Frame made of cherry pits. How to prepare seeds for a massage path Products made from fruit seeds
Vegetables and fruits from our latitudes are not only healthy and tasty. Their seeds - seeds, nuts and lionfish - are an excellent material for all kinds of crafts! And if you returned from exotic countries with a collection of amazing seeds and fruits, then this is generally an excellent basis for creative work.
The more diverse the collected samples, the easier and more convenient it will be to work with them. Pieces of moss, decorative pebbles, and dried plant leaves will be in demand.
Stone fruits are good for crafts: apricot, peach, cherry. Nuts are very decorative. Even watermelon seeds will not go to waste! You can create a decorative panel, or you can, as I did, find an unusual piece of driftwood or a tree root and turn it into a three-dimensional craft.
So, let's get to work. First of all, we clean the seeds and seeds from any remaining pulp, dry them well and sort them.
A hot glue gun with replaceable plastic rods is convenient and practical for working with natural materials. It reliably holds together individual elements and gives strength to the entire structure. The only thing you need when working with this device is compliance with safety precautions.
Since the temperature of the working material is high, contact with exposed areas of the body can cause severe burns. Therefore, it is more practical to work with thin rubber gloves or always have a glass of cold water on hand so that in case of a burn you can quickly cool the burned surface.
If you work with small children, then you can do without a heat gun. PVA glue or any superglue will help you cope with the task of fastening. Crafts made from seeds can be safely practiced with children aged three years and older. In addition to creativity, this process perfectly stimulates fine motor skills of the hands, develops imagination, and promotes concentration.
We start with small elements, combining them in shape and color. Nature itself will be a good mentor and example, because, using individual parts, you can successfully copy natural objects: flowers, inflorescences and buds.
New Year's gift wrapping ideas. We sew bags and decorate them with walnuts
I found interesting ideas for original packaging of New Year and Christmas gifts. I have no doubt that you will like it), especially since there are ideas here with walnuts, and we will soon be buying them for the New Year for baking and adding to salads. See how interesting you can use walnut shells, combine them with linen fabric or burlap, using stamps. If you don't have stamps ready-made, you probably know that you can make them from an eraser. We cut out, for example, a snowflake on the surface of the eraser and dip it in ink, and that’s a homemade stamp). For work we will need walnut shells, linen fabric or burlap, cotton wool or synthetic down and jute or twine. By the way), about walnuts, namely about Greece) I suggest you buy real estate in Greece from Vis-Tour, if, of course, you have the desire and finances allow. On the company's website you can find out all the necessary information about buying or renting real estate
Below you can also see how to make such a cute brooch using a stamp, linen and twine
Required material and equipment:
a plastic wine glass for the base and two legs;
natural material (plum and apricot kernels, or peach kernels);
decorative material (colored glass, beads, chains, sequins, etc.);
glue gun and glue sticks;
gold spray paint;
glitter nail polish;
glossy varnish spray;
yarn of natural color and lurex.
1. Prepare the necessary materials. If necessary, rinse and dry the seeds. Degrease the plastic base of the wine glass.
2. Glue plum pits onto the base, starting from the bottom. Glue the bones tightly to each other. For the bottom row we use larger seeds, and so on in descending order. For convenience, I arrange the seeds by size in advance. Glue the next row of seeds tightly to the previous row in a checkerboard pattern. We continue gluing the bones, making sure the rows are even. Having reached the top, glue the bones, pointing them upward. Afterwards we remove the formed adhesive web.
3. For the Christmas tree stand we use two legs from plastic wine glasses. We degrease the legs and glue their narrow ends together, strengthening them from the inside with some kind of rod. We wait until the glue sets well. Then we decorate the leg of the Christmas tree with natural-colored yarn or jute cord. Coating the plastic leg with glue, row by row we glue the yarn in a circle.
4. The Christmas tree made from plum pits had already dried up, now it can be painted. If you paint with aerosol paint from a can, you need to go out into the open air (on the balcony or in the yard). I use quick drying acrylic spray paint. It dries quickly and doesn't smell as strong. After the paint has dried, we connect the tree to the stand. Apply glue around the circumference of the top side of the stand and on the bottom edge of the plastic wine glass. We connect, pressing tightly. Now we see what a fluffy beauty we have.
5. Let's start making the star. To do this, you can use the same plum pits, or you can use ready-made plum pits. For a homemade one, arrange 5-6 seeds in a circle like a flower. Add glue to the center and let it dry. Then we turn the star over and drip glue on the other side. Let the glue dry. We paint the star from a spray can or nail polish of a suitable color. Let it dry and carefully glue it to the top of the Christmas tree.
6. Now we proceed to the most interesting stage - decorating the Christmas tree. To do this, we use cute trinkets - beads, glass, sequins, chains - in general, anything your heart desires and to your taste. I used beads in the shape of pearls in a color scheme close to natural. I also added some sequins in the shape of snowflakes - after all, it’s a Christmas tree. I used lurex thread in several turns to avoid clutter. The star was also decorated with snowflakes to hide gluing errors. At the base of the star, where I attached it to the tree, I also glued beads - as if the tree had put on beads (it also hid the fastening errors). Having finished my work, I can’t stop looking at my beautiful Christmas tree. She's the only one I have. And you?
Required material and equipment:
a plastic wine glass for the base and two legs;
natural material (plum and apricot kernels, or peach kernels);
decorative material (colored glass, beads, chains, sequins, etc.);
glue gun and glue sticks;
gold spray paint;
glitter nail polish;
glossy varnish spray;
yarn of natural color and lurex.
1. Prepare the necessary materials. If necessary, rinse and dry the seeds. Degrease the plastic base of the wine glass.
2. Glue plum pits onto the base, starting from the bottom. Glue the bones tightly to each other. For the bottom row we use larger seeds, and so on in descending order. For convenience, I arrange the seeds by size in advance. Glue the next row of seeds tightly to the previous row in a checkerboard pattern. We continue gluing the bones, making sure the rows are even. Having reached the top, glue the bones, pointing them upward. Afterwards we remove the formed adhesive web.
3. For the Christmas tree stand we use two legs from plastic wine glasses. We degrease the legs and glue their narrow ends together, strengthening them from the inside with some kind of rod. We wait until the glue sets well. Then we decorate the leg of the Christmas tree with natural-colored yarn or jute cord. Coating the plastic leg with glue, row by row we glue the yarn in a circle.
4. The Christmas tree made from plum pits had already dried up, now it can be painted. If you paint with aerosol paint from a can, you need to go out into the open air (on the balcony or in the yard). I use quick drying acrylic spray paint. It dries quickly and doesn't smell as strong. After the paint has dried, we connect the tree to the stand. Apply glue around the circumference of the top side of the stand and on the bottom edge of the plastic wine glass. We connect, pressing tightly. Now we see what a fluffy beauty we have.
5. Let's start making the star. To do this, you can use the same plum pits, or you can use ready-made plum pits. For a homemade one, arrange 5-6 seeds in a circle like a flower. Add glue to the center and let it dry. Then we turn the star over and drip glue on the other side. Let the glue dry. We paint the star from a spray can or nail polish of a suitable color. Let it dry and carefully glue it to the top of the Christmas tree.
6. Now we proceed to the most interesting stage - decorating the Christmas tree. To do this, we use cute trinkets - beads, glass, sequins, chains - in general, anything your heart desires and to your taste. I used beads in the shape of pearls in a color scheme close to natural. I also added some sequins in the shape of snowflakes - after all, it’s a Christmas tree. I used lurex thread in several turns to avoid clutter. The star was also decorated with snowflakes to hide gluing errors. At the base of the star, where I attached it to the tree, I also glued beads - as if the tree had put on beads (it also hid the fastening errors). Having finished my work, I can’t stop looking at my beautiful Christmas tree. She's the only one I have. And you?
