Application is the easiest way to work with small items. Even kids can easily master the technique, but they should create under the supervision of adults.

Two types of technique are used – indentation and sprinkling. On hand should be:

thick paper that can withstand the weight of the application;
pencils – simple, colored to create a stencil, template;
cereals – buckwheat, rice, millet, semolina and others;
glue and brush for sprinkling technique;
plasticine for the indentation technique.

Preparing seeds for making crafts

To start making autumn crafts from seeds, you need to stock up on natural material and properly prepare it for work. For this:

select seeds of different sizes;
sort them out and clean them of debris;
wash in running water;
dry, spreading a thin layer;
painted in different colors;
and dry again.

When the application is assembled, it needs to be varnished to keep it for a long time and protect it from dust pollution.

Features of using seeds for creativity

A wide variety of crafts can be made from natural materials such as bones, seeds and cereals. From them you can make:

applications: you can lay out paintings using a stencil or creating a drawing in the manufacturing process;
three-dimensional figures: large elements can be connected to each other using silicone glue, small ones are usually glued with plasticine, foam blanks can also be glued with seeds and cereals;
small decor: small natural material is suitable for gluing individual parts of large crafts or paintings, watches;
pendants and beads: gluing seeds to ribbons or gluing them in the form of different objects (snowflakes, Christmas trees) allows you to get non-standard home decor or original decorations.

For laying out pictures from seeds and cereals, it is recommended to use cardboard. Paper for such crafts is of little use, since it will strongly sag under the weight of natural materials.

Methods for coloring pumpkin seeds

To give the source material bright attractive colors, they should be painted.

Coloring steps:

place coloring compositions of various colors in small polyethylene bags;
place the required number of seeds in packages with the desired shades;
seal the bags, and mix the seeds inside to obtain a uniform deep color.
After coloring, the seeds must be dried, avoiding their contact and mutual staining.

Using this method, you can color the entire original set of seeds without contaminating a large amount of dishes.

Children's applications from seeds

To start working on the craft, you need to prepare all the necessary materials. For work you will need:

colored and white paper;
multi-colored cardboard;
PVA glue and brush;
plasticine;
colour pencils;
different twigs and leaves;
peppercorns;
framework;
colorless varnish.

When all the materials are prepared, you can get to work and show imagination in creating masterpieces from seeds. In the article we will give examples of how to make this or that animal and plant from natural material.

Application "Giraffe"

Giraffe from cereals

First, prepare a picture of a giraffe and decorate its body with large corn
All other parts can be formed with buckwheat

Sample

Hedgehog from seeds

A beautiful and realistic hedgehog can be made using sunflower seeds. Also, for work you will need a sheet of cardboard, silicone glue or plasticine, plastic decor in the form of mushrooms, apples. The work is carried out step by step according to the following master class:

A hedgehog is drawn on a sheet of cardboard. His paws and muzzle are painted pink (with a pencil, felt-tip pen, paints).
The back is pasted over with plasticine.
Carefully, starting from the top and going down, sunflower seeds are glued to the plasticine. Subsequent rows should overlap slightly with the previous ones.
Plastic apples and mushrooms are glued to the back of seed needles with silicone glue (or a glue gun).
As a spout, a hedgehog can be glued to a dried berry or a ball of black plasticine.

autumn tree

Create a landscape on cardboard.
The trunk of a tree can be sprinkled with buckwheat, having previously covered it with glue.
Multi-colored autumn leaves are made from pumpkin seeds, which are painted in autumn colors.
Glue blue clouds and a yellow sun on the application.
Fallen leaves created from colorful pumpkin seeds are placed under the tree.
The application is covered with a colorless varnish.
Placed in a frame.

Grain feeders

You will need: 3 cups of bird food, a bag of gelatin, a quarter cup of water, cookie cutters, baking paper, a saucepan, a spoon, a bowl, twine.

Bring water to a boil and add gelatin.
Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly.
Remove mixture from heat and stir in food.
Lay the baking paper on the table and place the molds on it.
Fill the molds with food and insert the twine.
Put the figurines in the freezer for 20 minutes, remove, then leave to dry for 10 hours.
Hang food on tree branches.

Curly grain feeders are ready!

Flowers

To prepare for the autumn craft contests in the kindergarten and school, you can make not only applications in the form of flowers from pumpkin seeds, but also make voluminous flowers. For work you will need: cardboard, pumpkin seeds, plasticine, a thick branch, a glue gun. The craft itself can be made according to the following master class:

One circle is cut out of a sheet of cardboard (with a diameter of about 7 cm).
Plasticine is glued on a cardboard circle with a thin layer.
In the central part of the inflorescence, 3 pumpkin seeds are installed vertically.
Along the perimeter of the mug, 2 rows of seeds are glued horizontally.
Moving from the edges of the inflorescence to its center (stamens from seeds), the remaining empty space is filled.
With a glue gun, a thin branch is glued to the bottom of the mug – the stem of the flower.
If desired, dried or paper leaves can be glued to the stem itself.

Application "Bear cub"

Teddy bear from cereals

Before you start creating a teddy bear, take rice and buckwheat.

First, draw a bear on a sheet or print a ready-made stencil
Lubricate the contour with glue and pour buckwheat on it
Wait for your work to dry and remove excess
Apply glue inside the figure and sprinkle it with rice
When everything dries, also remove the excess
To make the picture more elegant, you can draw him some flowers or hearts.

The following templates are quite suitable for creating applications: Bear template 1

Rooster

To create an applique with a rooster, various seeds and cereals are used. The rooster is a multi-colored bird and the more colors are used, the more chic it looks.

Green and yellow peas, buckwheat, pumpkin seeds of different colors and sunflower seeds – all this will create a unique image of poultry:

A cockerel figure cut out of paper is glued on cardboard, and all multi-colored seeds are attached to it with glue.
The tail of the bird should be colorful and fluffy.
The scallop and beard is made with red pumpkin seeds.
For paws use twigs or stems of plants.
The finished application is varnished and attached to the frame.

Application "Sparrow"

Sparrow from cereals

It is not necessary to take only animals or some figures for applications. Bird images can also be used. For example, a sparrow is made from peas, buckwheat and rice.

So, fill the chest and head of the bird with buckwheat. The beak can be made from split peas, and the wings from rice.

Sample

Photo frame from seeds

The easiest way after applications is to decorate a photo frame with seeds. Consumables are pre-washed, dyed and dried.

The next step for the wizard is to prepare the sketch. Thanks to the original shape of the seeds, a wide variety of shapes and patterns can be made from such material.

How to make crafts from seeds:

The basis for subsequent decoration is prepared from cardboard, papier-mâché or salt dough. You can use a finished wooden or plastic frame.
A thin layer of glue is applied to the surface of the base.
Seeds are laid out on top of the adhesive composition in the form of a selected pattern.

Using pea or bean seeds, you can create a solid coating, and apply the paint in the form of multi-colored stripes or a pattern. After the glue has hardened, cover the decorative frame with 2-3 layers of acrylic varnish, which will give the product a gloss and create an additional protective layer.

Candlestick

Watermelon crafts are gradually becoming not only elements of children's creativity, but also an interesting addition to the interior. One of the products used in the interior are candlesticks. Candles give the autumn interior a special charm. Of all the seasons, only autumn is associated with a blanket, a book, an armchair, a cup of tea and candles. The last one needs candlesticks. Watermelon seeds are used as an external decor for glasses or jars into which a candle is inserted. They are glued on resistant glue, varnished or painted.

With a deep candlestick, bones are tightly poured into a glass, a candle is placed there and everything is poured with hot wax to strengthen the structure.

Wreath

A Christmas wreath made of chopped green peas looks no less original. The only thing you will need to buy or do it yourself is a base made of straw, polystyrene or other light bulk material.

We glue the base with peas, first from the inside, then from the outside. Peas can be poured onto a large baking sheet and dipped into the blank covered with glue.

Application "Mushrooms"

Mushrooms from cereals

Despite the fact that you can think that mushrooms are easy to make, in fact it is not. It is best to make such a product with a child already in the older group of kindergarten. To create an application, you will need millet, buckwheat and rice.

Sketch yourself or have a child
We trim the mushroom leg with rice, and the hat with buckwheat
The difficulty lies in creating pores. They are made from wheat
It is better to stick the grains in turn so that the work is quick and accurate.
You can apply hairspray to the finished painting to fix it.
To preserve the appearance of the canvas, use cellophane or film
To finish, place the film under the press

mushroom pattern

As you can see, applications from cereals and seeds are quite simple and can be done all the time. All materials are usually at hand and do not need to be specially created.

Crafts from maple, ash seeds

The seeds of these trees are like wings, the blades of a helicopter. We all played with them in childhood, but few people made crafts from them with their own hands. Craftswomen proved that they are ideal for creativity. They can be used to create applications, animal figurines, they make a chic mane of a lion or fish scales.

From an ordinary stick, several "parachutes" of maple, you can make a charming dragonfly or butterfly with your child for an exhibition at school.

fish

If you have at hand not only the seeds themselves, but also an empty plastic bottle of lotion, cotton swabs, you can make a fish. We cut out the base from the bottle, decorate it with “algae" from cut cotton swabs.

You will have to cut with a sharp clerical knife. If a child takes part in the work, then an adult should take on this task.

We stick “fish” from seeds on the algae, we designate their eyes with millet. We paint the algae in green, the fish themselves in brown, yellow or gold.

Craft pumpkin seed chicken

Another very interesting idea for an autumn garden craft that you can make with your own hands from pumpkin seeds is a chicken. To create such a figure, you need to prepare the following materials:

pumpkin and sunflower seeds;
plasticine;
natural material (dried grass, leaves, branches);
small wicker basket

Preparation method:

They start with plasticine, from which it is necessary to make a blank in the form of the body of a future chicken.
The tail and wings are made from pumpkin seeds. This is done by sticking them into a plasticine base.
Then fill the rest of the places with sunflower seeds, sticking them with a tip into the workpiece tightly to each other.
They also complete the craft with plasticine, sculpting a scallop, earrings, beak and eyes of a chicken out of it.
The finished craft is placed in a small basket, the bottom of which is previously covered with dry grass.

Owl

The owl is famous for its wisdom, so many children love to decorate their rooms with its image. Or maybe just because she's beautiful. To make an image of an owl, you will need:

white and black beans;
peas of two colors – green and yellow;
rice;
buckwheat;
sunflower seeds.

Operating procedure:

Draw an owl or print a suitable drawing on a printer and stick it on cardboard.
The pupils are made from black beans, in the middle you can glue one white grain at a time.
The whites of the eyes will be made of white beans, and glue the borders with black beans.
Nose, paws can be made from yellow peas.
Wings and head will look good from sunflower seeds.
Fill the rest of the space with rice and buckwheat.
A couple of feathers can be glued on the chest – they can be made from seeds. Glue them right on top of the cereal.
A tree branch will look great from buckwheat.
Green peas will make leaves.
Make the frame to your taste, based on your interior. It can be garnished with peas or corn, or any other cereal of your choice.
Cover the picture with varnish and hang it.

Water lilies from pumpkin seeds

Volumetric products from seeds are also beautiful – for example, water lilies. To make them, we take a cardboard circle of a suitable diameter as a basis and glue a row of seeds along its edge.

Scatter the seeds around

The second row is placed on top of the first, closer to the middle.

Second layer

The third is on top of the second, and so on.

A flower is forming

After gluing the seeds, paint them or leave them white – your choice.

painted flower

In the center we place a small handful of small seeds that imitate the stamens of a flower.

stamens

We decorate the flower with a leaf.

flower from pumpkin seeds

mouse

A watermelon pit mouse can be done in two ways. The first option is an application. On a sheet of cardboard, a mouse body cut out of colored paper is drawn or glued. The tail, nose, eyes, ears of the mouse are made from watermelon seeds. This craft is suitable for an exhibition in kindergarten. For older children, one large seed and plasticine will be required to make a mouse. The seed acts as a body, ears and a plasticine tail are attached to it. Such a product can be supplemented with any composition.

Watermelon – craft from watermelon seeds

Such a craft can be done even if there are no watermelon seeds – instead of them, you can glue pieces of black or brown plasticine.

For crafts you will need:

cardboard
pencil
scissors (optional)
watermelon seeds
mat (board) for modeling
red plasticine
plasticine dark green
light green plasticine (if there is only one block of green in the set, a lighter shade can be obtained by mixing it with white or yellow)

Draw an outline on the cardboard in the shape of a slice of watermelon. It may or may not be cut.
Paste over the slice with red plasticine, pinching it off in small pieces and smearing it on cardboard.
Stick light green and dark green plasticine rolled out with sausages to the bottom of the slice.
Press a few watermelon seeds in random order into the red part of the slice.

Useful tips for creating crafts

Make a harvest of natural raw materials in summer and autumn.
Dry the seeds of watermelons, melons, pumpkins and sunflowers so that they do not rot.
When painting seeds, use different shades of acrylic paints.
Stock up on leaves and flowers by making a herbarium out of them. They are useful for creating compositions on long winter evenings.
It is not necessary to create a huge picture at once. Learn to do simple crafts and move on to more complex ones.
Crafts from seeds are beautifully combined with tree bark and beans.
The material for applications can be taken in a variety of ways, the main thing is that it be of a natural nature.

Creating a masterpiece with your own hands from the material that nature gives us, you can not only get aesthetic pleasure, but also create a gift with your own hands or present your work at an exhibition.

The main thing is to show imagination and be inspired. And then the hobby will benefit you and other people.