DIY hut on chicken legs. Cutting a decorative hut “on chicken legs”

A year before construction, I saw amazing decorative hut houses on chicken legs on the Internet. Since then, I have been eager to build something similar for children.

The idea seemed very interesting and unusual. I didn’t draw the project, but initially I planned to make the frame of the hut for expansion (10 cm for each crown).

At a logging site, familiar lumberjacks uprooted suitable spruce roots. These are best suited for this purpose: superficial root system wood provides a large support area.

I cleaned them with a carpenter's scraper and chisels, after which I trimmed the lower plane of the roots so that it became level, because this is the support of the entire structure.

Cutting a decorative hut “on chicken legs”

He cut the hut in the old Russian style, in the oblo, using dead spruce and pine. In places where joints are subject to stress and rigidity is required, dry logs are especially needed - they do not shrink or dry out, and therefore there are no cracks or play.

Rafters

The “hens”, or rafters, are also made in an antique manner - from young spruce trunks with roots. This is exactly how our ancestors made huts - without a single nail, screw or other metal components. All connections are made according to the “tenon, groove, bowl” principle - standard carpentry connections. Instead of nails - dowels or dowels.

Wood processing

The wood was treated with fire - gas burner: in my opinion this is best protection(not a single bug will gnaw on a burnt tree), and all modern chemistry is temporary. It is impossible to strengthen wood and protect it from destruction using such means.

When processing logs and driftwood I used hand tool- axe, scraper, chisels...

Construction took 2 months, of which a month was spent selecting driftwood and knots. I looked for them in the forest in wetlands, and it was there that I managed to find suitable snags, curled up in a spiral, and even a twig fused with itself. I also had to climb trees with a hacksaw and an axe.

Dimensions of the “hut on chicken legs”

As a result, the hut on chicken legs turned out to be 3.2 m high. The dimensions of the house are 2x1.7 m. The children really liked it, and with the onset of winter they had to add a slide to it.

Also in early childhood We were read different fairy tales and watched cartoons with amazing characters. And these characters, over time, became favorite heroes.

Each of them had his own individual character. For example, Koschey the Immortal was cunning and evil, Ivanushka was brave but stupid, and Baba Yaga was insidious and harmful.

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In addition to living heroes, in fairy tales there were often inanimate objects that came to life under certain conditions: Emelya’s stove took him to the palace to the king, a self-assembled tablecloth in an instant became full of all kinds of treats, Baba Yaga’s hut flew and carried out various orders: it turned towards the forest back, and to Ivanushka in front.

This hut is a kind of door between the world of the living and the dead (according to Slavic mythology), and Baba Yaga the bone leg guarded this passage.

Sometimes there is a need to make a fake “house on chicken legs”, for example, for a theatrical production or exhibition.

Let's consider several options for how to make a house on chicken legs, what material should be used based on its purpose and purpose: a board or timber for a strong house or fabric for theatrical props.

Where to start making crafts?

First you need to decide on the material from which the craft will be made. By making it yourself, you can use various natural materials. The base (house) can be made in the following ways:

Choose any method that you like best. A hut on chicken legs is quite easy to make with your own hands. The most common problem when creating is building the "foundation". It must be strong and stable to support the weight of the house and have an appropriate shape and design.

Chicken legs on which it will stand decorative house can be made voluminous or flat. The creation of flat legs is carried out by cutting out a special shape from cardboard, paper, or foam plastic. Volumetric legs that will look more natural are done in the following ways:

DIY Baba Yaga's house from a box

This option is the simplest. Here are some instructions for making Baba Yaga's house from a box:

Both an adult and a child can handle this type of craft.

Baba Yaga's house made of paper logs

A toy hut can also be made using paper. This method is a little more complicated than the previous ones, but is not inferior to them in interestingness. Such a hut will look impressive due to the fact that paper logs will give it volume. Craft is made as follows:

Using paper vine

When weaving a hut from newspaper sticks it turns out decorative and very original craft. This method is a simple and cheap alternative to using willow vines. Sticks are made by rolling newspapers, and a small box will be needed for the base of the hut. This is the box we will braid.

To begin with, you need to make only half of the house, and then all the frame elements are secured with paper clips or clothespins on top of the box. We braid the racks, going around them alternately in front and behind with a working tube. As soon as the “vine” begins to end, we begin to increase it to the required length. It is better to hide all the joints of the tubes inside and glue them well. You can paint the hut both after weaving (coating the paper with the desired color) and before twisting. Legs, roof and decor are made using any of the above methods.

Making a hut from natural materials

What you find in the forest can easily be used in making not only Baba Yaga’s hut, but also any other craft. Perfect for making natural materials, such as:

branches;
bark;
cones;
driftwood.

Natural materials can be used to cover a cardboard frame with them or to directly make things from them. We cover the box with bark or branches so that as few gray spots of cardboard as possible are visible. Using a heat gun or PVA glue and unopened fir cones we assemble the walls of the future hut.

In order for the cones to keep their shape longer, they must be soaked in an adhesive solution immediately after you bring them home from the forest. We make it from moss and bark beautiful roof, and driftwood is perfect for legs. This craft will not only look beautiful, but also match the fairy-tale image as closely as possible.

Many people who like to make crafts often combine different methods of making them. For example, you can glue twigs onto a cardboard roof and add moss to paper tubes.

We sew a hut

If you often do needlework, then you probably have some extra scraps left over. They are suitable for creating not only a hut on chicken legs, but also any fairy tale character. Even a child can cope with such work, since instead of using a needle and thread, you can simply glue the rags to the cardboard base. You can use absolutely any fabric. Crafts made from fleece and felt look original. Using fabric applique You can make any flat crafts, and using a thread and a needle you can sew logs or other parts of the hut.

It’s easy to turn such a craft into an entire educational toy. Make doors and windows with buttons or Velcro, and when making the roof, use some rustling material. If you also make the roof removable (for example, using a zipper), then the interior space is perfect for storing various small items in the toy.

Sometimes we really want there to be a piece of a fairy tale among the everyday things in our home. The most interesting thing is that you can create it with your own hands - the main thing is to have the desire and free time. Let's make a hut on chicken legs today. No, not a rickety ramshackle house, but a nice, cute corner for Baba Yaga, because not in all fairy tales she is evil and treacherous.

We have to:

two bamboo napkins different shades;
corrugated cardboard;
cable with two cores or dense wire;
milky, yellow and brown yarn;
wooden skewers;
foamiran black and white;
acrylic paints and brush;
penoplex or foam spools;
wooden stump;
foam mushroom;
glue gun, pruning shears, scissors, pencil, ruler.

First, let's decide on the size of our house. The hut itself will be 21 cm high plus legs 12 cm high. We cut out the walls and bottom of the hut from corrugated cardboard to the following dimensions:

Separately cut out the parts for the roof.

Each element of the hut will be individually covered with bamboo sticks. To do this, unravel the napkin.

Take one side and glue sticks to it.

We apply glue along the entire length, and not just along the edges. It will be a shame if some part comes off over time. Be sure to alternate colors. When the entire wall is sealed, we cut off the excess length of the sticks with pruning shears. So we glue the four sides of the house and two triangles of the roof. The process is of course long and very painstaking, but the result is worth it.

If, as planned, the hut has doors and windows, it’s better to decorate them now - it’s more convenient to work, and ready-made option will be more careful. On one side we outline the desired door size, in this case height 8 cm, width 6 cm. Cut the sticks light color 8 cm long and glue them vertically. We cut out the door edging from dark colored sticks and also glue it on.

From black foamiran we cut out a square with a side of 6 cm, from white we cut out two rectangles measuring 1.5 cm by 6 cm. We make one edge wavy and glue our curtains onto the black square. Glue the blank onto the wall.

Using light sticks we paste the window around the outline and make a partition.

We assemble the house: we put the walls close to each other and with inside fix with tape.

We glue the finished box to the bottom. You can add glue along all the seams for reliability.

We also glue the frame of the hut roof.

Glue pasted triangles to it.

We cover the upper sections with dark-colored sticks.

Glue the roof onto the walls of the house.

We turn one of the sides of the roof towards us, glue two horizontal sticks 1.5 cm longer on each side of the roof itself at the top and bottom. We cover the entire part with dark colored sticks.

We also glue the other side. On top, at the junction of the two halves, glue two light sticks, and a skewer between them.

We cut out a rectangle from corrugated cardboard with sides 12 cm by 17 cm. Glue the entire house onto it. We cover all corners with tape.

We paste over the porch of our hut with light sticks. Glue skewers along the contour.

Let's start with the legs: cut the cable or wire into pieces of 17 cm - leave 12 cm for the leg, bend 5 cm for the foot. For each leg we cut three such segments. In two sections we strip the cable from the sheath and separate the conductors. On the third segment, we clean only the edge for the claw - no more than 1 cm.

We wrap the claws with light yarn and fix it with glue. Moreover, the central finger will be made of two cores of different segments.

Wrap with yarn yellow color extreme fingers.

Lastly we wrap middle finger, having reached the junction of three fingers, we twist them well and with outside and from the inside.

We wrap the yarn around the entire leg. Next, we take a piece of penoplex and cut out two cylinders from it, but this is quite difficult and time-consuming. It is much easier to take two reels on which the ribbons are wound. Their size is 5 cm by 3 cm.

We put them on our legs.

And cut the bottom so that it looks like a real chicken leg.

Wrap with brown yarn.

Let's go back to the house and add some details. We glue three pieces of skewers no more than 1 cm long onto the façade.

We take a strip of ordinary cardboard measuring 4 cm by 8 cm. Glue it together.

Cover with dark colored sticks.

We cover a 10 cm long skewer with sticks from a broom. We glue our mortar and a broom into it.

Fly agarics. We heat the gun well, squeeze out round drops of glue onto a glossy surface (you can take the cover of a landscape paper). We leave them to harden. Remove and glue each cap onto a piece of skewer. We paint with paints.

On harsh thread We glue the fly agaric mushrooms, and glue the bunch onto the hut.

Some more mushrooms near the stupa.

AND ladybugs, the manufacturing process of which can be seen in the master class “Autumn topiary”.

Now the most important part: you need to glue the legs to the hut. The main thing here is to successfully choose the balance. Therefore, do not be lazy to put the hut on its legs several times, choosing the most stable option. We outline the selected place with a pencil or felt-tip pen, apply glue to each and every leg and glue them one by one.

Glue the hut onto the stump.

There are never too many fly agarics.

Glue a dry autumn leaf to the roof.

So in our house there is a piece of a fairy tale.

Our craft for the competition "Autumn Festival" - "Yozhkin's House".
So. This fall we decided to build a strong wooden hut. We went into the forest and fed wild ducks along the way.

And we haven’t forgotten ourselves

(read city park (formerly Kharitonovsky), near the pond the wind broke part of the tree and dropped it to the ground, there half an area of material accumulated on various crafts, there our hungry little boy went for a walk after the “homemade movie” and collected logs.) Centuries-old trees were chopped down and knots were trimmed.

They measured the logs with an arshin required length sawed.

The notches were marked with elbows and tops. Notches were made with a sharp ax.

I did all the other operations myself, but I had to make the notches, the tool was too sharp. But the weak hand in the cast did not fix the logs well and the nicks did not always fall in the right place.
And they started rolling the frame. That's where the night found us.

The next evening we already had a noble log house. We cut out windows and doors, covered the roof, inserted windows, and decorated it with carved shutters and trim. And the house suddenly grew legs. chicken on 3 fingers and with spurs. Our hut sank into a mossy swamp and a frail forest with fly agaric mushrooms. And Grandma Yozhka settled in it, so that no one would occupy it and immediately signed it. Yes, I surrounded him with a fence so that he wouldn’t run away.

Ega began to train the hut. “Hut, hut, turn your front to me, and your back to the forest” (judging by the spurs, the front turned out to be where the door is, and the other side is where the window is).

Grandma Hedgehog lit the stove, and the brownie was hiding in it, so he barely managed to jump through the chimney. Well, it’s like being in a house without a brownie.

And while Yaga was setting up a new hut, the first guests came to visit her for a housewarming party. The neighbor, Lesnaya Kikimora, came in first.

This is what we have autumn tale it worked out.

P/S/ They took me to school in the morning. And only then, in the photographs, I noticed that the hut had not been caulked (even though we had prepared moss and a toothpick in advance). Oh, Yaga will get cold in the winter.

Do you need a craft “Hut on Chicken Legs”? You can make it with your own hands different ways. The main methods and materials are presented below. Choose any option and complete the task.

Where to begin

First of all, you need to decide what your hut on chicken legs will be made of. You can make it with your own hands from different materials. The base, that is, the house itself, can be made in the following ways:

made of cardboard in the form of a painted box;
from paper (twist log tubes and assemble walls from them);
assemble from natural “building materials” (sticks, bark, straw are suitable);
sew or knit.

Choose any suitable method. A hut on chicken legs is easy to make with your own hands. The problem is often the construction of the “foundation”. It must not only have the appropriate shape and design, but also be stable and withstand the weight of the craft.

Chicken legs can be made either flat or voluminous. In the first case, they are performed by cutting out a shape from paper, foam plastic, cardboard, or wood. The templates are connected to the house using rods, sticks, and wire. Volumetric (more natural) chicken legs can be made like this:

DIY hut on chicken legs from a box

This is the simplest option. This craft is made as follows:

Take a box of the appropriate shape.
Cover the base with white paper.
Paint the surface in the form of logs.
Draw doors and a window or glue elements made separately;
You can glue the roof yourself or you can also use part of the box, cutting off the excess edges. It can be removed or fixed.
Make chicken legs using any of the methods presented above.

Even a preschooler can handle this option.

Paper log house

A toy hut on chicken legs can be made more in a complicated way, also using paper. This craft will look impressive, since the surface of the walls has volume. The hut is made like this:

Cut a sheet of whatman paper into rectangles. Their length must correspond to the dimensions of the building.
Roll the blanks into tubes and coat the joint with glue.
The logs can be left without sides or you can prepare circles (in double quantity) and stick them on the ends of the resulting cylinders.
Connect the tubes to make walls.
Assemble the frame.
The roof can be made from a flat sheet of paper, bent in the middle, or from the same tubes, gluing them with ticks, or more precisely, by connecting two planes at an angle.
Paint the hut. This action can be performed before twisting the tubes or take colored paper. It is easy to make an imitation of wood, having purchased the appropriate one, you need to cover it with whatman paper before making logs.
Draw windows and doors and glue them to the walls.
Make chicken legs using any suitable method listed above.

Paper wicker weaving

You can create an original and decorative hut on chicken legs if you weave it from newspaper sticks. This method is a cheap and easy alternative to willow vine. Sticks are made by rolling newspapers. To build a hut you will need a box that will be used as a base. This is what you will braid.

First you need to make the “floor” of the house, and then secure the frame elements with clothespins or paper clips at the top of the box. Braid the racks, going around them with a working tube from the back and front alternately. When the “vine” ends, extend it to the required length. It is better to glue the joints of the tubes and hide them inside the product. You can paint the hut after completing the weaving, or you can cover the paper with the desired color at the very beginning, even before twisting. The roof, legs and decor can be made in any convenient way.

Natural materials

A craft hut on chicken legs can be made from what you find in the forest. The following natural materials are suitable:

branches;
bark;
driftwood;
bumps.

They stick on a cardboard base or make a thing directly from them. For example, a box can be covered with branches, bark, and from those that did not have time to open, the walls can be assembled using PVA or a heat gun. By the way, in order for the cones to retain their shape, you need to apply a layer of adhesive solution, as soon as you have collected them and brought them home.

You can make a roof from bark and moss, and driftwood can be used as chicken legs. This craft will look most natural, matching its fairy-tale image.

You can combine different techniques and get very original souvenirs. For example, to walls made of paper straws moss is added, and twigs are glued to the cardboard roof.

We sew a hut

If you do needlework, then most likely you have extra scraps left over. You can make anything out of them, including a hut on chicken legs. If you do not use a needle and thread, but glue rags onto a cardboard base, then even a child can cope with this task. Any fabric can be used. Fleece also looks original. Flat crafts are made in the form of fabric appliqué, but you can sew any three-dimensional parts, including logs or their halves.

It’s easy to turn a hut on chicken legs into a whole educational toy. Make windows and doors with Velcro or buttons; use rustling material to make the roof. By the way, if you make it removable (for example, with zippers), then the internal space can easily be used for gaming purposes (folding, hiding small objects).

We knit an unusual souvenir

If you know how to crochet, make a colorful one fairytale house. This product will be original decoration room or a pendant for a child’s room.

In this case, it is easier to make the toy stuffed. Synthetic padding polyester, cotton wool, small balls, trimming shreds. By the way, try tying a tin box, giving it the appearance of a hut on chicken legs. Such a thing can be used, for example, as a container for sugar or cereal.

So, you have learned that a hut on chicken legs can be made with your own hands in different ways. The use of crafts may also differ: it is an excellent gift, souvenir, toy for a child, decoration, etc.