Natural material crafts - step by step instructions and best photo examples for kindergarten and school children

A walk with a child in the woods or the park is not only leisure and fresh air, but also an introduction to the world around them.

Plants are the basis of life, because they give off oxygen, which animals and people breathe, they are food, firewood, furniture, pencils...

How beautiful the green world is, how many trees, bushes, flowers are in it. Can we use the gifts of nature without harming plants? Of course.

Cones, nuts, fallen leaves and broken branches, seeds - how many fall crafts from natural material can be made for school contests and exhibitions in kindergarten!

Preparation of natural materials for handicrafts

Brought from the woods materials are carefully cleaned from insects and debris. Cones are dried in an oven at 2500 for half an hour or in a microwave oven for 1 minute at maximum power so that they open.

Leaves are dried either by ironing with a hot iron between layers of paper or, in the old fashioned way, between the pages of a book.

Shells are usually washed during the vacation, but upon arrival they should be washed again with chlorine (you can use "Belize") and dried on paper.

Stones should be washed with soap and water and dried.

Seeds, moss, lichen can be dried on paper on a table or windowsill, and twigs simply put in a vase without water.

Dried materials, if they are not used immediately, put in a large box or container so they do not break and dust.

Cones crafts

Cones take a leading position among the natural material going on crafts for kindergarten. During a walk in the woods or the park, the desire to stuff their pockets with them arises involuntarily!

Pine trees make a beautiful hedgehog, lamb, owl and penguin, deer, and spruce trees can be used to make butterflies with wings of dried leaves, a fox and a squirrel. And if you attach loops to the animals, silver-plated or gilded, you're ready to make full-fledged Christmas decorations.

Cones are also used for interior decorations. Paint them in different colors and put them in a wide transparent vase - what is not a decoration for the table? Or make a Christmas wreath, decorating the front door, candlestick.

A hedgehog from cones

Materials:

• pine cones;
• plasticine;
• white gouache;
• brush;
• green cardboard;
• colored paper;
• scissors;
• a simple pencil;
• PVA glue.

Make a cone-shaped face out of brown plasticine and glue it to the base of the cone. Under the cone, make four paws from equal sized pieces of plasticine, rolling them into small sausages.

Black ball - the nose. The eye consists of two parts: roll a white ball and flatten, on top - a black ball completely dotted, lightly press. The ends of the scales of the cone paint white gouache. On the back of the hedgehog put plasticine apples or mushrooms.

Handicrafts for school is better to do more complex compositionally. For example, from green cardboard to make a clearing on which to glue cut out on template (can be downloaded from the Internet), flowers, leaves, make a few mushrooms, and around a family of hedgehogs: two of the larger and several hedgehogs.

New Year's Tree

Materials:

• pine cones;
• plasticine;
• white gouache;
• brush;
• absorbent cotton;
• white cardboard for the stand;
• red cardboard or foil for the star;
• A lid from a gift box or a shallow plastic bowl;
• beads.

Fix the cone with white plasticine to a circle of cardboard. Roll Christmas balls of different colors and sizes from plasticine and fasten them between the scales of the cone. Such a task can easily handle even a three-year-old.

You can make a festive Christmas tree forest. To do this, cover cones with frosting - white gouache, not completely, but the tips. Fix plasticine to the bottom of the lid or bowl, wrap with "snow" (absorbent cotton), decorate with beads. On the tops you can put stars cut out of red cardboard or foil.

Walnut crafts

From the shells of walnuts can make figures of mice, turtles, spiders and beetles, as well as baskets and cradles. Whole walnuts can be used to decorate the Christmas tree, wrapping them in foil and making loops, together with cones to use to make wreaths and candlesticks.

Mice

Materials:

• Walnut shells;
• clay of different colors.

Fill the shells with plasticine of brown color and turn them over. For each mouse mold blanks of plasticine of one color: 2 round ears and a thin tail, 3 small black balls for the eyes and nose. For the tail and ears can use bright colors: It's more fun.

If you need to complicate the work - place a few mice on a piece of cardboard around a triangular piece of yellow clay cheese with black holes of different diameters.

Trinkets made of twigs

Branches mostly go for decorating: photo frames, winter bouquets, candlesticks, paintings. Together with your child can make a crafts house of natural materials, namely, from the branches, leaves, moss, bonded plasticine.

A forest hut

Materials:

• branches;
• secateurs;
• moss;
• dried leaves;
• plasticine.

The base of the house is a square of plasticine, 1.5 cm thick. The size of the square is the size of the future house. Branches of equal length are poked into the base, if a window is planned - under it, the branches will be shorter. Also, do not fill completely the wall where the door will be:

• Arrange the branches in a continuous row, as in a hut. With plasticine in the upper part of the need to fix the horizontal "beams" (2-3 branches), which will be attached to the roof.
• From the corners of the house should extend 4 bearing branches up to the center, fix them or plasticine or rubber band, forming a skeleton roof. Several branches placed in parallel, at an equal distance, will secure the 4 main ones.
• Cover the roof with leaves and moss. Hang a door on the doorway, which can be made entirely plasticine or alternate branches and plasticine harnesses.

Chestnut crafts

Chestnuts are as versatile as cones and nuts. The difficulty is that they have a hard shell and making beads, insects (spiders, beetles, ants, caterpillars), figurines of men, horses will require adult help for piercing holes with an awl.

Mushroom meadow

Materials:

• chestnuts;
• plasticine;
• Cardboard, a wicker plate or the lid of a small box;
• Dry grass, leaves, needles.

Chestnuts in color and shape resemble the caps of butter mushrooms, strong, shiny mushrooms growing in the grass in whole families. Use white plasticine to make thick legs and attach them to the gray base of the chestnut.

Place the mushrooms in the clearing, which should be covered with grass, pine needles and dry leaves. If they are not at hand, you can make an improvised clearing on cardboard, which should be covered with plasticine. The legs of mushrooms can be surrounded by plasticine "grass.

Acorn crafts

These nuts do not have as hard a shell as walnuts and chestnuts, which makes them suitable even for making costume jewelry.

Beads

Materials:

• acorns;
• Wooden or plastic beads, ready to use;
• needle;
• strong thread;
• scissors.

Making beads will be interesting for a girl of 9-10 years old, when she already has skills of handling a needle. It is necessary to thread a thread (preferably longer) into a needle and start to put acorns, better across, alternating with beads. When the string of beads reaches the desired length, tie the ends and cut.

Three little pigs

Materials:

• acorns;
• moss;
• twigs;
• matches;
• plasticine;
• secateurs.

Model looks as follows: on a mossy clearing stands a house made of twigs and plasticine, and next to three piglets made of acorns. Each little pig - legs of matches (sulfur heads - "hooves"), ears, snout and tail of plasticine pink. The eyes are black.

Acorn caps can be used as mushroom caps, and all that is left is to mold their white or yellow legs and place them in the clearing. Fairy tale scene ready!

Arts and crafts out of leaves and seeds

In this category, first place goes to the applique, which can be arranged simply on paper or cardboard, and you can make a picture or panel.

Applique meadow

Materials:

• black velvet paper;
• Dried leaves;
• straw;
• ash tree wings;
• dill seeds;
• dried cereal stalks;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• photo frame.

The leaf is placed vertically. The composition is thought out. Using glue, grains, straw and dried leaves are glued, imitating the grass in the meadow. Wings of ash are daisies. From the seeds of dill - inflorescences of grass.

Above the meadow - a butterfly, whose body and head are cut from leaves and wings are leaves of birch, lime, tendrils of grass.

It is good if the leaves will be different colors: yellow, orange, red. But in shades of yellow also looks stylish. The picture can be placed in a frame under glass - isn't it an original eco-style gift!

Wooden crafts

April 1 marks International Bird Day, which means that themed classes, talks, actions and contests of birdhouses and crafts are held in kindergartens and schools.

Spring crafts from natural materials, dedicated to the arrival, life and protection of birds can be made in the form of compositions, using snags or a sawed tree.

"Bird's Nest."

Materials:

• cardboard lid from a box;
• moss and lichen;
• snags;
• Dried grass or straw;
• wings of maple or ash, leaves for wings and tail;
• two pine cones (large open and small);
• white, gray, yellow and black plasticine;
• green gouache;
• brush.

The outer walls of the lid must be painted green. Layer the lid with moss and lichen to make a forest glade with a snag in the background. Place a nest of dry grass or straw under the snag.

Place in the nest the colorful testicles made of white and gray plasticine. Place the mother bird on the snag. An open pine cone is the body, a small dense cone is attached to it with plasticine, on the pointed end of which should be attached a small beak made of yellow plasticine.

Wings and tail can be made of dried leaves or wings of maple or ash trees ("airplanes" as they are called), planting them on plasticine. The legs are also molded from yellow plasticine.

Handicraft on a saw-tree

Materials:

• a sawed tree from 8 cm in radius and 1.5 cm in thickness;
• a branched twig;
• 3 flat pebbles;
• a simple pencil;
• acrylic paint;
• rubber glue.

If a sawn tree is prepared by dad or grandpa, it should be sanded beforehand. Ready-made sawtooth can be bought in stores for creativity and hobbies. On a spoke with a pencil marks a place for a twig at the level of 1/3 from the bottom edge. The twig is smeared with glue and glued on.

Use a pencil to draw the branches with leaves on top or on the sides. Paint with acrylic paint. Pebbles to make birds. To make the craftwork looked brighter, birds can be covered with different colors: yellow, gray and white.

When the layer dries, black paint eyes and a spout in the form of a triangle, using orange. Glue the birds as if they were sitting on a branch.

Ideas for crafts from fruits and vegetables

Very often in parenting practice, there is a situation where a child in the evening remembers that tomorrow we have to take to the garden or school crafts from fruits or vegetables. Help out potatoes and apples. These crafts are good not only because of their simplicity, but also because they are not darkened in the morning, as potatoes and apples are not cut.

A family of piglets out of potatoes

The craft is very simple. You need one large potato and several smaller ones. The vegetables are washed and dried with a towel. Use pink plasticine to make triangular ears, five-pointed noses, and crochet tails. Attach everything to the tubers.

Make eyes out of black plasticine. The family can be placed on a plastic or plastic plate. In the center put sliced carrots, cabbage leaves, and place the piggies around.

Hedgehog fashionista from an apple

Materials:

• 2 apples;
• 2 toothpicks;
• A box of matches;
• ribbon;
• plasticine;
• ready-made eyes or 3 clove buds.

Apples are fastened together by means of two toothpicks. It turns out the head and torso, as if the hedgehog is standing. In the head and back poke matches chamois heads outward. You can make paws from brown plasticine, attach them to the sides and under the torso.

Make eyes and nose from carnation spice buds or glue ready-made, running, eyes. Tie a ribbon around the neck and tie a bow. And put mushrooms and berries made of plasticine on the needles.

Natural material crafts for children are not limited to the gifts of the forests of central Russia. You can use brought from the coast stones, shells and sand.

Handicrafts made of rocks

Very colorful looks flat pebbles painted with acrylic paints.

With children of preschool and primary school age can do simple ladybugs, berries or just paint the stones in different patterns (dots, spots, stripes), and older kids can depict an owl, a cat, a house, cope with more complicated crafts.

To paint better held, it is recommended to pre-coat the stone with a layer of PVA glue, diluted in water 1:1, a primer to ensure a more even application of paint. The finished product, when the paint dries, is covered with varnish (to do together with adults).

Materials:

• pebbles;
• acrylic paint;
• brush;
• PVA glue for primer;
• varnish (for fixing).

Ladybug

The upper part of the stone is covered with red paint. After drying, flip it over and paint the "belly" in black. On the back black should indicate a semicircle and paint the head, to spend in the middle of the line of wings and locate the spots symmetrically.

Shells crafts

Shells can make three-dimensional figures, applications, and even interior decorations in the form of frames, paintings, panels, candlesticks, boxes.

Shells pencil holder

This handicraft is of practical importance, because in it the child can hold pens, pencils and felt-tip pens, and it is also a great reminder of the holidays.

Materials:

• A tin can of coffee or baby formula;
• shells of different shapes and sizes;
• Clay (in blue, the color of the sea, or brown, yellow or gray);
• sea or river sand;
• small stones.

It is necessary to cover the jar with an even and equal layer of clay, one bar will not be enough. The next stage is the most interesting - inlaying with seashells, which are simply pressed into the surface. The spaces between them are filled with small stones and sand.

Handicrafts made of natural materials show how human imagination is limitless, and nature is a real treasure trove for creativity. The main thing is not to be lazy: collect and prepare materials for future masterpieces.

Joint activities bring adults and children together, develop imagination, fine motor skills, memory and speech - after all, while making story compositions you can remember a fairy tale or come up with your own story.

Photos of crafts from natural material for kindergarten and school children