Crafts from fruit for own children for children's creativity

Autumn is the time of an abundant harvest of vegetables, fruits and berries. Due to the vagaries of nature, sometimes on fruit trees grow, for example, apples or pears, reminiscent of some animal or thing. They can become an excellent basis for crafting fruit from their own hands.

Photos of some of them, made by craftsmen, will help you choose the option to arrange a lesson in the kindergarten or help your own child to prepare for the contest at school. As a supplement to such artifacts can be used dry leaves, berries, cones, flowers, etc.

Caterpillars of fruits and vegetables

Crafts made of fruits (for their kindergarten they like to be made by the majority of children) should be simple enough, since they are attracted to children as assistants. As an interesting option, you can propose to make a caterpillar. This will require:

• 5 apples of the same average size;
• 30 berries of orange cherry;
• 3 cabbage leaves;
• 2 carrots;
• 35-40 pcs. Colorful small beads;
• 20 cm of twine;
• 2 large blue beads;
• 80 cm of satin ribbon;
• Bamboo sticks;
• One-time rectangular plate made of foam plastic as a "pedestal" for crafts;
• Toothpicks;
• Matches.

Operating procedure

Creation of this original crafts made of fruit by own hands is carried out in the following order:

1. Dense green apples without visible defects and with an intact skin are washed and wiped dry with a paper napkin.
2. A foam plastic plate is turned upside down and covered with cabbage or lettuce leaves.
3. Carrots are cleaned and cut into circles with a thickness of about 0.5 cm.
4. They spread them in pairs on top of the cabbage leaves, at equal distances from each other.
5. Take 2 bamboo sticks.
6. They put on each other 4 apples.

Then they proceed to make the head. To do this, follow the following procedure:

• Take an apple, which with the help of toothpicks is strengthened by 2 blue beads at the place of the eye;
• Lay out the caterpillar's mouth, stretched out in a smile, with matchheads;
• From cherries remove the stone;
• One berry is fixed with a match in place of the spout;
• In place of the ears set 2 toothpicks;
• On each toothpick string on 3 large sweet cherries;
• From the satin ribbon tie a bow and fasten it between the ears of the caterpillar.

To complete the manufacture of such crafts from fruits with their own hands, use a bamboo stick to attach the head to the body and install the entire structure on the pedestal. Around the "caterpillar" randomly scatter the remaining berries of sweet cherry.

Apple bunny

Fruity crafts can be made with your own hands, using the most common objects. For example, to create a bunny need two plastic disposable spoons, which will be used as his ears, as well as a large apple.

It must be placed on its side so that the pit on the top is in front and represents the mouth of the animal. Further:

• Cut off the spoons of the cuttings, leaving only 1-2 cm;
• Stick them in an apple in the right places;
• From pieces of plasticine of different colors create a decoration for the muzzle of the hare.

All! A simple hand-crafted article is ready. Its charm is that even a kid can easily cope with manufacturing 3-4 years, and he will not need any help from outside.

Goldfish from lemon

For such crafts made of fruits with their own hands, with instructions for making which you can read further, you will need:

• A large lemon;
• Bright large carrots;
• Black marker;
• Sharp knife for carving.

Note that although such bright crafts from fruit can be made by pupils of 3-4 classes, however they must be under the supervision of adults, since it will be necessary to operate with a fairly sharp knife. To create fish, you can draw and young children, provided that they will only insert details in the slits and draw eyes.

Operating procedure:

1. A 0.3 mm thick plate is cut from the cleaned carrot.
2. With a lemon, remove the peel with a sharp knife, to make holes for the eye.
3. From the carrot plate, cut the fins.
4. Peel off the skin, marking the mouth of the fish.
5. Marker draw eyes.
6. Do the slits in the right places on the lemon.
7. Insert in them "fins".

It remains to make a fish tail, which can also be cut from a piece of carrot. However, it is quite stiff, so it is easier to cut a thin layer of peel from another lemon and, giving it a tail shape, decorate the edge with fringe.

The resulting part is inserted into the slot made from the back side of the lemon, thus completing the manufacture of the craft.

Mouse from lemon

To make such an article that can become a decoration of a festive table is quite easy. For this:

• The lemon is cut off from the barrel to give it stability;
• Insert two beads instead of peepholes or draw them with a marker;
• Cut out the lemon peel ears and tail;
• In the quality of the antennae, a pin of green onion is inserted into the mouse's muzzle;
• Do on the lemon slits and insert the ears.

By making a few such yellow animals, you can create a composition. For this dish, you can make a few leaves of lettuce or cabbage, place on them mice and lay out pieces of hard cheese.

Elephant

If you like to make crafts from fruits with your own hands, the photos presented in this article will prompt you a lot of new ideas. In particular, you can try to make with a little boy or daughter of a funny elephant from an apple. However, please note that the cuts of this fruit from contact with the air will quickly change color, so this "toy" is not the best choice for a school exhibition.

So, to make an elephant you will need two apples of suitable shape: one bigger and the second smaller. In addition, you should get two or three sharp toothpicks and a knot of wood, curved in the form of a trunk.

Next, you need to divide the second apple into two halves, preferably in such a way that there are two bones on the cut that will act as the eye of our elephant. If the first time you do not smile, you can make eyes from paper in black.

Then from each half of the apple should be cut along a plate 0.5-0.7 cm thick. One (the elephant's head) should be left whole, and the second - divided into two parts, to make the ears.

Now it remains to connect all the details together with toothpicks, and the funny toy will be ready.

As for the "trunk", its end can be sharpened and stuck into the pulp of a piece of apple depicting the head of an elephant.

Vazochka

Crafts made of fruits and flowers can be made with the child as a present for the birthday of the mother or grandmother. For example, a beautiful composition will be obtained if you take a solid large apple and extract a piece of pulp from it so that a unique vase is obtained. Then along the edge should make denticles and stick in a few large chrysanthemums. And finish the composition will help several large multi-colored autumn leaves and a bunch of berries, for example, wild grapes.

Machine

If the house has a banana, grapes and an apple, then the child can make an original toy. Such crafts made of fruit with their own hands for school may not be suitable, but they will perfectly fulfill the role of dessert.

Operating procedure:

• Take an apple;
• Cut it in half;
• Cut the lobule in a semicircle to get the body of the machine;
• Clean the banana;
• Cut into circles with a thickness of 0.5 cm;
• Cut each in half;
• Take 2 toothpicks;
• Pass into the apple slab in the places where the wheels are going to be fixed;
• On each side, pass to the toothpick 1 half of a banana mug and grapes.

As a result, a funny and interesting machine should turn out, which can even become a treat for young guests.

Minions

This craft can also be made of lemon. To create it, you need the help of your mother, who will sew the overall for the minion. In addition, you need plasticine and a steep salted dough. Further:

• From the salted dough the legs of the minion are made;
• Until it withered, put in a lemon and cover with the remnants of the dough so that a standing figure would turn out;
• Plasticine sculpts eyeglasses, eyes and hands of the minion;
• Put on his figure overalls;
• Plasticine make out shoes.

Hedgehog

Crafts from fruits and berries can be made by their own children and as a treat for their friends, whom they invited for their birthday. In addition, recently it has become fashionable to replace the contests on the occasion of this holiday with a cheerful culinary master class.

For example, it is possible to offer the culprit of celebrations and his guests to make a hedgehog of pears and grapes together . To do this, you will need:

• Choose a pear of a suitable shape;
• Clean its sharp end from the skin;
• Make a hole for the eyes;
• Insert bones there;
• To break a toothpick in the middle;
• Sharpen both ends;
• Plant a grape of dark color on it;
• Insert the free end of the toothpick into the place on the pear, from which the "tail" grows, so that the hedgehog's nose turns out;
• To make original canapes from grapes of different colors;
• Densely plant toothpicks with grapes in the "trunk" of the hedgehog;
• In the same way to fix between them a pair of bright strawberries.

Locomotive

In general, when they are going to do handmade fruit from their own hands for the school, then as a basis zucchini is chosen quite often. In particular, one can make a small green locomotive. It will require a few unripe squashes of varying thickness.

Operating procedure:

• Choose zucchini with the smallest diameter;
• Cut off from it 12 "wheels" with a thickness of 0.5 cm;
• With the help of toothpicks fix them to 3 pcs. On each side in 2 pubs thicker;
• The first such blank is set aside to be used as a car;
• On the second - fix the "cabin", which is a piece of squash less than half the length of the base so that a steam locomotive is produced;
• From a carrot a pipe is made and fixed on the nose of a locomotive;
• If there is a desire to make lights from the same vegetable;
• The cab is connected to the base with toothpicks.

Octopus

It's quite easy to make such a toy. To create this crafts of fruit with their own hands requires only one banana and a sharp knife. With it, you need to cut the peel along the fruit to the middle in 5-6 places and raise it, exposing the flesh. Then it is necessary to cut off the extra, so that the head of the octopus and tentacles turns out. In addition, you need to draw eyes and mouth.

Caterpillar in an apple

Such a creative article will appeal to any child. It's quite easy to make it. It will take one big apple and grapes. About twelve berries need to be strung on a piece of curved metal wire of medium hardness. Then, in a fairly large apple, a "tunnel" is hollowed out so that a part of the caterpillar passes through it.

Spring vegetable, fruit hand-made articles for the school

Although no time of the year can compare with the fall in the abundance of fruits and vegetables, it is possible to create original toys and decorations for the house long before the harvest season. For example, in the end of May zucchini appear in some regions. From them you can create different animals. The photo presented in the article shows articles made in the form of penguins, for the creation of which, in addition to the zucchini themselves, only a sharp knife, carrots and peas of black pepper (for the eye) are needed.

Operating procedure:

• At the vegetable marrow, one end is cut off so that it can stand erect;
• On the resulting head with a trunk cut out peel (see photo);
• Insert in the right places a pea of black pepper;
• Carrots carve an ornament and a beak for a penguin;
• Fix all the details on the zucchini, or insert them into the slots, or using toothpicks;
• From the pieces of carrot they make feet and put them on a flat plate;
• Install a penguin body on them.

Paper fruit

Such handicrafts are suitable for employment in a kindergarten with kids of any age. To make an original three-dimensional toy, only scissors and PVA glue will be needed. In addition, it will be necessary to cut out the cardboard from the cardboard in the form of an outline of a future paper craft. Hands of fruit can produce a huge amount. For example, you can glue a pear. This requires:

1. Cut out the cardboard silhouette of the pear.
2. Transfer it to colored paper.
3. Cut out 16 such details.
4. Bend each in half.
5. Glued two pieces before folding.
6. Take the third part and glue together with the previous workpiece in the same way.
7. Continue this process until all the details are used.
8. Cut the pedicel and two leaves.
9. Insert them inside the craft and glue the last detail from the first one so that a three-dimensional pear model is obtained.

A cup of orange

This article is created quite simply. To do this, cut the top of a fairly dense orange and cut out the flesh. Then you can decorate the cup by fixing on it with the help of toothpicks flowers or figurines carved from a thin carrot or pumpkin plate, and to complete the manufacture of the craft will help the clay, from which you should blind the handle.

Dachshund

A banana dog will bring a lot of joy to both adults and children. It will take two such fruits: authentic and short. Then, with the help of a knife, you need to make the ears of the dog and, separating the rind, remove the pulp from these areas. In addition, it is necessary to cut out the dog's legs. All! It only remains to decorate the eyes by inserting raisins in the slot.

Now you know how to make a craft from fruit yourself, and you can help your beloved son or daughter win a contest organized in school or kindergarten.