Tree branches crafts - the peculiarities of the preparation of the material, interesting master classes and photo ideas

Preserving materials for handicrafts

Natural materials are available and almost free. You can collect branches during a walk in the park, in the woods, in the country house or just on the street. It is better to stockpile such material in the spring or fall.

What do you need to pay attention to when choosing?

1. It is better to choose clean, straight and even branches and twigs. It is more convenient to work with such.
2. Damaged by pests, rotten, with signs of disease branches are not suitable for crafts.
3. Branches of conifers are too resinous. This will complicate the work. The resin makes it difficult to clean tools and hands.

Handling Woody Material

Brought home knots, twigs, branches, snags require additional treatment. First, they should be carefully inspected again for bug and disease damage. Suspicious branches should be disposed of.

Then the branches should be washed, sanded with sandpaper to smooth them out.

All workpieces for future crafts requires drying. Proceed to it better at once. Otherwise it may harm the appearance of the finished product.

1. Drying takes place naturally at room temperature. It lasts about two weeks.
2. Twigs and branches can be dried on a radiator. In this case the material will be ready for use in a week.
3. Even faster drying can be done in the oven. On a small fire, with the oven door ajar, you can have the material ready in a couple of hours.

After drying the branches it is a good idea to cover them with colorless varnish, paint or treat with stain, depending on the final design.

Ideas for crafts of branches for children

The simplest crafts from branches and twigs can be made with your own hands together with children.

Twigs and sprigs

Even twigs make great stars.

For the handicrafts you need five twigs of equal length. If they are pre-dry and covered with clear varnish, the handicraft will be strong.

1. To bind the parts it is convenient to use clerical rubber bands, cord, ribbons or wire.
2. It will be more convenient to cope with the task if the workpieces are immediately placed on the table in the form of a star.
3. The workpieces are stapled together at the joints.
4. To these fasteners can easily attach additional decorative elements, such as buttons or beads.

Using such a technique, you can also make snowflakes, but tie the twigs not in the corners, and in the middle. To make a Christmas snowflake, the twigs can be pre-painted with white acrylic paint.

Handicraft toys .

From the knots of medium thickness, you can make people to play with. It is enough to strip the top part, paint with white paint and put on a red cap - you get a good gnome. If desired, you can draw a face with markers or paint.

Using twigs and knots as elements, it is easy to construct stylized figures of animals. For attachment, you can use a veneer joint, hot glue or wire.

Interior decorations

Original and uncomplicated crafts from twigs can make a pleasant variety in any interior.

A pot for flowers from branches is easy to make.

To work you will need branches, a saw or jigsaw, a skein of twine, burlap.

1. The branches should be aligned with a saw on the length.
2. Tie them together with twine. You can tie them through two branches or fix the twine with a knot after each branch.
3. Wrap an old flower pot with a piece of burlap, fix it with glue.
4. Wrap the pot with the finished product of twigs and tie the twine.

An interesting element of decorating the home interior is ready. Using this simple technique, similar additions can be made to the pencil holder.

A frame for photos

To implement this idea, you will need twigs or branches, a base made of wood, a glue gun.

1. Using a glue gun, the twigs are attached to a wooden base. The design of the frame is better to think in advance.
2. If desired, you can supplement the product with additional decorative elements (moss, wood cuts, beads, and so on).

You can decorate a mirror in this way. Or use slices of wood for decoration.

Wreath from twigs for the house

A simple step by step master class will help to make a decorative wreath to decorate the door.

For the work you need wire and twigs.

1. From the wire it is necessary to make a circle, the diameter of which corresponds to the diameter of the future product.
2. Prepared branches to bind in equal bundles using wire.
3. Fix the bundles of branches on a wire ring with a wire.
4. Finish your wreath by painting it.
5. The product can be completed with cones, bells, ribbons, beads.

In such a way you can make an original decorative decoration for Christmas.

Original ideas for your home

Natural materials organically fit into any interior. Simple decorative elements made from twigs, made by your own hands, will help to create an atmosphere of coziness in the house.

Hanger made of twigs

An interesting clothes rack with hooks from knots can become a decoration of the hallway. The knots, shaped like hooks, must be chosen in advance. It is important that they are strong, and the size of the branches allowed to hang clothes on them.

To fix the knots it is necessary to pick up a base. This can be one or more planks connected vertically.

It is better to fix the knots on the base with self-tapping screws. The finished hanger can be painted.

In this way, you can make a convenient and practical hanger for children's clothes without extra financial expenses.

Decorative tree

Such a craft can not only decorate the interior, but also become a good idea for a gift to friends.

To bring the idea to life, you need to prepare:

• twigs,
• decor elements (beads, colored stones, small flowers, glass balls, Christmas beads),
• a pot for flowers,
• stones,
• Styrofoam,
• glue gun,
• moss.

How to make a decorative tree.

1. The flower pot is filled with pebbles up to about half. Stones are needed to give stability to the product.
2. Carefully make a hole in the foam for the twigs.
3. Branches are painted, glued to them flowers, beads or balls (depending on the idea).
4. Fix the branches in a piece of Styrofoam, all together fix in a pot.
5. Styrofoam is topped with pebbles. Mask the stones with moss.

The original craftsman is ready.

Twigs can be used to decorate the stand of the lamp or use them in the manufacture of lampshades. From such a material it is easy to make an interesting house for decorative or game purposes.

From flat twigs you can make coasters for hot dishes and napkins, unusual wall panels and containers for storing small things. An interesting candlestick holder can be made by gluing twigs around a transparent glass tumbler.

Using twigs and branches, you can make unique author's items to decorate your home. Ideas for creativity can be picked up online, in interior magazines, in nature.

Natural materials are safe for health, practical and durable. Handicrafts made of them will serve as a great addition to the interior, allow you to create your own unique style and comfort.

Branches and twigs - free material for creating simple crafts and unique designer items. Beginning with the manufacture of the most primitive products, you can gradually move on to complex and interesting design items that will give a special charm to any interior.

Photo ideas of homemade crafts from tree branches