Crafts from natural materials with their hands 100 photo ideas

Summer and autumn crafts from natural materials - a popular theme of the development of creative skills of preschool age children, primary school children. Some adults are also attracted to the manufacture of dry flowers, pictures, three-dimensional compositions, jewelry, Christmas decorations, creating real works of art. In the course are acorns and pine needles, pine cones and chestnuts, feathers and egg shells, moss and birch bark, buckwheat and walnut shells, and shells of wood, river pebbles and yellowed maple leaves.

Tools, additional materials for handicrafts

Besides freshly natural gifts, herbaria, to create all sorts of souvenirs need some tools available in every home. These include:

• sewing needles;
• pencil;
• line;
• sharp awl;
• scissors;
• brushes, glue, paint;
• stacks of clay, plastic;
• clamps or pegs;
• thick books for drying leaves.

Additional materials:

• plasticine;
• plastic;
• thread;
• PVA glue, glue stick;
• white and color paper;
• corrugated cardboard, ordinary cardboard;
• flexible wires;
• fishing line;
• toothpicks;
• matches;
• gouache;
• paint in the can;
• wool;
• ribbons;
• beads, sequins;
• felt.

Kids recommended to give self-use special scissors with rounded ends, glue stick, instead of a liquid glue. Needles, and other sharp objects are used only under adult supervision, toxic, silnopahnuschih paint compositions use is prohibited.

How to prepare the natural materials for handicrafts

That can be used to create a craft:

• vegetables, fruits and berries;
• "The helicopter" maple "earrings" ash;
• Poplar fluff;
• vine;
• Helichrysum flowers, roses, lavender, yarrow;
• the fruits of chestnut and oak, Physalis;
• cones conifers;
• lupine seeds, sunflower;
• piece peas, beans, corn;
• oat, buckwheat;
• ears of cereal straw, reeds, sisal;
• shells of pistachios, walnuts, hazelnuts;
• coconut, peanut shells;
• shells of mollusks, snails;
• scales, air bubble big fish;
• feathers, egg shells wild fowl;
• needles precipitated hedgehog porcupine;
• maple, oak, lilac, aspen, fern;
• bumps alder;
• bones pumpkin, apple, watermelon;
• peel of lemon, orange, grapefruit;
• tree fungus;
• birch bark, willow, oak;
• moss, algae;
• twigs, sticks, driftwood, roots, wood saw cut;
• pebbles, coarse sand.

To ready the work for a long time had a beautiful appearance, not covered with mold, is not deformed, the materials need not only to collect for her, but also to prepare properly - dry. Leaves, grasses dried between the pages of thick books. Birch, oak bark, and other items that need to be flat, dried under a hardboard sheet, a load put on it. Twigs with berries hawthorn, rowan, stems from the poppy boxes, honesty fruits, flowers gelihrizuma, yarrow, Echinops, dried in limbo. Flower heads can be dried and buried in a container filled with sand. Straw, stalks of angelica, hogweed, dried under a canopy in the open air, turning from time to time. Forest moss, acorns, pine cones, chestnuts, fir paws, laid out on paper in a cool dark place, turn every day. Fish bubbles, scales, egg shells, shells snails washed, dried in the shade.

The original form of the composition are, crafts made from exotic plants seeds brought from distant countries.

chestnuts

The fruits of the horse chestnut is easy to find on the streets of any city, they ripen in August and September. Diy selected kashtanchiki different sizes, but preferably regular, rounded, dark brown in color. Drying can be, spreading a thin layer on the newspapers, without access to sunlight, in a cool place. The process will take 10-15 days.

Drying chestnuts in a hot oven is not recommended - they peel crack, fruits practically lose their appearance.

acorns

Acorns - the fruits of the oak, in different species, they are slightly different in shape, size, color. Collect them at the end of August - the beginning of October, you should choose whole, not damaged by insects, with no signs of germination. Freshly harvested fruits were washed under running water, if necessary, brushed, dried with a towel or paper. Further required heat oven to 50-70 degrees, acorns lay on baking, leaving the door ajar. The process takes 90-120 minutes, during which time they should be mixed for at least three or four times.

From acorns can make funny figures of men, animals, make out photo frames. Original look "crumbling" curtain of oak fruits, wreaths on the wall, posudku for dollhouse.

In the village of acorns, some other plant materials are dried on top of the Russian oven.

Cones, pine needles

Cones of pine, spruce, cedar, larch, alder collected in the spring or in the middle of autumn. If the seeds are still covered with scales, then bumps wet after drying they unfold. Prior to drying the fruits are soaked in a solution of vinegar with water to remove insects, for disposal of the resin used cotton swabs and alcohol. If you want to lump was closed, before drying it completely dipped in the carpenter's glue.

Dry cones can be:

• on the street under a canopy - the raw material with a thin layer deposited on the paper in the crates, nets, baskets, leave for 15-20 days;
• in a pan or baking - oven heated to a temperature a little, but the door does not close, the time - about an hour;
• in a microwave - taken a large plate, was covered with a paper towel on top of stacked cones, the process takes less than five minutes, it is necessary to control the process.
  Spruce needles are dried directly from the branches, in the form of a "spruce feet", in the form of limbo. Pine needles can be cut short if only they are needed for the craft. A preferred slow drying under a shed.

nuts

Walnuts are usually sold already dried, diy use their shell, which is separated from the core by means of scissors, as the hammer nut crumble almost completely. Fresh fruits are peeled - this is best done with gloves to avoid staining your hands. Nuts dried on the canvas, within two to three days in the open air, if the weather is dry and sunny, in bad weather - in the attic, grid shelves, but the process will take up to a week. A faster way, no more than two hours - oven, rustic oven, special ovoschesushilka.

For the manufacture of artefacts also used wood, pine nuts, shells of peanuts, pistachios.

Leaves, flowers, seeds

The leaves of different trees harvested in summer or autumn weather is dry. Dried for a week or two, putting in an old book, pressing firmly on top of a few more. It can be dried quickly by investing between two sheets of heavy paper by ironing with a hot iron on both sides. The most commonly used maple, rowan, oak, birch, aspen, currant, fern, nettle.

Fennel seeds, star anise, pepper, peas, coriander, mustard, pumpkin, zucchini, sunflower, watermelon, apples, wild cucumber, apricot, peach, dried in the newspaper, in a dark ventilated place. Peas, beans, lupins pre eliminate the pods. All seeds are allowed to handle in ovoschesushilke or on a baking sheet in the oven.

Volumetric flowers such as roses, asters, yard immortelle, dried in sand - it is desirable to pre-calcined in an oven or on the pan. Then the sand is poured into any container placed on top buds, carefully poured the remaining sand is left for three to seven days. Flowers for panels (lilies, daisies, lilac) as dried leaves.

Grass, moss, poplar fluff

Poplar fluff collected in early summer, but in a dry, cool place it is able to be stored year-round. It is important to carefully protect it from possible contact with fire - the material is highly flammable. Down from the snow make for a panel, the bulk compositions for the New Year.

Moss (sphagnum Kukushkin flax etc.) Gently squeezed, eliminating the excess moisture, is dried on paper at room temperature, or outdoors, roofed in dry weather. Grass, straw, dried lichen substantially the same.

Moss often make a miniature forest edges, thickets of grass.

Bark

Bark, which must be flat, purified from pollutants, dried, wrapping paper, pressing several thick books, other cargo weight not less than five to seven kilograms. To destroy parasites boiled the bark in boiling water for a few minutes.

Cut off the crust better with healthy, strong trees, for which such manipulation is not too traumatic, leading to death.

Twigs, sticks, wood saw cut

Cut a tree it is recommended to harvest, when the movement of juices minimum - from October to February. Then, on the drying of the wood does not take a long time. For faster removal of intercellular juice, boiled pieces of wood, and then spread out in a cool room at concrete floor or several layers of newspapers, once a couple of days turned over two weeks finally dried in the oven or on the battery. Can not immediately put in a hot environment - saw cut crack. Pre-need to remove the crust.

Threads, rods, snags after collection inspect carefully removed damaged decay, pests, and then dried in a warm dry place, protected from direct sunlight. Branches with buds are harvested in the spring, dig up the roots, trying not to damage, clear of the ground, dried one to three weeks, depending on the thickness.

pebbles

Stones cleaned from sand, earth stiff brush, washed with water, sorted by shape, color and size. Dry stones is permitted in any convenient way - in newspapers, batteries, oven, hair dryer and others. Natural stones with holes is used to make jewelry, all kinds of charms.

shells

Conch sea, river, lake, snails, clams brushed, boiled in water to remove all the organic remains. Drying can be on paper, at room temperature. Shells are ideal for the establishment of marine compositions, decoration frames, mirrors.

Sand

Sand diy preferred a large river, but if you get a difficult, but anyone - from a nearby construction site, from the sandbox. Its sieved through a fine sieve to remove all excess, washed in water, mixing periodically, dried, spreading a thin layer on a baking in an oven.

Eggshell

To create a craft suitable eggs of chicken, duck, ostrich, quail, thrush, parrot and others. To prepare the shells, they need to get rid of inside the albumen and yolk. To do this, on both sides of the eggs does a small hole, and then blown into the contents of the cup or sucked out a large syringe. Then the inner part is washed with water.

From bat eggshell mosaic comes out great, if pieces of paint in different colors, pasted on the prepared surface.

Feathers

Fallen feathers preferably taken from the home, as wild crows, pigeons, ducks, and other birds often suffer from infectious diseases. Wash the feathers do not necessarily dry in the usual hairdryer, while fluffing. Often found on sale already processed feathers of exotic birds - peacocks, parrots.

Fruits, vegetables, berries

Rowan berries, dried rosehip branches, hanging on ropes or putting it in a single layer on the paper in a well-ventilated place. The pumpkin, zucchini, scallops cut a small hole inside wiped with alcohol, packed newspapers, left for 10-20 days, depending on the size. Dry vegetables, fruits, citrus peel can be in the oven at a low temperature in the shade on the tarpaulin, newsprint.

How to store natural materials for handicrafts

Keep all natural materials are recommended in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight. For this purpose:

• rag bags;
• carton boxes;
• filament mesh;
• Wicker, newspaper tubes of the basket;
• plastic containers (for stones, brittle shells, egg shells).

Recommended storage humidity - 12-18%, temperature - 9-18 degrees.

Ideas for Kindergarten

In the manufacture of panels, it is necessary to take into account the color of leaves, flowers, herbs and other things - on a dark background look good light items, and vice versa. Here are a few simple ideas, described step by step, for the little ones:

• owl Bean - on a sheet of colored cardboard drawn owls circuit inside thereof pasted over beans. Of dried daisies made eyes with one hand glued a piece of crust - it will be a tree, to fasten it with sprigs of oak leaves, mountain ash. The wings and legs sovushki also made of leaves;
• hedgehog - made from fir cones to which casts plasticine legs, eyes, nose, mushrooms;
• Chamomile - need to take the cane stalks, pumpkin seeds. Made from plasticine yellow center, flanked inserted seeds, petals, then the head is attached to the stem;
• matryoshka - need to work stone, shaped like a matryoshka, gouache paint, which is drawn face, pens, dolls handkerchief;
• timber in a box - is taken box suitable size is adhered to the bottom moss, pebbles, twigs of trees is made, which is fixed by means of clay. From large, medium and small "fluffed" cones make three bears, stick the plasticine eyes, noses, ears of the halves hats acorns;
• autumn bouquet - the bank will need to cover. On the inside of the lid is glued snag, branch, which carries the colorful leaves of maple, birch, oak, all kinds of dried flowers on top neatly covered jar, twist;
• horses and donkeys - their torso and head are made of acorns, legs - from matches, which are mounted in the holes done by an awl. Ears are made of "earrings" Ash, eyes, noses - lupine seeds;
• spiders - are made of chestnuts, acorns hats, bent in the middle of toothpicks. Optionally eight spider legs vyleplivayutsya boots made of clay or of plastic;
• dragonfly - wings are made from maple "helicopters", lupine eyes, the very body of clay or a suitable rod;
• turtle - for the manufacture of handicrafts need cockleboat walnut, clay, from which you are the body, the eyes of the small seeds.

Ready to show flat of work to keep them for a long time, placed in a frame under glass, volume - treated hair spray or acrylic from the cylinder.

craft ideas for primary school

Articles for the school exhibition a la "Hello, autumn!" Is easy and simple to do with the children. Fairy-tale world in a nutshell, is located on the board, a large wood saw cut. There will arrange a tea party Baba Yaga and the devil. Their torso made of pine cones, head - from nuts, hair, beard - made of straw, arms and legs - made of wire, headgear - from scraps of fabric, linen thread wound on the cork bottle. The table at which the characters are sitting, is made of a small slice of wood, tableware - from acorn caps of different sizes. The surrounding landscape is made with moss, thin sticks constructed hut.

Swans made of polymer clay white or black color schemes, feathers small. swan's body is made of spruce cones, painted with white paint, egg, with glued to his feathers, shells of pistachios.

Panel with squirrel is created from red pine bark - alternately cut the head, legs, hips, back and tail. All parts are glued on corrugated board, a flat piece of wood, toned acrylic, stain, nails are made from fennel seeds, eyes, nose - lupine seeds.

Fox, wolf, the other like a beast, pasted from the leaves of ash, deer antlers are made of oak leaves. Little caterpillar is created from large peas strung on wire, twine, string.

Cuckoo, black grouse, made from two large, but not fully unfolded pine cones, leaves, painted in gouache, ink. Also Kukushechka made of variegated black and white feathers of some breeds of chickens, parrots.

Lesovichka volume figure is made of an inverted fir cones or small pumpkins. His hat is constructed of maple leaves, larger pieces are decorated hats, woven of straw, wicker, textiles.

Apart from the "school" of handicrafts, you can create original interior decoration of wood materials: old umbrella okleivayut maple, oak leaves, splashing lacquer for structural strength, the glass bottles coated with adhesive beautiful shape, then rolled in buckwheat, oatmeal, semolina.

conclusion

Products made of natural materials for interior decoration is easy to perform with his own hands, using a bit of imagination. With the easiest to handle even a child of five under the supervision of an adult. Unique applications, toys, paintings, photo frames, decorations for a Christmas tree created from the forest, garden, field, offshore "gifts of nature" in the home workshop. Detailed instructions can be found on the Internet on the pages of popular publications on the subject of "hand-made".