It's very pleasant to be creative with your child, the process of creating a unique masterpiece brings together and allows you to reveal the talents of your child. While on vacation, collect a variety of seashells and pebbles, which you will use to create various entertaining gizmos. Crafts from cockleshells beautifully and originally complement the interior of your house. Consider several options for creating interesting toys and souvenirs for children.
Wonderful photo frame
Such a framework for photography your child can do himself, under your sensitive guidance. Prepare a wide frame without relief, glue, paint (acrylic or for Easter eggs), lacquer, beads and beads. Crafts made of shells help your child develop fine finger motility and creativity. Just show the child how to use glue and paints, and let him show his talents. If the child is still small, then you can stick the seashells that he chooses to the place on the frame that he points out. Your joint frame for the photo is ready!
Angels
When the New Year and Christmas holidays are approaching, each family starts to do a lot to decorate the house and the Christmas tree. Each child will be especially pleased to actively participate in the selection and hanging of jewelry. To the holiday was unforgettable and fascinating, stock up with satin ribbons and artificial pearls to create children's crafts made of shells to decorate the New Year tree. A large pearl will represent the head of an angel, on which you can glue a thin golden thread symbolizing a halo. On the large shell, glue the bow, replacing the wings of an angel and, a bead of pearls. It remains to attach a loop for the suspension, and the angel is ready! Such crafts made of shells will certainly become the main decoration of your Christmas tree.
Ship, shell tree, Christmas tree
Interesting are crafts made of shells for older children. Their manufacture requires more painstaking work and accuracy. To make a boat, you will need shells, glue, braid and wooden sticks of different sizes (you can use toothpicks). The base is assembled according to the type of the pyramid, gluing together all the shells. Masts are assembled separately, then securely attached to the base and decorated with a thin golden braid.
Crafts made of shells can be very diverse! For example, consider the process of creating a shell tree and a Christmas tree. Their feature is that in the process of assembling you need to use a skeleton. As a frame can be anything: a plastic bottle, a soft foam, clay, a tangle of threads and stuff. With the tree, everything is very simple: on the chosen skeleton paste the shells, starting with the base, in order of decreasing the size of the parts. The process of making shellfish is more complicated. First, prepare a pot in which the tree will stand, fill it with sand or decorative pebbles for stability. The trunk can replace any wooden stick or branch. Divide the seashells into large and small, glue them together in three pieces. The center can be decorated with a bead to make flowers. Then paste these flowers on the frame, in this case it is a tangle of threads. That's all!