Pistachio Shell Crafts

"Smiling nut" - this is how we call pistachios we love in our country. These delicious and unusually useful nuts are loved by adults and children, but only a few know that it is possible to find use also for its shell. Amazingly beautiful crafts are made by toddlers and needlewomen from this natural material.

Crafts from pistachio shells with their own hands

An ordinary photo frame, a casket or a plastic pot take on a completely different, very presentable appearance, if you decorate them with a pistachio shell. Original paintings and panels are by no means the limit of fantasy for a talented master who fell under the arm of a handful of shells from pistachios. They create wonders from this natural material and babies, the children happily make of the pistachio shells autumn and other thematic crafts in kindergarten and school.

As a rule, the basis of the most beautiful compositions are "pistachio" flowers with the use of glue, which is simpler to make - three or four shells glued together form the base of the bud, then petals are added - alternately glued to the bud. Such flowers can be made in different sizes and colors, depending on the wishes and ideas.

If the child is difficult to cope with the glue, then plasticine may serve as the basis for the flower from the pistachio shell.

You can paint the shell in advance using acrylic or aerosol paints, or you can give a shade to the finished product. If you work with the blanks will be children, it is better to use for food coloring dyes or ordinary gouache. Creative pistachio flowers can serve as a separate decor, a Christmas tree, a candlestick, an exclusive brooch or a suspension, and become the basis of the composition.

With your hands, you can make incredibly beautiful crafts from pistachio shells in the form of tree topiary. Of course, such masterpieces require perseverance and patience, but what is the result.

Equally interesting and creative are children's applications using this material. For example, you can lay out on the cardboard the grape of "pistachio" grapes, you can give the volume elements of the autumn landscape. As for simple children's crafts, young masters are quite capable of making a small pistachio tree. In this case, you can avoid complicated and painstaking work with glue with the help of plasticine.

Below are some more ideas of crafts from this unusual material: