Handmade crafts from acorns - using natural materials for children's crafts

Kids who are not yet familiar with all the possible materials for crafts and creativity easily use natural materials in games. Beautiful and original acorn crafts will help to develop children's creativity and expand the outlook of the child, who can participate in the preparation and collection of the necessary elements.

In addition to the creative process itself, any child will love a walk in the woods, park or square, where you can collect natural materials.

Acorns, all their parts, leaves and paper, glue and plasticine will help to create real masterpieces with different themes and composition, which will require only a little inspiration.

Using natural materials in art

Acorns for crafts can be collected in an oak grove or park, but it is best done in the fall, and the collected materials to pre-dry. They can easily construct not only individual figures of men and animals, insects and fairy tale characters, but also full compositions, and still look beautiful decorations.

You can supplement the finished product with paints and air or traditional plasticine, dried leaves and twigs, matches and pebbles. In any case, at the stage of preliminary preparation, it is necessary to choose a basic idea, which can be embodied by acorn crafts made with your own hands together with your child.

What can be made from acorns: interesting ideas

Shiny voluminous acorns are perfect for processing and using as individual and basic elements of beautiful and unusual handicrafts. Those who are just beginning to master creative activities, it is better to start with simple sketches, complementing them with the techniques of molding and gluing, coloring:

wooden tray from a cut part of a stump or a large branch, with tea items (cups and teapots, saucers and vases) from acorns;
large bracelets and beads made of acorns, original pendants and chokers, stands for jewelry made of branches decorated with acorns;
multilevel fruit basket, children's volumetric paintings, stitched with plasticine with other elements and decorations;
bunches of grapes made of painted acorns and dried grape or maple leaves, fully imitating real grapes.

For younger children, it is better to choose simple ideas that they can implement with the help of adults or even on their own. In addition to decorative crafts, you can use collected natural materials and additions to them to make practical and useful products with a beautiful decoration.

Animal and human figurines

People and horses, donkeys and gnomes are perfectly obtained from smooth and beautiful acorns, collected in the fall under the trees.

Hands and feet in such figures replace the matches or toothpicks, if necessary to create moving elements, it is better to prepare in advance the wire twisted into a spiral.

Mastering simple techniques baby interested in the formation of individual figures of the compositions, the creation of small farms with buildings and a pond, a meadow for walking animals.

Ornaments for photo frames

Frames and stands used as part of interior decorations are decorated with different materials, including natural ones.

Wrapping a simple cardboard frame with beautiful, carved oak branches and acorns, painting them with spray paint, it is easy to create a truly original decor. Such frames and sub-frames can decorate a mirror, paintings made of natural material or children's drawings, or they are used as independent, wall installations.

Autumn topiary with acorns

It is not uncommon for preschools and schools to hold all sorts of autumn fairs and festive events, for which you need to make decor with your own hands.

Original and exclusive handicrafts gifts of autumn formed from acorns can have different shapes and sizes, compositional features, wreaths of leaves, twigs and acorns or volumetric topiaries look unusual.

A beautiful golden ball of acorn hats

Working with acorns is simple enough, and to create an original composition in the form of a ball will not require a lot of additional materials. In advance, you should prepare a lot of acorns of the same size, a foam base and gold paint, a glue gun and a ribbon, and then you can follow the algorithm:

free all acorns from the caps, it is the tops that will be used to decorate the spherical base, so it is necessary to remove all protruding tails or other elements from them;
the base can be replaced by an old Christmas tree ornament or any spherical toy that has a thick and undamaged surface, which will increase the safety of such an ornament in the future use;
the spherical base can be fixed by placing it on a glass, which will help to simplify the processing procedure, after which you can glue upside-down acorn hats on the surface;
It is important to fill the entire surface of the base to give the handicraft a finished look, then glue a ribbon, with its help, the ball can be hung on a Christmas tree, on a door or decorate the interior with it;
When the handicraft is complete, you can begin to decorate it, for this use a spray can gold paint (on the basis of their own preferences other shades and colors can be chosen).

To increase the decorativeness and originality of the finished balloon, you can use beads of a certain color. They are also glued using a glue gun, putting individual beads in each hat, and in the evening, in the dim lighting, such a ball will shimmer with sparks of light.

If children and parents are excellent children's acorn crafts with their own hands, made on a pattern, you can not stop there. Natural materials prepared in advance are easy to use to implement any creative ideas, and they will be a great decoration of the interior or part of a personal exhibition of the kid.