Crafts from natural materials for kindergarten are a favorite topic for many teachers at kindergarten and school exhibitions, so sooner or later every parent has to deal with it.
Watch how to make a rose from leaves in the video:
DIY crafts from pine cones
The most popular autumn craft is a hedgehog with the gifts of autumn - apples and mushrooms on its prickly back. The face and paws of the hedgehog can be made from plasticine, and the needles will be prickly cones. You can use the bottom of a plastic bottle or a cardboard roll as a base.
A very impressive craft can be made from pine cones, a plastic bottle and plasticine:
Funny squirrels are made from pine cones and felt.
Cones and other natural materials are used to create a mysterious little animal with wings.
A very cute and funny craft made from pine cones and cotton wool - an owl. To make owls, coat the scales of the cone with glue. Then we push cotton wool between the scales.
Glue the eyes and nose on top. We got some funny fluffy owls!
From natural materials you can make very impressive birds in a nest. From cones and chestnuts we get a head and a body. We make wings from the leaves. We fix all parts of the craft with good glue.
All that remains is to make the birds their home - a nest. We weave it from thin branches, which we fasten with threads. We make the bottom of the nest from intertwined branches, which are inserted into the side parts of the craft.
Glue the birds' eyes and beaks. We place the birds in their house. A wonderful craft made from natural materials - ready!
Mountain deer made of pine cones and branches
From cones, branches and acorns you can glue together a proud, handsome deer. We attach the neck and body of the cones to each other using plasticine.
We attach the legs from the branches using plasticine.
We also fasten the head made from an acorn and the horns from branches using plasticine.
For winter and the New Year, the “Christmas tree made of pine cones” craft will be relevant. Glue a cone out of thick cardboard. Using a glue gun, glue the cones to the cone, starting from the bottom row.
We glue the entire cone in this way. Christmas tree made of cones - ready!
Their cones can be used to make a very beautiful tree of happiness - topiary. This craft will take its rightful place at the exhibition of autumn crafts in kindergarten.
Another undoubted winner of the autumn crafts competition is the leaf topiary.
Watch the video on how to make a tree of happiness using paper and natural materials:
Crafts from needles, nuts, acorns, chestnuts and seeds
First, we make the body, head and legs of the hedgehog from plasticine. We begin to stick the needles into the back of the hedgehog, trying to place them as close to each other as possible.
From seeds, plasticine and nuts you can make a classic autumn craft for kindergarten - a hedgehog.
The base for a hedgehog made from cones can be made from a plastic bottle:
The plumage for an owl made from seeds looks amazing. You can use a pumpkin or a foam ball as a base.
You can make a very impressive snake from the caps of acorns.
An acorn and a chestnut make a lovely squirrel. The squirrel's tail and paws are made of fluffy wire. We connect all the details of the craft using glue.
If you fasten the details of the craft with matches, you can make very impressive animal figurines.
The most skilled craftsmen will be able to make a proud and cheerful deer.
You can make a cute little hedgehog from walnuts and buckwheat.
A simple but very effective craft - mushrooms made from walnut shells. The legs and clearing can be sculpted from plasticine.
Crafts in a box made from natural materials are popular for kindergarten. Such crafts turn out to be very bright and beautiful - the main thing is to collect more moss, acorns, cones, branches and leaves.
Crafts from pumpkin seeds
Pumpkin seeds can be easily colored with regular food coloring. Dyed and dried pumpkin seeds become a good material for crafts using the mosaic technique.
You can also lay out a bright and beautiful autumn tree.
You can make a very impressive three-dimensional picture from cereals. First, we make a sketch with a pencil.
Then we apply glue to a sheet of paper and sprinkle with different cereals. We complement the image with sprigs of greenery, flowers and bark.
Autumn painting made from natural materials “Owl”
From natural materials you can make a luxurious painting “Owl on the branches”. To begin, take a rectangular cardboard base and paste it around the edges with branches, forming a frame. Now we lay out a tree of branches inside (you can take one branch of a suitable shape or put together a tree from several). For gluing we need good glue or a glue gun with hot glue.
Draw the outline of an owl on the branch. Apply glue inside the outline and sprinkle the outline well with buckwheat.
Glue on the owl's eyes, beak and wings. We decorate the tree with leaves, and the lower part of the picture with moss. A few cute decorations (flowers, insects) will add liveliness to our autumn craft.
Autumn painting “Owl” made from natural materials
We will make this funny desert dweller using glue from round or crushed peas, black or green lentils, colored paper and a disposable cup. We cover the cup with legume grains so that it gets a pattern, like on a tortoise shell. First, lay out the design on the bottom of the inverted cup.
Then we glue the sides.
From thick colored paper or cardboard we cut out the head, legs and tail of the turtle. We make eyes and a nose. We combine the parts into one whole, and our craft is ready!
Crafts from vegetables and fruits
Vegetables and fruits are also wonderful materials for creativity. Look what an amazing zoo you can make from vegetables and fruits.
Eggplant and carrots make a smart penguin with glasses.
Zucchini, eggplant, carrots and cabbage make a real frigate of the sea.
Zucchini ship - option No. 1
This zucchini boat has durable and beautiful sails made of paper leaves.
Ship made from zucchini - option No. 2
From zucchini, cabbage and carrots we can make a very impressive bunny!
You can make chanterelles and cats from onions and carrots.
A simple and cute duck is made from a cucumber. The legs and eye can be made from carrots or tomatoes. All parts are attached using skewers.
From corn, flowers and berries you can make a very beautiful craft dedicated to the holiday of autumn and the harvest.
You can make a hedgehog from potatoes and berries using toothpicks.
Pink potatoes and carrots make an adorable pig. The ears, snout and legs are attached with toothpicks.
From these pigs you can assemble a very interesting and educational toy “farm with pigs”.
An original idea that many people love is a beet elephant. For this craft we will need 3 beets, one of which will have a long root. We turn one beetroot into an elephant's head. Its long root becomes a trunk. The second beet will be the body of our African friend. But from the third we will cut out the ears and legs. Connect all the parts with toothpicks.
Let's sculpt eyes and a mouth from plasticine. To make the elephant comfortable, we’ll make a small tray out of a box and fill it with paper grass. You can add dried flowers or physalis nuts to the grass, depending on what is available. Ready!
A very impressive cockerel is made from apples. We fasten the details of the craft with toothpicks.
Look at the video to see what crafts you can make from an apple with your own hands:
We cannot ignore a craft that has already become a classic - “Stamps from Potatoes and Carrots”
How to make such stamps, watch the video:
Crafts from stones for the garden
Stones are another wonderful material for creativity in kindergarten. Particularly impressive crafts are made from smooth pebbles. By coloring smooth pebbles you can get our favorite characters, for example, a hedgehog.
If you use glue and connect several stones, you can make funny little frogs.
There is nothing more adorable than round pebble chickens.
Bright fly agaric mushrooms will certainly come in handy for the autumn exhibition.
Crafts from shells for the kindergarten
Shells are a fairly rare but very favorite creative material for children. See how to make adorable bunnies out of seashells.
You can use shells to make a cockerel on a stand.
You can use shells to lay out the seabed on a board.
Panel on a board made of shells “sea bottom”
Crafts from branches and sticks
You can make a very impressive vase from sticks. At the base of the vase is a plastic bottle. Cut off the top part and paint it.
We break off sticks of medium thickness. Using double-sided tape, glue the sticks to the bottle.
We tie the vase at the top and bottom with ribbon for strength and beauty. An autumn bouquet of leaves, dry branches and pine cones looks best in a vase of branches.
You can put a bouquet of autumn flowers in a wide and low vase made of branches.
Very interesting crafts are made from branches cut down.
You can make beautiful deer from branches. Holes in large branches are made with a drill. Then small branches (legs, neck, horns) are inserted there and fixed with glue.
You can decorate a cardboard house with dry cut sticks.
See what other wonderful crafts you can make from natural materials:
By using your imagination, you can create your own from the proposed options, picking up the idea and giving it a unique look.
Summer and autumn are the best times of the year when you can show your creativity. After all, in summer and autumn there is a lot of natural material from which you can make a lot of interesting crafts with your own hands.
To keep yourself and your children busy with something interesting, you can make original and beautiful crafts from natural materials. Fruits, vegetables, cones, pebbles, leaves, acorns and shells and much more that nature itself gives us are suitable for this.
Use your imagination, stock up on additional tools and feel free to create! Below are 12 wonderful DIY crafts made from natural materials.
1. DIY crafts from pine cones. Basket
1. For a basket of cones, you need to prepare the cones and fasten them together with rigid wire.
2. Connect the cones and tie them into a circle. In this example, 2 circles were made to make the basket deeper.
3. If you have made 2 or more circles, then fasten them together, this can be done with the same wire.
4. If you want to make a handle for a basket, you can try making a semicircle out of pine cones, connecting them with wire or using liquid nails.
5. To make the bottom of the basket, you can use thick cardboard or plywood.
2. DIY crafts. Autumn candles
Required material:
- leaves (real or artificial)
- PVA glue (decoupage glue)
- brush or sponge
- jar
- alcohol
1. To get rid of fats, you need to wipe the jar with alcohol.
2. Then apply glue to the jar.
3. Use straight leaves to decorate the jar.
4. Glue for decoupage, you can grease the glued leaves.
5. Add some thread and a candle for beauty.
3. Crafts for the home. New Year's toys made from natural materials
4. Children's crafts made from natural materials. Seahorse made from branches
Everything is quite simple here.
Prepare some cardboard and draw a seahorse (or other animal or object) on it.
Saw off or carefully break the twigs and use PVA glue or superglue to attach them to the cardboard.
5. Crafts from vegetables and fruits. Apple swan
You can make a very beautiful table decoration from an ordinary apple, and it’s not at all difficult. Children will especially like this surprise.
You will need:
- apple (preferably large and of the same color - for example, red - so that the contrast is better visible)
- small, very sharp knife
6. Cup of coffee beans on burlap
This DIY coffee craft will make your kitchen look beautiful. And to create such a mini-masterpiece you need to prepare:
- sheet of cardboard (size 33 cm by 24 cm);
- a piece of burlap;
- glue;
- star anise and coffee beans.
1. First, you should cut out a rectangle from burlap, which will be a couple of centimeters larger than a cardboard sheet. The burlap is folded and glued to the back of the cardboard. To make the craft look neat, the burlap is ironed with an iron before work.
2. When you have glued the base for the burlap, you should wait for it to dry.
3. Now it’s time to draw a picture frame out of coffee. In order to get a frame, you need to measure 2 cm from the edge of the picture on all sides. First, we use a simple pencil and draw lines with it.
4. If you have drawn lines, then draw a cup and saucer in the center of the burlap. Moreover, the cup size can be at your discretion.
5. If the sketch is ready, now we gradually cover the picture with coffee beans. The first thing you should do is cover the cup and saucer.
6. When the cup is pasted over, proceed to pasting the frame.
7. If the craft is ready, then decorate it with star anise. Hang it in the corner of your craft.
7. DIY fruit crafts. Hedgehogs
Ingredients:
- pear
- grape
- (black and green)
- strawberries (optional)
- raisins (for eyes)
- toothpicks
1. Make a cut starting from the middle of the pear (see picture).
2. Peel the peel.
3. Prepare toothpicks and place one green grape on each, which should be located closer to one edge of the toothpick.
4. Insert each toothpick with a grape into a pear in an uncleaned area.
5. To make a nose, put a black grape on a pear pod.
6. To insert the raisins (which act as eyes), you must first make small indentations with a knife.
7. If you wish, you can add a load to the hedgehog that he is carrying; for this you can use a couple of strawberries.
8. Crafts made from natural materials. Seashell photo frame
You will need:
- simple wooden photo frame
- white acrylic paint
- tassel
- Moment glue (superglue or glue gun)
- shells
1. Paint the photo frame in any color (if necessary) and leave to dry, then apply another coat of paint.
2. Before you start gluing the shells, arrange them around the frame so you have an idea of what looks best where.
3. Start gluing the shells to the frame. When finished gluing, leave to dry.
4. Add your favorite photo.
9. Crafts made from natural materials in autumn: monsters made from pine cones (photo instructions)
10. Crafts for kindergarten. Insects from natural materials
11. Crafts made from stones. Strawberry
12. Easy crafts from leaves
Required material:
- leaves (flowers and/or other natural materials)
- paper or canvas
- paints (acrylic or spray)
Autumn time is rich in wonderful gifts of nature. Some of them delight us with culinary delights, because delicious dishes can be prepared from a variety of vegetables and fruits, while others, in the form of multi-colored foliage, delight the eye with their bright colors. Usually all this beauty almost instantly falls like a motley blanket to the ground, which is why it very quickly loses its attractiveness. Unfortunately, few people know what can be done to thereby prolong his life. But crafts made from leaves, cones and chestnuts are not only funny figures and applications (although how can you imagine childhood without these cute little things?), but also original and truly beautiful home decor.
+100,500 options and ideas
So, what can be made from natural materials? It all depends on what the craft is needed for. In today’s article we will look at more than one option for beautiful products that you can create yourself, using only available means. Many of them are children's crafts, for example, various animals made from natural materials, toys, and even cartoon and computer game characters. But it can also be unusual trees, topiary, unique panels and compositions that will delight and remind you of the wonderful autumn season in cold winter.
It is impossible to describe all the masterpieces that talented craftsmen create from natural materials. An autumn bouquet or a photo frame, an original vase or a decorative figurine, a Christmas tree toy or a painting - the imagination of talented craftsmen is simply limitless. Moreover, their creativity does not stop at soulless interior items, extending much further. For example, to design a children's photo shoot using ordinary grass, leaves, grains and maple seeds. Have you ever imagined that such beauty can be made from natural materials? Of course, the end result will appeal not only to adults, but also to children themselves, who can be involved in all stages of creating a photo collage, from collecting plants to decorating their own photographs.
Transformation of flora into fauna
First, let's tell you how various animals are made from natural materials. First of all, let's differentiate between the types of crafts. These can be applications that are created using leaves and small elements. Such material is usually glued to a base - a cardboard sheet, fabric or wooden plank using a glue stick or PVA. This composition turns out flat and looks like a picture.
With the help of leaves and blades of grass, you can create a wide variety of representatives of the animal world; the main thing is to choose the right material in color, size and texture. The craft will “come to life” if you add a design to it, giving the animals a muzzle, a tail, or even prey. Miniature parts can also be created from natural material by trimming the leaves in some places to remove excess. It is better to glue the elements onto a schematic representation of the animal, this will make it easier to maintain symmetry and select individual parts of the figure.
However, there is another type of crafts in the form of animals. This can be a three-dimensional composition made of natural material. Most often, nuts, acorns, cones and chestnuts are used. The body and head are made from them, and matches, twigs, floral wire or plasticine are used as legs, paws, and neck. Making such crafts from natural materials is quick and beautiful; you can even use ready-made animal figurines, as long as they fit organically into the overall concept.
Wayward Tangle
The most popular hero and prototype of children's figurines at kindergarten exhibitions is none other than the hedgehog. It is not for nothing that this prickly inhabitant of the forest is considered a symbol of autumn, because the paraphernalia of this season suits him very well: nuts, mushrooms, apples and berries. A hedgehog made from natural material can be made from leaves, for example, like this in the photo below.
Its creation will not be particularly difficult. The main thing is to choose a lot of leaves of the same size and shape. Elongated leaves with sharp tips are best suited, from which the needles for the prickly lump will be obtained. You can decorate the hedgehog with an apple and a mushroom of a different color; the muzzle, tummy and paws should also be slightly different from the animal’s fur coat. The finishing touches are the bean nose, mouth and eyes.
Below is another hedgehog made from natural material, made from plasticine and pumpkin seeds. This is a voluminous craft, miniature, but extremely cute. By placing the hedgehog on an improvised stump and complementing it with a green spruce branch and a bunch of red berries (rowan, hawthorn, rose hip), you will complete the work and you will have a wonderful composition from natural material.
Winged miracle
Another favorite of children and adults is the round-eyed owl. This bird can be made in a variety of ways: from a piece of bark, feathers, thread, leaves. We will demonstrate to our readers a wonderful and very easy-to-make craft. Such an owl made from natural material consists of a pine cone, several acorn caps, “helicopters” taken from ash or maple, a hop cone and a couple of pieces of bark. In order to assemble the craft, you need to stock up on good glue - it could be “Moment”, “Second” or silicone for a hot gun.
Such an owl is made from natural material very quickly:
- you need to prepare the parts by selecting a lush cone, detaching the caps from the acorns and picking up small pieces of bark;
- the material must be cleaned of dirt and dried well so that the glue securely connects the parts of the owl;
- bark should be glued to the sides of the bump-body - these will be the wings;
- in the upper part, using acorn caps, we form the eyes, and above them we attach maple seeds - these are the eyebrows;
- The final touch is a small bump that will become the beak.
In this simple way we get a wonderful bird from natural material, which will not be difficult to get in any city park.
Autumn landscape
When talking about crafts, it is impossible to ignore such a type of creativity as appliqué. A little higher we already talked about how you can use leaves to lay out figures of animals and birds, but what else can be made from natural material? An excellent craft would be a fantasy landscape in which one leaf turns into a whole tree, and their combination into a real dense forest. To compose such a composition, it is very important to choose the ideal material, because it will need to be glued onto the paper entirely, and when laid out, all the flaws will be visible on the sheet. With the help of such an application, you can clearly demonstrate all the riot of colors of fading nature and organically place leaves taken from different trees.
Autumn vegetation also receives an unusual embodiment in the form of representatives of the underwater world. Miniature oblong and oval leaves make very realistic schools of nimble fish, larger material can easily be turned into pot-bellied crucian carp, and various blades of grass and thin twigs will make up the flora growing on the bottom of the sea. By placing the composition inside a cardboard box, you will get a wonderful “aquarium”.
Simple but tasteful
There are crafts on our list that will not be so easy to make, because it will take a little more time than creating the usual products from leaves and fruits, but they are more durable, practical and useful. First of all, this applies to wall panels. The basis of the compositions we propose is a board, but it can be replaced with cardboard covered with fabric. It could be burlap, linen canvas. The purpose of the work is to create a certain plot, it could be a village house, a forest landscape, a river, an apiary, a shed with firewood or a small cart. Based on the proposed photo, you can make excellent crafts from natural materials for the kindergarten, which will be useful not only as an exhibition item, but will also become an excellent decoration for the group.
To create the elements of the composition you will need to prepare various items:
- straight sticks;
- small branches resembling trees;
- pieces of bark for walls, roofs, mountains;
- small and neat leaves;
- dried flowers;
- nut shells;
- “log” from sticks.
You can add color variety using pre-made pumpkin and apple figures. With the help of paints, you will need to finalize the picture, completing patterns on buildings and other man-made elements (you can use a burner for the same purpose), the landscape, the sky. All parts are attached to the base with glue.
Assembling panels should begin, as in the case of appliqué, by creating a schematic image. This will help determine the placement of elements, their sizes and visual harmonization of the entire composition. It would be better to open the top of the craft with varnish - this will make it more resistant to external influences.
Wish tree
Next in our review will be a tree made from natural material. This topic is relevant in several seasons, as it can be an autumn or winter craft. The additional materials used in each case are different, although the base is often the same - a beautiful branch. Only in the case of autumn crafts does it remain untreated, but from natural materials it can be covered with a layer of white or silver acrylic paint.
Any materials you like can be used as decoration for the tree - these are leaves and garlands made from them, berries, nuts, fruits, miniature crafts, including those made from paper. Cones should be specially noted in this list - they are the basis for many interesting ideas.
From those that grow on Christmas trees, you can easily create wonderful elves - real forest spirits. Curly oak leaves will become their wings, a bunch of dyed wool for felting or floral sisal will turn into luxurious hair, and wonderful caps can be made from felt or acorns. It would be a bit of a pity to take such crafts made from natural materials to kindergarten - they turn out so funny.
Topiary made from natural material
Recently, topiary deservedly holds the palm among autumn crafts. From natural material you can make many options for small trees with a round crown. Traditionally, it is a ball decorated with flowers, shells, nuts, coffee beans or any other small objects that can be compactly and neatly attached to the base. The crown is installed on a trunk planted in a small flower pot.
Autumn flowers are a separate topic for conversation. Nature, preparing for a long winter, pleases with a stunning abundance of chrysanthemums, oak trees, asters and dahlias. Their lush colorful corollas go well with a variety of natural materials. The classic composition can be generously flavored with luxurious maple leaves, a crimson branch of wild grapes or a twig of yellow-salad willow. An excellent and especially relevant addition would be bushy plants with late elastic berries (rose hips, hawthorn, rowan).
A bouquet of autumn leaves and flowers can be small, crowning one small vase, but a multi-tiered composition will look no less appropriate. When composing it, it is important to maintain proportions, making each new “floor” a little smaller than the previous one.
Seasonal decor
Finally, we will share with readers ideas for original autumn crafts with which you can decorate your home, make it a little more comfortable and warmer. The colorful foliage on the trees will not please you for long; with the first frost it will fall off, but it is very easy to make the view from the window not so dull and gray. To do this, you just need to string small, but certainly beautiful leaves onto long threads or fishing line in the form of garlands that decorate window openings.
Golden autumn can also be “brought” home in the form of elegant candlesticks or vases. To do this, a jar of an interesting shape or an ordinary transparent glass needs to be covered in a circle with colored leaves. Freshly collected material will not lie beautifully on the vessel; first, it will need to be dried a little so that the elasticity disappears from the sheet and it becomes more pliable. You need to work with regular PVA; it will perfectly fix the decor on the glass, and after drying it will become transparent. In addition, this type of glue will not be afraid of the heat of a burning candle inside the cup.
Hello everyone!
Welcome to the pages of the ShkolaLa blog! It's autumn. What kind of “School” would it be in the fall and without autumn crafts? That's right, none) Children bring all sorts of different crafts made from natural materials to school every year, around September - October. That is, right now! Therefore, right now an article dedicated to these crafts is being published on the blog.
Most of the works that you will see below were found by me on the Internet. I want to say a big hello to their authors and say thank you for their magnificent creativity and wonderful ideas, which, I hope, will inspire many young schoolchildren and their parents to do their own crafts.
Lesson plan:
From chestnuts
A huge chestnut tree grows right in front of our entrance. And when you leave the house in the morning, no, no, and you’ll get a chestnut on the head. It doesn’t hurt at all, it just happens unexpectedly) So we don’t have to go far for chestnuts, they literally fall from the sky.
Last year, we made these “Checkers-Bugs” from chestnuts with our own hands, which we then presented to the kindergarten as a souvenir.
A master class on how to make this game is hidden.
You can also make these amazing snails from chestnuts. A very easy craft that does not require much time.
A charming and not at all scary spider. True, making a hole in a chestnut can be problematic. Here the child will probably need the help of an adult.
If you add plasticine and a little imagination, you can make the whole of Africa!
Or a poultry yard.
And this caterpillar is just a sight for sore eyes!
I am sure that she could decorate more than one exhibition and win some autumn competition.
From the cones
And for pine cones, my children and I go to Victory Park with a basket. But there you can only pick up pine cones.
The playing field is made of branches, and the chips themselves are made of pebbles, but they can also be made from chestnuts, and even from halves of walnut shells.
From leaves, flowers, berries
Well, there are a lot of beautiful bright leaves in autumn. Collect - I don't want to. However, like berries, rowan, for example.
I remember when Sasha was in first grade, this was in another life (before the blog), she and I made roses from autumn leaves for school. It didn’t work out for us, we tried many times. As a result, we managed. It turned out something like this.
You can make various applications from leaves and flowers.
Use them together with other natural materials.
Or you can try to create a real work of art.
Rowan berries are perfect for making jewelry, beads, for example.
From something strange
And while walking through autumn parks and streets, you can find something strange and, at first glance, completely unsuitable for crafts. For example, here is a piece of birch. What should I call it? Did you sleep, or what?
We found him and took him with us. They brought it home. Washed and dried. And they decided to turn it... into a watermelon! The shape is very suitable. Look what we got.
We needed:
- birch;
- acrylic paints (white, green, black, red);
- tassels;
- acrylic lacquer;
- PVA glue;
- plasticine.
First, we primed our entire future watermelon with PVA glue.
Then they painted the “crust” dark green.
And they drew a dark stripe down the middle.
The “watermelon pulp” was first covered with white paint.
And then, retreating a little from the crust so that a white rim remained, everything was painted in a rich red color.
To make the transition from white to red smoother, a pink stripe was added between them. When our watermelon dried, we coated it with varnish. After that it became even juicier.
The only thing missing is the bones! We molded them from black plasticine and glued them into place.
Now this birch watermelon stands in a very prominent place in our room and delights us and our guests, who are eager to touch this piece of summer.
That's how many different crafts you can come up with and make for elementary school with your own golden hands. Nothing complicated, but how exciting!
And right now the singing kids will share with you their wonderful golden autumn mood)
What have you already managed to build from natural materials this fall? Will you tell me? We are waiting for comments)
Happy creativity!
Yours, Evgenia Klimkovich.
Good afternoon. Today I can finally summarize a large collection of ideas for crafts made from natural materials. We already have a large-format article with crafts made from autumn leaves for children and adults. There is a detailed article on autumn topics. In this article I will publish the most interesting and non-standard techniques and techniques. I decided to do wide overview page, which will prove and show that natural material for creativity is not only acorns and chestnuts. You will see with your own eyes and fall in love with all your soul with new fresh ideas for working with natural materials. Crafts made with your own hands, from branches, from leaves, from dried flowers, from everything that is under your feet. Nature is rich in material, and man is rich in beautiful ideas. So, let's see what crafts you can make from natural materials this season.
Package of ideas No. 1
SCALES from cones.
Cones are made up of scales. If you collect open pine cones, it is convenient to pull them out with pincers, pliers, or bite the SCALES with wire cutters. And then use this cone-like natural material as a mosaic covering for a variety of autumn crafts.
Note. So that the cones open well, their scales spread out, they can be heated in the oven.
Here we see mushrooms. Their legs are carved from thick wooden blocks. The hats are made of plasticine and the top of the hats is covered with scales. You get some cute DIY mushrooms. Suitable work for school activities.
But FIR cones have scales flatter and smoother. They look like smoothed feathers of birds. That’s why the idea for a craft comes to mind on a bird theme. We sculpt the body of the bird from plasticine, coat it with PVA glue, put a layer of torn paper napkins on the glue, again with glue, again with napkins - it turns out papier mache shell. We dry this shell until it is completely lignified. And on this hard, dry surface, with hot glue (layer by layer, row by row), we lay a spruce “tile” of feather-scales.
And also The scales of a fir cone are similar to the scaly armor of ancient lizards. So here's another idea for you. After all, this is a great challenge to your artistic potential. It’s not just a bird here—it’s a whole animal that looks as if it were alive. An excellent craft for boys made from natural materials.
Here we act exactly the same as with the bird.– we sculpt the base from plasticine, pack it in several layers of papier-mâché (alternating PVA glue and paper napkins). And then, after this mass has dried into a hard crust, you can paste over the dinosaur figure with spruce scales.
After plucking the cone, the cone BOTTOM remains. It looks like a flower with petals. From such cone flowers you can make a new autumn craft with your own hands - for example, a WREATH. We glue the base for the foam wreath with a chopped pine cone - just use hot glue from a gun.
You can cover such flower cones with bright gouache. To make the color of the gouache richer and shine, I recommend spraying this product with a simple hairspray after drying with gouache. The color will stick and won't stain your hands.
You can make beautiful flowers yourself by selecting the most accurate and even scales of different sizes, and laying them radially from the center. The middle of the flower can be decorated with beads or rhinestones. From such natural material, you can even make brooches in autumn style with your own hands - and wear them with a coat, or pin them on a shawl.
Flowers from cones can not only be collected into craft-wreaths, but also simply laid out on a panel. Place it on a piece of plywood with glue. This will make an excellent craft from natural material for a competition for school or kindergarten.
From whole cones You can also make some great crafts. We add not only natural material to the cones, but also other materials (colored felt, cardboard, rope, plastic, etc.).
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WALNUTS.
In childhood, we all made boats or caps on plasticine mushrooms from nut shells. But you can go further with your walnut creations. Children will be happy to create mice or birds, and adults with skillful hands and a warm heart can create a whole world from a nut shell... Now you will see it.
In this article I want to introduce you to a very good person. Her name is Marina. A master with an attentive soul.
This is what the account page of this master looks like on the Fair of Masters website.
I really like the works of master Marina from the Fair of Masters website. With her own hands she created amazing, in its sincerity and warmth, the world of kind old women. The walnuts in the place where the flaps join are surprisingly similar to a wrinkled, smiling old woman. All that remains is to add eyes, a nose-bone and wrap everything up with a cotton scarf. And now the cunning old lady looks at you cheerfully.
We make a body from a pine cone, weave the arms from coarse paper packaging twine. We make warm felt boots from felt. Each old woman can be made with her own character. I'll run wild with a wide smile. Or silent, thoughtful, on her own mind.
Old ladies can be both summer and winter.
You can create entire worlds from natural materials in which good old ladies live and work. They themselves will keep their world clean.
And after work, they will gather over a cup of herbal tea to tell stories, make fun of each other and sing songs of their youth.
Master Marina sells her crafts. You can order her works on the master’s personal page - https://www.livemaster.ru/woods. Marina can make you a custom craft for your family and friends.
After all, how nice it is to receive as a gift the World of kind old women, which will always smell like a village CHILDHOOD for you - grandma’s pancakes, a woodpile of firewood by the barn, chickens running around the yard, the heated wood of an old bench near the fence.
Master Marina, I want to give you an idea. In one I talked about another Czech Master who created the world of ACORN PEOPLE - Dubanchikov and wrote a book with stories about them, which he illustrated with emotional scenes made from natural material. The book is published in the Czech Republic, and only in Czech. I think that many children will love our Russian book with good stories about Russian village grandmothers, illustrated by Marina’s works.
After all, it’s a real miracle to create a new world with your own hands from natural material - kind, fairy-tale, REAL. More and more houses, cozy benches, swings, carts, and carts will appear in it.
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FAIRY HOUSES.
If you love fairy tales with fairies and magicians, then you will love the world of fairies made from natural materials. You can create cozy houses for fairies with your own hands, set up entire housing complexes for them, with ponds, parks, gardens, swings.
You can bring a man-made miracle to a school competition for crafts made from natural materials. The house where the gnome lives. Parts can be attached to plasticine, staples (from a staple gun), or glue from a hot gun.
Pieces of moss, acorn caps, scales pulled out of a cone with pliers, lichens and dry hard hanging mushrooms taken from trees in the forest. And even pieces of plants torn from indoor flower pots - any natural material will be used to build such a complex but interesting craft. The house will grow and be ennobled with natural design before your eyes.
You can take as a basis thick wooden driftwood, found in the forest. Cut off a convenient piece from it. Buy at a hardware store tinting stain for wood– and paint the wood a noble dark color. Cut from thick cardboard windows, cover them with the same stain. From popsicle sticks put together a real door, decorate a porch. Sculpt a conical roof from plasticine. Break a large pine cone with pincers or pliers on scales and lay tiles from them on the roof of a natural house.
Some elements can be sculpted made from salt dough(a glass of fine salt, a glass of flour + water (add water one spoon at a time and rub with the salted flour with your hands until a single lump similar to plasticine is formed). Roll out the dough - cut into bricks with a knife. Dry - and you will get a lot of building material for the porch , paths, fences, etc. The dough can also be painted with gouache or stain.
But the house is VERY SIMPLE. Now I’ll tell you how to make it with your own hands from the things that surround us.
- Take a durable cardboard milk or juice bag. Cutting windows in it will be the future façade of the house.
- Buy a small bag of gypsum plaster (or putty), dilute it with water and coat the façade of the house with this mixture.
- Dry and cover with whitewash or white gouache (toothpaste at best).
Make the roof out of cardboard, also apply glue to it and lay tiles from pieces of bark or pine cones. or wood chips.
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Applications
And of course, the most common crafts made from natural materials are applications using dry herbarium - herbs, leaves, flowers. We all made chicks or fish in an aquarium from leaves. In a special article, I give many options.
And in this article I want to show a beautiful mosaic technique of laying out dry natural material in the form of a SILHOUETTE PICTURE.
You can find a lot of ready-made silhouette templates on the Internet. If you type the phrase “silhouette of a hare picture” or another animal in the search bar.
The most important thing in such a craft is to achieve recognition - clarity of the silhouette. Therefore, you need to choose a silhouette without small details - protrusions. And if you choose one with detailed protrusions, try to ensure that the small relief detail is made with ONE WHOLE petal (like the bunny’s ears or the protrusions of its paws in the photo above).
If, when laying out the mosaic, the edge of the plant protrudes beyond the border of the silhouette, it needs to be trimmed carefully with scissors (as was done in the photo above with the cat - triangles of its ears are cut out).
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Crafts from branches.
You can make beautiful crafts with your own hands from branches of different shapes and curves. Branches are possible just spread out on a white paper background repeating the outlines of a bird or animal. You can do it on paper in advance. draw a silhouette of a bird faint pencil lines. And then select branches that would lie on this drawn silhouette of a bird, repeating the curves of the drawing.
You can make crafts from natural materials secure with glue from a hot glue gun. Or make a photo craft. That is, lay out the twigs and photograph the craft, thereby immortalizing your product made from natural material in the form of a photograph.
You can fix the craft at key nodes of the branch plexus and then attach it to the base (vertical wall or horizontal shelf-stand) at these nodes, as was done in the photo below.
In addition to branches, you can use natural wood chips, pieces of bark, chips and saw cuts from logs, logs, and thick branches in your crafts. This is how the owl crafts from the photo below were implemented. Simple and interesting, made with your own hands - you can safely take it to an exhibition of autumn crafts at school or kindergarten.
The same idea can be realized from different angles and with different materials. For example, in the photo of a horse craft made from natural materials, branches, bark, and driftwood are used.
You can lay out entire mosaics, completely filling the silhouette image with natural material. The direction of the branches should repeat the direction of the details of the drawing. Place the branches in the same directions as the fur pile of the animal, or use the branches to repeat the muscle relief of the animal.
Perhaps this type of crafts made from natural materials will captivate you so much that will turn into a solid hobby with prospects for monetization into a profitable business. Why not make beautiful wooden sculptures for sale for your dacha or estate.
And if you want to use branches to create crafts from natural materials in class at school, then here are simple ideas on how this can be implemented in labor lessons for boys. Everyone is taught cut out with jigsaws plywood figures. In addition to animal figurines, you can put together frames from slats and create beautiful landscape pictures of an autumn forest with mossy branches covered with lichen.
Similar ideas can be implemented in girls' labor lessons - without plywood and a jigsaw - by making a frame from cardboard rolled into a square tube (fold 4 pieces into a frame frame, insert branches into the holes), and cut out animal silhouettes from thick corrugated packaging cardboard from old boxes and paint in gouache, if desired.
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Maple and ash seeds.
Dry lobed tree seeds can be very interestingly used in a variety of DIY crafts.
You can make a mosaic craft from this natural material in the shape of a bird (because maple seeds look like feathers). You can lay out a pattern in the form of a butterfly on the glass, and thanks to the transparency of the background, it will seem that it is hovering in the air, as is done in the photo below. Maple seeds take well with watercolors, so your butterfly craft can be all the colors of the rainbow.
At school or kindergarten, you can make very simple children’s crafts from the same natural material with a base on thick cardboard. Maple seeds can be the hairstyle on a drawn human head, they can become the bushy tail of a squirrel, the feathers on the wings of an owl, or the needles on a cardboard hedgehog (as in the photo below).
And maple seeds look like dragonfly wings. Therefore, you can make simple children's crafts in the form of Coleopteran insects. For example, string beads onto a wire (this will be the body) and glue the seeds to the body using glue or plasticine. The wings can be painted with nail polish and sprinkled with glitter. The bulging eyes of a dragonfly can be cast from frozen drops of the same nail polish. The result is a beautiful, quick and simple craft made from natural materials for children.
And this same maple natural material can become the basis for funny GRAPHIC CRAFTS-DRAWINGS with a regular black marker. We paint on the missing details to the snub noses and turn the seeds laid out on a sheet of paper into interesting graphics. These are already crafts for training your imagination - a great idea for a circle on the topic “Learning to think creatively.”
I talked more about this GRAPHIC technique of using natural material in the article
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Crafts made from natural materials
STONES.
A simple rubble stone left over from dacha construction, or smooth river and sea stones can become the material for your own natural crafts. The stone itself can tell by its shape who it resembles. And all you have to do is take markers or gouache to bring this image to life.
If you feel like an artist in yourself, you can make complex multi-line drawings – as was done in the case of the owl craft made from stone. Or smooth, thick pebbles can look like clumsy, plump panda bears - and such a craft made from natural material will be feasible for children. First, we cover all the stones with white, dry them, and then with a black marker we draw the black details of the teddy bear on it.
Ordinary felt-tip pens draw very well on stones. After completing the general painting work, details of the drawing need to be given contours(clear boundaries) black felt-tip pen.
You can draw the silhouette of a snail or sheep on the stone yourself. And give the children the task of simply coloring the finished silhouettes, adding them with a pattern of stripes and dots or curls.
You can make a nest from dry grass and wire or other natural material. And put chicks made from stones with your own hands into this craft. Older children can color a complex picture with a chick and an open beak. For younger children, a simpler task in the form of chickens in shells will suit them.
On a piece of plywood or a round cut from a log, you can lay out a whole picture of painted stones and other natural materials. This craft is suitable for an autumn competition for school or kindergarten.
Older girls will enjoy exquisite pictures from the life of a fashionable girl - felt-tip pens, paints, stones and rhinestones.
You can use the mosaic technique to lay out a variety of characters from stones. Attach the stones with glue from a hot glue gun. The stones in the mosaic can be painted with gouache, or have their own natural color.
These can be landscape paintings made from natural materials (sea pebbles, pieces of glass ground with water, shells, etc.).
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PORTRAITS.
A very interesting topic for crafts made from natural materials these are portraits. The face in the picture always attracts the eye. You want to look at such a craft for a long time, it has a soul, human eyes that you want to look into and read their thoughts. A portrait is a craft that looks back at you.
You can plant all the details of the portrait from natural material on glue. Or simply fold the portrait like a mosaic on a sheet of cardboard, take a photograph and brush all the details of the masterpiece off the table with your hand. And on the wall in your room there will be a photograph of a disappeared but ever-living portrait.
As an ornamental natural material, you can use stones, dry leaves, cones, seeds, and bark. For drawing thin lines, branches of different trees, straws, blades of grass.
If you work with children, then you can give them an easier task. Print the finished face on a printer. And from natural material into this craft make additions
Good luck with your work.
Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site
