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DIY owl figurine. Making a wooden sculpture of an owl from a stump

Animals and birds, capable of doing things that were beyond the understanding of our ancestors, acquired symbolic meaning for humans. The owl was a night bird that flew silently, saw in the dark, turned its head around itself, delighted and at the same time frightened people all over the world. Whatever symbolism was attributed to it: werewolf, witchcraft, death, loneliness, debauchery, wisdom, prophecy, etc. Let's find out, today, the owl is a symbol of what, and why our contemporaries surround themselves with images of a night bird.

Brings money into the house

One of the meanings that people give to an amulet in the form of an owl figurine when placing it in their home is to attract money into the house. It is believed that the owl should be placed where money is stored so that it is spent rationally and wealth always exceeds expenses.

A very popular financial talisman for the home is an owl sitting on a money tree. This figurine represents two symbols - the money tree, which brings wealth, and the owl, which protects wealth from bad looks and careless thoughts.

In the Slavic tradition, the owl was revered as the keeper of treasures and underground wealth.

You can place an owl next to a money toad, which is clutching a coin in its mouth, in this case, both talismans will interact with each other and bring prosperity to the house.

In order for children to learn how to spend money wisely, you also need to place an owl figurine in their room.

  • Feng Shui owl figurine

The white polar owl cares about family life, so it is better to place figurines or images of a white owl where all family members gather - in the living room or bedroom. An owl is able to accumulate positive or negative energy that surrounds it, and then give it to its owners. Therefore, you need to place the owl in the center of the house, where it is always crowded. And you shouldn’t quarrel in front of an owl, because all the negativity that the bird “absorbs” will be returned again. For the same reason, you should not place the owl in empty and cold corners.

The talisman has a beneficial effect when placed in the office, especially if they work with money there or make decisions regarding their spending or receiving.

Placing an owl on your desktop helps increase your earnings. A figurine of a white or transparent owl with spread wings is a talisman for career growth, so to achieve success it is placed in the office.

Grants wisdom and protects against stupidity

In Ancient Greece, the owl was one of the symbols of Athena, the goddess of wisdom. The Athenian tradition has taken root in Russia, so the figurine of an owl on a stack of books symbolizes knowledge, erudition and wisdom, as well as an owl holding an open book. Many educational institutions choose the owl as an emblem.

North American Indians revered the owl as a totem of wisdom and prophecy. The owl feathers in the headdress protected its owner.

In a family where there are schoolchildren or students, the owl should take pride of place on the desk or shelf with books. It is enough to even place a picture of a bird on the wall in the children's room. The presence of an owl will stimulate a thirst for knowledge, and promote successful study and prudence. As a talisman, you can take a small figurine or decoration with an owl with you to exams.

This owl will always help you in exams

If all family members have already finished studying, an owl with an open book or sitting on a stack of books will help organize knowledge and use it for your own benefit.

Naughty people who do not show diligence in their studies, and also do not obey their parents, will be disciplined by the figurine of a white owl with folded wings. It imparts perseverance, reveals the secret of knowledge and bestows wisdom. This talisman also works in the form of a keychain, pendant or bracelet, so it can have a beneficial effect on naughty people at school.

Protects from evil spirits

Since ancient times, people around the world have respected and feared owls. The night bird symbolized the other world, secret knowledge, and a prophetic gift.

The bird's ability to see in the dark, fly silently, be invisible, and see everything around it by turning its head made the owl a symbol of mystery and evil spirits. It’s not for nothing that in fairy tales, sorcerers and witches turned into owls in order to harm honest people at night.

In the culture of countries such as China, India, Egypt, America and Japan, the owl is considered the bird of death. In European countries, the night bird indulges in witchcraft and everything demonic, and also patronizes hermits.

The Egyptian hieroglyph depicting an owl means night, cold, passivity and even death.

A lamp with an owl will illuminate the nursery and protect the house from evil spirits

It is believed that an owl promotes the development of intuition, helps to sense negative thoughts directed at a person, and to guess the intentions and motives of other people’s actions. The owl also helps the owner of the talisman understand his own character, with all its negative traits. The owl bestows insight and the ability to sense deception.

The white owl in the shamanic practice of the northern peoples served to heal people. An owl figurine made of oak can protect you from any disease; just touch it once a day, directing your thoughts towards health.

A talisman that is always with you

Today, the image of an owl is used not only in the interior or as decoration, but also as a tattoo, forever imprinted on the human body.

The symbolism of the owl is very polysemantic and is perceived differently in each cultural tradition. Therefore, there is no clear explanation of the meaning of the tattooed image of an owl.

A tattoo of an owl or its feathers is considered today a reliable amulet. The image can mean wisdom and fear, joy and grief, loneliness and intelligence, asociality and prudence.

The meaning of an owl tattoo is determined by the appearance of the bird and the manner in which the design is executed.

The meaning of the tattoo is determined by the manner of the design, the general context, as well as by the perception of the owl by the bearer of the tattoo. As a rule, erudite people who are close to the nocturnal lifestyle and mystery choose an owl as a body image.

Owl - windy little head

The owl is also a women's amulet and talisman; it is not without reason that women's jewelry is often made in the shape of a night bird.

Among the Slavs, an owl symbolized a lonely, celibate woman, an old maid or a widow, or a libertine - an unfaithful wife, a “tavern” woman.

The cry of an owl was perceived by a woman as a prediction of the birth of a child, and for the girl it was the birth of an illegitimate child.

In France, there is a superstition that if a pregnant woman hears the cry of an owl, she will definitely give birth to a girl.

At the same time, the image of an owl is also inherent in marriage symbolism, so Ukrainian songs performed before the wedding night call the bride an owl.

Today, the owl talisman for women has partially retained the original symbolism and denotes feminine energy, feminine cunning and sexuality. For the talisman to work, it must be carried with you at all times, and it can look like anything - from a hair clip to a ring on a finger.

Women's amulets in the form of an owl are reflected in jewelry

Despite the fact that humanity has left behind the Age of Enlightenment, experienced technical and cultural revolutions and is now in the 21st century, saturated with technology and equipment, ancient symbols and talismans in the form of an owl have passed through the centuries and still remain significant for people. And carrying a coin with an owl with you or putting a figurine of a night bird on your desk is not such a stupid thing to do as it might seem at first glance, because it’s not just that over the past centuries the sacred meaning of the image of an owl has not been lost for humans.

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DIY garden figure Owl

Master class: DIY Owl figure for the garden

Symbol of the year 2015 according to the Slavic calendar. Feng Shui in Russian: Owl


Author: Natalya Aleksandrovna Ermakova, Teacher, Municipal budgetary educational institution of additional education for children “Children’s Art School named after A. A. Bolshakov”, Velikiye Luki, Pskov region.
Description: The work can be done with children of primary school age. The material can be useful to anyone who is interested in creativity, likes gardening and flowers.
Purpose: The work will serve as an excellent decoration for a garden plot, will decorate the interior of any home, and will be a wonderful gift for family and friends.
Target: creating figures to decorate the garden from scrap materials.
Tasks:
- teach children to create garden figures from scrap materials: stone, wood;
-improve stone painting skills;
-develop imagination and fantasy, the creative potential of children through working with various natural materials;
- to cultivate interest in design work in the design of a garden plot.
Hello, dear guests! Today I want to talk about the owl. Everyone knows that the coming year 2015 according to the eastern calendar is the year of the Goat (Sheep). But few people know that according to the Slavic calendar, the owner of 2015 is the White Owl. From time immemorial, different peoples endowed the owl squad with powers inaccessible to other animals. Eagle owls and owls are the most mysterious birds, indispensable companions of fairy-tale wizards and healers. The White Owl in the Slavic calendar is a symbol of wisdom, insight and success.
If you look at the white eagle owl as the owner of the year, then he always lives according to his own regime, independent, mysterious, and a little withdrawn. In a favorable environment, he is able to miraculously open up and show himself in all his glory. In a good environment, among friends, a white eagle owl is capable of moving mountains and performing miracles. The characteristics of the white eagle owl are reminiscent of the character of Russia.


The Slavic year begins on New Year's Day - 1st Kveten (March 22) and ends on March 15/16 before Christmastide, which does not fall under one of the totems - for this is the period of Intertime (according to other versions: on the day of the autumn equinox - September 22 or after the winter solstice on December 25th).
On the day of the winter solstice, December 21-22, there is a holiday in honor of Kolyada and it lasts for two weeks, or even more. The celebration of Kolyada, with its fun and optimism, expressed the faith of our distant ancestors in the inevitability of the victory of good principles over the forces of evil. The name of Kolyada still sounds in Kolyadki, small songs, glorifications glorifying Kolyada, who brings good to everyone. At the same time, carolers dressed so as not to be recognized. Boys and girls “dressed up in hari (masks)” of horses, goats, cows, bears and other animals, and the mummers walked around the courtyards. They praised the owners, wished well-being to the home and family, and in return they demanded gifts, jokingly predicting ruin for the stingy. Sometimes the gifts themselves: cookies, loaves of bread - were called Kolyada.


With the advent of Christianity in Rus', the ancient, optimistic and life-affirming holiday of Kolyada was dedicated to the celebration of the Nativity of Christ, and the ritual custom turned into a fun game at Christmastide. The last patriarchal ban on the worship of Kolyada was issued on December 24, 1684.
But the truth is not so easy to eradicate, and the ancient custom simply passed into a different form, unfortunately, having lost the true meaning to which it was originally dedicated. In ancient times, the god Kolyada gave many Slavic clans a system of calculating seasonal time for conducting field work - Kolyada's gift. This calendar existed in Rus' before the introduction of Christianity and carries with it a huge layer of knowledge of our ancient and wise Ancestors. In Summer 7208 (1700 AD), our ancient calendar was banned by Peter the Great, who issued a decree abolishing all old calendars that simultaneously existed in the Russian lands. He introduced the Western European calendar from the Nativity of Christ, thereby stealing 5508 years of Great Heritage from the people.


Any calculation has a starting point from some significant event. For example, it is now 2015 AD. Of course, our calendar, abolished by Peter, also had a starting point.
The countdown began from the summer (year) called the “Star Temple,” in which our ancestors won a great victory over Arimia, the land of the Dragon (present-day China), ended a long and bloody war, and concluded - they created the world. Obviously, the event was so important and significant that for 7209 years, until the reign of Peter I, Rus' lived under the sign of the Calendar, which begins its countdown from the Creation of the World in the Summer of the Star Temple, according to which, at the time of this publication, there is 7524 Summer.
The symbol of this victory was a Russian warrior piercing a serpent with a spear, known today as St. George the Victorious. The meaning of this symbol has never been explained in the "official" history.
Ancient frescoes and engravings depict a white knight on a horse, striking the Dragon with a spear (symbol of China-Arimia). Later, the Dragon was replaced by the abstract Serpent, and the Knight-Arius, who in Rus' was called Yuri, received the name of George, the Christian holy great martyr George the Victorious.


The famous mystical philosopher N.K. Roerich argued that the owl is an ambivalent (dual) symbol. This is expressed in the fact that on the one hand there is wisdom and insight, on the other there is magic and the occult. In pre-Christian times, the owl was considered a sacred bird and was associated with reason, the secret of knowledge.
It is generally accepted that an owl figurine in a house or on a person’s body protects against evil spirits and evil spirits. The huge glowing eyes of an owl symbolize the light of the soul, so with such a talisman evil spirits are not afraid.
The white polar owl cares about family life, so it is better to place figurines or images of a white owl where all family members gather - in the living room or bedroom. An owl is able to accumulate positive or negative energy that surrounds it, and then give it to its owners. Therefore, you need to place the owl in the center of the house, where it is always crowded. And you shouldn’t quarrel in front of an owl, because all the negativity that the bird “absorbs” will be returned again. For the same reason, you should not place the owl in empty and cold corners.
The owl is the strongest symbol of feminine energy. In ancient times it was called the winged cat. And the cat, as you know, is associated with affection, tenderness, softness and purely feminine cunning. This talisman will help its lonely owner find feminine happiness. You just need to carry this owl under your heart, hanging it on an elegant thin chain. For a married woman, an owl will help protect family relationships from quarrels and all kinds of troubles. In this case, in addition to a personal talisman, it would be nice for the wife to hang a picture or panel depicting an owl at the head of the marital bed.


In the Slavic tradition (Russian feng shui), the owl was revered as the keeper of treasures and underground wealth. The owl amulet was placed in the house to attract money.
In the Chinese art of Feng Shui, the image of an owl can often be seen in “tandem” with a money tree. This figurine represents two symbols - the money tree, which brings wealth, and the owl, which protects wealth from bad looks and careless thoughts. Feng Shui masters advise placing the bird in a room where you keep money. And remember that the owl needs your constant attention, and only in this way will it be able to give its positive energy to the inhabitants of the house. You can place an owl next to a money toad, which is clutching a coin in its mouth, in this case, both talismans will interact with each other and bring prosperity to the house.
The talisman has a beneficial effect when placed in the office, especially if they work with money there or make decisions regarding their spending or receiving. Placing an owl on your desktop helps increase your earnings. A figurine of a white or transparent owl with spread wings is a talisman for career growth, so to achieve success it is placed in the office. In order for children to learn how to spend their pocket money wisely, you also need to place an owl figurine in their room.


According to Feng Shui, the owl is a symbol of wisdom and clarity of mind. Feng Shui symbols depicting an owl are recommended to be placed in the north-eastern part of the room or on the desk. It is enough to even place a picture of a bird on the wall in the children's room. The presence of an owl will stimulate a thirst for knowledge, and promote successful study and prudence. As a talisman, you can take a small figurine or decoration with an owl with you to exams. This talisman also works in the form of a keychain, pendant or bracelet, so it can have a beneficial effect on children at school.
If your school and student years are long behind you, an owl will direct your thoughts in the right direction and tell you how to properly use your accumulated experience. Place the figurine next to a safe or place where you store your savings and be sure that not a single ruble will be wasted. A vigilant guard will ensure that financial well-being never leaves your home. .To strengthen the talisman, you can place three owls side by side. The triad of owls will protect the house from evil and protect its inhabitants.
An owl figurine made of oak can protect you from any disease; just touch it once a day, directing your thoughts towards health.


Interestingly, each zodiac sign has its own owl.
Aries:
An owl with folded wings. For men, this is success. For women, it’s sexuality.
Taurus:
Owl with spread wings. It will add decisiveness to the sophisticated Taurus, which can lead to long-awaited success.
Gemini:
The feather of a polar owl will help sociable Geminis not to suffer from liars.
Cancer:
Picture of an owl on the wall in the bedroom. This will help them maintain good family relationships, which are of particular importance to them.
Leos:
Amulet in the form of a brooch or pendant. This will soften the harsh power of Leo, and will add charm and sexuality to the Leo woman.
Virgos:
An owl amulet in the interior of the house will strengthen their family relationships, which sometimes suffer greatly due to the independence of the Virgos, which prevents them from immersing themselves in family life, which is what the Virgos themselves suffer from.
Libra:
The crystal owl of good luck and success will help Libra, who loves poise and balance, to finally take a decisive step forward in business or career.
Scorpios:
Wooden owl figurine. It can prevent Scorpios from self-destruction and give them additional strength and energy.
Sagittarius:
An owl with folded wings, which is able to correct the swiftness and inconstancy of Sagittarius and give them wisdom and prudence.
Capricorns:
A pendant for any figurine of an owl made of some precious metal. She will add a little frivolity to hardworking and disciplined Capricorns.
Aquarius:
An owl amulet in the form of a mosaic, a painting, a figurine, a panel, located above the front door, will help attract love to an Aquarius who often suffers from loneliness.
Pisces:
Arctic owl with spread wings. She will give soft and kind Pisces the business acumen and determination they so lack.
Call this mysterious bird to be your assistant. Believe me, her help will not be superfluous.





Materials and tools:
- stone, tree (stump)
- water-based paint for exterior use
-gouache
- universal acrylic varnish
-brushes
-water glass, cloth
-stain

Progress of the master class:

We begin work by priming the surface of the stone, covering it with water-based paint and letting it dry.


Then draw the bird’s eyes in yellow.


Then mix white and black gouache to obtain a gray color. We paint the owl with the resulting color, leaving the outlines of the eyes white. Since the surface of the stone has some roughness, we will create an imitation of the plumage of a bird, with uneven painting of the background. Using a brush, lightly touching the stone, we will walk along its entire circumference.



Then we will work with a thin brush, we will draw feathers in black. We draw many small arched strokes - this is the back of the bird.


Now let’s work on the owl’s eyes in detail. We draw black contours of the eyes and pupils, and make a smooth transition from black to yellow.


All we have to do is draw the bird’s beak and feathers.



We add white highlights to the pupils, cover the figure with varnish after the paints have dried and place it in the place chosen for it.


Creating owl figurines for garden decoration is a very simple task, and you can come up with many options for implementing this idea: a plastic bottle, an old flower pot, a stone. I caught my eye on the stump of an old tree with a splinter very similar to an owl. Using a saw, I just sawed off the top in the shape of a bird’s ears, peeled off the bark, this is necessary to prevent the wood from rotting, and made eyes from old cabinet door handles. This tree with an owl on top is part of an alpine hill, a wall holding back the earthen layer.


Like any material, wood requires care and protection, so I covered it with stain.



Then we paint the owl’s figure on all sides with water-based paint, and when dry, we begin painting with gouache. Let's start with the bird's eyes.


Use brown to draw the beak and sketch out the eyebrows of the owl. We draw black contours of the eyes.


We outline the beak in black.


And while the paint is not dry, we make a smooth transition from black to brown, adding white highlights to the beak. Then, using brown color, we begin to draw in detail the front part of the owl.


We draw brown contours, wash the brush, and with a clean, semi-dry brush we make a wash of brown - a smooth transition from brown to white



Using black color we make the eyes more expressive and add shadows to the eyebrows.


Inside the eyes we make “little things” using white and green colors.


All we have to do is draw the feathers on the bottom of the owl figure, draw brown triangles.


Then the wavy outlines of feathers.


Add some gray shadows to the surface of the bird, and once the paints have dried, be sure to varnish it.


My owl will be unusual, as if carrying two essences at once. Now we paint the figure on the other side, draw round eyes and a triangular nose.


Using brown color we outline the silhouette of a bird.

An owl figurine in the garden is not superfluous - firstly, this bird symbolizes wisdom (and this quality will not hurt anyone), and secondly, you can appoint it as the night guard of your estate.

There are many ways to create this colorful bird, let's look at just two of them. We will choose plastic containers as the material.

Owl from a plastic bottle-canister

Materials and tools you will need:

  • Plastic bottle canister;
  • 2 small metal lids from jars - for the bird’s eyes;
  • 2 metal bottle caps will become the owl's pupils;
  • 2 aluminum forks - for paws;
  • The paint is white;
  • Paint black;
  • The paint is yellow;
  • Plastic from bottles - for the wings and hat of the owl;
  • Brush for painting bottle;
  • Brush for drawing details of the figure;
  • Fasteners for owl eyes - glue for plastic or just wire.

Various construction fluids, detergents or milk are sold in plastic bottles with handles. An owl based on such a bootle will turn out to be quite large - if you attach it to a tree branch, it will be clearly visible from below and even from afar. The bigger the bootle, the bigger the owl.

This plastic canister for creating crafts is especially convenient because it has a handle - a ready-made owl beak.

Paint the bottle canister with white paint. We use either acrylic or spray paint. Read more about what paint is best for painting garden figurines made from plastic bottles. The canister can be painted both outside and inside (pour the paint into the bottle and shake it so that it spreads). The second option is good because the paint layer will last longer. But if you paint the outside, the paint will last a season or two, and then the craft can be renewed.

We prepare the plastic for the bird's hat. By the way, such a hat is called an academic or confederate hat. We have a very serious and learned owl planned! We cut out a square of plastic for the confederate and two oblong wings. We also paint these parts with white paint.

We attach the covers to the owl's head (on both sides of the handle-beak). This requires a powerful construction adhesive. For example, a glue with a funny name that can glue almost any material.

If our fasteners are wire, we will have to first make holes in all the covers. It is not necessary to drill (although this is possible), it is easier to pierce the lids with a nail using a hammer - the lid metal is soft.

We make slits on the sides of the canister and attach the wings in them.

We attach the academic cap - also with glue or wire.

We bend the aluminum forks and paint the “legs” with black paint.

We fix the legs in the holes that we make in the bottom of the plastic canister. However, an owl for the garden can do without legs - in this case, we’ll simply sit it on a branch, pretending that it has tucked its legs and they are not visible from under the plumage.

When ready, use a small brush to draw the feathers.

Owl from a plastic shampoo bottle

You will need:

  • Plastic bottle for shampoo or other detergent;
  • Lids from small jars;
  • Toy eyes. You can get by with homemade eyes - as in the first version of the owl from a bottle canister;
  • Paint suitable for painting crafts. But you may not need it - most shampoo containers are made of high-quality, evenly colored plastic;
  • Felt or other dense material for the owl's wings and legs. But wings and legs can also be made from bottle plastic; this is even preferable for the garden - you don’t need to worry that the fabric used in the craft will get wet from rain or fade in the sun. But little material will be needed for the parts and it won’t cost much money, so replacing the elements over time is not a problem.

We cut in the wings and legs of the bird and secure them with glue or wire.

- a luxury that not everyone can afford. Agree, during the summer season you need so many things that it’s somehow a pity to pay three to five thousand for a beautiful, but not functional thing. Meanwhile, while there are long winter evenings outside the window, you can spend them making garden sculptures with your own hands. To begin with, we would suggest making something not too bulky, for example, an owl figurine.
For the sculpture we will need a convenient work place and a place for kneading the mixture, building plaster (about 6 cups), water, wooden skewers or thick wire, a mold (5 liter bucket), a plastic bag, a package of self-hardening polymer clay FIMO or other (500 g ), gouache, two eyes (for us it’s a pair of glass marbles), two art brushes (No. 5 and No. 1), matte varnish, sculpting stacks (for us this function is performed by a regular manicure pusher), black and yellow nail polish to decorate the eyes.

Stump pedestal.
Let's start with mixing the plaster, for this we will prepare a 5 liter bucket, put a bag in it, aligning it with the walls so that it fits snugly. Separately, mix the gypsum (about 4 cups) so that it is like cottage cheese with sour cream, but homogeneous.

We quickly transfer it to a bucket; it fills one third of the bucket. Quickly wash the uniform. We insert skewers in the middle, the figurine will be attached to them, that is, half of the skewers are buried in plaster, the second sticks out at the top. Using your hands, level the surface of the plaster and leave it to harden for two hours.

The base of the figure.
Carefully remove the pedestal from the bucket and release it from the cellophane.

We mix the plaster again in the same consistency, and with our hands we put it on the skewers, envelop them, and form the contours of the figure of a sitting owl. We wash the mold, and leave the pedestal with the figurine to harden for a day.


Take polymer clay and tools.

Tearing off small pieces from the whole piece (we immediately wrap the remaining plastic in cellophane so that the remains do not harden ahead of time), we begin to sculpt the head and shoulders, applying the clay piece by piece to the plaster base.

We draw feathers with a pusher, insert eyes (marble), sculpt eyebrows (if you want, we later abandoned them, so the owlet looks cuter).



We sculpt the back, the base of the wings.


We paint the eyes with yellow and black nail polish (it is transparent and retains the shine of the glass).


Now we begin to sculpt the tail. To make it look more natural, we sculpt it in tiers, starting from the bottom, draw each one with a pusher, sculpt the one on top, and so on.



Now we form the wings, draw the feathers on the back.

Board games provide fun and colorful entertainment for every family. Don’t rush to buy games in stores, but try to make them yourself, this will help you create a special gaming style. In this article we will look at: how to make board games with your own hands.

Everyone knows this game from school. However, you thought that it needed a pen and a leaf, but it can be made from wood, fabric, magnets, stones, buttons and other figures. Just get creative and create a playing field, for example, on the refrigerator or pieces of fabric in the shape of a heart.

Travel around the world walking game

This game can be played by 2 to 6 people. You will need a "card", a die and chips. Each player rolls a digital die in turn, gets a number and takes the required number of steps along the map. The winner is the one who gets to the finish line first, and the catch is that there are numbers on the map that return the player a few steps back, or move him forward.

The main process is to create a map. Lay out 8 A4 sheets in 2 rows, leaving half a centimeter gaps so that you can fold the card later. Place a weight on each sheet to keep it from moving, then tape the sheets along each row. Draw a route of moves with a pencil and arrange stops, for example (1-60 or 1-90), between each stop, make a distance of 2-3 cm. Mark bonus and penalty steps, indicate the direction with arrows. Fill in the empty spaces on the map with pictures. A digital cube can be purchased at an office supply store or made from cardboard. For chips, use small Kinder Surprise toys, buttons, small cookies...

You can create a geographic puzzle to explore the country. Buy or print an outline map, color each area with a different color (in addition, you can indicate clues - sea, mountains, attractions...), then glue the map onto a thick sheet of cardboard, cut it into squares or other shapes.

It is also very easy to create another puzzle. Collect 7-10 popsicle sticks and cut out a suitable picture from a magazine or draw it yourself. Place the sticks on a flat surface next to each other, stick the picture, wait until the glue dries and cut the sticks. Attach Velcro to the back of each stick so you can later attach the puzzle to the felt.

Another name for the game is “say otherwise.” The idea is simple: from 4 to 16 people play. Participants are divided into teams. A team can have 2,3,4 people. One of them pulls out a card on which 8-10 words are written, each word must be explained in other words, you can use sounds (for example: woof-woof, meow...) you cannot show and use words of the same root. You have 1 minute for 1 card, you need to quickly guess as many words as possible. You can make add-on cards on which emotions or instructions will be written. During the explanation, the person must be happy, or vice versa, sad, and the team must additionally guess the emotion and action that the explainer is doing. The team with the most guessed words wins. This game perfectly develops logical thinking and increases vocabulary.

Cut out cards from cardboard and beautifully write commonly used words, for example: soup, ice, monkey, enemy, sweet, photograph... There should be at least 30 cards with 10 words written on them. Words should not be repeated.

You can create a playing field for aliases. Mark the steps on it and make chips. The principle of creation is described in the game around the world. However, you can play without a field, just appoint a referee who will count the points and record the time.

This is a very fun game played by 2 people. I press the edge of the bean with a coin and it jumps like a flea. The main task is to hit the enemy's goal with a flea, then you get a point and the flea is removed from the field. If a flea lands on your field, you can pick it up and use it next time; if a flea lands on your opponent’s field, the point is not counted and it simply remains lying there until the next turn. If the flea hits its own goal, the point is awarded to the opponent. The game continues until someone runs out of fleas.

To make a playing field, take a candy box, colored paper and thick fabric. Cover the inside of the box with colored paper and make fabric sides to prevent fleas from flying away. Use beans as fleas and don’t forget about large coins.

This game involves from 2 to 10 people. 16 cards are produced. Every two cards contain the same images. One person lays out the cards in a square in a chaotic order with the pattern facing up, while at the same time the person who will play stands with his back turned. He turns for exactly 5 seconds and tries to remember the images. It is turned away and the cards are turned over to the other side. Now he must turn over the cards and find pairs within a minute. The person who guesses the largest number of pairs with the same pictures wins. Cards can be made from cardboard and any drawings can be drawn.

To create this game you will need a cardboard candy box, cocktail straws and a small ball, you can use a bead. Think over and draw a labyrinth. Glue the cocktail tubes. Place the ball and start the game.

You can use lids, buttons, sewn circles of fabric, various figures and even plasticine as checkers. Fantasize and surprise everyone with your creativity!

Create original chess that will not walk, but jump. Make 16 white and 16 black jumping frogs and draw the titles. A detailed master class on how to make a jumping frog out of paper is described

For dominoes, create 28 pieces, they can be made by coloring pebbles, ice cream sticks, sewn from felt...

When creating this game with your own hands, you can use your city - it will be more interesting. Think about the colors of the districts, print out almost “real” money and come up with realistic tasks, for example: paying utility bills. Create your own exciting original game.

Almost everyone knows this exciting psychological game. It is perfect for a large company. Make cards by drawing them yourself, or simply print them from the Internet, then cut them up.