Do-it-yourself figurines from cones. What can be made from cones?

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:46

It would be nice to bring home some fallen cones after a walk in the forest. Their scales can be open or tightly adjacent to each other. In both cases, this is an excellent material for creativity. Cone figurines made with a child are not only an interesting, but also a useful activity. Made creations can be taken to a kindergarten or arrange a real performance at home, the main participants of which and props will be crafts from cones.

Forest beauty from the gifts of the forest - option one

Why not make a Christmas tree out of cones? It will not be synthetic, but natural. In addition, it will be possible to save a lot on this attribute of the holiday and make it unusual and original.

If you will be creative with very young children or you have little source material, then youthe first version of the tree will do. For her, you will need an already opened hardened cone.

First, make the base for the cone figurine. From thick cardboard, cut a circle with a diameter slightly smaller than the circumference of the cone itself. Apply dark paint on it, let it dry. You can glue colored paper on top of a cardboard disc.

The child will love the next stage of work. Soften the plasticine, let the baby roll a few balls out of it and attach them between the opened cone scales. You can make decorations in another way - roll up balls of cotton wool, wrap them in pieces of colored paper or in candy wrappers. After that, you need to tightly twist the candy wrapper and glue it with this part to the scale of the cone. This can be done by an adult with a glue gun. Attach the bottom of the cone to the cardboard base in the same way. A small but beautiful spruce is ready.

Second version of making the queen of the forest - preparing the base

Thinking what can be done with older children from cones, build a global New Year's building. Depending on how much natural material is brought from the forest, the tree will be this height and width.

Start by making the coaster too. Cut out a circle of thick cardboard large enough to fit 5-9 cones (depending on the size of the spruce).

Christmas tree making

Lubricate it liberally with wood glue and arrange the cones in a circle with the sharp edge facing out. If you decide to makelarge spruce, pre-fasten the cones together with a rope, wrapping them in order. After that, place on a cardboard stand smeared with glue.

In the next row, lay the same amount or one less cone. Spruce will gradually taper upwards. You can reduce the number of cones each row or after two or three. Lubricate the lower tier with glue, apply the upper one. When you get to the top of your head, place one unopened cone with the pointed end up and glue it down. You can spray-paint these cone figurines green, blue, gold, or silver, or leave them as they are.

Hedgehog with head and legs

When deciding what to make with cones, make funny animals with your child. Then they can be placed under the newly built Christmas tree, come up with a fairy tale and play it out with the children.

Make a cone out of white plasticine, attach its base to the rounded part of the cone, with which it was once attached to the tree. This is the basis of the muzzle of the animal.

Turn a small piece of black plasticine into a ball, attach in place of the nose. From the same material, roll 2 more such circles, flatten them, attach the eyes in place. Make the pupils from a plastic mass of white or yellow. From white - 4 small paws and 2 small ears of a triangular shape. Also attach these pieces in place.

Dinosaur and other characters

You can also create other charming figures from cones and plasticine, for example, a dinosaur. To make it colorful, take the material formodeling lilac, red, blue, yellow, green.

Roll out a piece of lilac plasticine into a sausage, one side of which is slightly thicker than the other. Attach this wider end to the narrow part of the open bud. Bend the other end of the sausage slightly, connect it with the red head of the dragon. Make an incision in the middle of the muzzle, put a small flattened piece of yellow plasticine in its upper and lower parts. This is a slightly open mouth of a completely fearless dragon.

To make the dinosaur even more good-natured, attach blue plasticine eyes to the muzzle. The legs and tail of the fairy-tale character will be of the same shade. Turn the pieces of yellow plasticine into triangular ones and attach them on the back, tail and back of the neck.

The same technique is used to make other figures from cones - animals, people, fairy-tale characters.

Lesovik

Walking in late summer or early autumn through the forest, you can collect not only fallen cones, but also acorns. This tandem helps to come up with the most interesting ideas for creativity. When deciding what crafts from cones and acorns can be made with children, invite the kids to turn these gifts of nature into a lumberjack.

Glue the acorn to the top of the opened cone. The “hat” of the acorn will then become the headdress of the fabulous inhabitant of the forest. Turn two small gnarled sticks into his hands, attaching them with wire. Cut out the eyes and mouth from colored paper, glue them on the face of the woodsman.

Dragonflies

Charming will turn out figures fromcones and acorns - dragonflies. In addition to these materials, you will need an oval-shaped stand to construct them. Cut it out of wood, varnish it.

Cones fit more slender, glue them to the stand, it turned out the body of a dragonfly. Attach 4 oval wings to it. They can be cut from brocade or other dense fabric, attached to a cone with wire or thread. The acorn will turn into an insect's head and hat.

Wreath, teddy bear

You can make a Christmas wreath to decorate your door with. Make its base in the form of a ring from wire or wicker rods, vines. If you decide to use natural flexible materials, take a bunch of rods, tie them with threads in the form of a ring. Attach cones with wire, you can decorate a wreath with other materials by gluing beads, tying bows. Golden paint will help the composition to find integrity.

The teddy bear made of cones turns out to be voluminous, charming and very cute. To create it, it is enough to glue the cones, giving them the shape of a furry master of the forest.

Combination of fabric and forest gifts

A garland of cones will turn out to be colorful, original, and making it is a pleasure. First, take the red and yellow felt. Scraps left over from needlework will do. From the yellow material cut out large circles, from the red - smaller ones. Lay them one on top of the other (smaller to larger), stitch as shown in the photo.

Thread a strong thread into a large needle. Pierce 5 cones with ithorizontally, then a base of felt. Thus fasten the garland to the end. It can decorate a nondescript wall in the country, a tree trunk or decorate a room.

Here you can make crafts from cones with your own hands. Ideas, tips will help awaken your imagination and create many more original things that you can decorate your home, kindergarten for the holiday.