It’s quite easy to make beautiful children’s crafts from vegetables for the garden or school. Their production does not require purchase expensive materials- the best decor here will be flowers and leaves, pine cones and acorns, grass and stones. Also design crafts in kindergarten Vegetables can be shells, beads, threads, cotton wool, fabrics.
Vegetable bride and groom
Cabbage sheep
How to make a cucumber craft with your own hands
Cucumber is a vegetable that is available to everyone in autumn. You can make a variety of different things out of it autumn crafts. Let's talk about the most interesting of them.
cucumber cactus
You need to take a hard cucumber and decorate it with pine or spruce needles. Toothpicks will also work. True, it is better to pre-paint them with green watercolors.
cucumber cactus
If you decorate the vegetable with carrot pieces resembling flowers in shape, you will get a very cheerful composition.
Transforming a cucumber into a blooming cactus
Cucumber crocodile
You can cut various figures from a cucumber - both simple and complex. The cartoon character Gena the crocodile made from it looks especially interesting. True, making it is not so easy - the little fidget will definitely need the help of its parents to make cuts in certain places with a knife.
Cucumber crocodile
You can decorate the crocodile with elements cut from red or yellow peppers, tomatoes, and beets.
"Cucumber" crocodile Gena
More simple craft from a cucumber to a kindergarten - a crocodile that crawls. To do it, you will have to use a knife less.
Crawling crocodile
The eyes of the predator can be made from plasticine or drawn with a marker. Best material for the tongue - a strip of sweet red pepper.
Crafts from cucumber and zucchini
Zucchini and cucumber look great together in children's fall crafts. They have a similar shape, making them very easy to assemble.
Vegetable machine
It will be easy for kids to make a car from these vegetables. To attach the wheels to the cucumber body, you need to use toothpicks or any pointed wooden sticks. The wheels can be made from pieces of carrots, cucumber rings, the top - from a zucchini half ring.
Let the little entertainer decide for himself what the passenger of such an unusual transport will be like.
Zucchini machine
Zucchini and cucumber pork
To make a vegetable pig for an exhibition, you need to take a small zucchini and a cucumber. The first will serve as the body of the animal. From the second you need to cut out the ears, snout and eyes. The easiest way to attach the cucumber parts to the zucchini is to use toothpicks.
Cabbage garden craft
When making crafts for a cabbage garden, the main thing is to find a head of suitable shape and size. If parents have very little time, and the child cannot yet create a vegetable masterpiece on his own, you can turn cabbage into someone’s head. To do this, you can wear a wide-brimmed hat or tie a bow on it.
Cabbage head
Funny man with a cabbage head
Cabbage Girl
More difficult option- making animals from cabbage parts. For example, you can make a beautiful dog
Instead of eyes and a nose, she may have acorns, plasticine, or brown cardboard. The easiest way to connect the body with the head and paws is with toothpicks.
Carrot garden crafts
Carrots can be stored for a long time, so they are also often used to make garden crafts. It can be turned into fairy-tale characters, vehicles, flowers. In some cases, it is enough to simply attach auxiliary parts to the vegetable, in others it is impossible to do without cutting out various elements on its surface.
carrot house
Carrot flowers
Funny carrot woman
What can be made from squash - unusual crafts for kindergarten
Patisson is a frequent guest at autumn exhibitions in the garden and school. Simple, but at the same time bright and memorable things are made from it. So, every parent can make a clock from this plant.
Squash watch
You need to take a squash that is suitable in size and color and draw numbers on its surface so that you get a dial. The hands can be taken from an old damaged watch. If there are none in the house, cut them out of paper. You need to decorate vegetable watches with beads, chains, and threads.
Vegetable watch
Cones and acorns are also suitable here. They are attached to the surface of the plant using toothpicks or glue.
If the child is good at drawing, you can simply paint the plate pumpkin with watercolors. You can draw flowers, animals, a family on its surface - whatever the little artist wants.
Painted squash
We bring to your attention other ways to transform squash into a children's autumn craft:
Turtle
Flying saucer
Patisson UFO
Frog Princess made from squash
Turtle made from squash and potatoes
Autumn crafts from watermelon
Watermelon is a very juicy berry, which makes working with it difficult. Usually, when making crafts, they use the peel and just a little pulp. Otherwise, the juice will leak out and the product will quickly lose its beautiful appearance.
A child can turn a watermelon into an animal on his own flower arrangement or, for example, a decorative basket cannot, since the use of a sharp knife is required.
A turtle whose shell consists of peel looks great. You can fill it from the inside with any fruit.
Watermelon turtle
Watermelon turtle shell
A watermelon stroller is quite easy to make. Instead of wheels, you can use orange or lemon slices.
Watermelon stroller
If you shape the skin of the berry into a shape reminiscent of a shark's head, you will get a formidable fish.
Watermelon shark
The internal emptiness of the shark can be filled with any fruit or pieces of pulp. But it is important to remember that such a craft will not last long.
Rules to follow when making autumn crafts for kindergarten
Autumn crafts for kindergarten can be different. As a rule, it takes very little time to make them. But children cannot do without the help of their parents.
In order for the prepared composition to look good and not fall apart on the first day of the exhibition, it is important to remember that:
- the vegetables that will form it must be unripe;
- It is important to remove as much pulp as possible from juicy fruits;
- It is impossible to treat crafts with any chemical compounds for long-term storage - children may experience an allergic reaction;
- You need to collect material for the composition in advance, but do the crafts on the eve of the exhibition.
And remember: you don’t need to look for perfectly shaped vegetables. On the contrary, the most interesting and funny compositions are always made from vegetables and fruits, the sight of which makes you smile. You just need to understand what the product resembles, and then decorate it accordingly.
Crafts from vegetables and fruits at exhibitions - a traditional event in children's preschool institutions at the beginning of autumn. If you don’t yet know how you can make a man out of a potato, or make a crocodile out of a cucumber, then you definitely need to familiarize yourself with the works of parents and children that are presented in this section. Potatoes and zucchini, cucumbers and carrots, beets and radishes will all be used to make a fun zoo, funny people or a whole vegetable town.
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SUCH DIFFERENT GIRLFRIENDS! A thin and tall matryoshka, a fat and short tumbler. Vegetable craft. Made by Anna Shchedrunova under the guidance of Natalya Viktorovna Zyusko. Competition "Autumn Fantasies". Goal: developing cognitive interest in the properties of vegetables through making...
At the regional House of Culture of our village, a flower exhibition, traditional for the end of August, was held. This event is eagerly awaited by amateur flower growers. There were many people who wanted to take part in the flower festival. Participants exhibited a variety of flower bouquets and compositions. Their...
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Here it is golden and wonderful time. The nights have become colder, the days are getting shorter. The harvest is in full swing, or may have already come to an end. And so now we all started making crafts from vegetables and, of course, fruits. This is such a small tradition, which is always dedicated to the autumn...
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Good afternoon Autumn has come and brought gifts! Every year in our preschool department "Pochemuchki" the exhibition "Gifts of Autumn" is held. The children, together with their parents, bring a lot of crafts from different vegetables and fruits. For crafts they use different natural material. This year...
If your child still doesn’t know anything about the inhabitants of the garden, then, apparently, it’s time to introduce him to them. Research into the variety of sizes, colors and shapes of fruits and vegetables is best done in game form. And if previously kids saw them only in the form of purees and salads, now, with the help of imagination and our section, you can make a beautiful souvenir or funny toy from any carrot or potato. And although such a work of art will not serve you for long, it is nevertheless worth it.
Such classes are good because they can be carried out not only in kindergarten under the supervision of professional teachers, but also at home under the supervision of mother or other adults. Children simply adore this pastime and can’t wait to see the annual “harvest” of useful and tasty materials for their crafts.
But in addition to various vegetables, be sure to stock up on auxiliary material in advance that will help secure parts of some vegetable character. These can be toothpicks, leaves, sticks, feathers and twigs.
Even if your baby does not immediately master the technique of such crafts, do not rush to throw everything out of sight. Be patient, help your child, tell him what he is doing wrong. Do them together with your child, since a living example is the best thing that can help your baby master this labor-intensive process.
Many people love golden autumn because this is the time when the bins are already full. There is a lot of preserved food in the pantry, and vegetables and fruits are stored underground for the winter. And from all these natural resources you can not only prepare delicious, vitamin-rich dishes, but also make crafts with your children. interesting crafts with his own hand. Next, we will dwell in detail on how to make original products from ordinary zucchini.
In autumn it will no longer be as hot as in summer, and children will not be able to spend a long time outside. And the days are becoming noticeably short, it’s getting dark earlier, but you still don’t want to sleep. Therefore, on such evenings, to keep your child busy, make a craft with him using vegetables from the garden.
Look what a cheerful crocodile Gena made from cucumbers. And a cartoon green plane made of zucchini, beets and carrots.
And here's a mustachioed cat made from an oblong zucchini, again - carrots, corn hairs and leaves.
Zucchini crafts for kindergarten
If in kindergarten the teacher asked the child to do a craft, then you can make this Santa Claus on an all-terrain vehicle. To fasten the parts of the all-terrain vehicle, use toothpicks and plasticine. You can make inscriptions and decorate the work with paints or gel pens.
Look at these different children's work. What a bright parrot came out of a white zucchini, orange, green pepper. And one of the preschoolers came up with the idea of making an acorn with a cap from a green vegetable.
In the fall, you can find a lot of material in the forest (cones, acorns, branches, leaves) for DIY crafts completely free of charge. Then use them to create still lifes together with zucchini.
How to make a zucchini craft?
Before you begin, discuss in detail with your child what the product should look like. Better yet, draw it so that there are no disappointments later. Then prepare the material. Select vegetables of the desired shape and do not forget about auxiliary tools. Let's, for example, make small shoes, like in the image below.
Tools, materials:
- Spoon
- Flowers for decorations
- Two approximately identical zucchini
Work progress:
- Try to carefully and equally cut strips in the form of a fastener on both shoes.
- Peel off any excess zucchini skin. Using a knife and spoon, gradually and slowly remove the pulp from the zucchini.
- You can also use a carving tool for these purposes. It is easier to remove the pulp with special spatulas than with a regular spoon.
- When the shoes take the correct shape, decorate them with flowers. Simply glue them to the sock. Or use carving knives to create a design on the front of the shoes, if you are familiar with this art.
Autumn crafts from zucchini
Home craftsmen can come up with all sorts of interesting projects. Autumn is mushroom time. You can make a whole forest of mushrooms from long white zucchini. Cut caps for white legs from carrots, the same: zucchini, radishes, potatoes. And use large zucchini to make a ship, like in the picture.
DIY zucchini crafts for school
- To get a good grade on your work, you only need to devote an hour of free time to do your homework.
- To do this, take a knife in your hands and cut out five fins, as in the photo of a shark. And try to first peel the white zucchini, and then plan such a formidable fish.
- Then use toothpicks to attach the fins to the shark's body.
- Make eyes from allspice, sharp teeth from toothpicks.
A round overgrown zucchini will make a very beautiful basket, and if you also fill it with vegetables, you will get an original still life.
You can make this kind of machine with a sailboat with your own hands in a few hours. For the product you will need:
- zucchini
- several grapes
- wheels and parts from an old broken car
- plastic figures and your skill, effort
Zucchini craft - ship
Boys are more interested in making cars, ships and other transport equipment.
To make a zucchini ship you will need:
- Zucchini large size equal thickness along the entire length
- Toothpicks, colored paper
- Scotch tape, scissors, knife, plasticine
Work progress:
- Cut an even slice off one side of the squash;
- Scoop out the pulp of the vegetable;
- Decorate the sides of the ship with windows;
- Make a sailboat;
- Place a steering wheel in front made of toothpicks and vegetables;
- The captain can be used ready-made or made, for example, from carrots.
Small boat made from zucchini - craft
Small boats can be made from medium-sized vegetables. Take a look at the artists' work below:
To make the ship look original, it was decorated with toothpicks and matches.
Zucchini whale - craft
Making a whale will not take you much time. The only thing you need is to find a zucchini approximately the same shape as in the picture. Make the fins and tail from colored cardboard, simply cut out the eyes and mouth on the vegetable itself or make it from plasticine.
Look at this whale with a parsley fountain, it looks very cute. The tail and fins are made from green pea skins.
Autumn-themed zucchini crafts
It is advisable to keep an eye on your children when making zucchini crafts, because you will have to use a knife to do the work anyway. Also explain to your child that a product with berries and vegetables will not be stored for a long time. Next you will see works that do not have autumn motifs. A small hedgehog made from a yellow-fruited squash with berries and apples on toothpick thorns looks cute.
A beautiful composition was made from a yellow, round zucchini in the shape of a carriage for Cinderella with autumn foliage and artificial stones.
Zucchini hedgehog - craft
It's easy to make a cute little hedgehog from a white pear-shaped zucchini. It is enough to use a little imagination and use everything that is at hand for work. In the first image, a cute hedgehog is made from young zucchini, toothpicks, and grapes. The nose is attached to the zucchini with a toothpick, molded from black plasticine.
This hedgehog turned out to be big, kind, and funny. Even its spines and seeds are not sharp.
Other zucchini crafts - pictures
Sometimes nature itself creates fairy-tale characters. Look at this swan princess from high-yielding Tsukesha squash. To make it, the master only had to paint the beak with red paint, glue on the eyes, cut wings from cabbage leaves and a crown from carrots.
You can even make an all-terrain vehicle with a cabin from an ordinary zucchini (from a piece of zucchini).
Zucchini machine - craft
To calm down the restlessness at least a little, invite the boy to start making a machine from an early ripe round Ronda zucchini. Believe me, the naughty girl will not leave your side for at least two hours until the car is ready.
Zucchini penguins - craft
Prepare tools and materials for crafting a penguin:
- One zucchini
- Carrot
- Allspice
- Knife, toothpicks
Work progress:
- Cut the zucchini into two parts.
- Gently peel the skin off the zucchini to create a little face and belly shape, like in the image above.
- From an orange carrot, cut out a hat, legs, a nose, a butterfly for the neck and a bow for the girl penguin.
- Make wing cuts on the sides.
- Attach all other parts to the zucchini with toothpicks.
Zucchini turtle - craft
Materials, tools:
- Three zucchini different shapes. Two are long, one is round in shape.
- Toothpicks, knife.
- Plasticine.
Work progress:
- Cut the round vegetable in half;
- Divide one long zucchini into six parts (turtle head, four legs and tail);
- Cut another long zucchini into rings;
- Then be patient and use toothpicks to connect all the parts;
- It is better to secure the turtle shell with two toothpicks;
- Also attach the plasticine eyes to the face with the same auxiliary material.
Zucchini pig - craft
To make a plump white pig, you only need to cut out the ears and snout from a cucumber. Then use toothpicks to fasten them to the body of an oval white zucchini. Make the eyes from black plasticine, the tail from wire.
Craft vase made from zucchini
A vase made of green zucchini will look truly festive. This craft can be given as a birthday present to your mother or grandmother. If you decorate the finished vase with paints, the effect will be amazing.
Using your carving talent beautiful patterns on vegetables and creating ikebana, your product will receive high praise from your family.
Zucchini minion - craft
Almost all children know the cartoon character Minion. But not everyone knows how to make it themselves from zucchini. It turns out it's simple. you need to take a yellow oval vegetable and paint it with ordinary paints, as in the photo below. Make legs from zucchini. Attach them to the body with toothpicks.
Craft “Zucchini Engine”
For a steam locomotive with one trailer you will need:
- one large cucumber
- three dark green zucchini
- carrot
- plasticine, toothpicks
Work progress:
- Start with the trailer. Cut off the top of the oval vegetable and remove the pulp.
- Cut half of another squash to make a driver's cab.
- Cover the roof with plasticine.
- Secure all parts of the train together with sharp toothpicks.
- Then make wheels from cucumbers and carrots.
- Use plasticine to sculpt a small front grille and a horn for the roof.
- Make a pipe out of carrots.
Zucchini house - craft
Any house must have windows, doors, and a roof. Look how fabulous houses made from round hybrid zucchini look in combination with Christmas tree branches, flowers, pine cones, and rowan berries.
After the examples given, you yourself will be able to create your own zucchini craft, unlike all the others.
Video: Easy zucchini crafts
Autumn is the golden time for picking fruits and vegetables. This is space for children's imagination. Therefore, autumn crafts from vegetables turn out colorful and unusual. Get ready to create with your kids. Interesting ideas will help with this.
Autumn crafts from vegetables for children
Do you want to prepare the most original craft to kindergarten or school? Then here is a list of ideas with step-by-step implementation:
- Chipmunk.
To create a wonderful animal you will need:
- red onion - 2 pcs.;
- green onions;
- raisins or peppercorns;
- sugar - 2 tbsp. l.;
- toothpicks;
- threads;
- plasticine.
Learn how to make a children's craft from vegetables:
- Peel the red onions. Using a sharp knife or blade, pry the skin of the onion to create white stripes.
- Trim the bottom of one bulb to create a stable trunk.
- Attach the head to the body using a toothpick.
- Bend a bunch of onion feathers so that the tail comes out. Tie with thread.
- Prepare sugar syrup. To do this, boil 3 tbsp. l. sugar with 1 tsp. water.
- Once the crystals have dissolved, brush the syrup onto the onion feathers, forming the curves of the tail.
- When the syrup has hardened, attach the tail to the body with a toothpick.
- Make the legs by cutting the lower part of the body. Poke them out by placing pieces of plasticine.
- Make ears from onion scraps. Insert them into the cuts on the head.
- Attach raisins or peppers to form eyes.
This is such a wonderful beast. You can make him a girlfriend for company.
- Piglets.
Potato crafts are easy to make and look very cute. To make a family of piglets, prepare:
- potatoes (one large and three smaller);
- plasticine.
To lay out the piglets, think about the base in advance. This could be a piece of cardboard or a plastic plate. The big potato will act as a sow, the rest will be piglets.
So, start assembling:
- Wash and dry the potatoes.
- Use black plasticine to form eyes for the piglets, and use pink plasticine for ears, tails and nickels.
- For the pig, use red plasticine.
Install the family on your tablet and proudly take it to the exhibition.
- Giraffe.
Original crafts are made from carrots. What is the figure of a giraffe worth? All you need to create it is:
- carrots - 7 pcs.;
- peppercorns;
- matches;
- toothpicks.
Here's how to create an autumn craft with your own hands:
- Peel the carrots, wash and dry.
- Select the two longest vegetables for the torso and neck. The smaller ones are suitable for the legs and head.
- Position your torso lengthwise.
- Attach the legs to the bottom with toothpicks. Pre-trim these carrots from the bottom for stability.
- Stick two matches into the head, forming horns.
- Make eyes out of peppers.
To complete the look, you can use a black marker to add spots on the body. The carrot giraffe is ready.
- Turtle.
Photo: artem-kashkanov.livejournal.com
An unusual turtle will be made from pumpkin fruits. It's hard to find more autumn vegetable, and its bright color will help you create an original craft. Here's what you'll need:
- small round pumpkin;
- sunflower seeds;
- toothpicks.
Learn how to make a pumpkin craft:
- Wash the pumpkin, cut in half, remove the seeds.
- Make a shell from one half. To do this, use a knife to cut a pattern on the peel that follows the patterns of the real shell.
- Make two cuts on the sides in the shape of an arch. Do the same with the front part.
- From the remaining pumpkin, cut out four legs (in the shape of slices) and a head.
- Insert the blanks into the holes and secure with toothpicks.
- Make eyes from sunflower seeds.
- Cut the toothpicks in half and decorate the paws with them. This stroke will make the paws look like flippers.
Now place the pumpkin turtle on the base. The craft is ready.
DIY fruit crafts
Autumn crafts for kindergarten can be made not only from vegetables, but also from fruits. Do you want your creation to stand out from the rest? Then feel free to create crafts from vegetables and fruits. Here are ideas for exciting work:
- Tape recorder.
It turns out that autumn fantasies are not limited to animals and flower vases. Making a tape recorder is also possible. Prepare the following components:
- rectangular box;
- green onions;
- cucumber;
- carrot;
- lemon;
- yellow and red bell peppers;
- grapefruit;
- toothpicks;
- double sided tape.
So, the progress of the work:
- Cover the box with double-sided tape, then cover the entire surface with onion feathers.
- Prepare the details. Cut the cucumber into thin strips, leave the tail of the pepper, and chop the rest into rings and strips. Cut the remaining vegetables and fruits into rings as well.
- Secure the parts with toothpicks as shown in the photo.
Children and adults will definitely enjoy this extraordinary work.
- Hedgehog.
Take an oblong pear, grapes and toothpicks. Proceed with assembly:
- Cut the pear in half.
- Place one part on a plate.
- Cut long toothpicks in half, stringing grapes on them.
- Stick the spines into the back area, leaving room for the muzzle.
- Make the eyes and nose of the hedgehog from peppercorns.
For ambience, you can cover the plate with lettuce leaves and then place a fruit hedgehog.
- Caterpillar.
The beauty of this fruit craft is that you can choose the variety and color of apples at your discretion.
What you will need:
- apples - 5–6 pcs.;
- carrots - 1 pc.;
- rowan;
- grape;
- toothpicks.
- Cut the carrots into rings (no more than 5 mm).
- Attach two rings from the bottom to each apple - these are the legs.
- Now fasten each apple together with toothpicks - this is the body.
- Place one apple on top - this is the head.
- Make the eyes from rowan, and the nose from grapes.
- Also make the horns from rowan, stringing the berries on toothpicks.
These colorful crafts allow you to create autumn fruits. Unusual creations will decorate any exhibition, and the child will have an interesting time.
Today, vegetables and fruits are used not only as ingredients for creating culinary masterpieces. Modern needlewomen have found new uses for them and create beautiful crafts from them. This art is called carving. Figured cutting will become a real decoration for the banquet table, and will also surprise your family members. We have already written about do-it-yourself carving for beginners, and in this article you will learn about how to make crafts from cabbage.
DIY cabbage crafts
You can do vegetable and fruit crafts with your own hands together with children to develop their creativity and a love of handicrafts. In addition, you will learn how to create unique decorations for dishes with your own hands. To make cabbage crafts, you can use cabbage, purple, cauliflower or broccoli.
Cauliflower florets can be used individually, joining them together using skewers or toothpicks. A poodle or a sheep made from cauliflower will look original. The muzzle is easy to make from mushrooms and olives.
You can make entire compositions and landscapes from vegetables. In that case cauliflower Ideal for decorating shrubs and trees.
If you have a special knife for carving, then try making a chrysanthemum from Chinese cabbage. Start cutting the petals from the edge and gradually move towards the center of the head.
After you have mastered the basics of carving, try carving more complex compositions from cabbage. Professionals can even cut out real faces from cabbage. If you decide to make crafts from cabbage, don't limit yourself to just this vegetable. Combine cabbage with carrots and beets, then your figures will be brighter and more beautiful. To make it easier to work with cabbage, try pouring boiling water over some of the leaves, then they will become more pliable.
