Crafts from moss

Crafts from natural materials look great as an interior decoration. Compositions made of moss in combination with other materials look natural and stylish. They can decorate the festive table, the hallway. Working with moss is very simple and in this article we will consider several options for decor for interior design.

Crafts from moss and cones

You can make a decoration for a Christmas or Christmas table with simple fir cones. For work, we will need a bowl as a basis, a piece of hard sponge or frozen foam, a few wooden skewers, moss.

1. In a bowl, put a hard moist sponge and prepare the main materials. You can show your imagination and add other natural materials to the composition.
2. Using a glue gun we attach a wooden skewer in the bump. Beforehand it is necessary to cut off the required length of the skewer: it should be equal to the height of the sponge, so that the bump would be exactly on the surface.
3. We paste the workpiece. The more different types of cones and sizes you use, the more interesting the composition will turn out.
4. Then lay the moss and decorate. Crafts made of moss and cones can be finished with other natural materials: pebbles, pieces of bark, small dried flowers.
5. The final chord is a glass dome. Now the composition has a complete view.

Topiary of moss

Crafts made of moss with their own hands can become a full-fledged decor of the room. For example, a large-size topiary can be decorated with a hallway or a place by the fireplace. A slightly smaller size will decorate the window sill in the kitchen or balcony.

For work, foam polystyrene balls, a moss leaf, green threads, burlap, clay pot and thick newspaper-type paper should be prepared.

1. From the pot, we will make the basis. We put there a foam cube (you can use a hard sponge, foam or a mounting foam) and cover with crumpled thick paper.
2. We insert the trunk of our topiary: it is a branch that will be inserted into a foam ball with one stalk, and the other we will insert it into a cube of foam.
3. The next stage of making crafts made of moss will be the ball itself. We take the moss and apply it to the foam plastic ball. Then gradually begin to wind the thread and thereby fix the moss. Ensure that the coating is uniform and no protrushing is formed.
4. To decorate the base, we take a sacking cut and wrap the pot. Then attach the tape.
5. Here are such stylish crafts made of moss with their own hands turned out.

Bonsai from moss

The art of bonsai came to us from the East and is very popular. Miniatures from plants are created for a long time and require constant care. Decorate the soil with moss and thereby create the illusion of a carpet of dense grass under a tree under the power of even an amateur.

1. For work we need two kinds of moss. One of them you can observe almost everywhere: on old buildings in a shady damp place, gazebos or other similar places.
2. Also need moss sphagnum.
3. First of all, we clean the top layer of soil in the flowerpot. The quality of the work will depend on the result of the whole process.
4. If the roots protrude above the surface, they should also be cut off.
5. Further we fill the pot with special soil for bonsai. It should be left about half a centimeter to the edge, so that there is room for the moss. The composition of the soil includes acadam, lava, pumice and charcoal.
6. Then pour the layer of sphagnum so that it retains the upper moss. Pre-water everything, then sphagnum will settle.
7. We cut the bottom of the fresh moss so that it fits into the pot.
8. Begin to create compositions from moss can be both from the edges, and from the trunk of a tree.
9. Crafts made of moss for bonsai technique create the illusion of a grass carpet and look very natural.

Beautiful crafts are obtained from other natural materials: cones , acorns .