The charm of plant craftsmanship fills the home with plant color.

Slender branches, flamboyant leaves, plump soybeans, round rice... these usually very common plants can be used in hand-made to show what amazing effect, you want to know? Let's learn together!

placemats

material preparation

Stapler, scissors, cream glue, palm leaf strips (39), pigments (purple, blue, yellow, red), paintbrushes

1. 39 palm leaf strips were colored differently: 12 red, 11 yellow, 6 blue and 10 purple.

2. Red and yellow palm strips are interspersed and blue and purple palm strips are woven. The order of weaving is: yellow over purple, red over blue.

3. Four purple palm leaves were left, and the others were all woven together. Trim off excess edges, leaving only 1 cm for later use.

4. Fold the edge of the leaf and staple it in place.

5. Stick the remaining 4 palm leaf strips to the 4 edges of the placemat with cream glue to cover the staples.

display time

Now, hurry up and prepare a hearty meal so you can use your own placemat.

You can leave the brown leaf strips uncolored and weave them before painting the pattern you like.

Hulu Garden

material preparation

5 gourds, knife, sandpaper, paint, rubber band, 2 sticks

1. We need five gourds of similar size. Take a knife and cut a small opening in each gourd.

2. Pour out the gourd seeds inside and polish the opening with fine sandpaper.

3. Color the gourd. Choose the colors you like.

4. Put the gourds in a row, with different colors interspersed. Put a gourd on both sides of the gourd waist and wrap it with a rubber band.

5. Wrap string around both sides of each gourd and cut off the rubber bands.

display time

Put flowers in the gourd! A small gourd garden can make your home colorful!

Insert imaginary wings (put beans in the gourd, the gourd will become a sand hammer! Remember to stuff peanuts in the opening of the gourd so that the beans don't fall out.)

wheat hat

material preparation

A handful of ears of wheat, scissors, paintbrush, cream gel, cardboard (40 cm long, 20 cm wide), black rubber cord, punch, red paint, compass, ruler, clothespin

1. Draw a semicircle with a radius of 20 cm on the cardboard with a compass, and then divide a strip 1 cm wide from the semicircle. Find the midpoint of the bar and draw a diagonal line there. Cut off the bar to the left of the slash, leaving only the right part.

2. Coat the strip with cream glue, roll the semicircle into a conical hat and glue it well.

3. Hold the adhesive with clothespins until the gel dries.

4. Cut the stalks and paint about half the ears red.

5. Put cream glue on the outside of the hat and stick the ears of wheat on.

6. Further stick the ears of wheat all over the hat, paying attention to the red and primary colors of the ears of wheat to be interspersed. Press a book on top of the hat and wait for the glue to dry. This way the ears of wheat will stick stronger.

7. Punch two holes in the brim edge and wear a black rubber cord as a hat cord.

display time

Now, with the wheat hat, even if the scorching sun is not afraid!

You can also use colorful leaves or seeds instead of ears of wheat to make a different hat.

fan

material preparation

Palm leaves (smaller), reed stalks (40 cm long, finger thick), sandpaper, scissors, paintbrushes, pigments (pomegranate red, pink, orange, yellow), cream gel

1. Trim palm leaves into peach shapes with scissors as shown.

2. Press a few books on top of the pruned palm leaves, wait for them to dry, and then paint them pomegranate red.

3. Sand the reed stalk to make it easy to color.

4. Paint pink, red, yellow and orange stripes on reed stalks.

5. Coat palm petioles with creamy white glue, then insert them into reed stalks and press firmly with your fingers.

display time

How about, with this little fan, the hot summer days are not so unbearable!

You can trim palm leaves into various shapes: triangle, butterfly, heart…

seed cartridge

material preparation

Black watercolor pen, small paper box with lid, corn kernels, milky white glue, red beans, black beans, rice

1. Draw a car on the lid of a small carton with a black watercolor pen.

2. Corn kernels stuck to the car body, black beans stuck to the windows and wheels.

3. Stick a few rows of red beans under the wheel.

4. The rest of the lid is glued with rice, leaving no gaps.

5. Close the carton lid. Draw a line along the edge of the lid with a black watercolor pen.

6. Apply a layer of milky white glue to the box below the black line, then stick corn kernels on both sides of the box and black beans on both sides.

display time

The seed box is done. Put your baby in the box! You can hide some secrets too!

In addition to cars, you can spell houses, flowers and birds. You can also try a round box!