Do-it-yourself house made of natural material. Master class with photo

"House in a forest clearing" - a master class for the stage-by-stage production of a house from natural material.

Molchanova Olga Ivanovna, educator, Kindergarten No. 24, Krutoy Log, Belgorod District, Belgorod Region
Description: this master class is intended for educators, teachers additional education and creative people who like to make crafts from natural materials.
Purpose: handicraft made of natural material, decoration for the corner of the home courtyard.
Target: Development of aesthetic feelings in children.
Tasks:
develop compositional and aesthetic feelings; develop manual skill and creative imagination.
V kindergarten made a model for a home courtyard, when everything was ready, it remained to make a house for a farmer who looks after pets. Here's how it turned out.

Materials:
1.apricot pits;
2. plasticine;
3. cardboard;
4. wooden skewers.

Stage-by-stage production:

1.For each apricot kernel we sculpt a ball of plasticine, diameter 5 mm - 7 mm. and attach to the cardboard, gradually forming the walls, leaving an opening for windows and doors.

2. For the roof, cut out a rectangle made of cardboard, the dimensions of which depend on the size of the house. We stick plasticine on cardboard, 2 mm thick. We sculpt skewers on plasticine, if necessary, we fix them for the right size... We make doors for the house in exactly the same way.

3. We strengthen the roof on top of the house, and for strength it can be varnished on top. And you can put the house in the clearing.
To make a clearing, I used: moss, cones, artificial branches. This is what a wonderful house comes out.

On the eve of competitions autumn crafts made of natural material, this house is also suitable.

New Year's time is coming - the time of miracles, when everyone can feel like a little helper of the kindest old man in the world. After all, think if, in addition to gifts for the children of the whole planet, the old grandfather also had to decorate our houses, how would he manage everything. That is why we, adults, help him in every possible way, because there is no way that children should stop believing in Santa Claus.

Home decoration is the most important task in the creation process new year mood... Buying ready-made decorative elements in the store is not difficult, but making new Year decoration do it yourself - it's completely different! In this article you will find more than 20 master classes and schemes for creating New Year's houses... At first glance, an unprepared person may think that creating a New Year's house out of paper, cardboard or any other materials is an overwhelming task. In fact, this is not the case, especially if you have a ready-made template. So, if you are serious, then get ready to become a real builder, because in this article you will find schemes of not only single houses, but also entire winter villages!

A very beautiful New Year's house can be made with your own hands from an ordinary cardboard box... The inside of the box is usually Brown color, which, in fact, plays into our hands. The box will have to be gutted and turned inside out. Draw a house template and cut it out. Next, we glue the walls and floor. You can leave the top with a makeshift roof and use the house as a gift box, or you can glue a full roof and put it under the tree. On top of the cardboard, you can draw with a special white marker, white gouache or an ordinary proofreader. Outwardly, the house is very reminiscent of a gingerbread delicacy, which is common in western world... Well, you and I are familiar with the gingerbread house from the famous fairy tale by the brothers Grimm "Hansel and Gretel". If your children haven't heard it yet, then it's time to read this story, and a homemade gingerbread house from a cardboard box will be an excellent attribute for a little stage performance!

More gift boxes:

If you are planning to make not just a house, but a whole Christmas village, then you are in mandatory need a church. Print out our finished diagram, cut it out of cardboard, glue it in the right places and the layout of the church is ready. Now it remains to decorate it with sparkles and artificial snow to make the church truly wintery. You can download the finished scheme below.

So, the church is ready, now it remains to build the houses of local residents. Download the finished scheme from the link below, cut it out of cardboard, glue the house and decorate it. Whom to put in the houses? Anyone! Little dolls, pine cone elves or any other inhabitants you have. If there is little grandfather frost, then feel free to settle it too! The whole residence will turn out!

If there are any problems with cardboard, then it is quite possible for yourself to make a New Year's house from salt dough. You can use it as a candlestick, it looks very cool. So, prepare the salted dough, roll it out about 1-1.5 cm thick. Cut out the walls, windows and door. This can be done with special molds, and if there are none, then use a stationery knife and a ruler. Glue all the walls and glue the roof. Cover the joints with the rest of the dough. When the house is dry, sand the irregularities with a little knife and enjoy your creation!

Lovely houses in the style of Danish architecture can be made using this scheme. Using the link below you will find diagrams of all three houses, which you just need to print and bend along the lines. Put an electric candle inside, turn off the lights and enjoy the city's winter landscape!

If you like cornflakes or, like the real Englishmen, eat oatmeal in the morning, then you probably have cardboard boxes of the appropriate sizes. Below is a step-by-step master class on making a New Year's house with your own hands from a cardboard box, clearly follow the instructions and you will succeed!

Great New Year's houses are made from magazine clippings. Find a picture of a suitable house or castle, cut it out and glue it around. Put an electric candle inside and enjoy.

Wonderful New Year's houses can be made from plain white paper by decorating some parts (roof and windows) with sparkles. You can download ready-made templates from the link below. See step-by-step instructions and make your own New Year's house!

If you have accumulated a lot greeting card, from them you can make wonderful houses with which you can decorate an apartment by combining them into garlands. Or you can congratulate friends and acquaintances with such postcard houses. You will find step-by-step instructions for making houses from old open ones below.

You can make crafts houses not only from paper or cardboard. Felt is also an excellent material for manufacturing. The manufacturing process is madly simple, you will find step-by-step instructions below. It remains to get some felt and an electric candle. New Year's craft the house is ready!

With our ready-made scheme and step by step instructions You can make a whole city, especially if your team has little fidgets ready for needlework. You will need more electronic candles or you can use a New Year's garland. Add some mini Christmas trees and the New Year's city is ready! And most importantly, the whole family has a New Year's mood!

Christmas houses can also be made from scrap materials, it is especially great when these materials are no longer suitable for use, such as milk packaging. If you look at it, the house is almost ready, all that remains is to make the roof and adjust the size of the house itself. If the box does not look too presentable, you can glue it over with paper and draw windows and doors, but if everything suits you, then the craft house is ready!

From this step by step wizard class, you will learn how to make a simple New Year's house out of ordinary cardboard. The main difficulty lies in the template, and if you have no spatial vision and architectural education, drawing something more or less complicated on paper is quite difficult. Therefore, using the link below you can download a ready-made scheme of the house and glue it yourself.

Download a ready-made house template, cut and glue. DIY Christmas craft house is ready!

Download this simple template, print and cut. In our instructions, the house is made from an old music book. You can make from plain white paper or "rough drafts". A bit of decor, an electric candle and Voila! A do-it-yourself paper house is ready!

If you don't have time to tinker with voluminous houses, but you want to decorate an apartment with a whole city, then this option is especially for you. You will need a sheet of Whatman (thick) A2 size paper, a printed template and a clerical knife. From the links below you can download two different options cities. Ready-made schemes printed on A4 sheets, printed, glued and transferred directly to whatman paper for cutting.

We are preparing for the new year with the children and making a house for Santa Claus out of paper. Download the ready-made template, print it and glue it. Young designers will be delighted!

As already noted, house crafts can be made from the most different materials, including from wooden sticks... Ice cream sticks are quite suitable for this work, but they had to be collected all year round. In any case, you can take note of the idea and be sure to do it next year!

A very cute New Year's house can be made from paper tubes. To do this, you will need: thin paper, scissors, glue, pencil, decorative elements. Cut the paper into strips of the same size. Wrap a paper strip on a pencil and glue it with glue, remove the pencil. You will need about 50 straws to make a house like in a master class. When the base is ready, glue the roof, and then the windows and other decorative elements.

Incredible New Year's houses can be made of felt. Volumetric or flat, in the form of gingerbread houses or clocks. In addition, felt houses can be used to decorate pillows or socks for gifts. You will find ready-made patterns under the photo.

I saw in the woods
Amazing house,
Lives in it funny
An affable gnome.
It is with these lines that I want to present this fabulous craft!

For work, we needed: sticks - blanks - 28 pieces, cardboard (for the roof of the house), Super glue, plasticine, leaves, 2 cones, a spruce twig, a stapler, a plank or plywood.

Progress:
1. First, take the twigs and leaves. We make the branches the same length (about 20 cm).

2. With the help of a clerical knife, we make recesses on the branches on both sides at the same distance (in order to make it convenient to fold the house).
3. We begin to fold our house of sticks one by one. We fix the sticks together with glue.
4. While the glue is drying on the walls of our house, let's start assembling the roof. We take cardboard or thick paper, fold it in the middle, for the sides of the roof we take cardboard and cut it out in the form of triangles (2 pieces).

5. Bend the edges and fasten them with a stapler.
6. We begin to attach the leaves to our roof (you can use a stapler or glue). We begin to fasten from the bottom.

7. Finished roof we attach to the walls of the house with superglue.
8. We take a board or plywood (about A4 format, you can have a little more so that our house can fit on it).
We fix the house on the board with the help of superglue. With the help of plasticine, we fix the Christmas tree near the house, with the help of glue / plasticine we fix the cones. Then we make a winding path from glue and sprinkle it with finely chopped leaves. We make windows and a door from plasticine in the house.

Usage natural objects, v this case ordinary branches will help create a unique atmosphere in your home. Eco-decor made of branches is not a new idea, but insanely interesting, especially for hand-made lovers. We have selected ideas for you that will inspire you to make eco-friendly home decor.

Walking through the forest, you can find a lot of interesting, intricate snags, large and small dry branches and then use them to decorate your home. You can also purchase them from a specialist store. Found dry branches must be cleaned and apply a layer of a product that will protect your product from tree bugs and larvae. Prepared branches can be covered with wood stain, varnish to preserve their original appearance.

In what style of interior are dry branches used?

You can decorate your home with dry branches in any interior style. The most important thing is that the decor is combined with the main idea of ​​the style and does not seem out of place. No need to overload the room big amount branches. Remember that everything should be in moderation.

When we use tree branches for decoration in our home, we seem to become closer to nature, which gives originality and exclusivity to the atmosphere.

Eco-decor elements from tree branches

Compositions of tree branches can be quite varied. It all depends on your imagination. For example, you can decorate vases, candles, old flower pots.

Tie a mirror with woven branches, which will betray some originality to it.

You can also make a decor from branches for photo frames. This will be a pleasant gift not only for yourself, but also for your loved ones. Very often we can see front door decorated with a wreath of dry twigs. it interesting element decor for your home.

Dry branches can also be decorated floor vase, which will give its own particle of originality. This decor is the easiest to create, you just need to put the prepared branches in a vase.

Small tree branches can be placed in vases, which can then be placed on a table or shelves.

If you attach paper, plastic or textile fruits to the branches, you can admire the fruit-bearing tree without leaving your room.

A picture made of dry branches will look very unusual and elegant.

You can use the decorative branch as a jewelry holder.

So that the wall does not look empty, it can be easily decorated using ordinary branches. And with the addition of backlighting, it will look more impressive.

Can be decorated decorative branches: pebbles, shells of various sizes. And on New Year's Eve, instead of a Christmas tree, you can use a dry branch and hang it with festive attributes.

Dry branches can also be used in the interior of a child's room. A branch above the bed, decorated with various toys, bows will give this room a kind of fabulousness.

V kitchen interior branches will also look very interesting. Dry twigs of the same length will help to hide an unsightly battery perfectly. You can make hot coasters yourself from ordinary branches. And how interesting the fridge magnets will look, created from small dry twigs and tied with a ribbon.

You can also use dry branches for bathroom decor. This can be a paper holder made from a dry knot, a hanger or a hook for towels and other little things.

Decorative branches are not only beautiful, but also convenient

Dry tree branches are used not only as a decorative element, but also as a functional necessary element in the interior. They can be used as an addition to furniture.

From dry branches you can make coffee table, chair, comfortable and roomy bookshelves, floor lamps, complementing them with decorative materials.

Railings made of simple dry branches will look very interesting in the interior.

If you have small area premises and you would like to visually divide the zones, an interesting design move would be to use dry branches as partitions. This division into zones will look stylish.

In the interior of the bedroom, you can use a screen made of branches.

Hangers that are made of dry branches look very creative.

Lighting fixtures from branches

Chandeliers or lighting fixtures that are created using wooden branches will give your room a fabulous atmosphere.

You can make the lamp yourself. But when creating your masterpiece, remember about safety precautions.

You can make such a lamp yourself. You just need to determine what shape you want to give it. Whether it will be a snowflake lamp, a sconce made of twigs, or just a ball-shaped lamp.

Consider in stages the process of creating a spherical wooden chandelier:

1. You can buy decorative branches at a specialty store, or find them in the park. Select only twigs at least 9 cm long and unusual shape... You will also need a balloon, hot melt glue, cling film, pruning shears, a light bulb, and a shade.
2. Wrap the ball with cling film. Then paste over it with prepared twigs. When the glue is dry, pierce the ball and remove it.
3. Insert the base with the lamp inside the chandelier and fix it. A wooden lamp in the shape of a ball is ready.

In order to make a lamp from ordinary driftwood, you will need:

• dry branch, diameter from 3.5 cm;
• board;
• sockets and lamps;
• screws and nails;
• engraver or knife, soldering iron, saw, pliers and screwdriver;

Let's consider creating a chandelier step by step.

The branch must be cleaned of bark and a groove made with an engraver or a wire knife. With a drill in the board we make holes for the screw and wire.

Branches that are at least 3.5 cm in diameter are cut into pieces 5 cm long. The middle must be drilled out and the cartridges inserted inside.

We connect one end of the wire to the "wooden" socket, and the other to the hole on the large branch. We do this with all the cartridges. We lay the wire along the groove and solder all the wires together. The lamp is ready.

Hand-made crafts from natural materials will create an atmosphere of comfort and a romantic atmosphere in your home. Such crafts and interior items made from natural materials are very popular today. It is especially pleasant to surprise your friends with such decorative items made with your own hands. In order to decorate the interior of your country house or apartments, you can make crafts from the branches of various trees.

For use, you need branches that are not eaten by a bug. Collect such branches better in autumn or in early spring... Also, all branches without exception require processing in at least 2 stages:

1) Drying the branches is a must. Otherwise, the product will warp in the first month. We dry at room temperature for 1-2 weeks. Or 7 days battery life. And if you want it very quickly, then in the oven for 2-3 hours on low heat and with the door ajar so that moisture comes out.

2) Also desirable painting or varnishing. If there is no special varnish for wood at all, then it can be treated with transparent nail varnish.

To do this, we offer you 10 do-it-yourself crafts master classes from tree branches.

Candlestick from tree branches

Stylish candlestick in 5 minutes

To make a candlestick from twigs, we have to:

• Dry twigs.
• A small glass cup.
• Hot glue gun.
• Candle.

Step 1:

Collect a small amount of twigs, wash them in water and dry them. Once dry, cut the pruning shears to approximately equal lengths.

Step 2:

Take a small glass cup and a hot glue gun. Apply glue to each branch with a glue gun and glue it to the cup. Thus, glue each next branch side by side to each other.

Take a candle required size and insert it into the inside of the glass. The candlestick is ready to use.

Another option to make a candlestick is to simply take a thick candle and glue the twigs around the candle with a glue gun. Also, if the branches are painted gold, the effect will be more glamorous.

Branches painted gold

Golden candlestick

House of branches

An unusual craft for a child can be made from ordinary twigs. In the photo below, our reader has shared his wonderful creation, which he made for a child.

ADVICE: If you decorate the house with a garland, you will get a great night light in the nursery!

House of branches

How to make such

Photo frames made of tree branches

Unusual photo frames can be made from dry branches with your own hands.

For this we need:

• Dry twigs.
• Wooden base for the frame.
• Hot glue gun.
• Decor (moss).

Step 1:

Take dry twigs. With a hot glue gun. Apply glue to each branch with a glue gun and glue it to the wood base. Likewise, glue all subsequent branches side by side to each other in the form of a rectangle.

Step 2

Then take a decorating material, in our case moss, and stick it in the corner of the frame. This will make a wonderful composition.

Check out even more photo ideas on how to arrange frames and expositions from photographs in the interior.

Making a spring photo frame

Tree with photographs in a vase

Pencil holder

This little thing will look extraordinary on your desktop.

DIY pencil holder

You will need:

• A cut of a tree or a stump, with a diameter of 10 to 15 cm and a thickness of about 10 cm (the photo shows such a "stump", previously cleaned of bark, but for a greater effect of naturalness, you can leave the saw cut in its original form).
• A drill, the diameter of the tip drill of which should not exceed 8-10 mm. The punch is used to create shallow but clean, smooth-edged holes.
• Fine-grained sandpaper.

Step 1:

Take a drill, make 25-30 holes in the blockhouse (depending on the diameter of the "hemp"), each at a distance of 0.5 - 1 cm from each other.

Make 25-30 holes in the log house

Step 2:

After that, take a fine-grained sandpaper and sand the surface so that there are no irregularities.

We sand it sandpaper base and top

After that, the stand is ready. It can serve not only for stationery, but also for art brushes.

Also check out other ideas on how to design a pen organizer.

Pencil holder

Stand for pens and phone

Clothes hanger

Such a craft will undoubtedly become a decoration of your hallway and will delight everyone who comes to visit you. You just need to choose such branches that have fairly strong and thick hook knots. Hangers can also be made from small tree branches.

Hanger in the hallway for clothes

You will need:

• Strong branches with thick knots with a diameter of 30-50 mm.
• Self-tapping screws.
• Saw on wood.
• Drill.
• Wall blank

Step 1:

Saw the trunk of the branch in half. We select a suitable workpiece with a length of 300-400 mm. We immediately form a hook with a miter saw. We cut off a twig from a branch with a saw at a distance of 50-120 mm. And then cut a half of a branch with a knot with a saw along the edges.

We select a suitable workpiece with a length of 300-400 mm.

Step 2:

We drill a hole in the hook with a self-tapping screw. And we attach it to the workpiece under the hanger. Can be individually hung or formed into a hanger if desired. If the hanger is designed for light things, then you can attach the branches with wood glue.

We paint with white acrylic paint

If desired, these hooks can be dyed special paints for wood or use an aerosol spray.

The original hanger is ready

Flowerpot

In order for all the pots to become the same and original, you can make a flowerpot with your own hands. You will need a minimum of effort and a maximum of desire and good mood.

Flowerpot made of branches

To do this, you need:

• Dry twigs.
• Saw on wood.
• A coil of twine yarn.
• A piece of burlap.

Step 1:

To begin with, we take dry twigs and with a saw on a tree make them approximately all of the same length.

cut branches and tie together

Step 2:

Then we wrap the flower pot or flowerpot with a piece of burlap. Fix it with any glue.

Step 3

Take the branches previously prepared, tie them together with a twine thread, so that the branches do not disintegrate (see photo)

We wrap our old flowerpot with a piece of burlap

Step 4:

Then tie a pot or flowerpot with these twigs and secure it with a bow.

Using a rope, we fix the branches around the flowerpot

Hanging table with your own hands

Hanging objects can give any interior a feeling of weightlessness and airiness. Suspension wooden table can be wonderful bedside table... It is attached with three ropes to the ceiling by a hook. How to make it? Necessary:

• The little board.
• Grinder.
• Drill.
• Hot glue gun.
• Screw.
• S-shaped hook.
• Polyurethane spray.
• Felt strip.

Hanging table mounting

Step 1:

First, you need to choose a suitable board with an unusual texture. Sand any irregularities with a grinder.

Step 2:

Next, you need to drill three holes that correspond in diameter to the selected rope. The holes should be equidistant from each other, and one of them should be placed as close to the wall as possible. You can also hang the table with four ropes, then you will need to drill four holes.

Step 3:

The wooden surface should be covered with several layers of polyurethane, allowing each to dry. Since the table will be in contact with the wall, protect its surface from damage. To do this, glue a strip of felt with hot glue to the part of the table that is adjacent to the wall.

Step 4:

Next, stretch the ropes through the holes and tie strong knots under the board. After that, you need to drill a small hole in the ceiling and insert a screw with a ring into it, into which an S-shaped hook should be threaded.

Step 5:

Then tie all the ropes at the top into a strong knot with a loop and hang the structure on the hook.

The result will be simply mesmerizing. Your hanging table will simply float around the room.

Decorative tree

To decorate the interior of your home, we suggest making decorative tree with flowers.

You need:

• Twigs.
• Decorative flowers (can be made from paper).
• Sea pebbles.
• A piece of styrofoam.
• Hot glue gun.
• An unusual shape of a flowerpot (in our case, a square one).

Step-by-step making of decorative wood

1. Take sea pebbles and put them on the bottom of the flowerpot.
2. Then put the foam on the pebbles in the flowerpot and insert the prepared twig into this foam.
3. Fill with sea stones again to make the branch more stable. Insert the moss up.
4. Now let's start decorating the twigs. Take decorative flowers and glue them with a glue gun to the branch in a chaotic manner.
5. When you glue all the flowers, then your decorative tree will be ready to decorate your apartment or house.

Decorative tree painted with gold

Decorative tree white

Wreath on the door of twigs

This is the most easy master class that could only be shown. Let's make a decorative wreath on the door from twigs. To start and finish our craft, we need:

• Twigs.
• Copper wire.

Base blank for a Christmas wreath

Step 1:

Take copper wire and make a circle with a hook out of it (see fig.).

making a circle out of wire

Step 2:

It is necessary to make small bunches of twigs, fastening them with a wire.

We tie twigs into small bunches

Step 3:

Then we fasten the bundles of twigs to the previously prepared circle of copper wire. And so on until the end. Your wreath is ready. You can also paint it with spray paint, giving it your favorite color.

We attach the "bundles" of branches to the base

The wreath can be decorated as you wish. And make it either New Year's or for another reason

from spruce and pine in this article!

Decorating the mirror with slices of branches

If you are tired of your old mirror and want to change it, take your time. With the help of branch cuts, you can decorate your mirror, and it will sparkle with its beauty in a new form.

Mirror decorated with saw cut branches

What is needed for this:

• Twigs of different diameters.
• Wood saw.
• Hot glue gun.

Work process:

1. Let's get down to work. Take the twigs and make the cuts with a saw of the same thickness.
2. Then we take a glue gun and glue each saw cut around the mirror. Will come out very original.
3. In the same way, you can paste over vases and flower pots, or whatever your imagination is enough for.

Also, from small boards you can make this one - LESSON here!

Wall decor

With the help of branches you can do various decorations — — look, you will definitely find something for yourself!

And now we offer a simple master class on making a seahorse. He will decorate your room, making it unique. To make the decor more original, come up with your own figurine.

Decor from branches for the wall

To do this, you must have:

• Twigs different sizes and diameters.
• Branch pruner.
• Hot glue gun.
• Cardboard, a pencil, scissors.

Step 1

Draw a figurine on cardboard, such as a sea conic. And cut with scissors.

Cutting the shape out of paper

Step 2

Take a hot glue gun, apply glue to twigs and glue them to a cardboard blank, lining them one by one.

Step 3

When finished gluing. Take the branch pruner and the branches that have gone over the edges of your base and cut them back. It will turn out very beautiful decor on the wall.

In the same way, you can make crafts for the New Year in the form of a Christmas tree, decorating it with decor, or an asterisk on the door, crafts for Valentine's Day.

Heart made of twigs