- January 7, 2019
- Crafts
- Natalia Penchkovskaya
A popular craft for craftsmen is a house or hut. They are made from completely different materials. These are paper and cardboard, natural materials and plastic bottles, sections of wood and branches, ice cream sticks and newspaper tubes. It would take a long time to list the materials from which it is interesting to construct structures, as well as the types of buildings. It could be a rustic one-story house, a multi-tiered mansion, a log house made of thick branches, a hut on chicken legs for Baba Yaga.
You can fantasize about making a house in different directions. Our article is about a house made of sticks made of wood. These are either simple branches and twigs, or processed wooden pieces, which are easier to work with and make the houses more neat. Additionally, you can decorate crafts with any natural material, as well as make bases from durable cardboard.
You will learn how to make a house from wood sticks step by step, how to connect the elements together, the better and more reliable way to cover the roof, on what basis to start construction, so that you can move the craft from place to place, or take it to an exhibition in a school or kindergarten.
Popsicle stick craft
A child of primary school age can create a small house from wooden sticks, as in the photo below. To fasten the parts together, use a glue gun. Only hot glue will hold the structure together. If you don't have such equipment, don't worry. A craft house made from tree sticks can be placed on a cardboard base.
Popsicle sticks are flat plates with rounded ends. In shape they resemble logs from a log house, so most often a village house is assembled from such elements. In addition, they are easily cut into strips of the desired size with a stationery knife.
Availability of material
Most often, children's crafts use materials that are always at hand.
This is very convenient, since you don’t need to specifically go to the store under the sudden influence of a thirst for creativity, just look around.
Toothpicks can be found in every kitchen; they are used as a means of oral hygiene and for table setting.
They are quite cheap, so the child does not have to limit himself in their use.
Foundation for any house
To ensure that a house made of wooden sticks holds its shape well, you can first create a base from corrugated cardboard. They do it according to the drawn diagram, drawing one by one all the walls of the building in order. At the end you need to leave a small strip for gluing the parts together.
Then fold the cardboard along the lines and connect the first and last parts of the walls together. For the roof, a long rectangle is measured with a ruler and cut along the contours. All that remains is to fold the workpiece in half and install it using a glue gun on the wall supports from above. If holes are needed for additional parts - doors and windows, then cut them with scissors before assembling the cardboard base. All that remains is to cover the future house made of wooden sticks with natural material and place it on a reliable foundation.
Art objects in a modern interior
You can’t do without bright accents when creating an Art Nouveau style. To implement it, you should use such decorative elements as:
- rounded stained glass windows;
- picture frames with a pattern that replicates the painting on the furniture;
- mosaic with a natural theme (for example, a pond with water lilies or a field with flowers);
- round and oval mirrors in openwork frames;
- furniture with flower details.
A great idea to recreate this style is to install a lamp. As an example, we can cite an interesting designer lamp, which has the shape of a circle divided into three parts using vertical lines. Its frame is wooden, and the facade is made of stained glass in the likeness of classical examples of the style.
Designer forged mirror frame with copper coating and stone inserts - a stylish art object in the Art Nouveau style
Symmetrical design: penguin-shaped mirrors and custom chandelier in the dining room
Designer mirror frames are inherent in the Provence style. An art object in such a room can be a sewing mannequin
Deer antlers are a stylistic decor in the Scandinavian style. Despite this, it can fit seamlessly into a classic living room
A quirky mirror frame is a 2022 trend. The shape of the sun can turn an ordinary round mirror into an art object
Coffee table with a mirror top and a non-standard leg shape
Craft for preschoolers
Teachers often draw with children, make appliques and sculpt houses. This could be a kindergarten building, a small hut for a bunny or a house in the village. Children of senior preschool age will be quite capable of making such crafts as in the photo below. They begin to make a house from tree sticks for the kindergarten after preliminary work. First, children and their teacher go for a walk in the park or collect branches of the required size on the territory of the kindergarten.
You need to select material of the same thickness. To create bushes around the house, don’t forget to collect a few thuja leaves and a thin branched twig to represent a tree. Then the branches are cut and laid out first without glue. When you have the shape of the house, transfer all the details onto a sheet of thick cardboard and strengthen them with PVA glue.
Foam or vegetable base?
The second, no less popular option for making a fake is to use foam plastic, or fruits, vegetables, nuts - anything that grows and has at least slightly suitable geometric parameters.
When choosing between polystyrene foam and fruits, you need to consider both the pros and cons of each material:
- It’s easier to make fake toothpicks with your own hands from a plant base. Often it (for example, an acorn) already has the required size and shape, which will simplify the manufacturing process;
- It is more difficult to prepare a foam base. But a fake made from it can last much longer. It is also easy to combine polystyrene foam with other synthetic materials, such as glue. You can use glue with fruits, but not as effectively, without a guarantee that everything will go as it should.
House for a pig
Let's look at how to make a hut for a fairytale pig out of branches. To make it easier to hold the branches upright, make a base from a small box filled with plasticine. First, install pillars of thick branches along the edges of the walls and on both sides of the window. Then fill the voids with thin branches, inserting them deeper into the plasticine. Connect the material on top either with hot glue, or tie the elements together with thin wire or nylon thread, matched by color.
The door can be glued together from wooden ice cream sticks, making cross members from matches without sulfur. To create a roof, you need to tie long branches in the center and attach them to thick branches on the sides of the walls. To hold dry leaves, stretch threads or wire in several rows between the branches.
Photo ideas for DIY tree branch decor
Do-it-yourself decor from tree branches will help give your home a new look. Numerous photos on the Internet convince us that dry plant elements look great in urban interiors, and a pile of country brush can be turned into amazing sculptures. For home crafts, it is better to use purchased branches - they are durable and not rotten, treated against pests, varnished, so they will last a long time looks nice.
An original clothes hanger is a practical item and an interesting decorative element. Using the same principle, you can make a wall-mounted key holder.
You can use the branches to make a panel for the living room.
Floor planters look impressive, into which you can insert vases and pots with fresh flowers, as well as compositions of dried plants.
Tree branches look great in living and artificial bouquets.
A bottle storage device made from real branches will look very interesting.
Original furniture made from wild wood elements will become the main piece of interior design.
A coffee table in eco-style can be made in two ways - assembled from branches or decorated with suitable elements that are already ready.
An unusual frame for a photo or favorite picture will make the interior original.
Parts of old wood are used to create a unique mirror frame, giving it some brutality.
If you decorate the perimeter of the glass with exclusively thin branches, the mirror will look sophisticated and elegant.
Easter nests can be made from twigs.
You can also make a stylish Christmas wreath with your own hands.
From the branches you can make an original Christmas tree, which can be easily decorated in any style.
A snowflake made from branches will decorate an unusual Christmas tree. You can attach real candy, a shiny toy, or any other interesting detail to the center of the structure.
And finally, garden decor. Such an apple will become not only a dacha art object, but also a local landmark, next to which everyone will want to take a photo.
An apartment and a country house, decorated with crafts made from branches, look original and unusual. Decor from wood elements is easy to make with your own hands, especially if you take on it with the whole family. Children will be happy to take part in coloring themed items, such as New Year's items, and adults will have the opportunity to interest children and teach them useful skills.
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Fairytale country house
A house made of natural material will look great in a garden flower bed. You can select a small plot of land for construction, cover the craft with round pebbles and moss, creating the atmosphere of a fairy tale.
The use of hot glue will add reliability to the structure. Choose branches of the same thickness so that the craft looks like a rustic log house. First you need to cut the material to size with a knife, reducing the length to create a triangular base for the roof gradually until you get a corner. You can assemble all the walls separately, matching the opposite ones with each other so that they are the same, and only then glue everything together. The roof is laid out in place, connecting the branches tightly to each other in the center of the ridge.
All that remains is to work on additional details - make doors, you can add a window, decorate the craft with a flower knitted from small pieces. It will be interesting to see the craft if you lay out a path of fine gravel on the ground to the door of the house and place a small gnome at the entrance.
Table decoration
Having mastered working with toothpicks and natural materials, it is easy to make a hedgehog from an onion, a lion from new potatoes, and a porcupine from beets. The next step using this technology could be the design of holiday dishes.
- An original addition to an exotic fruit salad will be berry canapés in the shape of funny ostriches.
- But charming pear hedgehogs carry ripe grapes or strawberries on their needles
- Here, cheese boats raise ham sails over toothpick masts.
Creating delicious crafts from toothpicks and various products is so exciting that ideas will not keep you waiting long, and the holiday table will surprise you every time with an unusual design solution, adding fun and joy to the celebration.
Crafts for the autumn exhibition at school
You already understand how to make a house from tree sticks. Let's look at another interesting craft option, where an entire village courtyard is assembled. The house is assembled from branches of various thicknesses, so it looks more natural. The area of the triangle under the roof is decorated by gluing additional vertical branches.
On the roof, on top of the main covering of branches, scales of pine cones are laid, creating the impression of a tiled roof. The windows are made with applique of white and brown cardboard. The craft itself stands on a cardboard base covered with green corrugated paper, imitating a clearing with grass. The mistress of the house is made from a pine cone and a walnut shell, supposedly sweeping up scattered autumn leaves with a broom in her yard. The craft is complemented by a fence made of sticks and a real poplar branch with leaves.
House by the river
The next version of a small house made of branches is complemented by a padded polyester river, painted with blue gouache, a wooden bridge and a boat on the water made of walnut shells.
A cone gnome sits on logs near the house and catches a fish with a fishing rod. The courtyard is lined with autumn leaves and surrounded by a fence made from wooden skewers. In the craft, you can consider a whole fairy tale plot. The master has thought through everything to the smallest detail, so the work looks unique and interesting.
Model of a house or castle
This option is universal. Suitable for both simple fakes and large-scale projects. Depending on the complexity you may need:
- A stationery knife and glue - if you plan to do a lot of work using only toothpicks;
- Styrofoam or a house model that can be pasted over with toothpicks to achieve the desired effect.
The largest models consist of thousands of toothpicks, so in this option it all depends on desire and available time.
Toothpick crafts for kids are a great way to spend time together. For children, this is an opportunity to try something new and interesting.
Not to mention that such work develops fine motor skills and intelligence. Develop the ability to think creatively and achieve goals.
Baba Yaga's hut
The following talented house craft, assembled on a base of two chicken paws, looks very impressive. They are made from branchy cherry tree branches. The base for the house is assembled from thick branches with bark, cut into equal lengths. All fastenings are made with hot glue. For the hut itself, the author created real logs from a log house, making holes at the end of each branch. This is very painstaking work.
Pieces of moss are placed between all the logs, just as the builders of a real log house do. The roof is additionally covered with thin exfoliations of pine bark, which can be collected on the ground in a pine forest. The work was done professionally, so that novice craftsmen can only admire the author’s creation, trying to achieve the same quality in their handicrafts.
Try making simpler crafts first. Good luck with your work!
