Mastery crafts from acorns
An exciting and interesting occupation for children is creativity from healthy natural materials, such as the acorns. Especially useful this occupation will make assistance to adults
Autumn can be called full right to be called the most generous time of the year – a person collects a crop with fields, vegetable harvests, forests, forests. In addition to all sorts of delicacies, autumn abundantly gives a diverse material for children and adult creativity – fir and pine chishechki, the fruits of chestnuts, acorns, bright foliage.
Autumn crafts can become not only original toys for the kid, but also an unusual decoration of the interior of a house or apartment. We learn about the best ideas for creativity using natural materials, as well as consider in detail several master classes on the creation of bright toys and compositions.
Ideas for creativity using autumn natural material
The simplest children’s crafts from the acorns that can be made with their own hands are a variety of figures of animals and fabulous men.
All additional elements – hands, legs, ears, eyes – are done in this case using well-made materials: wool, buttons, toothpicks, thin twigs and plasticine.
You can also fix items in different ways – you can put on glue, you can apply plasticine, you can pour the fastening holes in the stomach material.
Attention! This part of the work must be performed by an adult, as it implies the use of sharp tools – a thick needle or sewn.
Original watching children’s crafts from acorns in the form of toy dishes. Miniature cups from caps, plates, a custard tea-tea drinking tea look no worse than a factory plastic service, which can also be unsafe for the health of the baby.
Countless variations of crafts from simple accents and plasticine are also fabulous gnomes, and a whole magic glade with trees, flowers, mushrooms, bright lizards, squirrels, monkeys.
Using the gifts of nature, the baby will understand not only with his own hands to make unusual toys – from the acorns you can make wonderful gifts for mom, grandmother, friends.
Beautiful grape brush from the autumn gifts of nature
In this work, the kid without adults could not do, but the more interesting, in addition, joint classes with creativity strengthen confidence and mutual understanding between generations.
To work you will need to prepare the following materials in advance:
Mainer acorns extended shape – 20-25 pieces;- Thin metal wire;
- Thick Gypsy needle;
- The gouache in color close to the natural color of grapes – blue or lite;
- Color (green) corrugated paper;
- pure white sheet;
- simple pencil;
- scissors;
- glue stick;
- varnish.
To begin, you will need to carefully remove the heads with the acorns. And then in each «Oak Yagodka» Carefully do a hole. This part of the work, the child should do under a thorough supervision of adults or, in general, to trust her senior family member. In the work done, it is necessary to insert the wire and at the end to tie it with a strong knot – so future grapes will not slip. Wires should be wrapped with corrugated paper.
At the next stage of work, future grape berries need to paint. Ideally, you need to use acrylic paints, but if they are not at hand – take the usual thick gouache. ATTENTION: Note that the gouache you have to apply in several layers!
Oak «yagodki» should be ashamed and only after that they can be collected in a bunch.
Gather a bunch, not in a hurry, strengthened the parts with the wire as often as possible – the product will be beautiful and stronger. Having finished the assembly, cut off the excess wire, and the thick leg is still tightly wrapped with color corrugations. Corrugation remnants let the cutting of beautiful grape leaves. Aclared masterpiece ready!
Autumn crafts are good in that they can combine a variety of materials – for example, a pine bump can be an excellent basis for creating a fabulous animal or character.
Consider the option of creative crafts from cones and acorns.
Funny hedgehog made of cones and oak acorns
To make such a fun toy to prepare the materials in the list below:
- 7-8 small pine cones of the same size;
- Stand under the finished product;
- A small stone of dark color and necessarily smooth;
- acorns;
- Set of colored plasticine.
At the first stage of works from white or light brown plasticine, it is necessary to cut the body of our funny hedgehog. When the hedgehog is ready – ahead of the black pebbles to acute nose, and make eyes and mouth from red and black plasticine.
Justice Gently cut into two parts and make small needles from the resulting halves at the head of the hedgehog. And as large needles on the back – evenly fasten small pine cones. Install ready-made hedgehog.
And so that the hedgehog is not bored – make bushes. To do this, it is enough to attach the cones to the surface and several times to cover their green acrylic paint.
Can be placed on improvised cleaner and acorns fungi. Remove the caps with the oak fruits and pull them out with red paint, and acorns themselves cover in several layers of white gouache. As soon as parts of the future mushroom are dried – proceed to assembling. Create parts by both plasticine and glue.
No less interesting and originally look and crafts from acorns and chestnuts. For example, an unusual snake, in which the oak fruits will be alternate with the fruits of Chestnuts. The process of work is simple – we take chestnut and glue it to the acorns. And so as long as you do not get a snake of the desired length. And in order for the snake to be bright – color it with colored acrylic colors and cover with brilliant varnish.
Unusual christmas toys
Toys from natural materials look at the New Year tree original and bright. Such a toy can be given to friends on New Year or Christmas holidays or decorate the apartment interior. Let’s learn how to make a beautiful festive ball on the Christmas tree from the heads of the acorns.
To work, you will need a ball – ready-made plastic or folded from the ordinary newspaper and additionally wrapped with scotch. Note that it is incredibly difficult to glue the natural material.
Therefore, it is definitely additionally tightly wrapped the paper bowl of gauze, which you need to first soak in the PVA and white acrylic paint. The product must be completely dryed before you start sticker hats.
While the ball will dry – you can do the painting of the stomach hats, if you want to get a colored chill toy. Hats Burn in the desired color acrylic paint on both sides. If you want a toy to get in the style of phytodizain – only the outer side of the hats are punctured by the white acrylic composition.
When the ball and hats are dried – you can go to the ultimate assembly of toys. To begin with, strengthen the ribbon on the ball for which the toy will hang. In this work, it is desirable to use the most durable glue.
After the tape is strengthened – start sticking the hats. Glue hats need tight. After the caps are pregnant carefully to the surface of the ball – you can do an additional decor. For example – glued bright beads to the center of the Hats, and the edges cover the glitter. And you can spray with sparkles on the whole toy.
Such a toy – and decoration and excellent souvenir for holidays for friends and relatives. Enjoy your needlework and useful pastime!
