Crafts made from walnut shells are one of the most exciting activities for children of all ages, who are happy to come up with new images for hemispheres that are pleasant to the touch, durable, and have an attractive force.

As a rule, crafts are made from walnut shells in kindergarten– in groups different ages, and in elementary school. But even older schoolchildren are happy to use this material for creativity.

Figures and toys made from walnut shells

At the beginning academic year Crafts on the theme of autumn are the most relevant - creating them from walnuts is quite simple and interesting. At the same time, if you use your imagination, you can get the most original and unexpected products:

a spider with furry legs on its web, which is already preparing for the onset of cold weather;

a small mouse in a warm cap, sleeping in a cradle suspended from a branch of an autumn tree.

Crafts in the shape of animals are even more diverse. You can create a wide variety of characters with your own hands:

ladybug, which will be enlivened by three-dimensional toy eyes;

a bird with a yellow felt beak and calico wings;

a charismatic owl with felt wings and ears;

turtles with cardboard heads and legs and turtles with heads and legs made of chenille wire;

Walnut shells are rich soil for creativity. Once you start creating crafts, your imagination will prompt you with many of your own, absolutely unique, images.

whales with cardboard fountains;

a bee with wings made of foam board and antennae made of fluffy wire;

These bees look great even without wings;

You can make a charming ladybug from a walnut shell

the backs of such ladybugs are painted with paint, and the wings are made of felt;

crabs with cardboard claws;

a mouse with large ears made of foam board;

mice with small felt ears;

You can make funny tethered puppies from walnut shells.

If you glue a fleece scarf and ears to a nut and draw a face for it, we will get a cute bear.

Octopus with furry legs.

Funny frogs.

If you coat the nut with glue and cover it with buckwheat, you can make a small forest hedgehog. All that remains is to draw on his eyes and glue on his nose.

A bright butterfly with cardboard wings.

You can create entire compositions - for example, the sun, a flying bee and an elephant, as in our photo.

Another charming character that can be made from a walnut is a penguin. First we paint it. We make the beak and legs from felt, the headphones from fluffy wire, and the wings from seeds. We glue factory eyes on it - the craft is ready!

Another craft that many people will love is mushrooms made from walnuts and plasticine. Such mushrooms turn out very similar to natural ones, and making the craft does not require much work.

You can make a funny dragon from walnuts, sticks, cones and dry leaves.

And the boys will certainly like the boats with a mast – a toothpick and a caton flag.

You can make autumn boats with sails from dried maple leaves (you can cut a maple leaf out of paper or film).

Look at another version of walnut boats in the video:

Strawberry shell pendant

And everyone will surely love the delicious strawberry pendant made using green felt and paints.

Box and pincushion made of walnut shell

For example, you can make a small but very cute pincushion from a walnut, a small piece of cotton wool, fabric and glue. We wrap the cotton wool in cloth and sew it up. Place the resulting ball on the glue in the inside of the nut.

How to make a cute box, watch the video:

In these pictures you can see wonderful examples of crafts made from walnut shells.

Walnut shell is the best material for construction various crafts. Many needlewomen have already appreciated the qualities of nut shells and present new creations every day. You and your child can make crafts from walnut shells. Awaken inspiration, activate your imagination, and move forward towards creative achievements.

Chest of ideas

Remember primary school. During labor and applied arts lessons, we often made crafts from walnut shells. The photos you are about to see will add a couple of new ideas to your creative treasury. From something so inconspicuous natural material you can make a simple boat or a real man-made masterpiece. It all depends on the height of your imagination, the amount of free time and skills.

So, you can make the following crafts from walnut shells:

• spider;

• ladybug;

• turtle;

• bee;

• boats.

And this is far from an exhaustive list. In combination with nutshells, various waste material: plasticine, twigs, leaves, beads, seed beads, wooden skewers, wire and ribbons.

Experienced craftswomen know how to decorate flowerpots, picture frames or photographs with walnut shells. A designer decoration for your interior will be original panel or a Christmas wreath.

Sharing secrets

Before you start designing crafts, you need to prepare the material. Only dry shells are suitable for creativity, without damage or chips. Carefully divide it into two parts and remove the nut kernel. You can eat it, and we will use the shells to create crafts.

Here are some practical tips for you:

• You can connect the shells together and fix them on the base using heavy-duty glue, double-sided adhesive tape or a glue gun;
• before work, paint the nut shell in the desired color with acrylic paints;
• so that the paint applies evenly, it is better to use aerosols;
• If you don’t want your craft to turn into a dust collector, cover it with colorless decorative varnish.

The holiday is approaching!

The New Year and Christmas holidays are just around the corner. Various accessories help us create a festive atmosphere and a great mood. If you watch foreign New Year films, we will see that most houses are decorated with Christmas wreaths. This attribute has become popular in our country. If you don’t know what crafts you can make from walnut shells with your own hands, try making an original wreath.

Advice! Can be used for decoration Christmas decorations, ribbons, artificial or live spruce branches, pine cones, beads, tinsel.

• round base;
• glue gun;
• nut shells;
• beads;
• ribbons;
• cones;
• spruce branches;
• decorative aerosol varnish;
• other accessories for decoration.

Step-by-step description of the process:

Advice! If you decide to paint the nut shell, it is better to do this in advance. We wait until the paint has completely dried, and then we start creating the wreath.

Let's hurry to help the baby

Many children are always interested in tinkering various crafts. The easiest way to create a craft is from walnut shells and plasticine. You can have a great time with your little one by making an original spider. But the baby can’t do without your help.

Required materials and tools:

• thick sheet of colored cardboard;
• nut shells;
• glue gun;
• brush;
• scissors;
• needle;
• threads;
• a set of gouache or watercolor paints;
• toy eyes - 1 pair;
• plasticine;
• decorative colored wire.

Step-by-step description of the process:

Advice! To avoid staining your workbench, lay down an oilcloth or sheet of paper. Hands can be protected with gloves.

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 injuries 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 ladybug you made earlier. The craft is ready!

"Funny little animals"

You can make a lot of funny animals from walnut shells without any effort. special effort. Below we will tell you how to do this.

1. To make penguins, paint the shells black and white, then draw the eyes and attach the beak and paws made from paper.
2. Paint the walnut shells gray, cut out of paper long tail and characteristic mouse ears, and then attach them to the right places- you will get funny little mice.
3. To make turtles, paint half of the shell green, adding the 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!
4. 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!
5. You can even make an octopus from the shells! To do this, paint the shell in pink and attach eight wire legs covered in pink fabric to it.
6. To make frogs, attach legs to the bottom of the shell (you can use pumpkin seeds), paint the shell green and draw funny faces on the front side of the toy.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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"

1. Take a green sheet of paper and cut out a shape in the shape of a tree leaf.
2. Color the six nut halves white and orange as shown.
3. Make a light green spot in the upper central part of each shell halves.
4. Take a whole nut and draw a smiling face on it - this will be the head of our caterpillar.
5. 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"

1. Divide the nuts into halves and remove the kernel.
2. Place a small surprise inside the shell that will easily fit into the shell.
3. Glue the halves together with a glue gun and offer a surprise to someone close to you.

"Walnut Athletes"

1. 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.
2. 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.

Creativity begins with imagination, and not with the purchase of expensive special materials and tools. It is quite possible to create a small miracle from what is at hand, what you have to deal with every day.

Walnut lovers should not rush to throw away the shells. When you connect fantasy and imagination, you can create real masterpieces of any complexity from them.

Crafts made from walnuts are a natural source material that turns into jewelry, miniature doll houses, and even netsuke-style figurines.

What is good about walnut shells?

In natural or artificial material There is beneficial properties, which facilitate the manufacturing process. Walnut halves also have them:

• the natural form gives rise to a large associative series, since it resembles a shell, a cup, a ball, a pendant, a casket;
• shells are strong and resistant to high temperatures, chemical influences, which allows them to be processed in any way;
• natural color and texture of the shell, i.e. this material does not need to be painted or sanded;
• The material is stored for a long time, is not sensitive to moisture or other destructive factors.

Walnut halves are very easy to work with. It is enough to free them from natural “partitions”, if necessary, wash and dry them, and the material is ready.

It is suitable for both children of any age and adults.

Crafts at the initial stage

What can be made from walnut shells:

• mushrooms with berries;
• vegetables, fruits;
• animals, insects;
• Christmas tree, Easter decorations, wreaths;
• boxes and needle cases;
• doll houses;
• flashlights;
• pendants and pendants;
• miniature wallets;
• candlesticks;
• stands for place cards;
• models of boats and ships.

You need to start with something simple that will help you get used to the material and become familiar with it. For starters, it could be a ladybug or a funny caterpillar.

The first step is to divide the shells into halves and peel them. The craft can be made in two versions: in the first, the halves will imitate petals big flower, on which a plasticine ladybug “sits”, in the second they themselves will be a ladybug.

The bright insect is molded from black and red plasticine. You will need five halves. The core of the flower will be made of yellow plasticine. The ball is rolled, flattened, and five shell petals are attached to it in a circle. In the end, all that remains is to “plant” the ladybug on them.

In the second case, half a nut is taken, and insect parts are molded from plasticine: wings (made of red plasticine), black specks, head. In the finale, the craft is simply assembled from individual parts: the elytra are glued onto the half, speckles on them, a head, and paws if desired.

To make a cheerful caterpillar from a shell, you need to take six shells, a sheet of green colored paper, paints, wool thread bright color (red or yellow). A large round sheet is cut out of colored paper, and veins are drawn on it with paints. The six halves of the nut will become the “body” of the caterpillar, so you need to draw multi-colored circles on top of them (yellow-white-green, for example). Next, the halves are glued to a sheet in the shape of a caterpillar. The head is made from a whole nut, on which a funny face is drawn. The colored thread is folded into a bun and glued on top in the form of a tuft or bangs.

Funny little animals

The next stage of creativity for kids can be crafts in the form of animals, birds, sea creatures - mice, penguins, hares, turtles, octopuses.

To create a cheerful animal, the halves of the nut are painted gray. Ears and eyes are cut out of paper, the nose can be made from beads or drawn. You can use a gray woolen thread as a ponytail. All parts are glued to the shells. You can make bunnies in the same way, only the ears should be larger, and for the tail you should use a piece of cotton wool rather than a thread.

You can make a funny octopus from plasticine and walnuts. Take half a nut, paint it in a bright color (yellow or pink), and draw a face. For the paws, use bright fluffy wire to match the shell, and the parts are fastened together. The figurine is ready.

You can make another inhabitant of the ocean - a whale. To do this, take half a nut and paint it dark blue color. Use black paint to paint eyes and a smiling mouth. A “fountain” of water in any shape is cut out of white paper, and a tail is cut out of dark blue paper. They can be glued to the half or holes can be made in the shell and parts can be inserted. Such a whale can be allowed to swim: the air in the cavity of the shell allows it to confidently float on the water.

Greek masterpieces

When the stage with children's crafts is passed, and interest in the material only grows, “acorns” may be born.

You need to take multi-colored, shiny, gold or silver paint, paint the shells, connect them together, and install a fastener for a wire thread. Upper part“acorns” can be coated with glue and sprinkled with glitter.

Do-it-yourself walnut halves make good salt and pepper shakers, and if you fill them with cotton wool or felt, you can make pincushions. You can also place miniature ones in the halves soft toys, and if you attach a mast, sail, oars and benches to them, you will get boats, sailboats or even entire ships.

A complex technique is carving walnut or burning drawings on it, not to mention miniature ones. doll houses or flashlights. There are no limits to your imagination: crafts made from walnuts can become a room decoration, a funny souvenir or an exclusive gift.

In order to start creating some crafts, it is not necessary to buy expensive materials. It turns out that many interesting things today can be made from handy materials that are not used in any way on the farm. For example, if you like to eat walnuts, then do not throw away the shells. Remember what you can do with it beautiful crafts. Indeed, crafts made from nut shells can be very diverse. You can make:

• berries and mushrooms,
• funny animals,
• Christmas tree decorations,
• voluminous toys.

Children's crafts made from nut shells

Well, let's find out what kind of crafts you can make from nut shells.

Ladybug on a nutshell flower.

To create a craft, prepare: 3 walnuts and plasticine.

1. We divide the nuts into halves, and from plasticine you must fashion individual parts ladybug.
2. We attach the head and wing covers to half of the nut shell. We apply dots on the wings using plasticine.
3. Now we take yellow plasticine, roll it into a ball and flatten it a little. The petals will imitate nut shells. Therefore, we attach 5 nut shells to a ball of yellow plasticine.
4. Next, we decorate the flower with veins. To do this, we use plasticine of different colors.
5. After that, we fix our ladybug on the flower.

Funny animals made from nut shells. Crafts for children.

In this article you can also see children's crafts made from nut shells. Invite your child to make similar crafts and you will see how much he will like this activity.

In order to make mice, you need to take nut shells and gray paint. Of course, the shells are painted gray, and ears and a tail are attached to the top, which you and your child must cut out of colored paper.

To make penguins, the shells are painted in two colors. Namely, the colors used for this are white and black. Then the penguins should draw eyes and glue on the beak and paws.

Rabbits from nut shells are also very easy to make. You paint the shells gray and draw a face. Next, glue the ears and tail to the shell. At the same time, we use a piece of cotton wool for the tail.

For turtles we make a paper base that will have legs, a head and a tail. But the nut shell will be the shell.

And to make such a cheerful octopus, take fluffy wire and nut shells. For the paws, 8 pieces of such wire are used that will imitate paws.

To make frogs, in addition to shells, take pumpkin seeds. Paint all materials in green. After that, we attach pumpkin seeds to the shell and draw funny faces on the crafts.

And to make whales, take blue paint to paint the shells with. We attach a tail to the back of the shell, and a water stream on top, which is cut out of paper. Don't forget to draw the facial features of the whales.

And to make funny bees, you must paint the shells with black and yellow. But for the antennae, use fluffy wire.

Craft made from nuts - caterpillar.

• For this craft, take a sheet of green colored paper.
• You will also need 6 walnut halves. You must paint them with orange and white paint. After that, in the center of each shell you should draw a small spot of green color.
• For the caterpillar's head, take a whole nut. On it you must draw all the facial features of the caterpillar. We attach a bunch of brightly colored threads to the top of the head.
• Now you must attach the resulting caterpillar to a green leaf.