Variety of nut crafts

A lot is known about the benefits of nuts. You can make a lot of different handicrafts, jewelry, decorative compositions from them. Their shells are used as the main material. It can be walnuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts. How to make interesting products from these materials with your own hands will be discussed in this article.

Using pine nuts, you can make a simple craft for school or kindergarten. This work will not be difficult for children. Using the material, you can decorate a candlestick, photo frame, panel.

Cedar cones can be a decorative element in and of themselves. One has only to wrap it in golden foil, carefully wrapping each element. Putting everything in a transparent container and adding grains, you can get an original decorative composition.

The grain of the pine nut has a beautiful shape that makes it possible to make various decorations from it. To make beads from this material, you should prepare the seeds for work.

Decorations are also made from the shell, but the nut must first be removed. After that, the nucleolus is pulled out and a hole is drilled in the shell.

Using hazelnuts, you can also create amazingly beautiful things. The hazelnut itself is outwardly similar in shape to the muzzle of an animal, so you can make a squirrel figurine from hazelnuts. In addition to nuts, for work you will need plasticine and pieces of felt, fur or feathers, which will serve as a tail for a fluffy beauty.

To make a protein, you need to work consistently.

• Take two hazelnuts and connect them with a small piece of plasticine.
• Squirrel legs are made from plasticine or small pieces of fur.
• The top nut will serve as a muzzle for the animal. A pre-prepared tail is attached to the lower hazelnuts with the help of plasticine. It can be made from fur pieces, colorful feathers, or any other suitable material.

It remains to add eyes, nose, antennae to the squirrel and glue the ears.

A child of preschool or school age can cope with such work. Older children, as well as adults, can do more complex crafts in the form of panels, decorative bouquets.

Walnut shells can be called the most used material when creating original crafts. Compositions on the theme of autumn are very popular. Bouquets from walnut shells, beautiful compositions and panels become a real decoration of the room.

A festive wreath can be made from this natural material. First of all, it is necessary to prepare 30-40 pieces of nuts, then alternately glue them to each other, moving in a circle.

The autumn composition will fit very organically into the eco-style interior. Such a wreath, collected from nuts and cones, will not go unnoticed by the guests.

If whole nuts are suitable for creating large compositions, then the halves can be used to create various characters, animal figures, unusual toys.

It is not difficult to make a small boat out of the halves. It is better to involve kids in such work.

To build a boat, you need:

• take a nut, divide it into two parts;
• peel the shell from the contents;
• take a piece of plasticine and attach it inside the shell, stick a match, stick or toothpick;
• put a paper sail on the resulting mast.

If desired, the finished boat is painted. It can even be floated, because the shell of the nut will not sink.

Using the shell, you can make figurines of funny animals.

This work is simple, and you can start with the simplest options. You can make a cute ladybug out of half a walnut. In work you will need:

• shell;
• paints for decorating crafts (gouache or acrylic).

The ladybug has red wings with black dots. It is these shades that will be used when decorating the beetle. Paints are applied to the surface and wait until dry. In conclusion, on the wings you need to mark the points, draw the eyes, add antennae.

Considering that the shape of the tortoise shell has similar shapes to the shell of a nut, this material can be used for such a craft.

To make a turtle, you need the following materials:

• shell;
• plasticine;
• paints;
• stack and board;
• felt-tip pen.

A brighter color of the future turtle is given by painting the shell with acrylic paints. If desired, the craft is left unchanged (in its original form). In this case, the turtle will have its natural color.

Let's describe the progress of the work.

1. You need to take a small piece of brown or green plasticine and use it to form the legs, head and torso.
2. A plasticine ball is placed inside the shell so that it fits completely.
3. Sausages are rolled out of 4 pieces of mass and the turtle's legs are formed from them. Then they make a plasticine head and glue a small tail.
4. The patterns on the shell are drawn with a brown felt-tip pen or a different shade is used to make the product look more colorful.

Using a stack, they draw the eyes and mouth, make a drawing on the paws.

Wonder Yudo fish whale - it is this character that will become the hero of the next craft. The resident of the deep sea will definitely appeal to kids.

To make this craft, you need to take:

• walnut shell;
• paints;
• pieces of cardboard.

The prepared shell must be painted over in blue, because this is what an ocean inhabitant looks like. Then you need to glue the fishtail to the whale and fix the fountain.

By connecting two halves of a nut, you get a miniature box. It can be used to store jewelry, favorite earrings or a ring.

Required tools and materials:

• nut;
• the cloth;
• satin tape;
• a piece of wire;
• sandpaper;
• knife;
• scissors;
• drill with drills (1.5-3 mm) or awl;
• glue.

In order to make the box, you need to follow 4 steps.

1. Take a large nut and chop it into 2 pieces.
2. Clean out the contents of the shell, peel and grind with emery.
3. It is better to make such a product using male power, since you will need to make 1-2 holes on each of the halves of the nut. This is easier to do with an awl or a drill. Holes are drilled in the bottom of the shell.
4. The surface, if desired, is pasted over with a beautiful fabric, velvet. On the one hand, you should attach rings or make a special fastener from wire, and on the other, fasten a satin ribbon.

The finished product can be decorated with rhinestones, covered with acrylic paints or varnish.

With the New Year holidays approaching, everyone begins to think about gifts, as well as festive decor. Using natural material, you can make an original composition in the form of a Christmas tree or Christmas tree decorations.

To create a Christmas tree, use:

• halves of walnuts;
• a piece of foam rubber;
• a sushi stick;
• glue;
• paints;
• cardboard or other material that acts as a base.

The execution of the work involves 4 stages.

1. Cut out a circle with a diameter of about 20 cm from the cardboard.
2. A sushi stick is inserted into a foam sponge and placed in the center of the base. Wrap the stick with a piece of dense fabric in the form of a cone.
3. Starting from the bottom, spread the halves of the shells in a circle.
4. Put the top on top of the stick.

To create Christmas balls from the shell, use gold or silver paint, as these shades look the most advantageous. Then you need to take the braid and make a loop, connecting it with a knot. A knot is placed in one half of the shell, then glue is added to the edge and pressed over the second half. The toy is decorated with beads, bows or stars.

Walnut squirrels are made in the same way as with hazelnuts. In addition to the shell, a piece of plasticine will be needed for work. It is used to fix parts. Pieces of fake or natural fur will become a fluffy tail for the squirrel. You can use wool for felting.

Joint work on the hedgehog will also help diversify your leisure time. A funny hedgehog will delight the baby with its appearance. Such activities will help the development of perseverance, attentiveness, and will contribute to figurative thinking.

To mold a hedgehog from a walnut, you need to prepare:

• shell;
• plasticine (a small piece of light and dark colors);
• buckwheat - 1-2 tbsp. l.

Making a hedgehog is not difficult at all. For this:

• you need to take the shell and cover it over the surface with a piece of plasticine, leaving a small free space for the muzzle;
• form the eyes and nose from pieces of black;
• make needles for a hedgehog.

To build a caterpillar from natural materials, you need to take for work:

• nuts - 10-15 pcs .;
• plasticine;
• paints;
• brush.

To create a caterpillar, take the shell and paint it in any color. While they are drying, proceed to the design of the head. To do this, mini-balls are made from pieces of plasticine and fixed on the head.

You can leave the caterpillar in such a way that the kids themselves collect the remaining parts in parts, or glue the painted shell with the help of plasticine or a glue gun.

In a similar way, you can make not only a caterpillar, but also a snake by adding a forked tongue.

In work, not only nuts can be used, but also acorns, cones, twigs, dried flowers. Products made from macadamia nuts or pistachios look very interesting.

Macadamia is considered the most expensive of all nuts, so it is less commonly used in children's crafts. It is used to make things of amazing beauty, original jewelry.

Decorations made of pistachio shells, panels, candlesticks and topiary look very unusual. Such a delightful decor will adorn any interior.

More interesting nut crafts are presented in the video below.