Crafts from chestnuts and acorns with their own hands are very original, better than real toys. Another, exactly the same, will be simply impossible to find. Do-it-yourself miracle is always very exciting. The kid shows his imagination, inventing a toy, develops motor skills. You can repeat with the child who will go to school, counting, harvesting acorns or chestnuts. From communication with nature, you can make a fascinating journey into a fairy tale, an excursion into the world of biology. To create a creative atmosphere, you need to compose or look for poems and fairy tales with the child in which the created character participates.
Hedgehog
You can make a beautiful prickly hedgehog. To do this, the chestnut does not need to be peeled. She has spines in him, so he will be the back of a hedgehog. The peeled chestnut will have to be hidden under a prickly shell, this is the body of a hedgehog. It's time to give free rein to your imagination: fashion small paws and attach to the body, cut out eyes from paper, make a nose and mouth. The hedgehog can turn out to be prickly and angry. Or maybe a cute smile.
Duck and teddy bear
Hedgehog needs to find a girlfriend, let it be a duck. For her, you need to take two chestnuts, different in size. And to connect them you need a match. Glue a cotton wool block to the duck’s head, and ash seeds to attach its wings to the body. Do not forget about the beak molded from red plasticine. And cut the eyes out of paper.
Crafts from chestnuts and acorns, created with their own hands, will help to continue the story further.
The little bear came from the forest just like a real one, but completely fearless. His ears, lower paws and nose are made of acorns. You can put it on a clearing of green moss. Since he came to visit, let a match fence stand nearby. The body and head of the bear are made of chestnuts. Everything is connected using matches. Eyes from white plasticine should appear on the head, and the muzzle itself is also a hat from the acorn.
Snail
To do crafts from chestnuts and acorns with your own hands, you do not need to think long. The kid will tell you the idea that something will be noticed by Mother Nature herself while searching for material for such crafts, and something can be seen in the book of Russian folk tales. And as such an option: crawled, snail crawled, crawled for a long time and saw a caterpillar. A conversation ensued between them. At the end of the conversation, it turned out that both of the geese live in the neighborhood. Why haven’t they met before? And one of them crawls too slowly. And it doesn’t matter at all that this snail is fake, it’s still beautiful. They mold a body and a head with horns from plasticine. Chestnut is added - this will be the house of the snail. It remains to make her eyes.
Caterpillar
And now it's time to be in the clearing caterpillar. The fruits of the tree, plasticine, matches - everything is in place. The process of creativity begins. It is required to take several chestnuts, approximately the same size, to connect them with plasticine. From it, you need to make eyes, nose and mouth. The big chestnut is the head. It is attached to the body, and the horns from matches will complete the manufacture of such crafts.
Spider and owl
The snail and the caterpillar were talking peacefully, and suddenly a little spider came down to them on its cobweb. He also wanted to talk. In order for it to turn out and continue the tale, you need to take one large chestnut, clay - the cement of all crafts, superglue and toothpicks. Chestnut is the body of a spider to which legs from toothpicks are attached. They will need eight pieces. Each toothpick needs to be slightly broken right in the middle. With glue, the toothpicks are attached to the chestnut to get the appearance of a crawling spider. Plasticine eyes attached to the chestnut will allow the hero to continue to play his part in the story.
What forest can do without a scoop - a wise little head? You need to take a chestnut, a piece of felt material, glue, acorns, felt-tip pen, plasticine. From felt to make wings, legs and beak of a bird. Once they are cut, they can be immediately glued to the chestnut with two hats. Owl has big eyes. Hats of acorns will be used to create them. If the plasticine is already tired, you can draw eyes with a felt-tip pen inside the hats.
The following crafts from chestnuts and acorns with their own hands will be performed by children with adults.
Beads
Beads are very easy to make. Such crafts made from chestnuts and acorns, created with their own hands for children, will interest girls. They will be happy to collect natural materials in a single chain , and alternate them with real beads. In this case, you will need the help of elders, as you have to work with an awl.
No matter how difficult jewelry or little animals, crafts made from chestnuts and acorns turn out to be in making, do-it-yourself things for children should always be done with the kids.
"God's eye"
The souvenir called “God's Eye” looks original. In the chestnut, make six holes, insert the skewers. Then they need to be fixed with superglue. With a thread, you need to start wrapping the inserted branches around and stretching the thread from one to the other to make a hexagon. The colors of the thread can be changed.
What other crafts just do not want to come up with a child! By the New Year, you can make all the animal symbols of each year according to the Eastern horoscope and present to friends and relatives, depending on what year they were born. This will be a wonderful sign of attention from the baby. Crafts from cones, acorns, chestnuts, made with their own hands, are stored for a long time, they look original.
You can offer another version of the original crafts from chestnuts, acorns, shells. Do it yourself with your own hands. Any material will be used. But it is advisable to use shells for a decorative frame. It looks impressive, goes well with chestnuts and acorns. The main thing is to observe in all measure and teach this to children. The choice remains with the child and his senior assistants. What crafts they make from chestnuts and acorns with their own hands will be up to them. But it is important in such a creative process for each of them the word of approval, the help provided on time, the right advice from the closest native person.