Tras la roca se esconde,
un ser de colores,
tiene un pico enorme
y una melena con marrones.
Podría ser un pájaro,
pero no lleva alas en ningún lado,
es un ser extraño,
pomposo y agraciado.
Behind the rock hides,
a colorful being,
has a huge beak
and a mane of browns.
It could be a bird,
but it has no wings anywhere,
it is a strange being,
pompous and graceful.
Para hacer esta manualidad necesitamos un bombillo, alambre, pinturas, retazos de tela, tijeras y pegamento.
Hello friends of the Hive Diy community, my concern for the care of the environment is constant, for that reason I always try to give a second use to what we consider waste or garbage, in order to prolong the life of various objects and materials. The light bulbs, are elements that we use constantly, is that in every house there is at least one bulb that at some point will stop working and go to the trash. In other opportunities I have reused these elements, making Christmas ornaments and more, today I have created a colorful being, which will serve as decoration or as a character in a story.
To make this craft we need a light bulb, wire, paints, fabric scraps, scissors and glue.
Proceso de elaboración
This is the most difficult part of the process, inserting the wire into the bulb. In this case my bulb was plastic, so I heated the tip of a knife to open small holes and then pass the wire through it. I put a longer wire for the legs and a shorter wire in the front to serve as arms. I also made sure that the bulb would stand upright with the help of the wires that will serve as legs.
Colocando piernas y brazos
Placing legs and arms.
Having ready the most complicated part, we paint the eyes, in this case I used acrylic paints and then covered them with a little bit of matte lacquer to protect. I didn't complicate myself making stunning eyes because I had the idea of placing a big eyebrows that would make her look stand out. For the costume I used colorful fabrics and for her plush hair, one I had in leopard tones. I covered the arms and legs with fabric that I attached to the wire with glue. The last thing I placed was the beak, which is two triangles joined at the wider base.
Colocando Tela de colores y pintando/ Painting and placement of colored fabrics
Pero hoy, tenemos un adorno, un muñeco para jugar, un personaje de cuentos, un elemento nuevo que permitirá alargar la vida útil del mismo.
Now all that was left to do was to bring him to life through photographs and the frame-by-frame technique. This friend, who opens and closes his beak to warn everyone of his presence, is made from a melted light bulb, which would most likely end up in a landfill, or worse, abandoned in a river, polluting water sources. But today, we have an ornament, a doll to play with, a storybook character, a new element that will extend its useful life.
Un ser extraño elaborado con un bombillo dañado /A strange being crafted with a damaged light bulb
My invitation is to recycle and reuse the different elements that we consider garbage and that could be used to create something original.