Geese: do-it-yourself decor

Cutting a motive out of plywood is not as difficult as you think, and coloring is even easier. But in your garden will become noticeably more fun.

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You do not breed birds in your garden? But in vain! These two cheerful geese will make everyone smile, and decide what to hang from the beak.

YOU WILL NEED: glued plywood 16 mm thick ● white, golden yellow, orange, light green and black acrylic paints ● white lacquer pencil ● three-layer paper napkin “Beautiful Flowers” ​​● adhesive for decoupage ● 1 m white satin braid 3 mm wide ● 20 cm aluminum wire with a diameter of 1.5 mm ● tin bucket with a diameter of 4.5 cm ● tracing paper ● simple pencil ● eraser ● ruler ● paper scissors ● combi nippers ● jigsaw ● cutting hacksaw ● drill ● drill with a diameter of 2 mm ● 2 wood screws in size 2 , 5 x 45 mm ● screwdriver ● grinding pad or sandpaper ● sponge ● flat soft brush No. 12 ● hair brush No. 2 ● gauze cloth ● palette.

DESCRIPTION OF WORK
1. The geese and the stand from the sheet of motifs should be increased to the appropriate size, transferred to tracing paper and using carbon paper to plywood. Cut motives with a jigsaw or a circular saw. To process edges with a pad or sandpaper (Fig. 1).
2. Prime the geese and the stand with white acrylic paint, diluting the paint with water in a 1: 1 ratio. After the paint has completely dried up, if necessary, treat the parts again with sandpaper (Fig. 2).

3. Now paint the geese with undiluted white acrylic paint. Paint the paws and beak with yellow paint, while applying a little orange matting paint to the edges. The eyes should be painted with black paint, put white dots in the eyes with dots — the pupils. With a thin brush of black paint, outline the contours of the beaks and nostrils. Paint the stand with green paint and leave it to dry completely.
4. The contours of the geese (= from the neck to the legs) should be transferred to a napkin, cut with scissors, while at the neck and paws cut the napkin obliquely.
5. Carefully remove both paper layers from the parts cut out of the napkin, apply glue for decoupage on the parts with a soft flat brush and glue on the geese (Fig. 3 + 4).

6. Put both geese on a stand and outline the position of the paws with a simple pencil. Drill with a thin drill (diameter 2 mm) to drill two holes in the stand and in the beak of a larger goose (across). Put the geese on the stand and screw the wood screws from the bottom of the stand. Pass a thin wire into the hole in the goose’s beak, hang a bucket on it, fill it with flowers. Tie a white satin braid around the neck of the goose.

TIP Such geese can be put on the porch of the house for the New Year or before Christmas and tie small souvenirs for guests to the beak.
Model from the magazine Burda. "My favorite hobby" 01/2014.
Photo: burdastyle.
Material prepared by: Elena Karpova