It's great to walk in a park or forest in autumn, breathe in the fresh air, admire the withering beauty of nature, and at the same time collect natural materials, which can then become an excellent basis for a creative pastime with children.
Chestnuts are excellent gif.webpts of nature that provide many opportunities for the realization of creative ideas. In this article, we will look at how to create DIY chestnuts crafts.
Features of creativity using chestnuts
- Chestnuts are available in any forest and park, and kids just love to pick them.
- For crafts, not only the chestnuts themselves can be useful, but also their shell, so do not rush to throw it away.
- Chestnuts are distinguished by the simplicity of preliminary preparation for creativity. It is enough just to find, rinse well and dry.
- They store well, so you can build up a supply for future chestnut crafts for children.
- One of their disadvantages is their hardness, which makes them difficult to machine.
Preparing to create crafts
- For the craft, you need several pre-washed and dried chestnut tree fruits.
- Twigs, sticks, blades of grass, leaves, berries, cones and other natural materials that will complement the chestnut craft.
- Box or thick cardboard, scissors, PVA glue, plasticine, gouache.
- The holes are made with an awl or knife.
- If it is physically impossible to do this, then the whole chestnut is used.
Chestnut Craft Ideas
How to make a chestnut craft if the proposed options seem too simple or complicated? Depending on the age of the child, in joint or individual creativity, various ideas for crafts from chestnuts can be realized.
Crafts for toddlers
Images of animals and insects are always popular with kids. Restless kids cannot do the same thing for a long time, but the simplest craft from chestnuts can be done in just a few minutes.
The simplicity of the craft provides such an important factor in the creativity of young children as direct participation. After all, it is very important that the baby learns to feel the material himself and see the creative image.
- Let's connect two chestnuts using plasticine. And now the torso and head are ready. Add ears, paws and a tail from plasticine and you will get a kitten.
- Having fastened several chestnuts with plasticine, we get a real caterpillar. It remains only to add eyes, mouth, plasticine antennae.
- Having sculpted four legs, a tail, an elongated head and attaching them to the chestnut, we get a funny turtle.
- Using a few toothpicks or matches and a couple of pieces of plasticine, you can create a cute spider.
- One of the simplest crafts for kids is a mushroom. She needs one chestnut, which will be a mushroom cap, and a leg sculpted from plasticine.
Crafts for older children
Crafts for older children are more complex and, accordingly, require more time, attention, patience and perseverance.
Your attention is invited to a master class on creating crafts from chestnuts using the example of the craft "House from a fairy tale":
- The basis of the craft will be a small cardboard box.
- You also need chestnuts, dried leaves and twigs, cardboard, plasticine, PVA glue.
- Cover the cardboard box, which is the base, with a layer of plasticine and then glue, attaching the existing chestnuts to it.
- The roof can be made of cardboard, covering it with dried leaves and twigs, fixed with glue.
- A pipe, windows and a door can be molded from plasticine or made of paper at the discretion of the child.
- The dried house must be fixed on the base with glue.
- The composition can be supplemented with a fence with a gate around the house, made of toothpicks or matches. And also a small reservoir, trees and shrubs, mushrooms and berries from plasticine or natural materials.
Using chestnuts for interior decoration
Chestnut products can be used to decorate both a room in an apartment and a country house. The most interesting options for interior decor are making a vase, basket and chestnut wreath.
Step-by-step instruction:
- A form is required, which will be the base (vase, jar, bottle, basket, donut base). Chestnuts will be attached to it.
- Prepare chestnuts, decor (beads, bows, dried flowers, cones, dried flowers, etc.), glue, glue gun, paint, varnish in advance.
- Using hot glue and a glue gun, you need to attach the chestnuts to the chosen base.
- The voids are filled with decorative elements using glue.
- The resulting product is painted and varnished.
Photos of crafts from chestnuts
Usually children do a lot of crafts. But not all of them can be preserved in their original form, as children often use them later to play.
Also, it is not always possible to store such a large number of creative works of a child.
But modern technologies will come to the rescue. You can take a photo of crafts from chestnuts as a keepsake. Then after a while, if the craft deteriorates, you will have photos of cute touching children's works for many years.
Photo crafts from chestnuts
