Sea stone: name, description. Types of sea stones. Crafts made of sea stone by their own hands (photo)

Sea stone (or pebbles), which we all loved to collect in childhood on the Black Sea beaches, has an interesting history. Millions of years ago, the formation of the Caucasus Mountains occurred with a violent eruption of volcanoes, streams of frozen lava in the form of slabs, debris and small pieces were carried away by the current of mountain rivers and fell into the sea. The sea waves continued to grind and roll the pieces, crushing and giving the stones a rounded shape.

Types of sea stones

That pebble, which we all love to play on the beach, is a real rock, a witness of prehistoric times. Light porous pumice - remains of petrified volcanic magma, frozen far from the place of eruption and seized air - hence numerous pores. The name of sea stones, more smooth and weighty, are basalts and tuffs. They formed at the outlet of the lava from the volcano. And the heaviest sea stone - granite - was born in its very mouth.

Shiny oval-shaped granite blocks of round shape that we can see on the beach are durable and shiny (thanks to a mixture of mica, quartz and feldspar) a sample of volcanic rock. From it erect monuments and obelisks, it is claimed by builders and designers. Other finishing stones - basalts, tuffs of different shades - are perfectly suited for facing surfaces. Almost any sea stone can be used for applied or decorative purposes.

On the beach you can find and samples of semiprecious minerals - syenites, porphyrites, chrysolites. These beautiful sea stones are used in the creation of jewelry and jewelry. There is also a favorite of healers - chalcedony. These stones, even more ancient than rocks, also come from volcanic craters.

Sea stones - description and composition

The composition of the sea pebbles is mainly sandstone. Sometimes it is added shell rock - the remains of ancient marine mollusks. Other stones consist of limestone and marl - compacted remains of microscopic ancient organisms. A soft sedimentary stone, called slate, is the product of the petrified mud of ancient marshes. His age corresponds to the Jurassic period.

For millions of years, under the influence of high temperatures and a variety of natural factors, such a sea stone as limestone has changed its own crystal structure to marble, sandstone to jasper, etc. Thus, under our feet is real wealth!

But back to our pebbles - the fact that they were brought as souvenirs from the sea coast and at best decorate the home aquarium, and at worst - dust on the mezzanines. But they can be used with fiction, application options - an inexhaustible number. If your own creativity is "lame" - use our ideas!

How can I use stones?

Very nice they look in combination with plants, and almost any. If you put stones on the surface of a flower pot, this will not only save the earth from drying out, but it will also look very stylish. In addition, crafts made of sea stone, built with their own hands, are popular these days, like any handmade.

No less wonderful will look decorated with stones garden garden. For masters of landscape design they are truly indispensable material, especially in combination with bizarre snags and grass.

Pots or flower pots can be decorated by pasting their dry, defatted surface with a reliable glue with flat stones of suitable size. Of the same flat, small stones, an original stand will appear for hot dishes - they should be laid out with a glue, a regular napkin from the store. If you can pick up white pebbles in the right amount, an ideal stand will come out. But you can take and color, and combine them or come up with a pattern.

If you have many stones, but all of them are of different colors and look bad next to each other, make several supports and paint with acrylic paints in the chosen color (say, black).

We decorate the interior of the apartment

By the same principle, a mat for the bathroom or for the threshold is made. Stones are best applied to a rubber base, which is suitable for a normal purchase mat. Putting on the exclusive product of the foot, you massage the active points and improve your health.

Another useful element of the hallway interior is a shoe stand in the form of a flat tray in which a layer of stones is poured (even without glue). Original and practical!

Exclusive floor lamp "from the Stone Age" can be made by drilling a few round stones and planting them on the principle of the children's pyramid (large below - for stability) on the metal foot of the dismantled lamp.

If you have already taken up the design of the hallway in the "stone" style, try decorating the frame of the wall mirror in a wooden frame with a pebble. It should be very stylish and unusual. The gaps between the large stones are filled with small shells and stone crumbs.

Other ideas for garden and kitchen

We pass to the kitchen. What crafts from sea stones are possible here? An alternative version of the protective screen (as opposed to the usual tile) - the same pebbles laid out on the wall surface. Ummeltsam nothing is to unscrew from the kitchen cabinets standard handles and replace them with flat stones. You just need to take care of the reliability of the fasteners.

And now back to the garden. In addition to beds, stones are laid out paths, with sufficient number of them - construct fences, original decorative fountains and even use them to create furniture. For example, as the base of a garden bench.

Another use of this remarkable natural material is decorative figurines and garden sculptures. Here flight of creative imagination does not limit anything. Stones group, glue, paint, decorate than only the soul desires. Crafts from sea stones, photos of which you see in this article, can be made by everyone.

As a result, we see bright ladybirds, frogs, caterpillars, snails ... You can make "vegetables" and "fruits", especially popular "mushrooms", placed in different corners of the garden. Large stones of a suitable shape are painted in the form of tigers, sharks, crocodiles, dogs, cats and even fairy gnomes or elves. The original decoration of the garden will serve as decorative pots or buckets filled with "strawberries" or "apples" from painted stones.

Master with the child

But what to do when the window is winter, the summer holiday joys are forgotten, but at home, nevertheless, a handful of pretty pebbles roll around, which you want to attach somewhere! Try to do manual work with the child. This fascinating activity not only diversifies the long winter evenings, but also leaves you with a wonderful souvenirs, at a glance which mood will rise.

What kind of crafts from sea stones can you think of? Yes, the most diverse! The list of ideas is almost inexhaustible! For example, you can make a dwarf or even a whole family of gnomes (or domovat). If you fulfill them in the same style, then on New Year's holiday you can decorate the apartment wonderfully, planting figures in corners, under a tree, on bookshelves, etc.

Crafting technology

For work, save, in addition to pebbles, paints and brushes to them, superglue, a variety of materials for decoration (that is) - trimming cloth and fur, beads, thread or yarn, small feathers. Accessories in the form of "eye" characters sold in stores sewing accessories, but you can and replace them with colored beads or cute flat small buttons.

Pebbles before work should be thoroughly washed and dried. On the stones, "faces" glue your eyes, you can draw or paste large beads or balls of wool instead of them. Smiling mouths paint or "spread" out of bright woolen threads. You can also draw them on colored paper, cut and paste. After that, make dwarfs hair and beards from fur, threads, feathers or down - that is at hand.

Torso dwarfs, like the caps, it is easy to make out of colored scraps, sewing them in the form of a cone and filling with something like cotton wool or scraps of sintepoma. With the help of strong glue, the heads are attached to the torsos - funny figures are ready!

How to decorate a refrigerator

Magnetics on the refrigerator is in every family with children. But we will have unusual - out of pebbles! Let's make magnets in the form of monsters. Flat stones, washed and dried, are painted on both sides in bright colors. After drying, we draw "monsters" with terrible teeth with bared teeth and glue the eyes.

On the back of each stone, we attach a super-glue over the magnet. If the stones are large enough and heavy - a pair of magnets. The original decoration for the refrigerator is ready!

Best of the stones of the oval shape are bright fish, as well as birds with unusual plumage. You can make a mouse. In addition to pebbles and superglue, prepare scissors, paper and colored scraps. From the fabric, ears and a tail for the future mouse are cut, pasted in the right places on an oblong gray stone. Paws will serve as pebbles smaller, antennae - bundles of thread. Glue the eyes (can be in pairs in the form of paper circles - white wider, on top of them are smaller black). So a pretty mouse is ready.

If you prefer the bird, take a more round pebble, make a beak from the fabric of the right color (fold a shred in a triangle with a sharp end, glue the broad side to the head-pebble). In the right place, mark the eyes, take care of the plumage. Done!

Creative Aquarium

Best of all small pebbles are oblong shaped fish. Having made several pieces of different sizes, types and colors, you can organize an original decorative "aquarium" from a suitable box, completing the composition with large "boulders" and "sea grass" made of threads or colored paper.

Another option is to "run" our "fish" into a real aquarium with water as decor elements (it is necessary to take care of indelible paint and reliable materials for decoration).

So, we make fish. As usual, pebbles are dried and dried. With a simple pencil, we mark out on each of them the contours of the fins, head, tail. We color fish in different colors, tails and fins are cut and masters separately, then glued to the trunks.

Material for this suits everyone - colored paper, strips of fabric, shiny foil, even a suitable shape of feathers. Eyes are also glued in the right places (we take ready decorative elements or simply shiny convex beads).

Additional ideas

If fish are supposed to "run" into the aquatic environment, then the tail and fins can be cut from transparent plastic from unnecessary plastic bottles of different colors. This material is truly universal. From it it is possible to get a variety of decor elements, it is easily cut, processed and takes the desired shape.

For example, from the thin, long and slightly twisting strips you will get a magnificent tail for our "goldfish" (especially if you take a bottle of brown or yellow). Their small scraps of plastic will come out tough sharp "fins" that can be glued on the backs of the fish.

Decorative aquarium can be filled with real plants in small pots, which are masked with the same sea pebbles. And if in addition you organize for him a special highlight and carefully think over the composition, such an aquarium will decorate any room - living room, hallway or children's corner.