In this article we will look at different variations of stone applications that the whole family can make with their own hands for children, and with their help develop creative abilities, as well as instill accuracy and patience in the younger generation.
Even such a natural material as stones is perfect for creativity. Here is a step-by-step instruction on how to make an applique from stones.
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DIY stone applications are also suitable for first grade children. Moreover, since these are already schoolchildren, they can make the blanks themselves. To do this, you need to warn the children about the upcoming lesson and ask them to bring smooth pebbles, cardboard, and glue.
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The process will be very simple:
Thus, 1st grade students will be given a choice for creativity, they will be able to fully express their imagination. And each work will be unique.
Applications made from sea stones and shells are very beautiful and unique. Here is one example of such work with step-by-step instructions.
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This craft is perfect for doing together with parents or for older children.
Here is another option for appliqué made of stones. With some simple DIY steps you can create a very beautiful tree for children.
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Your work is ready.
Thus, with the help of stones and shells or just a variety of pebbles, you can create beautiful paintings that can be made by both kindergarten children and 1st grade students, and, if desired, even older ones. Moreover, applications can be glued onto cardboard, fabric, and paper.
If you decide to decorate your country or summer cottage in an unusual way, it makes sense for you to pay attention to crafts made from stones with your own hands. Structures and products made from ordinary natural stone or sea pebbles make it possible to achieve a unique natural landscape effect even in the city center. In addition, interiors and objects decorated with them bring eco-motives inside the premises, which makes it possible to add original notes even to a standard office environment.
Crafts from stones that you can make with your own hands have several varieties. For example, they can be used to make figurines for the garden, which are used in landscape design and simply decorate a garden or summer cottage. By the way, a local landscape can be formed around them; for example, an alpine hill can be built near a gnome figurine.
Another option for using them in design and decoration is painting on stone and making crafts from it using glue. Such products can be used both in a suburban area and indoors. This can be either a single painted boulder or a whole product, for example, a stand for tableware made from glued pebbles.
Crafts made from shells go well with an aquarium
By the way, handmade crafts made from shells and stones go well with an aquarium, forming a special water zone in the room. As a result, you can create a study in a marine style, where the main element will be an aquarium with sea inhabitants, and accessories made of stone will only complement it. If necessary, the aquarium can be replaced with any part of 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 figurines of people and animals are made. A tube can be cut from soft rocks. In addition, specially selected specimens can serve as decoration or a person’s talisman. To do this, you need not only to process them beautifully, but also to select them in accordance with your zodiac sign or year of birth.
Stones can be used to make various jewelry, such as bracelets
You can improve your qualifications by attending master classes in relevant areas. They are usually free, or you will only be charged for the cost of the material used during the class. Over time, having learned how to make a variety of crafts using various techniques, you yourself will be able to give one or another master class.
DIY stone crafts come in several types depending on the technique used. Thus, the following techniques for working with stone are currently used:
Stone painting is done with paints that adhere well to its surface. These can be either acrylic paints or enamels. Using this method, you can decorate both fairly large objects and handmade stone crafts for children. Painted stones are an excellent accessory and can also serve as a gift or as an element of landscape design. For example, with their help you can create a fairy-tale corner on your site, where you can place painted stone figures representing certain fairy-tale characters.
The mosaic technique consists of selecting stones by color and gluing them onto a solid base. As a result, you can create various colored panels, graphic elements and real paintings in this way. In this case, you can take shells, pebbles, and multi-colored crushed stone as materials. In addition to creating the mosaic itself, this method can be used to decorate flower pots and other elements of room decoration.
If we consider handmade crafts made from small stones, cutting them is an excellent way to work with them. Using stone carving, you can make small figures, for example, netsuke. In addition, if you have soft rock at your disposal, it is quite suitable for creating a real sculpture. Such figures can fit perfectly into the interior of your suburban area, and if you wish, they can easily find a place inside your home.
There are other ways and techniques for working with this material, for example, it can be used as an auxiliary material for beading or creating costume jewelry. As for the simplest crafts, for example, bracelets or necklaces, you can easily make them without any special knowledge of stone processing techniques. To do this, it is enough to use a drill to drill the soft rock stones you need and string them on a silicone thread or wire.
Children can also make crafts from stones with their own hands. This will not only be great fun for them, but will also give them the opportunity to do things that are useful to them on their own. For example, you can paint stones with your children. In this case, it is best for you to use acrylic paints and gouache.
Attention! Usually sea or river pebbles are painted, since they have a smooth surface.
You can paint one stone or several. If you paint 1 pebble, it can make 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 kind of composition from them. For example, cacti are very popular among children, which can be made from round and oblong pebbles, painted green and attached to match needles using plasticine. Such cacti will look impressive in a pot decorated with colored crushed stone or granite chips.
With children you can make various applications using stones
In addition, with children you can make various mosaics from small stones. 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 onto the same colored paper, plywood or wood. As a result, you can create very unusual paintings from pebbles, and if you add other materials to it, you will get an original panel created in the genre of naive art.
If you want to make stone crafts with your own hands for the garden, then you will have a whole sea of possibilities for this. Thus, one of the common uses of stone in the garden is the production of a wide variety of decorative figures. They serve a purely aesthetic function, but some figures can serve, for example, as a flower bed. 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 make various homemade projects in the garden is crafts made from sea stones, made with your own hands in the form of garden paths or places to relax. There is no particular difficulty in making them, since all you need to do is level a suitable area and lay the stone you have selected on the ground.
A flowerbed in the shape of a castle using stones will look great in the garden
Attention! With the help of stones you can decorate artificial reservoirs located in your summer cottage and garden.
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 designing the side, as well as the bottom of such reservoirs. They can be decorated with various shapes, as well as simply beautiful pebbles and boulders.
The fourth option for using this building material in the garden is landscape design. Thus, not only flower beds and flowerpots are made from stones, but also alpine slides, as well as multi-level terraces. They can also be used to divide an area into several work areas, highlighting, for example, a recreation area. By the way, the grill can also be made of stone by arranging the boulders in a special way.
There are also unusual ways to decorate rooms with stone. For example, large pieces of rock or pebbles can be used as decoration for furniture and door handles; you just need to stick them on the handle using PVC glue or secure them through a drilled hole with a self-tapping screw. You can decorate walls or mirrors in the same way.
If you decide to decorate a shoe stand in this way, it will be even easier to do. You simply take a shallow container made of plastic or metal the size of your intended shoe stand, place soil in it, and stones, such as crushed stone, on top. Such a stand will not only look unusual, but will also allow your shoes to dry quickly after rain, since all the moisture from them will drain through the ground.
You can make approximately the same craft to decorate the entrance to your home. To do this, you will need to take a regular silicone mat and stick even pebbles on it. The result is a stone mat that will also allow unnecessary water to drain away from the porch and will trap dirt so it won't end up inside your home.
Attention! Designers claim that stones are so versatile that they can be used to completely transform almost any room.
You can make various crafts from sea or river pebbles and decorate your interior or area. Let's first look at the simplest children's crafts made from stones.
On any pebble you can stick colored beads in the shape of a flower, sun, etc.
Wash a transparent glass of any shape thoroughly, put pebbles of the same color (gray or black) of approximately the same size inside. Place a large candle inside the stones. This original candlestick will decorate your interior.
You can choose flat elliptical or round pebbles. They can easily be made to look like flowers - cacti.
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Such unusual handmade stone crafts will decorate not only eco style, but also a child’s room in any direction.
Stones carry special energy and have been used for healing for a long time.
You can put a rug of tightly glued stones in a certain pattern in front of the front door. For example, in the shape of a wave or a spiral, where large stones are glued along 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 mats are excellent foot massagers. The feet may point in different directions.
Pick up a large oval stone - a foot, with 5 small ones attached to it (imitation of toes). The different sizes of children's feet simply glued to a wooden surface are very impressive.
Crafts made from sea stones in the form of panels and paintings look original. You can take a piece of plywood or wood as a basis.
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Experiments are welcome, let the child develop creativity.
The painting on the stones looks very impressive. Anyone who knows how to draw has a whole sea of ideas for decorating their garden or plot in a private house.
Designers and craftsmen offer interesting images on stone, these could be: a dog, a cat curled up in a ball, a tiger cub or a bunny.
If the stone is large, you can paint a whole picture. These can be flowers with birds, a pond with lotuses and butterflies, ducks, strawberries, etc. To make the painting strong, the design is covered with transparent varnish.
Stone crafts for the garden or vegetable garden will be a wonderful decoration. For example, you can put strawberries (painted stones) in a clay pot.
It’s easy to pick up large stones for a fly agaric: paint the stem of the mushroom with white paint, and make the cap red with white speckles.
You can make a large basket from stones and cement, where you can pour soil and plant bright flowers.
Aesthetic pleasure - a flower garden or a fairy-tale castle made of stones. Square (round) turrets can be made from sea stones. Make a roof and small stone walls. Inside the colorful castle there is soil with lush bushes of flowers.
Important! The main thing is to first level the site, then secure the selected stones with cement.
A mill with wooden blades looks beautiful on the site. It will fit into the landscape of any design. You can decorate the space around with flowers.
Alpine slides, terraces and other original crafts, like a waterfall made 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 your imagination. Experiment, it's incredibly exciting for the whole family.
We offer ideas for joint creativity in photos of crafts made from stones, you will succeed!
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