Paintings from flat pebbles. Crafts from stones

Crafts from stones and sea pebbles

One of the most popular trends in modern creativity is the manufacture of handicrafts with their own hands. Often to create various crafts use the most common objects and improvised, natural materials. From the most ordinary stones, beautiful and unusual crafts, which will decorate the interior of any room or become an excellent element of landscape design. For self made both ordinary stones and sea pebbles are suitable. The material can be of different sizes and colors.

stone crafts

With the help of stone, fountains are decorated, terraces are equipped, garden paths are decorated, and even furniture is being built. But most often, crafts are made from stone, which become a decoration of a garden or a personal plot. Stones will perfectly decorate the garden different sizes, which are colored in the form ladybugs. If you show imagination, then cute caterpillars, snails, frogs and other cute inhabitants of the garden can turn out from stones.

Garden stone figurines

A swan can also decorate the garden, the head and neck of which is made of bent reinforcement, and as a body - a stone having round shape. Other animals can be made in a similar way, where the armature can be used to make legs. Large and medium-sized stones can be decorated in the form of a fairy-tale house and a small gnome can be installed next to the house. Lying stones are an excellent material for creating a dog, cat or tiger.

If you show a little imagination, then fabulous mushrooms will grow on the site or in the garden or daisies will bloom. Pots or buckets with stones that are painted in the form of berries will look spectacular.

Painting on stones - craft ideas

In order for the painting on the stones to last as long as possible, a varnish coating should be applied over the drawing.

Crafts made of medium-sized stones, decorated using the “napkin technique” - decoupage technique, look very interesting and unusual. In order to make such a craft you will need:

Medium-sized stone with a smooth surface;
Bright napkins;
PVA glue;
Acrylic paints;
White "water emulsion";
Glossy colorless varnish.

First of all, a layer of "water emulsion" must be applied to the surface of the stone. Napkins are better to choose three-layer. The first layer of napkins must be removed, then cut out the pattern, and remove another layer. For crafts, only the top, colorful, layer is suitable. The drawing from the napkin is fixed on the surface of the stone with PVA glue. As the glue dries, make sure that wrinkles do not form on the napkin. Further acrylic paints the background of the craft is created, a drawing is done, and then painting. After drawing the picture, the stone must be varnished and left to dry for 2 days. Then another layer of varnish is applied.

Crafts from sea pebbles

Sea pebbles are a very convenient material for creating various DIY crafts. Due to the baked form and relatively small size, sea pebbles are used to make various decorations and buttons.

Sea pebble jewelry

Holes in pebbles can be made independently, using a drill and various drills, or you can turn to a jewelry workshop for help.

Perhaps the simplest sea pebble craft is a fridge magnet. To do this, you just need to glue a small magnet to one side of the stone, and paint the other side with acrylic paints.

Decor flower pot with sea pebbles

It will look good in any interior flower pot, pasted over with sea pebbles. In a similar way, you can decorate various boxes, vases or any other containers.

Paintings from sea pebbles

To do unusual paintings from sea pebbles, you need to choose the basis of the picture, and paint it in the desired color. You can use a piece of wood or plywood as a base. Then a sketch of the future drawing should be applied to the paper, and it should be determined what color the stones will be needed. Then the stones must be painted in the required colors and then glued to the base with a glue gun. If you wish, you can experiment a little and add other materials to the picture.

Crafts with children: paint the pebbles

An excellent activity not only for adults, but also for children, will be painting pebbles. To paint the stones, you must use acrylic paints or gouache. Of course, acrylic paints will be more durable, and if the drawing is varnished on top, the craft will delight the eye for decades. With the help of painting pebbles, the interior of the room can be decorated with cute cacti. For such crafts you will need pebbles large sizes, which should be colored in the form of cacti. Fill the flower pot with fine crumbs and place the resulting "cacti" into it. Thus, one "cactus" or a whole "green family" can be placed in one pot.

DIY stone paintings are not only a wonderful and unusual decoration for your home, but also a fantastic gift! Surprise your loved ones with this stunning piece of art! Check out our selection of examples or make your own!

You can pre-paint the canvas and make the necessary background that will suit the chosen theme for the image with stones. In this example, the motif with birds is considered. Because they are celestial beings, a blue background color was chosen. And the addition was the blue sea.

Add colors!

It will be just great if you bring a handful of stones with you when you arrive from vacation! From which in the future you can make your own picture! The result will definitely please the eye! Firstly, a memory from a vacation, and secondly, a hand-made work!

DIY family stone paintings

The cohesion of your family can be depicted in a similar picture! Great idea with added captions! Such a picture will add some warmth and romance to your family!

Paint the stones for a more colorful picture!

The perfect gift for your significant other!

Real 3D effect!

romantic landscape

amazing peacock

funny pictures

Source: German interior and decor magazine "Deavita"
Translation author: Chvanova Maria. Specially for the site

Friends, in the midst of winter, it is especially pleasant for us to think about summer, the sea, the beach. Let's remember those wonderful days when, after swimming and jumping in the sea waves, we and our children began to collect smooth, washed with salty sea spray and shining in the sun, varnished by the surf sea ​​pebbles. Well, how could you part with them?!

This is how a couple of kilograms of "marine rarities" migrated to our house. What to do? After all, not everyone has an aquarium.

How to make sure that all this “sea beauty” is really useful to us, and does not fly into the garbage can in a month?

Don't despair, there is more than one way out! There are a lot of interesting options for using sea pebbles in the interior and in the landscape. Let's discuss some of them.

Sea pebbles in the interior

We all want to turn our home into a corner of relaxation and peace, hence the increased demand for natural materials in interior design and fashionable now ecostyle.

And what about here without nautical pebbles? Thanks to its various shapes, sizes, pleasant rough or smooth texture, gloss, as well as natural shades, it is perfect for home decoration.

sea ​​pebbles looks great in the interior. In the Mediterranean, for example, this material has long been used as a floor mosaic or used in wall decoration.

IDEA #1 - FOR THE KITCHEN AND BATH

Today sea ​​pebbles also clad walls and floors in bathrooms, in addition, it acts as a protective material for kitchen panels. There is a great idea: apply sea ​​pebbles for decoration holiday table! Looks great in this case. decorative coasters for dishes. They are not at all difficult to make yourself.

IDEA #2 - PICTURES AND PANEL

Because sea ​​pebble There are different shades and different degrees of transparency, there is no limit to experiments. Sea pebbles can be combined with other materials based on the similarity of color and texture and create amazing compositions, paintings and panels. Small smooth pebbles go well with various materials, especially with wood, glass, shells. Sea pebbles are great for creativity: the stones are flat, so they can fit under glass. And they are all so different that they ask to become part of an interesting panel. Check out examples of such work and you will surely want to create something similar!

IDEA #3 - PEBLE MOSAIC RUG

Let's try to make the interior more attractive and interesting with the help of pebble mosaic!

Floor mats with a massaging effect look great in the interior. In addition, it is pleasant to stand on them and feel at the same time like the sea, and the uneven surface of the coating will not allow you to slip. You can also make this rug yourself!

IDEA #4 - TRAY FOR WET SHOES

Using waterproof trays, it is very easy to build a storage mat wet shoes. Just fill up the containers sea ​​pebbles and everything is functional and original thing ready!

Sea pebbles in the landscape

IDEA #5 - GARDEN PATH

Sea and river pebbles fits perfectly into the surrounding landscape, so it is especially popular in landscape design. And for creative people, this natural material is a real find!

Sea pebbles make excellent and durable garden paths.

Making them is not so difficult, but here you need to have enough materials. I'm afraid that the suitcase with sea pebbles may not be enough, you will have to buy or collect everything that your friends have accumulated over many years of wandering! So the idea is only limited by your imagination and the size of your luggage...

Let us dwell on how to make such beauty and try to lay out mosaic paths from sea pebbles with our own hands. It is not difficult, but with due patience and imagination, incredible masterpieces can turn out.

Necessary materials:

• pebbles of various sizes
• sand
• plywood (cut film or tarpaulin)
• stone chips
• concrete mix
• wooden or rubber mallet
• level
• hose
• hard brush.

• The work process is sequentially shown in the photo:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

IDEA No. 6 - "DRY STREAM"

Let's continue the previous topic and show even more imagination. After all, sea pebbles can also be used as a basis for "dry streams" and gravel gardens. Laid out on edge, it remarkably imitates the water flow in a “dry stream”. But in this case, it is important not to get carried away and show maximum artistic taste and “not overdo it” with the design!

In my landscape objects, I often use this technique: “dry streams” really enliven the landscape of the site and serve as drainage wells to collect excess water. You can see in more detail how such a combination of “beautiful with useful” looks at the link .

Another interesting "dry stream" turned out on my other landscape object. Big photo see the link .

Mosaic decorative areas for a garden made of sea pebbles can also be bright and unusual.. The technology of their manufacture is similar to how garden paths are made (described in detail above). Get inspired and ... go ahead, do the wonders of garden design with your own hands!

IDEA #8 - COMPOSITIONS FOR THE GARDEN

From sea ​​pebbles beautiful small sculptures and compositions are obtained that will decorate the landscape of the site. They, like elegant accessories, will add style and sophistication to your garden. Products from sea pebbles can decorate paths, ponds, flower beds.

Needlework master class

Decorative panel "Apple tree" from flat pebbles

Annenkova Elena Nikolaevna, teacher of fine arts and technology, MBOU "Glebovskaya secondary school" of the Fatezhsky district of the Kursk region.
Material Description: I offer you a master class on creating a decorative composition from natural material - small pebbles. This material is aimed at children from 10 years old and will be useful to teachers additional education, to all creatively oriented people.
Purpose: DIY gift, decorative ornament do-it-yourself interiors.
Target: creation of a decorative panel from flat pebbles
Tasks:
1. get acquainted with one of the types of work with stones,
2. develop the skills of compositional construction, color harmony,
3. develop Creative skills, aesthetic taste, interest in arts and crafts.

The history of stone painting
Stone painting is an ancient art. It was used in absolutely all parts of the world and among all peoples.
In ancient times, stone painting was used to decorate many complex objects, mainly idols. Often the stones were painted to depict animals, birds, gods, and even dead members of the tribe. By the way, the first icons were also painted on stone. In the East, stone painting was used to decorate statues of Buddha and dragons.
The history of stone painting dates back several thousand years, and was often used in conjunction with stone work by stonemasons and sculptors.
Today, stone painting is used mainly on wild, unprocessed stone. Stones are often decorated in this way to look like insects, animals and plants. Well, I offer a master class with painting pebbles, which will be available even to those who cannot draw.
To make a decorative panel "Apple tree" we need:
- small flat stones
- gouache, brush,
- veneer sheet,
- dark fabric
- thick cardboard (packaging is possible),
- PVA glue,
- scissors,
- a branch of a tree.

For a panel of pebbles, as a rule, a preliminary drawing is not performed. Initially, you can lay out the still unpainted pebbles according to the plan on paper. So the future composition is more clearly presented, the material is selected by size and shape, its quantity.

We paint pebbles for the crown of an apple tree, bushes with shades of green.

Then, on some pebbles, we put highlights with white or yellow gouache, and on some, on the contrary, we shade with dark green.

We color the apples, choosing more rounded pebbles for them.

We put glare on the apples with white.

While the pebbles are drying, we make the background for the panel. To do this, take a thick cardboard, circle it on the wrong side of the fabric. We make allowances on all sides equal to 3 cm. Cut out the allowances.

We cut the fabric at the corners so that the allowances can be easily glued. We turn the edges one by one and glue them.

We glue a sheet of paper on top so that the wrong side has an aesthetic appearance.

Now take a sheet of veneer and cut it with scissors so that the size is slightly smaller than the main background. Glue the veneer onto the fabric.

We lay out the pebbles on the veneer, creating a planned composition: we make the trunk of an apple tree from a twig, around a crown of pebbles, a bush under a tree. When the composition is composed, we glue the parts one by one.
Here is our finished panel "Yablonka" from flat stones. It remains only to put in a frame.

With crafts made from sea stones or all kinds of shells, you can decorate not only your house, but also the area adjacent to it. Of these, even children can create great amount toys and other things.

What you need to create crafts: tools and materials

Any stones that are collected on the sea or river bank are suitable for making souvenirs.

Pebble can be any:

• to size;
• smooth, like gloss, or rough;
• plain or painted with veins or inclusions;
• transparent or translucent.

They create panels from it, decorate frames for paintings or photographs, decorate a variety of containers, sometimes even large surfaces, create all kinds of characters, pave garden paths. They go well with other natural materials. They decorate the interior of the premises or the garden plot.

For especially valuable shells, you even have to dive to the depths. They are collected in the summer, however, on overseas beaches this can be done at any time of the year, and only empty. Some people buy them in souvenir shops. And although many unusual shells are found on the shore of a lake or river, it is sea shells that are recognized as the most attractive and suitable for crafts.

They will look great on all kinds of frames, you can create panels and paintings from them - real masterpieces.

Glue, paints and other materials for creativity

Sea stones and shells are not the only things that will be required in the process of working on crafts. Usually, the farm will find a lot of what you need, and if something is missing, you can always buy it.

What you need:

• plasticine ordinary and hardening, which is distinguished by the ability to harden after some time in the air;
• clay;
• paints - gouache, watercolor or acrylic;
• glue;
• nail polish (sometimes acrylic);
• salty dough:

1. Take flour and salt in a glass, mix with half a glass of water and a tablespoon of starch or PVA glue. Glue is used when you need to sculpt thin figures.
2. For storage, the dough is removed in a bag and in the refrigerator, no more than a month. Later, it is enough to paint it with gouache, watercolor or food coloring to give the product the desired color, varnish it, dry it in the oven and remove it completely cooled down.

• gypsum;
• any sand;
• shards of glass;
• flexible soft wire;
• scraps of fabric, leather, suede, fur, yarn or thread;
• cardboard (you can plywood);
• beads, beads, buttons;
• glass or ceramic containers.

Crafts from sea stones and shells with a similar set of very valuable things in the house will not be difficult to make.

Tools

For work, you will also need some tools:

• pencil;
• awl;
• brushes;
• various stacks;
• round-nose pliers for working with wire;
• drill;
• file;
• sandpaper.

Workplace and safety

The workspace must be properly organized.

You need to cover the desktop with an old oilcloth or newspapers. The workplace should be provided with a source of light. A work robe or apron will help keep your clothes clean. The child is enough old t-shirt. In summer and in the fresh air, you can work, sitting on the veranda or balcony.

Will have to use a portable box to fit necessary materials and tools.

Safety precautions should be given special attention, especially if children are involved in the process of work:

Job	Precautionary measures
With a drill	Goggles or eye protection, gloves (not for children)
WITH salt dough	Electric or gas oven (only under adult supervision)
With varnish	Do not keep the container open for a long time. You can pour a little varnish into a plastic cup and close again. The room must be well ventilated. After work, the brush should be washed in a solvent
Working with 10% hydrochloric acid solution	Work with acid using an old toothbrush and wearing gloves to protect your hands. Eyes should be protected

Preparing shells and stones

It is enough to rinse the pebbles with boiling water, and it is ready to go. You have to work hard with shells.

The first thing is cleaning:

• It is enough to soak “dead” shells for half an hour in a chlorine-containing agent diluted with an equal part of water;
• too dirty shells are soaked longer, then they are brushed, rinsed in water;
• "Alive", in which the remains of mollusks are present, because of which they emit a disgusting smell, it is necessary to clean especially diligently. Boiling for 5 min. will allow you to easily remove the remains of mollusks with tongs or nail scissors, after which the shells should be treated with an agent containing chlorine.

Some crafts require drilling a hole. The main thing is that cracks do not appear on the shell, or it does not exfoliate at the point of drilling. It is recommended to pre-glue the shell with masking tape, put it on a flat surface and put a mark on the inside.

A hole in it can be made in two ways:

1. Manual. If there is no screwdriver or drill, then there is a nail and a hammer. A nail is carefully placed on the mark and tapped with a hammer until the initial hole is formed. Expand it to the desired diameter, making translational movements inside the hole with the same nail.
2. automated(drill or screwdriver). You will need a drill with a diameter not exceeding 0.8 - 2 mm. If the hole is drilled using tape, the shell will not be damaged.

How to remove chips and cracks on sinks and stones?

Treated sinks should be carefully inspected to make sure that they do not have any chips or cracks. Finding perfect shells without such damage is quite difficult.

To polish the surface of the shells, you can use:

• sandpaper;
• bar;
• disk.

Lacquer coating will hide even cracks invisible to the eye and give the material a shine.

Master Class

Crafts from sea stones and shells are not the only things you can do with your own hands. From these materials, interior items and elements of landscape design are created. You can involve children and all household members in this business.

DIY sea shell frame

Materials required:

• shells, pearls, starfish, or figurines of skates;
• waste paper;
• epoxy glue (if necessary);
• scotch;
• glue gun.

Crafts from sea stones and shells can decorate any, even the most uncomplicated, interior

Manufacturing instructions:

1. The mirror should be covered with paper, use tape to secure it.
2. By size, you need to disassemble the shells.
3. Stick in the first row closest to the mirror, even shells from among small or medium ones.
4. Now you can glue large ones, filling the voids between them with smaller shells.

When epoxy is used, the frame must dry first.

Panel of shells and sea stones

Materials required:

• shells;
• leg-split;
• cardboard;
• scissors;
• glue gun.

Video selection of pano from stones and seashells:

Manufacturing instructions:

1. Draw the shape of the future panel on cardboard.
2. Cut out the base from cardboard.
3. Make two holes.
4. Glue the shells on a cardboard base closer to each other, leave the holes for the loop open.
5. Thread the two ends of the rope of the desired length from the inside into the holes. Double knots will not allow the loop to slip out of the holes.

In a product with sea ​​shells pebbles can be interspersed.

Shell painting

Materials required:

• shells;
• template or stencil drawing on paper;
• canvas on a stretcher;
• acrylic paint and brush (if necessary);
• glue gun.

Manufacturing instructions:

1. You should create a background on the canvas using paint desired color.
2. Wait for complete drying.
3. Fix the template on the canvas with masking tape.
4. Trace the outlines of the drawing with a pencil.
5. Glue the shells one by one, trying not to go beyond the borders of the picture.

Sea shell candlestick

Materials required:

• large shells;
• candles in molds;
• pot;
• water;
• PVA glue (you can use 2-sided tape).

Manufacturing instructions:

1. It is necessary to remove the candle so that the wick, container and the candle itself are separate.
2. Glue the wick in the center of the shell.
3. Melt paraffin in a water bath in molds until it turns into a liquid.
4. Carefully pour paraffin into shells.

The paraffin will harden completely after 20 minutes.

Candlestick made of bivalve shells

Materials required:

• flat shells;
• plate as a base;
• glue gun;
• beads, figurines of a marine theme.

Manufacturing instructions:

1. You need to sort the shells by size.
2. Glue one layer of shells to the base - the largest.
3. Glue new tiers on top of the lower one, one after the other (it is recommended to overlap the shells).
4. Close all free gaps with decorative elements.
5. Coat the finished product with a colorless varnish (you can use white paint).

Wind music from sea shells

There should be a ring at the base, but this is not required. Forms may vary.

Materials required:

• shells, sea ​​stars, beads, corals, pieces of glass;
• jute twine or any other thread;
• wire for beads;
• willow branches;
• crochet hook;
• knitting threads;
• scissors;
• glue gun (you can use a drill with a small drill, nail scissors or a needle).

Manufacturing instructions:

1. Willow branches must be boiled for 2 hours, then cool and remove the bark from them.
2. Form a ring from the branches, braiding some branches with others (the branches must be wet), align it and leave to dry overnight.
3. From transparent nail polish and wire, prepare flowers.
4. Tie the shells (let them be openwork).
5. Prepare several beads by stringing each on a wire and securing.
6. Cut 8 ropes of 120 cm.
7. Attach the details to the string: just tie some, glue some, and tie it to the base ring, leaving a hanging end. Do the same with the rest of the ropes.
8. Collect the free ends in a bundle and tie it with a separate thread. If the ropes are loaded with parts unevenly, it is difficult to achieve balance. And this is necessary for the correct manufacture of crafts. So, when distributing beads, fragments, stars and shells along the rope, you will have to keep an eye on balance.
9. From the resulting start, tie a pigtail up to 10 cm long and form a loop out of it. Wrap one of the threads around the base, and cut the rest.

Willow branches can be replaced with hoops and wrapped with twine.

Shell ship

The basis of the sailboat will be a large rapana shell.

Materials required:

• shells different sizes;
• stone as a stand;
• wooden skewers;
• threads (preferably with Lurex);
• glue gun.

Manufacturing instructions:

1. It is necessary to depict the ship schematically on paper (it is recommended to indicate the order of the shells in numbers).
2. Fold the future sails of a sailboat from shells: there should be 2 masts, one lower than the other, in which there are 4 and 5 shells.
3. The first larger shell must be glued to the skewer, it is recommended to apply glue in 2 places: at the top and on the side. Each next sink should be smaller than the previous one (or, conversely, all of the same size).
4. Next, you need to make a nose for the boat - glue the skewer along the rapana.
5. Glue the finished masts perpendicularly to the large shell, then the side sails.
6. Apply a drop of glue to the end of the skewer and wrap the edge with thread.
7. First, stretch the thread to the mast, wrap it around, lower it down and glue it with the shell. Then again lift the thread up and wrap one mast, transfer to another and repeat the steps. After the thread is glued to the rapana, the excess can be cut off.
8. The ship must be fixed on the stone with glue - it must stand firmly on the stand.

A child will be happy to take part in the construction of such a ship.

shell flower

Materials required:

• shells;
• wire;
• frame;
• velvet fabric;
• beads and beads;
• glue;
• clothespins.

Manufacturing instructions:

1. You need to make some flowers. For one, you will need to connect 3 shells of the same size with transparent glue. Flowers may be different color and size.
2. Varnish finished products, decorating each of them in the middle large bead or beads.
3. Glue the fabric to the frame.
4. From the wire, you should build a semblance of a stem and leaves and attach it to the fabric.
5. In any order, strengthen the buds along the wire.
6. Wait until completely dry and cover with glass.

Applications for children

Crafts from sea stones and shells are best done with children. You can create applications for the most different topics, for example, the underwater kingdom.

Materials required:

• shells, pebbles, feathers and dry moss;
• corrugated paper blue and brown;
• wooden frame;
• plasticine;
• salt dyed in yellow;
• PVA glue.

Manufacturing instructions:

1. The paper needs to be fixed on the frame, it will become the background - blue water and brown seabed.
2. Glue dry blades of grass - algae.
3. For a crab figurine, pick up shells: 1 larger - torso, 4 smaller - paws, 2 very small - eyes.
4. Transfer the crab to the paper, carefully gluing each shell.
5. Make up a few fish (shells instead of a body, a feather tail and plasticine eyes), and “float” in the picture.
6. Add dry moss.
7. Glue shells to the bottom.
8. Lubricate the free areas of the bottom with glue and cover with salt, painted with gouache.
9. Decorate the wooden frame with a variety of shells.

Decoupage

If you managed to find a large stone, smooth and flat, on the seashore, you can decorate it using the napkin technique. It is called "decoupage".

Materials required:

• white water-based paint;
• napkins in 3 layers with a bright large pattern;
• PVA glue.
• acrylic paints.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. It is necessary to paint the stone with water-based paint.
2. Separate all layers of the napkin and cut out the pattern from the first.
3. Saturate the picture with glue (it is recommended to start from the middle) and carefully glue it to the stone so that wrinkles do not form.
4. Wait for complete drying.
5. Perform drawing with acrylic paints, painting, if necessary, add sparkles, rhinestones, and other additional decorations.
6. Varnish the surface.
7. Dry 2 days.
8. Varnish on the other side.

In total, up to 3 layers of varnish are required. You can decorate a flower pot with a finished product or simply leave it on a coffee table.

Decorations for landscape compositions

Pebbles fit perfectly into the surrounding landscape, and therefore are quite widely used in landscape design of various stylistic trends. For a creative person, this is just a godsend. A garden path made of sea stones will turn out to be quite strong.

Materials required:

• pebbles of different sizes;
• stone chips;
• sand;
• concrete mixture;
• level;
• plywood (can be replaced with a film or tarpaulin);
• water;
• hose;
• hammer (wood or rubber);
• hard brush.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Remove the soil layer, install curbs along the edges of the path.
2. Lay polyethylene on the ground.
3. Pour a layer of sand, and rubble on top of it.
4. Prepare a solution: 4 parts of sand and 1 of cement, fill it with an embankment.
5. Lay the pebbles, after wetting it.

Advice! The solution dries too quickly, so it is better to lay out the track in small areas.

1. Tamp down the pebbles with a rubber mallet once the small area has been paved.
2. Fill the space between the stones with a more liquid solution.
3. After 3 hours, sprinkle water along the path and cover with a film.
4. After a while, sprinkle with water again, but do not cover with a film anymore, wait for it to dry.

About ornament

Patterned paths look spectacular. First, you need to disassemble the stones by size, shape and color, then make a sketch of the ornament and its template, and lay the latter on the mortar. Pebbles look great whether laid flat or edgewise.

The path is the classic and most common option for decorating the site.

Make a backlight and it, created from a light stone, will become “moon”, and from a colored stone it will become contrasting. However, this is not the only design technique. Pebbles will help hide uneven terrain or not particularly attractive objects on the site.

It could be:

• high flower bed, steps or alpine slide;
• garden sculptures - no restrictions for creativity;
• fencing.

Crafts from sea stones and shells that you can make with your own hands are a source of countless ideas for creativity. Sea pebbles are easy to turn into marine life. The child can even manage on his own. The main thing is to tell him how, with the help of a brush and paints, you can make fish of various colors.

And then it will not be difficult to find a use for them:

• put in an aquarium
• make a mosaic personal plot;
• just play with them in the water.

You can collect a whole town of fabulous houses on the playground or, armed with glue gun, move the pebbles to the panel, using as a base:

• cardboard;
• plastic;
• even a wooden fence.

Can be posted flower bed in the form of a mosaic of stone flowers. Pebbles will make an excellent portrait of a friend. You can make several stone men and even lay out a whole scene from life. The child will rejoice, turning ordinary pebbles into funny animals.

You can not limit yourself to miniature crafts. This material can be used to create something more significant, such as a dry stream, a mosaic carpet at the house or pool. Having a cowrie shell and turning to a needlework store for accessories, you can make a boho-style bracelet.

If you do crafts with children, they will be happy to paint sea stones and glue shells. Such a joint pastime is sure to bring family members even closer.

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A useful video clip about crafts from sea stones and shells

Video of a master class on making a rug from sea pebbles: