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 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.).
Package of ideas No. 2
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 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.
Package of ideas No. 3
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 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 strong 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.
Package of ideas No. 4
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).
Natural ideas package No. 5
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.
Natural crafts package No. 6
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 come in 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
Package of ideas No. 7
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 contoured(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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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
Hello, dear friends! Outside, autumn is in full swing, for several days it was very warm, like Indian summer, and the sun was so radiant, playing with all the colors of the rainbow on the yellow-crimson autumn carpet.
But today it started to rain, my son and I didn’t even go for a walk, although we walk in any weather, but today, in addition to the rain, there is also a strong, bone-piercing wind, brrr..., so I decided to sit down at the computer and write this article for you , in which we will consider DIY crafts made from natural materials.
This week, the kindergarten that our daughter attends hosted an exhibition of autumn crafts. Last year, at a similar exhibition, we created a small house, this year too, but now we have doubled it in size, and hung curtains on the windows, it turned out to be a real Russian log hut, even if you come in and live), my husband dreams of living in a log hut). So we train, increasing the size every year, so we’ll soon build one for ourselves).
DIY house made from natural materials
This time I will not describe in detail the stages of creating a house; you can see them in the previous article. The technology for assembling a house from natural material is the same, only we took more material, so to speak, more massive, so that the house would look prominent.
We always saw the branches for the house with a saw, my husband has a small special saw for metal, it helped us a lot, otherwise what kind of chopped hut would it be without logs. The saw is visible in the photo.
This is a house at the initial stage of production
The second difference, this time we fastened the branches with liquid glue, special glue guns are sold, translucent rods are inserted into them, the gun is plugged into an outlet, it heats up and the rod begins to melt.
This glue is very hot, if it gets on your finger, it will burn. So be careful when working with it. Another feature of this glue that cannot be ignored is that it dries in a matter of seconds, or rather, it hardens, so as soon as you apply glue to a branch, immediately apply another to it, otherwise the glue will harden and the branches will not stick together.
The roof, like last year, we covered with dry ash catkins, we wanted to cover it with straw, it would probably be more beautiful, but we didn’t go to the village, and you won’t find it in the city).
The curtains were made of white satin ribbon; they need to be glued on the inside. In this house we have 3 windows and a door with a handle, everything is as it should be).
When the roof is ready, you can lightly paint it with autumn colors: yellow, orange, red. We also lay out the yard with dry leaves, we also paint them with paints, the house can be surrounded around the perimeter with a fence woven from willow branches, we just didn’t have time to complete everything planned and we put up a plastic fence, we put domestic animals in the yard: a plastic cow, a horse and a goat.
There was an idea to make a well out of twigs, but again everything runs into time, we didn’t have time to implement it, I think next year we’ll build a whole village yard), you just need to start making autumn crafts in advance, and not on the last day.
As a result, we got such a house made from natural materials with our own hands. I liked it, how about you?
DIY crafts for kindergarten
At the exhibition, I took several photos especially for you, dear readers, so that you could take something from this as an idea, or repeat it if your imagination is not enough). There were quite a lot of interesting works, well done, everyone did a good job.
DIY crafts photo
This interesting hedgehog made from pine cones was presented at the exhibition. If you are looking for crafts made from pine cones with your own hands, I recommend taking a closer look at this hedgehog, it turned out very cute and large, the muzzle is made of plasticine, on top of the “needles-cones” the hedgehog has mushrooms from plasticine and chestnuts. They themselves sit on bright autumn leaves and dry grass.
Here are more hedgehogs made from cones, only from individual ones, so the hedgehogs turned out to be small, like a family of hedgehogs. There are plasticine apples and mushrooms on the needles, hedgehogs are sitting on leaves around the mushroom, the mushroom cap is made of chestnut, and the stem is made of white plasticine.
By the way, while I’m writing about hedgehogs, I remembered the living hedgehogs at my parents’ dacha. During the dacha season in the summer, a whole family of hedgehogs came to the dacha, their parents fed them, and they began to come every day in the evening for dinner; the hedgehogs really liked kefir with bread soaked in it, milk and meat pilaf, which was left over from our dinner).
It was so funny to watch these wonderful animals, pushing each other away from the plate, snorting and puffing like a samovar). We even managed to take a photo of one of the hedgehogs.
All the DIY crafts made from natural materials presented at the exhibition were interesting. Here is another composition of fly agaric and boletus mushrooms and a hedgehog made entirely of plasticine.
Hedgehog made from seeds and plasticine
Here is another interesting composition: hedgehogs made of seeds and plasticine, a whole family, mom and dad, and their children. The hedgehogs made from the seeds turned out cute.
DIY chestnut crafts
You can make excellent crafts from chestnuts; I photographed this autumn spider made from chestnuts at the exhibition. I won’t say how the chestnuts were attached to each other; I didn’t look into it, but it turned out interesting. The head is decorated with autumn leaves.
There was also this cute chestnut caterpillar. The chestnuts were attached to each other with multi-colored plasticine.
DIY autumn crafts from vegetables
I liked the crafts made from vegetables, it’s interesting and unusual. Here in this composition the fox is made of carrots, very similar, beautiful. The fox sits on pine needles, and acorns are also placed. To be honest, I couldn’t figure out what was made of apple). The composition is complemented by autumn leaves and chestnuts.
And here is another caterpillar made of apples and carrots, the apples are held together with toothpicks. The paws are made of toothpicks and carrot slices. This craft turned out to be edible. By the way, it can be used as an idea for a treat for a children’s holiday table, it’s tasty and interesting for children.
Here is an interesting craft made from vegetables, the railway is made of twigs, and the train cars are made of eggplant halves. A house made from half a small pumpkin, with heroes sitting next to each side, if I’m not mistaken, from Smeshariki. The train seems to be carrying vegetables).
I liked the vegetable craft based on cauliflower. Originally invented. The lamb is very similar, and the poodle is also beautiful.
DIY house
And here are some other compositions with houses that were presented at the exhibition. Someone even settled in this house made of branches), small and big-eyed. Near the house there is a plasticine basket with an autumn harvest of fruits and vegetables, near the house there are pumpkins, apparently bought in a store for decoration.
There was also such a house, the branches in it were tied with a rope. The roof is covered with thuja branches. By the way, in this composition there is a fence made of willow twigs, which I mentioned above; after all, a natural willow fence looks much more impressive and pleasant than a plastic one.
Crafts from pine cones
An interesting, spectacular craft made from pine cones in the form of a wreath. The cones are opened with paint, I assume that the paint is from a spray can. Plastic vegetables and fruits, as well as real and artificial autumn leaves, were used for decoration.
Autumn crafts from salt dough
A craft made from salt dough was presented in a single copy. I liked it very much. Autumn motifs, grapes, pumpkin, mushrooms and, apparently, the gardener who grew it all).
Salt dough is beautifully colored, and for better fixation and saturation, you can use artistic varnish; the composition I presented is coated on top with such varnish.
If anyone wants to make a craft from salt dough, I will write a recipe especially for you.
How to prepare salted play dough
Take two glasses of flour, fine salt, preferably extra salt, and one glass of lukewarm water. Mix salt with flour in a deep bowl, gradually add a glass of water, and knead thoroughly until the mass becomes plastic.
If the dough seems dry to you, then add a little water and knead again; if the dough, on the contrary, is runny and sticks to your hands, add a little flour and salt in a ratio of 2 to 1. The secret of elastic salt dough is that you need to knead it for at least 10 minutes , or even all 15.
Here’s an article of ideas on how to make crafts from natural materials with your own hands for school or kindergarten with your children. In fact, you can fantasize endlessly with natural materials and create stunning autumn crafts. What autumn-themed craft did you prepare for school or kindergarten? Share in the comments, I’ll be glad! My dears, the New Year is just around the corner, so I recommend a master class on making Santa Claus with your own hands, watch.
God bless you!
With respect and love, Elena Kurbatova.
For making crafts, there is no better material than the one created by Mother Nature herself. Pebbles, branches, fruits and vegetables, moss and flowers - this is not the entire list of what you can use to create original products. How to make a house from the information presented in the article, you will learn two ways to make a similar product: from twigs and from pumpkin.
We make a house from natural materials with our own hands. Preparation of materials
We will make the product from tree branches and foliage. In addition to them, the following materials will be needed for work: cardboard, a heat gun or plasticine, a stapler, a piece of plywood. We will supplement the composition with elements such as a path, mushrooms, and a tree. To make them, you will need a variety of materials of natural origin: pebbles, moss, chestnuts, cones.
Description of the house making process
Made with your own hands from natural materials. This composition will take its rightful place at any exhibition of similar products.
Pumpkin is a product that is not only eaten. We make a hut from this vegetable
For work, prepare the following materials:
- pumpkin;
- dry leaves;
- corn tops;
- toothpick;
- plasticine;
- scotch.
How to do it It's very simple. First, cut off the top of the vegetable and scrape out the seeds. Use a toothpick to draw the outlines of the windows and doors. Cut out these parts with a knife. Place the top of the pumpkin in place. Attach dry foliage to it on top using plasticine or tape. The roof is ready. Attach curtains made from dry corn tops or leaves to the door and windows. That's all. Now all that remains is to place residents in a house made of natural materials, made with your own hands. These can be small toys or figurines of people and animals made from acorns and chestnuts.
Every season in kindergartens and schools begins with making crafts. Autumn is no exception. At this time of year, there is a lot of bright and beautiful natural material around us that can be used to make original items for future crafts. This master class provides a description of how to make a house from natural material with your own hands, photos are attached.
To make the house we will use the diagram.
To make house frame materials needed:
1.
Thick cardboard (walls) – 4 parts.
2.
Scissors.
3.
Thin cardboard (connecting partitions) - 4 parts.
4.
PVA glue.
5.
A simple pencil.
Let's start making a house
1. First you need to make walls for your future home. To do this, you need to cut out 4 parts from thick cardboard according to the picture in the diagram. After that, thin cardboard should be used to make partitions that will connect the walls. Each partition must be drawn in half (fold line).
2. Each partition along the fold line must be bent in half. It is convenient to do this work using a ruler.
3. We get 4 parts for connecting the walls of the house to each other.
4. We begin to form the frame of the house. To do this, install 2 wall parts on a flat surface. Using a square we check the right angle.
5. Using a partition we connect the walls.
6. To ensure that the partition sticks well to the walls, we secure it with clothespins on both sides.
7. We do the same with the rest of the house.
8. Finally, we connect all the walls together.
10. Using pruning shears, cut the reed brushwood into pieces equal to the size of the walls. Next, glue each stick with glue.
11. The next step is to prepare the parts for making the roof.
12. Apply glue to the gables at the marked distance.
13. We glue the gables on both sides of the house.
14. So that the house can be covered with a roof in the future, we attach a crossbar between the gables.
15. We cover the house with a roof. We secure the edges of the roof with tape.
16. We decorate the roof with fluffy tassels of reeds. To do this, cut the tassels to the required size and glue them to the roof.
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At the final stage, we make a window and a door from cardboard and glue them in the right place.
A finished house made from natural materials, made with your own hands, looks beautiful and original. It will definitely decorate any holiday and even the interior.
Every child needs toys for his full development. You don't have to buy them in the store. It is enough to know how to properly make the same house with your own hands in order to please your baby with a new toy with which he will tinker and not make noise for a long time.
The most accessible materials for production are cardboard, paper, plasticine. But you can also make a house from pumpkins, chestnuts, zucchini, eggplants, clothespins and various shoe boxes, household appliances and appliances.
What kind of house can you make?
You can see many photos on the theme of “House” crafts. The following wonderful toys are made for your child from improvised materials:
- Hut on Chicken Legs - made of clothespins;
- Old Man-Lesovich's hut;
- A hut in a clearing, decorated with chestnuts;
- Forester's hut made of natural materials;
- Build a pumpkin house;
- Using twigs, weave a tower.
There are a lot of ideas and all kinds of instructions for making houses, your imagination is limitless. A little skill and patience - and the craft will be ready!
Let's look at the most popular models and try to make them together.
By understanding what these toys can be made from and how to begin this simple process, you can create a work of art. Let the house be far from perfect the first time, but every time it will turn out better and better!
A hut on chicken legs
Children love fairy tale characters. And they will be happy to help in making a house for their beloved Baba Yaga. For this craft we will need the following components:
- Dried moss;
- Opened spruce or pine cones;
- Pre-prepared (ironed) leaves;
- Dry berries;
- Clothes pins;
- Plasticine;
- Glue.
Making a Hut on Chicken Legs with your own hands
We will show you a simple diagram on which you can assemble this beautiful house for Baba Yaga. You can use other templates, but this one is the simplest and will not cause any difficulties in making for either an adult or a child.
So, step by step instructions:
- We take apart the wood chips and glue the house together. It is best to use “liquid nails” for this;
- Place the assembled Baba Yaga's Hut on a piece of cardboard and cover the space around it with moss;
- We glue the leaves of the berries onto the roof. We also place the remains of the moss there;
- We paint the cones green and glue them to the cardboard. These will be our Christmas trees;
- We sculpt various animals - bunnies, squirrels from plasticine.
The scenery and creation of the atmosphere of a fairy-tale forest are important here, because we are creating Baba Yaga’s hut, which, according to the fairy tale, is located in a place inaccessible to outsiders.
Old Man-Lesovich's hut
Making such a house together with your child may take several days. Spending time together like this brings parents and their children closer together. So what can you make such a craft from?
Let's list the main components that we need and get started with the process:
- You will need pastry packaging for a cake or cookies. We decorate it with the remnants of old wallpaper, creating an autumn forest background. Using matches, acorns, and cones, we make forest inhabitants - Lesovich himself and his friend the hedgehog.
- We make the house from a kefir box, and cover the walls themselves with large dill sticks to create the effect of logs. The hedgehog will live under stumps, which can be made from cutting branches.
- We make a path leading from the house to the pond using colored semolina and bean grains. We create the effect of water using colored paper, and pebbles using plum seeds.
- We decorate the forest and clearing with pieces of moss, dry twigs and leaves.
Hut in the clearing
We will hold another master class on crafts on the theme “House”. This time the design will be more complicated, and the pleasure can be extended for a long time.
For this we need:
- Scotch;
- Cardboard box;
- A couple of kilograms of chestnuts;
- Dry branches;
- Glue;
- Berries;
- Pen;
- Multi-colored fallen leaves;
- Scissors;
- Needles;
- Wire.
Hut in the clearing: making it step by step
Let’s start making the next craft together with our child, instilling in him useful skills and curiosity.
We assemble this toy in the following sequence:
We are making the foundation on which our house will stand. To do this, use a cardboard box. We prepare a square 400x400 mm. We cut out the elements of the house from cardboard and connect them with tape. We attach it to the base.
We cut out windows and doors from pieces of snow-white paper. Glue it. We draw curtains with a pen. We decorate all the walls with chestnuts. We design the roof and ground around the house using colorful leaves, pine needles and berries.
Thus, you can make a house from almost any material by connecting the necessary components into one whole using tape and glue. Or - cut from pumpkin, watermelon, zucchini, eggplant.
There are many manuals and master classes on this topic on the Internet. Many lessons are accompanied by excellent explanations of what and how to do correctly in order to assemble a good and high-quality toy.
The new time spent together will delight the child, and he will enthusiastically help in collecting it for a long time. And then – have fun playing!
Photos of crafts houses
