Beautiful crafts made of cones with their own hands for kindergarten and school, for a New Year's interior with a photo and description.
The cones themselves are a very attractive material.which is why no less cute and interesting crafts are made from it. Even children can create them, but they cannot do without the help of adults at first. Thanks to such activities with natural materials, the baby will feel the closeness of nature, which will independently suggest ideas for creativity. It has long been noted that when working with pine cones, a child's imagination develops more actively and in an ordinary pine cone he already sees a mouse, a spruce or a hedgehog, in the root - an old forest spirit, in a branch - deer horns or a bent heron's leg.What is important to know when making"pine cone" crafts? First, you should consider in more detail the process of making a craft from pine cones. In order for you to get something really interesting, try to discern some image in an ordinary pine cone. Its implementation in practice cannot be done without connecting several elements (pine cones, shells, acorns, etc.). For this purpose, get glue (PVA or quick-drying), thread, an awl, a needle, plasticine and scissors. Naturally, you need to understand that not everything should be entrusted to the baby. Entrust him with the most basic operations, and leave the more complex moments to yourself.The safest and easiest way to connectelements of the craft with each other is plasticine, although it can hardly be called the most aesthetic. It is preferable to use it when making eyes, beaks and other small elements.The connection is conveniently made usingtoothpicks, but before that, it is necessary to make holes in the elements made of hard materials with an awl, into which toothpicks are inserted and filled with glue for stronger fixation. Do not be surprised if after some time the toothpicks fall out. This happens due to the drying out of acorns and cones. You can also connect the parts in the craft from cones with quick-drying glue. This is done simply and quickly: smear the gluing areas on two parts with glue and immediately press them together. Despite the simplicity and aesthetics of this method, its use by children should be minimized. This is due to the harmful fumes that it emits.Another option for fastening the parts of the craft– thread and needle, but their use is justified only with soft materials: berries, bark and foliage. For a baby, using a thread with a needle is associated not only with significant difficulties, but also with the risk of injury. In addition to everything, fruits and peas dry out and shrink over time, and the foliage falls off.So, let's sum it up:There are several ways to fasten the parts of the craft, and each of them has a number of advantages and disadvantages. The choice, as usual, is yours. At the same time, we remind you that no one forbids you to come up with your own options for fastening the elements. Let's now proceed directly to creating the crafts, and the first one will be called "sheep". An unopened pine cone will serve as the body, and an acorn with a cap will serve as the head. Sculpt the eyes using plasticine, and draw the mouth with a marker.Using plasticine, attach the sheep's head tocone. The same material is used to attach the acorn legs (without caps) to the cone body, and the ears are made from pistachio shells. The second craft also belongs to the animal world and is called a "cockerel".The body and head are attached with plasticine.The paws are made from acorns (without caps). Holes are drilled in them using an awl and short branches are inserted. All this is fixed using glue. The winged beak (half) and comb are attached to the head using plasticine. The paws are fixed to the body. The beard is cut out of a dried red leaf and attached with glue between the scales of the cone. This completes our cockerel.Thus, we have introduced you to simple and, at the same time, interesting crafts from pine cones for children. We hope that they will be useful to you and will help you spend more happy moments with your children.