Make a tank out of socks with your hands. An original gift - a tank of socks

Introducing a completely harmless tank that will not shoot, destroy homes and families, but on the contrary, will become an interesting gift for a man on the Day of Defender of the Fatherland. It so happened historically that all the inhabitants of our country celebrate Men's Day, the beautiful half gives gifts to their beloved and dear defenders. It is impossible to do without them, because men are our support, inspiration, the strong and courageous side of the family. Of course, in life it is better not to see a real tank, never to hear its deafening shots, except at a festive training ground. But, nevertheless, the representatives of the stronger sex are interested in detailed models purely from a technical point of view. Many of them serve in the army, are patriots of their great Motherland. Therefore, a do-it-yourself tank is always current craft. Now consider in order how to make a souvenir model to surprise your man an unusual present. Master Class .

materials

For the tank we need:

  • 8 strips of regular or glitter foamiran white color(thickness 2 mm) - 1 * 20 cm (for running wheels);
  • 2 strips of ordinary green foamiran (1 mm thick) - 1 * 20 cm (for modeling the upper part of the tower);
  • 4 strips of ordinary green foamiran (1 mm thick) - 1.5 * 20 cm (for modeling the lower part of the tower);
  • 1 strip of ordinary green foamiran (1 mm thick) - 5 * 20 cm (for the body);
  • 1 strip of ordinary green foamiran (1 mm thick) - 0.5 * 30 cm (wrap a toothpick and make a barrel);
  • toothpick;
  • green rhinestone tire (need to make a double track structure);
  • 2 squares 2 * 2 cm of red glitter foamiran (for two stars);
  • 10 black half beads - 6 mm in diameter.

How to make a tank with your own hands

1. Prepare the strips for work, you can use felt instead of foamiran, but it is better to use a material with a dense texture.

2. Cut strips from white foamiran. Twist each in the form of a flagellum, glue the ends. Thus, you get a kind of wheels. Wind the strip tightly to get all the wheels the same size. To begin with, you can prepare a toothpick, on which you can simply wind the strips.

4. Take the widest strip of green. Glue the wheels on one edge, on both sides, placing them standing up. Thus, 2 identical white structures should be placed symmetrically.

5. Wrap the rest of the foamiran on top of the wheels. Tape the end of the strip. The main part of the running structure of the tank is formed.

6. Glue the prepared strips of green foamiran 1 cm and 1.5 cm thick also into dense flagella. Combine sizes 2 and 4 pieces.

7. From the green rhinestone tire web, cut 2 double wrap strips on both sides of the track side. Glue the strips, neatly join the ends.

8. Collect upper part of two green wheels - this will be a tower.

9. Stick a small piece of green on a toothpick. This is the most meticulous moment. It is necessary to carefully coat the surface of the material with glue, then smooth it perfectly so that there are no creases and wrinkles. Glue small flagella to the ends of the homemade barrel. Also cutting out thin stripes from the green canvas.

10. Glue the double turret onto the main body of the combat vehicle. Glue the trunk in front of the tower.

11. Next on the list, prepare black half beads, 2 squares of red glitter foamiran. Cut out 2 stars. They can be glued to the tank structure, but a tricolor ribbon or some kind of emblem will do instead.

12. Glue black half-beads on the middle of the wheels on both sides. A total of 10 black parts were prepared. The remaining 2 stick on top of the tower and on the outer hole of the long barrel. Also glue the stars on the sides.

13. An interesting combat vehicle is ready. Beloved man will be pleased to receive such a kind of handmade. You can add another gift to it.

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Making a tank out of cans of beer on February 23 with your own hands is quite simple. This is not an expensive gift, fast in execution.

Although such a gift can be both very cheap and expensive. Depending on what beer you take. You can also buy some especially rare, expensive beer, which in ordinary life The man does not buy.

To create a tank you will need:

  • Three or four cans of beer. I took 4 cans. It can be made from 3, then just make the tank turret less voluminous.
  • Snacks. It can be chips, crackers, fish, pistachios.
  • Craft brown paper. Either green or brown pleated.
  • glue gun
  • Dulo. It can be a cigar, a pen, or just a thin roll of thick paper. Or a cocktail tube.
  • Scissors
  • Scotch
  • Satin ribbons. Wide, 3-4 cm wide and 0.5 cm thin.

Tape the beer cans together. I tried to connect the beer with masking tape, it turned out badly. But the usual wide adhesive tape holds everything perfectly. You can do nothing more and not strengthen. But if there is a desire, then you can put thick cardboard under the caterpillar banks.

I glued the jars to wrapping paper glue gun.

For tank wrapping, you can use green corrugated paper. However, if you do not want to specifically look for and buy it, you can get by with just brown craft. The paper that is in the photo is free wrapping paper when leaving Ikea)

We wrap the edges of the tank with thick satin ribbon in tone. These will be the caterpillars. We also glue it with a glue gun. We build a tower on the base. It can be a bag of pistachios wrapped in the same paper, or just bags of snacks, not even wrapped in anything.
We fix the muzzle. All with the same glue gun. The muzzle I had was from a tightly folded roll of paper.

A can tank can be decorated with stars. Where to get them? Buy in a store with accessories or buy a set of sequins in fixed price, which also has stars. Or make stars from a curly hole punch.

Useful tips on how to make a beer tank

  • Make at 23 not just a tank of beer, but a tank of beer and socks. To do this, wrap a sock around the ends of each jar. These will be black caterpillars.
  • A tank of Coke or Pepsi - children's version gift. Complement it with sweets and sweets instead of a beer snack. For the tank in the photo, I took four cans of Pepsi, two packs of mldms and two packs of chewing gum.
  • It is not necessary to make a tank, you can make binoculars or a helicopter. But here you will need more skills and decorative elements.
  • You can make a tower from a round can
  • Place a small toy soldier in front of the muzzle of the tank
  • The muzzle can be made from Rondo. Or from some other chewing gum or candy in a long package
  • And you can put a bottle with it on four cans of beer and decorate the tank. The long neck of the bottle will be the barrel.
  • The tank turret can be made from a box of suitable size, pasted over with paper and filled with snacks or nuts.

Not selected yet gift for February 23? I would like to give something original, with humor. Well, preferably not expensive and that it was easy to perform. Make such a gift yourself in 5 minutes. This tank from men's socks .

A very original and simple idea for a men's gift. You will need 4 pairs of men's socks. It is better to be monophonic and that all be the same color. I took black, but different companies with inscriptions - labels. These inscriptions are not visible when the tank is rolled up.

How to make a tank out of men's socks shown in detail in the video and below in more detail in the photo. I can only give advice to twist the socks tighter, then the tank will be more durable. And pick up a straw - the muzzle of a tank of the same color with a tape.

Five socks will be used to create wheel rolls for the tracks. One sock will be wrapped around the wheels, representing a tank track. The last pair of socks will make a tank tower. And here detailed master class how to make a tank out of socks with photos (10 photos) and video.

Sock tank: master class:

We will need four pairs of socks of the same color. It is better to take monophonic socks, completely without drawings and emblems.

We lay out four socks so that the heel is in the middle, as in the photo and twist tight rolls. Tighten the rolls with a rubber band.


These are tank tracks. We put these caterpillars on the sock and wrap it around. It turns out the bottom of the tank.

The tank turret is made from one or two socks, depending on their thickness. In the photo above, one sock was enough, so the extra sock became another video. In the photo below, two thin socks were required for the tower.

We fold the second sock, wrapping it around the other. The tower is ready.

And here is the bottom of the tank.
Now we put the tower on top of the caterpillars and insert the cocktail stick. Pere
We drag the design with an elastic band.

We decorate the place of the gum with a satin ribbon.

A gift always brings a smile. If you give a loved one, then give it as extra gift. All the same, he pulls on the main one only for relatives. Although socks are different socks. You can buy rubles for 600 pairs.

Below is the process of making a tank step by step in video format.

Very soon men's holiday- Defender of the Fatherland Day, and what to give your beloved man you still haven't thought of? It has long been customary that the stronger sex receives only shaving accessories, perfumes, sets of socks and underpants, etc. as gifts by February 23. But this is not at all the same - very ordinary and boring. But after all, you can slightly modify ordinary things and present original present! Try to fold ordinary men's socks in the form of a tank - it will be very unexpected and useful.

Necessary tools

To create a tank from socks with your own hands, you will need:

  • 2 pairs of black socks;
  • 1 pair of dark gray or dark green (do not take very thin socks - working with them will be more difficult and they keep their shape worse);
  • ball pen;
  • you can take a bottle alcoholic drink(0.33 l is enough) or perfume with a long neck, a pack of cigarettes can come in handy for a tower;
  • 4 stationery gum;
  • cardboard, scissors;
  • satin ribbons for decor.

Creating a simple tank

The duration of work on making a tank from socks will take you no more than half an hour, and detailed description will help with this. But, you can be sure that your efforts will be appreciated!

To begin with, we disassemble the socks: we divide the pairs, remove the staples, peel off the stickers, carefully cut the threads. You should have 4 black and 2 gray socks.

Lay the sock with the heel up and smooth it. Roll very tightly into a roll. To prevent the sock from turning around, fix it with an elastic band. Do these manipulations with three more. It turned out 4 rolls of socks - these are the tracks of your tank.

Now take 1 sock gray color and straighten it. Put the prepared caterpillars in the middle and wrap, securing from above.

The next step is to create the tower. You can make it from gray socks by wrapping one sock with another, or you can add a pack of cigarettes to the design for density and also wrap it with socks.

Install the turret on the tracks, after inserting into it ballpoint pen, and drag with an elastic band. From above, masking it, tie the entire structure with a satin ribbon, tie a bow.

So your stern practical is ready men's gift! Made by hand, it will bring joy and pleasure to your protector!

Tank with satin ribbons

When creating a tank from socks, decorated with satin ribbons, the manufacturing technique will be exactly the same as in the first case, only the "caterpillars" are wrapped not in a sock, but in ribbons, which are neatly fixed with pins. The tower is also decorated with ribbons or made of big bow. Such a tank looks more ornate than one that is made in a more severe way.

Tank with a bottle of alcohol or perfume

To form a tank from socks using additional details, a bottle of drink or perfume is taken. In order to decorate it, you need to take a sock and put it halfway on the container, wrap it up and put it behind the cuff. With the second toe heel inward, wrap the bottle in the transverse direction.

We do the "caterpillars" in the same way as in the first version.

We attach the tower - a bottle, fix it with an elastic band. Smooth out any wrinkles and adjust where necessary. Tie with a satin ribbon, decorate with a flag made of toothpicks and paper.

To make a perfume tank, instead of a tower, attach it on top of the "caterpillars".

So, we looked at how to make a tank out of socks with our own hands. This a pleasant surprise, which has no age limit, so give it to even a boy, even an old man or a man. It's sure to lift anyone's mood! A sock tank will be remembered for a long time, and what color, decoration and its components should be depends only on your imagination and ingenuity.

To please a man, it is not necessary to buy expensive gifts. The main thing is to pay attention! original and budget gift, is a tank created from socks. Just giving socks is trite, but making them something special deserves attention.

How to make a sock tank

To create a tank you will need:

  • socks;
  • gift ribbon;
  • pen.

The tank can be made from a different number of pairs of socks. The more socks, the larger the result will be a tank. Try to choose socks for the tank of the same color or combine them harmoniously. For example, the tracks are one color, and the hull is another. Below, we will look at how to make a tank out of three pairs of socks. Let's start building the tank:

  • We separate the socks one at a time, put them on the surface of the table so that the heel on the toe is on top, as shown in the photo below.
  • From the gum of the sock, we begin to twist it tightly, so that at the end we get a small dense roller.
  • These manipulations must be done with 4 socks, as a result we get 4 tightly rolled rollers. They will fulfill the purpose of the caterpillar wheels.
  • Separate the remaining pair of socks. We put one sock on the table and lay the rollers on it.
  • We wrap the rollers in it. So that the structure does not crumble, it is necessary to fix them by connecting the tip of the sock with its elastic band, as shown in the photo.
  • After, you need to turn the structure over so that the seam of the sock is not visible.
  • The second sock should be twisted into a roller similarly to the previous ones and placed on top of the tank. This will serve as a tower for him.


  • We pass a gift ribbon under the tank.
  • We tie the ribbon with a bow, on top of the tank. Also, the design can be decorated with a large bow.
  • The pen will serve as a gun. Also, you can use a straw, pencil, cigarette, etc.


The sock tank is ready! This gift does not age restrictions, so you can safely give at least a boy, even a man, even a grandfather. He will definitely lift your spirits. A sock tank will be remembered for a long time for its originality. You can experiment with color, quantity, additional attributes, etc. After all, it all depends on your imagination, decisions and desires.