How to make a flying saucer?

You love to make different crafts with your child, are constantly looking for something new and interesting to interest the kid and involve him in a joint work? Then you certainly will like this article, because in it we give some examples of how to make a flying saucer with his own hands. Your little son will not only enjoy the process, but will also be happy to play with his new toy in space travelers. In addition, through this craft, you can tell him about the structure of galaxies, stars and planets, as well as exciting space travel. The main advantage of this craft is that it can be made from the simplest materials, and the kid himself can invent a spacecraft shape, texture and color.

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Flying saucer with your own hands from the

hand tools. To make an original flying saucer with your own hands, made with great interest and enthusiasm, you will need to take care of preparing all the necessary materials in advance. In the process of working problems will not arise, because even a three-year-old child can cope with it, and parents will only have to perform all the work on gluing.

Materials for the work of

To make a real spacecraft, you will need such tools and materials:

• Unnecessary disc.
• Two foam semi-spheres.
• Colored paper with self-adhesive strip.
• Decorative carnations.
• Several bamboo sticks or toothpicks.
• A pair of plastic flat asterisks.
• Acrylic paint.
• Several fairly large beads.
• Sequins.
• Cyan wire designed for crafts of silver or golden hue.
• Adhesive.

How to use

If you follow this technology, you will have an ideal flying saucer of paper with your own hands:

• Take a sheet of self-adhesive paper of the desired shade, circle the disc. From the resulting contour, cut a circle, glue it to the upper side of the disc.
• One of the styrofoam hemispheres is painted with acrylic paint, leave to dry.

Important! Let the baby choose the color by himself, because thanks to this, independence and fantasy will develop in him.

• Decorate the second hemisphere with decorative carnations and shiny sequins. To do this, you need to string alternately sequins on the carnations and stick them into the hemisphere.

Important! You can start decorating both from the edge and from the center, but it's better, of course, from the bottom, so that it would be more convenient to form straight parallel rows. If your sequins are of different shades, you can even make a pattern of them, for example waves, circles or stripes.

• After the top is decorated, you can start forming the antenna. It is necessary to directly insert two pieces of fluffy wire into the styrofoam.
• Assembling the ship's hull. It is necessary to glue the hemisphere on both sides of the disk. At the same time, a hemisphere with paillettes should be attached to the shining side, and a painted hemisphere to the side glued to the paper.
• Do the legs for the vehicle. You need to string beads on the edges of the toothpicks, so that they enter them as deeply as possible, but do not stick out from the opposite side.

Important! If the hole in the bead is too wide, then it can be sealed with plasticine, glue or chewing gum to prevent the beads from sliding through the toothpick.

• Finished legs as supports to be inserted into the painted lower part of the ship in such a way that they are at the same distance from each other, otherwise - the craft will not stand exactly.
• On the shiny side, glue the plastic sprockets. You can additionally cut out of paper ornaments in the form of figures of aliens.

Our plate is ready!

To understand how to make a flying saucer of paper according to the presented scheme, even a child can. If you do not hurry and carefully study each item, then the article is guaranteed to turn out beautiful and quite solid.

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Flying dish made of natural materials with your own hands

If you like to create compositions and all kinds of crafts from natural materials, in particular vegetables, twigs and cones, then it will not be difficult for you to make an alien ship yourself, guided by this technique. Below it will be described in detail how to make a flying saucer with your own hands from the materials present in any modern kitchen.

Materials for the work of

You will find it useful to implement this idea:

• Vegetables of oblong form are better if it is a patisson, because it is the most suitable for this purpose and it will not have to be cut.
• Color pushpin.
• Small plastic bottle.
• Colored paper or cardboard.
• Foil.
• Scissors.
• Transparent scotch tape.

Master class

Prepare all materials on the list, boldly get to work:

1. Wrap the foil with foil - do it carefully so that there are no empty and empty areas left. Using adhesive tape, secure the edges of the foil.
2. Make portholes on the windows of the portholes by attaching clerical buttons - they need to be placed all around the circle.
3. From the bottle cut the neck, leaving a little side walls, so that the felling of our spaceship came out. You can insert the bottle directly into the flesh of the vegetable or stick it with adhesive tape.
4. Decorative elements in the form of strips and stars, cut out of colored paper, glued to the walls of the ship.
5. Cardboard can also make space travelers.

So our flying saucer is ready. The handiwork can be done in just one hour with your own hands, because if you involve a child in the process, he will have to explain something at certain moments and give time to think and fantasize.