Another simple and quick option for creating an autumn tree craft, which combines different types of activities. Children can cut, glue and color. They use a variety of leaves, we took oak leaves, and the tree turned out a little gloomy, my daughter advised us to put it in the section with :) Therefore, I advise you to take lighter leaves and paint the tree with a lighter, warmer shade of brown.
Necessary materials:
- Dry leaves;
- Long paper towel roll. Can be made from cardboard;
- Brown gouache or any other warm brown paint;
- Glue stick, brush, scissors.
Usually I don’t indicate what kind of glue is needed, since I often use both PVA and a pencil in the process, as a rule, it makes no difference. But in this craft, PVA did not work at all, it is liquid and you need to wait a long time for the leaf to attach to the sleeve. Glue stick is stickier and immediately bonds dry leaves to paper.
Looking for ideas on how to make your own autumn tree? In fact, there are a huge number of ways. The choice depends on the purpose of making the craft, as well as who is doing it. In any case, all the products presented in the article can be created from simple and affordable materials. Even a preschooler can master almost any method. Choose the idea you like and begin the exciting creative process with your child.
Flat panel
If you have not received specific requirements for the job, be guided by the amount of free time and availability of materials. You can make your own autumn tree in either a flat or three-dimensional version. In the first case, the craft will be a relief. It is made using the appliqué technique, working with plasticine, dried leaves, paper, and fabric. Almost anything that can be painted (or already has that shade) will do. They are made in the form of a general shape, for example, a circle, or they create volume and texture by gluing numerous individual elements. Choose a method depending on the age of the child.
Volumetric products
In this option, the same materials are used as in the first case. The difference is that here the base is not a flat sheet of paper or cardboard, but a three-dimensional frame in the form of a ball or branches made of wire, sticks, and rods. Such crafts look much more impressive and original, even if the same material as the panel is used.
Making an autumn tree with your own hands from leaves
The easiest and most affordable way to create a craft is to make it from collected maple, linden and other leaves. They already have the desired color, however, it is important to dry them correctly. This is usually done by placing the collected material between the pages of an old book.
It’s easy to make a DIY autumn tree for kindergarten using dried leaves. No special skills or additional tools, such as scissors, are required here, so even a junior preschooler can cope with such a task. This method can be used to make both flat and three-dimensional objects. You can attach the leaves to the base using glue or even plasticine.
How to make an autumn tree with your own hands: master class (working with paper and foil)
These are very interesting materials that make it possible to be creative in creating crafts.
Having a regular sheet of Whatman paper, you can make the following options for an autumn tree: 
Pompoms
Traditionally, this decor is used for hats, but if you approach the production of fluffy balls creatively, it turns out that you can get fruits and animals from them, and even make an autumn tree with your own hands. To do this, use any yarn of appropriate shades.
Regular round pompoms are made like this:
- Cut out two rings from cardboard.
- Connect them and wrap them with threads. Alternate colors in any order.
- Using a separate thread, you begin to tighten the perimeter of the ring, gradually cutting where the yarn bends.
- Remove cardboard blanks.
For an autumn tree, you can use one large pompom or many small and different sized fluffy balls.
Textile
You work with scraps in the same way as with paper or foil, cutting them out and gluing or sewing them to the base. It’s good to make an autumn tree with your own hands from felt or fleece, that is, those materials that do not form untidy edges that require processing.
An autumn tree can be made from pieces by cutting out the shapes of the leaves and singeing the edge where the threads begin to unravel. The second method that allows you to get very impressive products that look like real works of art is the kanzashi technique. Here, individual modules are made from squares made from satin ribbons using certain folding methods. By connecting them together with glue or threads, you can get a complex three-dimensional shape.
Crafts from the forest and garden
If you need to make an autumn tree with your own hands from natural material, use pine or they are the easiest to assemble.
You can use nuts, acorns, chestnuts, as well as vegetables and fruits. The latter, however, will not retain their original appearance for too long.
It is better to make an autumn tree from natural material in the form of a ball, using a base of papier-mâché or a ball, which you can simply cover with painted pine cones, attach a stem-rod to it and place the tree in a pot. This way you will also receive an original, popular souvenir called topiary.
Pebbles, beads and plasticine
Instead of cones in the embodiment described above, you can use any other fine material that can be glued to the surface of the base and painted. Pebbles, beads, and balls will do. All this is attached to the ball even with the help of plasticine. This craft is done quickly and without much expense, and it looks very stylish and impressive.
Beads, beads or those elements in which you can make a hole yourself can be used as a material for crafts of any complex shape. It is enough to first make a base in the form of a tree trunk and branches, and then attach the decor to it. You can connect beads or beads using threads, fishing line, or thin wire. Such products will look very decorative and elegant. In general, you can use whatever your imagination tells you.
So, you have seen how diverse solutions to one problem can be. You can make an autumn tree with your own hands using any of the following methods. Choose! Get busy! Not only the child, but also you yourself will most likely be fascinated by this process.
Autumn gives us a lot of materials for creativity. These include leaves of various colors, chestnuts, dried flowers, acorns, and a decorative miniature pumpkin.
But, before you start making souvenirs from them, you need to properly prepare them, namely dry them and, if necessary, coat them with varnish or paint.
If you make a craft from unprepared raw materials, it will be a short-lived product.
As soon as the material dries on its own, the souvenir will lose its shape and will have to be thrown away. And besides this, half-raw leaves can simply rot or become moldy.
So let's start by drying out our autumn finds.
Let's prepare the leaves for the herbarium as follows:
1 way:
Place them between the book sheets and place them back on the shelf, pressing them tightly with other books to the side. In about a week to a week and a half, the leaves will be suitable for crafts.
This method is the best, since the natural color of the leaves does not change and then they do not break for a long time.
Method 2:
This method is good if you don’t have the strength to withstand a week and a half and want to get to work quickly. Place the sheet between two white sheets of paper and iron with an iron set to the lowest setting.
In this case, the yellow and red leaves retain their color, but the green ones may darken and become an ugly, brown shade.
We dry chestnuts, acorns and decorative pumpkins.
1 way:
Dry outdoors in the shade. It will be necessary to wait quite a long time before these materials acquire the dryness we need.
Sometimes this process takes a month. This is especially true for decorative pumpkins, which make wonderful DIY autumn crafts.
You will see for yourself when the moment of readiness for the gifts of autumn comes. Acorns and chestnuts will become lighter, and the pumpkin will become like a rattle, as the cavity inside will dry out and shrink, and dry seeds will beat against the walls.
Method 2:
We use the oven for this. It needs to be set at a temperature of up to 60C and dried until tender, stirring occasionally.
The main thing is not to rush and do not put on high heat, as the fruits will simply cook and become completely unusable.
Drying dried flowers
There is only one way and it takes a long time. Flowers need to be strung on a thread threaded through the stems and hung in a dry place, with the flower stems facing down.
Drying in a book or with an iron will not work, as the shape will be lost and they will become flat. After the dried flowers are completely dry, they need to be covered with a layer of hairspray. It will give them the desired density and will not allow them to crumble at the slightest touch.
Well, now, let's move on to specific master classes and examples.
1. Panel of autumn leaves
We offer you a great idea for a DIY leaf panel. It’s not at all difficult to make, but the result is quite impressive.
It would be nice if you placed other autumn decorative elements next to the finished leaf painting. For example, pumpkins, spikelets and other things that suit the style. Then you will have a whole autumn ensemble.
What we need for work:
- 1. Dried maple leaves of yellow-red color.
- 2. Tree branch for the trunk
- 3. A square piece of plywood
- 4. Stain or dark varnish
- 5. Simple pencil
- 6. PVA glue
- 7. A bunch of dry spikelets
- 8. Wicker basket for pumpkins
- 9. Several Jack Be Little or Baby Boo pumpkins
If you don’t have such pumpkins, you can fill the basket with chestnuts and acorns. But next year it wouldn’t hurt to grow them, as they look very colorful and festive. Of course, if you have a plot of land.
Look at the variety of varieties and how harmoniously they combine with each other:
Master class step by step:
1 step. Sand the board, paying special attention to the edges. They should be smooth.
Step 2. Cover it with stain or varnish, preferably with a brownish tint. Apply the coating in several layers, trying to make the board not a uniform color, but a slightly “spotty” one.
Step 3. Freehand draw a large maple leaf.
Step 4 Start gluing on the maple leaves. Start from the edges, gradually approaching the middle. The edges of the leaves should match the edges of the sketch as best as possible. The next row of leaves should overlap the previous one. Do not glue the ends, they must be “overhanging” to create a volume effect.
Step 5 Glue the selected twig in place of the stem.
Now hang the autumn panel you created with your own hands above a cabinet and place other decorative elements around it.
2. Topiary from herbarium and other autumn materials
Topiary is a decorative tree. In autumn, you can collect beautiful leaves and make such a wonderful and cozy decorative element.
Any leaves, dried flowers, acorns, spikelets will be used here. The main thing is to understand the essence and make the right foundation. And what to fill it with - your imagination will tell you.
What we need for work:
- 1. Ceramic pot of a dull color
- 2. A straight tree branch for the trunk
- 3. 1 ball made of foam rubber, polystyrene foam or special floral foam
- 4. Dry moss, sesame or a handful of beautiful pebbles, acorns, dry rowan
- 5. Glue gun
- 6. Dry plaster
- 7. Decorative elements: herbarium, dried flowers, rowan, acorns, etc.
Master class step by step:
1 step. Let's start with the basics. Take a foam ball and place it on a branch that will serve as your trunk. Then remove it and drop some glue from the gun into the hole formed. Reattach the ball and let it dry.
Step 2. Secure the trunk in the pot. To do this, drop a drop of glue onto the free edge of the branch and attach it to the base of the pot.
Then, dilute the plaster with water to the consistency of liquid sour cream and fill the container. Don't forget that you will still need to decorate everything on top with moss or acorns, so leave a gap of about 3-4 cm from the top.
Step 3. Now we insert leaves and dried flowers into the ball, sticking them with their stems inside. If you want to add acorns to the composition, then first place them on pieces of wire.
Step 4 Now all you have to do is decorate the top of the pot so that the plaster is not visible.
That's all. Using this simple scheme, you can make a wide variety of autumn crafts with your own hands, not only from leaves, but also from dry peas, nuts and so on. They will all look just great!
3. Roses from maple leaves
Looking at this elegant bouquet of roses, you wouldn’t even think that it was made from ordinary maple leaves!
But, nevertheless, it is so. You just need to learn how to fold them correctly and you will get a great basis for many ideas.
Such roses can be included in various autumn topiaries, wreaths, compositions and panels. They look great in combination with any natural materials.
Well, let's get down to business.
What we need for work:
- 1. Maple leaves are not dried
- 2. Thread or soft wire
- 3. Matte hairspray
Master class step by step:
1 step. We form the middle of the bud. To do this, fold the sheet as shown in the pictures below. Try to twist it as tightly and evenly as possible. First in half and then into sausage.
As a result, we should have something like this:
Step 2. Now take the second sheet, fold it in half again and wrap it around the base.
The sharp edges of the maple leaves should be carefully hidden inside, like this:
Step 3. We continue to build up the mass around the base, adding more and more leaves. If you want to end up with a bud, then twist it more tightly, but if you ate a more magnificent rose, then loosen the twist a little.
Step 4 When you see that a real rose has “bloomed” in your hands, you need to secure it with threads as tightly as possible.
Step 5 We trim the edges with scissors and place the rose on a lining of leaves, preferably already dry. We cover the composition with varnish and admire it!
These leaf roses last quite a long time, definitely enough for the entire autumn season. You can make as many of these flowers as you like. The more there are, the more chic this autumn composition, reminiscent of a fabric motif, looks.
4. Compositions of decorative pumpkins
Even if you do not grow this vegetable on your own plot, in the autumn you can freely buy them at the market and then dry them yourself. We have already told you how to do this above, so let’s not waste time talking.
Let's get creative!
There will be no master classes in this block, we will simply show you examples of such decor, and how to make them is already quite clear from the photo.
Of course, there are more complex techniques, for example, carving or painting on dry lagenaria, but this is a broad topic and worthy of a separate article. Here we will consider only the simplest compositions that even a schoolchild can do.
Option 1. Basket with a scattering of pumpkins. It couldn’t be simpler, and the view is spectacular!
Option 2. Candlesticks made from mini pumpkins. To do this, you need to cut a hole with a knife of such a size that you can place a foil-based candle in it.
Or this option:
Incredibly simple, right?
Option 3. Pumpkin door wreath. Take any circle as a basis, for example, an embroidery hoop, and attach mini-pumpkins to it.
Pierce the tails with wire and screw it to the base, circle. Use berries, acorns, twigs and autumn leaves as additional decorative elements.
It will look something like this:
5. Chestnut topiary
To create this spectacular autumn craft with your own hands, we will need the same materials for the base as for creating a decorative tree from the herbarium. And for decoration you just need other elements.
For work we will need:
1. Ceramic pot
2. Styrofoam ball
3. Dry plaster
4. Glue gun
5. Tree branch for the trunk
6. Cones, chestnuts, acorns
7. Harsh thread or twine for forming decorative balls
Master class step by step:
- 1. We form the base of the tree in the same way as in the case of topiary from leaves.
- 2. Secure the base in the pot using glue and plaster
- 3. Apply drops of hot glue to chestnuts, acorns and other elements and attach them in a chaotic manner to the foam crown ball.
- 4. Wreath on the door made of chestnuts
Such a wreath of chestnuts on the front door will cheer up not only you, but also passers-by. It's very easy to make. Follow all the steps given to make a pumpkin wreath.
Find some kind of dense base, then pierce the chestnuts and other elements through the back side, insert the wire, form a hook and use it to screw them to the circle.
Complete the chestnut composition with leaves, acorns, berries and other autumn decorative elements provided by this fertile time of year.
6. Autumn garland “Leaves” made from salt dough
This is a very impressive DIY autumn craft. The big advantage of such a garland is that it is not seasonal and will decorate your home for many years.
After all, it is made not from natural materials, but from salted dough, which does not deteriorate for years. The only thing is that such products are fragile and you need to handle them carefully so as not to break them. But, even if this happened, they can always be glued together, and the joint will not be noticeable.
What we need for work:
1. 2 cups flour
2. 1 glass of salt
3. 0.5 cups of water
4. Gouache
5. Sewing pins with hook eye
6. Twine
7. Oven
8. White landscape paper, pencil
Master class step by step:
1 step. We draw patterns of leaves of various types, but approximately the same size, on a landscape sheet. Let's cut them out.
Step 2. Knead a stiff dough from flour, salt and water. If the dough turns out to be unplastic, you can add liquid drop by drop. Knead the resulting material thoroughly and roll it out on a board. The layer should be approximately 5 -7 millimeters.
Step 3. Place the templates on the rolled out dough and cut them along the contours with a knife.
As a result, we should have approximately this many blanks.
Step 4 We make holes with pins and carefully secure the heads. We will hang our leaves on them. Use a knife to squeeze out the veins.
Step 5 Dry the dough in the oven at 50-60C until completely dry.
Step 6 We paint the dough pieces with gouache, trying to create natural tones and transitions.
Step 7 We string the garland onto a twine, making a knot over each leaf so that they do not move.
So our DIY autumn craft is ready. You can hang it anywhere, it will be in place in any corner of the house, especially if you have some other decorative elements in the autumn style.
7. Vases and houses made from ordinary pumpkins
Autumn is the time for pumpkins to ripen. It costs mere pennies and finding a beautiful shape and coloring is not difficult.
And making an element of autumn decor based on it is as easy as shelling pears! There are no step-by-step technologies or accessories needed here.
The only thing you need: pumpkins, a knife for carving, a tablespoon to pick out the pulp and flowers with which you will fill these colorful vases.
Look at our selection of photos of pumpkin vases. It looks very decent and autumn-like.
As you already understood, you just need to cut off the top and clean out the core of the vegetable. Then fill the container with water.
Or you can make pumpkin houses. To do this, you just need to cut holes in the right places. You can see exactly where they are located in the picture below. Kids love these things!
8. Wreath on the door made of natural materials
We have already given above an example of wreaths made of pumpkins and chestnuts. You already know how to make them. Here we simply present a selection of the most effective, in our opinion, ideas.
9. Acorn frame for a photo or mirror
Decorating any base in this way is very simple. We think no explanation is needed here.
The only thing we can advise is that you should not glue acorns with a glue gun or PVA. It's much better if you use plasticine.
Because, most likely, you will soon get tired of this decor and will have to throw it away. And so, you can always dismantle the acorns and get a regular photo frame back for use.
This is what it will look like.
On the photo frame there are whole acorns, and on the mirror there are only caps. This way you can create a variety of autumn crafts with your own hands and decorate any surface: boxes, bread bins, etc.
10. A bunch of grapes made from acorns
This autumn craft will look best if you paint the “berries” in natural colors, and instead of grape leaves add a herbarium of maple leaves of various colors.
Also, a bunch of acorn grapes is a wonderful element of any autumn wreath on the door or large topiary. After all, it can be made not only tabletop, but also human-sized!
But instead of a foam ball, you need to take a large plastic one. Making grapes from acorns is very simple, we will now tell you exactly how.
What we need for work:
1. Acorns without caps
2. Shilo
3. Wire
3. Glue gun
4. Acrylic paint
5. Autumn leaves for decoration
Master class step by step:
1 step. We poke holes in the base of the acorn with an awl.
Step 2. We break or cut the wire into pieces 7-10 cm long.
Step 3. Dip the ends of the wire into a drop of glue from the gun and insert it into the punctured holes.
Step 4 We paint the acorns any color you want. The main thing is that it is combined with leaves that will complement the composition.
Step 5 We collect acorns in a cluster, forming a wire rod on top. Then we attach leaves to it.
Now you can make any decoration based on this autumn craft. Panel, wreath, etc.
11. Autumn crafts from felt
Working with this fabric is a pleasure! The material does not crumble and holds its shape perfectly. This means that any beginner can make an autumn craft from felt with their own hands and it will turn out no worse than the products of experienced craftswomen.
We offer you a selection of the best and simplest decors in autumn style, and you can choose any of them! They are so simple that there is no need to describe their step-by-step technology in detail.
As you can see, based on felt leaves, you can make both a wreath and a garland, like the one we already made from salt dough. Here are a couple more options for DIY fall wreaths.
All you need is to draw the templates, cut out the felt and design it according to our photos.
12. Garlic and red pepper braid
How cozy it is when bundles of garlic, onions, and red peppers hang in the kitchen! But if you hang them fresh, they will very soon lose their appearance or simply run out because they will be eaten.
Let's do something like this, but for centuries! Now we will look at how garlic and pepper are made, from which we will form a nice braid for the kitchen.
For work we will need:
1. White nylon tights or a plastic bag (for the garlic base)
2. Cotton wool or padding polyester (for filling)
3. White coarse thread (for dressing and forming lobules)
4. Glue gun
5. Buckwheat or twine (to imitate garlic roots)
6. Fabric for sewing peppers or salted dough for sculpting them
Master class step by step:
1 step. We form the body of the garlic. To do this, we need to cut nylon tights or simple plastic bags into squares. Garlic made from nylon looks, of course, more realistic.
But even from the packages it looks good. But the main thing is that this material is always at hand. So, cut out a square, approximately 7 by 7 cm in diameter.
Step 2. We roll a ball out of cotton wool or padding polyester, put it inside a piece of nylon and form a head of garlic. It looks like the one shown in the photo.
Step 3. Then we begin to tie a harsh thread around the head, forming cloves of garlic. First we divide it in half, then into quarters, then into 8 parts.
Look at the photo, the process is clearly shown there.
Step 4 In the place where the roots of real garlic are located, drop a drop of glue and sprinkle this place with crushed buckwheat. If you want, you can replace it with twine, which needs to be unraveled and finely chopped.
Step 5 We make a braid from twine and attach the resulting garlic cloves to it.
Step 6 Now it's time to deal with the pepper. You can sew it, but peppers made from salt dough look much better.
We have already given the recipe for the batch, in the subsection “Garlands of autumn leaves.” These are the peppercorns you should end up with.
Step 7 We make holes in the tails of the peppercorns (we will then thread twine through them and use it to secure them to the braid with garlic). You can do this with an awl or any available item.
The main thing is to make them large enough so that you can thread the thread freely later. Otherwise, after drying, you will not be able to attach the finished product to the composition in any way.
And one more thing: if you make a hole, make sure that the edges of the leg remain more or less large. Otherwise, after you thread the thread, the thin walls may crack and the pepper will fall to the floor.
Step 8 We dry them in the oven, paint them with acrylic paint, and once dry, coat them with varnish. When the pepper shines, it looks more natural.
Dry at a low temperature, do not rush, otherwise your work may burst and you will have to sculpt everything again. You can't paint a cracked pepper the way you would like.
9. Attach the pepper to the garlic and hang this autumn composition in the kitchen. You can make several such bundles. You can make carrots from salt dough, and a bunch of onions from brown tights.
The principle of making bulbs is the same as garlic, only even simpler. There is no need to form slices.
Also, a bunch of mushrooms on the wall will look great, which you can also sculpt from dough and paint realistically.
Our big review has come to an end. You have seen many examples and any kind of autumn crafts with your own hands. We really hope that our master classes will be useful to you and that you will definitely take something into account.
Good afternoon, today we will talk about autumn crafts. And we will make these crafts from natural materials with our own hands. Autumn is rich in a variety of materials. And so we will do with A variety of crafts on the theme of Autumn- from leaves, branches, acorns, chestnuts, straw, moss, dried flowers and other natural materials. I will show you interesting ways to create autumn crafts with your own hands using ordinary natural materials. in an unusual design way. In this article you will find fresh ideas, that will inspire you to get creative this fall. So, we go on a quiet hunt for ideas for the best crafts for the fall 2017 season.
Autumn natural material is rich in ideas for a variety of crafts for children. Let's see what ideas you can implement this fall.
Leaf compositions
and natural material.
Who said that autumn crafts from natural materials should be done while sitting indoors? Golden autumn beckons with warm sunshine and the smell of rotten leaves - and we don’t want to sit within four walls. We go outside with the children to catch a little more warmth and warm our eyes with the yellow fire of autumn leaves.
Crafts on the AUTUMN theme can be made from natural materials right outside. In my yard, next to the entrance. All you need to do is find a quiet, windless place. Instruct the children to collect a stack of bright leaves and a bucket of dry pebbles.
And now an interesting game begins - laying out crafts from autumn natural material. For novice craftsmen, this can be a simple tree. Heavy pebbles press down the yellow leaves and prevent them from flying away from the wind. The craft can be saved as a keepsake in the form of a photograph.
If there is a whole pile of pebbles near the place where you walk, then you can make a craft from natural material on a larger scale (as in the photo below).
If you are observant, you may notice that different trees have different colored foliage. If we collect yellow leaves from an ash or birch tree in a separate bag, red leaves from an aspen or Canadian maple in another bag, and a little more brown, blackened leaves, then we can make this Winnie the Bear on our porch.
Any silhouette picture can be laid out from a colored mosaic of nature itself. The main thing is to find a place without strong wind. And have time to photograph this beauty before it flutters from the wind and flies away like a bird.
The natural materials of autumn themselves will give you ideas for collages - gray branches (like the gray plumage of a wing and tail), yellow leaves (like yellow fluff on a chest). And here you are, the tit bird.
You don't have to be an artist, you don't have to have a lot of leaves. Even the smallest piles of leaves can be used to create beautiful autumn crafts. The simplest DIY craft, arranging foliage according to the colors of the spectrum, looks like real magic.
You become little wizards. Secret gnomes-assistants of Queen Autumn. You misbehave secretly, leaving good signs, funny symbols of the autumn season.
And some crafts can be made using a tree trunk as a base. Make the tree smile. The nose is a bump, two eyes are cut from a wood log, and a smile is made from physalis fruits strung on a thread.
Do you know what mandalas are? In the east, mandalas are sacred patterns closed in a circle. A harmonious pattern repeating in a circle is like a map of the universe. Mandalas are painted or laid out from mosaics, colored sand, and flower petals. Mandalas are a spiritual practice that allows you to touch the divine principle within yourself. You need to make mandalas in a special state of mind - pure, serene, enlightened.
We can also make beautiful harmonious mandala patterns with our own hands in the form of crafts from natural material – bright, beautiful autumn material.
Your autumn mandala craft can be very small (as in the photo below).
Or a very large one, consisting of many circles in a cyclic pattern.
Mosaic applications
on the theme AUTUMN.
All children love mosaics. Why don't we make it from autumn natural material.
Since the leaves are too large for mosaics (and suitable for laying out large paintings in the yard), for small indoor works we can cut an ordinary succulent maple leaf into small squares. Place them in bowls - yellow, green, red separately. And let the children themselves lay out a bright mosaic craft from such a pleasant-to-touch natural material.
You can use cereals or seeds as an ornamental material. A very good natural material for autumn children's crafts is yellow corn kernels or large pumpkin seeds painted with gouache.
And a mosaic of whole leaves can become a tree crown - a simple and quick craft made from natural material, which is suitable for kindergarten children. You can stick the leaves on paper, or on a transparent office file - and then such a craft can be mounted on a window, the leaves will shine in the sun. A beautiful children's craft for younger children.
Crafts on the theme AUTUMN.
Natural material STONE.
Here’s another wonderful idea for crafts made from natural materials in an autumn theme. Ordinary flat river stones can become a canvas for autumn paintings. You can paint stones with a brush, but it is better to apply the design using dots technique - round wooden sticks or special dots sticks (metal devices with a round ball at the end) are suitable for this. They are sold in the manicure department as they are intended for painting on nails. The ball tips on the dots sticks have different sizes, which allows you to draw even dots of any size.
You can also draw owls on stones - this is the simplest drawing - the main thing here is expressive eyes, a pointed beak, and oval wings with even rows of feathers. First we draw with paints, then we outline each painted element with a contour (white, as in the left photo or black, as in the right photo below). And a thin contour outline of the elements will make the craft-drawings clearer and more expressive.
Such owl crafts made from natural material will look good on driftwood with scraps of moss, inside a wooden frame, glued to a cut of a log.
And it’s even cooler to put such an owl inside a hole cut in a thick round cut of a tree trunk.
Autumn crafts
with tree branches.
Ordinary tree branches can also become the source of an interesting DIY autumn collage. This natural material is lying around completely unused. You can give children the task of collecting beautiful, non-dirty twigs in a bag while on a walk, disassembling them at home, clearing them of debris and breaking them into small pieces.
Next, on a sheet of paper, draw the outlines of a basket with handles. And either we give the child plasticine, or we arm ourselves with a glue gun and begin to assemble our basket from sticks. Then all that remains is to put the fruit in it (cut it out of cardboard, draw it and then cut it out, or use the cut-out applique technique).
And if you collected beautiful leaves along with sticks, then you can make a children’s craft tree from natural materials.
Long sticks found in the park can not be broken, but put aside to make them a new craft-panel made from natural materials(as in the photo below). The principle is simple. The sticks are laid in the shape of the sides of a square - we tie the junction of the sticks with twine (wire, thread). And then we decorate such a frame using natural materials and colored paper.
You can place a canvas inside a frame of branches - we tint a sheet of cardboard with paints, make holes on its sides with a hole punch - and tie the sheet with threads to the branch frame, pulling the thread through the holes and around the branch (as was done in the left photo below). And then on this canvas we make an application from natural material on the theme of autumn.
Or you can simply decorate the frame along its perimeter - at the bottom of the square we attach a bush, mushrooms, pieces of moss, bark, and a cardboard hedgehog to the plasticine. On the top of our panel made of natural material we hang a garland of autumn leaves cut out of colored paper, a sun, clouds, and a kite.
From the branches you can lay out large applique in the form of an owl , a children's craft, which is entirely made from natural materials that autumn is rich in. Branches, dry and fresh pine needles, withered fir legs. You can lay out the applique on a sheet of plywood and secure everything with glue - or make a temporary mosaic on a walk right on the ground or stump.
Looks very nice DIY HEDGEHOG made from natural material . This fall craft is my favorite in this post. Let me even tell you in detail how to simply and easily make such a hedgehog with your own hands. It's really very easy. Now you will see this.
First, we find beautiful thick twigs from a bush or birch branches - we cut them with scissors or a knife into segments with long oblique cuts (as in the photo of the hedgehog below).
For this autumn craft you will need plasticine - a large piece. Where can I get it? I never throw away used plasticine from children's crafts, I put it in one common pile - then I soak this multi-colored pile in hot water - it becomes soft like fresh dough, and easily and simply I knead this whole lump into a homogeneous mass with my hands - I get a large piece of fresh brown plasticine of excellent quality. You can make a variety of crafts from it for a long time
We form the body of a hedgehog from plasticine- drop-shaped. And row by row we stick pieces of branches into the thick part of the hedgehog - the oblique cuts should all point in one direction.
2 ways to design a hedgehog's face.
1 way. I wrap the hedgehog’s plasticine nose with a piece of burlap or a piece of gauze (bandage) soaked in a solution of iodine and water.
Method 2. The hedgehog's face can be coated with PVA glue, covered with pieces of paper napkins, coated with glue again, another layer of napkins, glue on top and allowed to dry - you will get a layer of papier-mâché. We cover it with paint - draw eyes and a nose on it
Craft-web from branches and leaves.
You can also make beautiful decorative pendants on the AUTUMN theme from natural materials. We will need straight, even branches - like willow. Let's look at the photo, and below I give a detailed step-by-step description of this children's craft.
A detailed master class on this craft made from natural materials.
Take a lump of plasticine and divide it into 2 small pellets. On the first cake we place the branches in a circle (that is, radially from this plasticine center) - so that the tips of the branches meet in the middle of the plasticine cake. Lightly press each branch so that it sinks into the plasticine. Cover the top with a second piece of plasticine, also pressing it onto the branches. It turns out to be a splay with rays of branches.
Now we need coarse threads - the ones that are used in the store to tie up packages with purchases. Such canvas-paper thick gray threads. With them we begin to weave a web between the branches - starting from the plasticine center and gradually moving towards the outer edge, until our web rests against the edge of the maple leaf.
Craft autumn kaleidoscope.
Also you can do colored kaleido made from natural material – from branches and leaves (as in the photo below).
For this craft we will need hot glue (or the ability to weave threads between crossed branches). Now I will give a detailed master class on how to create this craft with your own hands.
Step 1 Cut 4 rods of equal size. Two of them we cross cross over cross - fasten with glue or thread. Two others we cross in the same way. We now have two crosses made of branches.
Step 2 We place these 2 crosses on top of each other diagonally - so that they form snowflake figure. We fasten the middle of this clutch with glue (or fix it with threads).
Step 3 We make a round ring from a flexible willow rod (fresh or soaked in water). We attach this ring to our “snowflake” made of twigs - so that the edges of the ring are at the same distance from the center - along each rod(we measure with a tape measure). If the distances are the same, then the ring will be even and not crooked.
Step 4 As a result, we got a circle from the branches, divided into triangular sectors. And all that remains is to find large maple leaves of different colors - pure yellow, pure red, pure green, pure orange. From them you need to cut out triangles that are suitable in size to the hole sector on the future kaleidoscope. Cut out the triangle like this: so that the central vein on the maple leaf passes through the middle of such a triangle– divided it in half like a bisector from geometry. And we attach all these multi-colored triangles made of maple leaves with a glue gun to the sectors of our structure made of natural material.
Autumn applications
Made from natural material.
And of course, all children love to make appliques from autumn natural materials. Small and large paintings of leaves and dried flowers. The most favorite children's crafts on the theme of autumn.
The symbol of autumn made from natural material is, of course, a hedgehog. What can it be made from, from leaves, from flowers, from twigs, from maple or ash seeds.
The simplest hedgehog is made like this. Cut out the silhouette of a hedgehog from cardboard. We give children plasticine and maple seeds. We begin to attach rows of seeds to cardboard with plasticine - you need to start from the back of the hedgehog. Children are eager to start with the muzzle - explain to them that this is not correct, that then it is not convenient to do the back rows of needles, when the front needles stick out back and get in the way.
Using the same principle, a hedgehog is made from flat natural material - leaves and dried flowers. Also starting from the butt, we attach it to plasticine or glue. This is the most common children's craft on the theme of Autumn.
Children also love making fall turkeys. This is also a simple bird craft that doesn’t require much natural material. The body and head of the bird can be cut out of cardboard. Or the head and body can be cut out with scissors from the same maple leaf (as in the photo of the craft below).
YOU can make crafts without using colored paper, but by cutting out all the parts necessary for the picture from natural material, if you do not find a leaf of a suitable shape.
Here's a great idea. Large craft LION. It can be made from real natural leaves. Or you can design it as a collective paper craft. In the kindergarten group, we distribute sheets of paper with a maple leaf drawn on it. The children's task is to cut out the contour of this sheet. At the end of the lesson, all children attach their leaves to the lion's mane. A good idea for a craft on the theme “autumn” is for the middle group of kindergarten, when children are in their first year of learning to cut out contours with scissors - they will cut out a maple leaf for about 10 minutes, and puff with zeal like steam locomotives.
If you work in a large group of children (as a kindergarten teacher or a teacher, or a circle leader), then you can make one large collective craft. For example, this bird is made from natural material. We cut out parts of the bird from cardboard - the left wing separately, the right wing separately, the body separately and the tail separately. Divide the team into 4 creative groups. Each group of children receives their own piece and begins to place leaves on glue or plasticine. After completing the work of each team - we combine the details into one common bird craft made from a natural material as bright as autumn itself.
Autumn crafts-paintings
Made from natural material.
And of course, autumn material makes beautiful, bright collage crafts in the form of natural landscapes. In the photo below we see how a picture-panel was made from different materials - paper, leaves, herbs.
You can dry many flower petals. And make a big collage with the children with a blue sky and a blue river. Stretch a bridge across the river, cut out of a blackened autumn leaf (in order for the leaf to turn black, it must be ironed with a hot iron through a newspaper).
And if you don’t have enough dry natural material, then you can paint a picture in gouache or watercolor and lay out only individual elements of the landscape from leaves and herbs (as in this craft below).
Autumn crafts
from natural material.
Autumn nature is rich in a wide variety of ornamental materials - hawthorn berries, rose hips, pine cones, fluffy moss. After a walk in the forest, you can make an elegant autumn composition with a candle. And have a romantic candlelit dinner with an autumn theme.
Thick cut logs, round birch logs and walnut shells - this poor natural material can become a source of inspiration for such a craft in the form of a mushroom clearing.
From the found cones you can make a variety of characters with your own hands. And place them in the form of a single autumn composition, made with your own hands from natural materials (wood, leaves, moss, wood chips, etc.).
Fresh oak branches plucked by a hurricane can be dried in the shade of a shed, under the roof. Oak leaves do not lose their rich green color when dried. And then they will be able to take part in interesting crafts made with their own hands from autumn natural materials.
A wreath - a symbol of autumn - made from natural material in all shades of bright foliage will delight your whole family. It is so interesting to collect leaves - to select only the most beautiful ones. You need to weave a wreath with your own hands from willow twigs and weave autumn leaves into it with threads, plant pine cones on wire or glue. On our website we have a special educational article on weaving wreaths from twigs and branches -
The bright fruit boxes of physalis, twigs with hawthorn fruits, and immemorial flowers look beautiful in autumn wreaths.
But even if you don't have bright natural material to make an autumn wreath, don't worry. You can do bright wreath of gray pine cones. You just need to take more gouache. Paint each pine cone in shades of fall foliage. Spray with hairspray (to make the color richer and not stain your hands). And then collect all this colorful splendor of autumn into a rich wreath with your own hands.
The cones in the wreath can be placed with their butts forward (as in the photo above), or with their noses forward (as in the craft below).
You can make decorative autumn wreaths from one natural material. Only from rose hips - string the red fruits onto copper wire and bend it into a heart shape.
Or your fall wreath can be made from a log of wood found in a woodpile.
In the same woodshed you can find natural material suitable for making a composition with owls.
Your autumn compositions can look like cheerful people made from birch cuts, decorated with various natural materials that autumn is rich in.
And tufts of mown grass can turn into a hedgehog if you (or good neighbors) have physalis blooming profusely. Its boxes can be sewn with thread to a straw bale. Wrap the sharp edge of the bale with twine and glue on the nose and eyes.
You can also make it from natural autumn material beautiful candlestick . We will need the bottom part of any white bottle of household liquid (washing balm, etc.).
We unroll transparent wide tape on the table. On its sticky surface we place beautiful small leaves, seeds and other flat natural material, wrong side up. We place it so that there are empty spaces of adhesive tape between the elements (so that there is adhesive space).
These are the new ideas for this fall - made from natural materials. You've found inspiration here. You fell in love with some crafts. And that means this fall will not pass by your skillful hands. All that remains is to collect natural material, of which there is plenty everywhere, and, fortunately, it is free. Like in that poem...
Autumn is coming in our park,
Autumn gives gifts to everyone.
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Master class “Autumn tree” with your own hands.
Today I want to show you how to make an autumn tree with your own hands.
For this we need:
colored paper,
Pencil,
Scissors,
Wire,
Glue Titan,
Styrofoam,
Corrugated paper.
And so we get to work, first we take a thick wire and shape it into a tree, then use glue to wrap our trunk with twine. She planted a bird on a branch of our tree. I make a bird: I wrap a Kinder Surprise egg with threads of two colors (yellow, blue) and coat the threads with glue, I cut out eyes, a beak, and wings from oilcloth.
Next, take a piece of foam plastic and cover it with yellow corrugated paper, insert our tree trunk into it. We decorate our tree with leaves, glue it with Titan glue, decorate the base near the tree with dried flowers, a mushroom, a bird on a branch and leaves. I made a hedgehog from plasticine and made needles from seeds. The result is a bright autumn composition.
Thank you for your attention, good luck!
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