Hedgehogs are the cutest creatures and heroes of numerous fairy tales and cartoons. Everyone knows that they are affectionate, very smart and quick-witted animals. Moreover, they are unique animals that have thorns instead of wool. Apart from hedgehogs, only echidnas and porcupines can boast of this. Most often, a cute hedgehog with intelligent beady eyes is depicted stocking up for the winter, with fruits and mushrooms on his back. However, in fact, hedgehogs are predators and feed on insects and small rodents. Another unique feature that these cute animals have is that they are absolutely not susceptible to poisons and even a viper bite is not scary for them. How to draw a hedgehog? Let's look at it in detail. It won’t be too difficult, so even someone who doesn’t know how to draw can draw a hedgehog step by step. You can use school watercolors, colored pencils, and felt-tip pens.
- Since we will be doing this drawing in watercolor, we will need special, thick paper. It absorbs water well and produces wonderful smooth color transitions. For felt-tip pens, on the contrary, it is better to take paper with a smooth surface. You will need a hard sketch pencil and a soft eraser. First, draw the outline of the hedgehog’s body and the apple on his back. The body will look like an oblong drop, the apple will look like a circle.
- Let’s add a sharp muzzle to our animal with a raised nose and paws. Moreover, the front paws will be shaped like the Russian letter “G”, and the hind paws will have one more bone added. It will not be visible at the far paw, since it is covered by the hedgehog’s abdomen.
- Draw a face and an apple. The eye is round and small, the ear is also almost round. Let's finish drawing the button nose and mouth. Let's draw the apple at a slight angle to make it look more natural.
- We mark the color border on the muzzle - from the nose to the upper eyelid. We draw the hedgehog's paws, they have small fingers. Now the thorns. They can be depicted with a sharp zigzag or abrupt lines. The main thing is that they are not in the same direction. The hedgehog’s body is round and plump, so the spines will “look” in different directions. At the top we draw a zigzag, in the middle the spines begin to bend at an angle and on the abdomen they almost look down. We depict them with short strokes.
- Let's start painting with watercolors. The hedgehog's body will be ocher and warm, so we take light ocher, a little orange and yellow. The top of the muzzle will be darker, and closer to the belly we add more water to create a smooth gradient. We draw the paws with exactly the same color. The inside of the hedgehog's ear will be half dark, and the border will be white. We paint an apple in red, green and yellow watercolors. It is also voluminous, don’t forget about that, so leave a small section of the paper unpainted - it will be a highlight. Make one side of the apple a richer red color. Paint the “spiky” area with short strokes using a wide brush. Alternate between painting with a dry brush and a wet one. It is better to take shades of brown, gray and dark orange. Don't be afraid to mix them, let there be multi-colored stains on the paper. We leave some clean areas, and make some darker (the hedgehog’s head, back and tummy).
- We draw a green leaf of an apple and begin to work on the details of the drawing. Using a thin brush and almost black paint (or very dark brown) we make needles. On the top of the hedgehog they will be the darkest and thickest, slightly “overhanging” the muzzle. Using short strokes we draw spines all over the body. They don't have to be even. There will be more of them on the back, and very few on the abdomen. There are no spines on the paws, but outline the toes with light lines. We make the muzzle more expressive and contrasting. To do this, we draw our hedgehog a large black, shiny nose and the same eyes. To show highlights, leave tiny areas of the paper blank. If you accidentally sketched it, it's okay. Highlights can be added with white acrylic or gouache, simply by placing small dots. We make a mustache for the hedgehog and outline the ear.
Good afternoon. In this article you will find a large collection of ideas for creating a HEDGEHOG craft. Here are some ideas that are suitable for children in kindergarten and school. We will work with our own hands using a variety of techniques. Glue hedgehogs from paper and cardboard, make a hedgehog craft from natural materials. I will show you the most beautiful hedgehog appliques using several techniques. We will sew hedgehogs from felt and felt them. Cross stitch hedgehogs. Crochet hedgehogs and much more. I also have articles with hedgehogs’ favorite foods - apples and mushrooms. You can also make an apple craft or a mushroom applique for your hedgehog.
Here's what you'll find in this article.
Crafts hedgehogs
For small children
(age 3-4 years).
In the junior group of kindergarten, children are just learning paper appliqué techniques. Children 3 years old cannot yet use scissors - and their task is simply to glue the ready-made appliqué parts, cut by the hands of the teacher, into the right places with glue. And this is already quite a difficult job, a craft that is not easy for small children. Using a clumsy brush, try to distribute the sticky glue evenly over the paper part. And stick all the parts in the right places, without confusing anything or turning it upside down.
Here are convenient applications for children 3-4 years old. A simple cute chubby hedgehog for children - pictured below. It is simple and easy to make with your own hands. First we glue the spines, then we put the tummy part on them and lay out the paws and ears. Just for 15 minutes - that’s how long a lesson lasts in kindergarten in the 2nd junior group.
But in this craft below, children are given a hedgehog back made of cardboard. And paper outlines of the head and paws. Girls can also be offered a bow. As a boy, add an apple to the back. It is better to let the teacher himself draw the eyes and mouth on the face in advance (a pencil in children’s hands will tear the paper wet from glue, and a felt-tip pen may get into a puddle of glue and stop writing).
Here is another task that children can do - a hedgehog craft. Here a prickly back is glued onto a cardboard apple, then a muzzle on top, then eyes, cheeks, and a nose on it. It looks like a complex craft - but simple and accessible to children 3-4 years old.
And here is another craft below - where a hedgehog hugs an apple. Children really like the very fact of COMMITMENT. Important Note – do not give children hedgehog hands in advance. They will rush and glue them to their tummy before the apple - and will cry that their hedgehog does not hug the apple.
First, let them glue an apple to the hedgehog’s belly, and give the hedgehog’s hands to those who succeeded.
But the task is already for the second half of the junior group. Here it is important to correctly glue the triangles of spines onto the hedgehog - so that the acute angle was facing the other way from the face of a hedgehog. Keys can be cut not only from ordinary colored paper. It is very good to cut spines from COVERS of colored paper - this way they will turn out multi-colored with bright splashes of pattern. Paper is saved and covers are not thrown away. And the hedgehog turns out to be festive.
Craft Hedgehog
For the middle group of kindergarten
Age 4-5 years.
In the middle group of kindergarten, children are already beginning to master scissors. They learn to hold them correctly and do CHICK-CHIK in the air without straining their fingers (make sure that during the chik-chik process the child’s fingers do not curl from tension). Let him learn to do this movement in a relaxed manner.
The first tasks of cutting with scissors for children are the simplest. As a rule, this is cutting fringe grass. Using this fringe cutting technique, you can also make a craft in the shape of a hedgehog. We give the child a wide oval (a rectangle with rounded edges). And the child’s task is to push this oval into the cuts in a circle (as in the picture below). You can draw lines for future cuts on each oval in advance with a pencil. This way the child will have a clear guideline for applying the scissors.
Pay special attention to children , that when we glue hedgehog needles onto a paper background, we apply glue ONLY to the MIDDLE of the back - we DO NOT apply glue to the cut fringe at all. And after gluing, we twist this fringe onto a pencil - or bend it upward with our hands.
In preparation for the lesson, the silhouettes of the hedgehog’s body can be drawn with a black marker on a sheet of paper - and this sheet copy on a photocopier. You need to cut out the body silhouettes of the hedgehogs so as not to create marker lines. The child’s task will be to bend the hedgehog’s arms and head forward. And in order for the hedgehog’s ears to stick out above the fold line of the hedgehog’s head, you need to remember to cut them in advance.
And so another craft using the FRINGE technique(cutting with scissors) – for children in the middle group of kindergarten = in the shape of a hedgehog.
For younger children a ready-made curved base of the hedgehog’s body is given . Older children They themselves bend a wide strip of paper into the shape of a DROP.
THEN you will need to teach children to control scissors well: keep the hand with the scissors straight - change the cutting direction without turning the hand with the scissors, but by turning the sheet of paper (this is the correct cutting technique)
And when the children master this technique, you can give them the task of cutting out the prickly silhouette of a hedgehog’s coat with zigzags (as in the photo below). This is already a task for the second half of the year in the middle group of kindergarten.
You can offer children this hedgehog craft (as in the photo below).
On a sheet of colored paper we draw a large silhouette of a hedgehog. We make cuts on it with a blade in advance (children will not make such internal cuts themselves with scissors). And the child’s task will be to cut out the entire hedgehog drawn on the cardboard along the contour and bend the cuts with his fingers.
COLLECTIVE
crafts with hedgehogs
in kindergarten.
When children become comfortable with cutting along the contour, you can give them cardboard cards on which the contours of fruits (pears and apples) will be drawn. And some children will receive the contours of a hedgehog's needle-like skin.
And then you can make such a COLLECTIVE craft, a hedgehog with fruit, in kindergarten classes. Each child participates, cuts out their part of the craft - and then at the end of the lesson, the children, together with the teacher, assemble all the parts into a craft.
In the same way, you can give children cards with the outline of autumn leaves (maple, oak) drawn on them. And after cutting out, we collect the autumn leaves into a garland held by a hedgehog cut out of cardboard.
Children's craft Hedgehog
From newspaper and glue.
You can cut a hedgehog from an unusual material - multi-layer newspaper cardboard. Let's take it white sheet of paper spread it on PVA glue- and quickly, before the glue dries, lay it on it pieces of torn newspaper. Again we spread glue on top of this sheet - and again lay out the newspaper pieces in places not covered by the newspaper. We dry this multilayer newspaper cardboard. This is the first lesson for children. Continuation of the craft in the second lesson.
After all layers have dried, place on top Hedgehog silhouette template– outline with black marker. And we succeed workpiece for the second lesson with children. On it they will have to cut out the drawn silhouette of a hedgehog. Then lay dry leaves on a sheet of paper - on glue. And stick the silhouette of a hedgehog on top. On scraps of newspaper cardboard (remaining after cutting out the hedgehog) we draw an apple and a leaf. We paint them in red and green watercolors. Let's dry it. Cut it out. And glue the apple onto the back of the hedgehog.
Craft HEDGEHOG
for older children
using the VEER technique.
We fold a sheet of colored paper into an accordion (like a fan). From both ends of this folded accordion we make an OBLIQUE CUT with scissors (due to which the fan will have a jagged edge).
Now we bend the accordion in half in the middle and fold it. And we straighten the blades from one half of the accordion and from the other half of the accordion. And now all that remains is to glue the hedgehog’s face. A simple hedgehog craft for children in the senior group of kindergarten.
Crafts-pendants for the window
In the shape of a hedgehog.
From cardboard we cut out the contours of a hedgehog with a large hole cut inside. We attach a piece to the back side with tape polyethylene film. And we place dry autumn leaves on it with PVA glue. We hang the craft on the window - the light shines beautifully through the foliage, and in the sun the leaves shine like an autumn lamp. Children like this hedgehog craft the most - they love working with natural materials. And below in this same article I will have many more hedgehogs made from natural material.
You can also glue pieces onto such a hedgehog-shaped frame paper napkin with a colored pattern. The napkin will also shine through in the sun when you hang this children's craft on the window.
If the edges of a cardboard frame in the shape of a hedgehog are pierced with holes (using a hole punch), then you can make craft with lacing. String beads or paper leaves through the cord as you weave. This hedgehog craft is suitable for older children - schoolchildren, because lacing is a long process.
DIY hedgehog
using the palm technique
Here are a few crafts that use prints or silhouettes of children's hands. For the youngest children, this craft is suitable, where you need to apply brown handprints several times on the already drawn outline of a hedgehog.
You can also divide the craft into 2 activities in kindergarten. At the first lesson, the child makes 3-4 multi-colored handprints on a white sheet of paper. In the second lesson, he cuts out these prints and sticks them on the back of a hedgehog cut out of cardboard.
You can do a collective community craft in kindergarten, where each child makes and then cuts out a handprint and then all the prints are glued around a hedgehog made of colored paper - I form its spines.
You can do without paints. Just trace the child's palms with a pencil on a sheet of colored paper. Then cut out and make a voluminous applique with a convex nose-cone of a paper hedgehog (as in the photo below). A simple group craft for kindergarten.
Hedgehog applications
From colored paper.
Here are some ideas for simple, beautiful hedgehog-themed paper appliques. In kindergarten, you can make such an applique with your own hands if you cut out at least half of the parts in advance. It will be difficult for a child to cut out mushrooms, leaves and a hedgehog in one lesson (20 minutes long). Let him receive some details already ready.
Here is a craft applique based on a disposable paper plate. It's okay that you don't have any plates. You can take a regular sheet of white cardboard, put a plate on it, and trace it. Cut out the rounds. And on one half of the round piece, draw teeth-needles.
The child’s task will be simple – cut out the teeth along the contour. Decorate the circle in two colors - make the jagged half of the circle brown, paint the round half green. Then glue on the muzzle and paws, mushrooms and leaves.
But I found a very beautiful postcard with a hedgehog, made by myself. This is also a good idea for layering appliqué. Here, the hedgehog's spiny back is made from four jagged strips of cardboard. In which you need to bend the teeth and stick them in tiers one after another, starting from the back of the hedgehog. Decorate the craft with leaves and berries.
And here is another hedgehog applique for children. Here the hedgehog's coat is made up of discs folded in half with a jagged edge. The more flaps you use in the application, the more magnificent your hedgehog will be. Using the same principle, you can make a three-dimensional mushroom and cloud. But this is too much for a kindergarten. Therefore, one volumetric element using the blade technique is enough.
VOLUME hedgehog crafts
FROM CARDBOARD.
Corrugated packaging cardboard is a good and cheap material for children's crafts. If you make SLOTS on cardboard parts with SCISSORS, then you can put the parts on one by one. And we will get a voluminous craft.
Here I have drawn where to make cuts on the parts in order to correctly assemble them into a cute cardboard hedgehog. Beautiful children's craft. It is necessary to take into account that corrugated cardboard is thick, so the cuts need to be made wide - like a slit. Then the parts will easily fit on each other.
You can also expand the boundaries of your imagination and create a more complex hedgehog craft from packaging cardboard. Some of the cardboard material needs to be painted black.
And from two sheets of cardboard you can make volumetric craft lamp in the shape of a hedgehog. Triangular cuts are made on the cardboard silhouettes to form needles. We glue two silhouettes in the area of the nose and in the back of the hedgehog’s back. Let the glue dry and then move the middle of the silhouettes apart - inserting a glass jar with a candle-tablet inside. It is convenient to light the candle at the bottom of the jar with a long spaghetti pasta - it burns perfectly brightly and evenly, like a long match.
Cardboard can be used not only as sheets, but also household the one we usually throw away - cardboard toilet paper rolls, cardboard egg packaging.
A hedgehog craft for children - from a toilet paper roll.
If you have colored brown double-sided paper and a toilet paper roll, then you can make a simple and quick hedgehog craft with your children.
On a piece of paper, draw a hedgehog’s prickly fur coat. Use scissors to slightly shorten the toilet paper roll in height so that it is lower. We draw on it the eyes, nose, mouth and paws of the hedgehog. We flatten the upper part of the roll and secure it with a stapler. We coat the back of the roll with glue and glue a prickly coat of colored paper. We bend the top of the fur coat forward - we get overhanging hedgehog bangs.
DIY hedgehog from an egg carton - master class in photographs .
Using scissors, we separate the cells of the box from each other, and cut each cell into petals. These will be hedgehog spines. We leave one cell intact - this will be the face of a hedgehog.
Pour boiling water over the remaining trimmings and the packaging lid. Let it sit and swell. We squeeze it with our hands and form a triangular cone from this loose mass - the basis of the hedgehog’s body. Let this piece dry for a day in the sun. Or dry it in the oven.
In this lesson we will look at how to draw a hedgehog (hedgehog) with a pencil step by step in leaves realistically. In this lesson we used pencils of different softness, see the gradation of softness.
First, let's make a pencil sketch.
The lighting is from behind, so the sky will be darker than the leaves; the hedgehog’s needles along the contour are strongly illuminated by sunlight.
Darken the sky between the leaves.
We carefully go around the hedgehog's needles, leaving them white and darkening the space around them.
Gradually paint the sky darker around the light spots, creating a bokeh effect.
The fallen tree is shown in larger detail. First, let's give the tree volume. You can see how to distribute light and shadow here. And then draw the bark unevenly.
Let's move on to the leaves. Where the leaves overlap there will be a darker color, where a single leaf is almost white, not painted over.
We draw the hedgehog's needles on the other, left side, shading the leaf.
Draw the leaves and twigs on the right. I tried to draw from top to bottom so as not to smudge or smudge the pencil with my hand. You can place a clean sheet of paper under your hand, then the drawn areas will not be smeared.
Let's draw a leaf on the hedgehog, and at the same time we begin to draw the hedgehog itself.
First, needles from bottom to top, it’s more convenient. The needles should remain white; paint the space around them.
We create volume near the log on which the hedgehog is sitting, with leaves in front of it.
The log is in the shade, so it needs to be painted over. Against its background, the hedgehog will appear brighter.
What is this small and cute animal whose back is covered with sharp needles that protect it in case of danger? Did you guess it? This is a hedgehog that is often talked about in children's poems and fairy tales. When it is frightened, it curls up into a ball, exposing its quills, so predators cannot get close to it to bite or eat it. Its needles serve not only as defense, but also as assistance during the transfer of fruits and other food to its burrow. His black nose and eyes evoke only tenderness, but if you manage to inspire trust in this baby, you will be able to touch his soft paws with sharp claws. We will draw such a cute animal in this step-by-step lesson using a graphics tablet. But you can also use a regular pencil.
Tools and materials:
- A graphics tablet and pen (I used Wacom Intos Draw, but any will do) connected to a computer or laptop.
- Adobe Photoshop program.
You can also use a simple pencil, an eraser and a piece of paper.
Stages of work:
Step 1. In Adobe Photoshop, click File – New. Specify the dimensions of the sheet: height - 2000 px. and width – 1200 px. Click OK, after which a sheet will appear on which we will draw. Let's set up the brush: let it be black, with size 5. Draw a large circle in the middle of the sheet. From there we will continue building the body of the hedgehog, it will be more convenient to do it this way:
Step 2. Now we add four circles of different sizes. The largest circle will be on the left, it will serve as the basis for the ear, the remaining two for the eye and one for the nose:
Step 3. Let's draw the outline of the animal's muzzle. The hedgehog's nose and mouth become visible, as well as the inside of the ear:
Step 4. We change the brush to a thinner one - 3. There are small needles on the muzzle, so we mark them along the edge. There will be two clear highlights on the left eye. Let's outline the boundary from which there will be a sharp transition to a dark tone:
Step 5. Let's increase the brush size to 20. Let's sketch out the eyes and nose completely, only making a slight tint of tone. There is also a highlight on the nose, not as bright as on the eye, but it is visible:
Step 6. Draw short needles and fur with a thin brush (3) under the ear and lower part of the body, outlining the contours of the body. Let's add two front legs on which the hedgehog will rest. Remove excess lines with an eraser:
Step 7 We continue to draw small needles and fur on the animal’s face. Now you can remove the lines with the eraser tool that previously served as a sketch. On the right we add several long antennae extending far beyond the muzzle:
Step 8 Above the head we can add large needles (brush size – 9), which, due to the large number, overlap each other, as if pushing each other:
Step 9 From the ear to the back we will still draw large needles, but as they move away, we will make them paler (reduce the pressure). We do this because it's the background, it doesn't have to be the same as the foreground. This creates a volume:
Step 10 Draw the nose with small needles (brush - 3), which have a high density around the eye, on the bend of the muzzle, near the mouth and around the mustache:
Step 11 Let's draw a falling shadow under the hedgehog's body (around its paws). On top of it from the body, use the tip of the eraser to add strokes, creating needles:
Step 12 We have to make the ears voluminous using shading. The light falls from left to right, so the left side of the ear captures most of the shadow, and the right ear is completely absorbed by it:
Step 13 Let's add a shadow between the large needles. It should be denser at the transition from small to large needles. Outline the paws, adding four sharp claws on each:
Step 14 Between the ears we will also work out the shadow from the large needles. In this area we will detail it in more detail, because it is in the foreground that the viewer’s gaze falls first:
The hedgehog - also known as the hedgehog - is a very funny mammal. This is a small animal from the order Insectivores. The name of the order already tells us what this animal eats. Well, of course, insects. There are different types of hedgehogs: common and long-eared. The latter have small protruding ears on the head, which gives the hedgehog a rather interesting appearance. Hedgehogs are not large in size, they have thin legs, a pointed muzzle with a black nose at the end, which sniffs everything around very well. A characteristic feature of hedgehogs is their body covered with sharp spines. When a hedgehog senses danger, it quickly curls up into a ball, exposing only its protruding needles, and thereby escapes from its enemies. Mother hedgehogs feed their hedgehogs with special milk. In general, if you see a hedgehog and offer him a saucer of milk, he will never refuse such a tasty treat. We want to teach you how to draw a hedgehog here step by step with a pencil.
Stage 1. Let's start with the head of the animal. Draw a slightly elongated circle. We draw three lines in it. One, slightly raised up approximately in the middle. Another one, a little shorter and lower. And the third one is curved and intersects the first two vertically. Then let's start drawing the muzzle. In front we will mark the contours: the line near the eyes and the cheek part, we draw the chin line. On the first horizontal line we draw large eyes.
Stage 2. In the eyes we show the pupils themselves. We draw two curved lines above the eyes. The left dash turns into a pointed nose, raised upward. There is a small patch at the end of the spout. From the snout, a line leads down and we draw the features of a mouth, slightly half-open. It turns out such a nice little face!
Stage 3. Now we draw two short eyebrows on top of the peephole, raised upward in surprise. To the right of the nose under the eye we outline a convex line of the cheek that connects to the mouth. At the top of the head and at the bottom, where the neck is, we make wavy lines.
Stage 4. Draw the hedgehog’s right cheek and his high right ear. We also use wavy lines to outline the contours of the hedgehog’s body. We do this from one side of the head to the other.
Stage 5. Now we draw the long protruding needles of this small prickly creature all over the body. We draw thin long features, curved slightly back and giving the body shape and volume.
Stage 6. From under the small prickly body, adorable paws should peek out, on which the hedgehog can run quite quickly on the ground. He is a very agile animal. Let's draw four legs. They are identical in structure. The front ones look out a little more than the rear ones. The paws end in fingers.
Stage 7. Very often, mushrooms or apples are painted on the spines of a hedgehog’s back, which it supposedly carries on its spines, making provisions for the winter. In fact, this is fiction, because hedgehogs eat insects. But, nevertheless, we will not deviate from the general rule and draw two beautiful fungi on the back of the animal.
Stage 8. This is the cute little hedgehog we got as a result of our lesson. This is a black and white version.
