Every parent whose child has started elementary school is faced, sooner or later, with the need to help their child, and more often, to do a craft for him for a labor or natural history lesson. Various ikebana, drawings, figures made of cardboard, pine cones, etc. All this has to be carried to school.
Crafts made from stones are often asked for grade 1 on the world around us, let's figure out how and what is best to create children's masterpieces from.
Pebble Dominoes
Pebbles probably served as a material for making dominoes among our ancestors. Let's repeat their craft! You just need to draw the dots.
Draw a line across with white paint to divide the stone into two areas. Now draw dots in each zone: from 1 to 6 dots per side. Alternate all possible combinations of numbers: 1/5 - 2/4 - 6/3 3/2, etc.
And if you first paint the entire stone with paint of a contrasting color, it will turn out absolutely wonderful.
It is better to use woven bags to store stone dominoes.
Tree
For such a picture you will need to find a root with a piece of stem. If you don’t find one like the one in the photo, don’t worry, you can use a simple thick twig, cutting it to size. Having attached the branch with wire, begin to shape the crown. To do this you need a lot of small rounded elements. You don’t even have to lay them out first, but just glue them onto cardboard right away.
The second layer in the photo is attached to round pebbles that look like apples. If your child wants to make an apple tree, then you can look for such round parts. It is also recommended to paint the fruits in bright red or yellow colors. This will bring the image to life.
Tic-tac-toe made of stones
In order to make a craft from stones - a simple and effective game of tic-tac-toe, you will need a bag, lined with 9 squares - it will also serve as a playing field. And 10 stones. Color them in any 2 colors.
You can show your imagination and create something completely unusual. In our sample you can see lemons and oranges. Who will win?
Such a board game can be both a wonderful handmade gift and a wonderful souvenir - a memory of a vacation at sea.
Story cubes made from stones
By drawing a wide variety of pictures on pebbles, you can create your own version of the Story Cubes game.
Have the player take a handful of jackdaws from the dark bag and tell their story based on the images.
Studying colors and shades from stones
To teach a child to distinguish the nuances of color and shades, it is better to show them with an example. Color something! And what could be more affordable than pebbles?
Paint them all the colors of the rainbow, mix colors, add black and white to show the difference between lighter and darker.
Involve your child in making! And such a handmade stone craft will undoubtedly become one of your favorite toys in the future.
Toy food made from stones
Color the pebbles and get toy food for your dolls! The shape of the pebble itself will tell you what kind of food it wants to pretend to be.
