under the head and crosswise tie first the back and then the belly of the bird. We tie the ends under the tail and trim.

The beak can be left white, or it can be painted black or red with paint or a felt-tip pen. It turns out like this white dove.

You can make birds from colored scraps. These dolls also look very cute.

Try making a fabric bird with your child. This activity is very good for developing fine motor skills and knot tying skills. And in conclusion, I would like to recommend one wonderful manual book to all mothers "Baby's first crafts" . It can be obtained electronically and absolutely free. The book contains a lot of useful material for educational activities with children from 1.5 to 5 years old. Agree, it is very convenient when the best instructions for activities with children are collected in one place. I wish you to get a lot of ideas and advice from there.

Good luck in your creativity! Nadezhda Goryunova

Few people know that April 1 is celebrated not only as April Fool's Day, but also as International Bird Day. But this holiday is very familiar to teachers of preschool and school institutions.

By the middle spring month, teachers and their students begin to make crafts related to birds. For example, just as numerous bird feeders appear on the trees before the cold and hungry season, in the spring the children try to provide their feathered friends with housing.

Of course, wood crafts that require planing, sawing, and the use of dangerous tools to create them are not suitable for all ages. Kids who go to kindergarten are unlikely to cope with such work.

You can celebrate the wonderful holiday of Bird Day by creating a bird craft. Feathered figurines are made from a wide variety of raw materials, using felt, woolen threads, colored paper, plastic bottles, autumn leaves and others, whatever your imagination allows.

Sometimes parents are faced with the problem of how to make a bird from the materials at hand. There was already information above that there are practically no restrictions. The step-by-step instructions for beginning craftsmen presented on the site will prompt new ideas for creativity.

Master class on how to make a bird for the little ones

Even little kids of preschool age can master several ideas for original crafts.

You will need colored paper, paper bookmarks with adhesive strips, a glue stick, scissors, toothpicks or thin sticks and plasticine or clay.

Make circles from colored paper (according to the required number of birds). Circles can be of different diameters. Fold each circle in half. Glue bookmark strips on the inside.

Glue a triangle to the other edge - this will be the bird’s beak. On the outside, glue the wings from the same bookmark paper. Attach a toothpick or stick inside and stick it into a piece of plasticine. You can draw eyes on the bird.

For the next craft you need white or colored paper, scissors and pencils.

Trace the palm of your hand (yours or your child’s) on paper. Using scissors, cut out the shape along the outline. The thumb is the bird's head. The rest are the tail and wings. Draw the beak and eyes. You can paint the body. The bird is ready!

Another version of a do-it-yourself bird made from scrap materials. Prepare cotton pads, wooden kebab sticks, scissors, glue, ribbons for decoration or beautiful threads.

Glue two cotton pads on a wooden stick (the skewer should be inside). And just below, glue two more in the same way. You will get a small snowman.

Cut one cotton pad into two equal parts. Glue them to the lower disks on the stick - these are the wings. Cut out eyes and beak from colored paper. Glue to the top discs. For beauty, you can tie a beautiful ribbon around the “neck” of the bird.

Paper owl

You will need toilet paper rolls, cardboard or construction paper, construction paper, paints, scissors and glue.

If there are no ready-made cylinders, glue them together from scrap materials: paper or cardboard. From one edge, bend the top of the cylinder inward and make sharp owl ears. You can see from the photo of the bird how to do this.

From colored paper, cut out many circles with a diameter of up to 1 cm. They should be the same size. Glue circles onto the cylinder.

Cut out a triangle beak and stick it on the appropriate place. Using black and white circles, assemble owl eyes and glue them to the cylinder. The owl is ready!

Bird crafts made from threads

Let's talk about two ways to make a bird out of thread with your own hands.

You will need yarn, cardboard, needles, scissors.

Make blanks from cardboard to create pompoms: circles with a diameter of 5 and 2 cm, cut out circles with a diameter of 2 and 1 cm inside, respectively. Wrap threads onto cardboard. The internal space must be completely filled.

Cut the threads along the edge, thread the thread, remove the pom pom from the cardboard and tighten the thread. Spread the threads to create a fluffy ball. Make a smaller pom pom using the method described above.

Connect two pompoms. On the smaller one, which is the bird's head, sew beaded eyes and a fabric beak.

For the second method, you need three colors of yarn, scissors, and thin wire.

From one color of yarn, make a bundle of threads 13 cm long. From the other two bundles, 9 cm each. Their thickness should be approximately the same.

Place one of the short ones in the middle of the longest skein. Bend a long skein and tie at the base. Do the same operation with the short one. Place the third bundle under the tied threads.

Roll the cotton wool into a tight ball and place it underneath all the threads. Bring all the ends together so that the ball is inside. Tie the yarn with thread. Using scissors, trim the ends of the bird's tail.

Sew or glue beaded eyes and a beak made of fabric, such as felt. Make bird legs from thin wire and secure them in the thread body.

felt bird

Very cute crafts are made from fabric. The procedure for creating a felt bird is described below.

• Find it on the Internet or use the given bird pattern. Print and cut out the pattern from felt.
• Sew from the wrong side, leaving a small hole.
• Stuff the figurine with cotton wool or printed material.
• Carefully sew the hole closed using a blind stitch.
• The eyes and beak can be drawn on or sewn on with beads and fabric.

Now in your arsenal of ideas there are several on how to create birds from scrap materials with your own hands. Maybe the ready-made options will push you to new searches and creative achievements!

Photos of birds with your own hands