From sea or river stones you can make different crafts, decorate an interior or a plot. Let's first consider the simplest children's stone crafts.

Crafts for the little ones

On any pebble, you can stick colored beads in the shape of a flower, a sun, etc.

Candlestick

Thoroughly wash a transparent glass of any shape, put pebbles of the same color (gray or black) of about the same size inside. Place a large candle inside the stones. This original candlestick will decorate the interior.

Dominoes made of small stones

• Select pebbles of approximately the same size. They do not have to be flat, they can be angular.
• Then paint them black with acrylic paint, leave to dry.
• Using a thin brush with white paint, paint dots from 1 to 6 on each half of the pebble. Let the adults help with the number of stones.
• The domino will turn out to be very creative, and you can even play with it!

Flowers in a pot of stones

You can choose pebbles that are flat in the firm of an ellipse or round. They can easily be made to look like flowers - cacti.

Stages of work:

• For a monochrome shade, it is better to paint stones in different shades with a spray can of paint.
• With a thin brush with white paint on a green background, paint the stones with dots, stars or small lines pointing up. These will be cactus needles.
• We put 3-4 ready-made painted stones in a small pot. Green "cacti" should be peeking out of the pot.
• Put brownish small pebbles down the pot, they will hold the "cacti".

Such unusual crafts made of stones, made by hand, will decorate not only the eco style, but also the nursery in any direction.

Creative stone rugs

Stones carry a special energy, they have been used as a treatment for a long time.

You can before front door put a rug of tightly glued stones in a certain pattern. For example, in the form of a wave or spiral, where stones are glued large sizes around the edges, gradually decreasing towards the center.

For those who love humor and creativity, you can create a rug that can only be stepped on with bare feet. Stone rugs are great foot massagers. The feet may look in different directions.

Pick up a large oval stone - a foot, 5 small ones to it (imitation of toes). Different sizes of children's legs, simply glued to a wooden surface, are very effective.

Panel (pictures) from small pebbles

Crafts from sea ​​stones in the form of panels and paintings. You can take a piece of plywood or wood as a basis.

Sequence of work:

• Come up with a drawing, it can be a forest, a fairytale city, a tree, figures of people or animals, a bird or a flower.
• How a real artist should put a future masterpiece on paper (sketch). Choose the colors of the picture.
• Pick up stones for the drawing, and paint them in the desired colors.
• Use a glue gun to glue the colored stones onto the base.
• Colorize the background of the picture.

Experiments are only welcome, let the child develop creativity.

Painting pebbles

Painting on stones looks very impressive. Who knows how to draw - this is a whole sea of ​​ideas for decorating your garden or plot in a private house.

Designers and craftsmen offer interesting images on the stone, it can be: a dog, a cat, rolled into a ball, a tiger or a bunny.

If the stone is large, you can paint the whole picture. It can be flowers with birds, a pond with lotuses and butterflies, ducks, strawberries, etc. To make the painting strong, the drawing is covered with transparent varnish.

Decorative garden figures

Crafts made of stone for a garden or vegetable garden will be a wonderful decoration. For example, you can put strawberries (colored stones) in a clay pot.

It is easy to pick up large stones for the fly agaric: paint the leg of the mushroom with white paint, and make the cap red with white specks.

You can make a large basket of stones with cement, where you can pour soil and plant bright flowers.

Flower garden castle

An aesthetic pleasure - a flower garden or a fairytale castle made of stones. Square (round) turrets can be folded from sea stones. Make a roof and small stone walls. Inside the colorful castle is the soil with lush bushes of flowers.

Important! The main thing is to first level the site for work, then fix the selected stones with cement.

Mill

A mill with wooden blades looks beautiful on the site. It will fit into the landscape of any design. Around you can decorate the space with flowers.

Alpine slides, terraces and others original crafts, like a waterfall of stones, will effectively decorate the site. This design will become a magnet for families, children and guests.

Stones are an excellent material for creativity, there is no limit to imagination. Experiment, it's insanely fun for the whole family.

We offer ideas for joint creativity in the photo of crafts from stones, you will succeed!

Photo of crafts from stones

Stone is a natural material that people have been using since ancient times. They made tools of labor, built a dwelling from it. 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 home or personal plot. DIY stone crafts can be both complex and very simple.

Simple pebble crafts

Even without great abilities, you can build something unusual out of this material. Anyone can make cacti out of stone. To make a craft, you 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.

Work process:

• Pour sand into a 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 they can be used to decorate the veranda on the garden plot.

With the help of stone, you can decorate a fountain in an unusual way, 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 your personal plot. Depending on the size of the boulder, it is possible to make animal figurines. Large cobblestones are installed near the entrance to the house, like guards, and small ones are suitable for the house as decoration.

Many are interested not only in what can be done from cobblestone, but also what kind of stone is better to use for crafts. Natural is preferred because of its unusual beauty. It is not just that many designers use only natural boulders to create unusual interiors.

Stone flowers

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

Stone flowers or flower arrangement is easy to paint on a boulder... This requires a cobblestone big size with a flat surface. It needs to be washed and dried well. Acrylic paints and brushes are used for drawing. different kind to paint both small and large details in the composition.

From below, the stone must be designed so that it looks like a basket made of branches. Then they paint different flowers. You can depict scarlet roses, large poppies or original pansies. The main thing is that the surface of the stone is not 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 be used to 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 rubber or carpet base. To form an unusual image, stones must be of different sizes and shades.

Before making a rug, you need to draw it on paper. It is also necessary to prepare the base: thoroughly clean and give it the required 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 the massage mat, stones with a large bulge are used.

Stone jewelry

What else is possible to make from this natural material? If the family has children, then needlework will only benefit them, since it will develop in them fine motor skills hands. To do original jewelry, use small pebbles from the seashore. She is preferred because of its streamlined shape.

Holes are made in the stones with a drill for collecting unusual beads or bracelets. Also, beautiful unusual earrings can be made of stone. To do this, in a special supermarket, you need to buy a base, glue and paints. Of all the stones, a couple of similar ones are 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. Using 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. Walls are faced with it both outside and inside. Advantages of artificial stone:

• In beauty it is not inferior to natural material;
• It is lightweight;
• Easy to handle;
• Great profitability.

However, there are also disadvantages, including a significant level of surface wiping. But this only matters when this material is used to form garden paths. After some time, the coating on the material loses color when exposed to sunlight.

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

It is required to comply with easy, 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. In the design of the site, asymmetry should be clearly expressed. Professionals in Japan also take into account the reflection of objects in the water and the shadows cast by them.
• 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 trickle on the site or arrange a natural small pond. Small waterfalls or fountains look great. Forming the walls for support, it is possible to decorate the courtyard of your site, this solution will be relevant for summer cottages located on the mountain.

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

Crafts made from stones are simple, but quite interesting handicrafts that can captivate kids, developing their imagination and the abilities of a professional designer. In the process of making the craft, time will be usefully spent, and people around will admire the work done.

If you decide to arrange your country or country cottage area in an unusual way, it makes sense for you to pay attention to DIY stone crafts. Constructions and products from ordinary natural stone or sea pebbles allow you to achieve a unique natural landscape effect even in the city center. In addition, the interiors and objects decorated by them bring eco-motives into the premises, which makes it possible to add original notes even to a standard office setting.

Crafts from stones that you can do yourself have several varieties. So, for example, from them you can make figurines for the garden, which are used in landscape design and simply decorate a garden or summer cottage. Around them, by the way, a local landscape can form, for example, an alpine slide can be built near a gnome figurine.

Another option for their use in design and decor is painting on stone and making crafts from it using glue. Such products can be used both in a suburban area and indoors. It can be either a single painted boulder, or a whole product, for example, a tableware stand made of glued pebbles.

Seashell crafts go well with the aquarium

By the way, handicrafts made from shells and stones made with your own hands are perfectly combined with an aquarium, forming a special water zone in the room. As a result, it is possible to execute the office in nautical style, where the main element will be an aquarium with marine life, and accessories made of stone will only complement it. If necessary, the aquarium can be replaced with any part from the attributes of sailors, for example, a steering wheel or an imitation of a boarding weapon.

Another type of such crafts are various accessories and gifts. They are usually made of small stones, from which figures of people and animals are made. A pipe can be cut from soft rock types. In addition, specially selected specimens can serve as a decoration or a talisman for a person. To do this, you need not only to beautifully process them, but also to pick them up in accordance with the sign of the Zodiac or the year of birth.

Various jewelry can be made from stones, such as bracelets.

You can improve your qualifications by attending master classes in the relevant areas. They are usually free of charge, or you will only be charged for the cost of the material used during the lesson. Over time, having learned how to make a variety of crafts in various techniques, you yourself will be able to give certain master classes.

Types of stone crafts

Hand-made stone crafts exist in several forms, depending on the technique of execution. So, the following techniques for working with stone are currently used:

• stone painting;
• mosaic;
• stone cutting.

Painting on a stone is done with paints that fit well on its surface. It can be both acrylic paints and enamels. In this way, you can arrange both fairly large objects and hand-made stone crafts for children. Painted stones are a great accessory and can also serve as a gift or an element of landscape design. For example, with their help, you can arrange a fabulous corner on the site, where you can arrange painted stone figures representing certain fabulous characters.

The mosaic technique consists in the selection of stones by color and gluing them on a solid basis. As a result, it is possible in this way to create various colored panels, graphic elements and real paintings. In this case, you can take shells, pebbles, multi-colored rubble as a material. In addition to creating the mosaic itself, this method can be used to decorate flower pots and other elements of the decoration of the room.

If we consider crafts from small stones, made by hand, such a method of processing as cutting is excellent for working with them. Stone carving can be used to make small figures such as netsuke. In addition, if you have soft rock at your disposal, it is quite suitable for creating a real sculpture. Such figures can perfectly fit into the interior of your suburban area, and if you wish, then it is quite possible for them to find a place inside your home.

There are other methods and techniques for working with this material, for example, it can be used as an auxiliary material for beading or creating jewelry. As for the simplest crafts, for example, bracelets or necklaces, you can easily make them without having any special knowledge of stone processing techniques. To do this, using a drill, it is quite enough to drill the soft rocks you need and string them onto a silicone thread or wire.

Stone crafts with children

Children can also make crafts from stones with their own hands. For them, this will not only be great fun, but also give them the opportunity to do things that are useful to them on their own. So, for example, you can paint stones with children. That being said, your best bet is to use acrylic paints and gouache.

Attention! Usually, sea or river pebbles are painted, as they have a smooth surface.

You can paint as one stone, or several. If you paint 1 pebble, it can be a great gift, or it can be used as a single decorative element when decorating a child's room.

In the same case, when you paint a group of stones, you can create some composition from them. So, for example, among children, cacti are very popular, which can be made from pebbles of a rounded and oblong shape by painting it in green color and attaching it to match needles using plasticine. Such cacti will look spectacular in a pot decorated with colored rubble or granite chips.

With children, you can make various applications using stones

In addition, various small stone mosaics can be performed with children. To do this, it is enough to have multi-colored small pebbles and PVC glue available. Next, you simply select the pebbles by color, and glue them on the same colored paper, plywood or wood. As a result, very unusual paintings can be created from pebbles, and if you add other materials to it, you get original panel created in the genre of naive art.

Crafts from a stone for a garden

If you want to make DIY stone crafts for the garden, then you will have a whole sea of ​​possibilities for this. So, one of the common areas of use of stone in the garden is the manufacture of a wide variety of decorative figures. They have a purely aesthetic function, but some figures can serve, for example, as a flower garden. To do this, you can lay out a turtle from suitable boulders, the shell of which will serve you as a flower garden.

The second common way to do various homemade products in the garden are crafts made from sea stones, folded with their own hands in the form of garden paths or places for rest. There is no particular difficulty in making them, since for this you just need to level a suitable platform and lay the stone you have selected on the ground.

A flowerbed in the form of a castle using stones will look great in the garden.

Attention! With the help of stones, you can decorate artificial reservoirs located in the summer cottage and garden area.

In this case, you can make crafts from sea stones with your own hands if you study the corresponding photos posted on sites dedicated to landscape design. Usually, they consider options for decorating the side, as well as the bottom of such reservoirs. They can be decorated various figures, as well as just beautiful pebbles and boulders.

The fourth option for using this building material in the garden is landscape design. So, not only flower beds and flowerpots are made from stones, but also alpine slides and multi-level terraces are made. Also, with their help, you can divide the site into several work areas, highlighting, for example, a recreation area. By the way, the brazier can also be made of stone, placing boulders in a special way.

Unusual ways to use stone in decor

There are also unusual ways decorating rooms with stone. So, for example, large pieces of rock or pebbles can be used as decoration for furniture handles and doors, just stick them on the handle with PVC glue or fix them through the drilled hole with a self-tapping screw. You can decorate walls or mirrors in the same way.

If you decide to decorate the shoe rack in this way, then this can be done even easier. You simply take a shallow plastic or metal container that is the size of your intended shoe rack, put soil in it, and on top of it there are stones, such as rubble. Such a stand will not only look unusual, but will also allow your shoes to dry quickly after rain, as all the moisture from them will go through the ground.

Roughly the same craft can be done in order to equip the entrance to your house. To do this, you will need to take a regular silicone mat and stick even pebbles on it. The result is a stone rug that will also allow unnecessary water to drain off your porch and trap dirt so it won't get inside your home.

Attention! Designers claim that stones are so versatile that they can completely transform almost any room.

DIY garden crafts can bring you great pleasure. Choose the one that best suits your character and your garden design. let's try to make garden figurines out of cement with our own hands. The process is surprisingly not as complicated as it seems. But the result is really surprising!

See what beautiful flower containers you can make with grout and an old rag. That's really, really, crafts from scrap materials!

Decorative openwork ball made of cement.

For work, we need a cement solution - we knead a thick solution 1 part of sand, 1 part of cement.

We immerse the rope in the solution, it can also be strips from an old T-shirt, etc. Inflate Balloon, we prepare a stand for him, where he will dry. It could be a regular bucket. We wrap the ball with a rope in a cement mortar.

After the solution has dried, blow off the ball with a needle. Everything! Our garden art object is ready. Can be painted as desired.

Original crafts for the cement garden.

Agree, it looks like dragon eggs)) We will make this out of cement.

We take, all the same balloon and cover it with cement mortar. Here you can add a tablespoon of gypsum to the solution, only you need to work quickly.

After the solution has dried, remove the ball and paint the inside of the egg. Can be used like easter decor in the country - by making a floral arrangement of primroses in it.

Crafts for the garden. DIY cement garden gnomes.

These cute garden gnomes are made very easy too.

For the gnome, we need cement, a metal bar, a stocking and ropes. Pour the cement solution into the stocking, for strength we insert metal reinforcement into it. Twisting the rope, we form noses, legs. Let's not forget about the beard - this is an additional piece of material under the gnome's nose. We hang the gnome by the top of the hat and leave it to dry.

When the cement is dry, we remove the gnome and polish it on top with a more liquid solution of cement and gypsum. We are waiting for the gnome to dry and we can tint or paint. Nice ones, aren't they?

Garden fountain with leaves.

We will not talk about the principles of creating a fountain in the country. This topic is a separate article, and you can read it in detail here. We will be making the leaves out of cement.
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We need enough big leaf, and using cement, we create a copy of it.

After drying, the sheet can be worked out in more detail and painted.

And you will become, almost free of charge, the owner of such a beautiful fountain.

Original flower beds with your own hands.

Are you not a sculptor at all? But believe me, you can make these original flower containers.

We need a plastic container, foam, reinforcing mesh. We make a cement mortar by adding a spoonful of gypsum directly to the palm with the mortar and this is how we form our "sculpture"

But not all of us are fans of modern abstract art. But you can easily make garden crafts in a classic style.

But since you are not a sculptor yet, you need a template - it could very well be an old doll.

Because it will be not just a decorative garden figurine, but a flower garden in the form of a girl's head, then upper part need to be cut.

Then the head is painted. In order to give the texture, the template is painted first with a dark gray paint. Allow to dry and apply a layer of lighter paint. After drying, a layer of even lighter paint is applied with light strokes.

This is a very simple process, and all the examples of this style that you see in the article were made by teenagers in a labor lesson.

Beautiful crafts for the garden. DIY garden figurines.

For those who liked the process of making concrete crafts, we will tell you another simply stunning technique for creating garden figurines.

Yes, we need the old doll again!

First, we strengthen the doll with hot glue and a bamboo sushi stick on a heavy stand. By the way, we can also make it from cement. cut the angel's wings out of foam, attach it to the doll with hot glue. Give the doll a new dress and, with the help of hot glue strokes, create a more interesting texture on the wings and hair.

We coat our template with a solution of cement and gypsum. We paint.

Now, with the help of old toys, you can make almost any garden figurine yourself.

Flowerbed cat.

This funny cat flower bed is made of a plastic bottle and cement. We will need: cement, sand, plaster, water, a large plastic bottle, wire, paint, wooden slats, varnish.

The owner of this cat, Natasha Koneva, will tell us how to make such a funny figure with our own hands. Trimming plastic bottle- it is this container that will be our flower garden. To prevent the cement from slipping off the plastic, we wrap it tightly with wire. We knock down a wooden frame from the rails. We attach our plastic container to it.

We mix the cement mortar with the consistency of thick sour cream at the rate of 1 part of sand, 1 part of cement. We will add gypsum only to the finished portion, which is in our hand, because the gypsum solution hardens instantly. We work in rubber gloves.

We take a handful of solution in our hand and add a tablespoon of gypsum to it. We knead it in our hands, roll it up with sausage and attach it to the frame. So step by step we put portions of the solution on top of each other, creating the necessary bulges and smoothing the surface.

We sculpt the face of our cat from small balls of solution in much the same way as we sculpted from plasticine in childhood. In order for small parts to hold better, before attaching them to the body, we lubricate the surface of the figure with water.

With a damp hand, polish the surface of our garden figurine. To dry, cover the figurine with cellophane for 3-4 days. On the first day, the figure must be periodically additionally moistened with water. After drying, sand the surface with sandpaper.

You can paint such a figure with water-based paint, enamel, car paints. After painting, we cover the surface with varnish. For the winter, the garden figurine must be removed from the street, because it can crack from frost. Perhaps you also want to get yourself such a wonderful cat.
The great thing about cement figurines is that they are cheap to make compared to metal or wood garden figurines. You can start with simple crafts for the garden, which can be no less interesting than some particularly complex ones. You can combine cement with other materials. - for the face of this little garden fairy " ladybug Took the head of an old doll.

Crafts made from sea stones or all kinds of shells can decorate not only your home, but also the area adjacent to it. Even children can create a huge number of toys and various things from them.

What you need to create crafts: tools and materials

Any stones that are collected on the sea or river bank are suitable for making souvenirs.

Pebbles can be any:

• to size;
• smooth as gloss or rough;
• plain or painted with streaks or blotches;
• transparent or translucent.

They create panels from it, decorate frames for paintings or photographs, decorate a variety of containers, sometimes even large surfaces, create all kinds of characters, pave garden paths. They go well with others. natural materials... They are used to decorate the interior of premises or a garden plot.

You even have to dive to the depths for especially valuable shells. They are collected in the summer, however, on overseas beaches this can be done at any time of the year, and only empty. Someone buys them in souvenir shops. And although many unusual shells are found on the shore of a lake or river, it is sea shells that are recognized as the most attractive and suitable for crafts.

They will look great on all sorts of frames, from which you can create panels and paintings - real masterpieces.

Glue, paints and other materials for creativity

Sea stones and shells are not the only things that will be required in the process of working on crafts. Usually, the farm will find a lot of what is needed, and if something is lacking, you can always buy it.

What you need:

• ordinary and hardening plasticine, which is distinguished by the ability to harden after some time in the air;
• clay;
• paints - gouache, watercolor or acrylic;
• glue;
• nail polish (sometimes acrylic);
• salty dough:

1. Take flour and salt in a glass, mix with half a glass of water and a tablespoon of starch or PVA glue. Glue is used when you need to sculpt thin shapes.
2. For storage, the dough is put in a bag and in the refrigerator, no more than a month. Later, it is enough to paint it with gouache, watercolors or food coloring, in order to give the product the required color, cover it with varnish, dry it in the oven and remove it completely cooled down.

• gypsum;
• any sand;
• shards of glass;
• flexible soft wire;
• scraps of fabric, leather, suede, fur, yarn or thread;
• cardboard (plywood is possible);
• beads, beads, buttons;
• containers made of glass or ceramics.

Crafts from sea stones and shells with a similar set of very valuable things in the house will not be difficult to make.

Tools

To work, you will also need some tools:

• pencil;
• awl;
• brushes;
• various stacks;
• round-nose pliers for working with wire;
• drill;
• file;
• sandpaper.

Workplace and safety

The workspace must be properly organized.

Old oilcloth or newspapers should be used to cover the work table. Provide the workplace with a light source. A work gown or apron will help keep your clothes clean. An old T-shirt is enough for a child. In the summer and on fresh air you can work sitting on the veranda or balcony.

You will have to use a portable box to fit necessary materials and tools.

Safety precautions should be given special attention, especially if children are involved in the work:

Work	Precautionary measures
With drill	Goggles or mask for eye protection, gloves (cannot be used with children)
WITH salt dough	Electric or gas oven (only under adult supervision)
With varnish	Do not keep the container open for a long time. You can pour some varnish into a plastic cup and close again. The room must be well ventilated. After work, the brush should be rinsed in solvent
Working with 10% hydrochloric acid solution	Handle acid using an old toothbrush and gloves to protect your hands. You should protect your eyes

Preparation of seashells and stones

It is enough to rinse the pebbles with boiling water, and it is ready to work. You will have to work hard with shells.

The first thing is cleaning:

• It is enough to soak "dead" shells for half an hour in a chlorine-containing agent diluted with an equal part of water;
• too dirty shells are soaked longer, then they are cleaned with a brush, rinsed in water;
• "Live", in which there are remains of mollusks, because of which they emit a disgusting smell, it is necessary to clean it especially diligently. Boil for 5 minutes. will allow you to easily remove the remains of shellfish with tongs or nail scissors, after which the shells should be treated with a chlorine-containing agent.

Some crafts require a hole to be drilled. The main thing is that cracks do not appear on the shell, or it does not delaminate at the point of drilling. It is recommended to pre-glue the shell with masking tape, put it on a flat surface and put a mark on the inside.

The hole in it can be done in two ways:

1. Manual... If there is no screwdriver or drill, then there is a nail and a hammer. A nail is carefully placed on the mark and tapped with a hammer until the initial hole is formed. Expand it to the desired diameter, making translational movements inside the hole with the same nail.
2. Automated(with a drill or screwdriver). You will need a drill with a diameter not exceeding 0.8 - 2 mm. If you drill a hole with tape, the shell will not be damaged.

How to remove chips and cracks in shells and stones?

The treated shells should be carefully inspected to ensure they are not chipped or cracked. It is quite difficult to find perfect shells without such damage.

To polish the surface of shells, you can use:

• sandpaper;
• bar;
• disk.

The lacquer coating will hide even invisible cracks and give the material a shine.

Master Class

Crafts from sea stones and shells are not the only thing that you can do with your own hands. Interior items and landscape design elements are created from these materials. You can involve children and all household members in this business.

DIY sea shells frame

Materials required:

• seashells, pearls, starfish, or skate figurines;
• unnecessary paper;
• epoxy glue (if necessary);
• Scotch;
• glue gun.

Crafts made from sea stones and shells can be an adornment of any, even the most uncomplicated, interior.

Manufacturing instruction:

1. Cover the mirror with paper, use tape to secure it.
2. The size is required to disassemble the shells.
3. Stick in the first row closest to the mirror, even shells from among small or medium ones.
4. Now you can glue large ones, filling the voids between them with smaller shells.

When using epoxy adhesive, the frame must dry first.

Panel of shells and sea stones

Materials required:

• seashells;
• leg-split;
• cardboard;
• scissors;
• glue gun.

Video selection of panoramas made of stones and seashells:

Manufacturing instruction:

1. Draw the shape of the future panel on cardboard.
2. Cut out the cardboard base.
3. Make two holes.
4. Glue the shells on the cardboard base more tightly to each other, leave the holes for the loop open.
5. Pass the two ends of the rope of the required length from the inside out into the holes. Double knots will keep the loop from slipping out of the holes.

In a product with seashells, you can intersperse pebbles.

Painting of shells

Materials required:

• seashells;
• template or stencil of drawing on paper;
• stretched canvas;
• acrylic paint and brush (if necessary);
• glue gun.

Manufacturing instruction:

1. You should create a background on the canvas using the paint of the desired color.
2. Wait until it is completely dry.
3. Fix the template on the canvas with masking tape.
4. Draw the outline of the drawing with a pencil.
5. Glue shells one after another, trying not to go beyond the boundaries of the picture.

Sea shell candlestick

Materials required:

• large shells;
• candles in molds;
• pan;
• water;
• PVA glue (2-sided tape can be used).

Manufacturing instruction:

1. It is necessary to remove the candle so that the wick, container and the candle itself are separate.
2. Glue the wick in the center of the shell.
3. In a water bath in molds, melt the paraffin until it turns into a liquid.
4. Gently pour paraffin into the shells.

The paraffin will completely harden after 20 minutes.

Candlestick made of bivalve shells

Materials required:

• flat shells;
• plate as a base;
• glue gun;
• beads, figurines of a marine theme.

Manufacturing instruction:

1. You need to sort the shells by size.
2. Glue one layer of shells to the base - the largest.
3. Stick new tiers on top of the lower one, one after the other (it is recommended to overlap the shells).
4. Cover all free gaps with decorative elements.
5. Cover the finished product with colorless varnish (white paint can be used).

Wind chime from seashells

There should be a ring at the base, but this is not required. The forms can be different.

Materials required:

• seashells, sea ​​stars, beads, corals, pieces of glass;
• jute twine or any other thread;
• wire for beads;
• willow branches;
• crochet hook;
• knitting threads;
• scissors;
• glue gun (you can use a drill with a small drill, nail scissors or a needle).

Manufacturing instruction:

1. The willow branches must be boiled for 2 hours, then cooled and the bark removed from them.
2. Form a ring out of the branches, braiding some branches with others (the branches should be wet), align it and leave to dry overnight.
3. From clear varnish for nails and wire to prepare flowers.
4. Tie seashells (let them be delicate).
5. Prepare several beads by stringing each one on a wire and securing.
6. Cut 8 ropes of 120 cm each.
7. Attach the details to a string: some are simply tied, some are glued - and tie it to the base ring, leaving a hanging end. Do the same with the rest of the ropes.
8. Gather the free ends into a bundle and tie it with a separate thread. If the ropes are unevenly loaded with parts, it is difficult to achieve balance. And this is necessary for the correct manufacture of crafts. So, when distributing beads, shards, stars and shells along the rope, you will have to keep an eye on the balance.
9. From the resulting start, tie a pigtail up to 10 cm long and form a loop out of it. Wrap the base with one of the threads, and cut the rest.

The willow branches can be replaced with a hoop and wrapped in twine.

Ship made of shells

The base of the sailboat will be a large rapana shell.

Materials required:

• shells of different sizes;
• stone as a stand;
• wooden skewers;
• threads (preferably with lurex);
• glue gun.

Manufacturing instruction:

1. It is necessary to depict the ship schematically on paper (it is recommended to indicate the order of the shells with numbers).
2. Fold the future sails of the sailboat from shells: there should be 2 masts, one lower than the other, in which there are 4 and 5 shells.
3. The first larger shell must be glued to the skewer; it is recommended to apply the glue in 2 places: at the top and on the side. Each subsequent sink should be smaller than the previous one (or, conversely, all the same size).
4. Next, you need to make the boat's nose - stick the skewer along the rapana.
5. First, glue the finished masts to the large shell perpendicularly, then the side sails.
6. Apply a drop of glue to the end of the skewer and wrap the edge with thread.
7. First, stretch the thread to the mast, wrap it, lower it down and glue it with a shell. Then again raise the thread up and wrap one mast, transfer it to another and repeat the steps. After the thread is glued to the rapa, the excess can be cut off.
8. The boat must be fixed to the stone with glue - it must stand firmly on the stand.

A child will gladly take part in the construction of such a ship.

Seashell flower

Materials required:

• seashells;
• wire;
• frame;
• velvet fabric;
• beads and beads;
• glue;
• clothespins.

Manufacturing instruction:

1. We need to make some flowers. For one, you will need to connect 3 shells of the same size using transparent glue. Flowers may be different color and size.
2. Cover the finished products with varnish, decorating in the middle of each of them with a large bead or beads.
3. Glue the fabric to the frame.
4. A kind of stem and leaves should be built from the wire and attached to the fabric.
5. Strengthen the buds along the wire in any order.
6. Wait until it is completely dry and cover with glass.

Applications for children

Crafts from sea stones and shells are best done with children. You can create applications for the most different topics, for example, the underwater kingdom.

Materials required:

• seashells, pebbles, feathers and dry moss;
• corrugated paper blue and brown;
• wooden frame;
• plasticine;
• salt painted in yellow;
• PVA glue.

Manufacturing instruction:

1. The paper needs to be fixed to the frame, it will become the background - blue water and brown seabed.
2. Glue dry blades of grass - algae.
3. For a crab figurine, pick up shells: 1 larger - the body, 4 smaller - the legs, 2 very small - the eye.
4. Transfer the crab to the paper, gently glueing each shell.
5. Make up a few fish (shells instead of a body, a feather tail and plasticine eyes), and "float" in the picture.
6. Add dry moss.
7. Glue the shells to the bottom.
8. Coat the free areas of the bottom with glue and cover with gouache-colored salt.
9. Decorate the wooden frame with a variety of shells.

Decoupage

If you managed to find a large stone on the seashore, smooth and flat, you can decorate it using the napkin technique. It is called decoupage.

Materials required:

• white water-based paint;
• napkins in 3 layers with a bright large pattern;
• PVA glue.
• acrylic paints.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. It is necessary to paint the stone with water-based paint.
2. Separate all layers of the napkin and cut the drawing from the first.
3. Soak the picture with glue (it is recommended to start from the middle) and carefully glue it to the stone so as not to form folds.
4. Wait until it is completely dry.
5. Draw acrylic paints, painting, if necessary add sparkles, rhinestones, and other additional decorations.
6. To varnish the surface.
7. Dry for 2 days.
8. Varnish on the other side.

In total, up to 3 layers of varnish are required. Finished product you can decorate the flower pot or just leave it on the coffee table.

Decorations for landscape compositions

Pebbles fit perfectly into the surrounding landscape, therefore they are widely used in landscape design of different stylistic directions. For a creative person, this is just a godsend. A garden path made of sea stones will turn out to be quite strong.

Materials required:

• pebbles of different sizes;
• stone chips;
• sand;
• concrete mix;
• level;
• plywood (can be replaced with film or tarpaulin);
• water;
• hose;
• hammer (made of wood or rubber);
• hard brush.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Remove the soil layer, set curbs along the edges of the path.
2. Lay polyethylene on the ground.
3. Pour a layer of sand, and on top of it crushed stone.
4. Prepare a solution: 4 parts of sand and 1 part of cement, pour it over a mound.
5. Lay the pebbles after wetting them.

Advice! The solution dries out too quickly, so it is better to lay out the path in small areas.

1. Tamp down the pebbles with a rubber mallet as soon as the small area has been paved.
2. Fill the space between the stones with a more liquid solution.
3. After 3 hours, spray water along the path and cover with foil.
4. After a while, sprinkle with water again, but do not cover with foil anymore, wait until it dries.

About ornament

Patterned tracks look spectacular... First, you need to disassemble the stones in size, shape and color, then make a sketch of the ornament and its template, and put the last in the mortar. Pebbles look great whether they are laid flat or edged.

The path is the classic and most common option for decorating a site.

Make a backlight and it, created from a light stone, will become "moonlight", and from a colored one - contrasting. However, this is not the only design trick. Pebbles can help hide uneven terrain or not particularly attractive objects in the area.

This could be:

• high flower bed, steps or alpine slide;
• garden sculptures - no restrictions on creativity;
• fencing.

DIY crafts from sea stones and shells are a source of countless ideas for creativity. Sea pebbles can be easily converted into marine life. The child can even handle it himself. The main thing is to tell him how, with the help of a brush and paints, you can make fish of various colors.

And then it will not be difficult to find an application for them:

• put in an aquarium;
• make a mosaic on a personal plot;
• just play with them in the water.

Can be collected on playground a whole town of fabulous houses or, armed with a glue gun, transfer the pebbles to the panel, using as a basis:

• cardboard;
• plastic;
• even a wooden fence.

You can lay out a flower bed in the form of a mosaic of stone flowers. Pebbles will make a great portrait of a friend. You can make several stone men and even lay out a whole scene from life. The child will rejoice, turning ordinary pebbles into cheerful animals.

You don't have to limit yourself to miniature crafts. You can create something more significant from this material, such as a dry stream, a mosaic carpet by the house or by the pool. Having a cowrie shell and contacting a handicraft store for accessories, you can make a boho bracelet.

If you do crafts with your children, they will gladly paint sea stones and glue shells. Such a joint pastime is sure to bring family members even closer together.

Article formatting: E. Chaikina

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