Almost all people were faced with the desire to make something beautiful from the material at hand, but it never occurred to them how to do it and what material was better to choose.
A similar problem has arisen for parents who help their elementary school child to do crafts as homework. In this article, you can see ideas for crafts from nuts, as well as how to make them yourself.
Simple nut crafts
The basis of simple crafts made from nuts will be a walnut shell, because it is very durable, not afraid of water, dyes well and goes well with other materials at hand.
These qualities make it possible to make from it both simple and not intricate things, as well as elegant costume jewelry or original souvenirs.
To begin with, we will consider crafts for children, which can be done quickly, without bothering much, and do not require special training, as well as step-by-step instructions for their implementation.
These can be used for hobbies of a child or, if necessary, quickly create a cute craft for school.
Craft boat from walnut
The first and one of the easiest crafts can be called "Ship", which is perfect for a child if he does not know what to do, because there is nothing better than creating your own fleet yourself.
What is required for assembly:
- Toothpicks
- Paraffin candles
- Paper or any other material that can be used as sail
- Walnut shell
Stages of assembling the boat:
- Find a clean shell of nuts and drip paraffin of a burning candle into its bottom, so that the future mast can stand firmly in it. (Point 1 must be performed with a child, in order to avoid a fire hazard)
- After you have dripped the required amount of paraffin into the shell, you need to insert a toothpick there, which will act as a mast and wait until the paraffin hardens, while holding the toothpick straight.
- Now you need to attach the sail to the mast. It can be anything you want, you can use a leaf of cabbage, lettuce, from a tree, a regular notebook sheet, or any other thing that can act as a sail.
- Now the sails are "strung" on a toothpick and the boat can be released into the water without fear that it will sink, because the nutshell does not sink in water
Also, simple crafts for a child can be in the form of various animals and insects, which can not only captivate the child for a long time, but also decorate your home.
Craft bee from a nutshell
To complete it you will need
- Walnut shell
- Yellow and black paints
- Glue or plasticine
- A piece of rope.
- Plastic eyes, or you can make them from plasticine.
Bee assembly steps:
- Color the walnut shells in yellow and black stripes and let them dry.
- Make an eight out of a rope (an infinity sign), or mold wings for a bee from plasticine to the taste of a child.
- Glue the figure eight (infinity) to the convex part of the shell with glue or a small piece of plasticine.
- Attach eyes to the bee on her face.
By the same principle, you can make many other animals or insects, you need paints for this, in the color of the animal, for example, for a ladybug you need black and red paints, green for a frog, gray for a bunny, etc.
After you paint the shell, the animals need distinctive features: antennae, ears, paws, you can make them out of cardboard or plasticine. Do not forget to attach eyes to the resulting crafts and the craft can be considered complete.
Craft topiary from nuts
The next type of crafts that are easy to do with your own hands can be useful for people who want to decorate their home or make a good gif.webpt.
For the beauty of crafts, there is no need to bother too much, because you can combine several simple crafts in order to get a good combination, for example, make a forest clearing with bugs, animals, mushrooms, a boat can swim in the distance in the river, etc. there can be a lot of such compositions, depending on the views of the person.
But if you want to make a single decoration for your home or a gif.webpt to a loved one, then here you can read how to create a "topiary" with your own hands.
Materials for assembly
- Any nuts that look nice together.
- A dry twig, or other stick that will match the top of the topiary.
- Pot. Its size is determined at your discretion.
- Thick paper
- Glue gun
- Ribbons of various colors
- Threads and beads
- Gypsum or other fast drying solid mixture
- Scotch tape wide
- Acrylic paints.
- Water
- The metal that you find in the house (small nails, screws, etc.), you can also use pieces of broken bricks, or other things that act as weights.
Despite the large number of necessary things, the craft is done easily and in one go.
Stages of assembling topiary
- From thick paper, you need to roll up a wide lump and wrap it with tape around it.
- We make a hole in the resulting lump and fill it with hot glue from a gun.
- Insert a stick into the hole and let it dry.
- Then, holding on to the stick, paint the lump white (or another one at the discretion of the person), then paint the stick in the same color.
- Now sort the nuts by size and use the large ones first.
- Place the first nut in the center on hot glue. Then, next to it, glue the rest of the nuts so that they fit in a ring on top (make a circle for large nuts at the top of the lump), fill the remaining space to size.
- After the top of the topiary is finished, you need to put the prepared weighting materials in the pot, insert a stick with a lump and pour the prepared mixture.
- After the frame of the topiary is ready, it is necessary to paint it (at the discretion of the person).
- After that, you decorate it with a thread with beads, a ribbon and other decorations of your choice.
Thus, you can make a craft from nuts with your own hands, which can not only decorate your home and add coziness to it, but also act as a good gif.webpt.
Features of nut crafts
The shell of all nuts has excellent properties, which is why crafts from them become original and on different topics. Similar examples can be called checkers from walnut shells, for this you just need to paint the shell white or black.
You can also create Christmas tree toys using glue, rope and different types of nuts. Together with toys, you can make a miniature Christmas tree from a walnut shell, you just need to find a frame (base) in the form of a cone and glue it over with Christmas decorations.
There are many examples of using nuts for crafts, it all depends on the person's imagination.
Thus, we have shown only a few master classes on creating crafts from nuts. Remember that everything depends only on your imagination!
Think up, fantasize, and then you will get the most original and charming crafts that will bring pleasure both in the manufacturing process and will delight the eye in the future.
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