Crafts made of natural materials are always the most interesting and most loved by children. Very beautiful products can be made by hand from chestnuts, dried leaves and grass, acorns, twigs, bark of trees, all kinds of groats. Well, the most simple crafts are obtained from ordinary sunflower seeds. They are quite suitable for classes with young children, because working with such small materials contributes to the development of fine motor skills. Such lessons are useful for younger students, since any work of this kind is well prepared for writing. In addition, the production of paintings and panels of seeds with their own hands remarkably develops the imagination of a child of any age. We offer you two interesting master-classes on how to make a flower-sunflower from sunflower seeds.
Flower of pumpkin and sunflower seeds
1. To begin with, you must make the flower itself, and then take up the leaves and stalk of the plant. If you want sunflowers to be flat, it's best to make them from pumpkin seeds, which at the end of the work can be colored gouache in yellow. Seretinka make of black plasticine or berries rowan.
Another variant of making crafts are petals, arranged in a circle in several tiers and a middle of seeds of a real sunflower stuck in a plasticine ball. If desired, you can cover the already prepared flower head with a colorless varnish: it will become more shiny, bright and saturated.
2. To the underside of the flower should be glued foundation, which will not allow the seeds to decay. It can be made from a circle of cardboard, fixing it with glue. Alternate pumpkin, white seeds with sunflower, black, so that your flowers look more interesting.
In case you want to complicate things a little, you can make not one, but two, three or more flowers of a sunflower - then you will get a whole bouquet!
3. In addition to seeds and glue, you will also need a green straw straw - it will play the role of a flower stalk. To her bend, glue two beautiful dry leaves, using a narrow strip of tape. Do not forget and about the basis of the whole crafts - the flower needs to be strengthened on something. You can use a miniature vase for this, or insert the stem of a sunflower into a plasticine base, which in turn is placed on a rectangle of cardboard.
Frame from sunflower husks
- Cut out of a thick cardboard two identical frames 15x20 cm. Select the window dimensions based on the size of your photo.
- On the edges of one frame, walk through the paint, and then glue the pea on the peel of the sunflower seeds.
- Color the entire surface of the future frame in different shades of blue (or other) color. For this, it is better to use acrylic or gouache.
- Type in the syringe a paint of contrasting color (for example, red) and accurately put a frame on the frame.
- Fix the photo with the tape on the back of the frame, and from the underside adhere the second frame, which was cut out at the very beginning (item 1). It can also be colored.
Framing for frame make of even more dense cardboard. To do this, cut a quadrilateral, one side of which is bevelled at the right angle, and securely glue it with adhesive tape to the back of the craft.
What else can be made from seeds? Hedgehogs and owls, flowers, trees and whole miniature compositions. By sticking seeds on a piece of paper or cardboard, you can get a flat craft, and pressing sunflower seeds into plasticine - a volumetric product. For a change, you can use watermelon and pumpkin seeds, pistachio shells , as well as cereals and other natural materials for crafts.