Crafts from plasticine and acorns

Original crafts made of plasticine and acorns allow you to create an accessible creative environment for children of any age. Even a preschooler can figure out how to make mushrooms or make an owl sculpting with his own hands, and the process of making figures will be interesting for both kids and their mothers. A detailed review of the master classes will help you understand what animal figurines can be created from plasticine from acorns, and will allow you to disassemble in detail all the stages of working with these materials.

Autumn is the time to collect the most interesting natural materials for making crafts. An acorn found while walking with a child at home may well turn into an original handmade composition.

To make such a composition, you will need chestnuts in a shell, acorns without caps, and plasticine.

The procedure will be as follows.

• Mold flat circles from plasticine. If you take a green material, you get a clearing, which can be additionally decorated with plasticine flowers, and coniferous needles imitating grass can be installed on it.
• Fix the prepared acorns vertically on the base. Get mushroom legs.
• Place small flat plasticine circles on top of the acorns. They will allow you to secure the caps.

• Lay the chestnuts flat on the prepared base. You will get a mushroom head that looks like an oil can. If you decorate it with white plasticine dots, there will be a fly agaric.

You can show imagination. For example, if there are no chestnuts, half a walnut, other natural materials can act as a mushroom cap.

Acorns are a great base for making animal figurines. The almost regular oval of oak fruit is well suited for making the body or head of a miniature animal. It is quite easy to attach plasticine parts to a smooth base, giving the craft the characteristic and recognizable features of a particular animal.

This hero of fairy tales and a forest dweller is known to every child. To make a bunny, in addition to acorns and plasticine, you will need:

• white chenille wire;
• toothpicks;
• awl;
• ready-made eyes made of plastic.

Holes will have to be made at the ends of the 2 acorns. Then connect them in series with a toothpick. Make through holes in the middle and lower part of the bunny's body. Thread the chenille wire, forming the legs. Fasten the ears on the top of the head. Fold and round fluffy details. It remains only to glue the eyes on the muzzle, to mold the nose, mouth, bunny mustache from plasticine.

To make an unusual craft, you will need brown, red, orange, black and white plasticine, as well as 5 hats and 2 acorns.

The order of assembling the figure will be as follows.

1. The acorn intended for the head should be supplemented with an orange flat disc made of plasticine of the same diameter on top, a hat should be placed on it, and a ball of the same color as a pompom on a cap should be placed on top.
2. Make eyes from white and black material.
3. On the back of the head from the end, attach a red plasticine ring - the mouth of the animal.
4. Make 2 "pancakes" (ears) from brown material, fasten on the sides, under the hat. The head is ready.
5. Prepare the second acorn and 5 pieces of brown plasticine. Blind "sausages" - blanks for arms, legs and tail. The diameter will be different: 2 thick parts, 2 thin and 1 graceful.
6. Form curved legs from "sausages" of the largest diameter, fix them on the base of the acorn on one side, attach caps at the ends. The figurine should be seated.
7. Make monkey handles from "sausages" of medium diameter and the remaining caps. Fasten on the body.
8. Attach the ponytail to the body at the back.
9. Connect the head and body with plasticine.

An original funny monkey made of natural materials is ready.

It is very easy to make a figurine of a charming dachshund from acorns and plasticine with your own hands. It is enough to follow the procedure suggested in the master class. For crafts, you will need natural material - acorns without caps of approximately equal size. It is also worth preparing red, brown, black and white plasticine.

The sequence for collecting crafts will be as follows.

• Connect the acorns with brown plasticine. One of them will become the head, the second - the body. The dog's neck is formed from plasticine.

• Form 2 volumetric "drops" of the same size from brown plasticine. Flatten the details to create the dachshund's ears. They are pulled a little in length, and then attached to the sides of the dog's head.

• 2 identical small balls are formed from white plasticine. Flatten. This will be the basis for the dog's eyes. Black circles of a smaller diameter are placed in their center. Their location can be varied, giving the craft an individuality, a funny look.

• A small triangle or ball is molded from black plasticine. Attaches to the place where the nose should be. A small red oval is fixed under it - a tongue.

• A tail is molded from brown plasticine. It should not be too thick: just roll the "sausage" and then narrow it at one end. The tail is attached to the back of the body, and its end is slightly curved.

• Roll 4 identical ovals from brown plasticine - blanks for the legs. Flatten them at the ends, shaping them into kegs. Attach the dachshund to the body so that the craft can be stably positioned on a flat surface.

To give originality to the craft, a takes from an acorn cap will help. It is attached to the head of a dachshund using plasticine.

The bear is a favorite children's hero. The figurine of this forest dweller is easily crafted from the most available natural materials:

• chestnuts (for the head and body);
• acorns (for paws);
• plum pits (for feet);
• hats (for ears).

The assembly takes a minimum of time. A flat oval is made of brown plasticine for the muzzle with a black nose at the top. Fastened on a chestnut-head, on top are fixed acorn caps - ears. The resulting blank is combined with a second nut. Legs and handles are attached to it on plasticine.

It remains to make the eyes, the tail and the smile of the bear. All these details are molded from plasticine. Around the bear, you can create a beautiful meadow, seat him on a tree stump.

Making a cunning forest dweller from acorns is also quite easy. Orange plasticine will allow you to form a pointed muzzle, ears. The cones will become the basis for the body, and the acorns will turn into the legs of a red predator. The tail can be made from a cone or an alder earring.

Many other interesting autumn crafts for children can be made from plasticine and acorns. A spider and an owl, as well as a squirrel, will require a little more skill when assembling, but the child will be able to gain additional experience in creating more complex figures.

In addition, competitions are regularly held in schools and kindergartens, where such skills can give a great advantage.

Among the interesting ideas for crafts from plasticine and acorns, the following can be distinguished.

• Squirrel. Her head is made of acorn, her body is made of chestnut, and her eyes can be bought ready-made. The breast is molded from red plasticine, for the legs and tail, fluffy wire is used, glued to the base of the nutshell. For the ears, dry alder cones are taken, the legs can be formed from acorn caps. All parts are glued or fastened with plasticine.

• Puppet tea set. For him, acorn caps are taken, covered inside with gold paint or nail polish. Twisted plasticine handles are glued to the base. Additionally, you can mold stands in the form of flower petals or saucer for improvised cups.

• Birdie. For the head of the craft, you will need an acorn with a hat, for the body - without it. The details are connected with red plasticine, and a beak is made from it. Then the eyes are molded. Smaller balls are molded onto a large circle of plasticine, attached to the head, legs made of twigs and a tail made of fern are fixed at the bottom of the body.

• Vase. For its manufacture, a glass or plastic jar is covered on the outside with a layer of plasticine, and acorns are attached to it along the perimeter. Work continues until the decor covers the entire surface.

• Owlets with a nest. This craft option is suitable for the smallest. First, the nest is molded or made from natural material. In it, acorns without hats are fixed vertically on plasticine. Beaks, eyes, wings and tails are molded to them so that owlets are obtained. Attached, and the craft is ready.

Having studied all the variety of figurines and crafts that are available for making from scrap materials, you can have fun and enjoyable activities with pupils in a circle or arrange an evening of creativity with children at home.

You can also get acquainted with the manufacture of funny animals from plasticine and acorns in the next video.