My little nephew really loves watching cartoons about a wolf, and I decided to give him a gift - to sew soft toy wolf character from the cartoon Well, wait a minute!
Handmade toys always bring more joy to children, probably because they bring warmth and love from loved ones.
When I make a toy, I become imbued with tender feelings for it, as for my child. The toy requires very few materials and does not take long. So, let's sew a wolf!
What you need for work:
- gray felt fabric,
- padding polyester,
- gray, white and black threads,
- eyes,
- black yarn for hair,
- small flap for a cap white and for the visor - black,
- red patch for tongue,
- flap for clothing to choose from: for a T-shirt and trousers.
Sequence of work
We make a pattern of toy parts.
It is important here to set the correct sizes of the toy parts, so I give you detailed instructions by marking the parts.
The height of the wolf is 22 cm.
1. Head: 9*9 cm. – 2 pear-shaped parts.
Ears – 4 pieces with a leaf. 2.5*1.5 cm.
2. Nose made of 8 parts:
The total length of the upper part of the nose is only 5.5 cm.
2 pieces for the side parts. The side parts of the upper jaw are 3.5 cm wide. Boat-shaped.
The upper part of the jaw is -1, 2.2 cm wide.
Nose nickel – 2 parts, drop-shaped. 1.5 cm.
Lower jaw – 2 parts and a tongue. The width of the lower jaw is 2.5 cm and the length is 4 cm.
3. Body – 2 pear-shaped parts with darts at the bottom. The width of the lower part is 8 cm, the upper part is 5.5 cm.
4. Upper legs: 2 pieces 10 cm long. Width 4 cm.
5. Lower legs: 4 parts 9 cm long. Width 4.5 cm.
6. Tail: length 8 cm, width 2.2 cm, shaped like a pea pod.
The most difficult part of the toy is sewing the nose, so we start with that.
We connect the 3 side parts. At a distance of 3mm. From the edge with a seam back using a needle we sew the parts together. We stuff it with padding polyester. We do not sew up the edge that will be sewn to the head!
Using black material, we sew the parts of the nose over the edge and push the synthetic padding tightly. The work is painstaking, small, and requires accuracy. We sew the patch so that it looks like a protruding bump.
Now let's start sewing the lower jaw. We connect the 2 parts, sew them on the wrong side and turn them right side out, add a little padding polyester and sew or glue the tongue. We sew the lower jaw to the upper jaw so that the mouth looks correct. First try it on, and then connect it over the edge with small stitches.
Using black thread, embroider dots near the patch where the mustache should be. You can draw with markers or a felt-tip pen.
Glue 2 white teeth. I cut them out of foamiran. It is possible to use white plastic.
The nose is ready.
Let's start sewing the head.
We sew the parts together and stuff them tightly with padding polyester. We take a gray thread and make drawstrings on the muzzle at the level of the cheeks on the right and left.
We pierce the needle on the side of the seam line and pull the thread from above to the nose, so as to separate the cheeks.
We sew the ears over the edge, immediately filling them with padding polyester, and attach them to the head.
Sew the nose to the head. We sew neat small stitches across the edge of the nose tube.
Glue on the eyes. Drawing eyebrows.
We sew the body. We connect the edges of the dart and sew. We make the dart smooth at the front so that it does not stick out at an angle.
We connect both parts and sew the needle back with a seam, leaving the top unsewn. We stuff it with padding polyester. We sew the tail and sew it at the back above the dart.
We attach the head to the body with small stitches, aligning the hole on the body and head to create a small neck.
Let's start making the upper legs. We connect the edges along the wrong side, sewing at a distance of 3 mm. Carefully turn it inside out using a pencil or a brush stick and fill it tightly with padding polyester. We stitch the fingers with black thread. We attach the legs to the body just below the neck.
We shape the paws using thread fastenings at the elbows.
We sew the lower legs. We wrap the feet and secure them with thread. We sew the fingers and attach the legs to the body.
The main work is done.
Now we will do the hair. We take black yarn and measure out strands for the bangs, 2.5 cm long. We pull them together in the middle and sew them between the ears.
We sew the next 2 strands, 6 cm long, to the back of the head one by one.
All that remains is to sew the clothes.
In the photo, see an approximate pattern for clothing.
Pick up the flap and cut the T-shirt into a rectangle no larger than 10 cm in size. Fold the edges under and over. Sew up the sides, leaving 1.5 cm slits for the paws. Sew 1 cm on the shoulders. That’s it, the T-shirt is ready.
Let's start sewing trousers. Fold a rectangle no more than 10 cm long from black fabric.
Draw the shape of the legs with chalk or soap, making a wider slit between the legs, about 1 cm.
Sew the top of the trousers with black thread, turning the edge for the elastic at least 1.2 cm. Sew the legs along the wrong side at a distance of 5 mm. from the edge. Fold up the edges of the legs and baste. Insert the elastic band and dress the wolf. Make a hole for the tail and pull it out.
And the final touch is the cap. Let's take it white fabric, cut out a circle with a diameter of 5 cm. Cut out the side part of the cap along an arc. Its width is no more than 2.5 cm. The front edge is wider, and the back is narrower. Sew along the wrong side. We cut off the excess.
We turn the bottom edge inward by 5-7 mm. We make a visor and attach it to the front of the cap. Draw a symbol on the front of the cap with a felt-tip pen or marker.
We put a cap on one ear of the wolf.
Now we've finished the job! The wolf turned out funny! I hope that my experience will be useful to you and you will make your own cartoon spinning top. Visit the site for new crafts! I wish you good luck!
Back in the summer, I filmed the process of felting the hare from “Well, wait a minute!” in a Santa Claus costume, but I got around to processing it only now. Just in time for the New Year))) So, let's get started (many, many photos)
We will need white, red, hare-colored wool (beige? light cocoa?), a little black, gray and dark gray. It makes no difference whether it is combed or carded. We take what we have.
We roll the ball. Since our bunny is small, I immediately put 38 stars.
We get a bun)))
We outline the eyes and make indentations.
We roll the muzzle out of small balls of wool.
On a sponge we felt a flat piece for an open smiling mouth, the wool was rolled well in a semicircle, leaving the ends free.
We flatten our mouth and carefully work out its bend with a needle.
Now we add fur to the cheeks.
From a small piece of black wool we make a nose, the hare has a flat one, we make it right on the muzzle. We also darken the mouth with black wool (you can, of course, paint it over, but wool is better))
We roll down the wool to attach the head to the body, it’s not a full-fledged neck, we don’t need it in this toy, but still.
We roll two identical ears on a sponge. Bend the edges between your fingers properly.
Ears are ready))
We try on and pin the ears to the head. The bunny will have a cap on his head, so his ears are low.
We roll a tiny piece of red wool into the mouth - this is the tongue.
We sculpt the front teeth and eyes from plastic, bake them, and glue them with transparent “Moment”
We paint the eyes (I used acrylic) and draw a strip between the teeth. 
We roll the eyelids on the sponge. 
Place it over the eyes. 
From sliver we make a truncated cone - a body in a fur coat. I didn’t have a sliver, I took carding. 
We try on the head to the body. The bunny looks up at the wolf. 
We lay down the head and form the bends of the body, the bunny stands slightly bent, one leg in front, the other behind. We imitate a body under a fur coat. 
We are working on the butt))) We imagine what it should look like if there is a real body under the fur coat and try to reproduce all the curves. 
If you plan to put the toy on a stand, you don’t need to felt the felt boots at all, but this bunny of mine was hung on a Christmas tree, so I felted an imitation of felt boots from gray wool. I made a depression at the bottom of our body cone and placed felt boots there. 
We felt two identical mittens from dark gray wool. don’t forget about the palm and the indentations and bulges on it, about the thumb. 
We felt two identical sausages - hands, and immediately put our mittens in there. Here I got a little carried away and did not film the process. In the process of compacting the sausages, we create elbow bends. We try our hands on the body and press them down. 
We roll our fur coat with red wool, simultaneously hiding the junction of the arms and head with the body. We begin to felt the fur edge of a fur coat from white wool. 
Collar. 
Trim hem, sleeves. We make a groove where our fur coat should wrap around. We felt the cap from red wool and rolled it to the head. This is where you can fill in the eyebrows. 
Here is our hare already in a fur coat and hat. 
We sand the toy completely and level the surface. Usually, after sanding with a needle No. 38-star, I sand again with a needle No. 40 twisted. 
It's time to grow your beard. We tear off the strips of white combed ribbon (carding will not work here), apply it to the head and thread it with a crown needle (you can do it with a regular one, but you will have to felt it more carefully and longer). Gradually we create the required shape and volume of the beard.
Anyone who doesn’t like “Nu Pogodi” has never seen this cartoon. Having appeared several decades ago on television screens, today it is one of the most popular short animated films, not only in Russia, but also far beyond its borders.
Watch the cartoon Well Wait
Enjoy watching!
Thanks to its spontaneity and versatility, bright instructive stories, as well as original characters, this cartoon is liked not only by children, but also by adults.
As part of today's video lesson, we will look at how to make a hare from plasticine “Well, wait a minute”, using material available to everyone, which will allow everyone to have a fun and rich time with their child, and the resulting figurine will be able to decorate any children’s room, giving a lot of joy and positive emotions.
However, it is worth noting that a child will not be able to make such a figurine on his own. Therefore, you should thoroughly prepare for the process of sculpting it with your own hands, namely, prepare:
- mass, kneading it well so that the baby can comfortably sculpt various elements of crafts from it;
- a stack for cutting out various small elements (it can be replaced with a toothpick);
- several matches or toothpicks for secure fastening various elements figures to each other.
PHOTO step by step - How to make a hare from plasticine
Let's start sculpting a cartoon character by making his head. To do this, take a light brown color, knead it well and give it the shape of a hare's head. Then, using a regular toothpick, we will make an indentation in the shape of a mouth with a wide smile.
After this, we proceed to making the eyes, for which we will use a mass of white color, and for the pupils we will take a blue color with black splashes. Carefully attach the eyes to the head.
To make the ears, take two oblong pieces of material and give them a flattened round shape, pointed at one end. Attach the ears to the top of the head. Gently smoothing out the joints.
Next, we are faced with quite painstaking work on making teeth for the bunny, tongue, tip of the nose and cheeks of our hare. We make the tongue bright pink, the tip of the nose black, the teeth definitely white, and for the cheeks we use a regular pink tint. When sculpting small details, it is important to maintain natural proportions so that our character’s face turns out natural and at the same time funny.
To make the body of our hero, in order to save money, it is better to use the remains of old material. We alternately sculpt the elongated upper part of the body, and then the lower part with legs. We cover the top part with a small layer of white, and then green - in the shape of a shirt cut. We open the lower part in the dark green tint thus making the hare trousers. We connect the parts together.
We fashion the upper part of the arms from green material and attach them to the body.
Then we proceed to making the hands of our hare directly, for which we take a light brown shade, give it the necessary elongated shape and do not forget to form the fingers at the ends using a stack. We make the legs straight, slightly apart, with rounded steps. We attach the arms and legs to the body, using toothpick halves for strength.
He is a hooligan and a robber, a simpleton and a slacker, a lover of chasing a hare at any time of the day or night, in any place and for any reason. Can you guess who we're talking about? Naturally, about the reckless gray wolf from everyone’s favorite old Soviet cartoon “Well, wait a minute!” Let's make this ageless and always relevant cartoon from plasticine today. Do you think it’s very difficult to do this and you won’t succeed? You are wrong! In this master class we will show you step by step all the steps, repeating which you will receive your own miniature of your favorite hero.
Colors of bars for work:
- gray and pink are the primary colors;
- black – secondary;
- white, yellow and green will be used in small quantities.
1. Pre-select bars from the set, and also prepare a stack.
2. Mash the pink piece in your hands. Roll one big ball and two small ones.
3. Pull the larger ball into the body, indicating the tummy with your fingers, two small ones - into tubes. Attach the tubes as sleeves to the body.
4. Apply thin cuffs.
5. To sculpt black dude trousers, make one spherical blank and two identical tubes.
6. Form flared pants.
7. Pin together the pink shirt and black pants. It is advisable to spread the pink mass on the black one to show a careless appearance wolf
8. Make two gray cakes and stick thin black claws on them.
9. Attach the tortillas as feet.
10. Make hands from gray tubes, flattened at the ends. A stack will help separate the fingers.
11. Insert the upper ends of the arms into the sleeves and bend.
12. Apply a pink collar and add a yellow t-shirt to the chest.
13. Insert a match into the top.
14. Connect a gray ball and an oval to sculpt the head.
15. Cut the mouth, attach the black nose.
16. Add huge hooligan wolf eyes.
17. Pin on a black shaggy hairstyle.
18. Secure the green beret at the back.
19. Attach the head to the match.
20. Add sharp fangs to the mouth, insert a cigarette.
June 10 is the birthday of the legendary Soviet film studio. "KP" decided to remember the stories behind the creation of our favorite cartoons from our childhood.
Cheburashka's tail was cut off
In 1988, Eduard Uspensky wrote the fairy tale “Crocodile Gena and His Friends,” which featured a certain Cheburashka. According to one version, the author heard the word “cheburakhnaya” while visiting friends from their little daughter. Dahl's dictionary offers its own translation of the word: fall. According to another version, the image was born from memories: in childhood the author had a similar defective toy - half-hare, half-bear - in the family it was called Cheburashka.
In the first book, in the illustrations, the hero has a long tail, the face of a squirrel and the ears of a bear cub. Animator Leonid Shvartsman decided to remove the tail, enlarge the ears and make semicircular paws.
The shy Cheburashka first appeared in the puppet cartoon "Crocodile Gena", then there were "Cheburashka", "Cheburashka goes to school" and "Shapoklyak". The cartoon has been translated into several languages, and Cheburashka is a fan even in Japan - supposedly because of its resemblance to their iconic cartoon characters Pokemon. Monuments to the hero and his friends were erected in several cities: Kremenchug, Dnepropetrovsk and Ramenskoye.
Crow, Lenin and 800 kg of plasticine
Young director Alexander Tatarsky helped television develop animated screensavers for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. As an incentive and as an exception, the 30-year-old animator was allowed to film his cartoon for TV, which was called “Plasticine Crow.” The text of the famous song "Or maybe..." was written by Eduard Uspensky. As many as 800 kilograms of plasticine were poured into the work, which, due to the faded colors, also had to be painted with paints. In the third part of the cartoon, the melody was supposed to sound at a normal tempo, but in the recording Tatarsky did not track the timing of the sound, which is why instead of the required five minutes, it turned out to be eight. According to legend, in the editing room Tatarsky accidentally heard how the gramophone recording of Lenin’s speech was being restored - it was played either faster or slower. Insulating tape was wound onto the reel of a reel-to-reel tape recorder, which caused the film to be fed to the playback head faster and the tempo of sound also accelerated. So Tatarsky compressed an 8-minute recording into the required 5 minutes and got the cartoon sound of the song. But the project was killed with the wording “ideological lack of ideas.” Then Eldar Ryazanov stood up for the cartoon. The funny, positive and slightly surreal work was immediately appreciated and began to be taken to all festivals and shown on all Soviet TV channels. As a result, the work received more than 25 awards at various festivals.
There was also a small “fig in your pocket” in the cartoon. Later, composer Grigory Gladkov admitted that a passage from George Harrison's song My Sweet Lord was specially inserted into the main song at the fifth minute.
The hare is the intelligentsia
It is believed that the Wolf and the Hare from “Well, wait a minute!” taken from American Tom and Jerry. But later, director Vyacheslav Kotenochkin assured that he copied the Wolf’s plasticity and gait from himself. And his son, animator Alexei Kotenochkin, explained the popularity of the hero by the fact that the Wolf was super recognizable to the Soviet audience - “a typical urla (that is, impudent, bandit - Ed.) of the late 60s.” Altered flares, gold chains with anchors, a vest under a shirt - it was very accurate.
The authors wanted Vladimir Vysotsky to voice the Wolf, there were even auditions, but the artistic council did not approve the candidacy. Creative greetings were conveyed to Vysotsky in the very first episode, when the Wolf whistles the melody of the song “Vertical” while climbing onto the Hare’s balcony. As a result, the voice acting was recorded by Anatoly Papanov and Klara Rumyanova.
After Kotenochkin’s death, new episodes were drawn by his son, and the characters were voiced by parodist Igor Khristenko and actress Olga Zvereva. A total of 20 episodes of the cartoon were filmed, the last one in 2006.
Winnie the Pooh: why no panties?
The cartoon about a clumsy but cute bear was released in 1969. The director was Fyodor Khitruk, and the first version of the sketch of the bear was made by Vladimir Zuikov. The fluff turned out to be fluffy and clumsy: different eyes, a funny nose and rumpled ears. Zakhoder and Khitruk wanted to make 18 cartoons - the number of chapters of the book. But they didn’t agree and only three were released. The main character was drawn by the artist Eduard Nazarov - he removed the fluffiness, made the muzzle more neat, but left the ear wrinkled. “Because he’s sleeping,” director Khitruk later explained. In some ways, Vinny turned out to be similar to the translator Zakhoder.
They looked for a voice actor for a long time and settled on the candidacy of Evgeniy Leonov - however, the director thought that the actor’s voice was too low. Then the sound engineer took the text Leonov had read and sped up the film by 30%. It turned out to be an ideal option. Actress Iya Savvina voiced Piglet in a high-pitched voice, giving him his signature extended intonation in the style of the poetess Bella Akhmadulina. The cartoon has become a national treasure.
And in 2014, deputies of the assembly of the Polish city of Tuszyn banned it because main character... walks around without panties.
Where did Uncle Fyodor's mother come from?
The director of “Three from Prostokvashino” Vladimir Popov decided that the work on the images of the cartoon would be done separately: Levon Khachatryan drew the postman Pechkin, Dad, Mom and Uncle Fyodor. The image of Mom was copied from the artist’s wife. Later in his memoirs he indicated: “Small in stature, short hairstyle, wearing glasses. The director made his own amendments. In my sketch, the glasses were round, like my wife wears, but Popov thought that square ones were better." So they left it. In general, Uncle Fyodor's parents are somewhat reminiscent of the parents of the Kid from the 1968 Soviet cartoon about Carlson.
Another artist, Nikolai Erykalov, worked on images of animals: the cat Matroskin, the dog Sharik, the cow Murka and her calf Gavryusha. The ball turned out to look like the main character of the cartoon "Bobik visiting Barbos." Because before that, artists Levon Khachatryan and Nikolai Yerykalov created that same Bobik. For a long time, the image of Galchonok did not work out - several artists worked on it at once. As a result, even Leonid Shvartsman, the creator of Cheburashka, added his own touches to the character’s appearance.
The artists did not come to a common decision about the appearance of Uncle Fyodor - his image changes from series to series. In 1978, the first part of the cartoon was released. And then film fans found another surprise: the famous episode where the postman Pechkin knocks on the door, and from the house they answer him: “Who’s there?”, is painfully reminiscent of a scene from the American cartoon The Electric Company - only there a plumber knocks on the door, and the answer is him a parrot. The popularity of the cartoon was also created by outstanding actors: Uncle Fyodor was voiced by Maria Vinogradova, the cat Matroskin was voiced by Oleg Tabakov, Sharik was voiced by Lev Durov, Uncle Fyodor’s mother was voiced by Valentina Talyzina.
