Do-it-yourself hogweed crafts photo. New Year's decor made of hogweed in the Vitebsk theater surprised officials. Flower bed made of tires

In the distant bins of everyone there are things that at one time it was a pity to throw away, and now they lie idle. Some of them may find use in your dacha or garden plot. Let's try to figure out what you can use to make a useful craft for your garden and how unnecessary things can come in handy.

New life for old things

By using things that have served their purpose for a long time, you can significantly save on the purchase of new materials, and the implementation of the idea will give impetus to your creative imagination. You will have a lot of fun realizing your ideas. Especially if you can get children involved and inspire other family members to work together.

To help you, we have collected interesting ideas and clear instructions on how to make a craft yourself.

Material that can be used:

large stones, pebbles;
wood;
used tires;
plastic bottles;
barrels;
Styrofoam.

Of course, the list is incomplete; a lot of other unnecessary things will be useful to implement your plan. The main thing is a creative idea, the implementation of which will give you a reason to be proud of your work.

We hope that the photo of original crafts for the garden will awaken your imagination and inspire your creativity.

Crafts from bottles

Interesting crafts for the garden can be created using ordinary plastic bottles. This practical material is great for recycling. Let's look at just a few useful ideas.

Curtains. Openwork curtains for a doorway or gazebo look unusual and very creative.

Fence. You can fence off your property from your neighbor’s with a fence made of bottles. Additional coloring and decoration of such a homemade fence will give it even more originality.

Flowers, animals. Beautiful artificial flowers, figurines of animals or insects are made easily from this material and look original and bright.

Feeder. In winter, you can use a plastic bottle and turn it into a convenient bird feeder.

Flowerbed. It's easy to make a small, cute plant bed for your garden using a plastic bottle. The advantage of such a flower bed is that it is mobile and can migrate throughout the entire dacha area.

Working with plastic is not difficult: it can be easily cut with any scissors. You can find a use for any part of the bottle, from the bottom to the cap. The elements of the craft are connected using glue, fishing line or wire.

Wood crafts

Any owner can find a tree. The simplest idea for use is to make tables, chairs and benches out of it. Typically, log houses and stumps are used for their construction.

In addition, it will be useful to make:

swing;
fence;
flashlight.
birdhouse;
tool boxes.

There are an incredible variety of ideas for DIY crafts at the dacha using scrap materials, the main thing is to start!

Crafts from old tires

Old tires are a material that makes excellent:

benches;
swing;
flower beds;
poufs;
sandboxes;
decorative elements.

By combining this material with others, you can create simply masterpieces! Below you will find master classes on crafts made from tires to decorate your garden plot.

Flowerbed "Frog"

You will need a couple of hours and a can of green paint. The process of making crafts is completely simple.

At the first stage, we take two tires and place them so that their edges touch tightly. The third tire is placed in the middle of the structure on top - this is the future place for the flower bed.

The middle of the tires must be filled with earth. The base is ready.

Now you will need branches: two short ones and two longer ones. Using a hacksaw, cut out the frog's legs from wooden blocks. We attach them to the branches - the legs are ready.

From a plastic bottle we cut out eyes and, if you want, a crown for the frog princess. All other details can be drawn using colored paints.

Tire flowerbed

The idea of creating a flower bed from tires is simple and very popular. On the selected plot of land, you must first dig a shallow hole in which the tires will be placed. You can paint them plain or come up with an original design - it depends on what your imagination tells you.

The inside of the tires is filled with soil, in which you can plant your favorite flowers. That's all, the flowerbed is ready. The main thing is to water the plants on time so that your homemade flower garden pleases you for as long as possible.

Decorations and garden figurines

If your imagination requires the embodiment of even more interesting ideas, then your summer cottage can be decorated with entire sketches featuring your favorite cartoon characters or various, even fantastic, animals. Trust your creative vision and create something unique at your dacha!

Materials that are suitable for realizing your ideas:

gypsum;
polyurethane foam;
clay;
pebbles

When the figurine is ready, paint it with paints. The top needs to be sealed with varnish. Such garden figurines cost a lot of money in specialized retail outlets. This means that you will not only enjoy the process, but also save money.

In addition to all of the above, you can find use for old dishes, shoes, clothes, metal items, outdated furniture, records, and CDs.

At first glance, it seems that the implementation of such ideas is a difficult matter. But once you start implementing them, you will see that everything is quite simple. All you need is a few unnecessary things, scrap materials and a vivid imagination!

Photos of crafts for the garden

02/25/2019 | admin | No comments yet

DIY hogweed crafts photo

The rain staff or rain flute (rainstick, khmara) is a special instrument that was originally used by the tribes of Africa and Indonesia to establish contact with the spirits of Water. It was made from a hollow tube (the stem of a dry plant) into which grain was poured. It created the effect of iridescent water and imitated the sound of rain or a waterfall.

You can make this simple and so magical and bewitching instrument with your own hands (you will find its sound below).

What to make a rain staff from

The best option is a dry stem of hogweed or angelica. The thicker and longer it is, the more spectacular the instrument will be - the “water” will shimmer for a very long time. Another option is thick bamboo. It will be a little quieter due to the thickness of the walls, but it will be more reliable (even if you accidentally step on it). If you don't have natural material, you can use a cardboard tube or even a folded sheet of cardboard.

What you will need

an awl or drill (if you are working with bamboo),

several types of dry cereals (lentils, rice, buckwheat),
PVA glue,

cardboard, pieces of leather,

Progress

1) We pierce the wall of dry grass along the entire length of the tube in a spiral (in our case it is angelica). Step 1 cm.

Between the turns of the spiral we make another spiral (2 or more are possible). The closer the turns are to each other, the longer the sound of the staff will be.

2) Now we take toothpicks and thread them through one designated hole, and with the other end we pierce the opposite wall of the stem so that the stick passes right through the middle of the cavity.

This is a rather long and meditative process. You will have to tinker with bamboo a little longer, drilling holes of the required diameter with a drill.

The result is such a “mace” - a cactus.

3) Now, using scissors or side cutters, carefully cut off the ends of the toothpicks.

4) Sand the resulting “stumps” with sandpaper.

5) Coat the entire stem with PVA glue (to fix the result).

6) Now glue a cardboard flap to one end of the tube to prevent the grains from spilling out.

7) Hurray! Now the most interesting part... We put grains inside (lentils, peas, rice, buckwheat). It is better to add grains of different sizes so that the sound has many shades.

Music of the rain.

Oh, how I’ve wanted such a flute for myself for a long time. And then I came across a wonderful master class with a very detailed manufacturing process from Alexander Shustov Leto. +You can watch the video how beautiful it sounds.Thank you very much. It’s not too late to collect hogweed (only dry!), not green, and make it for yourself magical tool.

Materials and tools: dry hogweed stem, hacksaw, toothpicks, sandpaper, table knife, papier-mâché mass (egg packaging), PVA glue (can be used for construction), acrylic paints, acrylic varnish, stains of two colors (I use water-based) , cheap toilet paper, stiff brush, awl, blender, cereal.

First we need to get the plant stem itself. This is quite easy to do, because hogweed grows along roads and in large numbers near villages. Hogweed can be collected from mid-October, all winter and early spring. The most important thing is that we need a completely dried trunk. There are no toxic juices left in it, and no one will suffer from burns. I beg you to never touch this plant when it is green. It is very poisonous! If the plant juice gets on the skin, very severe burns will form. But in dry form it is harmless.

The easiest way to cut down hogweed is with a hacksaw. It is better to choose a longer and thicker trunk. The sound of our rain flute depends on this.

These are the kind of dirty sticks you sometimes have to work with. But I couldn't leave her. No cracks, long and wide. We'll take it :)

So, we stocked up on a few sticks - the foundations of our future flutes. Now we need to clean them. We take our table knife with a rounded end and pry off the upper, unnecessary “skin” of the plant. Don't be discouraged if you can't clear everything at once. We will wash off the rest with water.

I go to the bathroom and, under running water, use a stiff brush to clean off the residue:

We got a very beautiful straw-colored textured stick. Now we need to dry it, so we leave our future flute aside for at least a day. And let's go prepare a lot of papier-mâché.

To do this, take a paper egg package, tear it into small pieces and immerse everything in water, preferably warm. With this our today's exploits are over and we can rest until tomorrow.

Preparing papier-mâché:

We thoroughly mix our future papier-mâché with our hands and take all the contents out of the water onto a towel, wrap it and squeeze it out. Place the resulting squeezed paper into a deep container. I use a metal saucepan. Divide into smaller pieces and fill everything with PVA glue. Take a blender and turn everything into a homogeneous mass. Then transfer it to a container with a tight lid. If we squeezed it well, then this mass will serve us for a very long time. It will not dry out and deteriorate. PVA will preserve it for a long time.

We create partitions:

We will need an awl and our dried stick.

We need to make punctures with an awl along the entire length of the flute, going down in a spiral. To make the partitions even, tie a thread at any edge and wind it in a spiral in several turns along our trunk and secure it at the end.

Let's distribute the turns evenly and start making punctures in small increments. When we reach the end, we remove the thread and arm ourselves with toothpicks. Now we need to stick toothpicks into each hole from the awl and recess all the toothpicks into the opposite wall, so that the tip of the toothpick comes out.

When the work is finished, break off all the sharpening parts of the toothpicks. So far it's not very elegant. Take a piece of sandpaper and sand each toothpick so that it is flush with the surface.

Fixation:

We need to secure the toothpicks in our flute. Many craftsmen spill the same PVA glue inside. I cover the surface of the flute with paper in two layers. It turns out very durable.

Creating the "bottom":

That's it, work is finished for today. And for tomorrow too. Now we will wait for our cork to dry completely. In winter, I dry my flutes by leaning them on the radiator, but now I’ll use the heater. We leave our flute and be patient. Next time it will sound. And it will be magic. All that's left to do is wait.

(after a two-three day break) Not long, but very pleasant:

Today we won’t do much, but we can already enjoy the sound of our flute.

Our cork is completely dry and will serve as our bottom today.

We prepare the cereal, place our rain flute vertically and begin to fall asleep. I use different grains: rice, buckwheat, lentils, sometimes peas. Each grain gives its own sound. The rice rustles on the partitions, the lentils tap, and everything together gives the unique murmur of rain. In terms of volume, half to one and a half glasses of cereal are usually enough - it all depends on the thickness and length of the rain flute.

After we have thoroughly enjoyed the sound of our rain, we make a plug on the other side and again leave it to dry for 2-3 days.

After the flute has completely dried, all we have to do is sand it and apply the pattern. Today, all the time we work, we will listen to the raindrops rolling. My work will take a couple of days longer, since I’m still sculpting the faces of the rain keepers from the same mass of papier-mâché, and they need to dry.

Now you need to choose a color. I use two water-based stains on this flute: mahogany and oak. We make markings on the flute with a simple pencil. We try to draw only one line. After the markings are made, I cover the entire surface of the flute with a light stain color. Water-based stain dries very quickly and this gives us the opportunity to finish our flute today. After drying, paint the elements with a whiter, darker color.

After the paint has dried, coat the flute with varnish. We dry it out and enjoy the sound of rain, making our guests and the whole family happy.

For the first time, the Belarusian theater "Lyalka" in Vitebsk was decorated for the New Year holidays in eco-style - a minimum of tinsel and wreaths made of branches. And here they invented a new way to combat hogweed - the dried plant was disassembled into decorative elements, writes “Vitsebsk green partal”. Not only the little guests of the theater were surprised, but also the adults, including officials.

The author of the unusual design is the head of the artistic and production department of the theater Oksana Nikeenko. The source of inspiration for her was the work of participants in the second urban art forum “Prastor” in Vitebsk Frunze Park, which took place this summer.

It was very impressive,” Oksana recalls. - The impressions were postponed until winter - so that such a design would appear in the theater foyer.

The rustic style (the use of natural materials in the interior without or with minimal processing) is now actively used for interior decoration. Oksana’s idea of “letting” rustic into the theater was supported by the director Daria Zimnitskaya. And the creative tandem created a unique, unlike previous, image of a children's party.

For those who still need a bright shine, we hung some balloons,” continues Oksana Nikeenko. - But in general, we bought practically nothing for decoration: in the park I chose branches that were suitable in shape and size, and collected fir cones. Finding hogweed in our region is also not a problem (about 70% of the areas of Belarus occupied by this plant are in the Vitebsk region. - Note TUT.BY). And now, the scenery is ready!

The decoration of the theater without unnecessary tinsel was appreciated by employees, spectators, and guests.

Heads of cultural departments from different regions of the region came to us on an excursion. And I observed such a reaction for the first time, it was even a little strange: most of the attention received not the exclusive dolls made by our artists, but the hogweed. This decor was so unexpected, says the head of the literary and dramatic department of Lyalka. Lyudmila Simonenok.

By the next New Year, Oksana Nikeenko again plans to decorate the theater with natural materials. In the meantime, he advises how to decorate your home for the holiday with spectacular and environmentally friendly materials:

Go under the birch tree, it sheds its branches for winter. It is believed that willow is good for weaving. But birch is also a very fertile material. You can weave wreaths from it and put colored pine cones there. This decor is easy to make, but it will look impressive.

Dry hogweed is also good for New Year's fantasies. In winter, the plant does not secrete dangerous juice and becomes quite suitable for creativity:

Hogweed resembles bamboo in texture. In addition, its grooved stem is very easy to paint or varnish.

Linen lampshades, baskets with original compositions, papier-mâché vases, an abundance of house plants and bouquets of dried flowers. Although plants processed by various methods are called dried flowers, it’s hard to come by. Something is soaked in glycerin, something is treated with paints, varnishes, some mysterious solutions...

Natalia is a native Rzhevityanka. Since childhood, I have been interested in drawing and making crafts from scrap materials. She studied at the fourth school and graduated from a mechanical engineering college. For a year I worked in my specialty - as a process technician at Electromechanics. I realized that it was not hers. Transferred to the aesthetics group at the same company. She drew posters about the plant’s achievements and designed honor boards. In 1994 I had to quit my job because my salary was being delayed. She didn’t sit idle: she started sewing up her little daughter. The pants, blouses, and elegant dresses delighted the kindergarten teachers. The savings on the family budget in the difficult nineties were noticeable: only shoes were bought for the child. Gradually, Natalia Arturovna began to have clients, and she began to sew to order. She came up with original models, experimented with leather and fur: she had no interest in copying.

A year ago, Natalia saw original handmade crafts on the Internet. Topiaries, or trees of happiness, are usually made by hand as gifts for loved ones. The spherical crown of this mini-tree fixed in a small pot can consist of anything - paper flowers, beads, dried flowers and other ornamental materials. Trees made from coffee beans are popular because they are not only beautiful, but also fragrant. Vysokina took a master class on making these souvenirs on the World Wide Web, and then it was a matter of Natalia’s imagination, which is limitless. The trees of happiness were followed by Christmas trees - made of roses, buttons, leather, lace, fabric. Bouquets of dried flowers are made so beautifully that you can’t take your eyes off them. It turns out that the dried hogweed, so unloved by the Rzhevites, contains original vases, a mysterious psychedelic instrument “the sound of rain”, and silver stars of distant galaxies...

To make the vases, we had to master the papier-mâché technique. The work is labor-intensive, but allows you to achieve products of any shape. For decorative decoration of vases, cereals, pasta, leather, foil, and some other things are used, the origin of which is unclear at first glance. In jars and boxes, which the craftswoman will soon have nowhere to put, you can find anything - from seeds and leaves of the strange grass that grows under our feet, to plastic adapters, which, it turns out, are perfect for constructing vases. Natalia grows some plants for her work herself in a flowerbed near her house.

A woman rarely returns from a walk empty-handed. In hardware stores there are many interesting items that can be used in the design of a new idea, in stationery stores there are sheet music that can be used to cover a box in a vintage style or make a rose. Underfoot, on the trees and bushes are future man-made masterpieces.

On the street, Natalia does not let go of the camera - an interesting angle, the play of light, shadows - and the picture is ready, worthy of an exhibition.

The eighth of March is just around the corner, Natalia already knows what she will please her loved ones with. Roses and flower bouquets are born from pieces of toilet soap. We hope that we will see these original gifts in the souvenir departments of the city’s stores, where there are now other works by Vysokina.

New life for old things

To help you, we have collected interesting ideas and clear instructions on how to make a craft yourself.

Material that can be used:

large stones, pebbles;
wood;
used tires;
plastic bottles;
barrels;
Styrofoam.

Of course, the list is incomplete; a lot of other unnecessary things will be useful to implement your plan. The main thing is a creative idea, the implementation of which will give you a reason to be proud of your work.

We hope that the photo of original crafts for the garden will awaken your imagination and inspire your creativity.

Crafts from bottles

Interesting crafts for the garden can be created using ordinary plastic bottles. This practical material is great for recycling. Let's look at just a few useful ideas.

Curtains. Openwork curtains for a doorway or gazebo look unusual and very creative.

Fence. You can fence off your property from your neighbor’s with a fence made of bottles. Additional coloring and decoration of such a homemade fence will give it even more originality.

Flowers, animals. Beautiful artificial flowers, figurines of animals or insects are made easily from this material and look original and bright.

Feeder. In winter, you can use a plastic bottle and turn it into a convenient bird feeder.

Flowerbed. It's easy to make a small, cute plant bed for your garden using a plastic bottle. The advantage of such a flower bed is that it is mobile and can migrate throughout the entire dacha area.

Wood crafts

Any owner can find a tree. The simplest idea for use is to make tables, chairs and benches out of it. Typically, log houses and stumps are used for their construction.

In addition, it will be useful to make:

swing;
fence;
flashlight.
birdhouse;
tool boxes.

There are an incredible variety of ideas for DIY crafts at the dacha using scrap materials, the main thing is to start!

Crafts from old tires

Old tires are a material that makes excellent:

benches;
swing;
flower beds;
poufs;
sandboxes;
decorative elements.

By combining this material with others, you can create simply masterpieces! Below you will find master classes on crafts made from tires to decorate your garden plot.

Flowerbed "Frog"

You will need a couple of hours and a can of green paint. The process of making crafts is completely simple.

At the first stage, we take two tires and place them so that their edges touch tightly. The third tire is placed in the middle of the structure on top - this is the future place for the flower bed.

The middle of the tires must be filled with earth. The base is ready.

Now you will need branches: two short ones and two longer ones. Using a hacksaw, cut out the frog's legs from wooden blocks. We attach them to the branches - the legs are ready.

From a plastic bottle we cut out eyes and, if you want, a crown for the frog princess. All other details can be drawn using colored paints.

Tire flowerbed

The inside of the tires is filled with soil, in which you can plant your favorite flowers. That's all, the flowerbed is ready. The main thing is to water the plants on time so that your homemade flower garden pleases you for as long as possible.

Decorations and garden figurines

Materials that are suitable for realizing your ideas:

gypsum;
polyurethane foam;
clay;
pebbles

In addition to all of the above, you can find use for old dishes, shoes, clothes, metal items, outdated furniture, records, and CDs.

Photos of crafts for the garden

angelica

Many people saw tall plants in summer with white umbrella inflorescences on thick hollow stems. This is an angelica. It was named so not by chance - pipes were made from its stems, because the stem of an angelica is a ready-made pipe, just make holes. Angelica stems are also suitable for many other things - candles used to be cast in them (this is a ready-made mold for casting), they were used as a tube for breathing under water, and we use them as cases for knitting needles or pencil cases, and also as convenient boxes for storing spices or other suitable materials. One day, angelica was even useful to us as an envelope.

spice boxes

angelica stems

Making a case is very simple. Look carefully at the stem of angelica - it is not straight, but divided into separate tubes, as if glued together at different angles. And at the junction of these tubes (at the nodes) the stem is full-bodied, but the tubes themselves are empty inside. Therefore, the nodes are ready-made bottoms; you just need to carefully saw off the stem below the node, and that’s it. The cuts - both lower and upper - need to be cleaned with sandpaper, and the stem can also be cleaned with it. The blade of a knife also copes well with such cleaning if you hold it at a right angle to the surface being cleaned.

nodes on the stems of angelica

Now that you know exactly what you need to do, it's time to go get some angelica. It grows in wet meadows, on forest edges, in thickets of willow or alder. You can collect angelica at any time of the year, even in winter, if you don’t get tired of climbing through snowdrifts. In early spring you can collect overwintered stems of a beautiful gray-brown color, in summer or autumn - soft green. The stems need to be dried, then sawed and cleaned, and then decorated.

Wrap the upper part of the case with thick thread or cord for strength and beauty.

case for knitting needles

rum, placing it on glue. Then make a plug from any material - wood, birch bark... And finally, paint it. Just don't forget that Although angelica is similar to bamboo, it is much less durable: if you accidentally step on the stem with your foot, it will crush it, so it is most convenient to store the cases somewhere in a drawer or hang them on the wall. Well, if the case does break, it doesn’t matter – nature will grow a new one.

overwintered stems of Sakhalin Reinutria

angelica rum is suitable for boxes and cases stems of Reinutria Sakhalinskaya(the old name is Sakhalin mountaineer) and the famous Sosnovsky's hogweed, the dry stems of which are wide, strong and not at all dangerous. If you collect hogweed in the summer, do it with gloves and in cloudy weather, because... its juice contains photosensitizing substances that cause severe and long-lasting burns on the skin under the influence of the sun. Is there some more Siberian hogweed, a plant native to Central Russia and not at all dangerous, but it is smaller than Sosnovsky's hogweed.

painted blank

Beautiful pencil cases. You can do them with children, but older ones can do it completely on their own, great, I think it will be very interesting!
Is it possible to confuse angelica and Sosnovsky's hogweed with similar poisonous plants? How to distinguish them, especially in winter?..
Do you paint with what, acrylic, gouache, oil?... Do you varnish it on top?..

Sosnowsky hogweed in its dry form is not at all dangerous, and other types of hogweed are edible. They have been eaten for a long time in the cuisines of different nations. Angelicas are also not poisonous.
Hogweeds can be distinguished externally. B. sosnowski stands out for its height, often exceeding 2 meters. It grows in very large groups (populations), mainly along roads and in weedy places, as it is an alien species.
We paint angelica crafts with acrylic without varnishing.

I just remember something from my childhood - it was impossible to make pipes from some hogweeds, and therefore the ban automatically extended to hogweeds in general. :-) Despite the fact that we read that the plant is very healthy and edible.
Pencil cases are certainly not for food. :-)) Reminds me of something Indian...

In the same family (umbellaceae), in addition to Sosnovsky's hogweed, there are other poisonous plants - hemlock (hemlock) and hemlock. They are rare and can easily be confused with angelica. But only their rhizomes are poisonous, not their stems. And the fear of getting poisoned by pipes is only due to general botanical illiteracy: unfortunately, people know very little about the plants among which they live, and with the flow of people into the cities, everything has become even more deplorable...

And it’s very nice to hear that the pattern resembles something Indian, because that’s how it was intended :)

Illiteracy is such a thing... you start to be afraid of everything, not a step left or right - there is danger everywhere. :-)))
We have a lot of umbrella plants growing here, some of them are near the river, in swampy places, some of them are higher up. About those higher up they say that this is hemlock, but I looked in many reference books - it doesn’t seem to be hemlock, but I can’t determine for sure. :-)
It’s good that you can easily make crafts from them. Children really like sticks and pipes.

Natalia is a native Rzhevityanka. Since childhood, I have been interested in drawing and making crafts from scrap materials. She studied at the fourth school and graduated from a mechanical engineering college. For a year I worked in my specialty - as a production technician at Electromechanics. I realized that it was not hers. Transferred to the aesthetics group at the same company. She drew posters about the plant’s achievements and designed honor boards. In 1994 I had to quit my job because my salary was being delayed. She didn’t sit idle: she started sewing up her little daughter. The pants, blouses, and elegant dresses delighted the kindergarten teachers. The savings on the family budget in the difficult nineties were noticeable: only shoes were bought for the child. Gradually, Natalia Arturovna began to have clients, and she began to sew to order. She came up with original models, experimented with leather and fur: she had no interest in copying.

A year ago, Natalia saw original handmade crafts on the Internet. Topiaries, or trees of happiness, are usually made by hand as gifts for loved ones. The spherical crown of this mini-tree fixed in a small pot can consist of anything - paper flowers, beads, dried flowers and other ornamental materials. Trees made from coffee beans are popular because they are not only beautiful, but also fragrant. On the World Wide Web, Vysokina took a master class on making these souvenirs, and then it was a matter of imagination, which Natalia has no limits on. The trees of happiness were followed by Christmas trees - made of roses, buttons, leather, lace, fabric. Bouquets of dried flowers are made so beautifully that you can’t take your eyes off them. It turns out that the dried hogweed, so unloved by the Rzhevites, contains original vases, a mysterious psychedelic instrument “the sound of rain”, and silver stars of distant galaxies...

A woman rarely returns from a walk empty-handed. In hardware stores there are many interesting items that can be used in the design of a new idea, in stationery stores - sheet music that can be used to paste over a box in a vintage style or make a rose. Underfoot, on the trees and bushes - future man-made masterpieces.

On the street, Natalia does not let go of the camera - an interesting angle, the play of light, shadows - and the picture is ready, worthy of an exhibition.

The Belarusian theater "Lyalka" in Vitebsk was decorated for the New Year holidays for the first time in eco-style - a minimum of tinsel and wreaths made of branches. And here they invented a new way to combat hogweed - the dried plant was disassembled into decorative elements, writes “Vitsebsk green partal”. Not only the little guests of the theater were surprised, but also the adults, including officials.

“It was very impressive,” Oksana recalls. — The impressions were postponed until winter - so that such a design would appear in the theater foyer.

“For those who still need a bright shine, we hung some balloons,” continues Oksana Nikeenko. — But in general, we bought practically nothing for decoration: in the park I chose branches that were suitable in shape and size, and collected fir cones. Finding hogweed in our region is also not a problem (about 70% of the areas of Belarus occupied by this plant are in the Vitebsk region. - Note TUT.BY). And now, the scenery is ready!

The decoration of the theater without unnecessary tinsel was appreciated by employees, spectators, and guests.

— Heads of cultural departments from different regions of the region came to us on an excursion. And I observed such a reaction for the first time, it was even a little strange: most of the attention received not the exclusive dolls made by our artists, but the hogweed. This decor was so unexpected, says the head of the literary and dramatic department of Lyalka. Lyudmila Simonenok.

- Go under the birch tree, it sheds its branches for winter. It is believed that willow is good for weaving. But birch is also a very fertile material. You can weave wreaths from it and put colored pine cones there. This decor is easy to make, but it will look impressive.

Dry hogweed is also good for New Year's fantasies. In winter, the plant does not secrete dangerous juice and becomes quite suitable for creativity:

— Hog parsnip resembles bamboo in texture. In addition, its grooved stem is very easy to paint or varnish.