Crafts from the cones for children
It’s no secret that the bumps are an ideal natural material, due to the fact that it is easy to saw, glue and make great crafts for children from the cones.
Therefore, in the forest or park you can combine business with pleasure – to be in communion with nature and the beautiful collect leaves, acorns, cones, chestnuts, interesting forms of sticks, moss and other materials that will certainly come in handy at work. Important advantage of the cone crafts for children is their lack of contaminants, which are often found in most plastic toys. The main thing is just in the creative process, where the child is fully involved and may include in this whole fantasy and wit.
However, when working with cones is important to know some rules:
- In the process, be sure to use only clean and dry cones without damage. This natural material tend to unfold over time. This is especially true of spruce cones. To avoid such trouble enough dip cones on a warm carpenter’s glue, and then dried.
- Keep in mind that the cones collected from a single tree is not always similar, so better pick up a few different forms, from which subsequently select the most appropriate.
- For small parts (eye, ears and nose), use the available materials.
- Attach details of each other by means of plasticine and a transparent adhesive.
- Crafts for children of cones can be created not only from spruce cones. In the compositions look great pine, cedar and alder cones even.
- Before the work, consider the stand, in the manufacture of which you can apply a circle of cardboard or plywood square, where the nail is fixed in the middle, holding the very crafts.
Of course, mostly in the children’s work creating animal figures. And the shape of cones can tell you why in the end it is more appropriate.
Craft of the cones for the children – a protein

For the manufacture of proteins take the most appropriate cone. The narrow end of her play the role of the head. To make the ears, you will need the scales the other cones. Next, using the sewing do 4 holes in the ground, which will be attached legs. As the tail squirrels use an appropriate form of a twig or a simple wire. On the breast, ears and tail glue pieces of fur. Eyes make out of clay.
Deer

You will need an acorn, pine cone, a piece of moss, pine needles, twigs and glue. As the head of a deer, use acorn. Do not forget to do it a couple of holes for the horns, and one to connect the head and neck and torso. For antlers, use the appropriate branches. Attach details of matches with previously missed glue. As a stand, take cardboard, glue promazhte it, lay the moss and decorate with pine needles. In the middle of the song will show off the deer.
Peacock

To create such crafts, prepare medium-sized cone, acorn, for Crayola beak and head ornaments, twigs from the trees, colored paper, matches, scraping reeds and glue. Garnish with a peacock’s head three colored balls of clay, which are mounted on the match. Do tail of panicles of reeds or feathers of birds, attaching it figures out of colored paper. All parts of the peacock staple matches. As a stand using a suitable tablet. Craft of cones for the children may not only be represented by an animal, but an episode. Such a creature can also be used as decoration. For example, you can do with a child Christmas song from the cones, dyed it a suitable paint with balonchika.











