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And again visiting the blog “Razvivashka” is a wonderful mother and needlewoman Nastya Kondratovets. Nastya loves making origami figures, but today she will delight us with wonderful crafts made from natural materials.
My daughter and I often make crafts from natural materials; we use almost everything that surrounds us. The main thing is to notice the similarity between a crooked leaf of a tree and a ship’s sail. We really like it walnut crafts . Half a nut shell looks like a boat, a mushroom cap, the body of a hedgehog, a mouse, a turtle and much more.…
So let's begin. First you need to peel the nut. Chop it in half with a knife and remove the kernels.
My advice: If the nuts are from last year and don’t crack easily, pour boiling water over them for a few minutes and then cool.
To make this craft you will need:
- half a nut shell
- plasticine
- toothpick
- scissors
- paper.
1. Roll up a small piece of plasticine (about the size of a pea, I took more and then removed it) and glue it in the middle of the shell, pressing down lightly.
2. Cut out a sail from paper; its shape can be square, triangular, trapezoidal, etc., but the main thing is that it is symmetrical. Otherwise, the ship will tilt. Place the sail on the toothpick (mast).
DIY boat
3. Insert the mast with the sail into a pea of plasticine. You can attach a plasticine flag to the top of the mast. The ship is ready to set off to conquer the expanses of water - it floats beautifully in a plate, a bathtub and a puddle, almost like :)
DIY boat
To make this craft you will need halves of nut shells and multi-colored plasticine.
I will make boletus and fly agaric. The principle of operation is almost the same, the main difference is in the colors.
1. Fill the nut shells with yellow (boletus) and white (fly agaric) plasticine. Make a depression in the middle of the shell with your finger or a modeling spatula.
2. Turn the shells over. Apply brown plasticine on top of the boletus shell; cover the fly agaric shell with red plasticine with white dots. To “color” mushrooms you can use acrylic paints.
3. For the boletus, take white plasticine, add a little brown, knead so that the colors almost mix, and form the stem of the mushroom. For realism, you can add a little black plasticine at the base.
4. For the fly agaric leg, knead white plasticine and roll it into a sausage. But the mushroom has a “skirt” on its stem; lightly pinch it with your fingers to create a frill. You can apply a little black plasticine to the bottom of the leg.
Craft mushroom
5. Put the caps on the mushroom stems, you get 2.
DIY hedgehog
We will need half a shell, 1 teaspoon of buckwheat, PVA glue, 1 black peppercorn and a felt-tip pen.
1. Apply glue to 2/3 of the shell, so that the sharp end of the shell remains clean.
2. After a minute, you can pour in the buckwheat, making sure that there are no empty spaces left.
3. Glue a peppercorn onto the sharp tip and draw eyes with a felt-tip pen. So he appeared.
Crafts made from nuts: mushrooms and a hedgehog in the forest
Let's put mushrooms and a hedgehog in the clearing. To make a clearing you will need a lid from a mayonnaise bucket, or another base, and plasticine.
1. Take green, dark green and yellow plasticine.
forest clearing
2. Knead it and start spreading it over the base, pinching off pieces. When the surface is covered with plasticine, the clearing will be ready.
forest clearing
3. You can sprinkle the forest clearing with dried herbs - I used dried chamomile.
forest clearing
We place mushrooms and a hedgehog in a forest clearing.
Crafts made from nuts
So cute nut crafts My daughter and I succeeded. Katyushka and I love decorating our crafts, so DIY mushroom we attached a dried leaf, and to hedgehog craft glued a small chestnut that looked like a green apple. Or maybe you have an interesting pebble or flower that can be planted in a clearing? Start tinkering and your imagination, enriched by the imagination of your baby, will allow you to create small and maybe even large masterpieces.
Nadezhda Lichman
Together with the children, we decided to make voluminous crafts from natural material - from shells - for the All-Russian competition "Podelkin" walnut.
For children this is the most interesting work. Walnut shells are great for children's creativity. The children had fun painting the shells in different colors, using plasticine to model parts for crafts as shown, gluing finished parts to the shells, and drawing faces. We compiled several compositions from these crafts and sent them to the All-Russian exhibition “Podelkin”.
This is what we got.
The results were amazing mushrooms. The shells were painted brown and red - these are mushroom caps, and the legs were made from tree branches; for the fly agaric, they were painted white.
And these are wonderful little mice.
The bunnies turned out very cute. The ears were glued from paper, and the tail from a piece of cotton wool.
And what funny ladybugs and bees they turned out to be.
For a luxurious octopus, we crocheted the legs from threads.
And the spider turned out to be not scary at all.
These are cute, agile hedgehogs. The shell was smeared with PVA glue and sprinkled with buckwheat.
The strawberry and pineapple turned out wonderful.
These are funny crabs with frogs.
Delightful owl and butterfly.
And these are brave whales and brave geese.
Thank you for watching our crafts with your children.
I would like to congratulate you, dear, good colleagues, on our wonderful, wonderful holiday and want to wish:
May your life always be permeated with sunshine and warmth, may joy and smile brighten up your life with its hardships and worries!
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I decided to please you with my creativity again! This time I made a craft from walnut shells. To do this you need: 1. shell.
ABOUT beneficial properties Everyone has known nuts since childhood: walnuts contain vitamins and minerals, they increase immunity and hemoglobin, strengthen the walls of blood vessels, and improve brain function.
The kernels of the nuts are used in cooking, the shell partitions are used to prepare healthy infusions, but the shell itself is usually cracked and thrown away. There is even a special device called a nut cracker.
But we, home craftsmen, will never spoil such wonderful material for crafts! First, let's dry the nuts in the oven - you don't even need to turn it on specially for this. It is enough to leave the nuts in the switched off hot cabinet two or three times after preparing the main dish. We carefully divide the nut into halves with a knife, use the kernel for food, give the partitions to dad for tincture, and use the halves of the shell for creativity.
Crafts made from walnut shells were described in detail in children's books many years ago; then the drawings were black and white, but this did not stop children from showing imagination and enthusiasm. These pictures will still be useful today.
The easiest way to make insects, multi-colored bugs and spiders from nut shells. For this you will need acrylic paints, eyes for toys, fluffy wire, twigs, cardboard for paws. We will glue the parts together with hot glue.
Turtles are no less simple: glue a nut shell to a cardboard body and head. The turtle will be voluminous if the parts are molded from plasticine.
Most of all, children like mice, bunnies, hedgehogs, and bear cubs. These crafts are simple and require little time and materials. You can make a lot of characters in a couple of hours.
A whole nut will produce birds; owls are very popular. For decoration you only need acrylic paints, leftover paper or felt.
From walnut halves, the girls will make beds for little mice, birds, dolls and fairies, with whom they will happily play in the country house and in the garden.
In nut baskets you can put vegetables and fruits made of plasticine, mushrooms, flowers, and even arrange a nest with bird eggs.
And it’s not difficult to make vegetables and fruits from nuts - just choose the right paint and leaves.
Boys will love boats with colorful sails! The flotilla is not afraid of water, it can compete in speed and beauty - organize a competition for the best boat.
Shells prepared for future use will be useful for creating gifts: unusual mini-candlesticks, pincushions, surprise boxes.
Nuts are indispensable for home decoration, holiday decor: Christmas tree decorations, holiday compositions, decorative wreaths and even topiary.
Autumn is a very beautiful time of year.
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While walking in the park or in the forest, you can collect various natural materials and make fun crafts from it. After all, children love to collect leaves, acorns, chestnuts, cones, and nuts. How interesting it is for kids to watch the process of making crafts, appliques, and compositions!
And it’s even more interesting to participate in this process, or make something yourself.
For example, make spiders, ladybugs, turtles or penguins.
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From walnut shells you can make various insects, birds, animals, fish, funny people and colorful mushrooms.
Crafts made from walnuts can be either a good addition to any autumn composition, or an independent toy, or a small gift.
To make crafts, in addition to nut shells, you may need multi-colored plasticine, PVA glue, gouache paints, and colored cardboard.
Now let's take a closer look at the process of making crafts from walnuts. For example, let's take a turtle.
To work you will need:
- plasticine;
- walnut shell;
- scissors;
- cardboard;
- a simple pencil;
- black felt-tip pen.
Work progress:
1. Take one half of the shell and apply it to cardboard; brown cardboard works well.
2. We outline half of the shell with a simple pencil and finish drawing the turtle’s head and paws. We cut out our turtle from cardboard.
3. Draw eyes and mouth with a black felt-tip pen.
4. Glue half of the shell to the cardboard in the place where the shell should be.
5. Wait for the glue to dry.
The turtle's paws and head do not have to be cut out of cardboard; they can be sculpted from plasticine.
So, just one half of a walnut shell, and how many amazing crafts can be made from it, and if you take a few nuts...
Children really enjoy playing with these crafts.
I wish you creative success and joyful moments in joint activities with children.
Walnuts, or rather their shells, are one of the best materials for interesting crafts. A whole set of special properties of walnut shells (special surface texture, long paint retention, relatively large sizes) allows both adults and children to make crafts from it, and the risk of any injury during the manufacturing process of the toy is completely eliminated. In our review, you will look at several types of crafts made from nut shells and tell you how they can be made.
The first step in making all crafts is to clean the nut - you need to peel the nut very carefully, completely removing the nut itself, while leaving the shell completely intact (if you can’t do this, it’s better to ask someone for help - if there are cracks on the shell, the craft will not work).
"Walnut Ladybug"
To make a ladybug, take three walnuts and plasticine of different colors. Peel the nuts, divide them into halves and make the face and wings of the future ladybug out of plasticine, then attach the face and wings to one of the halves, after making characteristic dots on the wings (this can be done with a marker or plasticine of a different color). Make a ball from a piece of yellow plasticine and attach it to the five remaining halves of the shell - you will get a flower on which you will plant the one you made earlier ladybug. The craft is ready!
"Funny little animals"
You can make a lot of funny animals from walnut shells without much effort. Below we will tell you how to do this.
- To make penguins, paint the shells black and white, then draw eyes and attach a beak and paws made from paper.
- Paint walnut shells gray, cut out a long tail and characteristic mouse ears from paper, and then attach them in the right places - you will get funny little mice.
- To make turtles, paint half a shell in green, applying characteristic brown spots to the shell, then make a paper base with legs and a muzzle. Attach the base to the shell and your turtle is ready!
- To make bunnies, paint the shells white, attach large ears cut out of paper to the head, attach a tail to the back of the bunny and draw a muzzle on the front side of the craft - the cheerful bunny is ready!
- You can even make an octopus from the shells! To do this, paint the shell pink and attach eight wire legs covered in pink fabric to it.
- To make frogs, attach legs to the bottom of the shell (pumpkin seeds can be used as legs), paint the shell green and draw funny faces on the front of the toy.
- To make whales, paint the shell blue, cut out a stream of water and a tail from paper, and then attach them to the shell in the right places.
- Paint the shell with stripes of yellow and black, and attach antennae made of fluffy black wire to the top of the shell - you get funny bees.
- To make crayfish, paint the shell orange and attach a pre-cut paper base with drawn claws and a face to the bottom of the shell.
- Spiders - that's what else you can make from nutshells! To do this, paint the shell black and attach legs made of black fluffy wire to the base of the shell.
"Caterpillar on a leaf"
- Take a green sheet of paper and cut out a shape in the shape of a tree leaf.
- Color the six nut halves white and orange as shown.
- Make a light green spot in the upper central part of each shell halves.
- Take a whole nut and draw a smiling face on it - this will be the head of our caterpillar.
- Secure the caterpillar to the leaf using PVA glue (in principle, you can just put the shells on the leaf without fixing them).
"Magic Nuts"
- Divide the nuts into halves and remove the kernel.
- Place a small surprise inside the shell that will easily fit into the shell.
- Glue the halves together with a glue gun and offer a surprise to someone close to you.
"Walnut Athletes"
- Make three whole nuts using a glue gun, attach eyes and a mouth made of paper to the top of the craft - you get an athlete ant.
- Using the same glue gun, attach paws made of wire antennae to the ants, bend the wire and insert sports equipment made from improvised means into the ant’s hands. If you wish, you can make many of these ants - you will get a whole Olympic team.
These are the kind of athletes you can achieve.
