The time of year is autumn. Development of children's creative abilities primary school

Dailidenok Lyubov Evgenievna, novice teacher, Kostroma.
Description:
The material is intended for primary school students, teachers and parents.
Target:
Expanding your horizons. Development of creative abilities. Making a painting from unusual materials.
Tasks:
1) Summarize knowledge.
2) To develop the ability to make a picture from unusual materials.
3) Cultivate accuracy, perseverance, and attentiveness.

Autumn
I love you, autumn, for your unprecedented beauty,
For elegant leaves and belated warmth,
For the harvest harvest, the flying web,
For mushrooms and for rain, for real sadness,
For the azure blue, for the gray mists
And behind the smoothly running caravans of clouds.
I love you, autumn, and, like Pushkin, I dream -
I glorify the beauty of my region in poetry.
(author A. Lysikov)

Autumn is perhaps the most mysterious and charming time with special colors of the season.
Autumn time- time for artists and photographers who lose peace every autumn, capturing the beauty of autumn in parks, squares and forests, trying to steal a piece of its beauty from autumn.

Proverbs and sayings about autumn:
Father September does not like to pamper.
October is crying cold tears.
In November, winter and autumn are fought.
In autumn bad weather there are seven weathers in the yard: it sows, it blows, it twists, it stirs, it tears, it pours from above and sweeps from below.

Riddles (with answers):
There is no sun, there are clouds in the sky,
The wind is harmful and prickly,
It's blowing like this, there's no escape!
What's happened? Give me the answer!
(Late autumn)

The leaves are spinning in the air,
They lie down quietly on the grass.
The garden sheds its leaves -
It's just...
(leaf fall)

Red Egorka
Fell on the lake
I didn't drown myself
And he didn’t stir up the water.
(Autumn leaf)

Who beats on the roof all night
Yes he knocks
And mumbles, and sings, lulls you to sleep?
(rain)

It became gloomy outside the window,
The rain is asking to come to our house.
The house is dry, but outside
Appeared everywhere... (puddles)

The clouds are catching up,
Howls and blows.
Prowls the world
Sings and whistles.
(Wind)

The boy is almost seven years old.
I have a backpack behind me.
And in the hands of a large bouquet,
There is a blush on the cheeks.
What holiday date is this?
Answer me guys!
(September 1, Knowledge Day)

The days have become shorter
The nights have become longer
Who's to say, who knows
When does this happen?
(Autumn)

The main autumn natural phenomena are rain, falling leaves, strong cold winds, first frosts, first snow.

Now let's move on to the creative part.

Material used:
Cardboard, scissors, glue, plasticine, natural materials, beans, peas, seeds, buckwheat, rice.

Using scissors, cut a circle out of white cardboard. (The size depends on how big you want your painting to be).

Next, take a piece of plasticine (any color to suit your taste) and make a flat cake.

We attach this cake to the cardboard. Take brown beans and insert them into plasticine in the form of petals.

Add buckwheat to the middle of our flower, pressing it into the plasticine with your finger.

Then again we take a piece of plasticine (a different color is possible), mold it into a cake and attach it to the cardboard.

Now for the flower we will take the seeds and insert them into the plasticine in the form of petals in two rows.

We will add peas (in halves) to the middle of our flower.

Again, take a piece of plasticine, make a cake out of it, and attach it to the cardboard.

Using white beans (first row) and seeds (second row) we will make flower petals.

Add rice to the center of the flower, pressing it with your finger into the plasticine.

Next, we decorate our picture with natural material (spikelets). We insert the spikelets into plasticine.

Now using glue we decorate the picture with dry leaves.

We make “sausages” from plasticine and attach them along the edge of our picture.

We decorate our picture with seeds and peas (large size). (I also added another dry sheet at the bottom so that there would be no free space)

The picture is ready!

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 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 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. This 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 in your creativity from walnuts. 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 love 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.

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 for the construction of such a complex but interesting crafts. 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.

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

Natural crafts package No. 6

Maple and ash seeds.

Dry lobed tree seeds can be played very interestingly in the most various crafts with your own hands.

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

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 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.).

Package of ideas No. 8

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

Having various natural materials, you can have fun and useful time with your child. Moreover, the main work should be done by the child, and the adult acts as an assistant. Crafts made from natural materials are distinguished by their diversity and originality due to the use of a large number of materials of different shapes, sizes and textures.

Types of applications

1. Subject - represents individual images, for example, a tree, a house, and so on.
2. Decorative – it combines various elements and details of decorations.
3. Subject - an image of a specific event, a plot - a landscape, a basket of berries, flowers, etc.

All of these creative activities are suitable for children from the age of three. In order for the application to turn out to be of high quality and attractive in appearance, it is necessary to select the right materials.

Natural materials

This type of material can be collected all year round. It is best to choose autumn leaves. They have excellent colors: gold, crimson, copper, orange and yellow. With their help, excellent paintings are obtained. They can be large or very small.

After you collect them, you need to sort them according to size and dry them. To do this, they are placed between the sheets of books, and the books themselves are stacked one on top of the other, thereby forming a press. They should remain in this position for several days. Dried leaves retain their color, but it is not as bright as before.

The second most commonly used natural material is grass. However, you need to be careful with it, because when it dries, it becomes very brittle and crumbles if handled incorrectly.

Fruit and vegetable seeds can also be easily used to make DIY crafts. For example, melon, watermelon, pumpkin, and zucchini seeds are very suitable for this. They also vary in size and color. They must be washed and thoroughly dried on paper before use.

Corn grains can also, oddly enough, be used in making appliqués. They should dry for several days. Tree seeds (ash, maple, elm) are also used.

Such an unusual material at first glance, like nut shells, also found its application in this type of creative activity. Shells from pine nuts, peanuts and pistachios are most often used, as they are very light and adhere well to paper and cardboard.

Berries and fruits are used both whole and partially. Rowan with its bright color often attracts the attention of young craftsmen. After drying, it loses its shape and the color becomes very dull. Dried citrus peels are also used to make paintings.

Acorns are more often used in three-dimensional crafts, but they have also been noticed in appliques, only in disassembled form.

Flowers are a very beautiful natural material; their colors are very diverse. And they themselves are different in shape and size.

Cones of coniferous plants are also used to create applications; they add their own flavor to them. Volumetric crafts They are created using a solid cone, but flat applications are made from their scales.

Small pebbles, feathers, moss and fluff are also good applique components.

All this wealth must be properly stored so that it does not break. In no case can we throw everything together in a heap. Leaves and flowers are best stored in cardboard boxes. And grains, cones, acorns and similar materials are well preserved in baskets or boxes.

In addition to natural materials, you must have sheets of paper and cardboard, scissors, glue, and a pencil in your arsenal.

What applications can be made from natural materials?

The simplest thing is round-shaped compositions. You can start with this if the child is small. To make it, you need to take cones, seeds and acorns, which will be easier for a child to work with than fragile flowers and leaves.

Draw a circle on the cardboard, which can later be filled with materials or an original outline in the form of a frame can be made for it. To do this, you need to apply PVA glue in the place where you are going to stick the seed or pine cone.

A more complex composition is a basket of flowers. We lay out a basket of watermelon seeds or pistachio shells. Moreover, try to lay out the rows as evenly as possible, this will give the product a natural look.

But we make flowers from tree leaves or from dried flowers. However, the option with leaves is the most interesting, as you can create original flowers. We fix all the material with PVA glue. This craft can be an excellent gift for grandmothers or mothers.

You can come up with various scenes for applique, examples of which you can see in the photo in the manuals for kindergarten.

Video on the topic of the article

Applique lesson with children

Applications made from natural materials

The purpose of classes with natural materials:

■ To introduce the child to nature, to show its diversity and beauty.

■ Stimulate creativity, thinking, hard work.

■ Develop artistic taste and imagination.

How to prepare material for such applications?

Method one: drying plants in books and magazines that are placed under a press. If the preparation is made for a herbarium, the plants need to be strengthened a little. To do this, dip them in a solution of water and 20% PVA glue, after which dry the plants again, but without a press.

Method two: drying plants in bunches. This method is used to dry plants with fruits or flowers. Plants are formed into small bunches and hung in a dry place. They should not be exposed to sunlight.

Method three (fast): Plants are ironed with a hot iron. To do this, first cover the ironing board with newspaper, then a napkin, then lay out the plant and in the reverse order - napkin and newspaper. Then carefully set everything aside for several hours. The ironing procedure is repeated 3-4 times until the plant is completely dry.

Lesson 1. “Herbarium”

Do not use plants that you do not know to compile a herbarium; they can be poisonous.

Purpose of the lesson: visual study of nature. (From the same tree, for example, you can collect samples in spring, summer and autumn, and observe how it changes.)

You will need: thick album sheets, thread and needle, PVA glue, colored markers, prepared dried plant.

Stages of work:

■ Attach the plants to a landscape sheet; twigs can be attached by sewing, leaves can be glued. If you have collected samples of different stages of a plant (flowering, appearance of buds, change in leaf color), attach them to one landscape sheet for clarity.

■ In the lower right corner write the name of the plant, the family to which it belongs, the location (meadow, forest, front garden, etc.) and time of collection. Your herbarium is ready!

You can make a picture like this from the herbarium

Lesson 2. “Mushroom glade”

You will need: a sheet of cardboard, PVA glue, a glue brush, a glue container and leaves.

Stages of work:

■ Show your child how to make a mushroom out of leaves. Tell them that mushrooms grow in groups, so you need to make several mushrooms.

■ Let the child decide where the mushroom will be placed. This is where you need to apply glue. You should not apply glue to the leaf itself; it may crumble.

■ Glue the leaf for the mushroom stem first, then the cap.

You can make as many of these mushrooms as you like and in different sizes.

You should not trim the leaves to give them the ideal shape, as this will cause them to lose their originality and break.

Lesson 3. “Tree”

Tree can be made in different ways:

■ Glue several leaves in the form of a fan, and one leaf on top in the middle.

■ Draw the trunk and branches of the tree, and take the real leaves, only very small ones.

■ Use paints to draw the trunk and main branches, and take large leaves of different colors and shapes.

Lesson 4. “Butterfly”

You will need: a landscape sheet, a pencil, PVA glue, a glue brush, a container for glue, dry leaves and flowers.

Stages of work:

■ Help your child draw the outline of a butterfly.

■ Apply PVA glue to it.

■ Let the child choose the leaves and flowers from which his craft will be made.

■ Let the craft dry. Ready!

Every year nature gives us a lot of natural materials suitable for creativity, completely free of charge. The process of creating with your own hands develops the child’s artistic taste, thinking, memory, and fosters perseverance. But the most important thing is that you can have fun and usefully spend time with friends, delighting yourself and others with crafts.

Preparation of natural materials for their further use

Nature is the best artist; she creates natural materials that, in skillful hands, turn into works of art!

Plant materials

Chestnuts

Chestnut fruits have a bright brown color and a shiny surface, so they make excellent DIY crafts from natural materials. The shell of a fresh chestnut is thin and can be easily pierced with an awl. Chestnuts are a fertile material for working with young children themselves. You can make many different dolls.

It is better to store in a cool place in boxes.

Acorns

Oak fruits ripen in autumn, in September-October. collected in various shapes and sizes.

At the same time, their cups (pluses) on which they rest are collected. Pluski are very often used separately from acorns, as an independent natural material for various crafts.

Acorn pluses and balls felted from wool

Watch the video to see how to felt even balls of wool. Olga Skibina:

Acorn tops and Christmas bells

You can store them for a very long time, after thoroughly washing and drying them. But why just store stones when the whole family can have fun playing with them?)

For another way to apply images to river or sea stones, see the video from You Can Do It Craft. You'll be surprised how easy it is!

Shells

You can collect shells on the banks of rivers, seas, and lakes while relaxing with your children. Many of them are original appearance, in shape - oval, scallop-shaped, elongated, etc.

Boil them for a few minutes to free them from living organisms. The shells are washed with a small brush (or a toothbrush), after which they are dried and sorted by type and size. Stored at any temperature.

You can also clean shells in a solution of bleach and water at a ratio of 1:1. The top layer will disappear after a while, leaving the shell with a beautiful shiny top.

Animal figures are made from large shells.

Small shells make wonderful applications and garlands:

Shells can be used not only as the main material, but also as additional decoration (bird wings, dog ears, flower petals, etc.)

Sand

Very accessible material that can be collected in any sandbox. It varies in structure. Before use, it must be rinsed and dried thoroughly. And then you can use it as decoration in your works:

Rules for storing natural materials

DIY crafts made from natural materials will be flawless if, after collecting, drying, and pre-processing, you properly store these natural gifts. To do this, you must adhere to certain rules.

1. A dark, cool and well-ventilated room is best place for storing natural materials.
2. You can buy plastic containers for storing each type of material; use cardboard boxes from under shoes, tea, sweets; take ordinary glass jars with a screw cap. For seeds, as for beads, it is better to have a container with many compartments.
3. Dried flowers are fragile and break easily, so they are placed in a tight box or container. Petals are stored separately from flowers. Flowers with stems can be stored in a vase.
4. Prepared leaves are also brittle. You can store them in large books. Also, for safety, put them in labeled candy boxes, secure them with a little tape so that they don’t accidentally open.
5. The shells are placed in glass jars or plastic containers with a wide mouth to prevent them from crumbling.

Additional tools for crafts made from natural materials

To create beautiful craft made from natural materials, you will need additional tools and materials.

These could be:

• colored paper;
• cardboard;
• leather scraps;
• scraps of fabric;
• bird feathers;
• foam;
• plasticine;
• wire;
• PVA glue, “Moment”;
• gouache;
• stain;
• varnish, etc.

Paper very often used as a complement to natural materials. Children, bending and gluing it, make the work much more interesting.

Plasticine fasten individual parts of simple toys at the initial stage of work. It is not very durable, but as an addition it is often used in kindergarten and elementary school.

From wire most often the frame of a toy is made, the connection of its parts. Copper wire diameter 0.29-0.35 mm - soft, flexible and durable - most comfortable. And for the frame, wire of a larger diameter is used - 1-1.5 mm.

Threads It’s better to take thick, multi-colored ones (No. 10).

Glue it is better to take white PVA, BF, etc. However, in kindergarten it is better to use PVA glue.

They also use foil, pebbles, cherry pits, and bristles.

It is better to store additional material in a small box with compartments for each type of material.

Usage additional material depends on the plan, the skill of the children, the degree of development of imagination! Offer your options, but rely more on children's intuition and desire.

It is also additionally necessary to have certain tools for making crafts from natural materials:

• art scissors;
• awl;
• jigsaw;
• tweezers;
• pliers and wire cutters;
• sewing needles;
• brushes for glue and paints;
• a cotton rag for wiping off glue residue.

Scissors for children, they should have blunt ends, small, with rings that are comfortable for a child’s hand.

Awl must be made of durable material with a handle length of about 6 cm, a diameter of about 2 cm, the piercing part is 3.5 cm

Needle I need a large sewing machine. Be sure to store it in a pincushion with a thread threaded into it.

Attention! Only adults use pliers, pliers, and drills!

To draw the outline of the part to be cut out, a simple pencil. For example, a dress, hats for a doll, etc. It is better to take a soft pencil (2M).

Tassels(soft for drawing, harder for glue). It is better to buy squirrel tassels (No. 4 and 6). For glue, use brushes with hard bristles.

Stack- a tool necessary for processing a surface made of clay or plasticine. The length of the stack for children is about 12 cm. You can make the stack yourself from a worn-out brush: round it on one side and sharpen it on the other.

Crafts made from natural materials for kindergarten

Kids love it when in their hands chestnuts and plasticine turn into toys that they can play with. Crafts made from natural materials for kindergarten are not very complicated, so any child can do it with the help of an adult. Sometimes they are made from fruits and vegetables, but most often they are applications from leaves and animals from cones and acorns.

Crafts from leaves and maple “helicopters”

The easiest and most accessible job, even for kids, is leaf applique. If this is your first time making a composition with your child, offer him a picture that will serve as a template. Don't rush to do everything yourself. Invite your child to choose leaves as desired so that the work turns out similar to the sample. This is how they will develop creativity your child.

Material for application:

• colorful leaves;
• thick sheet A-4;
• glue brushes;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• sample.

To make a simple arrangement, you need even, dry leaves. Place them under a press or in a book. In two days the material is ready. Cut out the appropriate pieces with scissors and lay them out on a sheet of paper.

Now you can glue it. First the background and lower layers, and then the finer details. For example, if you want to make an elephant, then first make a body and head out of leaves, and then glue on the trunk, tail, and legs. If you don’t have enough eyes, you can add them in with a marker or make them from tree seeds.

You don't have to do everything according to a template. You can come up with a picture yourself and create an original composition from leaves.

Use as a supplement colored paper, felt-tip pens, paints, so your applications will be even more interesting.

Along with leaves, maple “helicopters” are also ideal as a basis for crafts made from natural materials for kindergarten. Just look at this miracle!

Fairy wings made from maple seeds

Dragonflies from maple "helicopters"

Now you have seen how beautiful and original leaf applications can be. Use these ideas for spending time with your children.

Simple master classes on creating children's crafts from acorns and cones

At the end of summer, acorns begin to ripen, and they make wonderful crafts from natural materials for kindergarten or school. They are well preserved, and on long autumn evenings, together with your children, you can do a pleasant and useful activity that develops fine motor skills baby's hands, imagination and perseverance.

The most common crafts made from acorns are little animals and various people. You can easily make legs, arms, horns and other small elements from toothpicks, matches, thin twigs. An adult needs to help the children poke holes in the acorns.

To attach small parts, you can use a glue gun or Super Moment glue, but only adults should do this. And the safest way for kids to fasten parts together is with plasticine.

Making fly agarics from acorns is even easier! To paint acorns, you need to remove the caps from them, and after the paint has dried, glue them in place.

Acorns are very beautiful on their own, and if you paint them too acrylic paints or nail polish, such crafts will decorate any home.

You can also make hats painted with silver paint original decoration on Christmas tree. The process of creating such an eco-toy is quite simple: we stick it tightly onto a foam ball (you can take an old Christmas ball) acorn caps. And it sparkled new.

We found another video for you, where Niki Junior tells what a wonderful craft can be made from leaves, cones, twigs and plastic bottle. Take a look, you will learn a lot of new things.

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