DIY crafts from natural material for kindergarten and school (+180 Photo). Beautiful and creative ideas for kids
Each season of the year presents people with its own natural materials, from which spectacular crafts can be created. In the summer, it can be stones and shells brought from the sea, and in the fall, yellow leaves and cones. There are also many creative solutions using flowers, acorns, vegetables and fruits. Various materials can be used to make bird feeders, home decor items, paintings and garden products. More details later in the article.
Types of crafts
The reason for making crafts any holiday can serve. Most often, people make various products with their own hands from natural material in the following cases:
Crafts for Christmas
- To decorate a portrait on Mother’s Day.
- On the New Year.
- Autumn crafts for home decoration.
- Household items in the form of baskets or vases.
- Halloween pumpkin crafts.
- Garden Decorations.
Eco-friendly Halloween Crafts
All these items will be made exclusively from environmentally friendly materials, which means they will not harm your health. It is worth noting that the family will not spend a penny on this, it is enough to go to the forest or park and collect the necessary items.
Environmentally friendly materials are healthy
How to make a Mother’s Day gift
Mother’s Day is a special day for every man or son. At this moment, I want to please my mother with something. In this case, a craft made from natural materials is perfect, because the most expensive gift is a handmade gift..
The most expensive gift is a handmade gift.
There are several types that can be presented to the hero of the occasion. They can be easy, which even a small child can handle, or more difficult..
Portrait decoration
One of the most creative yet simple ideas is to decorate your mother’s portrait with a lovely fall outfit..
DIY portrait of a mother
To do this, you will need the following materials:
- grains of wheat or other cereals;
- beads;
- pumpkin seeds;
- maple yellow leaves;
- glue;
- picture frame.
- colored A4 paper.
Imagine using available materials and gifts of nature
First you need to prepare the frame and background for your future portrait. It is better to use calmer colors here, the background should not be flashy and attract all the attention. Pastel colors work well..
When the frame with the background is ready, you need to find a full-face photo of your mother and the larger it is, the better, this will make full use of all prepared natural materials and will give more space for creativity.
If the photo is large, you only need to cut out the face and glue it onto the background. Now you can start decorating the picture. First you need to make your hair from wheat grains. The hairstyle can be absolutely any, not at all the same as it was in the photo..
Choose light colors for the background.
Above the head, you need to leave room for a crown of maple leaves. Here you can also fantasize or spy on ideas from films and cartoons..
Below, under the neck, you also need to glue a large maple leaf, but this time upside down. It will be part of a necklace that will be made from pumpkin seeds. At your discretion, you can add colorful beads to the composition.
Decorate the “dress” with flowers
Christmas crafts
New Year is one of the most important and long-awaited holidays for every family. It is always very important to make it special, handicrafts made from different natural materials, made by yourself, can help.
DIY crafts will help make the New Year special
It can be not only toys for the Christmas tree, but also New Year’s wreaths on the door from cones, boxes, wall and table decorations.
How to make a pine cone wreath for a door
To make a wreath of cones, you first need to make a round base. If you wish, you can do it yourself or buy a suitable item in the store. You can also look for something at home that resembles a circle, absolutely any object will do..
Christmas pine cone wreath to decorate the door
To create a full-fledged New Year’s crafts, you will need the following materials:
- Glue.
- Cones.
- Round object, such as embroidery mugs.
- Wide ribbon (preferably red).
- Small tree branches.
- Berries.
- Acorns or nuts.
- Wire.
- Spruce branches.
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Take a frame for the future wreath
The first thing to do is to think through to the end what the design of the wreath will be made of natural materials. It is advisable to draw a sketch on paper. Depending on what is used as a round base, you need to choose the best option for attaching the cones.
Bumps can be attached with wire or glue
If it’s a styrofoam circle, the bumps can be attached with wire, otherwise a reliable glue is more suitable. But before you stick them, you should think about repainting them in a different color, for example, red or golden cones look very impressive.
Cones can be repainted in a different color
Sometimes, as planned, the cones need to be glued in a natural position, but this does not always work. In this case, you can increase the bonding area and attach them with their lateral part, before that breaking some of the petals. For convenience, pliers are used for this..
How to decorate a Christmas wreath
New Year’s wreath acts as a talisman
Sometimes a New Year’s wreath serves not only as an object of home decoration and creating a cozy atmosphere. In some cases, it acts as a talisman. To make it, it is necessary to use the appropriate natural materials that have the appropriate spiritual strength. These can be the following plants:
Viburnum on a wreath – a symbol of family cohesion and unity
- viburnum – a symbol of family cohesion and unity;
- sunflower – a symbol of financial well-being;
- oak acorns – will add health (like a walnut), as well as strength and longevity;
Blue and gold symbolize health
The same applies to the color of the Christmas wreath:
- Blue with gold – health.
- Red – energy and strength.
- Gold and green – the color of wealth.
Gold and green – the color of wealth
You can also use items such as Christmas balls, dried lemon mugs, cinnamon sticks, garlands and ribbons, fruits, candy or rain for decoration..
- Blue with gold – health.
- Red – energy and strength.
- Gold and green – the color of wealth.
Use dried lemon mugs, cinnamon sticks, ribbons to decorate
How to make autumn crafts for kindergarten
It is the autumn time that involves the manufacture of a large number of crafts from natural materials for a kindergarten. At this time, educators and teachers are trying to awaken a creative nature in children, and parents can help them with this..
Crafts from the autumn harvest
Young children are encouraged to start with the simplest. The most common craft is a photograph of a child trying to fan the wind. It is glued on one side of the leaf, and the leaves on the other, thus it seems as if the baby is inflating the leaves and they fly through the air.
Pumpkin minions
Other simple crafts made from natural materials can be as follows:
- Hedgehog.
- Owls.
- Leaf wreaths.
- Crowns.
Owls are one of the favorite children’s characters
To make a hedgehog, you need an A4 sheet, pencils, glue and preferably birch leaves, if they are not found, any others with pointed ends will do. On paper, you need to draw the face of a hedgehog or its entirety. Further on the body, where the needles are located, sheets are glued with sharp ends up. The hedgehog is ready!
Instead of needles, leaves are glued with sharp ends up
For a wreath, you will need any round object that can be worn on your head. As a last resort, you can cut it out of cardboard and glue the ends. Leaves with long petioles are better here to tie it to the base.. In the same way, you can attach different flowers to the wreath..
With the help of petioles, you can tie the wreath to the base
Craft for primary classes
School crafts will be one level more difficult. Here teachers will pay attention to the manifestation of creativity and work skills by children..
Crafts for school are more complex
- beautiful leaves of different shades of yellow;
- chestnuts;
- acorns;
- fruits and vegetables (if any – dried);
- mountain ash or other berries;
- nutshell;
- bumps.
Cute owl do it yourself
Beads from berries and acorns
Beads made from natural materials always look very beautiful, creative and colorful. The most important thing is that almost every elementary school student can make this craft. This will require acorns, berries, a thick nylon thread and a needle.
Beads made from natural materials always look very beautiful, creative and colorful
First, the thread is threaded into the needle. Next, you need to prepare all the berries and start stringing them in a certain order. To make the beads more beautiful, you can string the dark and light fruits in turn, or divide the string into even parts 50/50 and put the berries on each side in your own color. If you do not follow any queue, it will turn out equally creative.
To make beads from acorns, you must first make through holes
To make beads from acorns, you must first make through holes. To do this, you can use a stiff needle with a thimble, a thin nail or an awl.. It is better for parents to take over this work, as the child may get hurt.. And he has already been entrusted with the work of putting acorns on the rope.
Rowan beads
How to make forest abacus
Bagel abacus is a delicious gift!
One of the most creative crafts is forest abacus made from natural materials. Here the child will need the help of parents, but the process is so interesting that everyone will enjoy the result in the end. To make a craft, you need to prepare the following:
- Birch log.
- Chestnuts.
- Thin and even sticks.
Since here you need to work with wood, you will need the help of parents, namely the father, since you will have to make a little effort. First, you need to divide the log into 2 parts along the trunk. It is desirable that the parts are the same. They will serve as the basis for future crafts..
Now you need to prepare the sticks. They must have the same length and diameter. They should also be smooth without bends and protrusions. Further, holes are made in the chestnuts, they should be such that they are easy to dress and slide on a stick.
It is very important not to forget to first thread all the chestnuts on sticks in the same quantity, and only then fix them on the log that was divided before. You can fix them with reliable glue or nails. Accounts ready!
Abacus from chestnuts or acorns
DIY autumn home decorations
DIY autumn decoration
You don’t have to spend a lot of time on this, one evening will be enough. It remains only to choose which kind of craft it will be:
- Panel of leaves.
- Topiary from the herbarium.
- Maple leaf roses.
- Basket for fruits and berries.
- Candlestick decorations.
- Front door wreath.
- Pumpkin vase.
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How to make a panel from maple leaves
The most ambitious craft is a panel. The result will be very effective and will impress every guest of the apartment. But most importantly, it is very easy to make. To do this, you will need the following materials:
Panel – a large-scale craft
- maple leaves with a reddish tint;
- a tree branch for the trunk;
- a bunch of dry spikelets;
- dark varnish;
- large basket for several pumpkins;
- decorative pumpkins;
- a large piece of square plywood;
- simple pencil;
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Not everyone can have decorative pumpkins at home; instead, you can use acorns and chestnuts, which can be collected in any park or forest..
First you need to prepare the most important thing – this is a plywood base. It needs to be sanded. Attention is paid to the corners, they must be smooth. Next, a dark varnish or stain is applied to the plywood, the main thing is that as a result, the square has a brown tint.
Prepare a plywood base
All paint or varnish should dry well. Next, draw a large wedge sheet on the plywood. Now you can start gluing the sheets over its entire area. The result will be one large sheet of many small. It is necessary that one sheet slightly covers the other, there should be no gaps between them.
Glue the leaves over the entire area of the drawn leaf
A previously prepared stick is glued to the place where the petiole should be at the leaf. It should resemble its enlarged copy as much as possible. Now the panel can be hung on the wall and decorated with a basket with pumpkins and spikelets installed side by side on the table.
