Handmade crafts from eggs and eggshells - interesting master classes and beautiful photo examples
All parents know that inculcating a love of labor and working with their hands, children need to from an early age. After all, this will allow them to learn to appreciate their own and others' time, and to respect in general any kind of work. This can be done in a way that is time-tested, and used everywhere.
Handicrafts can open up for a child a wonderful world of art and creativity. In addition, this pastime teaches him assiduity and accuracy. Needless to say, that parents, when their child grows up, will remember with infinitely pleasant emotions during the time spent with him for the manufacture of some trinket.
The material for crafts can be presented in a variety of ways. There are many everyday items that can help a child express their creativity. Usually we do not notice these things, and we can not even imagine that they can be used to make some beautiful thing. Some of these materials for crafts include eggshells, and ordinary homemade testicles.
Who would have thought that instead of immediately sending the shells to the trash, you can use them as an object of creativity. In addition to all of this, by using eggshells as crafts, you are participating in recycling, which is also an extremely useful and enjoyable endeavor.
Making the simplest egg-shell craft
The easiest egg crafts, which can be made by the youngest students in kindergarten, is a craft in the form of a nest with chicks. Making such a craft will not require any hard-to-reach components. You will need:
- Brown paper, or wrapping paper.
- Eggs in an amount of three pieces.
- Blue colored paper.
- Dark marker, scissors, and glue pencil.
To make such a handicraft is very simple. You will need to cut the brown paper into thin strips, about one and a half to two centimeters long. After that, you need to crumple the resulting long leaves, and then form a bird's nest out of them. Using glue, attach beaks, pre-cut from blue paper, to the testicles. Draw the chicks' eyes with a marker, and place them in the resulting cozy nest. The handicraft is ready!
A figure of mouse out of eggshells and fluffy wire.
Our chicks will need friends, right? Make a craft in the form of a mouse is also quite simple. For this you will need the following materials:
- Pink and blue paper.
- Wire brush.
- Whole eggshells
- Scissors and glue stick
- Blue paint.
Our mouse will be a dark blue color. To do this, we will paint the eggshell with blue paint using brushes. Let's cut out the ears for our mouse in the form of two ovals. Use slightly smaller ovals of pink paper, and glue them in the center of the blue ovals. Place them on the sides of a colored egg. Make the tail from a fluffy wire, which you fix in a hole in the shell. It is not difficult, is not it?
In the same way you can make a lot of different animals. Let your child express imagination, use paper of different colors, draw the marker muzzles and eyes, and soon you'll find a whole zoo on your desk. Most importantly, this activity will bring real pleasure to children.
What else can I do with eggshells?
To preserve the beauty of an entire eggshell, you can paint it. As an Easter egg, of course the egg shell is not a gift, but you can create a real work of art, which will delight your eyes for a long time. Perform painting on the surface of the egg can be done with the usual acrylic paint and fine brushes.
Recently a trend to use the method of embroidery on the egg shells has begun. You can embroider on whole eggshells using many different techniques. Using ribbon embroidery and beads, you can create a real decorative ornament. The resulting product can really amaze you and your child with its beauty. In addition, such an activity requires considerable accuracy, which should be developed in children at any age.
Egg shells look great in the form of small pots for grass. It is extremely easy to make such a flower bed. Simply fill in the soil and plant some ornamental grass. If you make a dozen of these crafts and put them on a stand, you can proudly put the resulting flower bed on your windowsill. Do not forget about watering, if you decide to plant any miniature flowers!
Making a New Year's clown out of eggshells.
New Year's Eve is such a holiday that children of all ages look forward to. Brighten up the time left until this wonderful day by making a clown figurine. This handicraft can be hung on the Christmas tree and make it even more beautiful. You will need the following materials:
- Scissors and PVA glue.
- Egg shells.
- Blue corrugated paper as well as a sheet of red paper.
- Black felt-tip pen.
- White ribbon.
This handicraft is also not too difficult. Using glue, attach a cap to the shell, which we cut out in advance from a sheet of red paper. Draw the eyes of our clown with a black marker. Attach a collar made of blue corrugated paper to the bottom. Brown the clown's cheeks a little, and he is ready for the New Year's Eve performance. It only remains to attach a ribbon to it, making two holes in the shell, and passing it between them.
Egg shell crafts is such an activity that can fascinate not only children but also parents. An extremely popular area of creativity associated with broken shells is considered a mosaic. Also among the masters enjoys a real recognition of the technique of decoupage. After all, the use of eggshells instead of such a rather unpredictable material, as krakelure varnish can greatly facilitate the work.
The resulting products have a beautiful imitation of the cracks made with the same eggshells. Its shards are attached to the piece with ordinary glue, trying to match the pieces in such a way as to reduce the distance between them. The development of creativity, their own and children's, using seemingly ordinary material is a very exciting activity.
Photo ideas of interesting egg crafts
