Spring protection of garden plants from pests and diseases. Crafts from natural material (148 ideas) Craft from moss and leaves

First, the moss needs to be dried and processed. If this is not done, some living organisms may appear in it, which will spoil the whole idea for us. There are many ways to process moss, dry it and dye it, but we already talked about this in the article "". If you are too lazy to mess with moss processing, you can buy ready-made material. Where is natural moss sold? It is available in many stores. We buy in the online store "Neighbor". Inexpensive natural moss is always in stock and in any quantity in this store.

• Moss stones for interior decoration. It's easy to make them. You need to pick up the stones of the right size, glue the moss (thickly or so that the gaps on the stones remain visible - this is how you like it). Stones decorated with natural moss can be small (for the interior of the room) or large if you want to use them in landscape design.
• Natural moss flower pot. Any pot that does not suit your interior color can be decorated with natural moss. Just cover it with dried moss and you're done!
• Gift wrappingusing natural moss. A finished box made of cardboard or plastic can be decorated with natural moss and twigs - it will look very festive if you add ribbons or flowers.
• Baskets for flowers. Any basket can be decorated with moss. Flowers or flower arrangement in such a basket will look more natural and fresh. It is not necessary to cover the entire basket with moss. It is more beautiful if the basket is partially decorated. Use natural ropes - they go well with moss.
• You can decorate the wall of the house with natural moss. If the wall of the house or gazebo is made of white bricks or tiles, the gaps between the bricks or tiles can be decorated with natural moss. To do this, use waterproof glue. It turns out beautiful!
• Moss as material for topiary. In the manufacture of ornamental trees, natural moss is often used. First of all, they can decorate the top of the pot to hide the material into which the tree was “filled”. You can also decorate the trunk of a tree or its top.
• Compositions for terrariums. Any sticks and pebbles can be decorated with moss. Moss is a natural material, so it will not harm your pets in any way. And they will feel like being in nature!
• Moss as a filler for various containers and vessels. Natural moss is a beautiful and soft material, so it can be used to fill interior vases, vessels with artificial flowers, baskets and gift boxes, etc.
• Pictures and panels. The most unusual materials are usually used to decorate paintings and panels. Moss is one of the best for decorating "gaps" and eliminating visible flaws. You can also make a background for paintings from moss by gluing it to the canvas.
• Photo frames made of natural moss. Moss can be used to decorate picture frames, as well as to make photo frames. Making a photo frame is easy. You need a base made of cardboard or plastic. We apply glue to the base and apply moss. The moss must also be “impregnated” with glue so that it does not crumble. Pieces of bark, ribbons, flowers or decorative elements can be attached to the moss frame.

There are many ways to attach moss. Read

Good afternoon, today we will talk about autumn crafts. And we will make these crafts from natural material with our own hands. Autumn is rich in a variety of materials. And so we will do with the most different crafts on the theme of Autumn- from leaves, branches, acorns, chestnuts, straw, moss, dried flowers and other natural material. I will show you interesting ways to create DIY autumn crafts using ordinary natural materials. unusual design way. In this article you will find fresh ideas, that will inspire you to creative exploits this fall. So let's go on a quiet hunt for ideas for the best crafts for the fall 2017 season.

Autumn natural material is rich in ideas for a variety of crafts for children. Let's see what ideas you can implement this fall.

Leaf compositions

and natural material.

Who said that autumn crafts from natural material should be done while sitting indoors. Golden autumn beckons with a warm sun, the smell of rotten leaves - and we do not want to sit in four walls. We go outside with the children to catch a little more warmth and warm our eyes with the yellow fire of autumn foliage.

Crafts on the theme of AUTUMN from natural material can be done right on the street. In my yard, next to the entrance. All you need is to find a quiet, windless place. Instruct the children to collect a stack of bright leaves and a bucket of dry pebbles.

And now an interesting game begins - laying out crafts from autumn natural material. For beginners, this can be a simple tree. Heavy pebbles press the yellow leaves, do not allow them to fly away from the wind. The craft can be saved as a souvenir in the form of a photograph.

If there is a whole bunch of pebbles near the place of your walk, then you can make crafts from natural material on a larger scale (as in the photo below).

If you are observant, you may notice that under different trees the foliage is of different colors. If we collect yellow leaves from ash or birch in a separate bag, red leaves from aspen or Canadian maple, and a little more brown blackened leaves in another bag, then we can make such a Winnie bear cub on our porch.

Any silhouette picture can be laid out from the color mosaic of nature itself. The main thing is to find a place without strong winds. And have time to photograph this beauty before it fluttered from the wind and flew away like a bird.

The natural materials of autumn themselves will give you ideas for collages - gray branches (like the gray plumage of the wing and tail), yellow leaves (like yellow fluff on the breast). And here you are, a tit bird.

You don't have to be an artist, you don't have to have many leaves. Even from the smallest leafy heaps, you can make beautiful autumn crafts. The simplest do-it-yourself craft, the arrangement of foliage according to the colors of the spectrum, looks like real magic.

You become little wizards. Secret dwarves-assistants of Queen Autumn. You hooligans secretly, leaving good signs, funny symbols of the autumn season.

And some crafts can be done using a tree trunk as a base. Make the tree smile. The nose is a bump, two eyes are cut from a wood chock, and a smile from the fruits of physalis, strung on a thread.

Do you know what mandalas are? In the east, mandalas are sacred patterns closed in a circle. A harmonious pattern repeating in a circle is like a map of the universe. Mandalas are drawn or laid out from mosaics, colored sand, flower petals. Mandalas are a spiritual practice that allows you to touch the divine principle within yourself. You need to make mandalas in a special state of mind - pure, serene, enlightened.

We can also make beautiful harmonious mandala patterns with our own hands in the form of handicrafts made from natural material - bright beautiful autumn.

Your autumn mandala craft can be quite small (as in the photo below).

Or very large, consisting of many circles of a cyclic pattern.

Mosaic applications

on the theme of AUTUMN.

All children love mosaics. Why don't we make it from autumn natural material.

Since the leaves are too large for mosaics (and suitable for laying out large paintings in the yard), for indoor small work, we can cut an ordinary juicy maple leaf into small squares. Arrange them in bowls - yellow, green, red separately. And let the children themselves lay out a bright mosaic craft from such a pleasant-to-the-touch natural material with their own hands.

As an ornamental material, you can use cereals or seeds. A very good natural material for autumn children's crafts is yellow corn grains or large pumpkin seeds painted with gouache.

And also a mosaic of whole leaves can become a crown of a tree - a simple and quick craft made from natural material, which is suitable for kindergarten children. You can stick the leaves on paper, or on a transparent office file - and then such a craft can be fixed on the window, the leaves will shine in the sun. Beautiful children's craft for younger children.

Crafts on the theme of AUTUMN.

Natural material STONE.

And here is another wonderful idea for crafts from natural materials in the autumn theme. Ordinary flat river stones can become a canvas for autumn paintings. You can paint stones with a brush, but it is better to apply the drawing in the dots technique - round wooden sticks or special dots sticks (metal devices with a round ball at the end) are suitable for this. They are sold in the manicure department, as they are intended for painting on nails. The ball tips on the dots sticks come in different sizes, allowing you to draw even dots of any size.

You can also draw owls on stones - this is the simplest drawing - the main thing here is expressive eyes, a pointed beak, and oval wings with even rows of feathers. First, draw with paints, then outline each filled element with a contour (white, as in the left photo or black, as in the right photo below). And the contour thin stroke of the elements will make crafts-drawings more clear and expressive.

Such crafts-owls made of natural material will look good on a snag with shreds of moss, inside a wooden frame, glued to a log saw cut.

And it’s even cooler to plant such an owl inside a hole cut in a thick round saw cut of a tree trunk.

Autumn crafts

with tree branches.

Ordinary tree branches can also be a source of interesting do-it-yourself autumn collage. This natural material is lying around completely idle. On a walk, you can give the children the task of collecting beautiful, not dirty twigs in a bag, disassemble them at home, clean them of debris and break them into small pieces.

Next, on a sheet of paper, draw the outlines of a basket with handles. And either we give the child plasticine, or we arm ourselves with a glue gun and begin to collect our basket from sticks. Then it remains to put fruit in it (cut out of cardboard, draw and then cut it out, or perform it using the broken appliqué technique).

And if you have collected beautiful leaves together with sticks, then you can make a children's tree craft from natural materials.

Long sticks found in the park can not be broken, but put aside to make them a new craft-panel made of natural materials(as in the photo below). The principle is simple. The sticks are laid in the shape of the sides of a square - we tie the junction of the sticks with twine (wire, threads). And then we decorate such a frame with natural materials and colored paper.

You can place a canvas inside the frame of branches - we tint a sheet of cardboard with paints, make holes on its sides with a hole punch - and tie the sheet with threads to the branch frame, pulling the thread through the holes and around the branch (as done in the left photo below). And then on this canvas we make an application from natural material on the theme of autumn.

Or you can simply decorate the frame around its perimeter - in the lower part of the square we attach a bush, mushrooms, pieces of moss, bark, and a cardboard hedgehog to plasticine. On the upper part of our panel made of natural material we hang a garland of autumn leaves cut out of colored paper, the sun, clouds, a kite.

From the branches you can lay out large application in the form of an owl , a children's craft, which is entirely made of natural material, which autumn is rich in. Branches, dry and fresh pine needles, withered fir legs. You can lay out the application on a sheet of plywood and fix everything with glue - or make a temporary mosaic on a walk right on the ground or stump.

Looks very nice craft Hedgehog from natural material . This fall craft is my favorite in this article. Let me even tell you in detail how simple and easy it is to make such a hedgehog with your own hands. It's really very easy. Now you will be convinced of it.

First, we find beautiful thick rods from a shrub or birch branches - we cut them with scissors or a knife into segments with long oblique cuts (as in the photo of the hedgehog below).

For this autumn crafts you will need plasticine - a large piece. Where to get it? I never throw away the used plasticine from children's crafts, I put it in one common pile - then I soak this multi-colored pile in hot water - it becomes soft like fresh dough, and easily and simply I knead this whole lump into a homogeneous mass with my hands - it turns out a large piece of fresh brown plasticine of excellent quality. From it you can still make a variety of crafts for a long time

From plasticine we form the body of a hedgehog- teardrop shape. And in the thick part of the hedgehog, row after row, we stick segments of branches - oblique cuts should all look in one direction.

2 ways to decorate the muzzle of a hedgehog.

1 way. I wrap the plasticine nose of the hedgehog with a piece of burlap, or a piece of gauze (bandage) soaked in a solution of iodine with water.

2 way. The muzzle of the hedgehog can be coated with PVA glue, overlaid with pieces of paper napkins, coated with glue again, again with a layer of napkins, glue on top and allowed to dry - you get a layer of papier-mâché. We cover it with paint - draw eyes, a nose on it

Craft-spider web of branches and leaves.

And from natural material you can make beautiful decorative crafts-pendants on the theme of AUTUMN. We need straight, even branches - like a willow. We look at the photo, and below I give a detailed step-by-step description of this children's craft.

A detailed master class on this craft made from natural material.

We take a lump of plasticine and divide it into 2 small molds. On the first cake we put the branches in a circle (that is, radially from this plasticine center) - so that the tips of the branches meet in the middle of the plasticine cake. Slightly press each branch so that it drowns in plasticine. From above we cover with a second cake of plasticine, also pressing it on the branches. It turns out a spread with rays of branches.

Now we need coarse threads - the ones that are tied up with shopping packages in the store. Such canvas-paper thick gray threads. With them, we begin to weave a cobweb between the branches - starting from the plasticine center and gradually moving towards the outer edge, until our cobweb rests against the edge of the maple leaf.

Craft autumn kaleidoscope.

Also you can do colored kaleidosk made of natural material - from branches and leaves (as in the photo below).

For this craft, we need hot glue (or the ability to weave threads between crossed branches). Now I will give a detailed master class on creating this craft with my own hands.

Step 1 We cut 4 rods of the same size. Two of them cross over cross - fasten with glue or thread. Two others cross in exactly the same way. We now have two crosses made of branches.

Step 2 We impose these 2 crosses on each other obliquely - so that they form snowflake figure. We fix the middle of this clutch with glue (or fix it with threads).

Step 3 From a flexible willow rod (fresh or soaked in water) we make a round ring. We attach this ring to our "snowflake" of rods - so that the edges of the ring are at the same distance from the center - for each rod(measure with a tape measure). If the distances are the same, then the ring will be even, not crooked.

Step 4 As a result, we got a circle from the branches, divided into triangular sectors. And it remains only to find large maple leaves of different colors - pure yellow, pure red, pure green, pure orange. From them it is necessary to cut out triangles that are suitable in size to the sector-hole on the future kaleidoscope. Cut out the triangle so that the central vein on the maple leaf passes through the middle of such a triangle- divided it in half like a bisector from geometry. And we attach all these multi-colored triangles of maple leaves to the sectors of our design made of natural material with a glue gun.

Autumn applications

From natural material.

And of course, all children love to make applications from autumn natural materials. Small and large paintings of leaves and dry flowers. The most favorite children's crafts on the theme of autumn.

The symbol of autumn made of natural material is, of course, a hedgehog. From what they just do not make it, from leaves, from flowers, from twigs, from maple or ash seeds.

The simplest hedgehog is done like this. From cardboard cut out the silhouette of a hedgehog. We give children plasticine and maple seeds. We begin to attach rows of seeds with plasticine to cardboard - you need to start from the back of the hedgehog. Children are trying to start with the muzzle - explain to them that this is not right, that then it is not convenient to make the back rows of needles when the front needles stick back and interfere.

By the same principle, a hedgehog is made from flat natural material - leaves and dried flowers. Also starting from the buttocks - we attach it to plasticine or glue. This is the most common autumn-themed children's craft.

Even children love to make autumn turkeys. Also a simple bird craft, which does not require a lot of natural material. The body and head of the bird can be cut out of cardboard. Or the head and torso can be cut with scissors from the same maple leaf (as in the photo of the craft below).

YOU can do crafts not using colored paper, but cutting out all the parts necessary for the picture from natural material, in the event that you do not find a leaf of a suitable shape.

Here's a great idea. Large craft LION. It can be made from real natural leaves. And you can arrange it as a collective paper craft. In the kindergarten group, we distribute sheets of paper with a maple leaf painted on it. The task of the children is to cut this sheet along the contour. At the end of the lesson, all the children attach their leaves to the lion's mane. A good idea for a craft on the theme of “autumn” is for the middle group of a kindergarten, when children are in their first year of learning to cut with scissors along the contour - they will cut a maple leaf for about 10 minutes, and puff with zeal like steam locomotives.

If you work in a large children's team (a kindergarten teacher or a teacher, or a circle leader), then you can make one big collective craft. For example, here is such a bird made of natural material. We cut out parts of the bird from cardboard - separately the left wing, separately the right, separately the body and separately the tail. Divide the team into 4 creative groups. Each group of children receives their part and begins to lay leaves on glue or plasticine. After the completion of the work of each team - we combine the details into one common craft bird from natural material as bright as autumn itself.

Autumn crafts-pictures

From natural material.

And of course, beautiful bright crafts-collages in the form of natural landscapes are obtained from the autumn material. In the photo below we see how a picture-panel was made from different materials - paper, leaves, herbs.

You can dry many flower petals. And make a big collage with the children with a blue sky and a blue river. Stretch a bridge across the river, cut out of a blackened autumn leaf (for the leaf to turn black, it must be ironed with a hot iron through a newspaper).

And if you don’t have enough dry natural material, then you can paint a picture with gouache or watercolor and lay out only individual elements of the landscape from leaves and herbs (as in this craft below).

Autumn crafts

from natural material.

The nature of autumn is rich in a variety of ornamental materials - hawthorn berries, rose hips, cones, fluffy moss. After a walk in the forest, you can make an elegant autumn composition with a candle. And arrange a romantic candlelight dinner in the theme of autumn.

Thick cut logs, round birch chocks and walnut shells - this poor natural material can be a source of inspiration for such crafts in the form of a mushroom clearing.

From the found cones, you can make a variety of characters with your own hands. And place them in the form of a single autumn composition made with your own hands from natural material (wood, leaves, moss, wood chips, etc.).

Fresh oak branches torn off by a hurricane can be dried in the shade of a shed, under a roof. Oak leaves do not lose their juicy green color when dried. And then they will be able to participate in interesting crafts made with their own hands from autumn natural material.

A wreath - a symbol of autumn - made of natural material of all shades of bright foliage will delight your whole family. It is so interesting to collect leaves - to pick only the most beautiful ones. It is necessary to weave a wreath from willow twigs with your own hands and weave autumn leaves into it with threads, plant pine cones on wire or glue. We have a special training article on weaving wreaths from twigs and branches on our website -

Beautifully look in autumn wreaths bright fruit-boxes of physalis, twigs with hawthorn fruits, flowers of everlasting flowers.

But even if you do not have bright natural material for making an autumn wreath, don't be discouraged. You can do bright wreath of gray pine cones. You just need to take more gouache. Paint each cone in shades of autumn foliage. Spray with hairspray (so that the color becomes juicier and does not get your hands dirty). And then collect all this colorful splendor of autumn into a rich wreath with your own hands.

Cones in a wreath can be placed with their buttocks forward (as in the photo above), or noses forward (as in the craft below).

You can make decorative autumn wreaths from any one natural material. Only from wild rose - string red fruits on a copper wire and bend it in the shape of a heart.

Or your fall wreath can be made from saw cut logs found in a woodpile.

In the same woodshed, you can find a natural material suitable for making an owl composition.

Your autumn compositions may look like cheerful little people made of birch saw cuts, decorated with various natural materials, which autumn is rich in.

And bunches of cut grass can turn into a hedgehog if you (or good neighbors) have physalis blooming profusely. Its boxes can be sewn with threads to a straw bale. Wrap the sharp edge of the bale with twine and stick on the nose and eyes.

And you can also make from natural autumn material beautiful candlestick . We will need the bottom of any white bottle of household liquid (washing balm, etc.).

On the table we unfold a transparent wide adhesive tape. On its sticky surface we put beautiful small leaves, seeds and other flat natural material inside out. We put it so that between the elements there are empty places of sticky tape (so that there is an adhesive space).

Here are some new ideas for this fall - from natural materials. You found inspiration here. You fell in love with some crafts. And that means this autumn will not pass by your skillful hands. It remains only to collect natural material, which is abundant everywhere, and, fortunately, it is free. As in that verse...

Autumn is walking in our park,
Autumn gives gifts to everyone.

And we give you even more other articles on the topic of autumn crafts.

Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site.

In order to create a cozy atmosphere in your home, every detail designed to decorate the interior must clearly fit into its overall style. To emphasize the dignity of the interior, highlighting the advantages and hiding the disadvantages, the decorative sound of various accessories will help. One of these creations of home art is handmade crafts made from natural materials. From our article you will learn how with the help of simple things that surround us, you can create exquisite jewelry and original decor items. The following workshops with photos and step-by-step instructions, as well as various ideas for home, summer cottage, school and kindergarten, will help you easily cope with this task.

Beautiful crafts: we do it quickly and easily (photo)

Kanzashi, topiary, decoupage, planters, origami - the world of handmade tirelessly excites the imagination of needlewomen.

A variety of crafts made of wood, glass, shells, cereals, coffee beans, pasta, paper, stones, pebbles and other natural materials will help create a unique comfort and light romantic mood in any interior.

Advice! You can create a variety of stocks for making crafts from natural material from absolutely anything, just look around, you probably have a lot of things suitable for this at home.

Hazel and pine nuts, beans, buckwheat, peas, coriander, pepper - are excellent material for creativity

Advice! So that handicraft creativity gives you exclusively positive emotions, and the process of preparing material turns into a real holiday, you can combine business with pleasure.

1. Being at sea in the summer, stock up on beautiful shells and small pebbles. They make great wall decorations for the home.
2. Walking through the autumn park, give your child the task of picking up acorns, chestnuts, colorful fallen leaves. Products from natural materials made by children's hands are endowed with special warmth and love.
3. When caring for your own garden, do not be too lazy to sow the seeds of dried flowers. They are perfectly stored in the winter and will be an ideal tool for creative work.

Natural wood crafts

Wood- a beautiful and malleable material that has gained popularity among designers, architects and ordinary amateurs. Natural array is easy to combine with metal, glass, plastic and stone decor.

Wooden crafts will harmoniously fit into a cozy country-style room, set the tone for the brutal loft style, and favorably change the classic, Scandinavian, minimalist decor.

We offer you to view a universal selection of interesting wood products that can transform the design of any interior, becoming its beautiful and bright accent:

Tree branches

- a refined natural material that allows you to create many original things for your home with your own hands: chandeliers, wall lamps, candlesticks, photo frames, hangers, headboards and much more.

1. Painted dry branches with many branches will give a special charm to the living room, kitchen, bathroom.
2. Tables, lamps, shelves, vases trimmed with a saw cut look nice.
3. A romantic mood will be set by decorative panels in the form of a heart, a bird, a star.
4. Gold, silver, white, black rods, placed in a transparent vase with stones, attract attention.

Wood saw cuts

Tree cuts help create larger crafts: vases, clocks, frames, stylized wreaths. Wooden tubs for flowers, shelves, hot coasters will harmoniously fit into the interior.

Having shown a little imagination, it will not be difficult for craftsmen to build an unusual countertop from these round ones, fixing the saw cuts of wood on a plywood sheet, filling the voids with shavings and opening them with varnish.

Tree bark

Bark is a natural and affordable material. Modern craftsmen use birch bark to create unique paintings and appliqués. Mugs, baskets, tuesas and boxes made of birch bark will last for decades.

Crafts made from natural materials will help not only to reveal your creative potential, but also to translate your interior ideas into reality.

Decorative stone and pebbles

• Decorative rock- the unbridled power of the elements, which has a strong charge, which affects the overall design concept of personal plots, interior decoration.

Chests, caskets, vases filled with pebbles will dilute the routine atmosphere of city apartments and office space. Small stones will decorate walls, mirrors, door handles, stands for installations, as well as bottles. Look at the examples in the photo.

An interesting solution would be glass bottle candle holder filled with shells with colorful pebbles. No less beautiful will look beautiful stones stuck to the wall.

A decorative rug, pasted over with flat pebbles, planted on silicone or special glue, looks unusual and elegant. With it, your porch will look stylish and beautiful.

Even children can create original stone compositions. Just before that, you need to conduct a step-by-step master class for them.

Mosaic, painting, stone cutting- a great way to entertain children by creating magnets, flower arrangements, trees, cacti in decorated pots.

Advice! It is best to paint sea pebbles in one tone with the help of special cans, but you need to apply drawings and thin lines on them using brush liners.

• Decorative panels and figurines are made from multi-colored stones. Pebble cladding of walls, floors, fireplaces and window sills - the basis, kitchens, toilets.

Picture of stones - a unique piece of furniture

Summer crafts from fruits, leaves and flowers

The formation of a careful and caring attitude towards the environment is formed by classes with natural materials. An important stage of work is the collection, processing and preparation for the use of summer gifts.

You can make beautiful and original home accessories with children's hands from:

• leaves;
• poplar fluff;
• colors;
• seeds.

Dry grass, fruits, flowers, tree fruits and plant seeds make it possible to create complex volumetric applications for autumn and summer themes, unique and colorful compositions and other original art objects.

Advice! If wood (saw cuts, logs, bark, twigs) is used to create crafts from natural material, it should be thoroughly dried before starting work. Using damp wood will significantly shorten the life of homemade masterpieces.

Ideas for creating autumn crafts

Autumn is the best time to pick fruits, seeds, vegetables, as well as acorns, cones, and chestnuts. Fallen leaves, dry flowers, grass will serve to create unusual bouquets, wreaths, applications.

Natural compositions look good in ordinary vases, watermelon peel, coconut shell, pumpkin shell. An original master class can be held for children, teaching them how to create crafts from natural materials with their own hands.

1. The cones will make a cozy basket or wreath that can be hung on the front door.
2. Zucchini decorated with berries and flowers will become the main character of the garden plot.
3. A kaleidoscope of bright colors of pumpkins, potatoes, eggplant will decorate the yard landscape if you come up with a worthy use for them.

Advice! Looking for ideas for crafts for kindergarten, check out the wonderful houses made from bark and tree branches.

Crafts on the theme: "Sea and the underwater world"

Sea crafts give bright emotions and a rainbow mood even in cold winter. If you are lucky enough to collect a collection of shells during your vacation, hurry up to become the authors of voluminous applications, paintings, frames, a marine theater or an aquarium.

• Sea treasures are easily transformed into beads, pendants and pendants.
• Cold porcelain, salt dough will help to complement the composition with starfish, corals, colored stones.
• The ocean in a bottle is a whole underwater world that allows you to invent different stories and study marine life.
• On a cool day, warm memories of summer will also be given by boats made from improvised materials.

When making nautical-themed decor, do not limit yourself to anything - create, try, dare

In the manufacture of products on the theme of "sea" you can use absolutely any natural material

Feathers for needlework

• bird feathers- used by craftswomen to create soft pillows, warm feather beds, hat decorations, toys, unusual souvenirs.

They also decorate the interior, complementing the crafts with sequins, sparkles, small ribbon bows and other decor.

Despite the fact that the pen is a very capricious material, working with it is quite simple and easy.

Dream catcher - a magical talisman that attracts good luck

Important! Bird feathers can cause a severe allergic reaction in humans, so be careful using them as home decorations.

DIY crafts (step by step)

It is easy to create crafts from natural material with your own hands - the main thing is to get the necessary tools and material. The following step-by-step instructions for creating versatile home and garden decor will help you complete this simple task.

colorful panel

Panel - decorative, facades. Currently, three main genres are used for its manufacture: sculptural, mosaic and appliqué.

An interesting solution is an artistic panel made of natural materials: dry leaves, straw, nut shells, dried flowers. Its production takes place in 3 simple steps:

1. First you need to make a base. It can be made from wooden boards knocked down into a shield or a piece of plywood.
2. Next, the base must be covered with burlap material or a straw grate over it, on which the application will be applied. You can make an application from flat elements (leaves, grains, seeds), or get a relief surface by combining three-dimensional details. An unusual solution would be to weave dried citrus, moss and leaves into a straw net.
3. The final stage is the creation of a rope or wire loop for attaching the panel to the wall. Rate the result in the photo!

Advice! If desired, a frame made of snags or vine branches can be added to the resulting composition. It will make your work more elegant

Egg shells for indoor plants

Creating small flowerpots from eggshells requires special care, since the shell itself is a rather fragile material and can be easily damaged by careless movement.

Procedure:

1. Prick the top of a raw egg and pour the contents into a bowl.
2. Finish the edges until a clean cut is obtained, or leave them chipped.
3. Stabilize your vases with a stand or egg carton. Alternative options may be a plasticine flagellum that complements the bottom of the shell.
4. The resulting container is ready for seedlings of wild flowers, greenery, moss, small succulents.

Interesting to know! An eggshell can also be used as an elegant candle holder, an Easter craft or a miniature flower bed.

To create your own mini-garden, you will need quite a bit of time, the main thing is to do everything carefully and follow the rules described above.

Saw candlesticks

Preparing an exclusive candlestick from a stump or saw cut wood will take a minimum of time and effort. Obtain the necessary material and tools to perform the following actions:

1. Impregnate the wooden base with compounds that prevent the formation of rot and insect pests.
2. Using a drill and a special nozzle, make a shallow hole in the center of the stump to install a standard candle. So that the edges do not pose a danger, process them with sandpaper.
3. Decorate the product with burlap tied with a jute rope or a beautiful ribbon.

A wooden stand for 2-3 candles, made of simple driftwood, mounted on a wall, hangers or supports, will look unusual. Such an interesting hand-made product will be the best attribute for romantic evenings.

Kitchen clock

A clock for the kitchen from cutlery is made very quickly and simply. For this we need:

• clockwork with a beautiful dial;
• disposable plastic spoons and forks;
• glue gun.

Step by step master class

1. First you need to disassemble the watch, separating the mechanism from the dial;
2. Next, using a glue gun, we glue improvised arrows opposite each number so that the spoons and forks alternate and follow one after the other. So the watch will look much prettier;
3. It remains to let the glue dry, set the dial in place and insert the battery into the watch. Original and useful ready!

Summing up

Do-it-yourself decor for home, summer cottage, school, kindergarten is easy to do, especially if you use natural material for this, which is a pleasure to work with.

Design techniques bring the most unexpected innovations into our lives. This article will talk about such a novelty as moss for decor or in the interior of the premises.

Living corners of plants such as moss, succulents are a new trend in the design of houses, apartments and offices. Such elements will bring freshness, unusualness, a sense of a fairy tale from childhood into the atmosphere of the room.

Decor from plants can decorate floors, walls, make decorations on the shelves. To make it work, you need to follow certain technologies. Stalks of moss, succulents, twigs of shrubs must undergo a special treatment, the so-called stabilization with ordinary glycerin. After that, they become immune to phytodiseases. No insects will no longer annoy them. At the same time, the freshness of the greens is preserved. And besides, no one has allergic reactions to the treated plants, even the most sensitive people.

Having decided to decorate the interior in such an unusual way, you must immediately take into account that the plants used in the work cannot stand direct sunlight and a dry, hot climate in the house. Therefore, it is better to arrange green corners in those rooms whose windows face the shady side.

If you decide to act as a phytodesigner yourself, arm yourself with consulting literature on this issue. Having thoroughly studied everything, prepare and process the material. After that, give free rein to your most unusual fantasy. You can ask a florist for help. He will not only make a sketch of the green corner of your interior, but also discuss with you some technical nuances in processing living material.

Mosses and succulents look great in combination with stones. If you are decorating the lower section of the wall, you can put several beautiful stones next to it. Green corners, coupled with an aquarium, look very natural and close to nature. Gentle unobtrusive lighting for aquarium fish will not be aggressive for plants.

You can decorate a real forest clearing with the help of mosses, decorating it with decorative mushrooms and bright berries. Improvise and decorate it with bird and butterfly figurines offered in a huge assortment in retail chains. Your interior will sparkle! And if there are children in the house, arrange a living fairy tale for them. Place small wooden or ceramic houses next to live plants. Settle Alyonushka, Baba Yaga, Gnomes, other magical characters and animals there. There will be no limit to fantasy. And all improvisations can be changed.

It will surely captivate you. Another tip is to keep an eye on pets, especially cats, they can harm your corner of moss. Wean them from this area in the house.

Natural moss can be bought at any flower shop. You can prepare it yourself if you know a few subtleties.

There are many different mosses. The most common moss for decoration is the one that grows in the forest and in the forest belt on stones. It is easy to assemble, clean and use for decoration.

How to collect moss

It is better to collect moss on stones, tree trunks or stumps. Such a plant is much easier to process, it is more beautiful. When you collect moss, make sure that there are no plants with it - this will make it difficult to process the moss.

Try not to break the plant into pieces - it will be easier to dry it. Moss is collected carefully, holding the bottom with a hand or a plank. Shake it to release dirt, dust and insects. Moss is collected in any container - a bag, a bag, a basket.

When you bring your find home, it will need to be dried. It is better to dry in the sun. Expose it to the sun, turning it over to dry the moss.

Good afternoon. Today I can finally sum up a large collection of ideas for crafts made from natural materials. We already have a wide-form article with autumn leaf crafts for children and adults. There is a detailed article in the autumn theme. In this article I will publish the most interesting and non-standard tricks 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 heart in new fresh ideas of working with natural material. Crafts made with your own hands, from branches, from leaves, from dry flowers, from everything under your feet. Nature is rich in material, and man is rich in beautiful ideas. So, let's see what crafts can be made from natural material this season.

Idea Pack #1

SCALES from cones.

The cones are made up of scales. If you collect open pine cones, then it is convenient to pull out of them with pincers, pliers, or bite SCALES with wire cutters. And then use this bumpy natural material as a mosaic coating on a variety of autumn crafts.

Note. In order for the cones to open well, spread out with scales, they can be warmed up in the oven.

Here we see mushrooms. Their legs are carved from a thick wooden chock. The hats are molded of plasticine and the top of the hats is covered with scales. It turns out cute mushrooms-crafts with their own hands. Suitable job for school.

But the spruce cones have scales flatter and smoother. They look like the smoothed feathers of birds. Therefore, the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bcrafts comes to mind on a bird theme. We sculpt the bird's body from plasticine, we 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 the spruce “tile” of feather-scales.

And also the scales of a spruce 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 - there's a whole beast that looks like it's alive. Great crafts for boys made of natural material.

Here we act exactly the same as with the bird- we sculpt the base from plasticine, pack it in several layers of papier mache (alternating pva glue and paper napkins). And then, after this mass has dried into a hard crust, you can glue the dinosaur figure with spruce scales.

After plucking the cone, a 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 cone - just with hot glue from a gun.

You can cover such cones-flowers with bright gouache. In order for the gouache color to become juicier and shine, it is necessary to sprinkle this product on top after drying with gouache, I recommend spraying it with simple hairspray. The color will stick and won't stain your hands.

You can make beautiful flowers yourself, choosing 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 the autumn style with your own hands - and wear them with a coat, or pin them to a shawl.

Flowers from cones can not only be collected into wreath crafts, but simply laid out on a panel. Put on glue on a piece of plywood. You will get an excellent craft made from natural material for a competition in a school or kindergarten.

From whole buds You can also make great crafts. We add not only natural material to the cones, but also other materials (colored felt, cardboard, ropes, plastic, etc.).

Idea Pack #2

Crafts from natural material

WALNUTS.

From nutshells, we all made boats in childhood, or hats on plasticine mushrooms. But you can go further in your creativity from walnuts. Children will be happy to create mice or birds, and adult skillful hands and a warm spiritual heart can create a whole world from a nutshell ... Now you will see it.

In this article I want to introduce you to a very good person. Her name is Marina. Master with an attentive soul.

This is how the account page of this master on the Fair of Masters website looks like.

I really like the work of master Marina from the site Fair of Masters. With her own hands she created amazing, in its sincerity and warmth, the world of good old women. The walnuts in the place where the wings connect are surprisingly similar to a wrinkled smiling old woman. It remains to add eyes, a nose-bone and mentally wrap everything with a cotton handkerchief. And now the cunning old woman looks at you cheerfully.

We make a body from a bump, weave hands from rough paper packaging twine. From felt we dump warm felt boots. Each old woman can be made with her own character. Cheered up with a big smile. Or silent thoughtful, on my mind.

Old women can be both summer and winter.

You can create whole worlds from natural material in which kind old women live and work. They themselves will keep their world clean.

And after work, they will gather for 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 work on the master's personal page - https://www.livemaster.ru/woods. Marina can make crafts to order for your family and friends.

After all, how nice it is to receive as a gift the World of good old women, which will always smell like a village CHILDHOOD for you - grandmother's pancakes, a stack of firewood by the barn, chickens running around the yard, a heated tree of an old bench near the fence.

Master Marina, I want to give 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 kind stories about Russian village grandmothers, illustrated by Marina's works.

After all, this is a real miracle, to make a new world out of natural material with your own hands - kind, fabulous, REAL. More and more new houses, cozy benches, swings, carts, wagons will appear in it.

Idea Pack #3

Crafts from natural material

FAIRY HOUSES.

If you like fairy tales with fairies and magicians, then you will like the world of fairies made of natural material. 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 the school competition of crafts made from natural materials. The house where the gnome lives. Details can be attached to plasticine, staples (from a stapler), to glue from a hot gun.

Pieces of moss, acorn caps, scales torn from 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 by natural design before your eyes.

You can base thick wooden stick found in the forest. Saw off a comfortable piece from it. Buy at a hardware store tinted stain for wood- and cover the tree in a noble dark color. Cut out of thick cardboard windows, cover them with the same stain. From ice cream sticks put together a real door, arrange a porch. Sculpt a conical roof from plasticine. Break a large pine cone with tongs or pliers on scales and lay out tiles from them on the roof of a natural house.

Some elements can be molded salt dough(a glass of fine salt, a glass of flour + water (add water a spoon at a time, and grind with salted flour with your hands until a single lump is formed, similar to plasticine). Roll out the dough - cut into bricks with a knife. Dry - and 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 strong cardboard package from milk or juice. Cut windows in it - this will be the future facade of the house.
2. Buy a small bag of gypsum plaster (or putty) diluted with water and coat the facade of the house with this mixture.
3. Dry and cover with whitewash or white gouache (toothpaste on the edge).
   Make a roof out of cardboard, also apply glue to it and lay tiles from pieces of bark or cones. or chips.

Idea Pack #4

Applications

And of course, the most common crafts made from natural material are applications using dry herbarium - herbs, leaves, flowers. We made everything from leaves of chicks or fish in an aquarium. 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 in the search bar you type the phrase "silhouette of a hare picture" or another animal.

The most important thing in such a craft is to achieve recognition - the clarity of the silhouette. Therefore, you need to choose a silhouette without small details - protrusions. And if you chose with detailed protrusions, try to make the small relief detail be made with ONE SOLID petal (like the ears of a bunny or its protrusions of the 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 carefully cut with scissors (as is done in the photo above with a cat - it has triangles of ears cut out).

Nature Idea Pack #5

Crafts from branches.

From branches of different shapes and bends, you can lay out beautiful crafts with your own hands. Branches can just decompose on a white paper background, repeating the outlines of a bird or animal. It is possible in advance on paper draw a silhouette of a bird weak pencil lines. And then pick up branches that would lie on this drawn silhouette of a bird, repeating the curves of the picture.

Crafts from natural material can be fix with glue with a hot glue gun. Or make a photo-craft. That is, lay out the branches and take a picture of the craft, thereby perpetuating your product from natural material in the form of a photograph.

You can fix the craft at the key nodes of the plexus of branches and then in these knots attach it to the base (vertical wall or horizontal shelf-stand), as is done in the photo below.

In addition to branches, you can use wood chips, pieces of bark, chips and saw cuts from logs, chocks, thick branches in your crafts. This is how crafts-owls from the photo below are implemented. Simply and interestingly made with your own hands - you can safely take it to the exhibition of autumn crafts to school or kindergarten.

One and the same idea can be embodied in different angles and different materials. Here, for example, in the photo of horse crafts made from natural material, both branches and bark, and snags 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 pattern details. Spread the branches in the same directions as the fur pile of the animal, or repeat the muscular relief of the animal with branches.

Perhaps this type of crafts made from natural material will captivate you so much that turn into a solid hobby with the prospects of monetization in a profitable business. Why not make beautiful wooden sculptures for a summer residence or estate for sale.

And if you want to use branches to create crafts from natural material in class at school, then here are simple ideas for you on how this can be implemented in the lessons of labor for boys. Everyone is taught cut with jigsaws plywood figurines. In addition to animal figurines, you can put together frames from slats and make beautiful landscape paintings of an autumn forest with mossy branches overgrown with lichen.

Similar ideas can be implemented at labor lessons for girls - without plywood and a jigsaw - by making a frame of cardboard twisted into a square tube (fold 4 pieces into a frame-frame, insert branches into holes), and cut animal silhouettes from dense packaging corrugated cardboard from old boxes and paint in gouache, if desired.

Package of nature crafts No. 6

Maple and ash seeds.

Dry lobed tree seeds can be very interesting to beat in a variety of do-it-yourself crafts.

You can make a mosaic craft out of this natural material in the form 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 paint well with watercolor, so your butterfly craft can be in all colors of the rainbow.

At school or kindergarten, from the same natural material, you can make very simple children's crafts with a base on thick cardboard. Maple seeds can be a hairstyle on a painted human head, they can become a squirrel's fluffy tail, feathers on an owl's wings, or 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 beetles. For example, string beads on a wire (this will be the body) and glue seeds to the body on glue or plasticine. Wings can be painted with nail polish and sprinkled with glitter glitter. The bulging eyes of a dragonfly can be cast from frozen drops of the same nail polish. You will get a beautiful quick and simple craft made from natural material for children.

And the same maple natural material can become the basis for fun GRAPHIC CRAFTS-DRAWING with an ordinary black marker. We paint on the missing details for 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 told more about this GRAPHIC method of using natural material in the article.

Idea Pack #7

Crafts from natural material

STONES.

A simple rubble stone left over from summer cottage construction, or smooth river, sea stones can become the material for your natural DIY crafts. The stone itself can tell by its shape who it looks like. And you just have to take felt-tip pens or gouache to bring this image to life.

If you feel like an artist in yourself - you can make complex multi-line drawings - as is the case with the stone owl craft. Or smooth thick pebbles can look like clumsy chubby panda bear cubs - and such crafts 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 on it the black details of the teddy bear.

Ordinary felt-tip pens draw very well on stones. After completing the general painting work, the details of the picture need to give contours(clear boundaries) black marker.

You can draw the silhouette of a snail or a sheep on the stone yourself. And to give the children the task to simply color the finished silhouettes, supplement them with a pattern of stripes and dots or curls.

From dry grass and wire or other natural material, you can make a nest. And in this craft, put the chicks made of stones with your own hands. Older children can decorate a complex picture with a chick and an open beak. For younger children, the task is easier in the form of chickens in shells.

On a piece of plywood or a round saw cut from a log, you can lay out a whole picture of stones and other natural materials decorated with paints. This craft is suitable for work on the autumn competition in school or kindergarten.

Older girls will like exquisite pictures from the life of a fashionable girl - a felt-tip pen, paints, stones and rhinestones.

You can use the mosaic technique to lay out a variety of characters from stones. Attach the stones to the glue with 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 of natural material (sea pebbles, glass turned by water, shells, etc.).

Idea Pack #8

Crafts from natural material

PORTRAITS.

A very interesting topic for crafts made from natural material 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, into which you want to look, read their thoughts. A portrait is a craft that looks at you.

You can plant all the details of a portrait from natural material on glue. Or just fold the portrait like a mosaic on a sheet of cardboard, take a picture and brush off all the details of the masterpiece with your hand from the table. 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, bark. For drawing thin lines, branches of different trees, straws, blades of grass.

If you are working with children, then you can give them an easier task. Print the finished face on the printer. And from natural material in this craft make additions

Good luck with your work.

Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site