In children's art, many improvised materials are used. Those that can be found on their own are especially appreciated. The children are interested in collecting them, imagining at this time what can happen from a leaf, driftwood or cone. Well, adults like them for their accessibility and environmental friendliness. Often used materials such as cones and chestnuts. The resulting toys can become a decoration in a children's room, and if you manage to keep them until the winter, they will take their rightful place on the tree.
Features of working with cones
Before embarking on creativity, children need to explain that over time, due to drying, the cones will begin to unfold, so the resulting craft is deformed. To avoid this, the cones are lowered for a short time into the heated wood glue. Then they need to be dried and you can start work. Particularly expressive are animal figures.
Crafts from chestnuts and cones. "Funny hedgehog"
To work, you need a number of materials.
- 10-15 cones, approximately the same size.
- A sheet of thick cardboard or plastic.
- A small pebble in black.
- 10-20 acorns.
- Plasticine white, black and red.
Crafts from cones and chestnuts. Manufacture
First, from plasticine to mold the body of a hedgehog. Form a sharp muzzle, stick a black pebble on your nose. Make round eyes from black plasticine, and a mouth from red plasticine. Place these parts on the face. Push the cones vertically into the body of the hedgehog with the sharp end up. Step back a little from the eye, insert acorns into the plasticine, this will be a hairstyle in the form of an Iroquois. Place the resulting figure on a sheet of cardboard or plastic.
Crafts from chestnuts and cones
Chestnuts make no less funny animals, little men, birds, insects. Due to the small size of the fruit, you can make compositions that will accommodate several figures at once. The details should be connected with plasticine or matches, piercing the chestnuts with an awl. It is better to collect fruits that have only fallen from trees, they are softer and easier to work with.
Crafts from chestnuts and cones. "Funny caterpillar"
Prepare the necessary materials.
- 7 fruits of chestnuts.
- Colored plasticine.
- Awl.
- Matches.
- Patterned large leaves for the stand.
How to make a craft from chestnuts. Manufacturing process
Chestnuts are connected to each other in the form of caterpillars. You can do this with plasticine, or you can pierce them with an awl and secure with matches. The junction is decorated with colored plasticine in the shape of rings. In the upper part of the chestnut, depicting the head, punctures are made with an awl. Matches representing horns are inserted into them. Top decorated with a small piece of multi-colored plasticine, the horns are fixed at the base. A smile is made of red plasticine, a nose is made of yellow, eyes are made of blue. The finished caterpillar is placed on the leaves.
Crafts from chestnuts and cones. Spider
- 2 fruits of a chestnut - one big, the second smaller.
- Plasticine.
- 6 plastic tubes for cocktails.
- Matches.
- A beautiful leaf of a tree.
Manufacture
Puncture the fruits, connect the large chestnut (this will be the body) and the small (head). In the body, make 3 punctures on each side, parallel to each other. Insert the cut tubes into them - these will be the legs. To attach eyes from plasticine to the head, you can make a tendril from matches. Put the resulting spider on a beautiful sheet.