From chestnut fruits, if you have imagination, plasticine and twigs, you get very interesting crafts. They can be done together with children, just for kids, because there is nothing complicated here. The main thing is to collect them in time in the fall, while they are still soft, and save them for creativity. Picturesque crafts will decorate not only a shelf in a child’s closet, but are also suitable for exhibitions in a kindergarten or classroom.
Together with your kids you can try to make animals such as a spider, a hedgehog, a bear. Children can easily create a Cheburashka or a caterpillar, and together with their mother it is very easy to build a house or decorate a topiary. You just need to prepare scissors, glue, plasticine, the rest will depend on your skills and imagination.
Caterpillar made of plasticine and chestnuts
You need to take:
- several chestnuts, for example 7 pieces
- colored plasticine
- matches
Do funny caterpillar easily:
- We connect even fruits using plasticine; for reliability, you can fasten them with matches
- We sculpt eyes, nose and mouth, you can make them in any color
- We stick horns from halves of toothpicks with plasticine balls at the ends into the head
To make the caterpillar even more interesting, you can place it on the leaves or add tree branches to the composition.
Toothpick Spider
All you need is toothpicks and one large, evenly shaped fruit:
- Take 8 toothpicks, break them slightly in the middle, stick them into the body of the spider
- Eyes can be made from plasticine
Ant made from chestnuts and straws
You need to prepare:
- 2 smaller chestnuts for the body, one larger for the head
- plasticine
- plastic cocktail straws
To make an ant, you need:
- Connect the head and body with plasticine, sculpt the eyes and mouth
- Cut the straws for the paws, it is better to do this from the bendable side of the straw
- Stick them in the torso
The ant turns out even more beautiful if you add small antennae to it and select elongated fruits for the body.
Cheburashka with big ears
Making Cheburashka is simple, you just need to prepare toothpicks and fruits of different shapes
- We connect the stomach, head and ears with halves of toothpicks, make arms and legs
- You can use a felt-tip pen to draw eyes and a smile on your face.
Chestnut bear
You need to prepare:
- 2 chestnuts, more for the stomach, less for the head
- brown plasticine for paws
We fasten the head and stomach with plasticine; we also need to make paws and ears from plasticine balls. Add the nose and eyes.
Chestnut beads
Little fashionistas will like making such simple beads:
- Prepare a strong fishing line of the required length
- Make a hole in each small fruit with an awl so that you can thread a fishing line through it
- Collect beads, optionally complementing them with colored beads
Decorated vase
You need to make such a vase with adults.
You will need:
- many small even fruits of the same size
- high can from canned fruit
- paint of any color in a can, you can take gold or silver
The vase is simple to make:
- The jar is pasted over the entire length with fruits, you can make the rows even or at a diagonal angle
- The resulting voluminous vase dries until the glue hardens
- The finished product must be coated with spray paint.
This vase looks good with dried flowers and tree branches.
Flowers of their acorns
You need to prepare:
- more acorns for the petals
- chestnuts for the flower core
- long branches for the stem
Making flowers is easy:
- Glue the acorns to the centers using chamomile glue
- We stick sticks into the finished flowers
Chestnut tree in the picture
Have to take:
- a lot of fruits
- cardboard for background
- spray paint
The panel is made like this:
- Cut out a tree silhouette from cardboard
- Glue the fruits onto the cardboard with glue. The larger ones will go to the trunk, and the smaller ones to the branches.
- We paint the wood and dry it
- Glue the craft to a fabric panel or photo frame
House decorated with chestnut fruits
Anyone can make a house. You will need:
- 2 liter juice boxes for the walls of the house
- roof box cut at an angle
- dry leaves, twigs
- scissors, glue
- chestnuts
To make a craft house, you need:
- glue the boxes, cut out windows and doors in them, glue the roof
- cover the roof with leaves, imitating tiles
- decorate doors and windows with branches
- coat the entire house with glue, attach chestnuts to the walls, imitating stonework
Hedgehog made from chestnuts and a plastic bottle
You will need:
- plastic bottle
- plasticine to make a hedgehog's face
- a lot of chestnut fruits
- twigs and leaves for decorating crafts
The hedgehog is made quickly:
- We pour dry sand into the bottle for balance and stability.
- Coat the lid and the beginning of the bottle with brown plasticine, this will be the face of a hedgehog
- We make a black nose and eyes from white plasticine
- Glue the oblong chestnut fruits with glue, the larger they are, the fluffier the hedgehog will be
- You can paint the tips of the “needles” with white paint
The hedgehog turns out to be very beautiful; to be authentic, you need to decorate it with leaves and berries.
Topiary of flat chestnuts
You need to prepare:
- chestnuts flat shape- they make topiary more beautiful
- pot
- a thick branch for the trunk
- foam ball for the crown of the topiary, if not, you can make a lump of newspapers, tie them with threads
- threads, ribbons, moss for decoration
Topiary is done like this:
- Stick a branch into a ball of foam or newspaper
- We put the branch in a pot without holes, fill it with a mixture of plaster to fix it
- Ordinary plastic pot cover with rope or twine gray for beauty
- Glue the fruits to the ball around the entire circumference with a glue gun, trying to leave only small gaps
Decorating the almost finished topiary:
- The top of the plaster should be decorated with small pebbles and sealed with pieces of thread
- It is recommended to make a bow from a piece of ribbon under the ball; you can decorate the topiary with paper flowers or butterflies
All these crafts will delight you for a long time, reminding you of autumn walks.
Many people love autumn. This wonderful time, unfortunately, is the most fleeting. It is in the fall that you notice how quickly time flies: just recently, the trees were covered with green leaves, through which the rays of the sun shone through. And today the trees are completely bare, and their yellow foliage strewn the ground like a golden carpet.
At this time, not only children, but also adults love to collect acorns and chestnuts - beautiful, shiny autumn gifts. In schools and kindergartens, children make various crafts from them, and some adults know how to create real masterpieces from natural materials. DIY crafts will help preserve the memory of autumn for a long time.
Crafts from acorns and plasticine
You can create many different crafts from acorns. Preparing this material is not at all difficult - after all, oak fruits can be found in almost any park or forest. For crafts, it is best to use freshly picked material, since it is easier to poke holes in them with an awl.
Birds
For children younger age The easiest way to make crafts is from acorns and plasticine. Using these materials, you can make small charming birds with colorful wings.
To make such a bird, you will need an acorn and some plasticine in pink, white, yellow and black colors:
- First, roll two small white balls and flatten them a little.
- Now two circles are attached to the acorn - these are the bird’s future eyes.
- Two peas are formed from black plasticine, the size of which should be smaller than the size of the white ones. They can also be lightly crushed between your fingers.
- Attach the pupils to the whites - the eyes are ready.
- Next, using a special knife for plasticine, you need to cut a triangular beak from a yellow piece. This kind of work must be done on a modeling board.
- The beak is attached in the center under the eyes.
- Made from plasticine Pink colour small balls are formed, from which flat oval wings are then made.
- Attach the wings to the sides of the acorn and the bird is ready!
Piglets
To create this funny family you will need acorns and plasticine in pink and black colors. And also, to prevent the mischievous piglets from running away, they will need to build a fence of brown plasticine. For a tasty lunch, pigs will need a trough.
Dog
This craft consists of two acorns connected to each other. You can attach the head to the body using a piece of wire or a match, the ends of which must be inserted into the holes made in the appropriate places.
- For the nose and eyes, form three black plasticine balls, flatten two of them and attach them to the dog’s face, thus making its eyes.
- Attach the third ball-nose to the end of the acorn-face.
- To form a tail, make a small brown “sausage”, one end of which should be rolled into a donut, and the other should be attached to the place where the dog’s tail should grow.
- To form the ears, you will need two large balls, which should be rolled out on a modeling board into pancakes and pulled out on one side.
- Attach the ears to the dog's head.
- The last stage is four legs. At the same time, they can be made longer, which will give your dog a completely different look. And if you get creative and change the shape and size of the ears, you will get a dog of a completely different breed.
DIY crafts from cones and acorns
For the New Year, you can create some pretty interesting crafts from pine cones and acorns with your own hands. For example, this could be a New Year's candlestick or a wreath for the front door. Of course, such cute New Year's trinkets can be purchased in the store, but by showing your imagination and spending a little time, you can succeed holiday decorations no worse than store-bought ones.
Video about crafts made from acorns
Christmas wreath
To create such a wreath you will need:
- Cones, acorns, chestnuts, pine branches.
- New Year's tinsel.
- Paper for gift wrapping.
- Glue gun, scissors.
- The base is a ring.
- Square or rectangular molds for “gifts”.
You can use any suitable item as the basis for a New Year's wreath on the door. For example, it could be a wire twisted several times into a ring, a plastic ring, a frame from an old round watch - the main thing is that decorative items can be securely attached to this base.
- Give a few “gifts” first.
- Cones, acorns and chestnuts can, if desired, be coated with gold or silver spray paint.
- Using a glue gun, glue decorative items to the base, wrapping them in a spiral with green tinsel imitating fir needles.
- On back side The wreath should be attached with a small loop, from which you can hang the wreath.
- If you plan to attach it to a metal entrance door, you can glue a flat magnet instead of a hinge. At the same time, it is important that he can confidently support the weight of a rather heavy wreath.
Video on how to make a New Year's wreath from acorns and pine cones
Candlestick made of acorns and pine cones
Based on the technology for making a New Year's wreath, you can create various crafts from cones, chestnuts and acorns. For example, this DIY holiday candlestick will require very little time and can be an excellent gift for loved ones or friends.
DIY crafts from chestnuts and acorns
If you show your imagination and put in just a little time and effort, you can create a variety of wonderful crafts from acorns for children. Together with your child, you can make such wonderful crafts from chestnuts and acorns with your own hands:
Owl
Acorn caps act as the birds' eyes, and multi-colored felt serves as the beak, legs and wings.
little man
Such funny people Children will be delighted with acorns made with their own hands if they are made right during the excursion. To do this, remove the cap from a large acorn and use a previously prepared awl to make five holes in it for the arms, legs and head. Handles and legs, which are pieces of twigs with acorn caps, are inserted into the holes. An acorn with a cap is used as the head. Eyes, nose and mouth can be scratched with the same awl.
What else can be made from acorns? If used for work acrylic paints, you can make the following wonderful crafts:
Crafts made from acorns and leaves look very interesting:
Do-it-yourself grapes from acorns
The shape of an acorn resembles a grape berry, which means you can make grapes from acorns with your own hands. This craft is perfect for a panel that will perfectly decorate the interior of the room.
- Each acorn should be freed from its cap.
- Next, place the acorns on the wire and paint them with acrylic paint
- When the paint is dry, collect the acorns into a bunch
- With help green paper or woolen threads, disguise the wire by adding a few maple leaves on top
The acorn grapes are ready.
Topiary of cones and acorns
A topiary of cones and acorns is a ball attached to a trunk located in a pot with solid filler. This New Year's topiary will be a wonderful decoration for the holiday table.
- The round base can be made from any material convenient for you. It is most convenient for this purpose to use newspapers, crumpled into a ball and wrapped with threads. To give density, the surface of the ball is coated with glue. If there are pieces of newspaper sticking out of the ball, they will also be very easy to remove with glue.
- Now the ball is placed on a barrel, which can be used as a wooden or plastic stick. Make a small cut in the ball with a knife and place it on the barrel.
- Now the container in which the tree will be located should be filled with gypsum mortar. When it begins to harden, insert the tree in the center, securing it with supports that can be removed after the solution has completely hardened.
- If appearance the pot is not attractive enough, you can decorate it by wrapping it in twine or burlap.
- Now the cones and chestnuts need to be painted with spray paint golden color. After they dry, place a few in a pot on the surface of the plaster.
- Also, the gypsum surface can be decorated with any materials at your discretion.
- Next, using a glue gun, glue acorns and pine cones to the surface of the newspaper ball. Those places between them where the newspaper is visible can be smeared with glue and covered with large tea, beads or any other suitable material.
- If you want to have a tree intensely painted in gold, you can re-paint the finished composition.
- The tree trunk is decorated with gold beads and the topiary is ready.
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The arrival of autumn brings an abundance of natural materials: chestnuts, leaves, acorns, plant seeds, chestnut peels.
What you can make with your own hands from chestnuts on the theme of autumn for kindergarten or schools?
What crafts from chestnuts should I prepare for the autumn holiday? Where can I find videos and photos on making crafts from chestnuts?
The most famous and simple crafts: caterpillar, Cheburashka, mushrooms, bear cub, hedgehog.
Among the little known, but not requiring special time and material costs: snail, horse, dog, fox, turtle, bird, spider, beetle, hare, butterfly, dragon, heart, beads, bracelets, capitoshka, snowman, house, basket, monkey , cat.
Let's look at each craft in detail, from the selected materials to the finished product.
Necessary for making: chestnuts - 4 large, 3 small, matches or toothpicks, plasticine, marker, paper knife, hole needle or awl, corrector if there is no permanent marker.
- We lay out the prepared tools and materials and select the largest chestnuts - the body and the head - 2 pieces. We lay out the Cheburashka on the table to see how it will look when finished. If necessary, we replace unsuitable chestnuts.
- We assemble the head by first making 2 holes in the chestnut head using a large needle or an ear awl. Before making a hole, try on what your Cheburashka will look like.
- Insert toothpicks or matches into the finished holes, slightly sharpening them at the ends. We perform similar operations with the ears. We choose chestnuts that are flatter on one side for the ears. We attach them to the head, securing them with toothpicks.
- We select a second large chestnut and use toothpicks to attach the head to the body in the same way.
- The arms are small chestnuts attached to the body with toothpicks.
- The legs are small chestnuts cut in half, if there are flat chestnuts left, then those will do.
How to draw a face?
Let's look at 3 ways:
We draw the muzzle in the place where it is slightly rough and differs in color from the main smooth dark brown color. Draw eyes, nose and mouth with a waterproof marker.
Using a corrector and a marker, or for black we use plasticine. Draw the eyes, mouth and nose in the same way.
Use a needle or awl to make holes or cut out the mouth, nose and eyes with a knife.
If you have eyes from toys or you bought them and they fit, you can make them from a package of tablets if you wish.
The Cheburashka is ready, check that it stands steadily on the surface; if it cannot boast of such an ability, it is worth redoing the legs.
In this training video you will see how to make a craft for Cheburashka and other heroes.
How to make a mouse from chestnuts?
Necessary for making a mouse: chestnuts - 4 large, 3 small, matches or toothpicks, plasticine, marker, paper knife, hole needle or awl, corrector if there is no permanent marker.
This is the mouse we got, look at the photo.
Teddy bear or chestnut bear
In this photo, you see 4 versions of chestnut bears using plasticine and acorns. Ideas for creating such crafts will be very useful for creating a composition or already finished crafts. All that remains is to make a tree and the clearing itself or a platform for the bear, and maybe a den. The tree can be a cone or a leaf from a maple, oak, or chestnut.
It is done in the same way as a mouse, only we use small chestnuts for the ears, as well as for the legs and arms.
We will need: chestnuts - 2 large, 6 small, matches or toothpicks, plasticine, marker, paper knife, needle for holes or awl (nail file), corrector, if not, permanent marker. 
We carry out similar operations as in creating the Cheburashka craft, only we attach the ears to the top of the head. We make the nose from black plasticine and finish the mouth with a black marker.
If there are no small chestnuts, we make these parts from plasticine, the second option is in the photo of the teddy bear.
How to make mushrooms from chestnuts?
We will need: chestnuts according to the number of mushrooms, a knife for cutting paper.
- Carefully cut off part brown skin chestnut, giving the top the shape of a mushroom cap.
- Shape the white inside of the chestnut into the shape of a mushroom stalk, choose the shape that you like best.
- The mushroom is ready, now all that remains is to place it in your clearing next to other heroes.
A detailed master class on cutting a chestnut mushroom is shown in this video with step-by-step explanations - Prepare: chestnut, peel with needles, plasticine, scissors with curved ends.
- We attach a nose made of gray plasticine to the chestnut and 4 legs underneath.
- We spread a fairly thick layer of plasticine on top, making cuts on it with scissors with curved ends.
- Attach a small ponytail if desired.
- Place a mushroom or a small apple on the needles.
- Pick a chestnut correct form so that by cutting off the chestnut peel and the chestnut itself it is easy to get an elongating spout.
- If there is no such chestnut, mold a nose out of plasticine and make eyes and a mouth using a needle or marker.
- Make 4 legs from plasticine in the shape of columns or attach bent sausages to the hedgehog’s tummy and a tail.
- We attach the chestnuts to each other and to the peel using: glue gun, toothpicks or plasticine.
- The second chestnut has a peel; there will be no need to attach it if you did not remove the chestnut from it. The peel should be made of 2 halves and diverging towards one of the ends - these are the wings of our beetle.
- The head must be supplemented with mustaches made from twigs by gluing or inserting into the punctured holes. Draw eyes and a mouth on your beetle using a marker, varnish or a corrector.
- If you only have PVA and paints, then add paints to it and paint the head of your beetle with it.
- Choose one chestnut slightly smaller in size than the second, this is the head and body of our cat.
- Connect to each other using a plasticine cake.
- Then we sculpt the ears - these are 2 triangles. The eyes are 2 white circles, with black dots or stripes in the middle, the tail is a sausage.
- We fasten the cat by attaching plasticine to chestnuts. A smaller chestnut with a larger one, replacing the ears, eyes and tail.
- The muzzle is 2 circles connected together and on top there is a pink dot - the nose. Be sure to use paste or a needle to put dots on the muzzle and add a mustache from a fishing line by simply sticking it in.
- We sculpt the paws into a sausage and 4 fingers for each. For our cat, 2x will be enough, because... he's sitting.
- Under the 2nd lower chestnut we make only a foot, a sausage and 4 fingers, we attach everything to the chestnuts.
- The cat is ready, all that remains is to make him a bowl or sausage to give the image a reality.
Secret: for a short leg, cut a mushroom from the top of the chestnut; for a long leg, make a cap from the side of the chestnut.
More detailed master The class is shown in a video lesson on cutting mushrooms from chestnuts.
Method 2: mushrooms with plasticine
If you want to get collapsible mushrooms, then use method 2.
We cut out a mushroom cap from the chestnut or use a suitable chestnut shape, with one side flat and the other convex.
We sculpt a mushroom stem from plasticine and stick yellow plasticine onto the lower part of the mushroom cap, exactly matching the shape of the cap.
Using a needle we make a large number of small holes, like butterfish.
We attach the leg to the chestnut using plasticine or toothpicks.
The mushroom is ready.
Caterpillar or centipede
The simplest craft, it will suit even 3 summer kids.
The number of chestnuts is the same as the length of your caterpillar. We fasten them together with plasticine or toothpicks, first threading holes.
Draw a muzzle and insert antennae from toothpicks or sticks.
For older children, we sculpt legs and arms together with them.
Chestnut hedgehog - 4 options
With mushroom
Hedgehog made from chestnut peel
From green chestnuts
To create a hedgehog craft, we need: chestnut peel, a chestnut or slightly greenish chestnut already in the peel, a marker and plasticine.
The hedgehog is standing
For those who want to make a hedgehog standing on its hind legs, we use similar materials, just think about how or by what means it will be attached to a table or other flat object.
Snails
We sculpt snails from colored plasticine. We roll the sausages and make them thinner at the end, and divide the second into 2 parts to make thin horns.
And the houses are our chestnut trees. You can paint them in circles or not as you wish. This family is easy to make in a few minutes.
Basket
We cut a basket out of a large chestnut tree, suitable for crafts for the garden or school, to put tiny mushrooms.
The second option is to glue the chestnuts into a basket shape; it is better to attach the chestnuts to each other with a hot gun or instant glue. For decoration, use cones or other natural materials.
2 variants of chestnut turtles
Required: chestnut peel with cut needles, plasticine, scissors.
Armor
We cover the prepared peel from half of the chestnut together with the chestnut itself with green specks of plasticine, or use scissors to make oval rounds if there is only one chestnut.
We trim only the brown peel with scissors with curved ends.
Head
We roll a medium-thick plasticine sausage, bend one side of it and thicken it a little, giving it the shape of a turtle’s head.
Slightly flattening it on the edge, if the neck is very long, remove the piece of sausage.
Using a toothpick or a needle, make eyes and a mouth on the head. Option 2: We make the eyes from white with black or green plasticine.
We fasten the head to the body, pressing the chestnut itself with reverse side where are the legs?
Turtle legs
These can be plasticine barrels made from thickened sausages. We need to form 4 of these identical ones. For the turtle to stand, check the soles, they must be level.
Using a needle or toothpick, draw the turtle's fingers; if you have cumin, use them to make nails.
Tail
We make the tail from plasticine. Roll out the sausage and thin it towards the end.
We attach the legs, head and tail molded from plasticine to the body. If they do not hold well, then use toothpicks for better fastening or a hot gun, then the turtle will turn out to be non-separable.
If there is not enough plasticine, but there are a lot of chestnuts, then we make a turtle from chestnuts like this:
We scratch the shell on the chestnut using a compass or any other sharp object.
We make legs from other small chestnuts or cut them out of chestnuts.
Bug
Required materials: 2 chestnuts, chestnut peel without needles, marker or varnish, sticks for mustaches and legs.
How to make a cat
You will need: chestnuts, plasticine, a modeling board and paste or a needle, a little bit of fishing line for a mustache.
What other animals or insects are easy to make from chestnuts?
Spider
Horses
Dog
Fox
Bird
Hare
Little people
Gluttons or alien creatures
Elephant
Pigs
ladybugs
House
Beads
Bracelet
What autumn-themed chestnut crafts can be made for the garden and school? (photo)
Come up with a plot. For example: from the cartoon Winnie the Pooh, Owl and Piglet are picking mushrooms in a clearing, 3 little pigs are hiding in a house of chestnuts from an evil wolf, a hedgehog is collecting mushrooms and apples in a clearing, Fly Tskotukha and the Villain Spider. Remember fairy tales or cartoons about autumn and heroes, it will be much easier for you to create a picture.
For the finished heroes, all that remains is to make a clearing, a house or other decorations. Often in kindergartens or schools they suggest plots or main characters.
Use the following natural materials to create crafts: acorns, leaves, rowan, sticks.
It’s easy to create an entire kindergarten or school out of chestnut little men at the blackboard and at their desks. If you want to fantasize without limits, then flying saucers with gluttons are perfect for this!
For school, make a clearing with mushrooms or autumn forest from leaves, cones, chestnuts.
What crafts to make from chestnuts for the autumn holiday with your own hands?
How to imagine autumn? Collect leaves, twigs, chestnuts and acorns. Come up with a composition, for example, a house and a clearing.
The hedgehogs’ house (description above) and the hedgehog family itself in the clearing. Make hedgehogs as described in the article, adding rowan berries to their needles.
Bears or other forest dwellers can also live in this house.
Craft planet in autumn
Find polystyrene foam in the shape of a hemisphere and cover it with leaves and decorate with twigs. Add other gifts of autumn: acorns, rowan berries, nuts, chestnuts and pine cones. Call the craft “Autumn has come to the planet” and come up with a story or take a poem about autumn. The following videos show options for crafts for kindergarten and school, watch and take interesting ideas Note to self.
We hope that it will become much easier for you to make crafts from chestnuts after reading our article and watching video tutorials. It's time to start creating crafts from chestnuts; we wish you good luck in such an interesting and creative process.
Instructions for making chestnut crafts.
Chestnut is a familiar tree that is planted in cities to purify the air. The fruits are used to prepare medicines. But these small nuts will be a real boon for mothers of naughty children. Chestnuts can be used to entertain children. Games like this improve fine motor skills and the child's speech.
DIY crafts on the theme of autumn from chestnuts
There are tons of options autumn crafts. These are very cute little animals, trees or mushrooms. Often applications and crafts made from chestnuts are supplemented with dry leaves, acorns and twigs.
Autumn chestnut beetles
This is the simplest craft for kindergarten kids. Suitable for children 3-4 years old. The child must do everything himself, relying on the adult’s tips.
Materials:
- Chestnuts
- Dry shells with thorns from chestnuts
- Plasticine
- Dry twigs
Instructions:
- Take 2 chestnuts. One of them will be the head of the beetle, and the second will be the body
- Glue two chestnuts together with plasticine
- Glue half a shell with chestnut spines onto one of them and cut it in half
- It should look like wings. Stick on your eyes
- Using plasticine, glue the branches. These will be the paws
- Also attach mustaches. Place the beetles on dry yellow leaves
Beetle and ladybug from chestnuts in the photo below.
Applique with beetles made of chestnut or hazelnut and plasticine in the photo below.
Chestnut mushrooms
This is also a craft for preschoolers. An ideal activity for children in the nursery group.
Materials:
- Plasticine
- Chestnuts
Instructions:
- It is necessary to prepare the chestnuts. To do this, cut off the peel from below with a sharp stationery knife.
- This will make the hat even at the bottom. Remove the skin completely from the second chestnut and cut out the stem of the mushroom.
- Give the kids pieces and ask them to glue them together using plasticine and give them some plasticine of a different color
- Invite the children to make dots as for a fly agaric. You can place mushrooms on prepared leaves
Hedgehog made of chestnut and plasticine
A very simple craft that preschool children can handle.
Materials:
- Plasticine of different colors
- Chestnut peel with thorns
- Chestnuts
Instructions:
- Take a nut and glue a piece of plasticine to it. Align it into a cone shape. This will be the hedgehog's nose
- Stick on the paws. Put a little plasticine on top of the chestnut and glue a scarf with thorns
- Make eyes from light plasticine and glue a circle to the tip of the nose
chestnut hedgehog 
This is painstaking work, so it is better to entrust it to older children. If you plan to involve children 3-4 years old, you will have to help them.
Tools:
- Scissors
- Cardboard (not colored)
- Dry leaves
- Scissors
Instructions:
- Cut out 7 rectangles. One of them will be the bottom of the house, 4 will be the walls, and 2 will be the roof
- Cut out 2 triangles for the roof. Now glue the house model together with glue
- Fill the walls with chestnuts. Try to glue them close to each other so that there are no gaps
- Cover the roof with dry leaves. You can add a clearing around the house
Unusual craft made from chestnut.
Tools:
- 2 large chestnuts and 6 small ones
- Toothpicks
- Plasticine
Instructions:
- Take 2 large chestnuts and use toothpicks to connect them. To do this, first pierce the holes with an awl.
- This will be the body and the head. After this, attach the ears to the head using toothpicks.
- Next, attach the arms and legs. Make eyes, nose and mouth from plasticine.
A simple craft that a preschooler can make.
Materials:
- Plasticine
- 2 large chestnuts
- Toothpicks
Instructions:
- Combine 2 large chestnuts. This will be the stomach and head
- Use plasticine to make legs and glue ears
- Using small pieces of plasticine, glue on the eyes, nose and mouth.
A very cute and unusual craft that requires acorns to make.
Materials:
- Plasticine
- Acorns
- Chestnuts
Instructions:
- Take one large chestnut. Separate the caps from the acorns
- Glue the acorns to the chestnut using plasticine
- Glue the pupils in the center of the chestnut hats
- Make a beak, legs and wings from plasticine
A simple craft. Will interest small children. Before collecting an ant, take a walk in the park and choose beautiful and large chestnuts.
Materials:
- 2 chestnuts
- Plasticine
- Toothpick
Instructions:
- Connect 2 chestnuts together. To do this, make a hole with an awl and insert a toothpick
- Make paws using plasticine or twigs
- Using small plasticine balls, make eyes and a mouth.
Also a craft for preschoolers. If you are going to let 2-3 year old children make crafts, use an awl to make holes.
Materials:
- Plasticine
- Chestnuts
- Toothpicks
Instructions:
- Poke 5 holes in one chestnut with an awl
- 4 for legs and one for head
- Attach the second chestnut using a toothpick. This will be the head
- Attach the legs, and make a mane and tail from plasticine
- Glue the eyes and mouth
The easiest option is to poke holes in the chestnuts and string them on a fishing line. But such beads are quite boring. You can combine chestnuts with acorns. Below are ideas for chestnut beads.
You can make a mass from chestnuts interesting jewelry and crafts for the New Year. It could be like Christmas decorations, and decorative items for the festive table.
Options New Year's crafts from chestnuts:
- Christmas decorations
- New Year's topiary
- Bouquet for the New Year's table
- Door wreath
A very cute and unusual tree.
Materials:
- Chestnuts
- Liquid Nails
- Cardboard
- A flower pot
- Styrofoam
- Decoration materials
Instructions:
- Make a cone from thick cardboard and glue it with glue
- Fill the pot with some kind of filler. You can use crushed stone
- Secure the cone in the pot. Using glue, glue the chestnuts from bottom to top.
- It is necessary that there are no gaps left. When the whole tree is assembled, you can glue the pine cones
- Paint some chestnuts with golden paint. New Year's tinsel is often used for decoration.
- The finished chestnut tree can be painted with any paint and decorated with toys.
Such Christmas decorations can be made together with the kids. Below are ideas for creating Christmas tree decorations.
Chestnut topiary
This is a very cute decoration for your home. You can use it to decorate a table in the living room. Below is a video that will help you make topiary. Chestnut topiary
From chestnuts you can make both simple paintings with children and more complex canvases. In this case, chestnuts are dyed and combined with other materials. Usually this too natural materials, such as straw, acorns, spikelets. Below you can see options for various paintings.
The basket is assembled using the principle of beading. IN in this case chestnuts instead of beads. It is necessary to make through holes in them.
Materials:
- fishing line
- Chestnuts
- Needle
Instructions:
- Take 5 chestnuts and string them on a fishing line. Lock it in a ring
- Now, in another row, place the chestnuts in the indentations. This way you will have something similar to a container
- Gradually fill the spaces in the previous rows with new chestnuts
- When the container is the required size, make a handle
The easiest way to make such a vase is from plastic bottle. You can take two or five liter containers.
Materials:
- Plastic bottle
- Chestnuts
- Dye
Instructions:
- Cut the top off the bottle to create a cylindrical container.
- Using paint, paint the container with gold paint. Stained glass or acrylic paints are suitable
- When the container is dry, glue the chestnuts using liquid nails
Chestnuts can be used to make a lot of interesting and unusual crafts. This is a way to entertain kids and also develop their speech and fine motor skills.
VIDEO: Crafts from chestnuts
Chestnuts are great for creativity and creating unusual crafts. Currently, many people decorate their homes with topiary, which came from Europe and is called topiary. You can make your own chestnut tree! How? Read this article.
Preparing chestnuts for work
The best creations come from chestnuts that have recently fallen from the trees. Such fruits are easier to process and are pierced with an awl. It will be more difficult to make wood from already dried chestnuts, since they are harder and can crack if pierced. Store unused fruit in a cool place. If the air is too humid, they can become moldy, and if the air is too dry, they can become rock hard. You can make a chestnut tree with your own hands if you soak the fruits in water for a while.
What is needed to create a decorative chestnut tree?
Before you start creating your chestnut tree, make sure everything is necessary materials at your fingertips. For creativity you will need:
- a lot of newspapers for the base of the topiary;
- reliable glue;
- strong threads;
- any shelf for creating a trunk;
- flower pot, playing the role of a stand;
- gypsum to strengthen the tree in the pot;
- twine for decoration;
- chestnuts;
- tea for decoration;
- heat gun;
- bronze paint.
When you have collected all the necessary materials, start creating your chestnut tree step by step, read below!
How to make the base of a decorative tree?
The process of creating a chestnut tree should begin with its base. The base of the topiary is a ball that is attached to the trunk. Attached to the base itself decorative elements. To create the base, take a large amount of newspaper and crumple it tightly into a ball shape. Be sure to glue the resulting irregularities. An adhesive called “Joiner” is ideal for this purpose.
Then wrap the base with threads to give it greater strength and density. If you want to quickly make a chestnut tree with your own hands, you can use a ready-made foam ball as a base.
Trunk and base attachment
The trunk is an essential part of any tree, chestnut topiary is no exception. What can a trunk be made from? The ideal option is a regular straight stick. If you couldn’t find a suitable stick, then use thick wire. You can also link together several Chinese ones, which is also acceptable. Your chestnut tree will have an excellent trunk! This craft can decorate your home at any time of the year. Now start attaching the base to the barrel. To do this, make a depression up to 5 cm deep in a ball of newspaper, but do not damage the threads that bind the paper. Now just pour glue into the hole you created and stick the barrel there. The chestnut tree, the master class of which is presented here for you, is not difficult to make!
How to make a stand for a tree?
You can use any container as a stand: flower pot, mug, bucket, box, and so on. In this case, we suggest you use a pot. The stand must be strengthened otherwise your tree will lean to one side or even fall under the weight of the chestnut crown, which is very heavy. You can strengthen the pot with gravel or plaster (the second option is still better). It will take you longer to make a chestnut tree strengthened with your own hands using gypsum, but its stability increases significantly compared to gravel fastening. Take gypsum powder purchased in advance and study the instructions for its use.
Then mix the solution according to the instructions, directly in the flower pot. Wait until the plaster begins to harden. Now carefully stick your trunk into the hardening plaster and press down a little. Leave the structure to harden completely for 30 minutes. All you have to do is decorate the topiary. You already know how to make a chestnut tree. But there is a lot ahead an important part work!
Decoration of a chestnut tree
You have done most of the work, now in front of you is an almost finished, but undecorated topiary. Now use your imagination and act very carefully!
Proceed with decorating the tree only after the plaster has completely hardened. You can decorate the pot stand as you please. First, take the twine and wrap it tightly around the pot. To ensure that it fits tightly to the stand, glue it every 4 cm. The twine should fit snugly to the pot. Now you can glue any materials to the stand in any order. They look especially good various sparkles, sequins, salt dough elements, decorative paper, polymer clay. You can also use acrylic paints.
When the pot is decorated by you, proceed to the main part of the work - decorating the spherical base with chestnuts. After all, the goal of our master class is chestnut wood. This craft will delight both children and adults. You will glue the chestnuts to the newspaper ball using a heat gun. It is best to use flat fruits; they are easier to work with and look neater. Carefully glue all the chestnuts onto the base. Of course, you won’t be able to do this without the appearance of gaps. The gaps must be closed using tea for this purpose (preferably red). Coat the empty areas with glue and pour tea there. Press with your hands and wait. Be sure to close all the gaps, otherwise the tree will look sloppy. Also decorate the top of the plaster in the pot. Coat it with glue and sprinkle a thick layer of red tea.
Now take bronze paint and paint the free top edges of the pot with it. You can decorate the stand by placing a chestnut tree under the tree. Glue it directly onto the plaster. If you want to make the topiary more interesting, then use not only chestnuts, but also coniferous tree cones when decorating.
I wish you creative success!
