Natural materials - shells and pebbles, dried flowers and leaves, cones, chestnuts and acorns - are fertile improvised tools for making original crafts. Children especially like to make them. Such classes are extremely useful for boys and girls of different ages - from older kindergarten groups to teenagers, and beyond. Indeed, from simple fun they can turn into a conscious hobby, a hobby, and the child himself will become an excellent master! In addition, if elders - parents, grandparents - take part in needlework, then you will have a common family business, interesting to everyone!
Choose an idea - a frame for a portrait
So let's think about how it can be - an
article made of cones and acorns. Let’s try, for example, to improve the frame for a family photo. First make the foundation itself. The material for it can be wood, cardboard, plexiglass, etc. To then get the crafts of cones and acorns, you need to stock up on these gifts of forests and parks. For work, small ripe pine or
spruce cones that are already split by birds, i.e. without seeds. And dried acorns with whole caps. And also glue like "Moment". The main thing is to do everything carefully, wipe off the excess glue with a clean cloth and try to make the craft beautiful and original.
Frame for portraiture: execution
On the frame with a simple pencil and ruler, draw lines along which you will stick the applique. For acorns, remove the caps. At the cones, cut off the bases with several scales. Now gently apply glue to the workpieces and attach to the frame base. As you can see, a little imagination - and the original and even useful craft from cones and acorns is ready!
True, some difficulties may occur in the work. For example, acorn caps do not always want to stay in place and fall off. What to do in this case? Try this: cut pieces of the same diameter from the foam as the holes in the caps. Lubricate them with glue from the inside and insert foam rubber. And reattach in place. Now, nothing will definitely disappear, and the frame made of cones and acorns, where it’s time to put your favorite family photo, can take its place of honor on the bookshelf or desk!
Owl family in your house
If you know how to think creatively and look at ordinary things and objects from an unusual angle, you will surely like the idea of ​​placing a cute family of owls in your windowsill or on the nightstand in the hallway. No, not real, of course! Let it be just crafts from a pine cone, but cute, bright, cheerful!
Initial materials: the cones themselves are large, preferably rounded, well open; dense fabric, for example, felt or cloth for a coat or something like this - small rags of yellow, orange and brown; colored paper, glue, scissors, eraser and a simple pencil.
Owl family
Do it yourself is a pleasure! How to start making crafts from a pine cone? Carefully consider the selected samples of natural materials and select the most intact and "paunchy". Clean them, wash, dry. From the yellow felt, cut out a figure in the form of a figure of eight - this will be the muzzle of an owl. From paper - 2 black circles, which should be glued to the "eight" as eyes. A piece of orange felt in the shape of a triangle will become a beak.
It remains with the help of "Moment" to attach the "muzzle" to the cone, but not to the very top. Stick a hat-ears on it, cutting out a square from brown felt. Stick one corner of the square on the forehead of the owl, the second - on the back on the bump. From the brown material, make wings and paws, attaching them to the appropriate places on the cone. The resulting owl can be glued to a small twig. And start creating a new one! And if you add decorations from a Christmas tree rain and confetti to your fir birds, then excellent New Year crafts will come out!
Christmas balls and more
The theme of the New Year for various needlework is generally beneficial. And you can make many different Christmas toys from the same cones. Start the Christmas crafts like this: break some old balls that have lost the appearance of balls or bells and grind them into powder with a regular glass bottle. Spread PVA glue on the tips of the cone scales with a brush and sprinkle sparkling dust with another brush. Really beautiful?
How else to make interesting crafts from cones? The instruction is as follows: take a Christmas tree rain of different colors (lush, thick, not single threads) and stick it in tiers on the cones. Bright, colorful, magical, isn't it? Tie the threads to the tops and put on the Christmas tree. By the way, you can decorate the rooms with wonderful toys, the hallway, even hang on the outer doors. In the manner of the Europeans, who by Christmas hang spruce wreaths, bells, garlands on the doors. This is how a joyful mood is created!
Funny spiders
Continuing to consider what
crafts from natural material (bumps) parents can make with their children, we suggest stopping at funny spiders. For their manufacture, take tubes with
luminous inks of different colors - fluorescent.
Color the scales at the cones - make one spider blue, the other orange, the third green - as you like. Cut out the circles from paper and color them - there will be eyes. Turn the cones with their sharp ends down and glue their eyes slightly below the base. From the Christmas tree rain, strung on a thin wire, make paws. They can be fixed directly on the cones themselves, wrapped around the "trunk" on which the scales grow. Glue or tie the threads to the tops, make loops.
Such spider toys are remarkable in that in the daytime they shine in one or several shades, and at night, giving up the accumulated energy, they shine like characters in fantastic works. If the house will have such crafts from cones, the new year will be a fairy tale! You can use them as decoration in your child’s room or just in the living room. Secured, for example, on window shades or hung on curtain rods with curtains, or even pinned to the walls. Be sure: the most creative friends will definitely take over your idea, appreciating it at its true worth!
Wonderful bouquets
Crafts from cones, acorns, chestnuts will best decorate your hallway, living room, dining room or kitchen. Take a tall ceramic vase or jug ​​and long stretches of flexible but durable wire and large acorns. Take off their hats. And glue them to the acorns themselves with the holes up. This is how you make the flowers. On the wire (its upper end should be sharp), plant chestnuts of different sizes, alternating them with green leaves cut from colored paper. Last attach flowers from acorns. Or half cut open bumps. If you want, you can color them. Or keep the natural color. Twigs with mountain ash or viburnum berries and a herbarium of dry autumn leaves and herbs will give a special charm to the composition.
Cone cacti
Do you want to plant a cactus garden on your windowsill? Well, or almost cacti ... Make it much easier than you think! Buy small flower pots. And collect more large cones. Paint them with gouache or luminous paints and insert them into the flowerpots with the tops down. Or do not paint, but sprinkle with sparkles.
But wrap the pots with colored foil. Bright wrapping paper is also suitable. Arrange your flower garden on the windowsill - see how much more comfortable it has become in the room? If your work was in the autumn-winter period, Christmas balls will also be useful. They organically complement the decor, creating a festive atmosphere of anticipation of the holiday in the house. It turns out how simple it is: a little imagination, fiction and skill - and you yourself have created a miracle, an ordinary miracle!