Preface
DIY crafts are a very popular trend in modern creativity. In production, improvised materials, in particular natural materials, are often used.
DIY crafts are a very popular trend in modern creativity. In production, improvised materials, in particular natural materials, are often used. Do-it-yourself stone crafts are very beautiful and original. Large and small, sea and river, light and dark - they are all used in handmade products.
Crafts from sea stones
After another holiday on the sea coast there are always a lot of sea stones. Although for these purposes you can collect them specially or entrust this activity to children. With a little effort and imagination, you can get not only funny crafts, but also worthy decorative elements for your home, cottage, or garden. To make crafts, you may most often need: stones, paints, glue, plasticine or polymer clay.
Sea stone itself is unique; its bizarre shapes and sizes make it possible to use it not only in crafts, but also to make bracelets, beads and even buttons from it. If you are unlucky to find a pebble with a hole, then the necessary holes can be made in a jewelry workshop or yourself using a drill and drill bits of different diameters. Sea stone is characterized by a flat, rounded shape.
The simplest craft is making a refrigerator magnet. To do this, a magnet is glued to the stone on one side, and painted on the other with colors of your choice.
A pot for indoor flowers, pasted over with small pebbles, looks very nice.
Using the same principle, you can decorate a box or simply fill a transparent container with beautiful marine material - and you have a decorative base for a candle. More fine material bottles are decorated. Looks especially beautiful wine bottle. The pebbles can not be glued, but “planted” on plasticine.
Look at the crafts made from sea stones in the photo, what a variety of useful and beautiful things you can create with your own hands.
Crafts made from river material
A wide variety of sizes and shapes, natural colors and a smooth structure are not all the advantages of river stone. They make great interesting crafts in eco-style.
Popular crafts made from river stones today are napkins and rugs, which become an exotic part of any home. Napkins are used under flower pots, under vases, under hot dishes, glasses, plates and just like decorative ornaments any surfaces.
And the rug is from river pebbles will be incredibly useful for people suffering from flat feet. Walking on such a mat has a beneficial effect on both sick and healthy feet. With its help, blood circulation is normalized, muscle tone. To make a rug or napkin you need river pebbles, a base to which the pebbles will stick, and glue.
You can use carpet or any textile as a base. It will be more convenient to glue using a hot glue gun. Pebbles can be laid in any order, or create a specific pattern. Glue is applied to each stone separately and then glued to the base. Even children can do this activity.
During production decorative napkins, which will not come into contact with water and hot objects, the surface of the pebbles can be painted or varnished.
Bringing stones to life - decoupage technique
Medium-sized sea and river stones decorated using the decoupage technique (napkin technique) look very interesting. For this you need a flat stone, three-layer bright napkins, white “water emulsion”, PVA glue, acrylic paints, colorless glossy varnish. When choosing napkins, preference should be given to large designs with distinct edges.
It is advisable to take a stone with a smooth surface. The first step is to paint it with water-based emulsion.
Then you can move on to the napkins. First, the first layer is removed, the design is cut out, then the second layer is removed. Only the top colorful one is needed. The resulting pattern is glued with PVA onto the stone. The napkin is soaked with glue from the middle, gradually moving to the edges. It is very important to ensure that wrinkles do not form; if the glue is thick, you can dilute it with water 1:1. After it dries, a background is created using acrylic paints, drawing and painting are performed. At this stage, you can add rhinestones, glitter - whatever your imagination suggests. After this, the surface is varnished with a synthetic brush. So the craft is left to dry for two days, after which it is varnished on the other side. In total, you need to apply 2-3 layers of varnish. The result is a smooth, smooth, glossy surface. Typically, such crafts are decorated with pots of indoor flowers.
Crafts with stone for children
It's no secret how little kids love to collect pebbles. Surely every family with children has a box or vase with pebbles that were collected by a child at sea, near a river, or just on the street. So that this material does not just lie there, but is useful, you can make wonderful crafts from stones for children.
The simplest use of stone material is painting. You can draw letters and numbers on the pebbles. Mathematics and alphabet in this version will be much more interesting for children, especially. If they take part in the drawing process.
No less entertaining is the drawing itself, when an animal or a flower is formed from a stone. The simplest thing is to draw a ladybug or turtle with your baby. This can happen regardless of your artistic education.
It's also quite easy to draw a fish. It is no less interesting to draw a funny face, which can be complemented with a hairstyle made from threads or a piece of fur glued with PVA.
Animal drawings are more complex. Parents with artistic talent can create a bunny, a kitten, a curled up ball, or a puppy on a round stone. You can make crafts from more than one pebble.
By gluing together two, three, or even four elements, you can get a panda, chicken, dog, frog or snowman on New Year's Eve.
There are a lot of options for what to do with pebbles collected at sea. One of them is applique. To do this, you can place stones in the shape of a chamomile or other flower on a board. By first decorating the pebbles in the shape of fish, you can create an aquarium.
In this case, the material does not need to be glued; plasticine will be enough. Stone is a unique natural material that harmoniously combines with other materials, so such fakes can be freely supplemented with elements made of glass, plastic, paper or fabric.
Look carefully at such crafts made from stones in the photo, because they are not only a way to play, imagine, learn accuracy and perseverance, but also to long years keep your child’s pleasant memories of his childhood.
Crafts for the garden
A stone in a garden is good on its own. It is used to decorate paths, create fountains, arrange terraces and even construct garden furniture. But stone crafts as decoration are especially beautiful.
By placing pebbles one on top of the other, gluing them, covering them with paints, adding elements from other materials, you get amazing decorative products that can turn an ordinary garden into a real fairy tale. Stones of different sizes, decorated in the shape of ladybugs, look great. Caterpillars, frogs, snails and other inhabitants will appear in your garden if you show a little imagination.
A swan looks great if its neck and head are bent reinforcement, and its body is a rounded stone. Thus, it is possible to create other animals, where the armature will act as legs. The stones of the middle and big size, decorated in the form of a fairy-tale house. And next to him you can place the same fairy-tale gnome.
Lying stones are an excellent material for making a “garden” cat, dog and even a tiger.
A bucket or pot filled with strawberry-shaped stones looks impressive. A stone owl sitting on a tree will also surprise garden guests. And you can place a penguin near the mini-pond.
With a little imagination, stone mushrooms will grow in the garden and daisies will bloom. Stone crafts for the garden are a unique, inimitable decor.
In other words, stone material, paints, imagination and a little time are all you need to spend time with children, create landscape design elements, or simply a beautiful element to decorate a window sill.
Watch crafts made from stones in the video:
You can make simple but incredibly effective crafts for your garden with your own hands from ordinary stones. in this case, the stones can be painted with paints, felt-tip pens, combined with metal, or simply assembled into an interesting composition.
DIY garden crafts. Painting stones master class.
In the simplest case, you can simply select the stones you like and paint them with acrylic paint, applying a simple design. Such crafts for the garden are already cute, and you can easily make them with your children.
We will tell you a more advanced option beautiful painting on the stone. In fact, this is also not difficult, it just requires knowledge of basic techniques. 
Do-it-yourself garden crafts made from stones. Painting with felt-tip pens.
If you are afraid to work with paints, or the idea of buying acrylic paints in a wide range of colors is not acceptable to you, you can paint the stones with felt-tip pens, where white is a regular masking marker.
For example, such DIY crafts in the form of owls will decorate any garden. For you simple circuit how to draw an owl.
You can come up with drawings and funny inscriptions yourself.
or choose any drawing and transfer it using carbon paper onto a stone, and then paint it with a felt-tip pen like regular coloring books.
You can combine paints with a felt-tip pen: paints for the background, a felt-tip pen for finer details.
To ensure that these handmade stone crafts last a long time, cover them with a layer of varnish on top. 
DIY garden crafts. We make a “pond” of painted fish.
You can make spectacular crafts for your garden with your own hands from stones painted with fish. 
It is enough to put such pebbles in any vessel with water, and you already have an impromptu small pond in the garden.
For those who doubt their artistic talents, we offer a master class on how to draw a fish.
Or you can use ready-made drawings.
When coated with varnish, such stones can create a cute, unexpected effect in any corner of the garden - near a bench, near a gazebo or next to a path.
Interesting DIY garden crafts made from stones.
Upon careful examination, each of us will be able to see in an ordinary stone that mysterious smile that this charming garden cat smiles at us.
If you combine stone with metal, you will get even more interesting figurines for the garden, such as these original buffalos.
You can make DIY garden crafts from sea pebbles, adding an interesting shape using soft wire.
Beautiful little frogs are simply assembled from several stones, which are placed together on sealant or cement.
As children, we all made simple crafts from various natural materials, and why don't we take our skills into the garden? After all, you can create incredibly beautiful crafts for your dacha with your own hands literally from what is lying under our feet.
After all, anyone creative process has not only practical, but also emotional results. The ability to see beauty in small things and in everyday materials will make each of us richer.
Perhaps our selection of photographs will help you find your idea for a summer house, and, based on what materials you have at hand now, under the pressure of inspiration, you will create something no less amazing.
In addition, garden crafts made from stones are more durable and unpretentious than crafts made from any other material.
Not only the author himself, but also your friends and acquaintances who come to your dacha will enjoy the funny figures for the dacha.
And imagination in creativity really has no boundaries.
The most difficult idea is not always the most interesting. Just put the stones that you brought from the sea in the shape of a foot, and you already have a real art object in your dacha.
Creating balanced compositions from stones is possible only for the most patient. Often, such stone crafts are kept in fragile balance thanks to the notches and hollows in each of the stones. But, if you want to prolong this short-lived beauty, you can seal the stones together with sealant.
Crafts made from stones are fascinating and useful activity for children and adults. They can decorate an apartment, a garden plot or a yard. own home. They can serve as toys for children of different ages. Working with stone allows you to show maximum imagination, and combination with other ornamental materials gives you the opportunity to create real masterpieces. Variety of shapes and colors natural stone ensures the emergence of numerous ideas even among people far from art.
Specifics of stone crafts
Natural stone is one of the most common materials used for making various DIY crafts .
Home craftsmen are attracted to it by its strength, durability, resistance to any weather conditions, water resistance, and chemical resistance. The main disadvantage is the difficulty of processing due to high hardness, which requires certain skills and appropriate tools.
Most often, the problem is solved by using pebbles of sea or river origin, which do not require processing, including grinding. For the work, stones of different sizes and shapes are selected, which are used as a solid element - single or in a composition. If necessary, they can be split into pieces the right size.
Various technologies are used to create crafts. The most commonly used are mosaics, painting (painting), and masonry using glue or mortar. Craftsmen use stone cutting. Stones are harmoniously combined with other materials - shells, wood, metal.
Features of crafts for children
Having observed children on the shore of a pond, you can notice their desire to collect stones, and it is revealed in at different ages. This interest should be developed by creating beautiful and original crafts from stones. It is best to carry out the manufacturing process together with the child, developing his creativity. Stone crafts will become not only decoration, but also a favorite toy .
There are several options for crafts for children.
Painted toys
Kids are interested in colorful, bright trinkets. You can pick up pebbles the desired shape and use acrylic paints to paint the pebble. The most popular stone toys are: a car, various animals (owls, hares, fish, snails, etc.), images of “cartoon” or fairy-tale heroes, vegetables fruits. For example, a round stone is simply asking to become a watermelon.
Compositions
Several painted stones can make a fun game:
- "Houses ». It is necessary to select stones that are close in shape to cubes. They are painted in the shape of a house and can be decorated with paper or fabric strips. From such “houses” you can build an entire city. An example of the craft is shown in the image below;
- Animal world. Compositions with stone animals especially attract children. An example is a photograph where stone frogs are planted on green cardboard leaves “floating” against a blue background. The composition looks beautiful " Ladybug", shown in the figure below. Bright insects on green paper or a natural lawn at the dacha will undoubtedly appeal to children;
- Crafts for 1st grade . They will help you master the alphabet and counting. You can draw letters on flat pebbles and use them to form words. Similar lessons can be done in arithmetic by drawing numbers and symbols of mathematical operations. You can easily make a stone abacus. Flat box must be divided into parallel cells in which pebbles of different colors will be located. By moving them with your finger, you can add or subtract.
The simplest crafts for children are made from one stone on which the desired image is drawn. You can do more complex crafts. The animal is assembled from several pebbles of different sizes (torso, head, ears, etc.). You can connect them with glue or plasticine. Cheburashka, snowman, hares, pandas, koalas and other animals are often made using this method.
Application of sea stones
Crafts made from sea stones are distinguished by their originality, since such stones can have an unusual shape. Being on the seashore, you need to find decorative stones, thrown out by the surf. Especially appreciated flat stones with a hole, oddly shaped pebbles, stones with inclusions and various imprints on the surface, interesting colors. At the same time, you should pay attention to the shells.
Sea stones are used to make beautiful jewelry– beads, bracelets, pendants. The flat, smooth shape allows you to apply any design. A common option is a souvenir with a magnet. A design is applied to the stone, and one or 2 magnets are glued to the back side. This craft can be mounted on the refrigerator.
The most simple craft, at the same time reminiscent of an unforgettable vacation at sea, is a glass container filled with sea pebbles of different colors. The composition of shells and stones is particularly attractive. . In a transparent container, it will imitate the seabed, especially if there are “algae” made of plastic or synthetic threads.
Use of river stones
River stones are inferior in decorative value to their sea counterparts, but they also have a smooth shape and interesting colors in a natural tone. The main advantage is accessibility and the ability to choose the desired option. Crafts made from river stones are most suitable for a modern interior decorated in eco-style.
You can suggest the following ideas:
- Heat-resistant cloth. It can be used as a stand for a kettle or hot dishes. Its frame is made in the form of a flat box with sides no more than 2 cm high. You can use plastic or plywood. Small pebbles are placed inside to form a specific pattern due to their natural colors. Fastening is adhesive.
- Rugs. Stone floor mats are beneficial for people with flat feet. They are made by gluing flat pebbles to thick fabric. It's best to use a hot glue gun. The pattern is formed by stones of different colors. Their additional coloring is undesirable, since the coating will quickly wear off.
Important! River pebbles can also be used for other types of crafts, including painting. Their diversity is limited only by the imagination of the performer.
Crafts for landscape design
At the dacha, in the courtyard of the house or in the garden, stone crafts look especially beautiful. They perform a decorative function and are used usefully. You can give some options for using them in landscape design:
- Arrangement of flower beds. With the help of stone, curbs are formed, an alpine slide is built, terraces and ledges are erected. Depending on the type of plant, individual large boulders or compositions of stones of different sizes can be used.
- Arrangement of decorative ponds. The water resistance of the stone allows it to be used for the bottom and walls of any reservoirs and water sources. Garden stone crafts in the form of fountains are especially popular. Quite an original solution - a waterfall . In this case it is possible different variants. One of the most simple ways– formation of a ledge. At the top of a stone wall, the stone lies horizontally and protrudes from the wall. Another option is a cascade, when several ledges are made at different heights.
- Animal crafts. Stylized stone sculptures of animals make the design more original. Such crafts are installed in different sizes - horses, bears, deer, swans, herons, storks, etc. They are often made of stone and wood . Shown is a stone bird using a combination of branches and stone
- Vases. Stone crafts in the shape of a flowerpot allow you to create a small flowerbed anywhere. They can be round, rectangular, polygonal or have an unusual configuration. The connection of stones can be ensured with cement-sand mortar. The flowerpot can have the color of natural stone or be painted in the desired color.
- Stone plants. Most often, simple but bright imitations of various plants are used. It is very easy to place a stone “mycelium” on the site. The legs are white oblong stones, and the caps are horizontally laid flat pebbles, which are painted in the desired color. The fly agaric family looks beautiful. And also cacti. Three or four painted in green color stones are fastened together, forming a specific shape. The spines can be glued. Such figures look better in separate pots.
The most common use of stone in landscape design is the arrangement of paths and platforms. Flat pebbles are usually used, and the coating can be formed with a large stone or in the form of a layer of small pebbles.
Important! By selecting stones by color, you can create a certain pattern on the paths without painting.
Stone panels and decorations
You can create decorative panels and original colorful paintings from natural and painted stones. The plots can be very diverse. You can offer several ideas. When arranging a playground, it is better to use fairy-tale scenes and images of animals. A couple of bears, for example, will fill the atmosphere with joy. Images of flowers and still lifes with fruit are popular. An example of a fairly simple panel is shown - a daisy made of stones and branches
Small stone jewelry can replace store-bought jewelry. Pendants or souvenirs in the shape of a heart look beautiful. If you paint such a craft beautifully, it can become a good gift. A simple mandala, which is attributed to magical properties.
Decoupage makes stone crafts especially attractive. With this technique you can do beautiful craft from any stone. It is important to choose an unusual shape of the right size. The technique consists of layer-by-layer gluing multi-colored napkins, paper or fabric onto an object, followed by coating special varnish. You can use ready-made pictures for gluing.
Tool
To make stone masterpieces with your own hands, you should prepare in advance necessary tools for crafts. If processing and dividing stone is necessary, you will need a hammer, a chisel (chisel) and a file. It is also advisable to have a pick hammer with which you can split the stone. These tools allow you to trim it and remove irregularities. When painting crafts, you will need paint brushes, art brushes, and a glue brush.
The additional tool is determined by the type of craft. When using a cement binder, a spatula and a mixer are required to mix the solution. If, in addition to stone, another material is used, then you should prepare a hacksaw for metal or wood, a jigsaw, and pruning shears. In any case, the quality of processing will improve when using a grinder and grinder.
Stone crafts are very popular. The raw materials for them are practically underfoot. Walking along the shore of the sea or river, you can pick up a lot of stones of different sizes, original form and attractive colors. Using your own imagination or borrowing an idea, you can use them to create crafts that can decorate the interior of a house or area. If they do not have sufficient decorative color, then you can use dyeing, painting or decoupage technology.
Stone is natural material, which man has learned to use since time immemorial. Tools were first made from it, and later they began to build houses. Several more centuries passed, and craftsmen appeared who learned to create real masterpieces of decorative and applied art from stone. And today there are many craftsmen who can make luxurious decorations for home and garden from this material. Such stone crafts can be both very complex and quite simple. Below are several options that you can make with your own hands.
Simple DIY stone crafts
Even without any special abilities, you can make something original. For example, everyone can create stone cacti. To do this you will need a flower pot, coarse sand and large pebbles. In addition, you should purchase paints that are bright green and white, which are suitable for coloring stone.
To make crafts you should:
- V flower pots add sand;
- paint the pebbles green and wait until they dry;
- Using a thin brush, apply white stripes to the “cacti” and draw needles;
- wait until the paint dries;
- bury the “cacti” 1/3 in the sand.
Pots with such " indoor plants» can be installed in the garden or on the windowsill, and can also be used to decorate the terrace at the dacha.
But to create a stone craft in the shape of a turtle, which you can make with children, you only need plasticine and beads for the eyes.
Flowers
Remember the fairy tale about Danila the Master? The young man had to work hard to make a stone flower of unprecedented beauty.
It will take years to learn how to work with a malachite carver, but a beautiful decorative element for the garden and home can be made using brushes and paints.
Flowers made of stone, or rather, flowers on stone can simply be drawn. To do this, a large boulder with a smooth surface needs to be washed and dried. For painting, it is recommended to choose acrylic paints and brushes different types, so that you can both apply fine lines and small details, and paint large areas of the surface of the stone.
The lower part of the boulder should be designed so that it resembles a basket woven from twigs. Then you should draw flowers. These could be roses, poppies or pansies. The main thing is that the unpainted surface of the boulder should not be visible from under the painting. To give the craft a shine, after the paint has dried, the surface can be varnished.
Fruits
Stone crafts can also be made in the form of various fruits and berries. For example, just paint small pebbles accordingly and you will have a handful of “strawberries” with which you can fill a vase to decorate your kitchen. You can also make orange slices, but you will have to use round, flat stones.
Crafts for the garden made of stone in the form of butterflies
Today decorating the garden and summer cottage paid no less attention than interior design. Stone is ideal for these purposes, as this natural material successfully withstands any vagaries of the weather.
As a simple but original decorative element, you can suggest placing butterflies in the garden from large pebbles, which should then be painted in different colors. If you place them one after another at a close distance, you will get a beautiful path that will become the main decoration of the space around the house.
How to make a butterfly
Such crafts from sea stones are created as follows:
- draw a large butterfly on paper, cut it out and place it on leveled soil;
- Wooden pegs are inserted along the edges of the pattern at a distance of 5 cm;
- install the formwork on the edge, tucking it behind the sticks so that the flexible tape is stable;
- fill the resulting form with a solution, which is obtained by mixing sand with cement in a ratio of 3 to 1 and adding required amount water;
- lay out a mosaic of colored pebbles, which are sold in hardware stores, to create elegant wings.
If we are talking about creating crafts from sea stones gray, then they will need to be painted in required colors facade paint. In this case, you should choose an option that is suitable for natural stone surfaces.
Home decorations made of stones
The combination of incongruous things always looks very original and stylish. For example, those who know how to crochet can create crafts from stones with their own hands. For this you will need white cotton yarn N10. Crochet from it openwork lace so that the pebbles are inside a kind of “case”.
Such beautiful stones are placed in an aquarium vase or in a very large decorative glass and a few multi-colored beads, shells, artificial flowers and others are added. small items so that an original composition is obtained.
Using the same technique, you can create original bijou in ethnic style. Small pebbles are suitable for this. irregular shape, which need to be crocheted using coarse threads and even twine. This bracelet or necklace can also be decorated with large multi-colored beads and fringe.
Crafts made from decorative stones
Today, in all more or less large cities there are shops where you can buy everything for making decorative items with your own hands. In particular, various pebbles are sold, including artificial ones. With their help you can create original lamps. To make such crafts from stones for the garden, you will also need jars with screw-on lids, glue, screws and a screwdriver.
Manufacturing of the lamp:
- jars are washed and dried;
- apply glue to the surface;
- press the pebbles;
- wait until the glue dries;
- a hole is made in the lid of the jar, wires are brought out through its end, at the other end of which there is a socket with a light bulb;
- take a plastic pipe of the required length and make a side hole at a distance of 20-30 cm from the end;
- the end of the wire is pulled through the other end and taken out through the hole;
- put the jar on the lid;
- fixed at the base with glue;
- dig the end of the pipe into the ground so that the wire remains above the ground;
- A plug is mounted at its end, with which the lamp is connected to the power supply.
Artificial stone crafts can be in the form of bijoux and various mosaics. For example, you can beautifully design a regular bottle using colorful shiny pebbles of different colors.
Now you know what interesting stone crafts you can make with your own hands to decorate your home and garden, so you can surround yourself with original and beautiful things, which will exist in a single copy.
