How to make crafts from logs. What to do with old logs at the dacha

By freeing your site from excess trees or stumps, you can find a worthy use for the resulting material. The resulting logs and roots will become the basis for making various crafts made of wood: fairy-tale characters and animals who will become worthy decoration for any children's playground or simply decorate the facades of the house.

First, decide on the size of the craft, measure the required part of the log, clear it of bark and knots, and clean it to make the workpiece smooth. You can fasten the parts using:

• special glue
• small carnations
• wood drills (a part is driven into the formed recess, intended to be, for example, the neck or legs of a craft)

Next, the finished figurine is treated with a special protective solution, coat with varnish and allow to dry. Decorating crafts for a playground made of logs can be entrusted to children or decorated together with the kids fairy tale hero in bright colors, come up with additional details for decoration, turning the process into an exciting game.

In addition, logs can become the basis for creating children's swings, sandboxes, various labyrinths, paths, ladders, etc. The stumps and logs remaining after felling can serve as material for the construction of a real small children's playground: a little imagination, skill, additional materials in the form of ropes, ropes, reliable fasteners, children will have somewhere to play in the country without distracting adults from important matters.

Crafts made from logs for the playground. Photo

Stylish garden furniture

If your financial capabilities do not allow you to order a stylish set of garden furniture for your dacha individual project, and buy simple furniture There is no desire to make it out of plastic, you can try to create a stylish one for your favorite dacha furniture set with your own hands.

Logs and stumps remaining after felling can again serve as irreplaceable parts. The main task is to move these heavy structures to the desired location on the site. Further processing depends on the skills and tools you have.

A simple option, but without losing any of its originality and style:

• table and chairs made from tree stumps
• solid log bench

First option allows the use of minimal processing of parts: it is enough to finish the table top and the tops of the stumps that will serve as seats. A more complex option involves cleaning the stumps from bark and knots, creating backrests and additional decorative elements at the discretion of the dacha owner.

Second option t will allow you to create two benches if you have a tool and the ability to divide the log lengthwise into two equal parts. By making small notches on the rounded part of the log, you can securely place the main part of the bench on two small logs, which serve as reliable support for such a simple, stylish and reliable bench that will serve you for many years and require minimal investment.

Do-it-yourself furniture made from logs in the country. Photo

Flower bed made of logs

Another option to successfully decorate your site is to create original flowerbed for flowers made of logs. Usage plastic bottles, tires and even stone will require more time, and the result will lose in advance to a flower bed made of wood.

Using a chisel and a hammer, in a couple of hours you can make a recess of the required width and depth in a finished piece of wood or a stump located in suitable place on your site, fill it with soil and plant flowers that will feel comfortable in such conditions and look impressive inside a wooden structure.

DIY flower bed made of logs. Photo

Log dog house

Creation log booths For your beloved pet it will be a small rehearsal for the construction of more serious structures. After all, a dog house made of logs is a mini-house with a roof and access doors, designed for comfortable stay dogs in any weather. This is a complete home for the animal, reliable and durable. For the roof, you can use roofing felt and tiles, which will make the booth even more similar to a real house.

In addition, such a structure will not only carry a functional load, but will also serve as a real decoration. summer cottage.

Do-it-yourself dog house made of logs. Photo

Log fence

Logs will be an excellent material for construction fences and various kinds barriers on the territory of the summer cottage. To install such a fence from the front of the house, additional processing of the material will be required and not every wooden blank will be suitable for external structure due to increased requirements for quality indicators.

On the territory of the summer cottage itself, it is quite possible to build fences from logs of various heights and thicknesses, using non-standard details to make the building more impressive and original.

DIY log fence. Photo

Log bridges in the country

Another classic building for a summer residence - log bridges. In this structure, the logs look most organic. The main task is to achieve stability and reliability of the structure: will it be decorative bridge through a dry pond or flowerbed, or a full-fledged structure used to cross to the other side.

If the bridge is not decorative and its length is more than 2.5 meters, for reliability it is recommended to use additional intermediate piles, and a special foundation is laid at the base of such a structure.

The basis for such a heavy construction may well be metal carcass , which will ensure the reliability of the structure.

Log bridges for a summer residence. Photo

Wooden house made of logs

By making small wooden crafts with your children, building simple structures and structures from logs on your own summer cottage, it is quite possible to gain knowledge and experience to begin building a full-fledged wooden house from logs.

To begin with, it could be a gazebo or a small outbuilding, a bathhouse or a barn. Gradually, accumulating necessary knowledge and skills you can move on to construction wooden house made of logs - the dream of many summer residents.

A house made of logs does not require finishing; it retains heat well in winter and cool in summer. In such a house it is always dry and cozy. Build a small wooden house from logs is a completely feasible task for many summer residents.

Photos of log houses

To build a house you can use a log:

• rounded
• planed

The latter makes the construction process more complex and time-consuming, but quality characteristics significantly superior to the first option. Planed log preserves all the protective layers of wood, which allows it to be used in its original form, without subjecting it to additional processing with various chemical compounds for wood protection. Houses built from such material are environmentally friendly and durable, although they require much more time and scrupulousness in selecting logs of similar diameter when constructing a structure. A log house made from such logs must go through a process shrinkage, which takes 1-1.5 years. Only then can you install doors and windows and lay the roof.

Forest dwellers made of logs

Figurines depicting forest gnomes and fairies will become wonderful decoration for a children's playground or summer cottage, decorated in a forest style. Knots located in good places will become spouts, horns and handles. Bright flower pots and other dishes will serve as hats and caps. With the help of paints you can draw funny faces, straw and tow can be used for the lush hairstyles of forest dwellers.

The use of metal reinforcement for such structures will securely secure them in the right place and make them more durable.

Making a bunny from a log

To make a figurine you need:

• suitable log, diameter 16-23cm, length 35-55cm
• plywood sheet 4-6mm thick
• facade paint
• carnations

Stage 1

The lower part of the log should be cut evenly to stabilize the figure, the upper part should be cut at an angle of 45 degrees.

Stage 2

Stage 3

Treatment of the workpiece with a special solution and varnishing.

Stage 4

At this step, you need to use a jigsaw to cut out additional parts for the bunny figurine from plywood. This is a cute little face (the diameter of which should be equal to diameter top of the log) and ears. To do this, you can use special templates and stencils or make a sketch yourself.

Stage 5

Paint the face and ears with paint of the desired color and let dry. Then draw eyes, mouth, mustache.

Stage 6

Make small holes for the ears, muzzle and paws, if any, using a special drill, secure the elements using nails and glue.

DIY wooden man made from logs

We will need:

• two small logs of different diameters
• branches
• special drills - perks
• saw or hacksaw
• carnations

Stage 1

We determine the blank for the head and torso (larger in diameter). The approximate ratio is 2:1, but this is conditional.

Stage 2

To fasten these parts, we use a branch, the length of which is about 25 cm: with a drill, we make indentations for the diameter of the branch at the ends of the two parts, so that the parts fit tightly onto the branch.

Stage 3

Then we shape the man’s face: using a drill, we make indentations for the eyes and nose, then we drive small pieces of wood into them. You can decorate them with paint in advance.

An important point is to use only dry branches for the neck, eyes and nose, otherwise there is every chance that the workpieces will soon fall out of the prepared grooves.

Stage 4

We create a small bench using a log and a plank: we drive the log into the ground, leaving top part 20-45 cm long, nail the board with a nail. We place the finished forest man figurine on the bench and secure it with nails.

Stage 5

Arms and legs are made using branches, cutting off parts of them under the right angle and securing with self-tapping screws, which will then allow you to tighten the parts of the limbs.

Log bench

Such wooden bench It will require a lot of effort to manufacture, but it will not only become a real decoration for your summer cottage, but also a reliable and useful structure that will last for many years and will delight more than one generation. The back of the bench is made in the shape of a butterfly, which allows you to use all your imagination and decorate the bench in bright colors.

Well made of logs

A complex product made from logs that will decorate the whole dacha street. Additional details and decor will give the building individual design and spectacular look.

Garden swing

Such Garden swing will become not only great place for the entertainment of children, but also for the relaxation of adults. This design can easily serve as a bench; it is reliable and safe to use. Additional processing of parts, reliable fasteners and ropes will allow the use this design for sports activities with children. And the installation of several ladders and labyrinths nearby will help create a real sports ground.

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Do-it-yourself garden swing made of logs. Photo

Good afternoon. Today we start uploading articles on the topic of DIY wood crafts. In this first article I want to show you what simple crafts can be made from wood - for both children and adults. Many ideas will work for labor classes at school- for boys. Some ideas will work for a school competition crafts from natural material. Some wooden crafts can become decorating your dacha or yard. Here you will find a storehouse of inspiration and joy in anticipation of such interesting and simple work. In this article I will prove what to do beautiful crafts made of wood everyone can. Because here you will find simple and feasible tasks. Even a frail woman with a manicure can do half of the crafts in this article. So - let's fall in love with wooden creativity.

Let's start with simple magic.

Tree + sun

Crafts that glow with love.

Here are the simplest and cutest ones country crafts made of wood. For the craft, you need to cut a log (ask when you are sawing the firewood with a grinder to make several thin cuts). Or you can do it without cutting - just take a board of any size.

We drill holes in the wood so thick that a store-bought glass pebble will fit into it. Such sets of multi-colored decorative glass stones are sold - in the gift department, and in the department where there are candles, vases and everything for holiday decor.

You can simply drill such holes with glass into a board and hang it on an apple tree. You can drill such holes in the fence - if the sun shines into it at least once a day at a low angle.

That's very beautiful. Magically. Like in fairyland. Your children will be delighted with this wooden craft.

Simple wooden crafts

from log cuts.

If you have logs being cut into firewood in your yard, you are in luck. You can get priceless craft material for free. Ask the men to cut you flat cuts from both small and large logs. Lovingly stack them away from the woodpile and start dreaming up future wood crafts. For example, let it be wooden owls. It's easy to do and looks beautiful. The saw cuts can be nailed to each other with nails. You can put them on liquid nails (like glue).

The surface of the cuts can be rough and unsanded (as in the photo with the bunnies craft). Can you polish it? sandpaper and even varnish such ornamental material. Or paint it the color you want.

From large saw cuts you can make large country wood crafts. And small log houses (made of thinner branches and logs) are suitable for miniature crafts - for example, these birds. You can cut branches of this thickness yourself with a hacksaw - manually, without a chainsaw.

Log cuts can become a canvas for art installations. Such wooden crafts-pictures can be made from any natural material. Go to the river and find smooth, flat stones. They will become the source interesting crafts. The stones can be easily painted with felt-tip pens, office fat markers or just gouache (after work, fix the gouache with hairspray or nail polish).

Here's another way to make beautiful AIR crafts from wooden cuts. Lacy through cutting with an electric jigsaw (photo with craft Maple Leaf) looks simply magical.

Here is a small master class from which you can see how the process of cutting out openwork patterns on a thick cut of wood occurs.

First we outline the stencil with a pencil. Then we use a drill to drill holes in the key nodes of the drawing. And then we use a jigsaw to move from one holey node to another.

You can come up with a device yourself which will help you cut wood products using a conventional drill. Make your own electric jigsaw. Holding the comfortable handles with your hands, you simply move the device - following the lines of your drawing. The thinner the drill, the finer details of the design you can cut out with it. Well thought out.

Or you can buy a jigsaw– it costs on average 100 dollars. You can find it and over 50, we don’t work on an industrial scale, so it’s not necessary to buy a very powerful, expensive tool.

Mosaic crafts

From cuts of thick branches.

If you have country yard The boring barn wall is looking right at you. Then you need to make it not boring. Let's decorate the shed using wood crafts. Let's do it mosaic applique from small wood cuts. Such cuts are obtained by cutting thick branches or thin logs with a hacksaw (or chainsaw).

The basis For such a wooden craft, we cut it out of a sheet of plywood. First, we draw the silhouette of the future craft on it. We cut it out plywood base with a hand jigsaw or a special power tool. And we glue wooden rounds onto it - with liquid nails, with wood glue or with hot glue from a gun.

And you can even make it at home from saw cuts decorative frame for a mirror made of wooden rounds(master class in the photo below).

1. Also buy a round mirror. Place it on a sheet of plywood and trace it with a pencil.
2. Around the resulting circle, retreat a few centimeters (to the width you want for the frame). And with this indentation draw a second circle.
3. Cut a large circle out of plywood. And cover the outer ring with wood cuts. You will get a beautiful wooden craft frame - all you have to do is glue the mirror into the middle using liquid nails.

Puff Crafts

made of wood.

This is perhaps my favorite type of wood crafts. Here the woven shields lie on top of each other creating a LAYERED VOLUME of the craft.

Here is a cow craft made from three layers of wooden shield. The first layer is the body, the second is the head, the third is the bangs and nose.

You can paint all layers of your craft the same color (like a craft polar bear made of wood) or different colors(like a craft mouse on the moon– photo below).

Or you can leave a textured wood pattern (as in the crafts in the photo below).

Wood fox It has a two-layer design - a back layer, and the head and tail are placed on it.

Craft duck has 5 layers - a central layer with the head, and two layers on both sides (tummy + wing).

The more layers you will overlap each other, the more voluminous and convex your craft will be. Here is an example with the craft “Lions made of wood” you can see how the animal's muzzle moves forward, thanks to four layers of thick wooden boards.

If you paint your crafts. Complete the facial expressions, add small details - folds, spots, etc. You can get very realistic and expensive wood crafts. Your small hobby can become your business. Such works can be safely put up for sale.

You can come up with your own characters. Draw their layers on a sheet of paper. Increase the craft first in paper template– transfer the contours to a wooden board and cut out. Or find pictures in a children's coloring book– and redraw them in an enlarged size.

Wood craft

For school activities

At the labor lesson.

Such LAYER wood crafts can be cut NOT FROM THICK SHIELDS, but from thin plywood sheet. And then such work can be carried out in labor classes within the framework school curriculum. On the topic “sawing with a jigsaw on plywood.”

Here's an idea - how out of 3 plywood panels make a two-color puppy craft. The first very back layer of WHITE PLYWOOD shows only the tips of the ears, tail and one hind leg. We will cover the second layer with stain (so that it darkens). Eyes, nose and lines can be drawn with a marker, or burned special device for wood burning.

In the same technique of shields with different shades you can do so many colors volumetric crafts made of wood during labor lessons at school or in a woodworking group.

Wood crafts

in the form of an APPLICATION.

Using a very similar technique, you can make an applique from wood. Here, too, wood is taken as a basis. solid wood board(that is, not a glued board, but a solid board). Because we will be sanding it, and the glued board may delaminate from sanding and the glue seams will be visible.

1. On paper all future crafts are drawn. Divided into parts by lines. Each detail is numbered. And it is photographed (so that later the location of each element can be verified from the photo).
2. Next, the drawing is cut along the lines into elements. We outline each element on the board with a pencil. We cut out an element from a flat board. All elements are flat on top, rough around the edges of the cut and with sharp sawing edges.
3. Now our task smooth all edges of each part, round it. We trim off the sharp edges of the cuts with a chisel. And we grind it on a grinding machine (if you have one) or do it manually with sandpaper of varying degrees of hardness and roughness.
4. After sanding all parts painted with tinted stain(sold in construction stores). Depending on how many times you wipe the part with stain, you will get a lighter or darker tone. Very light parts can be wiped simply with vegetable oil. You can check in advance shades of color on scraps of wood left after sawing the craft.

You can also paint wooden craft parts in watercolor or gouache(using not a brush, but a foam sponge). After painting, to prevent the part from getting your hands dirty, you can spray it with hairspray or saturate the craft with another wood coating compound (just check the color first on scraps).

It only seems that the cow (in the photo of the wooden craft above) is behind the moon. In fact, all the parts are in the same plane. On a piece of paper. But thanks to the streamlined edges of the parts, everything looks voluminous, soft and as if pressed into each other. Nothing is actually pressed in - everything just lies next to each other.

Ideas for such flat wood applique crafts can be taken inside children's coloring books. There are just pictures with large details. You can find a children's coloring picture on Google - enlarge it and print it. Or redraw directly from the monitor screen by placing a sheet of paper on the glowing screen.

Methods for grinding parts

for wood crafts

(instructions to help).

To make it easier to sand the smooth edges of parts without rubbing calluses on your hands, I want to give some useful tips.

You can clamp the sanding belt in a special vice, also made of wood. Here's how it's done in the left photo below. Or come up with your own version of the device.

Here in the left photo - sandpaper is wrapped around a thick piece of wood with a semicircular edge. And the edges of the sandpaper are wrapped in a groove, and clamped with a bolt twisted through a round cylindrical piece of wood-clamp.

There are also grinding attachments to the drill. And then you can grind the parts using the rotational force of the drill and the magical power of electricity.

Below we see grinding attachments for drill– plate and drum shape.

There are grinding attachments for drills where you can change sandpaper - remove the old worn-out sandpaper and fill in a new one.

By the way, on AliExpress you can immediately buy grinding drums for a drill in bulk for 3-4 dollars per batch of 100 pieces. If you search, you can find it cheaper.

And to prevent the drill from spinning in your hand while working, you can create a special FASTENING STRUCTURE that will record your homemade grinding machine in one place, and all you have to do is bring the parts to the grinding drum.

The design of the mounting pallet can be different - with a wooden clamp (photo above), or with a retainer in the form of a metal bracket (as in the photo below).

With such an assistant, making wood crafts with your own hands is a pleasure. Quick, pleasant and immediately beautiful results. This kind of work can be put on stream - and a whole production of beautiful wooden (smooth and safe) toys for children and gift wooden paintings can be launched.

You can become a successful master. Completely unexpected for myself. Just like that, look at this article and fall in love with the idea.

The imagination of wooden crafts is limitless. Remember the formula for success - everything can be made from wood. The main thing is to start... then continue... and finish.

For example, knocking toys. Beautiful fun for children and for decorating the garden. Such a knocker or woodpecker may knock on your door, announcing guests on the porch. Just like in a fairy tale, pull the string and the door will be opened for you.

You can make decorations for your children's room with your own hands. Essentially, reincarnate and become a designer of interesting interior wood crafts. Any boy will be happy if his children's room sparkles with motifs from the Jungle.

You know... I’ll probably continue the topic of wooden crafts for design children's room in one of the following articles. I'd like to see what ideas are hidden here. And making someone fall in love with this is a good thing.

And perhaps we should create an article with wooden toys for children - self made. I also need to write. And then it will work here link.

In the meantime, let's continue...

WOOD CRAFTS

and WASTE material.

Where do future crafts live? …. Old half-decayed boards. For example, from grandma's fence. Which are usually used for firewood or removed from the yard as excess garbage. Stop. Let's not throw them away. Let's dig through this pile and create something wonderful - with our own hands from wood.

A wooden mop-brush, if sawed in half, turns into the mouth of an evil dog. A little imagination and work. And now the service dog is bristling and grinning at you.

A beautifully crafted piece of art. tree and waste material.

Any waste material (pieces of iron, plastic) and old pieces of wood can populate your home with fairy-tale characters. They are alive. They have a soul and their own history.

Wood crafts

Imperishable beauty.

Peeled veneer , from old furniture panels that are quietly becoming damp in your shed - can also become a source for wood applique crafts.

From this thin wood material You can directly cut out the details of the future craft with scissors and stick it with hot glue from a gun (or with wood glue).

You can also use thin birch bark instead of veneer. And also make interesting flat crafts from wood.

Wood crafts

(logs, firewood and bark)

Ordinary firewood from your woodpile can become a source of inspiration for wooden crafts for the dacha.

If you cut a round log diagonally, you get a figurine with its face turned towards you. All that remains is to draw this face, add elements of eyes, ears, and nose to it.

You can use logs and round logs to form the body of an animal. The logs will be the legs and the logs will be the back. The head can be made from a round cut of a small log. Or chop with an ax face up the desired shape from the same log as the body of your four-legged wooden craft.

Show your imagination and don’t stop before a difficult task. A squirrel made of wood or a snail made of logs - there is nothing complicated. We turn on our head and sense of humor - it will suggest the most ridiculous, but effective ways convey the delicate image of the animal using rough wood and other natural materials.

YOU can work with a chainsaw or an ax - sawing out or beheading the face of your wood craft. You can make these cute pigs with your own hands as a fun wooden craft for your dacha.

And in the thickets of bushes you can put a beautiful, proud deer - also a simple and quick craft made from wood and branches.

Wooden crafts

from chips from a log.

It happens that when you chop firewood, large shaped chips break off from the log. This chip often has a bizarre shape - already similar to something (a bird, a panther, the profile of a face). You need to carefully put such a gift of fate aside, so that you can later return to it and complete the craft started by nature. Trim something with a knife, highlight something with paint, glue something as an additional detail. And you will end up with a do-it-yourself wooden craft - beautiful and original.

These are the ideas I managed to find for wood craftsmen.

Now you too can make beautiful crafts from wood with your own hands. Moreover, this article is only the first in a series on the topic of wooden crafts, which are clear and easy to do at home. You've probably already fallen in love with some ideas and are determined to implement them - I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you - let everything work out the best in the best possible way. And your wooden craft will appeal to your entire Family Bunch.

For many personal plot today it is not only a vegetable garden, but also a place for family recreation. I would like to arrange it so that everyone is comfortable, and the children also have fun.

Wood is often used as a material for landscape decoration. Moreover, it is not necessary to buy it.

You can use waste from the construction of outbuildings, cut down wood, wooden post, driftwood from a nearby forest, etc.

Moreover, you can make crafts from wood with your own hands.

Facilities

Gazebo, pergola, sandbox, veranda, well - these and other structures made of wood look very impressive. To make them, you can use timber, slats, logs.

But that's all enough traditional materials. Or you can look in the forest for tree trunks blown down by the wind, cut the logs to the same length, remove the bark (or not) and dig them into the ground, having previously treated the underground part with a special compound that will protect the tree from rotting.

The roof of the gazebo can be made of straw or willow. The result will be something like a bungalow. Very creative.

Track

Crafts made from wood cuts are popular in summer cottages. This could be the wall of a gazebo, part of a fence, garden sculptures. And also this suitable material for the garden path.

You need to cut a log or several logs crosswise. Circles can have different diameter, but the thickness should be the same for everyone. The same thickness needs to be cut thin logs and branches.

If the wood is worn down inside by insects, it is better not to use it, as such a path will not last long.

For the future road, you need to dig a trench 10 cm deep. Its length and width are arbitrary, at the request of the owners. Fill the trench with sand and compact it. Lay the cuts with the largest diameter first. There are smaller ones between them.

You need to use saw cuts from branches to fill the remaining free space. Fill the cracks with earth or sand. The path will be more interesting if lawn grass seeds are sown in the ground between the cuts.

Fencing

Can be used for fencing wooden picket fence– more or less straight sticks with a diameter of up to 5 cm. To do this, collect branches in the forest and remove the bark from them. If some of them have small knots or spikes at the end, it will be even more interesting.

The fence can be not only external, but also inside the site for zoning the space. This can be an openwork slatted wall, along which, if desired, you can plant climbing plants or hang pots with petunias or hanging plants.

Bridges

Of course, the first to appreciate the semicircular bridges at the dacha are children. But the sight of such decorative elements also touches and pacifies adults. It’s good if there is an artificial pond on the site. The bridge will look more natural.

But there are some nuances.

• Firstly, for such a craft you need quite a lot of logs.
• Secondly, not every owner knows how to make a bridge of a more complex modification, for example, a semicircular one.
• Thirdly, you can’t just go into the forest and cut down trees; this requires permission from the relevant authorities, and this is quite expensive.

Flowerbed

A stump from a cut tree, a trunk, a log, or a massive log can be used as a flower bed. To do this, you need to hollow out a recess using a chisel and hammer.

Note!

If it is a stump, then a recess is hollowed out on the cut; if it is a lying log, then in its side part. You can turn an old snag into a strange animal. Soil is poured into the hole and seedlings are planted.

Garden furniture

Wooden garden crafts can become quite functional if they serve as garden furniture. Of course, to make furniture you need to have certain skills in working with wood and professional tools.

The same logs and logs are suitable as starting materials; a stump can make an excellent bench. For table top garden table You can use thick plywood.

Since all these items will be in the open air around the clock, it is necessary to take care of moisture protection, protection from mold and drying out. And all surfaces must be carefully polished and sanded so that splinters do not spoil your vacation outside the city.

Playground

You can arrange it around the stump of a cut down tree. The stump itself can easily be turned into a house for gnomes, equipping it with a beautiful tiled roof, door, windows and other accessories. When searching for photos of wooden crafts on the Internet, it is easy to find examples of such houses.

Around the house you can place various garden wooden sculptures and toys: a rocking horse, a car, animals made from round saw cuts. And of course a sandbox with a roof.

Note!

Older children can be involved in arranging a playground by teaching them how to use a hammer, plane and other tools. Children's crafts made from wood will appeal to them, their friends, and adults.

On the playground, with the help of logs and logs, you can create a real training base if you arrange and dig them in the form of a ladder, lay out a labyrinth, make a swing, hang the logs on chains 20 cm from the ground and build a swinging path. It all depends on the amount of material and the imagination of the owners.

It is only important to follow safety precautions and use only strong wood for any element of the playground. The grounds of all sports equipment and buildings must be properly concreted. All knots and notches have been sawed off and sanded.

A wide variety of wooden crafts for the cottage and garden can be viewed on the Internet. The main thing is to have quality material.

Photos of wood crafts

Note!

To prevent your dacha from seeming boring and colorless, it doesn’t hurt to add beautiful decorative elements to its decoration. Externally, your garden plot will look really great if you take care of the design of the garden itself and complement it with homemade crafts. Of course, it is much easier to go to the store and buy ready-made figurines and other decorations there, but they will not be able to give the uniqueness to the site as crafts for cottages made from logs made with your own hands. There is nothing complicated in their design. A little time and imagination, and your site will sing with new notes.

original crafts for a summer cottage made from logs

You can make crafts for your dacha using any available materials, but the most interesting and natural looking ones will be original crafts for a summer cottage made of logs. Everyone has old logs lying around at their dacha or you can find them just walking through the forest, so why not use the materials that we have at hand? Logs are an excellent material for expressing imagination. You can make anything out of them.

As an option, crafts for a summer cottage made from logs (photo) can represent a beautiful and unique garden furniture. Agree, not a single summer cottage would be complete without a cute gazebo with wooden furniture, where you can sit on warm evenings and enjoy the sunset or gather with friends at the festive table.

By creating, we will be able to make furniture of exactly those shapes and sizes that will most successfully fit into your garden and your landscape design. Homemade furniture always looks interesting and original.

In addition to furniture made from logs, you can also decorate beautiful flower bed. Our crafts for cottages made from logs (master classes) will help you in this simple process. First, we need to select a log of suitable size and cut it into two parts. In one of the parts we remove the core; this can be done using a regular ax. We will get a horizontal flowerpot. Pour soil into the resulting container, add some fertilizer and plant beautiful flowers. Petunias and other similar creeping plants with bright flowers will look very interesting in this design. If you have an artificial pond, such flowerpots can be placed near it, adding massive stones, possibly coniferous plantings.

– the task is not tricky, but you still need to try to give your yard a special look, with beautiful flower beds, decorations and other elements.

If you want, then it wouldn’t hurt to make a swing, decorate a playground out of tires, and add crafts from scrap materials.

Children will be happy to take part in creating crafts for their nook. Together with the child crafts for cottages made from logs can be designed in the form of unusual people. Your task is to make the little man himself, using an ordinary log as a basis and screwing arms and legs from sticks onto it. And invite your baby to decorate it, decorate it bright colors, complete the eyes, mouth and so on. This exciting activity will cause delight and pleasure in the process for your baby.

Crafts for a summer cottage made from logs. Photo

The completeness of the landscape design at the dacha is given not only by the built residential building or barbecue area. True individuality and originality can only be created with the help of various accessories and small details. And what could be better than crafts for a dacha made of wood - handmade gizmos will add an indescribable flavor and will undoubtedly attract the attention of guests.

Using wood in a summer cottage

Currently, construction stores offer a huge number of different options to choose from. finished sculptures and other elements for the garden and vegetable garden, made of various materials.

But it’s better not to be lazy and make country crafts with your own hands - making them from wood, unlike stone or metal, is not so difficult, and the resulting result will exceed your wildest expectations.

Craft ideas

Let's focus on interesting and easy-to-implement designs:

1. The most common option is wood sculptures. This can be a figure made from a single log or made up of several parts connected to each other in one way or another.
2. Crafts made from branches and stumps that resemble animals, birds or fairy tale characters . In this case, you practically do not need to make changes to their natural shape; just clean the material from the bark and varnish it.

1. Plywood is good for creativity. Draw a stork, a windmill or a frog princess on a sheet of paper, cut off the excess parts and paint the product.

1. Plywood can also be used to make excellent containers for plants and birdhouses.. Another beautiful one useful thing- feeder.

Logs as a material for creativity

Very often, when designing a summer cottage, it is necessary to cut down one or more trees. Of course, they are perfect as firewood, but it’s better to show your imagination and use them for crafts made from logs for your dacha: you can easily make a flowerbed, bench or decorative well with your own hands.

Let's look at these options in more detail.

1. Flower bed. For most summer residents, made from various available materials: gypsum, empty glass bottles, old car tires and so on. But it is the old log that is suitable for this purpose like nothing else.

For manufacturing you need a hammer with a chisel or a chainsaw. By making a recess of the appropriate size and placing the log on supports, you will be able to learn an unusual and attractive product absolutely free of charge. All that remains is to fill the hole with soil and plant flowers.

1. Garden furniture. An excellent solution, but not so easy to implement. First of all, you need to select a log of sufficiently large diameter.
   Then carefully process it with various tools:

• the first stage is an ax or chainsaw;
• second stage – chisel and hammer;
• the third stage is grinding and applying a protective coating.

1. Decorative well. A very beautiful accessory for a summer cottage. The downside is that old wood is not suitable for manufacturing. You need to purchase high-quality round timber and build a log house from it.

Self-production

Simple options

Even a novice summer resident who does not have too much experience in working with carpentry tools can make wooden crafts for the dacha with his own hands. Naturally, you need to start with more simple options, and then you can move on to monumental products that will become the central element of the landscape design of your dacha.

The manufacturing instructions below give only general direction. Otherwise, you should rely only on your own taste and sense of style. Don't be afraid to experiment.

Perhaps in the future your wooden sculpture will be a role model.

1. The simplest option is plywood garden crafts. On a sheet of suitable size, you can draw out individual parts of a pony, donkey or goblin, cut them out and tie them together using strong twine.

1. Another idea - small branches fruit trees. They are suitable for making wall or floor planters. In this way you can make pots for house plants with your own hands. In this case inner space it is advisable to lay plastic film to avoid soil spillage or insert plastic containers there.

1. Having gained experience in working manually or electric jigsaw, you can start making more complex crafts. Carefully transfer your chosen design onto the plywood and carefully cut it out. The finished wooden sculpture is sanded with sandpaper, cleared of sawdust and coated with varnish or paint to protect it from adverse environmental conditions.
2. There are other DIY plywood crafts: for your dacha you can make not only garden sculptures, but also figurines that look natural in the garden. For example, plywood bunnies will be an unexpected detail decorating a carrot bed. The procedure for making them is simple: draw an outline and cut out the shape using a jigsaw.

Advice!
On suburban land plots, power outages or power supply breaks sometimes occur.
In this case, only renting a diesel generator for a summer house can help out.
This device will provide power to all power tools and other equipment.

Complex designs

For those for whom DIY country wood crafts have already become a kind of hobby, we can offer more complex options– make a mill or wooden well. Here, in addition to your desire, an accurate mathematical calculation is necessary, otherwise the cut out parts will be impossible to fit together.

You can also offer a simpler option:

1. We saw planks of the same length, which will be the basis for the mill (you can use small blocks of suitable cross-section).
2. We take two sticks and place them parallel to each other at a distance slightly less than the length of the element itself.
3. The next two elements are placed on the laid planks (perpendicularly) (the whole process is somewhat reminiscent of building a log house only on a smaller scale). You can fasten the parts to each other using nails or glue.
4. Having constructed a structure of the required height, we begin to build the roof. To do this, take four small blocks and connect them in pairs to form a ridge. Pieces of ondulin left over from the construction of the house can be used on the roof. Then the design will fit best into the landscape design of the site.
5. The material for the blades will be two or three planks, fixed at an angle like an aircraft propeller.
6. You can decorate the structure with decorative climbing plant, which will braid one of the walls.

The well is made in a similar way. In this case, you can complement the composition with a miniature bucket and a bench. By fencing all this off, you will get a beautiful and unusual playground for children.

Note!
If wooden crafts are intended for children, take care of safety.
All sculptures and buildings should be free of sharp corners, protruding nails and rough splintered surfaces.

Do not forget that the wood must be treated with antiseptic compounds, varnished or painted. This will extend its service life and make the crafts more attractive.

Conclusion

The information above will help you create your own, unique wood crafts that will become the highlight of your summer cottage. You can learn more about this from the video in this article.