Look at the MK with a photo (57 pieces), which will help you decorate a dacha in the Art and Craft style. Here are many simple crafts from cement, wood, which you can easily create with your own hands.
There are several types of gardens. If you want your summer cottage to be bright and at the same time cozy, so that there is a lot to be done here with your own hands, then use the Art and Craft style. Translated, these words mean "art and craft". If you love tinkering, then such an idea for a garden will certainly come in handy.
Art & Craft style - what is it
At a dacha made in this style, you will not be bored. After all, it’s like a museum of folk art in the open air. It is interesting to look at each exhibit.
A wide variety of materials can be used here. If you prefer natural, then use:
- wood;
- vine;
- twine;
- straw;
- stones.
If you are not used to throwing away empty containers from under water, plastic spoons, old buckets and watering cans, then you can make DIY crafts from these artificial materials.
Here is how it is desirable to organize the space in such a garden. Try to preserve the natural charm of the place by highlighting it with planted plants and handmade creations. Write here:
- summer kitchen;
- water;
- gazebo;
- DIY items.
You can divide the area into zones with clear boundaries or make them smooth. Build a winding path that will connect different parts of the territory.
Here are some of the best plants to make an Art & Craft garden. Let's start with trees, these are:
- viburnum;
- chestnut;
- elm;
- maple;
- oak;
- conifers;
- weeping willow or birch;
- fruit trees.
Here are some shrubs of this type in a garden:
- lilac;
- honeysuckle;
- standard currant.
Do not forget about flowers, you can give preference to:
- roses;
- mallow;
- dahlias;
- sunflower;
- scented tobacco.
Don't forget vertical landscaping, because it will save space and accentuate the charm of the style. Plant grapes, hops, sweet peas, ornamental pumpkin. Place ampelous begonia, falling petunia in hanging containers.
Cement crafts in Art and Craft style
This is one of the most affordable materials that will help you create inexpensive crafts for your Art & Craft garden. Start small. Create such a fish and balls. Then you can decorate them as you like.
Such crafts were created on the basis of children's toys. If you have other forms available, use them. First you need to cut these plastic fish and a rubber ball in half.
Now prepare the hardening mixture that you will pour into the molds, here they took tile glue and alabaster. Instead of the latter, you can use a mixture of cement and sand. Before pouring it into the base, you need to lubricate the form from the inside with vegetable oil. Then the finished figurine can then be easily removed from the mold. Now provide for comfortable stands. The workpieces will be securely fixed on them. Pour the prepared mixture inside and wait for it to dry.
This will take about 2 days. Then you will need to pull out the halves and glue them.
Use a cement mixture to which you need to add PVA glue. When the figures are dry, then they are sanded with sandpaper. Now an even more interesting creative process awaits you. After all, you will be covering your creations using spray paint or acrylic paint. It is necessary to cover with any of these compounds in several layers. But before that, it is better to first prime the blanks with white paint, and then apply another one.
You can also use the decoupage technique. It will also be very appropriate when you start decorating a garden in the Art and Craft style. You can do this crafts now, while there are no summer cottages yet. Then you will meet the new season fully equipped.
See what other cement garden crafts you can make.
You will surely succeed. After all, this fish is the first experience in such creativity from a craftswoman. She put a piece of metal mesh inside for strength. So that you can then hang this fish, a plug is mounted in the upper part of the fin. After the cement mortar has dried, it remains to drill a hole in the cork to get such an even hole.
Use excellent quality cement to prepare the mixture. You will need 1 part of this material and three parts of sand. Add a little liquid glass and PVA glue here. Liquid glass will allow the solution to become more durable and plastic.
The second fish is made on the basis of a plastic bottle. Take a container with a capacity of 2 liters. The fins and tail need to be made of cardboard by attaching it to a plastic bottle with tape. You need to wrap the whole bottle with this adhesive tape. Then you can start sculpting from the cement. When this fish is dry, treat it with an impregnation that will protect it from excess moisture. Then the product can be painted, and yacht varnish can be applied on top. Also use spray paint.
This way, other garden sculptures are easy to craft. You will need to wait for them to dry. And then you can color these figures or leave them as they are.
Many grow burdocks in the country near the fence, take a leaf of this plant, concrete it. Even the smallest veins are imprinted here. Therefore, the cement sculpture will be very authentic.
For her, you can use the remnants of this material, which you will have, for example, after you make a large garden sculpture.
You can make a rock out of this material, and then surprise guests with how easily you can lift it with one hand.
To create an Art and Craft country style that is close to nature, make such a craft. The stone will be light if you make the base first. To do this, take plastic bags, crumpled paper, newspaper or the remains of polyurethane foam. Blind all this with tape, then wrap it with plaster mesh on top so that the cement mortar adheres better. Prepare this mass and apply it to the created frame.
It is good if the cement is uneven. After all, then the base will look like a stone. Place it where it dries. To do this, cover the boulder with foil and leave for a while. You do not need to take the raw stone out into the open air, otherwise it may crack.
You can make a flower stand using garden gloves. Pour cement mortar inside them and place in suitable containers, giving the desired shape.
To make a cement-gypsum mortar, then add 5 parts of cement to one part of gypsum. Stir these bulk materials and add some PVA glue and then water. You can create a wide variety of garden sculptures. If you like these, then it is better to buy a special form in the store. You will pour the prepared solution into it, create crafts.
But you can take an unnecessary children's toy as a template and make, for example, such adorable frogs. When you paint them, let them dry, and then you can put these sculptures in the garden in which you want to arrange the Art and Craft style.
See what other cement crafts you can make for this style.
This garden figurine of a cat is very easy to do. Here's what comes in handy for this:
- five-liter canister;
- bars;
- wire;
- cement;
- sand;
- gypsum;
- water;
- rubber gloves.
First you need to make the base. Cut the canister across, take the bottom half. Use a wire to attach it to pieces of wood and slats.
Mix a mortar of 1 part cement, 2 parts sand and water. This mass should resemble thick sour cream. Wear rubber gloves. Since gypsum hardens almost instantly, add a little bit only to a small part of the grout. Do this and immediately attach this mass to the template. For a handful of such a solution, you need to take 1 tbsp. l. dry gypsum.
When the base is ready, start to design the face. To keep the surface even, after attaching the next piece, moisten your gloved hand in water and smooth out the specific piece.
And to glue these small fragments to the base, also moisten the joints with water.
Insert pieces of wire instead of the mustache, give them the desired shape. While the figure is not completely frozen, once again walk over it with wet hands in gloves to make the surface smoother.
To make this Art & Craft object further, let the figurine dry completely. After that, you can start painting it.
When the paint dries, it remains to place a flowerpot with flowers inside and wonder how easy it is to make a sculpture out of cement with your own hands. The next one is also easy to create. It is based on a Barbie doll.
Take:
- an old barbie doll;
- hot glue gun;
- heavy stand;
- bamboo stick;
- cement mortar;
- dress for the doll.
First, use a hot gun to secure the Barbie to the stand. Also fix the shape near the bamboo stick.
Sewing a dress for this type of Barbie is very easy. To do this, take a strip of fabric, bend it in half and make a cutout for the neckline in the middle of the fold. Then, on the wrong side, you need to sew the sidewalls from the armpits to the bottom. Place the doll's palms over her eyes. Cut the wings out of Styrofoam and glue them on the back of this character.
Prepare the cement mortar as in the previous example, completely coat the figurine with it.
When the composition is dry, you can paint the statue white or leave it that way.
This is how, using old dolls and toys, you can create interesting sculptures out of cement.
You can take an unnecessary doll and immortalize it this way. The same goes for geese, for which you will use old rubber toys.
If you take a Barbie doll and attach a skein of wire bent in the shape of a heart to her hand, you get such an interesting sculptural composition made of cement.
If you have a completely old broken doll or part of it, then you can make such an interesting sculpture out of this object.
To do this, coat the doll's head with cement, after removing the hair.
Now paint the workpiece with a dark gray paint, and then apply a lighter one. You can use this part as a flowerpot, then a hole must be made on top in advance in order to pour soil here and plant flowers.
You can use straight containers to create planters. Cover them with cement and make facial features with the same material. Then it remains to paint these products.
In the master class above, it was mentioned that a cement sheet can be made. Craft these to make a fountain.
As you can see, you need to prepare a cement mixture, put it on a flat surface, and place a leaf on top and bottom. You can also make veins with a nail by drawing them.
Then you will paint the dried products to make them look more authentic. Over time, you will position these items vertically to create the effect of pouring water. Try to create such a composition, put here a stone of cement or several, as well as a sheet of this material. It remains to plant even such simple flowers as the desired effect is achieved.
You can often find sculptures of gnomes at the dacha. They are quite expensive. And when you create a garden in the Art and Craft style, you can make as many of these figures out of cement.
To do this, you will need very little:
- cement mortar;
- stockings;
- rope;
- metal rods.
Take the stocking and trim the bottom toe. Tie a rope around here. Then pour the prepared cement mortar into the stocking. Tie some thread around the figurine to form a nose. Several strands can be tied underneath to create a mustache.
Tie a stocking at the end and attach a string to position the cap upright. Make legs out of cement and leave the figurine to dry completely.
Make some lights in your garden as if they were eggs from hatched dinosaurs. Inside, you put either LED or safe scented candles.
- It is very simple to create such a craft for the Art and Craft style. Inflate the balloon and place it on the base.
- Place the grout in a bowl, add the plaster of paris, mix and immediately apply quickly to the ball.
- When the cement dries up, it remains to burst the ball, remove it.
- Then you will coat such a blank inside with gold paint. The effect will be very interesting.
You can also create another interesting composition. This is how it will turn out.
Make a thick grout with 1 part cement and 1 part sand. Place rope or old things cut into thin strips into this mass.
Now wind these threads around the inflated balloon in a chaotic manner.
When the cement is dry, you can paint the workpiece and position it in the desired location.
Here you can place other hand-made works, the presence of which this style implies.
Do-it-yourself figurines for a summer residence made of wood in the Art and Craft style
Even beginners will be able to make such a composition. To create butterflies, you need to get four tree cuts. Glue these wings in pairs and attach them to the spears. Then you can fix these bodies of butterflies in the crevice of a small hemp.
Also, funny owls will be obtained from a cut of a tree.
To do this, you need to attach two small round saw cut branches to each with self-tapping screws to get eyes. The pupils are made from the same materials, but smaller. Attach the wings here and you can set the craft in place.
In the same technique, you will make another Art and Craft object. Take two saw cuts of the tree and place two more above and below between them. The upper one will become the head, and the lower one will become the tail of the hare. Complete the sculpture with long ears and legs. You can craft several of these characters. They will require small quantities of available materials.
And if you have several of these cuts, then you can decorate them with an unsightly wall of a wooden shed or a fragment of a fence. These elements are simply attached here with nails or self-tapping screws and glued.
Lay out these wooden blanks in the form of the sun or paint them. Then your table on the veranda or fence will be decorated with circles of watermelon, kiwi or compositions with trees, flowers, anchors.
Paint it all with acrylics and then cover with three coats of clear yacht varnish.
Don't forget to place wooden bird feeders in your Art and Craft garden. All these objects will not only fit into this landscape, but will also allow the birds not to starve.
You will need to select the inside of a small log, sand the piece, and hang the feeder on two metal hooks and a chain. Do this and wait for the winged guests.
A rotten tree stump or deck will also come in handy. You need to choose a soft middle from there and plant flowers there.
Even a small cut of a tree is suitable for such a craft. Select its core, paint with antiseptic to prevent further decay. Place a pot with an unpretentious plant inside.
You can make a fence for a flower bed from small chocks that you have left from some kind of needlework. Plant a flower inside and you can place just such a toy in the shape of a cat.
Combine work in the country with games. Moreover, for the latter, the rest of the materials will be useful. Make tic-tac-toe chips from the branch. To do this, it must be cut into identical circles, polished and varnished. Then you will draw crosses using woodburning art, or with a felt-tip pen. In the same way, you will create a large circle.
Don't forget the garden paths. After all, the art and craft style implies their presence. It is better to use natural material. Mark where the future path will be. Remove a 10 cm layer of turf here.
Shoot the bottom of the trench with geotextile, pour a layer of sand and fine gravel into it. Then put here tree cuts with a height of 10 to 15 cm close to each other. First, walk over them with hot linseed oil or an antiseptic.
Of course, you can make crafts not only from cement and wood. Use a variety of materials at hand for this. See how you can make garden crafts using plastic bottles.
We also suggest seeing how to make a table to decorate a garden in the Art and Craft style.
