Master class with a step-by-step photo “Crafts from natural materials. Mouse from walnuts.” Making interesting light crafts with your own hands for children, parents, teachers and educators, for school and kindergarten.
Crafts from natural materials. Mouse from walnuts
In autumn, city parks and gardens are full of ripe fruits. Apples and nuts are sources of vitamins. Chestnuts and acorns are excellent natural materials for making children’s crafts.
The main thing is that glue or plasticine is always at hand at home, as well as dried leaves to decorate finished works.
In past master classes, we used cones. They made excellent animals and birds.
Today we will try to take walnuts as the basis for crafts. We are ready for possible difficulties, we know that plasticine sticks reluctantly to the smooth surface of the shell. Still, let’s take a chance.
To create a mouse, we will prepare:
- walnuts of different sizes;
- plasticine.
We will decorate the area near the main character with small chestnuts and dry leaves. These elements will emphasize the autumn theme of the work.
So, two walnuts are the head and body of the craft.
To decorate the mouse muzzle, we sculpt the following details from pieces of plasticine: two round flat ears, a black nose in the form of a ball, purple beads – eyes, a white neck and a collar (in the form of a flat droplet), a red tongue.
The egg-shaped walnut is perfect for decorating a mouse head. You don’t even need to further lengthen the muzzle with a plasticine cone.We attach the tip of the nose in the form of a black ball to the rounded top of the nut. Above we place the eyes and ears of the craft. We connect the head and body. Immediately we make out the white belly of the mouse (drop-shaped collar).
Next, putting a piece of plasticine on the board, roll out a long tube. We split it in half. We press the edges of the parts with our fingers, we get primitive palms.
We attach the paws of the mouse to the nutshell. Moreover, we connect the upper part of the parts with the plasticine neck, and press the lower part tightly to the body of the craft.
Since we have little white plasticine left, we will put the hero in purple bast shoes (to match the color of the eyes). Too bad we didn’t have any acorn caps. They would make original mouse shoes.
We attach the lower limbs to the shell, check the craft for stability. The hero must not be knocked over.
It remains to sculpt and attach a long thin tail to the body of the mouse.
Work on crafts made from natural materials can be considered finished. The hero is ready to go to the exhibition in kindergarten. Let’s lay out dry maple leaves near the mouse, and mushrooms made from miniature chestnuts and plasticine. The session went well. The child is happy. It remains to wish everyone creative success and good mood.