MOUSE THIEVES

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Ordinary people throw cork corks from under bottles of wine or champagne, and needlewomen with imagination use this malleable material to create original crafts. What creative girls can’t come up with, but the top of originality is animal figures.
Today you will learn how to make a fridge magnet in the form of mice that make their way inside the kitchen equipment up the stairs in the hope of stealing something tasty.
To work, you need such components:

cork plugs (3 pieces);
wire;
awl;
threads for knitting gray and brown shades;
scissors;
PVA glue and a tube of superglue;
toothpicks (8 pieces);
black beads (3 pieces);
magnets.

First pick up three plugs: two should have bends, and one needs a straight line.

At one curved cork and at a straight cut off the tops so that a neat cone is formed on the edge. Cut the third crust in half, for further work you will need only one part.

Cut the wire into pieces 5-6 cm long (7 pieces) and 6-7 cm (2 pieces).

Start making the first mouse. Connect the large cork to the small one using wire. To insert the wire into the peels, you need to make a hole with an awl and then it will enter without much difficulty. It turns out the body with the head.

Make the mouse 4 paws and a long tail.

From the remaining piece of cork cut 2 flat circles - these will be ears. Fasten them to the wire and place them on the head.

It turns out such a mouse from a cork stopper.

Half of the large crust will be the back of the mouse, which has already penetrated the refrigerator. Therefore, in the cork, fasten only 2 paws and a long tail.

Now proceed to decorating the blanks with threads. To do this, coat the crusts with PVA glue and fix the gray thread for knitting on it, moving in a spiral.

It remains only to wrap the legs and tail with thread. At the edge of the paws, put a brown thread, make the tail the same color.

This is how mice completely pasted with threads look like.

Glue the black beads on the face of the big mouse - these will be the eyes and nose. Leave the ears unchanged so that you can see what material this craft is made of.

Now take a flat magnet and cut a “hole” out of it for the refrigerator.
Glue it to the half of the mouse, and on the reverse side, fix another round powerful magnet. At this stage, you must use superglue.

From two pieces of thread for knitting and toothpicks, form a ladder.

Just place a toothpick between two threads and fix it with a knot.

It turns out a fairly long staircase.

Tie one of its edges to the upper mouse with a magnet. Glue the second mouse to the ladder for all 4 paws (for reliability).

Place the magnet on the refrigerator. His idea is this: mouse thieves made a hole in an electric appliance and climb a ladder inside to get food.

Original, unusual and very interesting.
Such a magnet can be a great gift for friends and acquaintances, but who can cope with the desire to leave it in their fridge?
Tip: if you think that the back of the mouse does not look very aesthetically pleasing, then make the front half of the body.

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