It would be nice to bring some fallen cones home after a forest walk. Their scales can be opened or tightly fitting to each other. In both cases, this is great material for creativity. Figures made of cones made with a child are not only interesting, but also useful. The created creations can be taken to kindergarten or to arrange a real performance at home, the main participants of which and props will be crafts from cones.
Forest beauty from the gifts of the forest - option one
Why not make a Christmas tree out of cones? It will not be synthetic, but natural. In addition, it will be possible to save on this attribute of the holiday and make it unusual and original.
If you will be engaged in creativity together with very young children or you have little source material, then the first version of the Christmas tree will suit you. For her, you need an already opened hardened bump.
First, make the basis for a figure of cones. From thick cardboard, cut a circle with a diameter slightly smaller than the circumference of the cone itself. Apply dark paint on it, let it dry. You can glue a cardboard disc on top with colored paper.
The child will really like the next stage of work. Soften the clay, let the baby roll several balls out of it and attach them between the opened cone scales. You can make decorations in another way - roll up balls of cotton wool, wrap them in pieces of colored paper or in wrappers made from sweets. After this, you need to tightly twist the candy wrapper and glue it with this part to the cone scale. An adult can do this with a glue gun. In the same way, attach the bottom of the cone to the cardboard base. A small but beautiful spruce is ready.
Option of the second production of the Queen of the Forest - preparing the foundation
Thinking of what can be made of cones with older children, erect a global New Year's building. Depending on how much natural material is brought from the forest, a tree will be of such height and width.
Start by making a stand too. Cut a circle of thick cardboard of such a diameter so that 5-9 cones fit on it (depending on what size the spruce will be).
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Lubricate it abundantly with wood glue and arrange the cones in a circle with a sharp edge out. If you decide to make a large spruce, first fasten the cones together using a rope, twisting them in order. Then put on a cardboard stand, greased with glue.
In the next row, lay the same or one less cone. The spruce will gradually taper up. You can reduce the number of cones each row or in two or three. Grease the lower tier with glue, apply the upper one. When you get to the top of the head, put one unopened cone with the sharp end up, glue it. You can paint such figures from cones with a spray can in green, blue, gold or silver, or leave the product in its original form.
Hedgehog with a head and legs
When deciding what can be made of cones, make funny animals with your child. Then they can be placed under the newly constructed Christmas tree, come up with a fairy tale and play it with the children.
Make a cone of white plasticine, attach its base to the rounded part of the cone, which it once attached to the tree. This is the basis of the animal's face.
Turn a small piece of black plasticine into a ball, attach it to the nose. Roll out 2 more such circles from the same material, flatten them, attach them to the eye. Pupils make of a plastic mass of white or yellow. From white - 4 small paws and 2 small ears of a triangular shape. Also attach these parts to their place.
Dinosaur and other characters
You can create other charming figures from cones and plasticine, for example, a dinosaur. To make it colorful, take the material for sculpting lilac, red, blue, yellow, green.
Roll a piece of lilac plasticine into a sausage, one side of which is slightly thicker than the second. Attach this wider edge to the narrow part of the opened bump. Bend the second end of the sausage slightly, connect it with the red dragon head. Make an incision in the middle of the muzzle, put in its upper and lower parts a small flattened piece of yellow plasticine. This is the mouth of a completely fearless dragon.
To make the dinosaur even more good-natured, attach blue plasticine eyes to the muzzle. The legs and tail of a fairytale character will be of the same shade. Pieces of yellow plasticine turn into triangular and attach them on the back, tail and back of the neck.
In the same technique, other figures are made of cones - animals, people, fairy-tale characters.
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Walking in the late summer or early autumn through the forest, you can collect not only fallen cones, but also acorns. This tandem helps to come up with the most interesting ideas for creativity. When deciding what crafts from cones and acorns can be done with children, invite the kids to turn these gifts of nature into a little forest.
Glue the acorn to the crown of the opened cone. In this case, the “cap” of the acorn will become the headdress of a fabulous inhabitant of the forest. Turn two small knotted sticks into his hands by attaching them with wire. Cut your eyes and mouth out of colored paper, glue them on the face of the forester.
Dragonflies
Charming figures will be obtained from cones and acorns - dragonflies. In addition to these materials, an oval-shaped stand will be needed for their construction. Cut it out of wood, varnish.
The bumps will fit more slender, glue them to the stand, it turned out the body of a dragonfly. Attach 4 oval wings to it. They can be cut from brocade or other dense fabric, attached to a bump with wire or thread. An acorn will turn into the head and cap of an insect.
Wreath, Teddy Bear
You can make a New Year wreath to decorate the door with it. Make the basis of it in the form of a ring from wire or willow twigs, vines. If you decide to use natural bendable materials, take a bunch of rods, tie them with threads in the form of a ring. With the help of a wire, attach cones; you can decorate a wreath with other materials by gluing beads and tying bows. Golden paint will help the composition gain integrity.
The little bear made of cones turns out to be voluminous, charming and very cute. To create it, it is enough to glue the cones, giving them the shape of a shaggy forest owner.
The combination of fabric and forest gifts
A garland of cones will turn out colorful, original, and making it is a pleasure. First, take the red and yellow felt. Suitable patches left over from needlework. Cut out large circles from yellow material, and smaller ones from red. Lay them on top of each other (smaller to larger), stitch as shown in the photo.
Thread a strong thread into a large needle. Puncture it with 5 cones horizontally, then a felt base. Thus fasten the garland to the end. She can decorate a nondescript wall in the country, a tree trunk or decorate the room.
Here you can make crafts from cones with your own hands. Ideas, tips will help awaken imagination and create many more original things that can decorate a house, a kindergarten for the holiday.