The time spent at sea responds with various memories and emotions for a long period, especially a lot of impressions and all kinds of trophies: sea shells, stones - remain with the smallest. Most of all, they want to plunge into the experienced happiness on vacation.
If it is not possible to return until next year, then it is worth making sea crafts with your own hands with the children. This will slightly brighten the waiting period for a new meeting with the sea or the gentle and warm ocean, depending on the location of the visited resort.
Inspection of the available material
To begin with, it is worth examining what is available for creating crafts. Then you should familiarize yourself with the many photos of marine crafts created by professionals and amateurs, this will help you to invent something of your own on their basis, or really just copy the product you like with the children.
Do not forget that this fun is interesting primarily for the smallest. In the process of creation and preparation, they will gladly spend time with adults.
It is worth pushing them a little so that they independently take the initiative and demonstrate their imagination, sometimes, children's crafts amaze with their ideological content, and an adult will definitely help in making them.
We use wooden materials
Children often like to carry home various pebbles, sticks and wooden boards. Don't throw it all away, as it can make amazing nautical-themed crafts. The main thing is to create an idea and explain it to the smallest.
- For example, already at home after a few months, you can recall the first days of rest. What were all the members of the family. True white and perhaps a little sullen, tired. Just a few days later, they smiled and were covered with a bronze tan. It is this period that can be displayed in the form of crafts.
This option can be considered one of the best for making your own marine children's crafts, since the process is very simplified. To do this, a wide and long piece of wood about 10 by 30 cm is used as a stand.Then the children are given the task:
- It is necessary to cut out a wooden statue that looks like a mother or a woman;
- Create a blank with the outlines of a dad or a man similar to him;
- Make a blank that looks like a brother or sister, depending on the number of family members.
Now all together should do coloring to highlight hair, clothes, face. Decorative elements are added. All blanks are glued to the stand. For the durability of the paint, the craft is varnished. All decoration for the interior of the apartment is ready.
Decorative frame made of seafood
To create a quality craft from marine life, you need a little different material. The main thing is to involve children in this process.
As a result, you can make a frame for a family photo from a vacation at sea, a frame for a picture or a wall clock.
Tools and materials:
- Any collected shells, pebbles from the seashore or the beach;
- Cardboard;
- Strong scissors;
- Beads, buttons;
- Glue;
- Pencil.
Manufacturing steps:
- To begin with, a cardboard base is created, the size is determined by applying it to the main object for framing. Pencil markings are allowed. The workpiece is cut with scissors;
- Now you can pick up a composition of seafood. We look where you can add beads and buttons to create attractiveness, it's good if they are also found on the beach;
- After estimating and roughly creating a composition, you can evenly glue the elements around the entire perimeter of the cardboard. It is important that there is no spade for its edges;
- After completion, it is worth waiting a few hours until the glue dries and all parts are fully fixed;
- Now you can glue the decorated frame to the main product and enjoy the collaboration with children. Obviously everyone will be happy with the final result.
Let's make beads and bracelets from sea stone
To create these crafts from sea stones, you will need a lot of different materials. First you need to select suitable stones, arrange them in size on a cardboard or table.
To create attractiveness, you will have to sharpen some elements, thanks to sandpaper or a file, children will be happy to do this.
Then adults use an awl, preferably a drill with the smallest cutting element, make holes for stringing stones on a fishing line, a rope. After that, the smallest ones can use their fingers to collect all the elements to form a bracelet or beads.
The latter should be created in several rows to be proudly worn on the chest or used as a decoration for a children's bedroom.
Learning to create products from seashells
Before creating a unique craft from seashells, you need to prepare the material. We have not previously covered this important point, but now we make up for the omission. So let's learn how to properly clean the shells:
Soaking in chlorine solution, like - "Duck"
A similar product is diluted 1 to 1 with water and the shells are soaked in it for 30 minutes. If it was not possible to achieve the desired result, then it is worth prolonging the process.
The fact is that the material can be very dirty with a dark outer layer (periostracum). After that, the workpieces are cleaned with a brush and rinsed with running water.
Learning to prepare live molluscs
If either live or dead shellfish are found inside, then a disgusting smell is guaranteed. Removal methods:
- To do this, the shell is dipped in boiling water for about 5-7 minutes. Now the remains can be easily removed with forceps, nail scissors, tweezers;
- Alternatively, you will need a microwave. Under the influence of powerful microwaves, the shells are not damaged, but the inside will dry out, burn out and exfoliate. Now it can be removed, in most cases the contents spill out freely in case of inclination.
The easiest pendant for children
Kids should choose one of the most beautiful shells with an unusual shape. The adult drills the holes, inserts the fishing line, the rope and the decoration for the child is ready.
Important: It is worth explaining to the child the safety precautions of using a shell pendant. It can have sharp spots, so you need to take it off before bed and wear it carefully. It is good if it is worn over a T-shirt and is located in the solar plexus area.
Seashell valentine
Manufacturing steps:
- A cardboard base is cut out in the shape of a heart;
- Now the surface of the base is glued with shells. They should not go over the edges.
The craft can be presented as is, used to frame photographs of young people or images from the parents' wedding.
Now we have looked at enough interesting examples so that you can understand how you can make a marine craft from various seafood collected on vacation. But in this case, the quality of the product should not be set as the main goal.
It is very important to preserve the memory of a joint vacation with parents, it will be able to recall the bright moments of childhood after many decades and will allow you to reveal the history of the craft to your own children.
Photo of marine crafts
