Children's crafts from cones and plasticine do-it-yourself: photo

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

The formation of your baby's intellect directly depends on the development of his creative abilities. Another famous teacher of the twentieth century, Vasily Alexandrovich Sukhomlinsky, said that "the mind of a child is at the tips of his fingers." Creative activities enable children to learn about the world around them, to be aware of themselves in it, to develop their imagination and artistic abilities.

One of the varieties of such creativity is crafts made from cones, the most accessible natural material. Fortunately, pine grows everywhere in Russia. An important advantage of this development is the fact that in order to make crafts from cones with your own hands, you need to collect suitable material, which you first need to get to with your own feet. So, a fascinating walk into the forest, the nearest square or park is already provided for you.

And what could be more pleasant than a walk with the whole family? Take something to eat with you, have a picnic. Grab your camera and don't waste your money on expensive photo shoots: after all, now a real, not fictional, family story will live in your home photo album or on your social media page.

Materials for children's craftsfrom cones

Before you go hunting for the main treasure, let's deal with additional, but no less important materials. To make crafts from cones, you may need:

• Plasticine.
• Paints.
• Paper.
• Fabric.
• Tools.

Craft clay

Plasticine should be given special attention. The main property of interest to us will be its softness. For a child of 4-5 years old, ordinary dense plasticine is quite suitable. Before work, it must be kneaded with effort and warmed in the hands, which is an additional training in large motor skills. But for kids making crafts from cones for kindergarten, it will be difficult to cope with this. But manufacturers have already thought about us and released a special soft plasticine. Usually it is called "Soft" - and is often presented on the shelves with goods for art in ordinary supermarkets.

What colors to take

To add colors to your craft, you will have to think about the choice of paint. Here are the two most common options. This is gouache and acrylic. Gouache is easy to use and unpretentious in work. If the toy will stand on the shelf and remind you of a fun time, feel free to choose it. If the creation is supposed to be used for games, choose acrylic. It is water resistant but rinses off well before drying. Also, acrylic paint has a very low odor and almost does not cause allergies.

Paper or cardboard

Paper is best replaced with thick colored cardboard. And to become the owner of the mostbeautiful handicrafts from cones, it is better to take double-sided cardboard or tint the unsightly gray side.

Also, do not forget about the huge selection of cardboard types: corrugated bulk cardboard, metallized, and even beautiful velvet cardboard, which can easily convey the special texture of crafts or replace the use of fabric.

Craft Fabric

It is better to take the fabric that does not crumble. Fleece, flannel, some types of drape are perfect. This also includes various beads, eyes, feathers that can be found at home or in mom's caskets.

Tools you may need

The younger the child, the fewer tools you should use when making crafts from cones. Optimally - only hands. Older children may also need scissors with rounded ends or hidden in plastic ends, glue or a glue gun. We must not forget about safety.

Chicken craft for toddlers

To make these cute chickens you will need:

• Pinecone.
• Yellow and orange plasticine.
• Eyes (they can also be made from plasticine).
• Yellow paint.

First, let's pour our paint into a jar with a wide mouth. Let's throw our bump there and give it a good ride there. Any kid can handle all these manipulations perfectly and with great pleasure.

Now we will remove our bump with tweezers or directly with our hands and send it to dry in a warm place. Let's go and wash our handstake a break. Such a break in work will be very useful for babies from one to two years old, because they keep their attention for about 5-7 minutes maximum, and with a longer lesson they start to get tired.

We get plasticine and cooked eyes. We pinch off a piece of yellow plasticine and roll it into a ball. Recall that for kids it should be soft plasticine. Show your child the possible techniques for making a balloon: rolling with one hand on the table or between the palms.

We fasten the head in the form of a ball to the dried up body and move on to the orange plasticine. Now let the child learn to pinch off pieces. Their size is just right for the beak and legs that mom will make.

Putting the whole chicken together. So our first craft from a cone and plasticine is ready.

Ghosts from spruce cones

If the baby's hands still can't cope with plasticine, then we can offer to make such crafts from spruce cones - cute home ghosts. For this you will need:

• Spruce cones.
• White and black paint.
• Tassel.

Paint our craft white with a brush and send to dry. Draw the eyes and mouth with black paint. You can thread a thread through the ghost and hang it in the room.

Speaking of fir cones. If pine is widely represented both in parks and in the forest, then spruce still needs to be looked for. We advise you to take a closer look at administrative buildings and palaces of culture, Christmas trees are often planted there.

"Herringbone" - crafts for children from three years and older

Children from the age of three can be offered this craft, designed for finer motor skills of the fingers.

Materials:

• Pinecone.
• Colorful plasticine.
• Yellow cardboard.
• Scissors.

First of all, cut out a yellow star for the crown of the cardboard and set it aside.

Now let's start creating Christmas balls. Let the child pinch off and roll colorful balls out of plasticine. Show him a new technique: rolling a small ball with your thumb and forefinger. If it doesn't work, try rolling the ball with your finger in the palm of your hand or on the plane of the table.

Now let's start assembling. We put multi-colored balls into the scales of the cone, slightly pressing down. We insert a star into the split crown or attach it to glue with a gun. We install the assembled Christmas tree on the base of plasticine.

Here is another pine cone craft.

Cone Animals

Children aged 4-5 years old will be happy to create animals from cones and plasticine. It is enough to teach them a simple body selection algorithm. This can be done using leading questions:

• Which animal do you want to mold?
• What kind of body does he have: fluffy, round, elongated?

And then the desired head, paws and tail are molded to the cone chosen in this way. Look at these cone crafts in the photo, all animals are made by simple guys.

The shape of the bump is very similar to curlssheep or poodle, plumage of a bird (cockerel, owl). You can set a theme, for example: we sculpt animals on a farm (in a village), populate a new zoo, create forest dwellers, or invent fairy-tale characters.

To make a funny hedgehog, it is enough to stick a pointed muzzle and four paws to the cone, or simply fix it on a plasticine stand. The legs are small, they may not be visible from under the needles.

If you attach a neat head on a snow-white long neck to a cone painted with white paint, no one will doubt that it is a swan.

And what wonderful and graceful deer are obtained from fir cones and acorns! We are sure you will like them. By the way, it’s a wonderful idea to use moss when creating crafts from natural material. Heroes immediately come to life on such green grass.

Green unopened cones are surprisingly similar to crocodiles, and if a crocodile has three heads, it's not far from Zmey Gorynych.

Cones after making crafts can still be slightly deformed as a result of natural drying. To avoid this, you can dry them at the very beginning of work, even when preparing materials. Warm up in the oven for 5-7 minutes at a temperature of two hundred degrees, or dry for a day on a battery or a sunny windowsill.

And if, as planned, unopened cones are needed, you can fix them with thirty seconds of holding in wood glue. If there is no unopened cone, you can "close" it by lowering it into water and letting it lie there for several hours. After repeat fixing with glue.

"Penguins" - storylinecomposition

Children of the senior preparatory group or elementary school can be offered to make more complex plot crafts from cones with their own hands. They can already create compositions with a lot of small details, as well as with a certain plot.

Carefully consider the crafts from the cones in the photo. To create such a composition you will need:

• Pine and spruce cones.
• White paint.
• Brush.
• Black, white, orange plasticine.
• Black and colored felt.
• Thick threads for knitting.
• Fluffy wire and two pom-poms or cotton wool (for headphones).
• Bead.
• Glue gun.
• Scissors.

First, with a brush, lightly paint the bumps with white paint. Right on top of the scales. Let's send them out to dry. In the meantime, let's take care of the penguin heads. It must be remembered that creating crafts is always creativity, and if there are no materials at hand, then you can safely use others. Our penguins have heads made of painted wooden beads, but colored plasticine is also perfect for them. Don't forget to make little orange beaks.

Now you can cut out the details from the black felt. We have four wings and two pairs of paws. If there is no felt, you can use plasticine or thick colored cardboard. Also, a cap of a small penguin is cut out of the fabric and glued with a cone, a colored curly lapel is attached to it in a circle, and a bead is attached on top with a glue gun.

Headphoneshigh penguin are made of fluffy wire and pompoms glued to it, which can be rolled from ordinary cotton wool.

Go to assembly. We fasten the heads to the body, glue the wings and paws. We put on penguins their hats and finally we tie scarves from thick knitting threads around their necks.

Christmas wreath of cones

Natural materials are increasingly being used in interior decor. In particular, cones can often be found in various compositions. It can be a variety of topiaries, as their varieties are Christmas trees from cones. In the West, Christmas wreaths, which are also made from this material, are very popular. The cones are used to make whole garlands and individual decorations.

To make a wreath you will need:

• Bumps.
• Finished base.
• Gold paint.
• Glue gun.

Preparing at home for the holiday starts from the threshold. A Christmas wreath will turn an ordinary door into a winter fairy tale, a land of goodness and magic. Moreover, it is not at all difficult to make one with your own hands.

First you need to do the basics. What can she be? The easiest, but not the cheapest way out can be to buy a ready-made foundation in a store. You can cut the same lightweight base from foam inserts into large boxes. The base can also serve as cardboard rings, or even twisted newspapers tied with a thick thread. If the cones are not supposed to be attached tightly to each other, then it makes sense to wrap the frame with a beautifulsatin or organza.

Now let's prepare the cones themselves. They need to be cleaned of dirt with a brush and dried. How to do this, we already wrote above. When the material is ready, you can think about decorating it. Cones are varnished, painted with acrylic and various metallic paints, covered with dry snow. Here, the widest scope opens up for fantasy.

At this stage, it is worth thinking about additional decorations that you are going to use: nuts, acorns, decorative flowers or plastic fruits.

When everything is prepared, you can proceed to the assembly of the wreath. Heat up your glue gun and start gluing the buds of your choice from inner diameter to outer diameter, giving the glue time to dry.

When the wreath is assembled and dried, it's time to decorate it with a magnificent bow and attach a satin ribbon for hanging. The wreath can also be used as an interesting frame for a candle arrangement.

An elegant addition to such a wreath will be beautiful snowflakes made of cones, made in the same style. The best way to make this craft is with fir cones.

Take six or eight cones and glue them together at the base. The center can be decorated with a snowflake cut out of paper or beautiful lace. Attach a loop of ribbon or twine to the finished product.

And do not make your crafts gather dust on the shelf, attach fasteners to them and boldly decorate the Christmas tree in the New Year and Christmas. Or even take one of them in the car. By the way, you can drop a few drops of essential oil between the scales, and you already have an original andenvironmentally friendly car interior freshener. For all these DIY cone craft ideas, photos are very easy to find in special literature.

From crafts to art

Children's passion for making crafts can often develop into a sustainable hobby or even professional creativity. In fact, this is the birth of that very aesthetic beginning in a child, and it should never be neglected.

Just look at the work of professional craftsmen who use other materials, complex colors and textures. These works of art are truly amazing! But even in them one can notice this spark of creativity, attention to natural material, laid down in childhood by talented teachers and parents. Therefore, incessantly create, invent, develop and be happy.