Do you want to make crafts from branches? Then see how you can whiten them, and then create wonderful compositions, including a candlestick, a photo frame, a panel, a mirror frame.
This highly affordable natural material will help create charming objects. You can use them to decorate the interior, table or present. But first, see how you can prepare such materials.
How to bleach branches, cones, ears?
Take:
- secateurs;
- hydrogen peroxide;
- photo props.
First, bring the branches, cut the pieces of the required length with the pruning shears. Immerse this natural material completely in warm water. Add baking soda here and stir. Such a bowl took a third of the pack. You will soak the branches in this solution for 24 hours.
Now, after this time has passed, pour the water into a suitable saucepan. Put together with the branches on the fire, bring to a boil.
Boil this natural material for 10 minutes over low heat. Then leave to cool. After that, the bark will be easier to separate.
Take her away. Now you need to put the branches in a non-food non-metallic container, put on gloves and fill the branches with white. This acid must completely cover them so that they bleach evenly. After a day, pour it out, rinse the natural material well. To remove the pungent smell, you can still keep the branches in the water for a day, periodically change it to a new one.
Now you can decorate the interior. You can cut off the top thin branches and glue the lower parts with a hot gun. Attach metal candlesticks, fix candles on them.
You can use this natural material to make a jewelry display stand. Then take a branch with several branches, put it in a wooden block in which a hole has been pre-drilled. Glue the branch here.
Now it's time to hang various jewelry and costume jewelry here so that it is in order and always at hand. In much the same way, you will bleach the bumps. You need to skip the step with soda, and immediately place them in whiteness for a day. Then soak them too for a day, sometimes draining and changing the water.
If you make crafts from branches, then you can also glue cones to them, and put ears of corn around. They can also be bleached. See how to do it. Take spikelets of barley and wheat, tie them into bunches, cut off the lower parts, trim. Place the ears in a 20% hydrogen peroxide solution for a day. After that, rinse them and you can use this material.
Now that everything is ready, you can create various things.
How to make crafts from branches - a master class and a photo
If you want to make a vase, then take:
- branches;
- hot glue gun;
- a jar or container of this type.
Take a suitable container, now put the prepared branches here and fasten them with hot silicone. You can leave the containers inside and insert flowers into these vases. If you wish, remove the containers, you will put bleached ears or dried flowers in these vases.
If desired, arrange the branches vertically to make the next type of vase.
Or you can just put branches of almost the same size near a suitable container, tie them with a bow of twine. It will turn out to be such an interesting composition.
How to make a photo frame, a frame for a mirror from branches with your own hands?
Branches will also help with this. Pre-paint them, saw off so that they are of the desired size. Now use a hot silicone gun to glue them around the mirror.
The next step-by-step master class and photos for it will help you make a photo frame. Take whatever you need. First, cut out the cardboard frame. Then begin to glue the previously sawn-off branches to it horizontally and vertically. Then it remains to glue flowers here to decorate this thing. Decorate the mirror in the same way. And if you want, you can decorate the photo frame.
You don't have to saw off the branches, just attach them. Then they will turn out to be of different lengths. That's the beauty of the next thing. It seems that nature itself has created such a photo frame.
And if you do not first remove the bark, cover them with a beautiful varnish, then you can get such a frame for a mirror.
If you have any scraps of this material, use them as well. Glue the small branches in several layers to create such a lush frame for the mirror. In the same way, you can make a frame for a photo.
If you want to make a similar thing as soon as possible, or a child will do it, then you just need to take four branches, not even remove the bark from them, but tie it with twine in the corners. To hang some kind of picture in this frame, you need to make four holes in the corners in the paper base and tie it to the horizontal bars with the same rope.
The next composition will not take too long. Take 8 branches. Now make the next rectangle out of them, placing 2 pieces each. You can attach thuja twigs here, tie garlic or onions to create such an unusual product. Such crafts from branches are also interesting to make.
It is enough to connect them with a glue gun. Arrange the branches vertically and horizontally tightly to each other. If you wish, glue on a few moss bushes to create such a picturesque composition.
How to make candlesticks from branches?
The next master class will teach this. Take:
- glass beaker;
- birch bark;
- branches;
- glue gun;
- twine;
- burlap;
- secateurs.
Place the glass on the burlap and cut this material to fit the sides. To do this, you need to lift the burlap and decide on the size. Now glue it to the glass and see how long you need to cut the branches with the pruner.
Take birch bark and cut into small strips. Glue these blanks to the glass directly on the burlap.
Now put the sticks here one at a time and also attach them with glue. Then it remains to tie up your creation with twine, and put a candle inside with a non-hot flame so that the glass does not burst.
You can create such wood crafts with your own hands, like the following. To create this romantic attribute, even use ordinary glass jars with screw lids. Outside, glue them with branches, see how wonderful such a craft from branches looks.
The next one you will create from a thicker material. See how you need to glue the branches so that the result is a horizontal base on which you glue the candlesticks. Place candles on them to create such an inlay.
House of wooden sticks with your own hands - photo
If you need a craft for kindergarten, then also use this available material. Take:
- branches;
- silicone gun;
- leaves;
- gouache;
- glue;
- moss;
- plasticine;
- cardboard;
- secateurs.
For crafts, you need two types of branches. The former are suitable for creating the house itself, they are thicker, the latter are necessary to turn them into a small tree.
The twig craft will be placed on the cardboard. Prepare it first. To do this, add a drop of black paint to the yellow gouache, mix. Let the child paint the cardboard with this mass. Then you need to level this paint with a sponge.
Then let the child lubricate this future glade with PVA, and while this glue is not dry, cut grass or moss here. You will get such a clearing.
Help your baby cut a clearing around this circle. Now, use the pruning shears to cut the branches to create some kind of logs out of them. Seal them with a hot gun. Remember to leave uncovered window and door spaces. Dried leaves were used as a roof.
They need to be glued up. Knock down the door from the thicker branches. To do this, you need to put two sticks horizontally and glue the vertical ones on them. Attach a branch that will become a tree. To do this, select it directly with the leaves. Let the child mold mushrooms from plasticine and fix them on a tree. These are crafts made from branches if you show imagination and diligence.
Do-it-yourself panel from sticks
Ideas for such handicrafts were also presented by this natural material. For such a craft from the branches, you need to take:
- branches;
- threads;
- hook;
- scissors;
- decor items.
First, you will create the basis for the panel, then you can decorate it as you like. First, use a pruner or saw to cut the branches to the same length. Now make a loop out of the yarn, throw it over the first branch and crochet once.
Put the second branch here and continue tying. Connect the rest of the elements on one side in the same way.
When knitting, periodically line up the wooden sticks so that none of them pop out, but are firmly fixed.
Do not remove the thread, tie the post further until it is of the desired length. After that, make a loop on it and continue knitting on the other side.
Connect the branches here in the same way. When you have completely finished the second edge, finish knitting. The basis for the panel is ready.
Now you can decorate it as you like. You will glue the decoration elements with a hot gun or push them between branches.
If you need winter compositions, then pay attention to the following. For it, you need to glue the branches and stems of plants. Also fix small bumps and deer from cardboard.
If you want, take thick cardboard or plywood as a base, and the branches will turn into stems. If you took plywood or fiberboard, then using a sponge, first paint this base with acrylic paint. Then you will need to go through the varnish so that the surface shines.
Take artificial roses or other dried flowers and twigs. Paint it all with spray paint. Now glue these blanks onto the prepared substrate with a hot gun.
All that remains is to enclose your masterpiece in a frame, after which you can hang such a wonderful picture on the wall. To do this, first glue a loop of twine at the back.
How to make a hut from branches with your own hands?
You will also make it from this material. For such a craft from the branches, you need to take:
- branches;
- wire;
- twine;
- wooden racks.
There are various types of this structure. If you decide to make a gable hut, then here the roof and walls will be located at the same level. Place the poles at an angle first. Dig them in from below if possible. Now start laying branches and twigs here, tying them with rope and wire. Then it will remain to put additional spruce branches and leaves on top so that atmospheric precipitation does not flow here. Also place coniferous branches and leaves in a layer of 20–30 cm on the floor so that it is soft to sit and lie in the hut.
If you need to build a circular hut, then pay attention to the following photo.
Such a structure resembles a simplified wigwam. First, you need to put several poles in a circle, connecting them with a rope and wire at the top point. Now wrap the gaps between the sectors with belts and ropes. If there are no such materials, then link the branches here. It remains to put fern, grass, branches with leaves, spruce branches or similar materials on top to strengthen this structure and protect it from rain and wind.
But the simplest option is a lean-to hut. It will need two trees growing side by side. Between them, you will fasten vertical poles with a rope and also put them at an angle.
It will also remain to put spruce branches, branches with leaves or something similar here to cover this structure.
You can also make such crafts from branches, such as a wreath to decorate a door. If you want to see how to weave a basket, then meet the hero of the next video. He creates such unique items from willow vines.
And how to make wreaths from twigs, shows the second video. They can be created even in winter, when there is little available natural material around.
