DIY stone crafts can become interesting toy, educational material or a tool for decorating a room or decorating a playground in the courtyard of the house.

Crafts from stones are always relevant for kindergarten: with their help, you can make the space of the game room more interesting and unusual, create picturesque corners in the garden, revive the flower beds and flower plantings in the hall.

The process of making such crafts requires a creative approach and the ability to look outside the box at ordinary objects. Each image is dictated by the shape of the stone - its contours, dimensions, as well as what other stones are available.

All that remains for the creator after he presents the future image is to turn it into reality with the help of bright colors.

Children will love the mosaic of colored pebbles on a plaster or clay base. It is very interesting to spread it, and the result will be bright and elegant.

Rounded and elongated flat pebbles become owls, if the little creator so desires.

From painted small pebbles, you can make an application " autumn tree»

Perhaps the most sought-after stone master class is flowers. The shape of the pebbles is very convenient for making petals, and a round pebble will be an excellent center.

From stones you can make incredibly charming round chickens. We place them in a cozy nest of straw or thread.

stones different shapes turn into houses for fairy-tale heroes.

You can make a small magical town out of pebbles-houses.

Playing with such a stone house is a real pleasure.

And flat oval stones - in a fabulous bus or car.

And here is an example of how a real highway with a road, cars, road signs and a gas station can be laid out of stones.

Crafts from stones with animals, birds and fish

If the stones are large enough, you can use them to create decorative patterns. You can make a wonderful gift from stones, with your own hands depicting a cute bird, fish, snail or any other character on them.

beautiful fish obtained from a combination of painted stones and foarmin. Instead of foamin, you can use fabric or thick cardboard.

Very cute forest hedgehogs are obtained from the painted stones. We cover the stones with a light beige base. After it dries, paint the body and nose with brown paint.

With black paint we draw needles on the body, nose and eyes. Hedgehog made of stone - ready!

kids younger age they will be happy to turn the pebbles into a multi-colored building material - for this it is enough to cover their surface with bright multi-colored stripes or white strokes.

And by connecting several pebbles with each other, you can get interesting three-dimensional figures. For example, a fairly large rounded stone will turn into a cute cute hare if you attach flat ears and paws to it.

A stone oval shape can become a real turtle that will decorate any flower bed or playground.

Pebbles, pointed on one side, easily turn into ducks.

And flat stones of a rounded shape can become cheerful frogs that will gladly settle on cardboard leaves of water lilies.

By arranging several flat stones with each other, you can create a real panel that will decorate any room wall or photo album.

And the smallest stones are just waiting to be transformed into tiny animals. For each of them, you can make a separate house-bed from a matchbox.

You can make flat animals with plasticine eyes or completely stone voluminous characters - for example, a mouse.

From stone you can make a charming ladybug

or funny mushrooms - fly agaric.

Crafts from stones for home and interior

From stones it turns out very interesting decoration for the interior - cactus.

And here is an example of a very original basket with apples made of stones.

Stones can decorate a flower pot, making it a unique decoration of the garden or home.

From stones and wire, you can make an interesting decoration for your home - a pendant.

Paintings and panels made of stones

Perhaps the most popular stone panel is the Seabed. From rounded pebbles, lovely fish are obtained.

Stone panel "seabed"

From the painted stones you can make a cute picture in the nursery "Bears in Love".

And here is a wonderful picture of the stones "My Beloved Family".

Stone painting "My beloved family"

From stones and branches you can make a very touching picture.

The boards themselves can serve as the basis for the panel. That's how interesting a bird made of stone can look on such a basis.

Crafts from stones - unusual way draw attention to your site or the interior of the apartment. Such designs fit into the natural environment as organically as possible due to their naturalness. Crafts made of stone always look stylish and allow you to add an economy note to the design.

Applications

Crafts from stones that you can build with your own hands are divided into several types.

Landscape crafts that are performed directly to decorate summer cottages and suburban areas. Around them, you can form a local landscape, for example, equip a recreation area or make a pond.

Crafts made with glue and painting on a stone surface. Such products can be used for decorating both a suburban area and indoors. It can be a painted boulder of the original form or a hot stand made of pebbles.

By the way, such crafts in combination with shells form a special water area in the room, especially if there is an aquarium. So you can decorate the interior of a living room or office in a marine style.

Accessories and various gifts. Such crafts allow you to convey all the warmth of the hands and love to the donee from the master. Most often, crafts of this type are made of small stones in the form of figures of animals or plants. Special breeds of stones can become a talisman of a person.

Learning how to make stone crafts is not so difficult. You can borrow some of the ideas that are presented in this material, or create something of your own.

stone craft options

As mentioned earlier, stone crafts can be used for various purposes, so it is worth considering each type separately with examples.

garden crafts

This is the most common version of crafts for decorating the local area. Usually in the suburbs a large number of material for the manufacture of this kind of crafts. If it is not there, then there is nothing difficult to collect the pebbles of the required size on the river bank or elsewhere.

The easiest way is to make a ladybug or a caterpillar according to this algorithm:

1. Preparation of stones of the desired shape and size.
2. Applying paint to a surface.
3. Painting each pebble in accordance with the idea.
4. Drying the finished craft.
5. Coating the product with varnish to preserve the external and quality characteristics for a long time.

Advice! Children can be involved in the manufacture of such simple stone crafts, who will be happy to decorate the structure.

Some stone figurines can serve as a flower garden or frame a decorative pond on the site. For example, you can lay out a star, a turtle or any other pattern from boulders, which will become the basis for planting flowers inside it.

For the design of the playground, pebbles painted as fairy houses. In such an environment, the child's play will be more interesting, and the territory of the site will change.

Chaotically interconnected sea pebbles perfectly complement any area. They can be used to dilute appearance lawn or frame a recreation area.

Spatial figures can be found less often in suburban areas. But such options for crafts look just great and soundly. They are made necessarily with the use of a metal frame, so that the stones hold more securely. For example, from stones you can make crafts in the form of a dragon or any other creature. To do this, follow this technology:

1. A schematic representation of a future craft on paper, specifying its size and the required amount of material.
2. Selection of material suitable in size and shape.

   Important! It is best to use limestone for crafts, which is much easier to process than other rocks.

3. Making a concrete base for crafts, since even a small figure has a significant weight. In the process of pouring in concrete, it is necessary to place pieces of reinforcement or wire for later stones to be mounted on them. In this case, the diameter of the reinforcing bars is chosen to be 8–12 mm.
4. During the solidification of the foundation, you can start preparing the stones and drill holes in them with a puncher.
5. Formation of the frame by bending the reinforcement.
6. Planting stones on the completed frame.

   Advice! To prevent the stones from turning on the wire, they are fixed with concrete mortar.

7. Refinement of individual fragments of the craft to designate its constituent elements, for example, the mouth and eyes.
8. Adding accents to crafts by coloring its details.

Here is an example of a turtle gabion:

It is not necessary to make such large figures; stone crafts on the site can be small. For example, animal figures are assembled from small stones that are attached to each other with pins and cement mortar. Such a family will give the garden a family atmosphere and comfort.

A stone flower - a symbol of an energy charge will appeal to all those who are interested in oriental practices. It is also easy to make this craft near your home. For the reliability of the structure, a small base is poured under it, and the sharp-angled stones are fastened together, forming a half-opened bud.

Decorative stone crafts

For the interiors of apartments and houses, stone is also often used. This addition looks like a very advantageous one. Most of those who have vacationed or live near the sea have fancy pebbles at home. Most often they just lie idle, as a reminder of a fun holiday. And what if you build a unique craft from them, which will further decorate the interior of your home.

During the manufacturing process, you can ask for help from children, which will help to get more original variants crafts. Bright fish are perfect for decorating the bathroom. To make them, you just need to color the pebbles at your discretion in the form of fish. Such crafts can be laid out on shelves or glued to the wall. If you collect them on some basis and supplement them with other marine attributes, you get original panel, which fits perfectly into a Mediterranean or other style room that is reminiscent of a light sea breeze.

No less attractive are panels of small pebbles, which are folded in the form of a flower or a combination of plants. You can even “plant” a suitable stone in a pot with gypsum and paint it like a real plant. Such a decorative craft diversifies the modest interior of a bedroom or office space, and guests will not immediately guess that the flower is not real.

Decorating rooms with stone does not end with ordinary panels. For the kitchen, for example, heat-resistant coasters for pots made of stones glued together, located on a rigid base of plywood or cardboard, will become relevant.

An interesting and functional solution is a stone shoe stand. To design such a craft, you need to take a pallet and carry out the following steps:

• glue stones over its entire surface;
• pour soil on the bottom;
• cover it with a layer of stones on top.

So, wet shoes placed on this stand will become dry faster, due to the absorption of moisture by the ground.

Optimum stone is suitable for the bathroom. A rug made of this material will be convenient not only for the possibility of quick drying, but will also serve as a certain massage tool for the feet.

Important! Designers advise using stones as much as possible in any room, as it is a natural and versatile material that does not change its properties over time.

The use of stone finishes for interior items is allowed even in modern styles, for example, high-tech. If you put a couple of large tubs with flowers, which are pasted over with stones, in such a decorated room, you can get an eco-style atmosphere.

Photo frames - these are the crafts that will definitely please the owner and guests. If the house has an area with photos of family members posted, or just a few photos in the usual frames, you can beat them with stones. Usually, shells are also taken in addition, so that the composition of the craft looks more organic. To fix the elements, you need good glue, it is better to use hot glue from a gun. Decorations are taken at your discretion and depending on the desired result.

Important ! The base of the frame should be wide enough without relief so that you can easily fix all the stones and shells on the craft.

The technology for creating a frame of stones and shells is as follows:

1. Preparing the workplace - decorating the table with newspaper or paper.
2. Sorting shells and stones and selecting suitable ones.
3. Making the first row of the frame with large shells and stones, the second with medium ones, and the subsequent ones with small ones.
4. Filling empty spaces with decorative ones starfish, ribbons and other thematic attributes.

Almost every house has paintings. Ordinary, painted on canvas, are no longer as interesting as those made with their own hands from stones. This painstaking work requires perseverance and attention, but the result is worth it. The pebbles laid in a certain sequence on the craft allow an interesting pattern to appear on the base surface, which will successfully fit into the design of any room in the house, be it a kitchen, an entrance hall, a living room, a bathroom, a bedroom, and even a nursery.

Conclusion

Stone crafts are not only an original decoration of the garden plot, but can also be presented as a gift. No connoisseur of beauty will remain indifferent when receiving such a present. And the fact that the handicraft is made by hand is only a plus for the donor.

Stone is a natural material that has been used by man since ancient times. From it they made tools, built a dwelling. Over time, people began to make real objects of art out of the material. Today, there are many craftsmen who can make amazing decorations from stone for a house or a personal plot. DIY stone crafts can be both complex and very simple.

Easy Pebble Crafts

Even without great abilities, you can build something unusual from this material. Anyone can make cacti out of stone. To make a craft, you will need an ordinary flower pot, sand, but not fine, and pebbles. In addition, you need to buy green paint and white flowers for coloring pebbles.

The process of doing work:

• Pour sand into the flower pot;
• We paint the pebbles with green paint, in the color of the plant, and wait for the paint to dry;
• With a thin brush, draw stripes and needles on the plants with white paint;
• We are waiting for the paint to dry, and we bury the resulting plants in the sand by one third.

Pots with these "indoor flowers" can be placed in the garden or on the window, or you can decorate them with a veranda in the backyard.

With the help of stone, you can unusually decorate a fountain, decorate garden paths, or even make furniture. But most often they make crafts from sea stones. Many of them will be an excellent decor for the backyard. Depending on the size of the boulder, it is possible to make animal figurines. Large cobblestones are set near the entrance to the house, like guards, and small ones are suitable for home decoration.

Many are interested not only in what can be made from cobblestone, but also which stone is best used for crafts. Preference is given to natural because of its unusual beauty. It is not for nothing that many designers use only natural boulders to create unusual interiors.

stone flowers

Many people know the tale about Danila the Master. The young man worked hard to create a flower of incredible beauty from a stone. It takes years to learn how to work with a stone cutter, but an unusual object for decorating a site or a room can be made using only brushes and paints.

Stone flowers or a composition of flowers is easy to draw on a boulder. This requires a cobblestone big size with a flat surface. It needs to be washed and dried well. For drawing use acrylic paints and brushes different kind to draw both small and large details of the composition.

From below, the stone must be designed so that it looks like a basket made of branches. Then they draw different flowers. You can depict scarlet roses, large poppies or original pansies. The main thing is that the surface of the stone should not be visible from under the drawing. To give the composition a shine, you can varnish the dried paint.

Fancy rugs

Pebbles are perfect for making a rug that can decorate any interior.. It can also be used instead of a massager. Then the craft will have a healing effect for a person, foot massage is considered especially useful.

The stone itself will tell you what intricate patterns can be made. To create a rug, you need a base made of rubber or carpet. To form an unusual image, the stones must be of different sizes and shades.

Before making a rug, you need to depict it on paper. It is also necessary to prepare the base: thoroughly clean and give it the desired shape. To make the process easier for yourself, first all the pebbles are placed on the substrate according to the selected pattern. Then each is attached separately.

Most often, a transparent glue that is resistant to water is used for this. All pebbles must be positioned so that they tightly cover the substrate. It is necessary to check that there are no significant gaps.

If the rug is made for a bathroom where the floor is made of tiles, then you need to take a rubber base so that it does not slip on the tiles. For a massage mat, pebbles with a large bulge are used.

stone jewelry

What else can be done from this natural material? If there are children in the family, then needlework will only benefit them, as it will develop fine motor skills in their hands. To do original jewelry, use small pebbles from the seashore. Preference is given to her because of the streamlined shape.

With a drill, holes are made in the pebbles for collecting unusual beads or bracelets. You can also make beautiful unusual earrings from stone. To do this, in a special supermarket you need to buy a base, glue and paints. From all the stones, a pair of similar ones is selected, which are then attached to the base. First, the joints must be degreased with an alcohol solution.

If necessary, the stones are covered with "gilding". It is necessary to paint the pebbles before it is fixed on the base. According to the same scheme, you can make a small ring to make a beautiful set. However, it is necessary to choose a smooth base to facilitate the selection of stones.

Artificial stone products

Artificial stone is an unusual material that is similar to natural. He gained fame and wide distribution in construction. They line the walls both outside and inside. Advantages of artificial stone:

• In beauty, it is not at all inferior to natural material;
• Has a small weight;
• Easy to handle;
• Great economy.

However, there are also disadvantages, among which is a significant level of surface wiping. But this matters only in cases where this material is used to form garden paths. After some time, the coating on the material loses its color under the influence of sunlight.

Artificial stone is perfect for making original compositions in the garden.

It is required to comply with simple but important conditions:

• The composition must be positioned relative to one point of view.
• It is necessary to observe the contrast between emptiness and fullness. Asymmetry should be clearly expressed in the design of the site. Professionals in Japan also take into account the reflection of objects in the water and the shadows they cast.
• The number of items in the composition must be odd. According to the classics, the composition is based on a regular heptagon.
• It is also necessary to align the longitudinal and vertical lines of the composition. More boulders with longitudinal orientation are required, since there are already plenty of vertical objects in the garden: trees, a fence, a house, etc.

Applying these rules, it is possible to make a dry stream on the site or arrange a natural small pond. Small waterfalls or fountains look great. By forming walls for support, it is possible to decorate the yard of your site, this solution will be relevant for cottages located on the mountain.

If you dream up, an unusual solution will arise in your head: arrange flower beds or flowerpots for plants. It is possible to enclose a plot with plantations with borders of small pebbles, placing them in a direct order or disorder, in several layers at a certain height.

Stone crafts are simple, but quite interesting needlework that can captivate kids, developing their imagination and the ability of a professional designer. In the process of making crafts, time will be spent with benefit, and people around will admire the work done.

Drawings (mosaic) from stones (pebbles) for children with their own hands. Photo.

Children's paintings, panels and stone drawings

Few children have ever brought home a beautiful stone. And so that the pebbles do not just lie, but bring benefits, you can make a game out of them - a mosaic (constructor): lay out various images, and then disassemble and create new ones.

Stones (pebbles) for this can be anything: both marine and the most common, found near a river, road, brought for repair or construction.

If you stick them with super glue or a glue gun to cardboard, you will get panels or pictures of stones. This lesson develops fine motor skills, creative thinking, perseverance. Moreover, panels and paintings made of stones are not only children's fun. Adult masters create real masterpieces in this technique.

DIY stone drawings for grade 1

In order to show children the diversity of one of the types of children's creativity made from natural material, in many schools, children in grade 1 in a lesson on the world around them are asked homework make drawings from stones with your own hands, and then photograph your work and bring a photo.

Since the drawings themselves do not need to be brought to school, the background for them can be done like this:

• use cardboard, paper, fabric, etc. as a background for the picture.
• lay out the drawing on the street: on the ground or in the sand

If you create patterns and drawings from stones not on paper, but on the ground or sand, you will get works in technology, which, although not durable, can be admired by all bystanders.

The drawing itself can also be done in different ways:

• lay out with stones the entire image along with the internal parts (mosaic)
• lay out with stones only the outline of the image
• lay out with stones and the outline of the image, and some of its parts
• take into account or not take into account the color of the stones when compiling the image

The image can be laid out with stones without preliminary sketches, or you can make a sketch with a contour. If a child is at a loss with the plot for such a drawing or something does not suit him with the outline drawn by him, you can find on the Internet and print out the simplest coloring for kids with a minimum number of small details, and then lay it out with stones.

Drawings from stones for children on paper

As an example, I will show a few photos of our stone drawings with my daughter.

Snail - drawing from stones

Butterfly - drawing from stones

Composition of stones: flowers and a butterfly

Composition of stones: sun, clouds, herringbone, duckling

Dogs - crafts made of stones

The following few crafts with dogs made of stones, my daughter and I did this:

Here are the compositions that turned out (in one of them, in addition to stones, my daughter used a straw).

Man with a dog on a leash

Dog playing with a ball

Meeting on the track

Walk

Autumn pictures from stones

For the picture on autumn theme we found a handful small stones yellow, orange and brown to lay out the base of the clearing from them - the ground with fallen leaves, as well as several larger stones (for butterflies, dragonflies and mushrooms).

From these stones, the picture "Mushroom meadow" was obtained.

mushroom clearing

And the picture "Autumn flower".

autumn flower

And then, when the youngest daughter began to play with these pebbles: sort out, pour into toy dishes, etc., the eldest made a few more simple figures. On paper, especially on colored paper, they would have looked better than on oilcloth, and the lighting left much to be desired, so the photo is of poor quality. But for example, I will show these figures.

From left to right and from top to bottom: bird, bunny, ducks, cat, giraffe.

Plots for Halloween

And my daughter made these figurines using finished details: a witch on a broomstick, an owl, a cat, a pumpkin and some tailed robber.

Cat and owl closer. The eyes and beak of an owl are made of paper.

Children's drawings with stones on the street

Several works were received from stones created by children during a walk. These ideas can be used with children both to do their homework around the world and to help them spend their summer (and maybe not only summer) time outside.

Many thanks to the participants for these ideas and photos!

Drawing from stones and other natural materials

The work "Dragon" was completed Senkina Anastasia(5.9 years old) and Senkin Yaroslav (2.8 years old) from Moscow. When creating it, not only stones were used, but also other natural materials: twigs, leaves, flower petals.

stone painting

The work "Drawings with stones" with a little help from Yulia's mother was made by Kolya Kucheryavy, 4 years old, St. Petersburg.

Julia told how she and Kolya created these drawings:

"Good afternoon! I decided to show you how we learn to draw the simplest pictures natural materials namely stones.

Arriving one fine day with a child at the lake, we thoughtlessly, but with pleasure, just threw pebbles into the water, and then I suggested that my son build a castle of sand and stones, but my son didn’t want to ... Well, I didn’t want to, and okay, work for fantasy is really not easy. And then the idea came: to draw a castle! And then a boat, a fish and even a turtle.

It was here that the child, with great pleasure, laid out drawings with stones, which then it was not a pity to disassemble and lay out new pattern. And the secret is that the drawing must be drawn in advance with a stick or finger on wet sand (this is done by an adult). That's such a simple coloring!"

I also suggest looking at:

• an article about fascinating ones, among which there is a very interesting book for children about stones;
• article;
• other art articles from e.g. pro.

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• Drawing with plasticine and beads: the underwater world…

Do not rush to throw them away secretly - they can be turned into toys, or cute interior decorations.

Do crafts from sea ​​pebbles along with the children. Great workout for fine motor skills and fantasies. In addition, there are many that should not be forgotten either.

Strawberry made from sea pebbles with your own hands

Appetizing "berries" can be used as decoration for flowerpots, bookshelves and just for games.
Wash and dry the pebbles so that they are free of sand or dust. Prime them with white paint, then paint them red and complete with "leaves" and "seeds".

You can use both acrylic and regular gouache paints. But keep in mind that you need to be careful with gouache, it spreads from moisture.

Sprinkle finished dried "strawberries" acrylic varnish from a can to add gloss and preserve the paint layer.

Drawings on sea stones for children: decorative pebble dolls

Such a gallery of characters can be created for the plot of any game, any story. Draw according to the same principle as painted "strawberries":

• purity
• priming
• paint layer

With these dolls, you can play funny scenes, or just make an unusual panel.

Crafts from sea pebbles: fridge magnets

It is enough to attach a magnetic patch to the painted stones, and they will turn into cute useful souvenirs from the sea. You can buy magnets in craft stores.

Drawings on sea stones for children: panels with owls

These owls, painted in the style of doodles, can also be separate and details of the panel in the nursery. Remember how we looked at the patterns on our grandmother's carpet before going to bed as a child? Will give the child the same feast of fantasy.

Drawings on sea pebbles for the little ones: a game of tic-tac-toe

Mark clean pebbles in the form of crosses and zeros. This can be done with a regular marker. If desired, open the stones with acrylic varnish from a spray can. The playing field can be drawn directly on the stone bag. It will turn out great gift set for those who like to fight in an intellectual express game.

Crafts from sea pebbles do not need special care. The only feature: if you make a toy out of them, use more resistant paints and more layers of varnish, if you are preparing a decoration from sea pebbles for the interior.