Unicorn patterns for paper squishies, how to make a toy with your own hands
There are many nerve endings on the palms, massaging a person calms, relieves stress and relaxes. The sensations arising from contact with a toy, which is made to be crumpled, squeezed to develop fingers, improve blood circulation. Even without skills, you can easily make a dragon or a unicorn according to a pattern; elementary school students love to make paper squishies. A striking product, which after being pressed resumes its former shape, it is interesting to play, to hold in the hands.
How to use templates to create squishies
The soft, colorful figures evoke a positive feeling on contact. Toys are made of foam rubber and paper in the form of:
- appetizing cakes and muffins;
- round and bright watermelons;
- pillows with inscriptions.
Children are very fond of animal figurines - cats, dogs, bears. To make a dragon or a unicorn, you will need markers, paints or pencils, paper, tape. Foam rubber and cellophane are used as a filler.
The template for the figure is easy to find on the internet, then redraw it by attaching the sheet to the monitor and tracing the lines and outlines with a marker, then with a marker. The picture should be painted in bright colors.The easiest way is to find a color picture for the squishies and print it out on a printer.
Choosing a figurine with a golden horn, sequins are glued, and the toy turns out bright and original. The drawing is applied to the other side, colored with pencils or felt-tip pens. To prevent the paper from tearing during pressing, a wide adhesive tape is glued to the template so that air does not accumulate between the strips.
You can also make a chunky toy. A figurine is cut out of a sponge, pieces of polyethylene are placed in an empty space. The product is sealed at the bottom and squeezed in the hands.
Examples of schemes for drawing with a unicorn
It is not difficult to make foam rubber squishies. To give the figures bright colors, acrylic paints are used, which apply well to any surface. The film, which is glued after the composition has dried, is practically invisible. The paint usually does not dry for more than a day. The brushes can be easily cleaned with water. Squish does not acquire a specific smell.
The unicorn resembles a horse by its grace, but it only exists in myths and fairy tales. Draw an animal with crayons and markers:
- with a luxurious mane;
- golden clogs;
- with a wreath of flowers;
- with wings like an angel.
The unicorn looks touching, similar to the hero of cartoons. Children will love the mythical animal in the form of a rainbow horse, a proud beast. Original volumetric figures are obtained if scraps of tape are used for filling.
The toy, inside which small polystyrene balls are poured, evokes pleasant sensations and improves mood.
Squishies filled with cling film pieces spring back and swish softly when squeezed.
A unicorn, inside which pieces of fabric from old diapers are placed, comes out soft, pleasant to squeeze and wrinkle.
Volumetric squishes are good even for first graders. To make a cloud, a horn, children will need:
- markers or pencils;
- sheets of paper;
- Scotch;
- the scissors;
- filling.
A picture from the Internet, printed on a printer, or an outline of a figure, described independently, should be painted in different colors and glued with adhesive tape so that the tape does not overlap and unnecessary folds form not.
Place one sheet of paper under the other and cut out the image with scissors. It is necessary to bind the paper along the contour with thin adhesive strips, leaving a hole, which will be filled with foam rubber, pieces of polyethylene, synthetic winterizer.
Squish making: unicorn cake
It is easier for children to make paper figures and appliqués. It is interesting for schoolchildren to work with foam rubber, to make more complex squishes. To make a unicorn cake, in addition to a sponge cake, you will need:
- silicone glue;
- modeling clay;
- gel pen;
- the scissors.
To make a luminous toy, you need to use foam rubber of red, raspberry, orange, green or blue color.
A triangle is cut from a sponge for a unicorn's mouth, blanks for the base of the cake. Plasticine of different shades is rolled out with a rolling pin. A thin sheet of blue color is divided into strips in width and covered with a foam rubber cylinder.The same manipulations are performed with raspberry plasticine, using scissors you need to form wavy edges on it and decorate the top of the cake like icing.
The horn and the ears are molded in an orange material, coated with glue, decorated with sequins, on which is applied a varnish. Squishies are placed on an open window to dry the product. The plasticine will harden, and all the elements of the cake will stick tightly to each other.
You can make a voluminous toy if, instead of a foam sponge, take a hamburger and, like paper, fold it in layers, make the base and top from a roll, place cheese, lettuce in the middle, secure each part with masking tape.
Additional tips and tricks
To make squishes, you can not only use different materials for the base, but also put anything inside. From a plastic bottle, you need to cut off the top with a knife, put a balloon on the neck of the resulting funnel and pour flour or starch inside. The rubber must be tied, the ends removed. The soft toy is painted with multi-colored markers, it is pleasant to the touch, after squeezing it easily returns to its original shape.
Kids love it, round smiley face squishies evoke positive emotions. If you add a few strokes of varnish or marker, you can give the toy a surprised, funny or sad expression.
Not everyone gets a squishy cake right away. It is easier to make a cupcake or a donut with a foam sponge by drawing eyes, mouth, tongue on it.
To relieve stress, improve mood, it is advisable to crush and squeeze squishy in the form of watermelon, apple, tomato.
Vegetables and fruits, the head, ears, nose of a unicorn and other animals are excellently obtained from a mixture of silicone sealant and starch.