Mouse made from nutshell. Crafts made from walnuts: boat, mushrooms and hedgehog

Autumn is very beautiful time of the year.

But it's possible!

While walking in the park or in the forest, you can collect various natural materials and make fun crafts from it. After all, children love to collect leaves, acorns, chestnuts, pine cones, and nuts. And how interesting it is for kids to watch the process of making crafts, appliques, and compositions!

And it’s even more interesting to participate in this process, or make something yourself.

The process of making crafts is also useful activity. After all, it makes it possible to develop the child’s creative skills, his fantasy, imagination, as well as such qualities as hard work, perseverance, assertiveness, and scrupulousness.

We have already talked to you about what crafts can be made from, and today let's talk about walnut crafts .

From walnut shells you can make various insects, birds, animals, fish, funny people and colorful mushrooms.

Crafts from walnuts could be a good addition to anyone autumn composition, as an independent toy, or as a small gift.

To make crafts, in addition to nut shells, you may need multi-colored plasticine, PVA glue, gouache paints, and colored cardboard.

Now let's take a closer look at the process of making crafts from walnuts. For example, let's take turtle .

To work you will need:

- plasticine;
- walnut shell;
- scissors;
- cardboard;
- a simple pencil;
- black felt-tip pen.

Progress:

1. Take one half of the shell and apply it to cardboard, cardboard works well Brown.

2. We outline half of the shell with a simple pencil and finish drawing the turtle’s head and paws. We cut out our turtle from cardboard.

3. Draw eyes and mouth with a black felt-tip pen.

4. Glue half of the shell to the cardboard in the place where the shell should be.

5. We wait until the glue dries.

The turtle's paws and head do not have to be cut out of cardboard; they can be sculpted from plasticine.

So, just one half of a walnut shell, and how many amazing crafts can be made from it, and if you take a few nuts...

Children love to play with such crafts, so we suggest you start making them right now.

You can hardly find a child who doesn’t like to make crafts. Moreover, there are countless options and ideas for their implementation. Crafts are even divided by season, depending on the availability of materials used. For example, in summer the main theme of products is flowers, fruits and berries, and fresh herbs. Accordingly, there are also

There is a lot of fun associated with them. After all, it’s fun to climb a tree and knock down a dozen nuts, then you have to peel them, and this is a whole art. Her cunning is known to many, as she stains everything she touches. How fun it is for the kids to extract nuts from the shell. And, of course, eat them.

It is intact nut shells that are the basis of many crafts. There are no limits to children's imagination. Ideas are often suggested by the child himself, so you should make products together with him. Crafts made from walnut shells can be made in the shape of an insect, fish, bird, animal, boat, mushroom and much more.

Bug

Let's look at a few ideas for creating products. You can easily and simply make beetle-shaped crafts from walnut shells. To do this you will need black plasticine and you should also stock up on several thin twigs and two shells. You can use a sheet of green cardboard as a basis. The plasticine should be kneaded in your hands and filled into the shell. This way it will be attached to cardboard, which can be cut into the shape of a sheet and drawn with veins. Then the beetle will look very believable.

The insect can be additionally painted on top, or you can leave it as is. Having attached the shell to the cardboard, you need to stick black plasticine along its edge. Three branches should be fixed on it on one side and the same number on the other. These will be the beetle's legs. You can make horns in the same way. Only the branches for this purpose should be chosen thinner and shorter. You can make a beetle's head from brown plasticine.

There is another option for making such crafts from walnuts. Everything is done exactly the same, but branches are not used. The insect's legs can be constructed from brown or black plasticine.

Turtle and caterpillar

What kind of crafts can be made from walnut shells? For example, a turtle. Its shell has a color similar to the shell. You need to take one half. The head, paws and tail are attached to it. They can be made of plasticine, cardboard or colored paper.

A few more shells will make a beautiful caterpillar. As a basis, you can take a part of a branch of medium thickness. We attach the halves to it using plasticine, which should be painted with gouache in different colors. You can put horns on the glue. We paint the eyes and face of the caterpillar. If desired, a pattern can be applied to all segments of her body.

Frame

You can make a frame as a craft from walnuts. A photo of a loved one or close friend will look great in it. How to make such beauty? To do this you will need transparent varnish and Moment glue. Nuts should be carefully peeled from the shell so as not to damage it. Then you need to divide it into two parts, after which you should cover each with transparent varnish. Next, you need to take a photo frame that is supposed to be decorated. Apply a drop of glue to each nut on the back side and attach it to the base close to each other. Having filled the entire area of the frame, leave it until completely dry.

Small gaps between the nuts can be filled with coffee beans planted on glue. Such a composition will not only be beautiful, but also fragrant. When the surface of the walnut craft becomes dry, the photo can be inserted inside.

Tree

What other crafts can be made from walnut shells? From these elements you will get a lot of interesting things for the interior. For example, decorative tree. It can be done using the core of a nut. To do this, you will need a straight, even branch that will act as a trunk, as well as a pot filled with sand, earthen mixture or small stones. From brown plasticine you need to roll a ball with a diameter of about 10 cm. Next, we place it on a branch at a height of about 10-15 cm from the level of the pot and paste it with halves of nuts or shells. The top of this structure will need to be coated with golden spray paint.

Next, you need to remove the craft from the filler in the pot, tint it, let it dry and put it back again. The trunk under the ball can be beautifully tied in green. Such a tree can be used as a money tree. Therefore, it should be placed in a prominent place, then it will definitely attract good luck and success.

Christmas tree decoration

Crafts made from walnuts can be a wonderful decoration for the Christmas holidays. You can also create an excellent alternative to a Christmas wreath - this is a composition of nuts. The circle can be completely decorated with shells or partially with whole nuts. Weaving from coniferous branches is suitable for the basis of such a wreath. The circle can also be made from wine corks glued together.

There are a lot of options for creating a frame. Nuts are also attached with glue. Only they must first be painted in a golden or silver shade. Then the composition will look especially festive.

Conclusion

Crafts from walnuts, photos of which you see in our article, are quite simple to make. Creating such products is a great opportunity to show your imagination, make decorative elements with your own hands, or have fun with your children.

Good afternoon, today I will show you what interesting crafts you can make from ordinary nut shells. We will do a lot with our own hands children's crafts from different nuts - peanuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, and even pistachios. There are funny crafts - bears, frogs, snails, crabs, bugs, hedgehogs, owls - that can be done in kindergarten or school lessons. I will also post here ideas for New Year's crafts made from nuts, which can be used to decorate a Christmas tree or a garland on New Year. You will see how interesting it is to play with simple nuts. I will also give you ready-made templates for crafts made from paper and nuts.

Crafts made from nuts

And colored cardboard.

The most simple crafts for children using nuts - these are cardboard silhouettes, where the nut plays the role of a voluminous tummy, a bird’s wing, etc. That is, in children's crafts of this kind, the nut is an auxiliary element.

You can show your imagination and use this principle to make craft silhouettes of mice, turtles, owls, hedgehogs, ducks, cats, and dogs from nuts. At the beginning of the lesson, we must decorate the shell with stripes and spots. Then use scissors to cut out the silhouette and finally attach the nut shell to the plasticine.

And such hedgehog crafts made from nuts can be an addition to an autumn composition made from natural materials. For example, take a box, cover it with moss (or sawdust) - put it on top autumn leaves, plant mushrooms from plasticine - and launch funny pot-bellied hedgehogs made from nuts into this piece of forest.

I posted many other ideas with crafts in the shape of a hedgehog in a separate article.

Also for the New Year, using this cardboard technique, you can make interesting crafts with your own hands - toys for the Christmas tree, or New Year's garland with walnut stars (as we see in the photo below).

Crafts made from nuts

and paper strips.

You can also make it from long paper strips interesting volumetric crafts for children with a nut inside. The paper is cut into a wide strip, tapering towards the end. We wrap the first half of the strip around a pencil (we form a twist roll) and release it, allowing it to unwind. Glue the eyes onto the front part and add horns. On the lower part of the snail craft - on the back - we place half a walnut - on a plasticine mat so that everything sticks.

Using a similar technique, you can make a SWAN craft with your own hands (photo below) from nuts and white feathers. If you don’t have a pen, you can see it as a dummy cut out of paper. We cut out an oval and cut it in the form of a feather - like the teeth of a comb on both sides, and fluff it with our hands. This imitation of a feather can be used instead of natural fluff in this craft made from nuts and paper.

Crafts made from nuts and PLASTICINE.

During classes in kindergarten junior groups we teach children how to sculpt simple shapes. The duration of the lesson (15-20 minutes) does not always allow you to sculpt large objects with many details. And that’s why it’s good when some of the parts are already ready - in the form of nuts. The walnut is used as the final element of the applique - like a cradle for a mouse, or a hollow for an owl.

Most often, children make fungus crafts from plasticine and walnut shells. You can save the plasticine and make legs from long thick sticks - which are attached to the caps using waste plasticine (left over from old crafts).

You can add beautiful autumn leaves from plasticine to your mushroom craft. We mix different plasticine lumps - autumn shades (yellow, red, orange) - let the colors smoothly transition into each other. We make circles, then ovals - flatten it into an oval pancake and draw veins in a stack.

You can use a stack to cut a leaf of a more complex shape - like oak or maple. But this is for older children. And before class, give visual examples of the shape of maple and oak sheets. So that children can put the template on a piece of plasticine, trace it along the contour with a stack, and then cut it out along the marked lines.

THIS is what you can do... Go back and forth across the Internet and look for interesting ideas for modeling plasticine. And MENTALLY try them on like a walnut (or like a peanut). And you will find a sea of ideas that you can implement using plasticine and walnuts with your own hands.

For example, a PEACOCK plasticine craft may give you the idea to place a nut (painted to match the color of a peacock’s breast) inside the craft and lay a tile of a peacock feather pattern on top of this nut.

And the felt round bee gives ideas for a similar craft, but made from walnut.

Any oval or round shaped objects can become a source of ideas for nut crafts for children.

Any crafts that have a spherical shape can be made from round walnuts and plasticine (or other materials). Search, think - use your imagination and you will see how many ideas for crafts made from large walnuts are around you.

Painted crafts made from nuts

With my own hands.

You can paint the nut shell with gouache in any color - let it dry and draw any patterns on this background - feathers, stripes, elements of the face of any character or animal. You can use glue eyes (special ones from craft kits).

You can make these eyes yourself with nail polish. – apply a large amount of white varnish on polyethylene film and dry it – again a drop of white – dry it. Add a drop of black varnish to the center - dry it, add a black drop again, build it up - dry it. Cover the eye with transparent varnish and dry it. Peel off (or cut off from the file) the finished eye and use it for crafts.

Elements of the muzzle can be painted simply with paints with a thin brush, or with felt-tip pens of rich colors.

Painted walnut halves can be a source for quick and easy children's crafts. The children themselves will enjoy decorating the nuts. The main thing is then, after the paint has dried, spray the nut with hairspray. This way the paint won’t crawl from children’s sweaty palms from diligence.

A painted nut shell can turn into a sea of children's crafts - penguins, whales, bugs, bees, ladybugs, mice, bunnies.

You can add clothing items cut from felt or felt to crafts made from nuts. You can sculpt clothes - from felted wool for felting - pour warm water and soap into a bowl, dip a piece of wool in the water and use your hands to sculpt any shape you need from wool, like plasticine. Dry it and get a felt cap or cape for your DIY nut craft.

And here is another craft that uses two types of nuts - walnuts and peanuts. This festive bear can be used as a decoration for christmas tree. Or it can be planted next to a den, a barrel of honey - inside a craft for a competition in kindergarten or to school.

The nut parts of the bear are assembled using hot glue from a glue gun.

You can also make crafts like boats from nuts with your own hands. With sails. Or with oars.

Crafts made from hazelnuts.

The hazelnut is similar in shape and color to the face of a mouse, squirrel or hamster. Therefore, just such a craft is asking for our hands. You can make a squirrel from nuts using plasticine or use feathers dyed in the color you want, pieces of fur or felt. You can felt a squirrel's tail from felt.

New Year's crafts made from nuts.

With my own hands.

Here are ideas for crafts made from nuts that are suitable for New Year decorations. You can do New Year's snowmen inside decorated with nut shells. A cheerful mouse or chick in a New Year's hat.

You can make New Year's crafts from nuts using delicate lace. You can buy it in a store, or crochet it yourself.

You can put the nuts in a round ring and style it as a small Christmas wreath. It can be painted in New Year's colors - red white green.

Long peanuts - sometimes shaped like snowmen - can be used to create crafts for the New Year. You can make a whole garland of snowmen from nuts.

A variety of New Year's ideas are suitable for nut material - everything you do for the New Year with your own hands can include NUT. This is the basis on which you can attach New Year’s decor in a designer way.

There are masters who make real New Year's masterpieces from ONE walnut. From acorn caps, fimoplasty and others natural materials create cozy little houses. They are decorated in Christmas style and decorate the tree for the New Year.

Crafts from pistachios.

You can also make interesting crafts from pistachio shells. Here's an example like this original way decorate the interior of a children's room. Magic birds made from pistachio halves will look beautiful on the wall of the room.

You can make bouquets of flowers from pistachio nuts.

Or post real panels. Excellent work for the competition of crafts made from natural materials.

Here are some ideas for crafts made from nuts and nut shells. Now you can do a lot of interesting things with your own hands - both in classes with children and for competitions in kindergarten and school.

Good luck with your ideas.

Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site

In order to start creating some crafts, it is not necessary to buy expensive materials. It turns out that many interesting things today can be made from handy materials that are not used in any way on the farm. For example, if you like to eat walnuts, then do not throw away the shells. Remember what you can do with it beautiful crafts. Indeed, crafts made from nut shells can be very diverse. You can make:

berries and mushrooms,
funny animals,
Christmas tree decorations,
voluminous toys.

Children's crafts made from nut shells

Well, let's find out what kind of crafts you can make from nut shells.

Ladybug on a nutshell flower.

To create a craft, prepare: 3 walnuts and plasticine.

We divide the nuts into halves, and from plasticine you must fashion individual parts of the ladybug.
We attach the head and wing covers to half of the nut shell. We apply dots on the wings using plasticine.
Now we take yellow plasticine, roll it into a ball and flatten it a little. The petals will imitate nut shells. Therefore, we attach 5 nut shells to a ball of yellow plasticine.
Next, we decorate the flower with veins. To do this, we use plasticine of different colors.
After which, we fix our ladybug on a flower.

Funny animals made from nut shells. Crafts for children.

In this article you can also see children's crafts made from nut shells. Invite your child to make similar crafts and you will see how much he will like this activity.

In order to make mice, you need to take nut shells and gray paint. Of course, the shells are painted gray, and ears and a tail are attached to the top, which you and your child must cut out of colored paper.

To make penguins, the shells are painted in two colors. Namely, the colors used for this are white and black. Then the penguins should draw eyes and glue on the beak and paws.

Rabbits from nut shells are also very easy to make. You paint the shells gray and draw a face. Next, glue the ears and tail to the shell. At the same time, we use a piece of cotton wool for the tail.

For turtles we make a paper base that will have legs, a head and a tail. But the nut shell will be the shell.

And to make such a cheerful octopus, take fluffy wire and a nut shell. For the paws, 8 pieces of such wire are used that will imitate paws.

To make frogs, in addition to shells, take pumpkin seeds. Paint all materials green. After that, we attach pumpkin seeds to the shell and draw funny faces on the crafts.

And to make whales, take paint blue color, which you will use to paint the shells. We attach a tail to the back of the shell, and a water stream on top, which is cut out of paper. Don't forget to draw the facial features of the whales.

And to make funny bees, you must paint the shells with black and yellow. But for the antennae, use fluffy wire.

Craft made from nuts - caterpillar.

For this craft, take a sheet of green colored paper.
You will also need 6 walnut halves. You must paint them with orange and white paint. After that, in the center of each shell you should draw a small spot of green color.
For the caterpillar's head, take a whole nut. On it you must draw all the facial features of the caterpillar. We attach a bunch of brightly colored threads to the top of the head.
Now you must attach the resulting caterpillar to a green leaf.

Walnuts, or rather their shells, are one of the most the best materials For interesting crafts. A whole set of special properties of walnut shells (special surface texture, long paint retention, relatively big sizes) allows both adults and children to make crafts from it, and the risk of any injuries during the manufacturing process of the toy is completely eliminated. In our review, you will look at several types of crafts made from nut shells and tell you how they can be made.

The first step in making all crafts is to clean the nut - you need to peel the nut very carefully, completely removing the nut itself, while leaving the shell completely intact (if you can’t do this, it’s better to ask someone for help - if there are cracks on the shell, the craft will not work).

"Walnut Ladybug"

To make a ladybug, take three walnuts and plasticine of different colors. Peel the nuts, divide them into halves and make the face and wings of the future ladybug out of plasticine, then attach the face and wings to one of the halves, after making characteristic dots on the wings (this can be done with a marker or plasticine of a different color). Make a ball from a piece of yellow plasticine and attach it to the five remaining halves of the shell - you will get a flower on which you will plant the ladybug you made earlier. The craft is ready!

"Funny little animals"

You can make a lot of funny animals from walnut shells without much effort. Below we will tell you how to do this.

To make penguins, paint the shells black and White color, then draw the eyes and attach the beak and paws pre-made from paper.
Paint the walnut shells gray and cut them out of paper a long tail and characteristic mouse ears, and then attach them to the right places - you get funny little mice.
To make turtles, paint half a shell in green color, applying characteristic brown spots to the shell, then make a paper base with legs and a muzzle. Attach the base to the shell and your turtle is ready!
To make bunnies, paint the shells white, attach large ears cut out of paper to the head, attach a tail to the back of the bunny and draw a muzzle on the front side of the craft - the cheerful bunny is ready!
You can even make an octopus from the shells! To do this, paint the shell pink and attach eight wire legs covered in pink fabric to it.
To make frogs, attach legs to the bottom of the shell (pumpkin seeds can be used as legs), paint the shell green and draw funny faces on the front of the toy.
To make whales, paint the shell blue, cut out a stream of water and a tail from paper, and then attach them to the shell in the right places.
Paint the shell with stripes of yellow and black, and attach antennae made of fluffy black wire to the top of the shell - you get funny bees.
To make crayfish, paint the shells Orange color and attach a pre-cut paper base with drawn claws and a face to the bottom of the shell.
Spiders - that's what else you can make from nutshells! To do this, paint the shell black and attach legs made of black fluffy wire to the base of the shell.

"Caterpillar on a leaf"

Take your greens paper sheet, cut out a shape in the shape of a wood leaf.
Color the six nut halves white and orange as shown.
Make a light green spot in the upper central part of each shell halves.
Take a whole nut and draw a smiling face on it - this will be the head of our caterpillar.
Secure the caterpillar to the leaf using PVA glue (in principle, you can just put the shells on the leaf without fixing them).

"Magic Nuts"

Divide the nuts into halves and remove the kernel.
Place a small surprise inside the shell that will easily fit into the shell.
Glue the halves together with a glue gun and offer a surprise to someone close to you.

"Walnut Athletes"

Make three whole nuts using a glue gun, attach paper eyes and a mouth to the top of the craft - you get an athlete ant.
Using the same glue gun, attach paws made of wire antennae to the ants, bend the wire and insert sports equipment made from improvised means into the ant’s hands. If you wish, you can make many of these ants - you will get a whole Olympic team.