If you want to involve your child in some kind of creativity, then start creating animal crafts with your own hands. This develops perseverance, accuracy and attention. Fine and observation skills are also involved. Such activities bring parents and children closer together, as adults are directly involved in the creation of an extraordinary product.

Craft material

Products can be made with your own hands for any holiday of the four seasons of the year. These can be decorations for a dacha, garden area, home, or vegetable garden. Crafts can be involved in landscape design, as well as in the design of a kindergarten.Of course, if in making a craft it is necessary to use working tools, such as saws, drills, pruners, then such work is not for a child. It is better to involve him in making crafts from small parts.

You can create your personal zoo using any technology. This can be origami, quilling, modeling, embroidery, beading. The animal you decide to make can be a symbol of the coming year or the years in which family members were born. When you make animal crafts with your own hands, you can combine several techniques. For example, a pet's muzzle and hooves can be made of baked clay, and the fur can be made of fleece of the required color.

Crafts from bottles

Mostly such products are placed in the garden or vegetable garden. Since the bottle is not afraid of weather changes, it is durable and does not require maintenance. There can be both wild animals and domestic animals in the garden. Our example will be the original pig.

For this craft, containers of any size and diameter are suitable, at your discretion. Naturally, it needs to be painted with waterproof paint pink, imitating pig skin. On the side of the screw cap, draw large, surprised eyes with eyelashes. At the top of the head, cut the bottle on both sides to insert ears, which you cut from a spare container. Paint the ears with the same paint as the body. On the lid, draw a patch in the form of two black dots. The pig can be used as a flower bed. To do this, cut a rectangular hole on the back, add soil and sow flower seeds. A whole family will look more original, rather than just one craft. A pet created with your own hands will delight the eye not only during the flowering of plants, but also during the rest period.

Felt sheep

When you make animal crafts with your own hands, you can safely use felt of different colors. Let's create, for example, sheep. Pink felt will serve as fur, lilac will serve as a muzzle, white will be used for the eyes, and black felt will be used to make hooves. You can find templates, or you can make the pattern yourself. The body of the sheep looks like a cloud that needs to be cut out of the appropriate piece of material. Cut a slightly elongated head with ears, three times smaller than the body, from lilac felt. On a white background, draw an infinity sign, depicting future eyes.

We place this sign on the head of the animal and sew on the eyes - beads, piercing both materials. Embroider the mouth and nose with black thread. Glue the head to the body. Next, cut out rectangles from lilac felt and squares from black felt. Glue the legs with the hooves, and then glue the parts to the body. Here is an original DIY craft made!

Gifts of nature

Using natural materials, you can create unique masterpieces. All gifts of nature are not only environmentally friendly and safe, but also free. Working with them is an educational and exciting process.

Animal crafts from natural material, created with their own hands, take part in various school and even city exhibitions and competitions.Used to create a masterpiece various leaves, acorns, chestnuts and cones, branches, pumpkins and zucchini, shells, stones and much more.

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in class with the children we did something like this crafts, on the weekly theme "Peace nature"which reflected the essence of consolidating with children what surrounds a person in nature, and this is what we got.

Did crafts"Birch" children, according to the idea and without preliminary drawing on paper, wore plasticine and smeared it with their fingers, also made branches, then with black plasticine they made lentils, that is, the nose of a birch, I believe that in these crafts, children develop and fine motor skills fingers, orientation in space, of course, before this lesson we observed the trees in our garden, noted it in the calendar nature what changes took place in nature. We also looked at illustrations about animals, sketched them, watched videos, children made up stories about pets, brought photos of their pet, and so we did origami crafts.

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Good afternoon. Today I can finally summarize a large collection of ideas for crafts made from natural materials. We already have a wide-format article with crafts from autumn leaves for children and adults. There is a detailed article in autumn theme. 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 in new fresh ideas 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.

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SCALES from cones.

Cones are made up of scales. If you collect the revealed pine cones, then it is convenient to pull them out with pincers, pliers, or bite the SCALES with nippers. 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 job 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 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 scales fir cone 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 do it yourself beautiful flowers, 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.).

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Crafts made from natural materials

WALNUTS.

From nut shells As children, we all made boats or hats on plasticine mushrooms. 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. Walnuts in the place where the doors join, they surprisingly look like 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 like our Russian book with good stories about Russian village grandmothers, illustrated by Marina’s works.

After all, it’s a real miracle to make with your own hands from natural materials. new world– kind, fabulous, REAL. More and more houses, cozy benches, swings, carts, and carts will appear in it.

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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 cover the tree with 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.

1. Take a durable cardboard milk or juice bag. Cutting windows in it will be the future façade of the house.
2. Buy a small bag of gypsum plaster (or putty), dilute it with water and coat the façade of the house with this mixture.
3. 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.

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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 must be trimmed carefully with scissors (as was done in the photo above with the cat - its ear triangles are cut out).

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Crafts from branches.

You can make your own from branches of different shapes and curves beautiful crafts. 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 autumn crafts to school or kindergarten.

The same idea can be implemented from different angles and 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. Arrange 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 you go simple ideas 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.

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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 come in 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. It will turn out beautiful, fast and simple craft made from natural material 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 - 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

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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 natural crafts with your own hands. 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.).

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Crafts made from natural materials

PORTRAITS.

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. To draw thin lines of a branch 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

Any child can be captivated by such a creative activity as creating interesting crafts from various available materials.

There are a lot of ideas on how to make crafts for kindergarten with your own hands. This rather painstaking and fascinating process develops the baby’s concentration, mental thinking and the acquisition of new experiences.

When attending kindergarten, then school, the child develops with the support of educators and teachers, and at home, parents need to find time to study together with their child.

The photo of crafts for kindergarten shows the work of children, with the help of which they can express themselves.

Spring theme in children's crafts

Spring is most likely the most positive time of the year, when nature blossoms and glows from the warm rays of the sun, birds return, trees and the first flowers bloom.

A child, unlike an adult, reacts especially impressionably to such changes, so in the spring you want to do something new and original.

To implement ideas children's creativity you can use many available materials: glue, paints, colored paper, empty plastic bottles, unnecessary boxes, different cereals, threads, ribbons, cones, foliage, etc.

The work can be in completely different directions, depending on the material for its manufacture:

Origami in the form of a spring bird

This execution technique only requires the presence of colored paper and a few basic skills.

They turn a sheet of ordinary paper into everything: flowers, birds, animal figures.

The “Bird” craft is quite simple and a child can handle it younger age. For spring birds it will be useful:

• branches from a bush on the street;
• scissors;
• colored paper;
• glue - pencil or PVA.

It is necessary to carefully tie a strip cut from colored paper (about 20 cm long and 2 - 4 cm wide) into a weak knot, so that one side is slightly longer than the neighboring one.

You need to cut out the head and beak from one end, and the tail from the other. The finished bird needs to be attached to a tree branch using glue.

Papier-Mache style

This work technique came from Europe and involves applying small pieces of paper mixed with glue to a certain shape. As an example: an egg for Easter.

You will need the following materials:

• ball;
• colored corrugated paper;
• used pieces of paper;
• wheat flour.

For this craft in kindergarten First of all, you need to inflate the ball, then carefully paste pieces of paper moistened with flour paste on all sides of the ball. The composition must dry completely within 10 hours.

Pay attention!

Inside the egg you can place plasticine birds or other figures of your choice. On Easter holidays You should put colored chicken eggs in this egg.

Quilling technique

These are crafts made from rolled paper. For a picture of a spring lily of the valley you need to prepare:

• green, blue and white paper;
• thick cardboard;
• glue;
• scissors, tape.

A couple of rectangles are cut out of cardboard onto which the craft will be attached. The contours of the future lily of the valley are drawn on them, then strips of colored paper are twisted using a regular toothpick.

The strips are glued along the contour on the cardboard with the corresponding colors (leaves, stem and flowers themselves). A ribbon is used to knit a bow onto a flower and it also makes a loop on which the finished painting will hang.

Decorating the playground in kindergarten

Crafts for the kindergarten playground will be an interesting unique decor that your child will be happy to put his efforts into.

Live pebbles. You need to prepare materials:

• stones;
• acrylic paint;
• coating varnish;
• tassels;
  pencil and eraser.

Pay attention!

The most simple option is the form ladybug. Smooth stones different sizes You must first rinse thoroughly and dry thoroughly. Then apply the outline of a ladybug on it with a simple pencil and paint them with gouache (black, white and red).

To prevent the paint from peeling off, apply a layer of colorless varnish to the painted insect. After successfully completing simple work, you can proceed to more complex animal figures.

Plastic bottles

Plastic bottles are the most popular decoration for garden crafts. Try making a palm tree out of used bottles with your child.

A brown plastic container needs to be cut from the neck side (removing the neck itself) in straight strips to the middle, then fastened together with a rigid wire - this will be the trunk of a palm tree.

We choose the height individually. We cut and fasten the green bottles in the same way, but there are three or four in total, since in the future they will serve as tree foliage, which is also attached to the trunk of the bottles with wire.

It is preferable to create natural crafts for kindergarten in the autumn season, since nature itself provides a huge selection of materials for children's creativity.

Pay attention!

You just have to try to assemble it and use your rich imagination, using everything that lies under your feet: branches, dry leaves, pine cones, acorns.

You can make an interesting wreath on your head using dry maple leaves, fastened with elegant braid and decorated with beads and bows. Or - a cheerful, perky caterpillar from a row of acorns with legs made of matches.

Your child will definitely love the idea of ​​creating their own original crafts, work on which also beneficially develops motor skills, intelligence and improves mental abilities!

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