Tatiana Chepizhko

Target: to expand children's knowledge of natural plant material - leaves, their meaning for a tree. Teach to make leaf applique... develop fantasy imagination. Bring up respect to nature.

Equipment:

-materials: glue. leaves;

-tools: scissors, pencil, glue brushes;

-visibility: samples of crafts, illustrations of trees.

The course of the lesson.

Today we will work with plant natural material, guess what:

Fall from the branch

Gold coins.

(Leaves)

Let's execute leaf applique.

A tree, like any living organism, consists of separate organs: leaves, branches, roots.

Each of them has a specific function. Back in the 18th century, scientists proved that animals make the air unfit for breathing, and plants "improve" it. A green plant purifies the air only in sunlight. In sunlight, plants release oxygen, which animals and humans breathe, and absorb carbon dioxide from the air, which humans and animals breathe out. Sheet well adapted to absorb carbon dioxide. On both sides, it is protected by a covering tissue in which there are holes. Through these holes and penetrates carbon dioxide sheet... When daylight, the holes are open, and at night they close. Moreover, the leaf is pierced by the veins consisting of tubular vessels. One vessel at a time along the stem from roots to leaves are supplied with water, on others from leaves move towards the stem and roots nutrients which formed in leaves... Green sheet- the source of life on the planet. If it were not for plants, there would be no animals and humans on Earth.

Analysis of the craft:

What material is it made of applique?

-Leaves what trees are used?

How leaves given the desired shape?

How the leaves are connected to the stem?

Practical work.

Repetition of safety rules when working with scissors.

Parsing the execution sequence crafts:

Think about who you would like to portray;

Find similar leaves and lay them out on the base. You can give the desired shape with scissors;

Use a pencil to mark the top and bottom of each leaf;

Each sheet take turns lift, with seamy side leaf brush with glue and apply sheet in place, lightly pressed against the base.

Outcome:

What natural material did you work with today?

What are we for tree leaves?

Exhibition and analysis of works.

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Baby autumn leaf appliques

Hello, dear readers of "Native Path" and participants in our autumn week of children's creativity! Today in this article we will continue the theme of autumn leaf appliques.

You already know from the previous articles of the site from the cycle about the application of leaves:

1. how to prepare leaves for application, what types are autumn leaf applications, the technology of their production (see article).
2. how to do appliques - portraits of autumn leaves : portrait of the queen - autumn, girl - autumn and girlfriend - autumn (article),
3. how to do volumetric figure- bird from autumn leaves:.
4. And today you will learn from this article - the third article in the cycle about applications from leaves - what other applications from autumn leaves you can make with children and how you can decorate a children's autumn application from leaves on a greeting card.

The idea is shared by Tatiana Panova, a participant in our children's handicrafts competition (the city of Novomoskovsk, Tula region). Tatiana did all the work with her daughter Varechka Panova (4 years 2 months). Tatiana is happy to share with you the joy of joint creativity :).

# 1. Children's autumn applique made of leaves: postcard "Autumn landscape"

How to make a children's applique "Autumn Landscape"

Step 1. Prepare the background of the postcard. The postcard is made on watercolor paper, which Varya tinted with gouache (white + blue).

Step 2. Make a window in the postcard.

Cut out the window. Walked along the edge of the window with a foam brush of blue color... It turned out the edging of an oval window.

Step 3. We make the "Forest" applique inside the postcard using PVA glue. We glue the pre-dried leaves. How to dry the leaves - in the previous article of this cycle

Step 4. Birds flying in the autumn sky. In the sky, my mother painted on birds. which in the fall fly to warm countries for the winter.

# 2. Children's autumn applique from the leaves "Birds"

Step 1. Putting together the leaves for the applique. Varya collected the leafy birds on her own.

Step 2. Dry the leaves (how to do this - in the previous article of the cycle about the application of leaves from the link above).

Step 3. We glue the leaves on PVA glue (it is sold in liter cans in a hardware store).

Step 4. Making Play-Doh leaves.

How made autumn leaves: mixed several autumn shades of plasticine, rolled out and squeezed out the shape of a leaf with a mold.

Step 5. Draw the nest.

No. 3. Autumn leaf appliques for children: hedgehog

The first version of the children's application "Hedgehog"

Tatyana and Varenka took a picture of a Hedgehog without needles for a walk and collected leaves, applied them to the image - they tried them on right on the street. Then the houses were dried in a book and decorated with a hedgehog. Here's what they did!

Ovchinnikova Marina Viktorovna ( Krasnoyarsk region, Norilsk) and her son Timofey (5 years old, MADOU "Kindergarten No. 45" Smile "). Marina and Timofey's craft is called "Hedgehog with Autumn Leaves"

The second version of children's autumn applique "Hedgehog with autumn leaves"

This is a large hedgehog applique or autumn panel that can be used to decorate a room.

Material: cardboard hedgehog, dry leaves and flowers, buttons.

How to make a hedgehog:
Step 1. Cut out the hedgehog's body from cardboard, draw the eyes and nose.

Step 2: choose the ones you like autumn leaves and glue them to the back of the hedgehog. We form needles on the back of the hedgehog from the corners of the leaves.

Step 3. Decorate our hedgehog with dry flowers and buttons. We glue them on PVA glue.

The application is ready!

No. 4. Autumn leaf appliques for children: rainbow

Svetlana Kuznetsova and her son Artemy (2 years 2 months) shared this idea at our contest "Autumn Workshop".

You will need for the application:

- Autumn leaves
- White or colored cardboard
- Gouache
- PVA glue
- Painting brush and glue brush

Step 1. Prepare autumn leaves - collect and dry. How to do this - in the previous article in the cycle about leaf applications (the link is given above in this article),

Step 2. Paint the leaves with rainbow gouache and let dry. A child can do this.

Step 3. Glue the leaves on the the desired sequence colors ("Every hunter wants to know where the pheasant lives": red, orange, yellow, green, light blue, blue, purple).

No. 5. Children's autumn applique made of leaves: panel "Girl Autumn"

The master class was shared by Olga Tegayeva (Moscow region, Sergievo-Posad district, Shemetovo village, Moscow State Budgetary Educational Institution of Education №75 "Fairy Tale"). The application was made by Yaroslav Kucherikhin (4 years old).

We will need to complete the application:

- frame with glass,

- dried flowers and leaves,

- a drawing or photo of a girl.

How to make an applique with children:

Step 1. Preparing the leaves.

The longest process is drying flowers and leaves. We were drying between the pages of the magazine.

Step 2. Figurine of a girl - autumn.

We glue a picture of a girl of a suitable size for the frame on the background. From dry leaves and flowers we form an outfit for Autumn.

We decorated the flower on the head in Autumn with a sequin.

Step 3. Place the finished autumn applique in a frame under glass. Here's what happened with Yaroslav.

No. 6. Children's autumn applique made of leaves: "View from the window"

This application was made and sent to our competition by Alexandra Albertovna Naumkina and her children: son Ivan (4 years old) and daughter Maria (1 year and 3 months) from Barnaul, Altai Territory.

How to make the "View from the window" application together with the children:

Step 1. First, make the background - draw the sky (Masha helped for 1 year and 3 months).

Step 2. Then we draw the birds in the sky (this was done by my mother).

Step 3. Cut out the window frame.

Step 4. Together with the children, we glue the "forest" - autumn leaves - at the bottom of the picture. We glue them on PVA glue.

Step 5. On ready-made application glue the frame on top. And put finished work under a thick book so that everything dries well and sticks evenly.

No. 7. Children's autumn applique: "This is me"

This craft was also sent to our contest "Autumn workshop" by Alexander Naumkin. She writes: “The craft is simple, but the children really like it. I photographed my son on mobile phone, sent a photo to myself. I opened my mail on my laptop and printed out the photo. The son cut out his silhouette and pasted it on White list paper. Then we glued on a few pieces of paper. It seemed to us that they were few. I carved with stationery knife rubber stamp in the form of a leaf. The son quickly slapped leaves on our craft. "

Here's a children's autumn applique with autumn leaves that Alexandra and Vanya made.

Children's autumn applique # 8: sailboat

This children's autumn applique was made by Georgiy Osolikhin (5 years 10 months), and Georgiy's mother Marina Osolikhina sent his work to our competition for children's autumn crafts.

Leaves and seeds are used in the applique (for laying out the sun in the sky).

Children's autumn applique made of leaves No. 9: butterfly

Other materials can be used in the leaf applique, such as in this butterfly applique for children. The application was performed with her mother by German Osolikhin (3 years 11 months). Herman's mother Marina Osolikhina sent the application to our competition.

And here is another version of the autumn butterfly-shaped leaf applique. This work was completed and sent to our autumn competition handicrafts little Sofia (5 years old) and her mother Anna Shikhareva. How to make a butterfly like this:

You will need:

- A4 cardboard (base for application),

- PVA glue,

- scissors,

- leaves for wings: 4 different types of leaves in pairs,

- an acorn head for the head,

- 2 acorns for the trunk.

Application progress step by step:

Step 1. Glue two leaves of the same type on the background like the upper wings. Glue the lower wings below them - 2 leaves of a different type.
Step 2. Glue two acorns in the middle between the leaves to make the body of a butterfly
Step 3. Glue the acorn head on top of the torso. This will be the head of the butterfly. Use a black marker to draw the eyes and mouth of the butterfly on the head.
Step 4. Make a tendril. To do this, glue 2 leaf stalks
Step 5. When the wings are dry, you can decorate them with leaves. smaller and a different color. Now the application is ready!

Children's autumn applique made of leaves No. 10: bun, rooster

These applications were performed by children from the "MBOU Secondary School No. 5" (middle group No. 11 "Stargazers"), Tyumen region, Yugorsk. The teacher sent an application to our autumn contest of children's handicrafts "Autumn workshop" middle group Petushkova Lyubov Anatolyevna.

Children's autumn application of leaves No. 11: autumn vase

This m aster-class was sent to our competition of autumn children's handicrafts by Zainetdinova Yulia Yurievna (Republic of Bashkortostan, the city of Sterlitamak. educational institution additional education children - Center for out-of-school work "Nadezhda" of the urban district of Sterlitamak)

Children's age: 3-4 years.

Materials: autumn leaves are fresh and dry (preferably different colors), a sheet with a picture of the contour of a vase, PVA glue, a brush and good mood!

Applique technique:

Stage 1. "Dress up the vase."

Rub dry leaves with our fingers (at the same time we train fine motor skills and tactile sensitivity), apply a layer of PVA glue to the contour of the vase and sprinkle with leaves. Now our vase is ready.

Stage 2. "We fill the vase."

From the set fresh leaves children choose the ones they like, then fill the vase with a brush and glue, creating their own unique composition.

Examples of children's compositions - in the photo below (these are works of children 3-4 years old).

Children's autumn applique # 12: a hedgehog under an autumn tree

Master class of Yulia Yuryevna Zainetdinova from the Republic of Bashkortostan (Center for extracurricular activities "Nadezhda" of the urban district of Sterlitamak)

Children's age: 5-6 years old.

Materials for application:

- autumn leaves are fresh and dry (preferably in different colors),

- bunches of mountain ash,

- maple or ash seeds, the so-called "helicopter" for hedgehog needles,

- a sheet with the image of the contour of a tree and a hedgehog,

- PVA glue,

- brush,

- plasticine

- and good mood!

Applique technique with children: a step-by-step description

Stage 1. "Dressing the tree in an autumn outfit"

From a set of leaves the children choose the ones they like, then use a brush and glue to “dress up” the tree.

Stage2. "Bring the hedgehog to life"

We roll plasticine balls and dress up a hedgehog, then stick needles from "helicopters" into these balls.

Stage 3. "We decorate with mountain ash"

Stage4. "Autumn Land". Sprinkle the bottom of the picture with pounded dry leaves (see the description of Yulia Yuryevna's previous master class on this page).

Autumn leaves applique: idea number 13. Flowers

You can lay out a pattern or mandala from autumn leaves. It will turn out original flowers... These are the flowers made by Sofia (5 years old) and her mother Anna Shikhareva.

How to make a flower mandala:

MANDALA "Flower" ( bottom photo in the illustration)

You will need: A4 size cardboard, 4 pieces of different types of leaves (yellow and brown), pine needles, PVA glue, acorn hat.

How to make an applique: first glue, alternating in color, the leaves in a circle. Next, glue the acorn cap in the middle. Finally, decorate your pattern by gluing green pine needles onto it.

MANDALA "Autumn eye" (top photo in the illustration).

It is done by analogy with the "Flower" mandala.

You will need: A4 size cardboard, PVA glue, two pairs (four each) different types leaves: 4 yellow, 4 green, 4 smaller brown and 4 smaller green, an acorn cap and 4 branches of dry grass such as feather grass.

How to make an applique: As in previous work, first you need to glue the leaves contrasting colors, alternating them in color. Then glue the acorn cap in the middle of the flower. When the leaves are dry, glue the smaller leaves of a different color on top, place two feather grass branches and fasten them at the top and bottom to form an "eye" shape.

Children's autumn leaf appliques: video for toddlers

And in conclusion, I would like to invite all the little readers of "Native Path" and little artists to see leaf applique lesson at the fun "Shishkina school" my favorite TV channel for children "My Joy".

Together with the mouse Shunya, children will learn how to make an applique from leaves and learn how to craft.

Enjoy your viewing!

You will find more ideas for autumn applications with children in the articles of the site:

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This applique made of autumn leaves is a great find for an exhibition of children's art or interior decoration. Autumn-themed applications become more accessible if in the process of work it is possible to look at a sample or use templates.

When the finished painting is not yet available, photographs can be used as a sample.

The most relevant and attractive theme for children's applications will probably be the autumn forest and its inhabitants.

The most relevant and attractive application theme will be the autumn forest and its inhabitants.

Perhaps the most beloved character of autumn crafts is the hedgehog. Even a hedgehog's face can be made from leaves.

The application "hedgehog" can be done not on a sheet of paper, but on a folded paper plate- an interesting autumn craft will turn out.

Application from the leaves "hedgehog"

Watch the video on how to make a hedgehog from autumn leaves:

A bright bird with beady eyes can be folded from the leaves.

A family of bright yellow birds.

A beautiful regal peacock.

A bright colorful rooster.

The butterfly is the last reminder of summer.

A funny beetle made from leaves and an acorn cap.

The adorable autumn butterfly fairies are crafted from clothespins.

Such beautiful butterfly from leaves can be put in a frame - we will get an elegant autumn panel.

Autumn panel from leaves "Butterfly"

Owl on a branch of a tree.

Mouse with bow ears.

Can also craft rainforest and desert dwellers:

I fry a muscular lioness, complemented by plasticine details;

speckled turtle walnuts or plasticine.

You can make a whole panel, depicting on it a variety of animals: for example, an elephant, a penguin, a little mouse and a cunning red fox.

As decorative panel you can create an abstract pattern. It is good to complement the images of animals with such patterns.

And pet lovers will surely like a donkey or a cow.

Appliques from leaves, complemented by drawings, look interesting. Sometimes it is enough to glue one unusual leaf, draw the contours with a felt-tip pen - and you will get an original picture.

Making such pictures from leaves with your own hands for children is very useful activity- it develops imagination well, teaches to see something new and attractive in an ordinary object.

On a thick sheet of cardboard you can lay out an "owl" maple leaf applique. Cut the eyes, nose and legs from the leaves with scissors.

Application from leaves to kindergarten "autumn tree".

Crown for autumn tree a large green leaf itself can serve as a leaf.

Very a good topic for the application of the leaves is the seabed and its inhabitants. In this applique, our master used not only leaves, but also flower petals, pieces of bark, dried twigs.

Application of leaves and natural materials "seabed"

You can make a very beautiful "Queen-Autumn" applique from the leaves. We paint the background for the craft with watercolors to which we add salt. We will have a fabulous pattern.

When the background is dry, we begin to glue the leaves on it.

Application "Queen-Autumn" from the leaves

It is convenient to use transparent polymer glue to glue the leaves, but any stationery glue and PVA will do. Before work, the leaves must be dried well under a press so that they do not shrink after gluing.

Check out other leaf applique ideas on the video:

Ideas for creativity have been submitted - all that remains is to stock up on material and allocate time to create the most unique masterpieces!

Autumn leaves applique (reviews):

Application with seabed very beautiful)

Summer is ending, but why? Unfortunately, no one has an answer to this question. We have an assumption, but we're not sure if everyone likes it. We think that summer is ending so that autumn will come. Like this. And what good autumn? Someone has a birthday (but not everyone, so it doesn’t fit), someone will fly to the sea, but what should the rest of us do? To admire autumn forest and do crafts? Perhaps, today we will do just that.

Dry leaf beauty

Beauty autumn forest described by many Russian writers and poets, but even without this, everyone knows perfectly well that it is in the autumn in the forest that the freshest rain is, the trees are full of yellow, red, fiery flowers and are pleasing to the eye, and sometimes bumps fall on the head. Collect the ones that have already fallen, take them home, and let's start creating wonderful crafts from tree leaves.

Decorations from leaves and flowers

Of course, this, first of all, is what children love to do. Schools are asked to make collages, and everyone strives to lay out on a piece of paper beautiful paintings, which, to some extent, reflect his mood. Someone loves bright colours, someone likes to lay out pictures using flowers, while someone can even adapt twigs and roots. The scope for imagination is huge. Look at the photos below - you can make paintings on the wall, lamps and even funny animals from the leaves.

Leaf applications

The most common applications are on a piece of paper. There is nothing difficult in their creation - you need PVA glue and a little patience. Arrange the leaves on a sheet and glue one at a time. To create a spectacular background, you can use watercolor and paraffin in some places, so you get the effect of scuffs and uneven coloring. Often such leaves are given to relatives or friends for their birthday, because making a postcard from autumn leaves is as easy as shelling pears, and a person is pleased.

DIY autumn leaves

What else can you make from autumn leaves? They can be used to decorate a lampshade self made, or luminaire body. Hanging on a string, you can make a wonderful decoration for the wall - you get a real magic twig on which the leaves dangle in weightlessness.

How to paint tree leaves

We want to help you surprise your guests. To do this, we will reveal one secret - you can give the leaves a different color in just a few minutes. For this we need a bunch of fresh leaves and regular baking soda. We fill the leaves in the container with soda and add a little water, let them brew, and after the leaves have lost all the green background, you can paint them with ordinary children's paints. You will get the effect of airy colorful leaves.

Spectacular elements of decor from leaves

Garland of autumn leaves

Leaves on the front door

Pillow with picture

Autumn garland of tree leaves

Modular paintings with autumn forest

Wall decoration with autumn leaves

Autumn Leaves Applique

Wreath of autumn leaves

Autumn Leaves Bouquet

Good afternoon - today we continue the theme of autumn crafts - I have already shown several ideas for autumn applications in our article. And also we dwelt in detail on what kind of masterpieces within the framework can be created from dried flowers in the article. And also we made different heroes and animals from the pumpkin

And today we will make appliqués from autumn leaves. different ways... In this article I collected several interesting techniques ... If you are a kindergarten teacher, teacher primary grades at school or the head of a creative circle - here is waiting for you whole piggy bank best ideas for autumn leaf applications.

Let me first show you the applique techniques ... and then we'll look at some of the topics.

TECHNOLOGY No. 1

MOSAIC leaf applique.

The first technique (my favorite) that I want to show you is that autumn leaves are used as jigsaw puzzles in one whole mosaic... By putting them in a certain order, we can get an image, for example, of a crab (photo below).

Moreover, if you look closely at the photo below, you will notice that the leaves on this mosaic canvas trimmed with scissors to give them the desired shape.

The only difficulty in creating such a crab applique is that (as you noticed) - it is SYMMETRICAL - the same left and right. This requires your deciduous material to contain identical pairs of leaves- and for this you need to tinker with the selection of material. As is the case with the butterfly applique in the photo below.

But what a miracle can be laid out from autumn leaves and dry stems of a fern. Take a closer look - there is also the zone of symmetrical layout of the leaves - in the tummy area seahorse. The rest of the leaves are laid out according to the laws of harmony and proportion.

Autumn leaves are not the only ones that can be used to create mosaic applications. Here in the photo below we see an example. mosaic applique of a skull made of dried wild and garden flowers.

But autumn picture- which tells us the idea of ​​creating beautiful silhouette paintings lined with deciduous mosaics.

I really hope that you come up with your plots for creating autumn applications in mosaic technique... Be sure to send me a photo - I really want to see your results of creative thought.

Now let's move on to the next technique.

TECHNOLOGY # 2

BULK APPLICATION from the leaves.

Autumn applique can be done from crumbled autumn leaves most different color... From the red autumn leaves, we get a red sprinkling, from yellow leaves - yellow. Also you can add dry black tea, green tea, sage leaves, etc..

Here are examples of applique paintings made in this technique.

TECHNOLOGY No. 3

Painting applique with GRAPHICS.

But the most technology loved by children autumn applique. When a sheet is laid on a sheet of white paper ... and then the child thinks out and draws an artistic plot (entourage, props) with a pencil.

When a good one was invented artistic idea- then a pencil sketch can be secure with black ink or black felt-tip pen.

Children are very fond of drawing funny animals with bulging eyes to the leaves... You can print a lot from the internet in advance. such simple animal graphics... Let the children first apply leaves to the drawn animals ... and then, by analogy (already with this experience of analysis and comparison), create their own funny characters for children's autumn applique.

In addition to simple pencil graphics - in the same technique, you can use gouache or watercolor - and in any technique available to you. For example, children can from your palm print make a bird ... finish the twigs ... and stick real autumn dry leaves on the branches.

TECHNOLOGY No. 4

DRAWING on the leaves with gouache and oil.

And here is another surprising beautiful technique work with autumn leaves. On well-dried dense leaves, you can apply patterns - dotted, striped, pinned.

Then stick them on cardboard - placing in a circle from the center - radially, like rays in different sides... After the sunny layout of the leaves is ready - you need outline with a pencil the outlines of this deciduous sun(outer and inner) - and then cut them out with scissors.

With the help of paints you can draw faces and eyes on autumn leaves- you get such a cute krakozyabra.

They can be pasted onto a sheet of paper. on the background of painted grass(and they will look like insects) ... you can stick on blue background with algae(and they will pass for wild fish).

Can autumn turn sheet into any character... with the help of paints - we draw cat's eyes and nose, cut the edge of the sheet with scissors so that the ears are obtained - and here we have CATS.

By the same principle you can turn a dry leaf into a Minion from a cartoon, into SpongeBob ... or another character. You can show your personal fantasy and a craving for an artistic EXPERIMENT ... something, but we have a lot of leaves ... it won't work - take a new leaf and proceed. Train ... look for images ... draw faces and eyes.

But what kind of pictures Autumn leaves can be painted if you have artistic skills. Neat brush strokes ... imitating feathers ... small beak ... and beady eyes.

Here in the photo below is the name of the artist who creates such masterpieces of paintings on autumn leaves.

Really cool! Truth?

All these ideas are really inspiring.

I just want to do something similar - but OWN, unique.

TECHNOLOGY No. 5

Application of leaves ON CARDBOARD.

In the circles of children's creativity applications made of autumn natural material ON A CARDBOARD BASED are one of the most popular themes. And this is really convenient - cardboard is quite dense material, in order to keep glued on thick layers of leaves, twigs, large seeds.

The most popular topic such applications made of leaves and cardboard are, of course, hedgehogs.

And also owls. We draw the contours of an owl on cardboard ... we glue it with leaves - starting from the bottom row of leaves, and moving upwards with an overlap. You can fill the whole owl with deciduous mass, but you can leave the legs and head without leaves, just cover these areas with gouache.

And you can make applications of owls - like in the photo below. Here cut out an ordinary circle from cardboard ... glue leaves-wings... we make two eyes and a beak from cardboard ... ears and legs from pieces of sharp leaves. And then when the owl is ready on the back of the cardboard we glue an ordinary clothespin(with glue or tape) ... and we seat-pin our owls on a tree branch.

And here's another way to make a cardboard-based applique. First, we put the drawing on cardboard - then we translate this drawing from back side cardboard boxes. Masking the whole pattern with leaves of different colors. And we cut out the squirrel along the contour - like in the photo below.

THEMES and PLOTS for autumn applications

(animals, birds, insects, people)

It can be funny little people ... Princesses in flower dresses ... forest fairies dancing in a clearing in float leaves and flower hats.

Or dry leaves can be stacked in the most similar to the real proportions of the human body. To be as similar as possible to a painting in the style of realism. Here in the photo below we see a beautiful application of a girl made of dry leaves.

You can immediately cut out a blank for an autumn applique from cardboard - a girl's layout or a princess - and invite the children to come up with a design of her clothes from dry and fresh leaves and flowers.

Can be done beautiful applique-PORTRAIT from dried flowers, dry stems of herbs, and leaves ...

It is possible in cut out of cardboard FEMALE PROFILE... to lay it on a sheet of paper - and come up with a HAIRSTYLE for this face from dried flowers and leaves.

But this is a craft that is interesting for girls.

But for the boys can be printed on a printer proud Indian profile- and the leaves will replace the feathers on the Indian headdress of the red-skinned chief.

If you are already an adult artist, then you can lay out picturesque leaves heads of ethnic portraits. Here in the photo below we see similar works - where the picture is created from a mosaic of WINGS FROM BUTTERFLIES (it's scary to imagine how many butterflies were ruined for the sake of such beauty). So I FOR THAT to make a work of art from more humane plant materials.

Here are some more examples of paintings made of dry leaves and flowers in an ethnic theme. African ... and Chinese.

ANIMAL leaf appliques

Dry leaf animal applique is most popular in children's creativity... You will receive such autumn applications as a school homework... you and your child will climb parks and yards in search of high-quality, clean and beautiful leaves.

Here are some options for how to stack different leaves in the applique image of an animal or a bird ...

And here is cute hedgehog from oak leaves and one poplar leaf. The chestnut plays the role of the eye.

And here's another way to do mouse app from poplar or linden leaves.

And next to the mouse, you can plant such a hungry cat with eyes of violet petals ... from large chestnut leaves (for the body and paws) ... rowan leaves or shrubs (for the tail).

Here's an example turtles and elephant from autumn leaves glued in the form of an applique. Elephant tusks can be cut out of white paper.

APPLIQUES OF BIRDS from autumn leaves.

But options for a wide variety of birds - bird silhouettes can be found on the internet... print their images - and then try to pick up the leaves required forms to get the original bird figurine for your fall applique.

Most often, of course, they make from dry leaves peacock appliques with a lush tail.

Moreover, the peacock's tail can consist of ONE SINGLE maple leaf ...

Or the tail may consist of lush bouquet autumn leaves laid out in the form of a fan ... You can make several TIERS of this fan-like arrangement of leaves at once - each row of its own color - a row of yellow leaves-feathers ... a row of red leaves-feathers, etc.

You can make small birds hummingbirds and sparrows ...

... or large turkeys.

But chicken and rooster applique from dry autumn leaves. You see how each leaf was laid for a reason. Each leaf is a SCULPTURAL part of the bird's plumage. Giving the feathers the necessary rails, so that we not only bring in the flat silhouette of the chicken ... but also its textured bulges.

Autumn applications in the form of FISH ...

The smallest children love to make the most simple forms... And this is, of course, from fish. What could be simpler ... the body of the fish already has the shape of a leaf ... the tail and fins also have the forms common in the plant kingdom.

But this silhouette of a fish has already been made more complicated ...

Autumn applications in the form of INSECTS ...

And here is another funny topic - BUKASHECHKI and GOATS ... ordinary paints(as I said above) you can turn ordinary leaves into a bright family of beetles.

As a body for leaf beetles, you can use walnut shells ... fruits of berries and rose hips ... chestnut shells ...

Good luck with your creativity.

Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site