Good afternoon. Today I can finally sum up the large collection of craft ideas from natural material. We already have a wide-format article with crafts 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 technology. 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.

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SCALES from cones.

Cones are made up of scales. If you collect the revealed Pine cones, then it is convenient to pull them out with pincers, pliers, or bite the SCALES with nippers. 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 scales fir cone 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 center 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. It 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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Crafts made from natural materials

WALNUTS.

In childhood, we all made boats or caps on plasticine mushrooms from nut shells. But you can go further in your creativity from walnuts. 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 a good man. 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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Crafts made from natural materials

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 for the construction of such a complex but interesting crafts. 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 cover the tree with 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.

1. Take a durable cardboard milk or juice bag. Cutting windows in it will be the future façade of the house.
2. Buy a small bag of gypsum plaster (or putty), dilute it with water and coat the façade of the house with this mixture.
3. 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 parts– 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.

From the branches different forms and curves, you can lay out beautiful crafts with your own hands. 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 implemented from different angles and 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. Arrange 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 you go simple ideas 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 twisted square tube cardboard (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 them in gouache, if desired.

Natural crafts package No. 6

Maple and ash seeds.

Dry lobed tree seeds can be played very interestingly in the most various crafts with your own hands.

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 a hairstyle on a person's drawn head, can become bushy tail squirrels, feathers on the wings of an owl or 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. It will turn out beautiful, fast and simple craft made from natural material 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 - 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 natural crafts with your own hands. 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 life fashionable girl– felt-tip pen, paints, stones and rhinestones.

You can use the mosaic technique to lay out the most different characters. 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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Crafts made from natural materials

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

Every year nature gives us a lot of natural materials suitable for creativity, completely free of charge. The process of creating with your own hands develops the child’s artistic taste, thinking, memory, and fosters perseverance. But the most important thing is that you can have fun and usefully spend time with friends, delighting yourself and others with crafts.

Preparation of natural materials for their further use

Nature is the best artist, she creates such natural materials that in capable hands turn into works of art!

Plant materials

Chestnuts

Chestnut fruits have a bright brown color and a shiny surface, so they make excellent DIY crafts from natural materials. The shell of a fresh chestnut is thin and can be easily pierced with an awl. Chestnuts are a fertile material for working with young children themselves. You can make many different dolls.

It is better to store in a cool place in boxes.

Acorns

Oak fruits ripen in autumn, in September-October. collect various shapes and magnitude.

At the same time, their cups (pluses) on which they rest are collected. Pluski are very often used separately from acorns, as an independent natural material for various crafts.

Acorn pluses and balls felted from wool

Watch the video to see how to felt even balls of wool. Olga Skibina:

Acorn tops and Christmas bells

You can store them for a very long time, after thoroughly washing and drying them. But why just store stones when the whole family can have fun playing with them?)

For another way to apply images to river or sea stones, see the video from You Can Do It Craft. You'll be surprised how easy it is!

Shells

You can collect shells on the banks of rivers, seas, and lakes while relaxing with your children. Many of them are original appearance, in shape - oval, scallop-shaped, elongated, etc.

Boil them for a few minutes to free them from living organisms. The shells are washed with a small brush (or a toothbrush), after which they are dried and sorted by type and size. Stored at any temperature.

You can also clean shells in a solution of bleach and water at a ratio of 1:1. The top layer will disappear after a while, leaving the shell with a beautiful shiny top.

Animal figures are made from large shells.

Small shells make wonderful applications and garlands:

Shells can be used not only as the main material, but also as additional decoration (bird wings, dog ears, flower petals, etc.)

Sand

Very accessible material that can be collected in any sandbox. It varies in structure. Before use, it must be rinsed and dried thoroughly. And then you can use it as decoration in your works:

Rules for storing natural materials

DIY crafts made from natural materials will be flawless if, after collecting, drying, and pre-processing, you properly store these natural gifts. To do this, you must adhere to certain rules.

1. A dark, cool and well-ventilated room is the best place for storing natural materials.
2. You can buy plastic containers to store each type of material; use carton boxes from under shoes, tea, sweets; take ordinary glass jars with a screw cap. For seeds, as for beads, it is better to have a container with many compartments.
3. Dried flowers are fragile and break easily, so they are placed in a tight box or container. Petals are stored separately from flowers. Flowers with stems can be stored in a vase.
4. Prepared leaves are also brittle. You can store them in large books. Also, for safety, put them in labeled candy boxes, secure them with a little tape so that they don’t accidentally open.
5. The shells are placed in glass jars or plastic containers with a wide mouth to prevent them from crumbling.

Additional tools for crafts made from natural materials

To create beautiful craft made from natural materials, you will need additional tools and materials.

It can be:

• colored paper;
• cardboard;
• leather scraps;
• scraps of fabric;
• bird feathers;
• Styrofoam;
• plasticine;
• wire;
• PVA glue, “Moment”;
• gouache;
• stain;
• varnish, etc.

Paper very often used as a complement to natural materials. Children, bending and gluing it, make the work much more interesting.

Plasticine fasten individual parts of simple toys at the initial stage of work. It is not very durable, but as an addition it is often used in kindergarten and elementary school.

From wire most often the frame of a toy is made, the connection of its parts. Copper wire diameter 0.29-0.35 mm - soft, flexible and durable - most comfortable. And for the frame, wire of a larger diameter is used - 1-1.5 mm.

Threads It’s better to take thick, multi-colored ones (No. 10).

Glue it is better to use white PVA, BF, etc. However, in kindergarten it is better to use PVA glue.

They also use foil, pebbles, cherry pits, and bristles.

It is better to store additional material in a small box with compartments for each type of material.

The use of additional material depends on the plan, the skill of the children, and the degree of development of imagination! Offer your options, but rely more on children's intuition and desire.

It is also additionally necessary to have certain tools for making crafts from natural materials:

• art scissors;
• awl;
• jigsaw;
• tweezers;
• pliers and wire cutters;
• sewing needles;
• brushes for glue and paints;
• a cotton cloth for wiping off glue residue.

Scissors for children they should have blunt ends, small, with rings that are comfortable for a child’s hand.

Awl must be made of durable material with a handle length of about 6 cm, a diameter of about 2 cm, the piercing part is 3.5 cm

Needle I need a large sewing machine. Be sure to store it in a pincushion with a thread threaded into it.

Attention! Only adults use pliers, pliers, and drills!

To draw the outline of the part to be cut out, a simple pencil. For example, a dress, hats for a doll, etc. It is better to take a soft pencil (2M).

Tassels(soft for drawing, harder for glue). It is better to buy squirrel tassels (No. 4 and 6). For glue, use brushes with hard bristles.

Stack- a tool necessary for processing a surface made of clay or plasticine. The length of the stack for children is about 12 cm. You can make the stack yourself from a worn-out brush: round it on one side and sharpen it on the other.

Crafts made from natural materials for kindergarten

Kids love it when in their hands chestnuts and plasticine turn into toys that they can play with. Crafts made from natural materials for kindergarten Not very difficult, so any child can handle it with the help of an adult. Sometimes they are made from fruits and vegetables, but most often they are applications from leaves and animals from cones and acorns.

Crafts from leaves and maple “helicopters”

The easiest and most accessible job, even for kids, is leaf applique. If this is your first time making a composition with your child, offer him a picture that will serve as a template. Don't rush to do everything yourself. Invite your child to choose leaves as desired so that the work turns out similar to the sample. This will develop your child's creative abilities.

Material for application:

• colorful leaves;
• thick sheet A-4;
• glue brushes;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• sample.

To make a simple arrangement, you need even, dry leaves. Place them under a press or in a book. In two days the material is ready. Cut out the appropriate pieces with scissors and lay them out on a sheet of paper.

Now you can glue it. First the background and lower layers, and then the finer details. For example, if you want to make an elephant, then first make a body and head out of leaves, and then glue on the trunk, tail, and legs. If you don’t have enough eyes, you can add them in with a marker or make them from tree seeds.

You don't have to do everything according to a template. You can come up with a picture yourself and create an original composition from leaves.

Use as a supplement colored paper, felt-tip pens, paints, so your applications will be even more interesting.

Along with leaves, maple “helicopters” are also ideal as a basis for crafts made from natural materials for kindergarten. Just look at this miracle!

Fairy wings made from maple seeds

Dragonflies from maple "helicopters"

Now you have seen how beautiful and original leaf applications can be. Use these ideas for spending time with your children.

Simple master classes on creating children's crafts from acorns and cones

At the end of summer, acorns begin to ripen, and they make wonderful crafts from natural materials for kindergarten or school. They keep well and last a long time autumn evenings Together with your children you can do a pleasant and useful activity that develops fine motor skills baby's hands, imagination and perseverance.

The most common crafts made from acorns are little animals and various people. You can easily make legs, arms, horns and other small elements from toothpicks, matches, thin twigs. An adult needs to help the children poke holes in the acorns.

Can be used to fasten small parts glue gun, Super Moment glue, but only adults should do this. And the safest way for kids to fasten parts together is with plasticine.

Making fly agarics from acorns is even easier! To paint acorns, you need to remove the caps from them, and after the paint has dried, glue them in place.

Acorns are very beautiful on their own, and if you paint them too acrylic paints or nail polish, such crafts will decorate any home.

And also from painted ones silver paint hats can be made original decoration on Christmas tree. The process of creating such an eco-toy is quite simple: we stick it tightly onto a foam ball (you can take an old Christmas ball) acorn caps. And it sparkled new.

We found another video for you, where Niki Junior
In addition to “edible” crafts, kids can choose any of the ones presented in this huge Krestika article! We tried to choose the best and easiest to implement ideas :) Good luck and creative inspiration to everyone!

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Dear blog readers! We continue to create with our own hands and today we will do it together with our children! This article is included in the “” section, as it is interesting autumn crafts, described in it, were done just as homework in kindergarten.

Let's start with the simplest crafts made from natural materials. Then we’ll look at how to make a craft from BABA YAGA cones, as well as a TREE craft from natural material.

This simple craft from natural material can be made with a child from 1.5 years old at any time of the year. Cones can be collected even in winter or “prepared” for future use in the fall. In addition to the cones, you will need plasticine and toothpicks (or matches), as well as beads for the eyes (but you can do without them). We put small balls of plasticine inside the scales of the cone, and from it we make a muzzle and paws. Then we stick toothpicks-"needles" into the scales (after breaking them to make them the desired length). That's all! The hedgehog is ready!

Yo juice from seeds.

This very simple craft made from natural material is also suitable for little ones. You will need seeds and the same plasticine. We sculpt the body and face of the hedgehog from plasticine, and then stick the seeds in as needles with the sharp side. Ready!

I called this craft simple only because the material used to make it is accessible to almost everyone. But in order to build something out of prickly balls sticking to each other, you will have to work hard! Eyes and nose made of plasticine. You can “blind” anyone from burdock using dexterity of fingers and imagination. Suitable for children 2.5-3 years old.

Crafts from BABA YAGA cones.

I picked up the idea for the craft from friends, but I really liked it. You will need: cones, twigs, plasticine, glue, threads, a leaf (for a scarf). And also: feather grass and a spruce or pine twig (for a broom), a small glass (for example, from shaving foam or hairspray), cotton wool.

1. Cover the outside of the cup with plasticine.

2. We break the branches of the required length and attach them tightly to the plasticine to the cup.

3. Select two suitable cones for the body and head of Baba Yaga. We make eyes from plasticine, and hands from curved branches.

4. Using glue or plasticine, attach the head and arms to the body.

5. We make hair from threads and glue it to the head. We tie a piece of paper on top - a scarf.

6. Make a broom from a pine twig, adding feather grass if desired. Glue the broom to Baba Yaga's hand.

7. We put cotton wool in the “mortar” and put Baba Yaga there.

All! The hard part about making BABA YAGA pine cones is choosing the material of the right shape and size. Otherwise, the craft is simple.

To make a WOOD craft from natural material you will need:

Glass;

Stick or sawed-off pencil:

Pine nuts;

Plasticine;

Rowan berries and twigs with leaves.

Description of work:

1. Fill a glass with plasticine of any color, cover the top with a brown cake (this is to save good plasticine).

2. Make a ball out of plasticine, cover it tightly with nuts, and stick in twigs and leaves.

3. Stick a pencil or stick into the glass and place our “crown” on top.

4. Decorate with rowan berries.

The TREE craft made from natural material is ready!

The interesting autumn crafts described above can be stored on a shelf for a long time and admire the work done.

And finally, if you have not only preschoolers in your family, but also older children (especially boys), try making this one with them

That's all,

yours Anastasia.

If you want to involve your child in some kind of creativity, then start creating animal crafts with your own hands. This develops perseverance, accuracy and attention. Fine and observation skills are also involved. Such activities bring parents and children closer together, as adults are directly involved in the creation of an extraordinary product.

Craft material

Products can be made with your own hands for any holiday of the four seasons of the year. These can be decorations for a dacha, garden area, home, or vegetable garden. Crafts can be involved in landscape design, as well as in the design of a kindergarten. Of course, if in making a craft it is necessary to use working tools, such as saws, drills, pruners, then such work is not for a child. It is better to involve him in making crafts from small parts.

You can create your personal zoo using any technology. This can be origami, quilling, modeling, embroidery, beading. The animal you decide to make can be a symbol of the coming year or the years in which family members were born. When you make animal crafts with your own hands, you can combine several techniques. For example, a pet's muzzle and hooves can be made of baked clay, and the fur can be made of fleece of the required color.

Crafts from bottles

Mostly such products are placed in the garden or vegetable garden. Since the bottle is not afraid of weather changes, it is durable and does not require maintenance. There can be both wild animals and domestic animals in the garden. Our example will be the original pig.

For this craft, containers of any size and diameter are suitable, at your discretion. Naturally, it needs to be painted with waterproof paint pink color, imitating pig skin. On the side of the screw cap, draw large, surprised eyes with eyelashes. At the top of the head, cut the bottle on both sides to insert ears, which you cut from a spare container. Paint the ears with the same paint as the body. On the lid, draw a patch in the form of two black dots. The pig can be used as a flower bed. To do this, cut a rectangular hole on the back, add soil and sow flower seeds. A whole family will look more original, rather than just one craft. A pet created with your own hands will delight the eye not only during the flowering of plants, but also during the rest period.

Felt sheep

When you make animal crafts with your own hands, you can safely use felt different colors. Let's create, for example, sheep. Pink felt will serve as fur, lilac will serve as a muzzle, white will be used for the eyes, and black felt will be used to make hooves. You can find templates, or you can make the pattern yourself. The body of the sheep looks like a cloud that needs to be cut out of the appropriate piece of material. Cut a slightly elongated head with ears, three times smaller than the body, from lilac felt. On a white background, draw an infinity sign, depicting future eyes.

We place this sign on the head of the animal and sew on the eyes - beads, piercing both materials. Embroider the mouth and nose with black thread. Glue the head to the body. Next, cut out rectangles from lilac felt and squares from black felt. Glue the legs with the hooves, and then glue the parts to the body. That's it done original craft with your own hands!

Gifts of nature

Using natural materials, you can create unique masterpieces. All gifts of nature are not only environmentally friendly and safe, but also free. Working with them is an educational and exciting process.

Animal crafts made from natural materials, created with their own hands, take part in various school and even city exhibitions and competitions. To create a masterpiece, various leaves, acorns, chestnuts and cones, branches, pumpkins and zucchini, shells, stones and much more are used.

Perhaps someone will say that modern children, spoiled by technical innovations, will prefer virtual game creating any, and that the times when children had fun cutting something out of wood are a thing of the past. But this opinion cannot be called one hundred percent correct. Yes, modern children spend a lot of time in front of computer monitors, but there are also many who enthusiastically make something in their free time.

This is confirmed by children's works presented at numerous exhibitions of children's creativity held in cities. Many works of preschool and school-age children can be seen online. Today we will talk about children's crafts made from natural materials .

The ability to treat the environment with care should be instilled in a child from an early age. And in order for him to fall in love with nature, it is necessary to visit the children in the forest more often, allow them to collect twigs, leaves, pine cones, and create animal figures from these objects, etc. You should not prohibit your child from bringing natural materials from the street, saying that this is garbage that has no place in the apartment. You can create wonderful crafts from such items - in the process of this work, you will immediately achieve several goals: you will develop the child’s creative skills - the ability to see ordinary things new images; cultivate a love for nature and all living things. What kind of crafts from natural materials can be made with children?

First of all, this leaf appliques . Such crafts can be created even with the youngest children. When collecting leaves and berries for the future with your child, you can discuss in advance, looking at the leaves, what can be made from this particular material - what does the leaf remind the baby of - a forest hedgehog, or maybe a cat's face is seen in the leaf pattern?

Applications made from leaves (in this case, voluminous details - berries, twigs - will also look appropriate in the picture) can be framed and hung on the wall. In this case, you will get a wonderful decorative element for.

You can also make it into an album or notebook, in which the child makes drawings. For example, you can use such simple applications to create an illustration for a Sunday walk to the zoo - let the child make pictures that he saw in an album from leaves.

Most popular crafts made from natural materials, are crafts made from cones, nut shells and acorns. Usually, animal figurines are created from such items. To achieve maximum similarity, we use