
Each season gives people their own natural materials, from which you can create spectacular crafts. In the summer it can be stones and shells brought from the sea, and in the fall yellow leaves and cones.
There are also many creative solutions using flowers, acorns, vegetables and fruits. Feeders for birds, elements of home decor, paintings and products for the garden can be made from different materials.
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Types of crafts
The occasion for the manufacture of handicrafts can serve as a holiday. Most often, people make different products with their own hands from natural materials in the following cases:
- To decorate the portrait on Mother's Day.
- For the new year.
- Autumn crafts for home decoration.
- Products for household purposes in the form of baskets or vases.
- Halloween Pumpkin Crafts
- Decorations for the garden.
All these items will be made exclusively from environmentally friendly materials, and therefore will not harm health. It is worth noting that the family does not spend a penny on this, it is enough to go to a forest or a park and collect the necessary items.
return to menu ↑How to make a gift in honor of Mother's Day?
Mother's Day is a special day for every man or son. At this point, I want to please my mother with something. In this case, a handicraft made of natural materials is perfect, because the most expensive gift is a gift made with your own hands.
There are several types that can give the culprit triumph. They can be lightweight, which even a small child can handle or more complex.
return to menu ↑Portrait decoration
One of the most creative and at the same time simple ideas is to decorate the portrait of the mother with a beautiful autumn outfit.
This will require the following materials:
- wheat or other cereal grains;
- beads;
- pumpkin seeds;
- maple yellow leaves;
- glue;
- picture frame.
- color paper A4.
First you need to prepare a frame and background for the future portrait. Here it is better to use calmer colors, the background should not be flashy and draw all the attention to yourself. Well suited pastel colors.
If the photo is large, you need to cut only the face and stick it on the background. Now you can begin to decorate the picture. First you need to make hair from wheat grains. Hairstyle can be absolutely anyone, not necessarily the same as it was in the photo.
On top of the head must be left room for the crown of maple leaves. Here you can also dream or spy ideas from films and cartoons.
Below under the neck also need to stick a large maple leaf, but upside down. It will be part of the necklace that will be made from pumpkin seeds. At its discretion, you can add multi-colored beads to the composition.
return to menu ↑Christmas crafts
New Year is one of the most important and long-awaited holidays for every family. It is always very important to make it special, crafts of various natural materials made by themselves can help.
It can be not only toys for the Christmas tree, but also New Year's wreaths on the door of cones, jewelry boxes, decorations for walls and a table.
return to menu ↑How to make a New Year's wreath for the door of the cones?
To make a wreath of cones, you first need to make a round base. If you want, you can do it yourself or buy the appropriate item in the store. You can also search at home for something resembling a circle, absolutely any subject will do.
To create a full-fledged Christmas crafts will need the following materials:
- Glue.
- Cones.
- Round object, such as embroidery mugs.
- Wide ribbon (preferably red).
- Small branches of trees.
- Berries.
- Acorns or nuts.
- Wire.
- The branches ate.
The first thing you need to do is to think through to the end what the design of the wreath from natural materials will be. It is advisable to draw a sketch on paper. Depending on what is used as a round base, you need to choose the best option for fastening the cones.
If it is a foam circle, the cones can be attached with wire, in other cases reliable glue is more suitable. But before you glue them, you should think about how to repaint from a different color, such as red or golden bumps look very impressive.
How to decorate a Christmas wreath?
Sometimes a New Year's wreath is not only the subject of home decoration and create a cozy atmosphere. In some cases, he serves as a talisman. To make it, you must use the appropriate natural materials that have the appropriate spiritual strength. These may be the following plants:
- viburnum - a symbol of unity and family unity;
- sunflower - a symbol of financial well-being;
- oak acorns - add health (like a walnut), as well as strength and longevity;
The same applies to the color of the Christmas wreath:
- Blue with gold - health.
- Red - energy and strength.
- Gold and green are the color of wealth.
You can also use items such as Christmas balls, dried lemon mugs, cinnamon sticks, garlands and ribbons, fruits, candy or rain.
- Blue with gold - health.
- Red - energy and strength.
- Gold and green are the color of wealth.
How to make crafts for kindergarten on the theme of autumn?
It is autumn time that involves the manufacture of a large number of handicrafts from natural materials for kindergarten. At this time, educators and teachers are trying to awaken creative nature in children, and parents can help them with this.
Young children are offered to start with the simplest. The most common hack is a picture of a child in which he is trying to blow the wind. It is glued on one side of the sheet, and the leaves on the other, thus it seems as if the baby inflates the leaves and they fly through the air.
Other simple crafts from natural material may be as follows:
- Hedgehog.
- Owls.
- Wreaths on the head of the leaves.
- Crown
To make a hedgehog, you need a sheet of A4, pencils, glue and preferably birch leaves, if they are not found, any other with pointed ends will do. On paper, you need to draw a hedgehog little face or his whole. Next on the body, where the needles are located, the sheets are glued with the sharp ends up. Hedgehog ready!
For the wreath will need any round object that can be put on the head. In extreme cases, you can cut it out of cardboard and glue the ends. Here leaves with long petioles will fit better to tie it to the base. In the same way you can attach different flowers to the wreath.
return to menu ↑Handicraft for primary school
School crafts will be more difficult to level. Here, teachers will pay attention to the manifestation of children's creativity and skills.
- beautiful leaves of different shades of yellow;
- chestnuts;
- acorns;
- fruits and vegetables (if they are dried);
- rowan or other berries;
- nutshell;
- cones.
Beads from berries and acorns
Beads from natural materials always look very beautiful, creative and colorful. The most important thing is that almost every elementary schoolchild can make this craft. To do this, you need acorns, berries, thick nylon thread and needle.
To begin with, the thread is threaded into the needle. Next you need to prepare all the berries and start stringing them with a certain order. To make the beads more beautiful, you can string the dark and light fruits one by one, or you can divide the thread into even parts 50/50 and put the berries on each side with your own color. If you do not comply with any queue, you get no less creative.
To make beads from acorns, you must first make through holes. To do this, you can use a hard needle with a thimble, a thin nail or awl. It is better for parents to take on this work, as the child may get hurt. And he already entrusted the work of putting on acorns on the rope.
return to menu ↑How to make forest abacus?
One of the most creative handicrafts is forest abacus made from natural materials. Here, the child will need the help of parents, but the process is so interesting that everyone will receive pleasure from the result. To make crafts, you must prepare the following:
- Birch log.
- Chestnuts
- Thin and smooth sticks.
Since here you need to work with a tree, you need the help of parents, namely the father, as you have to make a little effort. First you need to divide the log into 2 parts along the trunk. It is desirable that the parts are the same. They will serve as the basis for future crafts.
Now you need to prepare the sticks.They must have the same length, diameter. They should also be smooth without bends and protrusions. Further in the chestnuts holes are made, they should be such that they are easy to put on and slide over the stick.
It is very important not to forget to first thread all the chestnuts on sticks in the same quantity, and only then fix them on the split before that log. You can fix them with a reliable glue or nails. The bills are ready!
return to menu ↑Autumn home decoration do it yourself
For everyone already an adult, the autumn time is a reminder of school years, when teachers asked the house to make products from natural materials. In order not to get rid of these memories, you can do it yourself even now and decorate your house with it.
It does not have to spend a lot of time, one evening will be enough. It remains only to choose what it will be handicraft:
- Panel of leaves.
- Herbarium topiary.
- Roses from maple leaves.
- Basket for fruits and berries.
- Decorations for the candlestick.
- Wreath for the front door.
- Pumpkin vase.
How to make a panel of maple leaves?
The most large-scale hack is a panel. The result will be very impressive and will impress every guest of the apartment. But the most important thing is to make it very simple. This will require the following materials:
- maple leaves with a reddish tinge;
- tree branch for the trunk;
- a bunch of dry spikelets;
- dark color lacquer;
- large basket for several pumpkins;
- decorative pumpkins;
- a large piece of square plywood;
- simple pencil;
First you need to prepare the most important thing - this is the base of plywood. It needs to be polished. Attention is given to corners, they should be smooth. Next, dark lacquer or stain is applied to the plywood, as long as the result is that the square has a brown tint.
All paint or varnish should dry well. Next, on the plywood you need to draw a large wedge sheet. Now you can begin to stick sheets across its area. The result will be one large sheet of many small. It is necessary that one sheet slightly covers the other, there should be no gaps between them.
In the place where there should be a leaf stalk, stick previously cooked stick. It should most closely resemble its enlarged copy. Now the panel can be hung on the wall and decorated with a basket with pumpkins and spikelets installed side by side on the table.
Crafts from natural material
Interesting ideas for autumn crafts