It is very pleasant to engage in creativity with your child, the process of joint creation of a unique masterpiece brings together and allows the talents of your child to reveal. While on vacation, collect a variety of shells and pebbles that are useful to you for creating various entertaining gizmos. Crafts from shells will beautifully and originally complement the interior of your home. Let's consider several options for creating interesting toys and souvenirs for children.
Wonderful photo frame
Your child will be able to make such a frame for the photograph himself, under your strict guidance. Prepare a wide frame without relief, glue, paints (acrylic or for Easter eggs), varnish, beads and beads. Crafts made from shells help your child
develop fine motor skills and
creativity. Just show your child how to use glue and paints, and let him show his talents. If the child is still small, then you can stick the shells that he chooses yourself in the place on the frame that he indicates. Your joint photo frame is ready!
Angels
When the New Year and Christmas holidays are approaching, then every family begins chores to decorate the house and Christmas tree. Each child will be especially pleased to be actively involved in the selection and hanging of jewelry. To make the holiday unforgettable and exciting, stock up on satin ribbons and
artificial pearls to create children's crafts from shells to decorate the Christmas tree. A large pearl will be the head of an angel, on which you can glue a thin golden thread, symbolizing the halo. Glue a bow on a large shell that replaces the wings of an angel and a pearl bead. It remains to attach a loop for the pendant, and the angel is ready! Such shell crafts will certainly become the main decoration of your Christmas tree.
Ship, shell tree, Christmas tree
Interesting such crafts from shells for older children. Their manufacture requires more painstaking work and accuracy. To make a boat, you will need shells, glue, braid and wooden sticks of different sizes (you can use toothpicks). We collect the base like a pyramid, gluing together all the shells. The masts are assembled separately, then securely attached to the base and decorated with thin golden braid.
Crafts from shells can be very diverse! For example, consider the process of creating a shell tree and a Christmas tree. Their feature is that during the assembly process you need to use the frame. The frame can be anything: a plastic bottle, soft polystyrene foam, clay, a ball of thread and more. With the Christmas tree, everything is extremely simple: stick shells to the selected frame, starting from the base, in order to reduce the size of the parts. The process of making a shell tree is more complicated. To get started, prepare a pot in which the tree will stand, cover it with sand or decorative pebbles for stability. The trunk can replace any wooden stick or branch. Divide the shells into large and small ones, glue them together in three pieces. The center can be decorated with a bead to make flowers. Then paste these flowers on the frame, in this case it is a ball of thread. That's all!