DIY crafts made from natural materials quickly. Simple crafts made from natural materials
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 middle 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 woman 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 durable 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 be 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 given contours(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.).
Package of ideas No. 8
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
Greetings to all guests and regular readers of the blog. Recently I raised the issue of making them for various competitions and exhibitions in kindergartens and schools. I realized that this issue is very relevant, so I decided not to stop and devote a couple more articles on this topic.
However, today we will no longer create from an orange vegetable, but from natural materials, that is, from what can be found in the world around us. Most often, moss, bark, acorns, leaves, flowers, chestnuts, dry twigs, mushrooms, etc., that is, all plant elements, are used for children's creativity. Mineral materials include shells, sand, shells, and stones.
We will do handicrafts on a specific topic, and I think you can already guess which one. Of course, all products should be close to the autumn theme, because the Autumn Festival is celebrated in all preschool and school institutions.
Don’t forget that in addition to organizing all kinds of competitions, matinees are always held. Therefore, it’s great if you and your child not only work with your hands together, but also memorize a couple. But let’s not deviate from the topic and get down to choosing and creating crafts.
What crafts from natural materials on the theme of autumn can be made with your own hands quickly and beautifully
First, let's understand and figure out what can be created. After scrolling through a bunch of different sites, I selected different options for creative work. I would like to note that they are all very similar to each other, but at the same time, each work has something unique.
And here is the first product. The so-called autumn in the forest. Take cardboard and cut a circle out of it. Decorate (glue) the imaginary ground with leaves and berries. The house can be built from sticks or paper. Fir or pine branches work well as trees. Also use logs from thick dried branches. Don't forget about the pebbles. Well, plasticine will always help you.
But what kind of house can be made from twigs and colorful autumn leaves. Next to the hut you can place some fairy-tale hero or forest animal.
Another variation of a house made from cereals and various natural materials. It looks very beautiful and bright!
How do you like these cute burdock hedgehogs? Well, it's just a miracle. By the way, you will learn how to make such a craft below; there will be a detailed master class with a description and step-by-step pictures. So don’t rush to leave the page, read everything to the end.
Here's another idea with a hedgehog. Only here the painting acts as a product. Kids can easily cope with this type of activity.
As an addition to any craft, you can use a Barbie doll in the role of the Queen of Autumn. And to make her more elegant, make her a dress from maple leaves.
I really liked the next composition. Animals made from cones are so cute and funny. The work is just great!
You can make any cartoon characters from chestnuts. They perfectly complement a forest clearing.
I don’t know about you, but the photo below really grabbed my attention. To convey the whole autumn mood so subtly, it’s simply a masterpiece.
Hedgehogs, hedgehogs! They are the most popular in crafts made from natural materials, so admire them and do it yourself.
Forest deer are simply beautiful. They are made very easily and simply. Connect all the parts using brown plasticine.
Another idea is that you can paint the pine cones and make whatever you want out of them. This is what an autumn composition turned out to be.
Ideas for autumn crafts made from natural materials for elementary school for an exhibition
In fact, such creativity is very useful, and if your child becomes interested in it, then you will then have to prepare natural materials in advance and learn how to store them correctly. But this is, of course, another topic, not about that today. Therefore, the following works will help you.
Option with a sailboat and a forest dweller. Simple, but tasteful.
I see that houses are also often found in products. Apparently because they look impressive and are appropriate in any product.
And this is what I talked about above. That various animals, fairy-tale and cartoon characters are easily made from natural materials.
What a squirrel that brought a nut. Just a cutie. And for work you only need cones, acorns, leaves and a stand. And also plasticine.
Well, the owls are like real ones. And feathers are also part of natural materials, so don’t forget about them.
Now the hedgehogs are not made from burdock, but from your favorite cones. Looks cool too.
The following creation is perfect for schoolchildren. It develops imagination, perseverance and accuracy very well.
Here are more works on the theme “Autumn in the Forest.” I think many people will want to do this with their own hands.
And finally, these funny puppies who went for a walk. Bravo to their creators! Looks original.
And I would like to invite you to watch the following video story. It tells in detail and shows how you can create a craft from natural materials, namely, make a clearing with mushrooms. A great idea for kids to get creative.
Crafts made from natural materials for the autumn holiday in kindergarten
Now let's see what our kids can do. Yes, actually everything. So all the works are suitable for both schoolchildren and preschoolers. Help from adults is, of course, welcome and will not be superfluous.
The next work is called “There was a birch tree in the field.” You found a strong birch twig, yellow leaves from the birch tree and your tree is ready. Additionally, they built a hut from branches, covered the ground with moss, lined the path with pebbles or cereals, and everything was ready.
Here is a picture in a frame. All the same familiar materials: leaves, grass, plasticine and sunflower seeds.
And what a bright ladybug can be made from rowan berries. Indescribable beauty!
Don’t forget that natural materials go well not only with plasticine, but also with vegetables from the garden. Such cute little lambs and pigs!
Well, this craft is quite simple. But how a child will be happy with his creation like this.
What kind of miracles are these? I think this is Leshy and his girlfriend. It turned out to be a cheerful and romantic composition, do you agree with me?
Remember, just above it was closely shown how you can make forest deer? But now they are not individually, but in the whole composition.
So the autumn trees look almost like real ones. And the cute and prickly hedgehogs are already here.
And another variation of making a wise owl.
I never tire of being amazed at how rich human imagination is and how skillful our hands are. I say “Bravo!” to the authors of the works.
Interesting DIY projects for grades 1-3 using natural materials
Well, I still have some amazing autumn works for you. If you are not tired, then read on and be sure to choose products for creativity with your children.
For example, you can make such a three-dimensional picture. And you can call it this way - Autumn bouquet in a vase.
What do we see below? Wow, a real tree and a super bouquet of leaves. Class!
Oh, I can’t stop, I found another chestnut hut. We have a lot of them in Tula.
And here is a hedgehog without a head and legs). So big and with a crop on the thorns.
And how beautifully you can decorate a basket with moss and berries! Moreover, the basket itself can also be woven from twigs yourself.
If time allows you and there is a forest not far from you, then wander through it in search of interesting materials for work. You will definitely be lucky and you will find something special, for example, like in the picture below.
By the way, you can create bouquets of roses from autumn leaves. It looks very nice.
Here is another work dedicated to the theme of autumn in the forest. Beauty, what else can you say.
Dancer girls made of leaves, acorns and twigs. Original, original!
And here is just a bouquet of roses made from leaves. Just twist the not yet dried leaves and the buds will be ready.
Original crafts made from natural materials and plasticine on the theme of golden autumn
Now I propose to look at options for products containing plasticine. I won’t describe in detail what and how, since everything is clear and understandable from the photographs. If you have any questions, then write in the comments and I will answer.
- "Caterpillar";
- “Collecting mushrooms”;
- "Forest Animals";
- "Walk in the Woods";
- "Visiting Baba Yaga";
- "Puppy";
- "Happy Snails";
- "Animals";
- "Butterfly";
- Insects";
- "Life in the Forest";
- "Mushrooms."
Step-by-step master classes on making autumn crafts “Hedgehog”, “Cockerel” and “Owl”
Well, as I promised above, I will tell you and show you in detail how you can make the most popular crafts from natural materials. Ready?! Then let's begin!
Burdock hedgehogs in an autumn meadow
You will need: leaves, twigs, cones, tree mushrooms, burdock, plasticine, sticks, any box, scissors, PVA glue, hawthorn berries, rowan berries or any others.
Work process:
1. To make a clearing we will need cardboard. Take any box and cut out the cardboard to the required size.
2. Draw a forest edge on a piece of cardboard. Glue the leaf, cones, berries and tree mushrooms. And in order for the branches to stand, secure them with plasticine.
3. Make a head for the hedgehog from yellow plasticine. And make eyes and a nose out of black.
4. Insert a non-fragile stick into the plasticine head.
5. Now form a body with thorns from the burdock.
6. As a result, you should end up with a hedgehog like this. Just don’t forget to stick a piece of plasticine on the end of the stick, otherwise the face will outweigh it.
7. Place a couple of berries on top of the thorns.
8. Make another hedgehog and place them in the autumn meadow. Your craft is ready.
Cockerel made from pine cones
You will need: pine cones (large and small), plasticine, scissors, autumn leaves, rowan berries.
Work process:
1. Take two small dense leaves, preferably with the greatest predominance of red color. Cut them into narrow strips as shown in the photo. Cherry leaves are very suitable for this task.
2. Attach the resulting leaves to the large cone (body) using small pieces of plasticine.
3. Now make a long and colorful ponytail. To do this, you need to use the technology described in point 1. Take yellow, green and red leaves. Rowan, ash and grape leaves work well. Fasten the blanks with a piece of red plasticine.
4. Attach the tail to the top of the pine cone.
5. Make a stand for the cockerel from green plasticine. Decorate the stand with rowan berries.
6. Attach the torso to the stand.
7. Now make the head. Take a small pine cone. And from red plasticine, mold a beak, a comb, and long earrings. Roll out round eyes from black plasticine. Secure everything onto the pine cone.
8. Make a neck from orange plasticine. And take one leaf and also cut it into strips.
9. Attach the neck to the body, and then attach the head to the neck. Stick a cut leaf to your neck.
10. Finally, place the cockerel on a hard surface and decorate its place with any autumn natural materials.
And for a snack, an owl. The craft is made from dry leaves and a transparent bag. Everything is very, very simple. The result exceeds all expectations. So quickly watch the video and do everything according to the model.
And since I can’t stop, catch more cute ideas.
Little fox sister made from carrots. And her clearing is made of different natural materials.
Smeshariki also visited autumn. There is a fantasy - there is a result.
Another family of mushrooms. You can take brown branches, and then simply paint them with white paint.
And here is a hedgehog who found a ripe apple. There is a plot, which means the craft is ready.
Well, the invented forest dweller will decorate any work.
Well, that’s it now, I have to stop, otherwise I won’t finish writing). Finally, I would like to note that all the collected works are not mine, but taken from the Internet. So I’ll once again praise all the authors - “you’re great,” the crafts are all great and for every age and taste. And I wish you, dear readers, to work hard and take prizes at exhibitions. Let your children receive their first certificates and awards. Bye, bye everyone.
Each season presents people with its own natural materials from which they can create spectacular crafts. In summer it can be stones and shells brought from the sea, and in autumn yellow leaves and cones.
There are also many creative solutions using flowers, acorns, vegetables and fruits. Bird feeders, home decor items, paintings and garden items can be made from different materials.
Types of crafts
The reason for making crafts can be any holiday. Most often, people make various products with their own hands from natural materials in the following cases:
- To decorate a portrait on Mother's Day.
- For the New Year.
- Autumn crafts for home decoration.
- Household products in the form of baskets or vases.
- Halloween Pumpkin Crafts.
- Garden decorations.
All these items will be made exclusively from environmentally friendly materials, which means they will not harm health. It is worth noting that the family will not spend a penny on this; all they need to do is go to the forest or park and collect the necessary items.
How to give a gift in honor of Mother's Day?
Mother's Day is a special day for every man or son. At this moment I want to please my mother with something. In this case, a craft made from natural materials is perfect, because the most expensive gift is a gift made with your own hands.
There are several types that can be given to the hero of the occasion. They can be easy, which even a small child can handle, or more complex.
Portrait decoration
One of the most creative and at the same time simple ideas is to decorate your mother's portrait with a beautiful autumn outfit.
To do this you will need the following materials:
- grains of wheat or other grains;
- beads;
- pumpkin seeds;
- maple yellow leaves;
- glue;
- picture frame.
- A4 colored paper.
First you need to prepare the frame and background for the future portrait. Here it is better to use calmer colors; the background should not be flashy and attract all the attention. Pastel colors work well.
When the frame with the background is ready, you need to find a full-face photograph of your mother and the larger it is, the better, this will allow you to fully use all the prepared natural materials and give more space for creativity.
If the photo is large, you only need to cut out the face and glue it to the background. Now you can start decorating the picture. First you need to make hair from wheat grains. The hairstyle can be absolutely anything, not necessarily the same as it was in the photo.
On top of the head you need to leave room for a crown of maple leaves. Here you can also fantasize or pick up ideas from films and cartoons.
Below under the neck you also need to stick a large maple leaf, but upside down. It will be part of a necklace that will be made from pumpkin seeds. At your discretion, you can add multi-colored beads to the composition.
Decorate the “dress” with flowers
New Year's 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 made from various natural materials, made independently, can help.
These can be not only toys for the Christmas tree, but also New Year's wreaths on the door made of pine cones, boxes, decorations for walls and tables.
How to make a New Year's wreath for a door from pine cones?
To make a pine cone wreath, you first need to make a round base. If you wish, you can do it yourself or buy a suitable item in a store. You can also look for something at home that resembles a circle; absolutely any object will do.
To create a full-fledged New Year's craft, you will need the following materials:
- Glue.
- Cones.
- A round object, such as an embroidery mug.
- Wide ribbon (preferably red).
- Small tree branches.
- Berries.
- Acorns or nuts.
- Wire.
- Spruce branches.
The first thing you need to do is 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 attaching the cones.
If it is a circle made of foam plastic, the cones can be attached using wire; in other cases, reliable glue is more suitable. But before gluing them, you should think about repainting them in a different color, for example, red or golden cones look very impressive.
Sometimes the idea is to glue the cones in their natural position, but this does not always work out. In this case, you can increase the gluing area and apply them sideways, first breaking some of the petals. For convenience, pliers are used for this.
How to decorate a Christmas wreath?
Sometimes a New Year's wreath serves not only as an object for decorating a home and creating a cozy atmosphere. In some cases, it serves as a talisman. To make it, it is necessary to use appropriate natural materials that have the appropriate spiritual power. These may be the following plants:
- viburnum is a symbol of family cohesion and unity;
- sunflower is a symbol of financial well-being;
- oak acorns - will add health (like walnuts), as well as strength and longevity;
The same applies to the color of the Advent wreath:
- Blue and gold – health.
- Red – energy and strength.
You can also use items such as Christmas tree balls, dried lemon mugs, cinnamon sticks, garlands and ribbons, fruits, candies or rain for decoration.
- Blue and gold – health.
- Red – energy and strength.
How to make autumn-themed crafts for kindergarten?
It is the autumn time that involves making a large number of crafts from natural materials for kindergarten. At this time, educators and teachers try to awaken the creative nature in children, and parents can help them with this.
Young children are encouraged to start with the simplest things. The most common craft is a photograph of a child in which he is trying to blow the wind. It is glued to one side of the leaf, and the leaves to the other, so it looks as if the baby is inflating the leaves and they are flying through the air.
Other simple crafts made from natural materials can be the following:
- Hedgehog.
- Owls.
- Wreaths on the head made of leaves.
- Crowns.
To make a hedgehog, you will need an A4 sheet of paper, pencils, glue and preferably birch leaves; if you don’t have them, any others with pointed ends will do. On paper you need to draw the face of a hedgehog or the whole thing. Next, on the body, where the needles are located, the sheets are glued with the sharp ends up. The hedgehog is ready!
For the wreath you will need any round object that can be placed on your head. As a last resort, you can cut it out of cardboard and glue the ends together. Leaves with long petioles are better suited here to tie it to the base. In the same way, you can attach different flowers to the wreath.
Using the petiole you can tie the wreath to the base
Autumn! Gold autumn! There are so many colors and warmth in it, which are about to be replaced by cold weather. Don't waste a moment, it's time to get inspired for new ideas for creating beauty. Be creative, create interesting things from materials given by nature. Let autumn become the muse for inspiration, go for it!
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Autumn crafts are a great idea for leisure time
With the onset of autumn, it is simply impossible to stroll through parks and squares indifferently. Colorful landscapes enchant the eye with their bright notes. At this time, nature gifts us with juicy fruits, as well as a variety of color palettes.
These autumn gifts can be immortalized in time by decorating your home with them using a variety of crafts and “hand maid” things. Such decorations will not only transform the interior, but will also help you while away the cold autumn evenings. This activity will allow you to plunge into the atmosphere of home warmth and comfort. So brew your favorite warming drink and grab a warm blanket.
So, autumn has arrived, it’s time to stock up on all sorts of natural materials for creativity.
Crafts from natural materials for home and interior: paintings and panels
Panels are widely used to decorate walls in the interior. Such paintings will look original if made from natural materials.
In general, a great option would be to involve children in doing manual work of this type. This will give children the opportunity to show their creativity and imagination, and will also have a beneficial effect on the development of fine motor skills, which is important for the normal development of the child.
Panel of coffee beans
This type of wall art is best suited for the kitchen. Often this place is associated with comfort and homely warmth. It has been scientifically proven that the smell of coffee has anti-stress properties. So such a panel will not only decorate the house, but will also benefit the body.
For this type of work you will need:
- Coffee beans that have different properties, ranging from smell and color to size.
- The material that will serve as the frame (base) of the panel. Typically, any durable fabric, wood, paper, etc. is used for this.
- Glue, the most common PVA will also work, but it’s better to consult a craft store.
- A drawing that will be depicted using grains.
- Carbon copy.
- A simple pencil.
- The frame in which the finished product will be mounted.
This list of necessary materials is the most basic. You can add various cereals and legumes to coffee beans, thus creating a whole picture filled with various shades.
How to do the job:
- Transfer the desired design onto the base using a pencil and carbon paper.
- Then apply glue to small areas and immediately glue coffee beans onto them, alternating beans of different colors, depending on your idea. An interesting idea would be to make appliqués from grains, gluing fringes, ribbons, rhinestones, etc.
- Frame the final result.
- The product can be decorated with multi-colored aromatic spices or dryings.
- To attach cereals, such as buckwheat or semolina, apply glue liberally to the desired surface, cover it tightly with the cereal and wait for it to dry; simply shake off any excess residue.
Leaves panel
There are a lot of design options for such handicrafts; you just have to take a walk along the autumn alley and stock up on the necessary materials.
Children take on such paintings with particular passion.
You can decorate the room not only with paintings, but also with works in the form of bouquets of leaves.
Below are ideas for panels made from natural materials that will inspire you to get creative.
Shell panel
Leather panel
Crafts for school and kindergarten
Almost all school and preschool institutions hold autumn-themed competitions. It is at this time of year that you can stock up on natural materials so that you can use them throughout the year.
Sometimes children do crafts so passionately in labor lessons and at home that entire works of art are created.
The creativity kits that can be purchased in stores cannot be compared with the variety of generous gifts of autumn. The completed craft will be saturated not only with children's love, but also with the magical aromas of the forest.
So what can be useful for creation?
- Fallen leaves. The abundance of dry foliage is rich in the brightest shades of colors. There is room for your imagination to run wild.
- Cones. If there is a park, forest plantation or even a forest not far from your house, you can stock up on these fruits of coniferous plants.
- Shells, stones and sand. These materials, of course, can be found not only in the fall, but they can diversify the list of necessary materials.
- Acorns and chestnuts. It is with these finds that a lot of ideas for DIY work are associated.
- Coniferous and spruce branches are a real find for nature lovers.
- “Perky helicopters” is what maple seeds are sometimes called and used in their work.
- Walnut shells, pumpkin and melon seeds, bunches of rowan berries are not the whole arsenal of supplies.
- Tree bark, reeds, and dried flowers are also needed.
- It happens that after visiting exhibitions and zoos with birds, you can get rich with a whole collection of feathers.
If possible, try to pay attention to the surrounding delights of nature every walk and pick up all the above-mentioned abundance. Be careful, because in the simplest and most ordinary things there is often hidden a whole treasure.
In addition to being outdoors, your child will have the opportunity to develop their creative thinking and exercise their logic.
DIY children's crafts: funny applications
So, you have stocked up on the necessary natural gizmos, so you should put them into practice. One of the many types of crafts is applique. Call the kids and sit down to create. Here are ideas for creativity.
Autumn crafts from leaves: ideas for creativity
Interesting leaf applications
Autumn collages
Leaf print paintings
Candlesticks made from leaves
Vase of leaves
Autumn paper crafts
DIY crafts from pine cones
Photo exhibition of autumn crafts
Autumn themed crafts: original ideas
Unusual wreath
Creative wall framing
Crafts from vegetables and fruits
Video tutorials for making autumn crafts
Nature has blessed us with an incredible abundance of bright and colorful natural materials. Don’t miss the opportunity to take advantage of these gifts, create comfort by decorating your home with handmade crafts!
Natural material is the most accessible and interesting material for children's creativity. In the autumn, all children's educational institutions make small and large masterpieces from cones, leaves, acorns, sticks, twigs, bark, flowers, fruits and seeds. In this section, the teacher can find many ideas for children's creativity.
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Richness of material from nature
Everything that lies under your feet will be useful for work - no matter good or bad. May be useful: leaves and flowers, acorns with cups, cones, branches. You can bring a lot of nuts from home; beans, beans, peas, fruits, vegetables and much more are also suitable for crafts.
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