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Previously, it was in many kindergartens, and orders for production came even from above. Now it’s very difficult for the Bogorodskaya toy. The craftsmen who work in the factory for pennies do not let her die completely. Even with private woodworking orders you can’t go far; they lift your spirits more than the job. Factory workers still remember how one day a new Russian came and asked to make a stupa for his mother-in-law as a gift. With a hint :)

The toy is about 350 years old. Then, under the control of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, wood processing began to develop in the nearby village of Bogorodskoye. They carved iconostases, platbands, wooden sculptures and toys. Later, a school of master carvers and a professional artel, the current factory, appeared.
A more romantic version talks about a peasant whose children are tired of playing with wooden doll and they abandoned her. The peasant took the doll to the fair, where he was lucky - a merchant saw the toy and ordered a shipment. This is how the residents of Bogorodskoye began to engage in the “toy business.”
A wooden toy is made from linden dried for 3-5 years. This soft wood good for cutting:

The finished product is first cut out with an ax or cut out using a hacksaw according to a template

Then they process it with tools - chisels and special very sharp Bogorodsk knives. Yes, the knives were also local. Once upon a time, while one part of the village was making toys, the second was preparing knives and chisels for their manufacture. Now craftsmen use imported tools or make them themselves, only the name remains

An experienced worker spends 15-20 minutes cutting one piece. However, the working day of the foreman at the factory is short - until lunch. Then many go home to private work or fulfill a factory order. We arrived just in time for lunch, and all the craftsmen had already left. I had to show everything to the escort. The norm is to deliver 130-140 items per month. Cuts and abrasions are a common occurrence at work, but people do not lose heart.

They work here. It smells like wood inside

After processing, the toy is assembled in parts

And these are the future Carlsons. Below will be colored

Although traditionally the toy was not painted, now this rule is sometimes deviated from. It turns out no worse :)

They work with gouache and then cover it with a harmless oil varnish. Previously, things were going well at the factory and several hundred people worked. Now there are fewer and fewer workers, some workshops are even empty. They say that in 12 years the team has shrunk by half and has aged a lot.

However, the toy is still wonderful. Look how cool the Carlsons are

Just great. The toy is held in the hands, the ball rotates - Carlson moves his hand and eats jam, a jar of which has not yet been assigned to him

But the spoon has already been given out... And he is happy

There are also toys with characters from other fairy tales. Here the ball is spinning, and grandma and grandpa are baking buns

There are different moving scenes - a cat catches fish, chickens peck grain. This toy develops imagination and hands.

Good afternoon. Today we start uploading articles on the topic of DIY wood crafts. In this first article I want to show you what simple crafts can be made from wood - both for children and adults. Many ideas will work for labor classes at school- for boys. Some ideas will work for a school competition crafts from natural material. Some wooden crafts can become decorating your dacha or yard. Here you will find a storehouse of inspiration and joy in anticipation of such interesting and simple work. In this article I will prove what to do beautiful crafts made of wood everyone can. Because here you will find simple and feasible tasks. Even a frail woman with a manicure can do half of the crafts in this article. So - let's fall in love with wooden creativity.

Let's start with simple magic.

Tree + sun

Crafts that glow with love.

Here are the simplest and cutest ones country crafts made of wood. For the craft, you need to cut a log (ask when you are sawing the firewood with a grinder to make several thin cuts). Or you can do it without cutting - just take a board of any size.

We drill holes in the wood so thick that a store-bought glass pebble will fit into it. Such sets of multi-colored decorative glass stones are sold - in the gift department, and in the department where candles, vases and everything for holiday decor are.

You can simply drill such holes with glass into a board and hang it on an apple tree. You can drill such holes in the fence - if the sun shines into it at least once a day at a low angle.

That's very beautiful. Magically. Like in fairyland. Your children will be delighted with this wooden craft.

Simple wooden crafts

from log cuts.

If you have logs being cut into firewood in your yard, you are in luck. You can get priceless craft material for free. Ask the men to cut you flat cuts from both small and large logs. Lovingly stack them away from the woodpile and start dreaming up future wood crafts. For example, let it be wooden owls. It's easy to do and looks beautiful. The saw cuts can be nailed to each other with nails. You can put them on liquid nails (like glue).

The surface of the cuts can be rough and unsanded (as in the photo with the bunnies craft). Or you can sand it with sandpaper and even varnish such an ornamental material. Or paint it the color you want.

From large saw cuts you can make large country wood crafts. And small log houses (made of thinner branches and logs) are suitable for miniature crafts - for example, these birds. You can cut branches of this thickness yourself with a hacksaw - manually, without a chainsaw.

Log cuts can become a canvas for art installations. Such wooden crafts-pictures can be made from any natural material. Go to the river and find smooth, flat stones. They will become the source interesting crafts. The stones can be easily painted with felt-tip pens, office fat markers or just gouache (after work, fix the gouache with hairspray or nail polish).

Here's another way to make beautiful AIR crafts from wooden cuts. Lacy through cutting with an electric jigsaw (photo with craft Maple Leaf) looks simply magical.

Here is a small master class from which you can see how the process of cutting out openwork patterns on a thick cut of wood occurs.

First we outline the stencil with a pencil. Then we use a drill to drill holes in the key nodes of the drawing. And then we use a jigsaw to move from one holey node to another.

You can come up with a device yourself which will help you cut wood products using a conventional drill. Do it yourself electric jigsaw. Holding the comfortable handles with your hands, you simply move the device - following the lines of your drawing. The thinner the drill, the finer details of the design you can cut out with it. Well thought out.

Or you can buy a jigsaw– it costs on average 100 dollars. You can find it for over 50, but we’re not in industrial scale work, so it’s not necessary to buy a very powerful, expensive tool.

Mosaic crafts

From cuts of thick branches.

If you have country yard The boring barn wall is looking right at you. Then you need to make it not boring. Let's decorate the shed using wood crafts. Let's do it mosaic applique from small wood cuts. Such cuts are obtained by cutting thick branches or thin logs with a hacksaw (or chainsaw).

The basis For such a wooden craft, we cut it out of a sheet of plywood. First, we draw the silhouette of the future craft on it. We cut it out plywood base with a hand jigsaw or a special power tool. And we glue wooden rounds onto it - with liquid nails, with wood glue or with hot glue from a gun.

And you can even make it at home from saw cuts decorative frame for a mirror made of wooden rounds(master class in the photo below).

Also buy a round mirror. Place it on a sheet of plywood and trace it with a pencil.
Around the resulting circle, retreat a few centimeters (to the width you want for the frame). And with this indentation draw a second circle.
Cut a large circle out of plywood. And cover the outer ring with wood cuts. You will get a beautiful wooden craft frame - all you have to do is glue the mirror into the middle using liquid nails.

Puff Crafts

made of wood.

This is perhaps my favorite type of wood crafts. Here the woven shields lie on top of each other creating a LAYERED VOLUME of the craft.

Here is a cow craft made from three layers of wooden shield. The first layer is the body, the second is the head, the third is the bangs and nose.

You can paint all layers of your craft the same color (like a craft polar bear made of wood) or different colors(like a craft mouse on the moon– photo below).

Or you can leave a textured wood pattern (as in the crafts in the photo below).

Wood fox It has a two-layer design - a back layer, and the head and tail are placed on it.

Craft duck has 5 layers - a central layer with the head, and two layers on both sides (tummy + wing).

The more layers you will overlap each other, the more voluminous and convex your craft will be. Here is an example with the craft “Lions made of wood” you can see how the animal's muzzle moves forward, thanks to four layers of thick wooden boards.

If you paint your crafts. Complete the facial expressions, add small details - folds, spots, etc. You can get very realistic and expensive wood crafts. Your small hobby can become your business. Such works can be safely put up for sale.

You can come up with your own characters. Draw their layers on a sheet of paper. Increase the craft first in paper template– transfer the contours to wooden shield and saw out. Or find pictures in a children's coloring book– and redraw them in an enlarged size.

Wood craft

For school activities

At the labor lesson.

Such LAYER wood crafts can be cut NOT FROM THICK SHIELDS, but from thin plywood sheet. And then such work can be carried out in labor classes within the framework school curriculum. On the topic “sawing with a jigsaw on plywood.”

Here's an idea - how out of 3 plywood panels make a two-color puppy craft. The first very back layer of WHITE PLYWOOD shows only the tips of the ears, tail and one hind leg. We will cover the second layer with stain (so that it darkens). Eyes, nose and lines can be drawn with a marker, or burned special device for wood burning.

In the same technique of shields with different shades you can do so many colors volumetric crafts made of wood during labor lessons at school or in a woodworking group.

Wood crafts

in the form of an APPLICATION.

Using a very similar technique, you can make an applique from wood. Here, too, wood is taken as a basis. solid wood board(that is, not a glued board, but a solid board). Because we will be sanding it, and the glued board may delaminate from sanding and the glue seams will be visible.

On paper all future crafts are drawn. Divided into parts by lines. Each detail is numbered. And it is photographed (so that later the location of each element can be verified from the photo).
Next, the drawing is cut along the lines into elements. We outline each element on the board with a pencil. We cut out an element from a flat board. All elements are flat on top, rough around the edges of the cut and with sharp sawing edges.
Now our task smooth all edges of each part, round it. We trim off the sharp edges of the cuts with a chisel. And we grind it on a grinding machine (if you have one) or do it manually with sandpaper of varying degrees of hardness and roughness.
After sanding all parts painted with tinted stain(sold in construction stores). Depending on how many times you wipe the part with stain, you will get a lighter or darker tone. Very light details can be simply wiped off vegetable oil. You can check in advance shades of color on scraps of wood left after sawing the craft.

You can also paint wooden craft parts in watercolor or gouache(using not a brush, but a foam sponge). After painting, to prevent the part from getting your hands dirty, you can spray it with hairspray or saturate the craft with another wood coating compound (just check the color first on scraps).

It only seems that the cow (in the photo of the wooden craft above) is behind the moon. In fact, all the parts are in the same plane. On a piece of paper. But thanks to the streamlined edges of the parts, everything looks voluminous, soft and as if pressed into each other. Nothing is actually pressed in - everything just lies next to each other.

Ideas for such flat wood applique crafts can be taken inside children's coloring books. There are just pictures with large details. You can find a children's coloring picture on Google - enlarge it and print it. Or redraw directly from the monitor screen by placing a sheet of paper on the glowing screen.

Methods for grinding parts

for wood crafts

(instructions to help).

To make it easier to sand the smooth edges of parts without rubbing calluses on your hands, I want to give some useful tips.

You can clamp the sanding belt in a special vice, also made of wood. Here's how it's done in the left photo below. Or come up with your own version of the device.

Here in the left photo - sandpaper is wrapped around a thick piece of wood with a semicircular edge. And the edges sandpaper are wrapped in a groove and clamped with a bolt twisted through a round cylindrical piece of wood-clamp.

There are also grinding attachments for drills. And then you can grind the parts using the rotational force of the drill and the magical power of electricity.

Below we see grinding attachments for drill– plate and drum shape.

There are grinding attachments for drills where you can change sandpaper - remove the old worn-out sandpaper and fill in a new one.

By the way, on AliExpress you can immediately buy grinding drums for a drill in bulk for 3-4 dollars per batch of 100 pieces. If you search, you can find it cheaper.

And to prevent the drill from spinning in your hand while working, you can create a special FASTENING STRUCTURE that will record your homemade grinding machine in one place, and all you have to do is bring the parts to the grinding drum.

The design of the mounting pallet can be different - with a wooden clamp (photo above), or with a retainer in the form of a metal bracket (as in the photo below).

With such an assistant, making wood crafts with your own hands is a pleasure. Quick, pleasant and immediately beautiful results. This kind of work can be put on stream - and a whole production of beautiful wooden (smooth and safe) toys for children and wooden gift paintings can be set up.

You can become a successful master. Completely unexpected for myself. Just like that, look at this article and fall in love with the idea.

Fantasy wooden crafts– limitless. Remember the formula for success - everything can be made from wood. The main thing is to start... then continue... and finish.

For example, knocking toys. Beautiful fun for children and for decorating the garden. Such a knocker or woodpecker may knock on your door, announcing guests on the porch. Just like in a fairy tale, pull the string and the door will be opened for you.

You can make decorations for your children's room with your own hands. Essentially, reincarnate and become a designer of interesting interior wood crafts. Any boy will be happy if his children's room sparkles with motifs from the Jungle.

You know... I’ll probably continue the topic of wooden crafts for design children's room in one of the following articles. I'd like to see what ideas are hidden here. And making someone fall in love with this is a good thing.

And perhaps we should create an article with wooden toys for children - self made. I also need to write. And then it will work here link.

In the meantime, let's continue...

WOOD CRAFTS

and WASTE material.

Where do future crafts live? …. Old half-decayed boards. For example, from grandma's fence. Which are usually used for firewood or removed from the yard as excess garbage. Stop. Let's not throw them away. Let's dig through this pile and create something wonderful - with our own hands from wood.

A wooden mop-brush, if sawed in half, turns into the mouth of an evil dog. A little imagination and work. And now the service dog is bristling and grinning at you.

A beautifully crafted piece of art. tree and waste material.

Any waste material (pieces of iron, plastic) and old pieces of wood can populate your home fairy-tale characters. They are alive. They have a soul and their own history.

Wood crafts

Imperishable beauty.

Peeled veneer , from old furniture panels, quietly dampening in your shed - can also become a source for crafts made of wood.

From this thin wood material You can directly cut out the details of the future craft with scissors and stick it with hot glue from a gun (or with wood glue).

You can also use thin birch bark instead of veneer. And also make interesting flat crafts from wood.

Wood crafts

(logs, firewood and bark)

Ordinary firewood from your woodpile can become a source of inspiration for wooden crafts for the dacha.

If you cut a round log diagonally, you get a figurine with its face turned towards you. All that remains is to draw this face, add elements of eyes, ears, and nose to it.

You can use logs and round logs to form the body of an animal. The logs will be the legs and the logs will be the back. The head can be made from a round cut of a small log. Or chop with an ax face up the desired shape from the same log as the body of your four-legged wooden craft.

Show your imagination and don’t stop before a difficult task. A squirrel made of wood or a snail made of logs - there is nothing complicated. We turn on our head and sense of humor - it will suggest the most ridiculous, but effective ways convey the delicate image of the animal using rough wood and other natural materials.

YOU can work with a chainsaw or an ax - sawing out or beheading the face of your wood craft. You can make these cute pigs with your own hands as a fun wooden craft for your dacha.

And in the bushes you can put a beautiful, proud deer - also a simple and quick craft made from wood and branches.

Wooden crafts

from chips from a log.

It happens that when you chop firewood, large shaped chips break off from the log. This chip often has a bizarre shape - already similar to something (a bird, a panther, the profile of a face). You need to carefully put such a gift of fate aside, so that you can later return to it and complete the craft started by nature. Trim something with a knife, highlight something with paint, glue something as an additional detail. And you will end up with a do-it-yourself wooden craft - beautiful and original.

These are the ideas I managed to find for wood craftsmen.

Now you too can make beautiful crafts from wood with your own hands. Moreover, this article is only the first in a series on the topic of wooden crafts, which are clear and easy to do at home. You've probably already fallen in love with some ideas and are determined to implement them - I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you - let everything work out the best in the best possible way. And your wooden craft will appeal to your entire Family Bunch.

DIY wooden toys

Nowadays you can buy almost everything in the store. The variety of toys is amazing. However, a toy bought in a store and a toy made with one’s own hands are, as they say, two big differences. After all, you put your skill, your taste, your effort into the toy that you made yourself. This toy is made according to your sketch and is the realization of your fantasy.

By working on making crafts or toys with your own hands, you gain experience and this will later help you in helping others when renovating a house or country house.

Nowadays, handmade crafts have much greater value than factory ones. Do-it-yourself toys very often have no analogues, exist in the singular, are not like others, and are exclusive crafts.

However, in order to become a real master, you need to start with the basics. So we will try to talk about how to make simple toys.

We will make toys from wood, or more precisely from various boards that can be bought at any hardware store. But with the same success you can make the proposed toys from foam plastic or from any other block structures, for example, corrugated cardboard, fiberboard, chipboard, plywood, glued together in several layers, and even plasticine or quick-hardening plastic.

Your toy plane will consist of the following parts: upper wing (5x24x1.5 cm), lower wing (5x15x1 cm), fuselage (5x30x1.5 cm) and steering wheel. The boards must also be of appropriate sizes, so select suitable blanks for this work in advance.

First, make a sketch of the future product. Clearly draw the main parts of the aircraft and its general form. It is best if the drawing matches the size of the intended product. Then think about the sequence of making the toy and how to connect its parts. Try on the main parts and assemble them without nails. Strictly speaking, a wooden plane is a simple product, so you will probably prepare all the main details quickly enough.

In order to make the tail wings, take a board, measure half and draw a sawing line, that is, make an accurate marking. Then they sawed off the part and cleaned up the cut. After this, you can begin fastening the parts of the aircraft with nails. First of all, knock down the upper and lower front wings with the base, and then the tail scrapies with the base. Mark in advance with a pencil the places where you will hammer nails on the wings, and make sure that the lower and upper wings are at the same level on the base. It is best if they are nailed at a distance of a third of the length from the nose of the aircraft.

Then you will need to nail the steering wheel. Take nails without heads for this. Connect carefully top part with tail wings. Drive a nail without a head halfway into the middle of the tail wings and place the rudder part on the second half of the nail, which is visible above the body of the aircraft. After this, drive a nail into the pre-marked hole. However, you can secure the rudder in another way: turn the tail wings over, place them on the top and carefully nail them at an angle. It is better to hammer 2 nails into the middle of the wings.

Place the rudder with tail wings on the base and nail it. Once the main parts of the toy are attached, you can add a propeller, wheels, etc. Color the product to your liking. For example, you can draw stars or something else on the wings, and also cover the toy with wood varnish.

Making a toy TV out of wood is also easy. For this you will need the following parts: the body of the product - a rectangular block measuring 20x16x10 cm, the TV screen - a board measuring 15x10x1 cm, slats for the legs measuring 35x1x1 cm.

Just like when working on an airplane, make a drawing first. Clearly mark all future parts of the toy on a piece of paper. Separately, draw a general view of the TV. Determine the sequence of work and select the necessary material. Make sure everything wooden blocks were free of cracks, burrs and other defects.

For the TV body, choose a suitable block or cut it from a larger one. Then cut the screen from a board of the required size, holding it in a vice, and file the edges. The legs must be the same length, so accurately measure the required distance on the rail. It should be equal to the width of the toy body.

If all the parts are ready, start assembling the TV. First, hammer the nails into the screen, and then nail it to the body. After this, carefully hammer the nails into the legs and attach them to the TV. When the product is ready, you can paint it and draw buttons on it. In addition, you can also attach an antenna: a piece of wire or a thin metal rod is suitable for this.

sailboat

People have been making ships and sailboats from wood since ancient times. They were children's favorite toys. Wooden sailboat can be allowed to “swim” into a body of water. After practicing on one boat, if you wish, you can make a whole flotilla of sailing ships.

You will need the following parts: a sailboat body measuring 10x25x1.5 cm (it should be pointed at both ends) and a batten measuring 25x1x1 cm. In addition, you also need to prepare fabric for the sail and colored paper.

As in the previous case, first make a drawing, depicting the details and general appearance of the sailboat. Then take a board with a pointed end and mark the sawing lines on the other end with a pencil. Then we carefully sawed off the corners, guiding the hacksaw blade along the drawn lines. To make a mast, grind a strip of the desired size, then fix it in a vice and prepare a hole in it with an awl. After this, carefully drive a nail without a head (up to half) into the center of the sailboat hull and place the finished mast on it, for better strength it can be pre-lubricated with glue.

Any fabric is suitable for the sail (you can even use cardboard). Keep in mind that it should be shorter than the mast. After cutting the sail to the desired size, secure it to the mast using small nails or glue. Ready product you can paint, varnish and decorate with colored paper.

Cart

Making a wooden cart is also quite simple. To do this, you will need the following parts: a cart body measuring 9x15x1.5 cm and wheels 1.5 cm thick and 4 cm in diameter.

As in other cases, at the first stage, make a drawing of the future product. The cart will have few parts: a base, 4 wooden wheels, nails and rope.

In order to make wheels, take a cylindrical block, measure a distance of 1.5 cm thick on it and mark it with a pencil. After this, make 4 more such marks (to make 4 wheels) and follow these parts along the lines. Carefully polish the resulting rounds.

You will also need a board from which you will need to cut the base of the cart to the required size. Clean the resulting frame from roughness and burrs using sandpaper. After this, mark on it with a pencil the places where the wheels are attached at the same distance from the edges of the frame and make shallow holes in them for driving nails.

The wheels must turn. For this to happen, nail them with nails with a wide head, which should protrude by 3 mm. Spin the wheels around the nail axle and check how they rotate.

First attach the wheels on one side. When you drive the wheels on the other side of the frame, they will begin to rest on the already attached wheels and their axle can go all the way in, then they will become motionless. To prevent this from happening, you need to place studs with a diameter of 2–3 mm between them and the frame, and then the wheels will retain their mobility.

At the end of the work, nail a nail into the center of the front part of the frame, bend it with wire cutters so that you get a hook, and tie a string.

Automobile

Once you learn how to make a cart on wheels, you can make a car. In this case, you will need the following parts: a base measuring 8x20x1.5 cm, a cabin measuring 8x16x2.5 cm and wheels 1 cm thick and 4 cm in diameter.

First of all, draw a picture and think about the sequence of work. Select the necessary wooden blanks, clean and sand them well using sandpaper.

Make the wheels for the future car using the same principle as for the cart. You already know how to make them. Then you should prepare the base of the car. To do this, use a ruler to measure the required distance on the board and mark it with a pencil. Clamp the workpiece in a vice and cut out the base. After this, you need to attach the upper part (cabin). To do this, drive the nails from the base side, having previously marked these places with a pencil. Then drive nails into the wheels until they come out the other side, and nail them to the base in the same way as with the cart.

When all the parts are connected, the craft should be painted. In addition, you can add headlights to your car, attach a license plate, etc.

Helicopter

Making a helicopter out of wood will be a little more difficult. But if you successfully completed the previous toys, you can make this one too. You will need to prepare the following parts: a cabin (its corners were cut to the center line at a distance of 2 cm from the edges at an angle of 22.5 degrees), a gearbox measuring 2x2x1 cm, a motor measuring 8x5x4, a lifting propeller (4 symmetrically located blades 18 cm long, 18 cm wide in the center 1.5 cm, ring in the center with a diameter of 2 cm). In addition, you will need a tail boom measuring 16 x 3 x 1.5 cm, a tail rotor block measuring 8 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm, a tail rotor (3 symmetrically arranged blades 5 cm long), bars for securing wheels measuring 9x2x3 cm and 4 wheels with a diameter of 3 cm and a thickness of 1 cm. You also need to prepare glue, an awl, scissors and thick cardboard.

First, cut out 4 symmetrically located lifting screw blades with a ring in the center from thick cardboard, piercing a hole in the middle with an awl. Make the tail rotor in the same way. After this, make a detailed drawing of the toy. Clearly draw all the parts of the helicopter and its general appearance. It’s good if you have a photograph of a real helicopter, then you can imagine what this or that part is needed for.

As in other cases, select or make bars required sizes. Saw them off by first holding them in a vice and marking the cut location with a pencil. Make the wheels using the method already familiar to you. When all the parts are ready, start assembling the toy.

At a distance of 1 cm from the straight line between the corners and 2 cm from the edges of the cabin, drive 4 nails halfway. Use a mallet to place the wheel fastening bars on them. After this, attach the tail rotor to the tail rotor block with a nail. The nail does not need to be driven completely into the middle of the front side surface of the block. In the finished helicopter, the propeller should be 1 cm from the edge. You can also additionally secure the screw with glue.

Then drive a nail into the tail rotor block in the middle of the rear surface to the depth of the block. First, first poke a hole in the block with an awl so as not to split it when hammering. After this, place the tail boom vertically and nail a block with a tail rotor to the upper cut. For greater strength, the cut of the bar can be coated with glue. Then use two nails in the middle of the motor block to nail the gearbox and pre-mark the hole for the nails with an awl.

Turn the motor block over and place it on the gearbox attached to it, then half-drive in 2 nails without heads at a distance of 1 cm from the edges, turn the part over and nail it to the cabin with a mallet. After this, place the cabin, along with the parts nailed to it, on its side and nail the wheels on the left and right side, don't forget to put a hairpin. Nail the tail boom to the cockpit. To avoid damaging the wheels, place the cabin on a small block and nail the lifting screw to the cabin with 2 nails. After all the parts are fastened, paint the helicopter and varnish it.

Even those people whose own grandchildren have grown up remember their toys. Something has been erased from memory, but the entertainment of childhood is invisibly present nearby. That’s why many parents try to do it themselves wooden Toys so that they are original, develop creativity and bring joy.

Wooden toys are the best

It is the tree that parents choose most often to create fun for children. Past generations left a lot to the masters interesting ideas, and now these ideas are increasingly being implemented, as industrial toys of dubious origin made of plastic and rubber attract parents less and less. Wooden toys are also on the shelves of children's stores, but they are quite expensive. So why not try making wooden toys for children with your own hands.

This is, of course, a labor-intensive task, but the result will be impressive: a happy child, pride in a talented dad, a new original toy.

To create children's fun, you will need minimal skills - the ability to operate woodworking tools and have a little knowledge of wood species. Imagination and the desire to make a surprise will also help.

Why is it so active in Lately This folk skill is being revived due to the fact that wood is an environmentally friendly material, completely harmless, and objects made from it are durable and attractive.

Necessary materials for work

If parents decide to make more than one toy, then it is better to purchase high-quality tools for making them. Of course, they will cost more, but working with them will be much easier and faster. But the process itself will not be expensive.

Before you start making wooden toys with your own hands, you need to stock up required quantity material, which includes not only wood, but also varnish, paint, and glue. For children's toys, varnish should be selected that does not contain harmful substances and heavy metals.

The toy, first of all, must be safe and not cause harm to the child. Therefore, the wood needs to be processed perfectly. As a material, experts advise using types of trees such as linden, alder, aspen or poplar - they can be processed much easier than, for example, oak or birch. If the varieties are hard, it will take more time and effort to process them. In order to make wooden toys with your own hands, you can use the wood that is available. It is not advisable to hire coniferous trees, as they can produce sharp, dangerous splinters that cause wounds.

Required Tools

Tools for work play an important role, so you need to be careful when purchasing them. During the work process you will definitely need:

drill;
jigsaw;
several hacksaws;
Sander;
bit;
chisel;
devices for taking measurements;
glue and varnishes for wood;
burning machine.

Each master, deciding to create wooden toys with his own hands, has his own secrets, skills and methods, so the number of tools and the set itself are usually selected individually. The presence of some kind of device also depends on the complexity of the work. The more complex the manufactured item, the more skills and equipment will be needed. It may even be necessary to have the skills of a turner and milling machine.

Where is the best place to buy raw materials?

Having thought about what kind of toy you need to make, you should prepare the material. If there is a possibility for own plot taking wood is the best way out, but many people have to purchase raw materials in specialized stores. There is an excellent opportunity to buy illiquid goods - it is always available in a store or warehouse, where you can choose trimmings and remaining substandard wood. Plywood can also be used for work.

Beginning of work

When all the materials and tools are prepared for the work, the idea has been formed, it’s time to start implementing it. To make the work easier, you need a sketch of the future toy. Each detail must be drawn separately, and the scale must be 1:1.

Before assembling the toy, all parts must be thoroughly cleaned and polished. When making children's wooden toys with your own hands, you should immediately decide how all the parts will be connected to each other. The fastening must be reliable and durable. Most often, glue is used for these purposes, secured with wooden dowels.

If nails are used, it is necessary to wooden parts first mark the place where the holes will appear, then drill them very carefully so that wooden surface didn't crack.

If the craft has wheels that rotate, it is most convenient to use nails for upholstery, and to ensure that they are securely fastened, it is better to use metal pins in parallel - preferably with threads. In this case, the wheels will be firmly fixed and will not fall off during the game.

During the work you may encounter some difficulties. Wood will not be easy to process if it has not been dried first, so it is better to wait a little until the wood is completely dry.

Usually the details in homemade toys small sizes, there are also very small ones, and therefore extreme caution is required. The smaller and thinner the part, the more likely it is to crack. But over time, the experience gained will help you cope with this problem.

Final stages

When the toy is completely assembled and ready, you can make it a little more beautiful. If you paint a wooden toy, while preserving both the texture and natural color of the wood, it is guaranteed to attract the child’s attention. For this purpose, the burning method is used. When buying varnishes and paints, it is better to consult with the seller which ones are safer.

To decorate wooden toys with your own hands, you can borrow several ideas from photos on the Internet that make it possible to decorate your own work in an original way. For decoration, use cutouts from magazines and postcards or draw some details yourself, and then glue them firmly.

If you don’t have any special skills in creating wooden toys, you can start practicing with the most simple crafts. These can be cubes and pyramids with themed designs or letters and numbers, which are used as educational games for young children. Then, having gained experience, you can begin to make more complex crafts - animals, people, cars, ships, airplanes.

Children grow up, and they want to have toys of more complex designs. Therefore, parents will have to improve in order to know how to make wooden toys with their own hands, more functional and unusual.

Almost all modern children's toys are made from polymers and plastic. It's practical and enough durable materials, but they contain harmful chemical substances, which can provide Negative influence on the child's health. Therefore, many parents prefer products made from natural raw materials. Making wooden toys with your own hands is a promising and profitable business, which can be done by anyone with creative abilities.

Documents for registration of activities

By law, all children's toys sold in stores or on the market must be certified. This is necessary so that buyers are confident in their safety and quality. In addition, you need to obtain a hygiene certificate. This document is issued by the SES.

In special laboratories that carry out certification, they check the environmental friendliness of the materials from which the toys are made, as well as their quality. They must fully comply with all requirements established by state standards.

To determine the age of the child for whom the toy is intended, the products are sent for examination to an independent psychological center.

The most high requirements apply to products intended for children under 3 years of age. Such toys should be made from safe materials. In addition, the model must be designed in such a way that the child does not get injured during play. Certificates will have to be obtained for each batch of products. In addition, you need to fill out technical specifications and quality certificates for materials.

Types of wooden toys

Toy production is one of the best. Parents never spare money for their children, so such a business will flourish in any economic conditions.

Among the huge assortment, you can always find a toy that your child will love with all his heart. The most common types of such products are various cubes, pyramids, construction sets and nesting dolls. In addition, manufacturers offer a variety of trinkets that are suitable for children of different ages.

Movable wooden toys such as rides and dolls have plenty of complex design. Their versatility has a positive impact on children's development preschool age. Constructors consisting of blocks different sizes, children under 3 years old play with pleasure. For schoolchildren, you can buy construction sets made from smaller parts.

Premises and equipment

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For convenience, you should divide your mini-factory into several separate zones:

Wood processing and parts preparation area;
Room for painting toys;
Area for assembling parts;
Stock finished products.

Before purchasing equipment for the production of wooden toys, it is necessary to determine the planned production volumes.

To work in a small workshop you will need:

Grinding machine;
Electric planer;
Drill;
Set of screwdrivers of different sizes;
Screwdriver.

To make high-quality toys, you need to purchase special computer programs, using which you can develop new original models.

Since the technology for producing wooden toys is quite simple, at first you can do all the work yourself, without outside help. When the business begins to develop, you will have to hire workers to cut out the parts, paint them and then assemble them. If you want to produce unique designer products, you should hire a talented artist.

Raw materials

You can purchase raw materials from different suppliers. Dried wood is not cheap, so in order to save on its purchase, you should negotiate with a wood processing company or furniture factory, which will supply you with production waste.

Wooden toy manufacturing technology

The hardest thing is to make a small toy out of wood with your own hands. The smaller the product, the more complex the technological process. IN Western countries Robots are used to perform such work. To domestic producers toys are far from this, so they make do with ordinary woodworking machines. They can also be used for production complex products, but finding specialists who can work on such equipment is not so easy. That's why large enterprises They mainly produce toys of simple shapes.

Handicraft workshops prefer to carefully design each model, giving it complex shapes. As a result, unique, expensive products are obtained.

Financial expenses

To organize a large business production of wooden toys, you will need impressive start-up capital.

Main expenses:

Equipment rent;
Salaries for specialists;
Employee training;
Purchase of equipment and tools;
Purchase of materials.

In total you will have to invest 400–500 thousand rubles. If you don’t have that kind of money, you can try to get a loan from a bank or get a grant from the state. The project will begin to pay off immediately after you sell several batches of finished products, since the prices for such products are quite high. The production of wooden toys is profitable, characterized by quick payback and high profitability.

Profit

Most main question, which worries all novice entrepreneurs, what profit does making wooden toys with your own hands bring? A small handmade product costs about 150–200 rubles on the market. Its cost is 50-70 rubles. If you make designer toys and sell them at high prices, your income will be much higher. Since the production of wooden toys in Russia is not fully developed top level, you can easily occupy a free niche in this area and earn good money.

Such a business pays for itself in 1-1.5 years. It is not seasonal, but nevertheless, such an enterprise brings in the greatest revenue during the period New Year's holidays. On average, production New Year's toys made of wood will cost you about 100 rubles. On the market such a product can be sold for 500 rubles.

To speed up the payback of the project, you can do it in parallel with making toys. This is a profitable and promising business that will bring good additional income.

Sales of finished products

Most often, wooden toys are made by hand, so they are not cheap. You can sell such products in online stores or in social networks. In principle, they can be delivered to regular stores, but usually such trading enterprises have their own suppliers, so establishing partnerships with them is not so easy.

If you want to start producing children's toys in large volumes, you can try selling them abroad. In Western countries, original works are highly valued, so you can sell your products at a good price. Foreign collectors prefer to buy exclusive items made in a single copy. Their cost is high, but in this case it will not be possible to put the production of children’s wooden toys on stream.

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Advertising

When drawing up a business plan for the production of wooden toys, be sure to include advertising costs. The product will become in demand only after potential customers find out about it. You can advertise such products not only in your region, but throughout the country. This will require a lot of money, so it is most profitable to promote it on the Internet. To do this, you should use social networks.

Before you start a marketing campaign, you need to take high-quality photos of your own wooden toys. So that wholesale buyers can evaluate your products and choose suitable items, it is advisable to create your own website and post on it photographs of the product with a short description. In this case, customers will find you themselves. To attract regular customers to your products, you need to constantly improve their quality and expand the range.

conclusions

Making children's toys from wood with your own hands is an excellent business idea that can be implemented at home. Over time, this activity can become a source of permanent income for you. The most important thing is love for your work. Only in this case will you be able to overcome all difficulties and achieve success.

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