Masks made of paper and cardboard for the head. DIY crafts for children: horses, iron man, spider, Baba Yaga, wolf, fish, goat, bird, diagrams, animal templates. DIY horse on a stick How to make a horse's head from foam rubber

30.12.2023

On the eve of the New Year holidays, all children's institutions, be it a kindergarten or a school, hold matinees dedicated to this amazing holiday full of magic. Therefore, you need to prepare for such a joyful event for your child in advance, namely: learn a New Year's rhyme, sew a costume, or make a mask.

Today, based on the master class, we will make a mask and costume dedicated to the New Year holiday. It’s not difficult to make them, so you can call your child for help; it will certainly be an exciting activity for him.

Paper mask

The simplest solution is to make a New Year's horse mask for a child, and you will learn how to do this in this master class on making a horse's face.

For this you will need:

Tools for making a horse mask

Having prepared everything necessary, let’s begin to implement our plan:

DIY hedgehog mask

Don't know how to make a hedgehog mask for your head? It's very simple.

First, prepare everything you need, for example:

Manufacturing:

Based on the above you can do nightingale mask or human head from paper with your own hands, and if you doubt how to do it correctly, then you can find the relevant information on the Internet by entering in the search bar of your browser "how to make a man's head out of paper" or "Nightingale for the New Year."

Making a horse costume

If you want to make a horse costume with your own hands for a boy or girl, then one mask will not do; you must prepare the body and tail of the horse.

For this you will need:

You can prepare the pattern yourself by first drawing it on cardboard or any other thick paper, or you can get an idea from the Internet. Having prepared all of the above, you can begin making a New Year's costume.

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Any holiday event for children will be much more exciting if it is costumed. New Year, a themed party in kindergarten or a birthday, costumes of fairy-tale and cartoon characters will add a little magic and mystery, delighting not only children, but also parents.

You can purchase masks for any holiday, but it is much more interesting to make a mask with your own hands. The most accessible materials are paper and cardboard. What else you will need for work, how to make and decorate a mask for the holiday - later in the article.

New Year can rightfully be called the most favorite children's holiday. Waiting for New Year's miracles, gifts from Santa Claus under the tree and, of course, the celebration itself. The New Year's carnival involves the presence of a fancy dress and mask.

The best ideas for children's masks for the New Year are considered to be:

Animals:

Characters from Russian fairy tales:

Baba Yaga;
Dragon;
Ivan Tsarevich;
Koschei the Deathless,
Princess Frog

Heroes from domestic animated films:

Snowman;
Snow Maiden,
Snowflake;
the wolf and the hare from “Well, wait a minute!”;
cat Leopold and mice.

Characters from foreign animated films:

Snow White;
The Snow Queen;
Mickey Mouse;
Goofy the Dog;
Santa Claus.

Marvel Studios Super Heroes:

The Halloween holiday, which came to Russia from Western culture at the end of the last century, was immediately loved by children and teenagers.

Ideas for this holiday could be:

Mr/Miss Pumpkin;
Dracula;
scull;
bat;
small witch;
Frankenstein;
casting;
sad harlequin;
evil clown.

For a themed birthday party, ideas can be drawn from fairy tales, popular cartoons, and children's films:

Spongebob;
Winnie the Pooh;
Shrek;
Elsa;
Smeshariki.

Tools and materials for making masks

A paper mask can be easily made with your own hands.

For production you need:

This is the minimum set for work. Depending on how complex the mask is, you may need additional tools and materials for decoration.

Ways to decorate masks

Masks made of paper and cardboard can be simple or complex. The better the idea and quality of workmanship, the more interesting the main item of clothing for the child will seem. Even the simplest head mask can be turned into a work of art. What will you need for this?

Materials for decorating masks:

You can use any paints for decoration. It can be gouache, watercolor, or acrylic. Acrylic paints have a bright and rich palette of colors. For decoration, you can purchase special acrylic products that can be used to add volume - contour paints, liquid glass.

Can be used for decoration with craquelure varnish and acrylic paints. Craquelure, when applied to paint, creates cracks, covering the surface with intricate patterns. The decoupage technique allows you to decorate with various floral or abstract designs.

Gouache is a quick-drying paint with a bright palette, perfect for decorating white paper or cardboard from which the mask is made.

Wolf Mask: Making Master Class

To work you will need:

Step-by-step production:

You should practice first to draw a wolf's face. The volume of the mask will be given by details made of colored paper and a special cut of the mask.
Measure the circumference of the child's head. The width of the mask should be one third of the circumference.
On gray cardboard draw the outlines of the mask– nose and cheeks. Draw holes for the eyes. The height of the mask can be half the face or completely cover it.
For added volume make cuts from the middle of the eye to the edge of the mask.
Cut out the ears separately. They must have allowances at the bottom for gluing to the mask. Bend the allowances and make cuts on them so that it is convenient to glue to the base. Make cuts in the middle of the ears and glue their edges so that the ears become voluminous, wrapped inward.
Made from black paper cut out the top of the head and the edge of the ears. Glue the parts.
Cut the ribbon in half. On the sides of the mask, strengthen the place where the tape is attached with pieces of craton. After making holes, thread the tape through them, leaving short ends on the front of the mask.
Cut from white paper lower part of the wolf's muzzle– eyes and cheeks, glue the details onto the base. At the same time, this part of the mask will cover the ribbons for the ties.
From gray paper cut out thin circles and cover the cutouts for the eyes with them.
Made from brown paper cut out the nose and paste it on. The wolf mask is ready.

Bunny mask – 3D cardboard mask

To work you will need:

Process of creation:

Make a one-piece mask template with ears on paper. Two parallel fold lines will run from the tips of the nose to the top edge of the cheeks. Make darts on the sides of the cheeks - from the nose to the edges with allowances for gluing. Cut holes for eyes and strings.
Attach the template to the cardboard, securing it with tape, outline, draw dotted lines for folds.
Remove the pattern and cut a mask from cardboard. Draw the fold lines with pressure. Do this in such a way as not to damage the cardboard and make it easier to bend the material in the right places. Cut out eyes and holes for ties.
Cut out the mask. Bend the mask along the line of the nose and along the grooves. Glue the grooves. Leave the glue to dry. To ensure the strength of the gluing area, it does not come apart.
After the glue has dried, the mask can be decorated. Cut out inner ears, eye rims and cheeks from white paper, and glue the parts. Draw dots on the cheeks to imitate a mustache.
Thread elastic tape through holes, tie a knot on the reverse side to keep the ribbon in place.

Dimensions for mask:

Height – 20 cm
Top edge width - 10 cm
Mask width - 20 cm
The height of the ears is 10 cm, the width of the base of the ear is 3-4 cm.
The depth of the grooves is 9 cm, the width of the grooves is 5 cm.

Bear mask: Making master class

A quick way to make such a mask out of paper with your own hands, cutting out a total of 6 circles.

For this you will need:

Step-by-step production:

On the cardboard, draw a circle with a diameter of 16-20 cm - the basis of the mask.
Draw and cut out circles from colored paper. From brown paper a head, 16-20 cm in diameter, and 2 circles for the ears, 4-5 cm in diameter. From yellow/orange paper, a muzzle, 6-7 cm in diameter and 2 circles for the inner ears, 3-4 cm in diameter. Glue on the parts on cardboard. Cut out a nose from black paper. Draw a mouth on a muzzle made of light paper.
Glue the ears together - place a circle of light paper in the middle of the brown circle. Attach them to the head so that they peek half over the edge.
Cut out holes for the eyes.
Attach an elastic band. You can make holes and secure the tape with knots, or you can attach it to the mask using a stapler.

Horse mask

To make it, you can use regular cardboard, which you can then decorate with gouache. Then you only need to cut out the base and ears. For decoration, use foam rubber, adding eyebrows and a voluminous nose to the bear.

To make a horse head mask you will need:

Manufacturing:

Use cardboard to make a frame for a head mask in the shape of a hat. To do this, cut a ribbon 3-4 cm wide from cardboard, with a length equal to the circumference of the child’s head. You will also need 4 strips, a length equal to half the volume of the head.
Fasten the long strip with a stapler in the shape of a rim. Two short strips are fastened crosswise and attached to the rim, creating a frame. From the other two strips, make an oval frame for the horse's muzzle and attach it to the base.
For the horse's neck, cut out a rectangle from cardboard 5-6 cm high, with a length equal to half the circumference of the head. Secure the paper with a stapler to the back of the rim.
Cover the mask with colored paper, crumpling it a little for convenience. Make holes for the eyes. Secure the paper with glue or a stapler. From white paper, cut a strip along the length from the horse’s nose to the withers, and glue it.
Cut out the ears from brown paper, leaving allowances for gluing to the head - 4 parts. Glue them together with the wrong side, attach them to the top of the head.
Cut thin strips of brown paper 5-6 cm long and 1 cm wide. This will be the mane. Using scissors, twist the ends of the strips, stick from the top of the head to the bottom of the neck and make bangs.
Cut out semicircles for the horse's eyes and nose from black paper and glue them on. The mask is ready.

Baba Yaga mask (papier-mâché)

An evil character from their Russian fairy tales with a hooked nose, how can I make this mask more like the original?

For this you will need:

Step by step process:

First you need to make Baba Yaga's face. To do this, take a plastic mask, newspaper for pasting, PVA glue, and water.
Lay out the first layer on the mask with paper soaked in water, without glue. This is to easily remove the resulting mask. Next, you should glue several layers (3-4 layers) of paper soaked in glue. Leave the mask to dry for several hours.
Make the nose and chin of Baba Yaga. To do this, make a nose with a hook from plasticine, like a mask, cover it with paper and glue, and also leave it to dry. After drying, cut the nose in half and take out the plasticine. Glue the nose to the face with pieces of paper. Make a chin out of plasticine and also make a piece out of paper. Wait until completely dry.
In the mask, cut holes for the eyes, or for the mouth, holes in the nose for breathing. Collect the mask. The nose and chin are attached to the mask with pieces of paper soaked in glue.
To make eyebrows, twist twigs out of paper, soak them in glue and attach to your face. Make holes along the edges of the mask for ties. Thread the ribbon from the inside out, tie knots inside.
Decorate the finished mask.

Fish mask

It is best to make such a paper mask with your own hands in the form of a crown-hoop on your head.

For this you will need:

Work process:

Draw a fish, color it and cut it out.
Make a hoop out of paper around the circumference of your head.
Glue the fish in the middle of the hoop.

You can decorate the fish with feathers and foil.

Another way to make a fish mask:

Draw an oval according to the shape of the face on white paper. Color it like Nemo the fish, alternating white and orange stripes with thin stripes of black.
Make holes for the eyes, draw the mouth of the fish.
Glue fins to the top and sides and make them yellow.
To attach the mask, make a hoop out of paper and glue it to the mask.

Bird mask

To work you will need:

Step-by-step production:

Fold a sheet of thick paper in half and draw a mask in the form of large glasses. Draw the eyes and make a recess for the beak. This part of the mask will be attached to the base separately.
Cut out the mask and slits for the eyes.
Make a beak. To do this, measure the distance from the bridge of the nose to the bottom of the mask - this is the width of the beak. Bend the cardboard in half, measure the resulting length from the fold and draw a line from the top to the fold. The result will be a triangle with equal sides. If desired, the beak can be made long or short, slightly curved at the edges. Leave an allowance of 1-1.5 cm at the base of the beak for gluing it to the mask.
Cut the allowance on the beak in several places and bend the cardboard. Cover the beak with yellow paper. Using the allowances, glue the part to the mask.
Try on the rubber band, cut it to the desired length and secure it with a stapler.
Mask decor. To do this, you will need to cut feathers from colored paper. Feathers can be leaf and crescent shaped. Fold the leaf-shaped parts in half to make them more voluminous. Glue the feathers onto the mask with an overlap. Feathers may extend beyond the mask at the edges.
For the eyes, cut out circles to carefully decorate the cutout and glue on. The mask is ready.
To decorate such a mask, you can use natural feathers, braid to decorate the eyes, rhinestones and beads.

Goat mask

For such a mask you need very little:

Step-by-step implementation of the mask:

Draw a mask according to the size of the face, shaped like an inverted pear. On the top of the mask, make two cuts 2 cm deep. Cut out holes for the eyes.
At the bottom of the mask, draw the nose of the goat, making cuts.
Glue the cuts at the bottom and top to add volume to the mask.
Cut out the horns and ears, glue them on, and make holes for the ties.
Thread the ribbons through the holes and secure them with a knot on the reverse side.

If desired, the mask can be decorated or covered with colored paper.

Mask – frog

Materials and tools for the frog mask:

Mask making process:

Cut an oval out of cardboard, shaped like a melon. The height of the mask is 15 -17 cm, the width is half the volume of the head.
Make two grooves. To do this, draw a line in the middle on the mask. The upper recess from the frog's nose to the edge, approximately 7 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, leave allowances for gluing. The lower recess is 1-1.5 cm high and 1 cm wide in the middle of the chin. Draw and cut out holes for the eyes, a mouth for a smile, holes imitating a nose.
Glue the grooves.
Cover the mask with paper, draw out the details - nose, eyes, eyebrows.
Secure the mask to the hoop using superglue. For strength, you can cut strips of paper to glue the hoop to the mask. The hoop will hold the mask well on the forehead and will prevent it from bending too much and losing its shape, as when using ties.

When making a mask for a girl or a frog princess mask for decoration, you can use:

foil, yellow paper;
rhinestones or beads.

Make a small crown out of yellow paper, decorate it with pieces of foil and the bottom with beads. You can add red lips.

Spiderman mask

To work you will need:

Making a mask:

From red cardboard, cut out an oval according to the shape of the face plus 3-4 cm allowance along the edge of the oval. Make slits for the eyes and holes for the nose. Even though Spider-Man doesn't have a nose, he still has to breathe somehow.
Cut out a triangle from white paper - the spider's eyes, stick them on and use a black felt-tip pen to outline the eyes, not forgetting to cut out circles for the eyes. Draw a spider pattern on the mask with a black felt-tip pen.
To make the mask voluminous, make cuts on the mask. Two at the top, approximately from the eyebrow line to the edge of the mask, and two on the chin. Glue the edges of the cuts.
Secure the elastic band to the edges of the mask using a stapler. The super hero mask is ready.

iron man mask

All the boys are crazy about this steel hero. This carnival costume and mask is an excellent solution for any costume party.

To create a paper mask with your own hands, you will need the following materials and tools:

Performance:

Draw the outline of the mask on red cardboard and cut out the shape.
Make 2 pieces of ears out of cardboard and glue them to the mask.
Place the mask on yellow paper and trace it with a pencil. Draw the yellow parts of the mask inside the outline. Cut out.
Glue the yellow part onto the red one.
Draw the eyes and mouth of the iron man with a pencil. Make holes for the eyes.
Use a marker to draw the details of the head, outline the eyes and mouth.
Glue the tape to the back of the mask.

Scroll:

If a child takes part in a production and will need to sing or read poetry, then it is best to make a mask on the upper part of the face or 2/3 of the face, leaving the mouth uncovered.
To quickly make a mask, you can use a template or a ready-made pattern. You just need to print the pattern, transfer it to cardboard or thick paper, glue it and decorate it.
It is best to use acrylic paints for painting masks. They dry quickly, do not fade over time and do not get dirty. This mask can be used more than once. Gouache is also suitable for these purposes, but this paint gets dirty when exposed to moisture.
You can not only glue decorations and decor onto masks made of cardboard or paper, but also sew them on and glue them with hot glue.

Making any paper mask with your own hands is quite simple. To do this you need a little imagination, simple materials and desire. Children take part in such master classes with great pleasure, contributing their ideas to the creation of masks for the holiday and inspiring adults to create small objects of art for the child.

Video: DIY paper mask

How to make a raccoon mask from cardboard, watch the video:

DIY New Year's masks in the video:

Mask options

There are several options for handmade masks:

Horse head mask made of paper with a headband or elastic band. You can make the template yourself or use a ready-made diagram. The advantage is that it is easy to do. Especially if you immediately cut out all the parts from colored cardboard. But it also breaks quickly.
Volumetric paper mask. You'll have to work hard here. To make such a 3D mask, you will need a perfectly correct pattern. Otherwise, the craft will be ruined, and the horse will turn out to be completely different from itself.
Mask made of foam rubber or felt. Another type of volume masks. To make it, you need to cut out each piece from foam rubber and then connect them together. The finished horse muzzle is placed directly on the head. This is a complex, but the most reliable DIY mask option.

We decided to make an ordinary paper mask so that you can create with us.

Preparation of materials

We are sure that everything you need will be found in every home. It’s more convenient to organize work at the table, since we’ll be doing drawing. But first you need to prepare:

glue - any will do;
sheets of colored paper;
black felt-tip pen;
A3 sheet of paper;
scissors;
A4 size horse head template.

You can draw the template yourself. Don't forget that our horse is fabulous. It's okay if there are some inaccuracies while drawing. Does the face that looks at you from a piece of paper look like a horse's? It means you did everything right.

Progress

We decided that our horse would be brown, but it could also remain white, blue or pink. Especially if it's a mask for a girl. Then the horse will remind you of your favorite cartoon characters about ponies. Let's get to work.

A cute, homemade horse mask is ready. Do not rush to throw it away after it has played its role. Place the paper craft in a book to keep it flat. The horse mask may come in handy in the future. Then it will be enough to change the headband, and you almost have a new fancy dress.

Children simply love to transform into various New Year's characters. This year the queen of the ball is the horse, so if your child has the honorable mission of being a stallion or a horse at the New Year's party, a homemade horse mask is what you need! After all, this is the basis of the costume. Having made the most important attribute, which is the mask, you can slightly complement the image with some elements and the New Year's horse costume is ready! So, let's immediately start making (sewing) a New Year's horse mask.

How to make a horse mask for a child

The horse's head is a mask sewn from fabric that does not require a pattern. With the help of a master class performed by handicraft master Ekaterina Orlova, you can easily and simply make a soft horse head and use it in the form of a mask-cap for a horse costume.

To sew a horse mask we will need:

dense fabric (corduroy, drape);
threads, needle;
padding polyester;
knitted, stretchy fabric for lining;
fur, artificial or natural;
buttons for eyes or ready-made eyes;
harness strap.

Description of work

The mask is sewn according to the principle of a bandana.

From dense fabric we make two symmetrical parts:

We measure the upper contour of the part:

We add 7 cm to the resulting length and cut out a long rectangle, 10 cm wide, and the long one is what we got.

For the ears we cut out 4 identical parts:

Each ear will be double. We sew down the details of the ears:

Now we sew the hat like a bandana and sew in the ear:

We start sewing the parts from the back of the head. The rectangle is bent - this is the muzzle (chin) of the horse. The hat should look like this:

We make an incision on our horse’s chin, depending on the size of the child’s head:

Cutting corners:

Fill the mask with padding polyester:

Now we need to sew a lining hat.

Sew it inside the edges of the mask

Sew on the mane.

Glue on the eyes. We make a harness.

The corners of the folds on the muzzle turned into nostrils. To make the nostrils clearer, the folds can be sharpened with thread.

A children's toy horse on a stick, made with your own hands from a sock and other available material, is a sea of bright emotions for children. There is hardly a child who will be indifferent to this toy. Judging by the reviews from parents, both boys and girls are happy to play with this wonderful jumping horse. And if you make such a craft not just one, but at least a couple (or more), and then give it to a group of children, then there will be no limit to the joy of a fun children's game. So don’t hesitate and start making one for your child. It's so easy to do!

How to make a horse on a stick

A master class on making a jump rope horse on a stick requires 1 sock and the following available materials:

2 buttons,
pieces of leather,
two rings,
yarn or thread and fabric for a scarf.

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We stuff the sock with cotton wool or padding polyester, leaving empty space in the elastic area. Next, we sew on the button eyes and use a marker to draw the pupils. You can also use it to decorate your nose. We make the mouth out of bright threads, stretching them a little. Immediately sew on two triangles in the form of ears, folding them in half.

We insert a stick into the sock and secure it with threads. Then we turn the elastic inside out to cover the threads. Next, we will tie a smart scarf in this place.

Strips of the required width are cut out of the leather and a bridle is formed. Collect it while trying it on the muzzle so that it fits snugly.

We put on a bridle and a decorative scarf.

Next, cut a large number of threads. Freshly unraveled threads look especially impressive, as they retain their “curly” shape. We place them on a strip of paper and cover with a second strip. In this position, we sew 2-3 lines. Next, the paper is removed.

Now let's secure the mane to the muzzle. After that, we cut it and form bangs.

All that remains is to wait for the holiday and enjoy how the kids will have fun “jumping” on their unique horse.

You can also experiment and make wheels at the end of a stick, or sew a horse not from a sock, but from a pattern.