How to make crafts from shells

Take a lot of different shells, wash thoroughly, remove all dirt, dust, dry and paint with gouache in different colors.

Sort the shells by shape and size and see if we can put them some figure. For example, from the large oval shell (a good fit of the shells of mollusks of the family mytilidae, hiatellidae) get the body of fishes, of shells in the form of a fan (like the family pictland) and three times smaller than the shell-the body – tail of two or three similar to the shell-the tail – fins.

Paint the body and fins in nice color, remember the color of different fish living in warm seas striped, speckled, and solid. Big shell-the body can have a much more unusual shape than oval: the better is the opportunity to make outlandish exotic fish.

Make the angel. For the body, take a single large shell, which can be represented by a hoodie angel (it must be the fan-like), the widest part – bottom, narrow – top, neck. White bead – head, and two small shells you can make the wings. Paint shell-and shell – wings white gouache, wings can be covered with silver or gold lacquer or a glue.

Pick up seashells that are suitable in order to lay out the flower is not difficult, almost any collection there are a sufficient number of the same shellfrom which you can make the petals. The middle of the flower can be made of several beads. Paint with varnish or paint all the shells in the desired color.

Vase in Rakushechnoye through a sieve table salt finely ground, pour into an enamel bowl, fill it with water and stir until then, until it is completely dissolved. Sift the flour through a sieve, and while continuing to stir the salt water, gradually add the flour. Knead the dough very carefully so that it was supple, cool and no longer sticks to the hands.

Take the bowl-disc, thoroughly wrap foil, oblepicha salty dough, press the dough into the painted shells, anneal the bowl in the oven at a temperature of 100 – 120C. Can grease each shell with glue before you push into the dough.