Walnut crafts - the best ideas for decorating interiors, kindergartens, schools (121 photos)

Because of the flood of goods for creativity, many have forgotten about the possibility to make something original, beautiful, useful, interesting by hand from local resources, and natural materials.

And in vain, you can make wonderful things for the interior, home decoration for a holiday, make a gift, a toy. Look such products will be no worse than the factory ones.

Useful Leisure Activities

Let's look at some examples for activities with preschool children, as well as with elementary school children.

For children from three years old, you can create crafts from walnuts, the kids will look at them, play with them, and parents will involve kids in making toys, encouraging a desire to make crafts.

Growing older children strengthen the ability to make toys and souvenirs from natural materials on their own.

Younger students are able to make not only toys but more complicated, wonderful things that can be useful in everyday life, on holidays, can be a gift for a friend, mother or grandmother.

Funny representatives of fauna

Handicrafts from nuts attract attention with their ease of construction. One can feel the strength, relief of the craft. They are pleasant to hold in your hands, in addition, they are beautiful and safe for children.

Cheerful bugs

A ladybug is a bright, beautiful bug that children love. They will gladly accept the idea of making this useful insect. You can offer different options, with paints or plasticine.

The first option:

• Paint the surface of the shell with gouache or acrylic paints in a monochrome black or white color, drawing all the folds so that all areas are painted. Let the product dry.
• On this background a layer of red paint will go well, wait until it dries.
• Next, we make a black separating stripes: one band in front of the shell - the head, it is painted completely, the second band goes along the body in the middle - the wings of ladybugs. Draw most conveniently with cotton swabs.
• After drawing the black dots on the body (wings).
• It remains to draw the eyes in white, touch up the antennae. Handicraft ready.
• Item can be covered with clear varnish.
• You can leave the figure without feet, and can perform them in different ways: draw, make from wire, thin twigs and paper.
• The legs are glued to the inside of the shell, and for durability they are pressed with a paper "belly", you can also glue them with plasticine.
• The product can be used as a souvenir, or you can play with it.

The second option:

• Use red plasticine to cover the surface of the shell, black plasticine to make the head, the dividing strip, dots, antennae. Eyes made of white plasticine.
• You can make the figure hollow inside, you can fill the abdomen with black plasticine. Paws to make a choice: from wire, colored paper, twigs.

Thus you can make any insect, fish, bird, animal, suitable in form, using plasticine or cardboard, paper for different parts of the body, depending on the desire.

Spider

Who has not watched spiders as a child. These are interesting representatives of spider-like creatures, memorable for their weaving of webs. It is not difficult to make them.

As in the case of insects, you will need half a walnut shell, paint or plasticine, glue, scissors. It is better to take a decorative wire, it is suitable for furry legs of a spider.

Children need to be reminded that the legs of a spider have eight, not six as in the insects.

You can paint the shell or fill it with clay, you can do it in one color or in different colors, it will be a multi-colored cheerful spider.

Make eight bent legs, fasten them to the inside of the shell. Nose and eyes of your choice.

Volumetric eyes, for example, will look great, they should be prepared in advance:

• take empty pill plates, cut out two capsules,
• put a bead inside,
• glue a round piece of paper to the capsule, and "close the capsule",
• and now fix the "eyes" on the head of the spider. Beautiful!

Now let's add a "spider's web" to the craft. Pull the white threads in different directions on the cardboard with notches, finish drawing the spider's web. Our spider will sit on a spider's web to watch for prey.

The frog .

Take half of the shell, paint in green, then mold or glue the head, paws; small details at the discretion of the master.

Turtle .

Handicraft turtle made from half a walnut. Paint the natural material in brown or green, and you can leave the natural color of the shell:

• You can draw the shell with a felt-tip pen.
• The paws should be oval in shape, then make them look like flippers.
• Let's mold the neck and head: first, form an oval, roll out a sausage, and highlight the head, eyes, you can stack to highlight the mouth.
• Neck with head attach to the shell. Turtle ready.
• As the body and legs can be used paper on which the shell is glued "shell".

The whale .

Paint the shell in blue or blue, the paint on the shell darken, so you can first paint the surface with white paint, well, and then blue (or blue). Cut out of paper fins and fountain, glue them to the surface of the body, draw black eyes, highlight the mouth. The whale is ready.

Owls

Circle the shell on cardboard, draw a crest and paws, glue the cut out shape, we have a beautiful owl.

Such birds can be made a lot, plumage come up with all sorts of different, from paper, fabric, feathers.

Now form their eyes and beaks in yellow. You can put them on a tree branch.

Mice .

We paint the base in gray, add ears and tails of felt, nose and eyes - beads. Mice ready, you can make them cheese.

Bear .

You can make a whole nut and halves, sculpture or glue a paper head, paws.

Hare .

Half shells painted in gray or white, glue ears, tail of plasticine or a small piece of absorbent cotton, fur.

Peanut Checkers

With these checkers the kids will want to learn to play a serious game:

1. We take 24 halves of a walnut, 12 of them are painted in one color, such as red, the other 12 - in blue. Draw eyes. We got different colored fireflies.
2. To figurines was easy to move, you have to glue the bottom: cut out a circle of thick paper and glue.
3. Draw the chessboard on the cardboard. The game is ready, go to battle!

Fun and useful!

Decorating the interior

From nuts you can make useful things, beautiful decorations for the house, cottage. These activities are suitable for school-age children and adults.

Candle holder

We cut out a round base, put in the middle an aromatic candle with a tray, around glue the shells, pre-painted in golden color, decorate the free places with beads.

Photo frame

Any photo frame can be glued by any nutshells, the main thing is to do it accurately, varnish the product.

Box

You need to take two halves of the walnut shells, drill holes in the lower parts, connect the two halves with wire on one side. Now the box opens and closes. Lining the inside of a beautiful soft fabric, glue it, put a bead.

Decorative tree

The manufacturing process is as follows:

• We make the basis in the form of a balloon: it can be papier-mache from a balloon, a balloon.
• Each nut is covered with white paint.
• On the ball we glue the shells tightly to each other. We work with a hot gun. We add coffee beans, beads. We are inserting the stem. The tree is ready.
• We put it in a pot prepared beforehand.

Flowers from pistachios

The work on the creation of flowers consists of several stages:

• We form the flowers. Cut out a round base, where the product will be attached:
• Glue at the base three shells - this is a bud.
• Next, we glue the new shells to the bud with hot glue, apply glue to the base, the top is loose.
• We enlarge the flower, it becomes similar to lotus flowers, and lilies.

Such flowers can decorate a photo frame, purse, curtain, make a magnet.

Unusual pictures

From pistachio shells you can create beautiful paintings that will compete with the real ones.

Grapes

It is necessary to take real dry leaves of grapes, or to draw and cut them out of paper, arrange them on a canvas, or cardboard, so that there is room for bunches:

• Choose the background color in advance so that the image stands out well.
• The pistachios will serve as the bunches. You can use the natural color of the shells, or you can paint in a delicate green, or purple.
• The first shells are glued to the background of the canvas, convex side up, in 2-3 rows of 5-6 "grapes", on them glue the second layer, the number at your discretion. We got a bunch.
• There should be 2-5 such clusters on the picture. The finished work should be well dried.

The picture should be glued on a firm base, which is larger than the size of the picture and framed, or inserted into a suitable frame.

Sakura

With the help of pistachios you can depict a magnificent Japanese plant - sakura:

• We take a twig of a tree, or a material replacing it, place it on the future picture, glue it.
• To the base of the cardboard, which will serve as the middle of the flower, we glue 5 shells of pistachios, previously the shells can be painted in a soft pink, white, purple.
• Glue is applied to the base of the pistachio, use a glue gun.
• Glue the inside up "petals". We do a lot of such flowers, from 9-15. distribute the flowers throughout the branch, and glue it on.
• In the middle of the flower glue a yellow or black beads, you can use a paper core.

Holiday decorations

Walnut shell crafts will make a great holiday decoration.

Christmas wreath

We make the basis for the wreath - a cardboard "bagel", glue it with cotton and tape it over. Next, wrap the blank with strips of fabric, or special paper, and glue the base with shells in a circle, putting one tightly to the other.

We use hot glue. Fill the space between the nuts with absorbent cotton, beads, sprigs of spruce.

Easter Eggs

Paint the nuts with monochrome paint, paint the patterns, varnish them. You can put them in a nice little basket. Great crafts for Easter out of walnuts!

Chicken

An idea for an Easter gift can be a handmade craft. Cut out the body from yellow cardboard, the same color of the shell. Glue the parts, highlight the beak, eyes, scallop.

Easter wreath

Wrap a round base with cut out the middle with rough fabric, such as burlap, prepare multicolored shells "eggs". Glue the blanks to the base, decorate the wreath with beads, feathers, twigs. Easter wreath is ready.

Interaction with natural material fosters caring attitude toward the environment, teaches to observe the phenomena of nature, closer acquainted with different plants (their fruits, leaves, bark), their properties; develop fine motor skills, imagination, aesthetic taste.

In addition, these handicrafts are environmentally friendly, and with good handling are durable.

Classes with handicrafts made of natural material will help to spend fun and useful leisure time for adults and children, without spending a lot of money.

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