Shell crafts walnut- can be a wonderful decoration for New Year's holidays. Idea to decorate christmas tree crafts only from natural material arose a long time ago. I got the idea from a friend of mine who, a few months in advance, begins to prepare for the holidays without fuss, thinking through all the decorative details in advance, making Christmas tree decorations from walnut shells with her own hands. It's always nice when your home is surrounded by handmade things.
Everyone knows that walnuts are healthy - the core can be eaten, but you need to try to carefully crack the shell to keep the two halves intact. Below in the video you will learn how to split a walnut into exactly two halves. When the shells are collected, you can begin to spend creative time, be sure to connect to this exciting activity children, they get great pleasure from such an entertaining activity.
A friend suggested exciting game, which both adults and children really liked - decorate the Christmas tree with nuts with surprises in which predictions are hidden. You can learn how to make such surprise nuts from the video:
You can decorate your Christmas tree with these original nutshell toys. To make them, you will need, in addition to the shell, burlap, twine and stamps. If you don’t have stamps, you can cut out a small figure from felt and glue it to the lid of the plastic bottle, then dip your homemade stamp in ink or paint and make an imprint on the burlap.
Soon many will go shopping in search of factory-made Christmas tree decorations, and we invite you to make your holiday decor original this year and make something like this stylish decoration for the Christmas tree.
Simple and stylish - crafts made from walnut shells for a Christmas tree
Topiary or a fairy tree made of walnuts - I have never seen anything like this!
Knitting lovers will appreciate these ideas for Christmas decorations.
Candles in nutshells - amazing and beautiful decor, which will create a festive atmosphere and beauty in the house.
Just look at what wonderful little animals can be made from walnut shells! Children will definitely be delighted with such creativity.
Walnut Tale
Walnut shell mushrooms
And this is jewelry craftsmanship
Making homemade ones beautiful jewelry from Manchurian walnut.
Looking at the nature around you, especially in autumn, you are once again convinced of its pristine beauty. She is the best creator in the whole world and the inventor of fancy ornate patterns. You just need to be able to see the unusual in the ordinary...
Who would have thought that an ordinary Manchurian nut could be so extraordinarily beautiful inside?! I invite you to appreciate this beauty and make natural jewelry out of it: carved earrings, an original bracelet and a pendant on a cord that is amazing in its simplicity.
To make a set of jewelry you will need:
Materials:
Several pieces of Manchurian nuts ( Our trees can be found on the street or in the botanical garden);
Thin twisted cord;
Blanks for earrings;
2 small rings.
Tools:
Scissors;
File;
Hacksaw;
Toothpicks.
Stages of work
1) First of all, we find a nut, clamp it in a vice and cut it into rings using a hacksaw;
2) We pick out the insides with toothpicks or a knife;
3) Grind with a file and smooth out the edges;
4) We stretch a cord into the resulting nut ring, or rather into its slots, form a loop so that the natural pendant always remains in the center, and tie the ends of the cord;
5) Insert rings into the cut walnut rings and hang them on earring blanks - you get earrings;
6) Make a loop on the lace ( in such a way that the middle finger fits into it), then we insert the ends of the cord into the holes on the cut of the nut, form a fastening knot, string the next ring, again a fastening knot and cut off the ends with a reserve for tying a knot on the hand ( when will we wear the bracelet?).
That's all. The decorations are ready. Wear and admire the beauty!
Good afternoon, today I will show you which interesting crafts Can be made from regular nut shells. We will do a lot with our own hands children's crafts from different nuts - peanuts, walnuts, hazelnuts, and even pistachios. There are funny crafts - bears, frogs, snails, crabs, bugs, hedgehogs, owls - that can be done in kindergarten or school lessons. I will also post here ideas for New Year's crafts made from nuts, which can be used to decorate a Christmas tree or a garland on New Year. You will see how interesting it is to play with simple nuts. I will also give you ready-made templates for crafts made from paper and nuts.
Crafts made from nuts
And colored cardboard.
The most simple crafts for children using nuts - these are cardboard silhouettes, where the nut plays the role of a voluminous tummy, a bird’s wing, etc. That is, in children's crafts of this kind, the nut is an auxiliary element.
You can show your imagination and use this principle to make craft silhouettes of mice, turtles, owls, hedgehogs, ducks, cats, and dogs from nuts. At the beginning of the lesson, we must decorate the shell with stripes and spots. Then use scissors to cut out the silhouette and finally attach the nut shell to the plasticine.
And such hedgehog crafts made from nuts can be an addition to an autumn composition made from natural materials. For example, take a box, cover it with moss (or sawdust) - put it on top autumn leaves, plant mushrooms from plasticine - and launch funny pot-bellied hedgehogs made from nuts into this piece of forest.
I posted many other ideas with crafts in the shape of a hedgehog in a separate article.
Also for the New Year, using this cardboard technique, you can make interesting crafts with your own hands - toys for the Christmas tree, or New Year's garland with walnut stars (as we see in the photo below).
Crafts made from nuts
and paper strips.
You can also make it from long paper strips interesting volumetric crafts for children with a nut inside. The paper is cut into a wide strip, tapering towards the end. We wrap the first half of the strip around a pencil (we form a twist roll) and release it, allowing it to unwind. On front part glue the eyes, add horns. On bottom part snail crafts - on the back - put half a walnut - on a plasticine mat so that everything sticks.
Using a similar technique, you can make a SWAN craft with your own hands (photo below) from nuts and white feathers. If you don’t have a feather, you can see it as a dummy cut out of paper. We cut out an oval and cut it in the form of a feather - like the teeth of a comb on both sides, and fluff it with our hands. This imitation of a feather can be used instead of natural fluff in this craft made from nuts and paper.
Crafts made from nuts and PLASTICINE.
During classes in kindergarten junior groups we teach children to sculpt simple shapes. The duration of the lesson (15-20 minutes) does not always allow you to sculpt large objects with many details. And that’s why it’s good when some of the parts are already ready - in the form of nuts. The walnut is used as the final element of the applique - like a cradle for a mouse, or a hollow for an owl.
Most often, children make fungus crafts from plasticine and walnut shells. You can save the plasticine and make legs from long thick sticks - which are attached to the caps using waste plasticine (left over from old crafts).
You can add beautiful autumn leaves from plasticine to your mushroom craft. We mix different plasticine lumps - autumn shades (yellow, red, orange) - let the colors smoothly transition into each other. We make circles, then ovals - flatten it into an oval pancake and draw veins in a stack.
You can use a stack to cut a leaf of a more complex shape - like oak or maple. But this is for older children. And before class, give visual examples of the shape of maple and oak leaves. So that children can put the template on a piece of plasticine, trace it along the contour with a stack, and then cut it out along the marked lines.
THIS is what you can do... Go back and forth across the Internet and look for interesting ideas for modeling plasticine. And MENTALLY try them on like a walnut (or like a peanut). And you will find a sea of ideas that you can implement using plasticine and walnuts with your own hands.
For example, a PEACOCK plasticine craft can give you the idea to place a nut (painted to match the color of a peacock’s breast) inside the craft and lay out a tile of a peacock feather pattern on top of this nut.
And the felt round bee gives ideas for a similar craft, but made from walnut.
Any oval or round shaped objects can become a source of ideas for nut crafts for children.
Any crafts that have a spherical shape can be made from round walnuts and plasticine (or other materials). Search, think - use your imagination and you will see how many ideas for crafts made from large walnuts are around you.
Painted crafts made from nuts
With my own hands.
You can paint the nut shell with gouache in any color - let it dry and draw any patterns on this background - feathers, stripes, elements of the face of any character or animal. You can use glue eyes (special ones from craft kits).
You can make these eyes yourself with nail polish. – apply a large amount of white varnish on polyethylene film and dry it – again a drop of white – dry it. Add a drop of black varnish to the center - dry it, add a black drop again, build it up - dry it. Cover the eye with transparent varnish and dry it. Peel off (or cut off from the file) the finished eye and use it for crafts.
Elements of the muzzle can be painted simply with paints with a thin brush, or with felt-tip pens of rich colors.
Painted walnut halves can be a source for quick and easy children's crafts. The children themselves will enjoy decorating the nuts. The main thing is then, after the paint has dried, spray the nut with hairspray. This way the paint won’t creep from the children’s sweaty palms from diligence.
A painted nut shell can turn into a sea of children's crafts - penguins, whales, bugs, bees, ladybugs, mice, bunnies.
You can add clothing items cut from felt or felt to crafts made from nuts. You can make clothes - from felt wool for felting - pour into a bowl warm water with soap, dip a piece of wool in water and use your hands to sculpt any shape you need from the wool, like from plasticine. Dry it and get a felt cap or cape for your DIY nut craft.
Here is another craft that uses two types of nuts - walnuts and peanuts. This festive bear can be used as a decoration for the New Year tree. Or it can be planted next to a den, a barrel of honey - inside a craft for a competition in kindergarten or to school.
The nut parts of the bear are collected on hot glue from a glue gun.
You can also make crafts like boats from nuts with your own hands. With sails. Or with oars.
Crafts made from hazelnuts (hazelnuts).
The hazelnut is similar in shape and color to the face of a mouse, squirrel or hamster. Therefore, just such a craft is asking for our hands. You can make a squirrel from nuts using plasticine or use feathers dyed in the color you want, pieces of fur or felt. You can felt a squirrel's tail from felt.
New Year's crafts made from nuts.
With my own hands.
Here are ideas for crafts made from nuts that are suitable for New Year decorations. You can make New Year's snowmen inside decorated with nut shells. A cheerful mouse or chick in a New Year's hat.
You can make New Year's crafts from nuts using delicate lace. You can buy it in a store, or crochet it yourself.
You can put the nuts in a round ring and style it as a small Christmas wreath. It can be painted in New Year's colors - red white green.
Long peanuts - sometimes shaped like snowmen - can be used to create crafts for the New Year. You can make a whole garland of snowmen from nuts.
A variety of New Year's ideas are suitable for nut material - everything you do for the New Year with your own hands can include NUT. This is the basis on which you can attach New Year’s decor in a designer way.
There are masters who make real New Year's masterpieces from ONE walnut. From acorn caps, fimoplasty and others natural materials create cozy little houses. They are decorated in Christmas style and decorate the Christmas tree for the New Year.
Crafts from pistachios.
You can also make interesting crafts from pistachio shells. Here's an example like this original way decorate the interior of a children's room. Magic birds made from pistachio halves will look beautiful on the wall of the room.
You can make bouquets of flowers from pistachio nuts.
Or post real panels. Excellent work for the competition of crafts made from natural materials.
Here are some ideas for crafts made from nuts and nut shells. Now you can do a lot of interesting things with your own hands - both in classes with children and for competitions in kindergarten and school.
Good luck with your ideas.
Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site
Many gardeners who grow Manchurian nuts do not eat its fruits because they cannot remove the kernels from the shell. But agronomist and gardener Anton Ivanovich Makunas found a way to crack the shell without damaging the grain.
I once read an article that in China they make excellent oil from the fruits of the Manchurian nut, and that’s when I became interested in how they extract the kernel from it, because you can’t make oil with the shell. I started trying different methods, but none worked good result- the shell shattered into crumbs, and with it the kernel.
But after a while, I still managed to find a way to extract the nucleolus without practically damaging it. I'll share my secret.
I harvest nuts at the end of September; by this time the outer shell dries out and they become lighter. I pick them up in bags because I love them so much. I store the bags in the basement until December, and after finishing the gardening work, I can start chopping. And after a while it is much easier to do this, because the kernel of a freshly harvested nut fits tightly to the walls of the shell. When the nuts dry, the grains are easier to remove. But you also can’t overdry them, otherwise at the slightest blow to them they will shatter into particles. To prevent the nuts from drying out, I do not peel them from the outer shell.
To extract the kernel of a Manchurian nut, you will need a birch log about 70 cm high and 30 cm in diameter and a medium-sized hammer (its working surface should not be rounded, otherwise it may slip off the nut upon impact and damage your fingers). It is best to use birch, since with a more rigid support the nut will fly apart, and if you take a log of soft wood, it will penetrate deeper into it with each blow.
On the cut of the log I make a small depression into which I insert the nut with the sharp part. It is very important to place the “nose” down; if you place it the other way around, it will crumble. Hold the nut vertically with a hammer without special effort I deliver several blows to his rear.
You should not try to crack the nut with one blow, it is better to do this with several moderate blows, this way the shell cracks and does not shatter, at the same time the internal partition is destroyed, after which it is no longer difficult to get the kernel.
Manchurian nut is much tastier than walnut, more aromatic and has no bitterness. We especially like to melt white chocolate and pour it over the kernels - the result is an extraordinary dessert. It is also very good to use in the preparation of various baked goods, and wherever walnuts are used.
Anton Makunas, agronomist, gardener.
Tough Manchurian Nut How to extract the Manchurian nut kernel Have you tried the Manchurian nut kernel? No? Give it a try. It's very tasty. Obviously tastier than walnut. But it’s unlikely that you will succeed. This nut cannot be bitten with teeth, crushed with tongs, or broken with a hammer. After being hit with a hammer or stone, the shell and kernel scatter to the sides in small crumbs. In the village of Altaisky, Altai district of the Altai Territory, there are walnut plantations in the form of forest shelterbelts in old orchards. The trees have long reached fruiting age, and the total harvest volume annually is about 10 tons. Despite such an abundance of the crop, the local population practically does not collect it and does not use it for food, although the kernel in the nut makes up 30 percent of the total weight and is a valuable food and dietary product. The reason for this is the very thick and hard shell of the nut, and its rather thick internal partition. In one article I read that in China they somehow successfully crack nuts, and the resulting grains are used in food, including for the production of high-quality nut butter. After many attempts I finally managed to find reliable way crack the Manchurian nuts. The method is quite simple. I'll share my secrets. I usually harvest the nuts themselves at the end of September. At this time, the juicy outer shell of the nuts becomes dry and such nuts are more convenient to collect and weigh less. I crack nuts in December. Until this time, I store the collected nuts in bags in the underground. To extract the kernel, you need a tall birch log 30x70 cm and a medium-sized hammer. Logs made from either hard or soft wood are not suitable as a stand. Birch is the most suitable. At the end cut of the log we make a small depression into which we insert the nose (sharp part) of the nut and with a hammer, without much effort, we make several blows to its rear part. When cracking with the fingers of your left hand, be sure to hold the nut in an upright position. You should not try to crack the nut with one blow; the result may be unexpected: the nut will break into small pieces, and your fingers may be seriously damaged by such a blow. With a few moderate blows with a hammer, the nut shell cracks, but does not shatter, but collapses; at the same time, the internal partition of the nut is destroyed, after which it is no longer difficult to get the kernel. As strange as it may seem, time, or rather, physical condition nut when removing grain also has great value. The fact is that the kernel of a freshly harvested Manchurian nut occupies all the space in the shell and fits tightly to the walls. When the nuts dry out, it is much easier to remove from the shell. You should also not overdry the nuts, because then the nut kernel will crumble into small pieces at the slightest impact. To prevent the nuts from drying out, they should be stored without peeling the soft outer shell before cracking. And one more note about the hammer. The working surface of the hammer should not be rounded. Hammer with rounded work surface upon impact, it often slips off the nut and can injure your fingers. Good luck in mining the golden core!
