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Autumn is not only cloudy days, raindrops that constantly drum on the windows and the roof, but also the time for bright colorful landscapes. During a normal walk. which takes place in a city park or a public garden, it is easy to collect a whole collection of materials of various sizes, shapes and colors (yellow, brown, green, red, orange), with the help of which craftswomen, and even children, create crafts from tree leaves with their own hands for a gift or home decoration, interior decoration, school exhibitions, presentations for teacher's day or autumn holiday.

Step-by-step instructions for making tree leaves for kids

The variety of forms, and with them the stunning colors of autumn leaves, give the chance to create many compositions, Ekiban, herbariums, appliques and crafts. If we talk about plots, then birds, zodiac signs, fabulous creatures, animals, decorative elements and ornaments are considered popular. It is especially interesting to involve a child in such creativity, because the creation of masterpieces develops his imagination and creative potential. Use the following step-by-step instructions to teach your child how to create interesting DIY crafts.

Volumetric applique Owl from birch leaves

To create an owl, birch leaves are best suited, they are small in size, have an even outline, due to which they easily fit into the drawing, making it voluminous.

Required materials and tools:

  • album sheet of white cardboard;
  • stationery scissors;
  • birch leaves;
  • simple pencil;
  • black buttons or toy eyes;
  • pVA glue;
  • 1 sheet of white, black, red paper.

Step by step execution:

  1. First, draw on cardboard or print the silhouette of a future owl on a printer.
  2. Next, carefully cut out the cardboard bird.
  3. Visually divide the owl into horizontal rows, alternately apply glue to each and lay the leaves. It is recommended to start gluing the sheets from the bottom row, gradually rising to the topmost one, until we completely paste over the entire owl. Lay the leaves overlapping each other.
  4. For the eyes, we take white paper, cut out two circles, glue it on the owl with glue. We use black buttons as pupils, which must be attached to paper eyes with glue.
  5. We use red paper for the legs and beak, cut it out, glue them with glue to the owl.

Autumn craft hedgehog from cones and leaves

Not only leaves are used for crafts, other natural materials are added to them - chestnuts, cones, acorns. Try to make a funny hedgehog with your child. Necessary materials:

  • pine cones;
  • plastic bottle (0.5 or 1 liter);
  • stationery knife;
  • a sheet of thick cardboard;
  • brown plasticine
  • glue "Moment";
  • two bottle caps;
  • black acrylic paints.

Progress:

  1. It is advisable to take a bottle of dark color (brown or black), if there is none, a transparent one will do, but then it must be completely painted with acrylic paints.
  2. We attach the cones to the painted bottle with glue, starting from the back of the future hedgehog. Make sure the bumps are firmly attached to the bottle. We glue the whole bottle with cones, except for the "face" and "tummy" of the future animal.
  3. When the hedgehog's body is ready, we proceed to creating a spout - for this we glue the bottle lid with brown plasticine.
  4. For the peephole, take two white bottle caps, in the center of which we draw pupils with acrylic paint.
  5. Glue the finished eyes to the face with glue.
  6. The craft is almost ready, it remains only to decorate it. To do this, spread the moss on a piece of cardboard and put a hedgehog on it.
  7. Put leaves, rowan berries on the back of the animal.

Arrangement of leaves Firebird

With the help of autumn leaves, children's fairy tales can come to life in original compositions. For example, we suggest trying to create the Firebird. Required materials and tools:

  • a piece of white cardboard;
  • yellow and black acrylic paints;
  • pVA glue;
  • red and green maple leaves;
  • scissors;
  • birch leaves;
  • stems with ash leaves;
  • stems with leaves of white acacia;
  • birch leaves;
  • simple pencil;

Step by step execution:

  1. Draw a silhouette of a Firebird with a bushy tail on the cardboard, cut it out. Paint the body of the bird up to the tail with yellow acrylic, draw the eye in black. Wait for the paint to dry.
  2. Then we start decorating the Firebird, starting from the bottom of the tail. We put glue on a strip of cardboard tail and firmly fasten the golden ash stalks.
  3. With the next layer, a little higher, we glue a row of red maple leaves, row 3 - green maple leaves, fourth - birch leaves, fifth - green maple leaves, sixth - white acacia stems, seventh - birch leaves, the final row - red maple leaves.
  4. When the tail is ready, let's start creating the wing. Again, we begin to attach the leaves with glue from the bottom row in the following sequence - ash stem, red maple leaf, green maple, birch leaf, maple red.
  5. The fabulous Firebird is ready!

Tree leaf mask

For a children's Autumn party in a kindergarten or school or a masquerade ball, make an original mask with your child. You will need:

  • maple leaves of different sizes;
  • cardboard;
  • sturdy rope, tape or elastic;
  • stationery scissors;
  • glue;

Step by step execution:

  1. Draw a blank for the mask on a cardboard sheet, cut it along the contour.
  2. Make small cuts along the edges of the mask and tie a thread so that in the future the product will hold well on the head.
  3. Glue the cardboard blank with glue and leaves. Start attaching large sheets of paper around the edges first, and small ones in the middle.

Autumn Leaves Vase

Autumn leaves are used not only for making children's crafts, but also for decorating home interiors. We offer to make an original vase for sweets or fruits. Required tools and materials:

  • pVA glue;
  • balloon;
  • petrolatum;
  • glue brush;
  • scissors;
  • maple leaves.

Step by step execution:

  1. We inflate the balloon to the required size, the more capacious the vase is needed, the larger the balloon will be.
  2. To keep the leaves well behind the ball, grease it with petroleum jelly before work.
  3. For convenient work, we fix our ball in any container and start making a vase.
  4. Apply a generous amount of glue to each maple leaf with a brush, and apply it in turn to the inflated balloon.
  5. Lay out several layers of leaves.
  6. Once again completely grease the almost finished product with glue and wait until it is completely dry (48-72 hours).
  7. Then deflate the balloon.

Photo frame

All kids love to decorate the walls of their room with photographs or hand-drawn pictures. Help place your child's favorite photo in an original handmade frame. Necessary materials:

  • cardboard;
  • glue;
  • leaflets;
  • simple pencil;
  • scissors.

Step by step execution:

  1. Prepare a cardboard frame of the required size. In the middle of the frame (where the picture will be), we take a little less photograph.
  2. Before decorating the frame, dip the leaves in hot water, they will become soft.
  3. Next, using PVA glue, glue the frame with leaves.
  4. We put the finished craft under a stack of heavy magazines or books. We are waiting for the frame to dry.
  5. We insert our favorite photo into our composition, fixing it from the back with adhesive tape.

Application Lion and fish on paper from dry leaves of trees

Colorful and vibrant applications are obtained if whole leaves are used for their preparation. Children love to create different animals and birds - a bunny, a fox, a horse, a cockerel, a cat, a dog, etc. We offer to make a funny lion cub and a fish. Required materials for a lion:

  • yellow linden leaves;
  • black felt-tip pen or marker;
  • ash seeds;
  • horse chestnut fruits;
  • pVA glue;
  • a twig of dry pine;
  • scissors;
  • yellow colored paper;
  • orange cardboard.

Step by step description:

  1. Print or draw the lion's head on yellow paper, cut it out.
  2. In a circle, glue the mane with glue in several rows with linden leaves.
  3. Use a black felt-tip pen to paint over the lion's nose and stick one chestnut to it with glue.
  4. We use needles from a branch of dry pine as antennae for a lion.
  5. The tongue replaces the glued ash seed.
  6. When the product is dry, the craft is ready.

Required materials for fish:

  • yellow linden leaves;
  • pVA glue;
  • brown quince leaves;
  • marker;
  • ash seeds;
  • acorns;
  • stationery scissors;
  • blue colored paper.

Step by step description:

  1. Print the fish pattern on blue paper or draw with a marker and cut it out with scissors.
  2. Cut off a stalk from each linden leaf, use glue to attach them to the frame in the form of fish scales.
  3. On the tail of the applique, glue a few quince leaves with glue and decorate with ash seeds.
  4. Attach the acorn caps to the fish with glue along the head line. DIY craft from tree leaves is ready!

How to dry leaves for crafts

Dry leaves are an excellent free raw material for various herbariums, applications, crafts. To keep your crafts for a long time, you need to learn how to properly dry the leaves. To do this, study the following rules:

  • Collect natural material only in dry weather.
  • Choose the color of the leaves yellow or green.
  • Pay attention to the appearance of the leaves. The most suitable will be smooth, beautiful and clean, without damage and blackheads.

There are several options for drying leaves. Consider each:

  • Long-term and high-quality method (takes 14-30 days). Carefully align each leaf and place it between the pages of a notebook, which must be placed in a large thick book. Press down on the top of the book with something heavy.
  • Accelerated. If you did not have time to make the preparation, and tomorrow you already need leaves, this method is the most suitable. Place the leaves between newspapers and iron with a warm iron 3-4 times. Then let the plants cool down and repeat the process a few more times. It is worth saying that when using this method, the plants become fragile and cannot be stored for a long time, green leaves immediately darken, and yellow ones remain bright.
  • Alternative. Some craftswomen got used to harvesting leaves with a hair dryer. They argue that with this method the plants do not darken, but there is a possibility that the leaves will curl up into a tube.
, natural leather and other handy materials for making crafts, from which we learned to make beautiful artificial flowers.

Autumn has long come into its own and painted the world around us with bright, multi-colored colors. Autumn gave us wonderful natural materials for making unique crafts with our own hands - fallen from trees

autumn leaves different sizes and with bizarre shapes, as well as numerous flowers and inflorescences that we will use to make beautiful flowers,cute lamps , graceful bouquets with artificial roses,original compositions of vegetables and fruits for interior decoration.

And the kids will be happy to help their parents create amazing crafts from the handyman, absolutelywaste natural material ... Such joint leisure is very useful for the development of imagination, fine motor skills of hands, sensory abilities of young children and primary schoolchildren.

From autumn natural materials, you can make not only simple crafts, children's educational toys, applications and herbarium. Interior designers have long adopted the inimitable beauty and indescribable sophistication of autumn gifts. The walls of the rooms candecorate with exquisite panels and paintings with compositions in the form of flowers from autumn fallen leaves (maple, oak, chestnut), folded with their own hands in a special way. In order to use fallen leaves of trees and dryflowers for making crafts , bouquets and compositions with your own hands, it is important to properly prepare these natural materials before work. You probably already know that autumn leaves can be laid between the sheets of albums (books, magazines, newspapers) and the load can be placed on top. This method of preparation is suitable for forming a herbarium, children's applique or collage.from dried leaves.

But for the manufacture of voluminous crafts and bouquets with flowers from autumn leaves fallen from trees, this method is not suitable. Before you start rolling such flowers from the leaves fallen from the trees (for example, roses from red maple leaves), it is important to properly process them in order tocrafts kept their original appearance long time. We will tell you about this in detail in this article later. In addition to tips and useful ideas for creating bouquets and compositions from natural materials, you will find herevideo lessons , as well as master classes, with the help of which you can quickly make with your own hands both simple compositions (children's handicrafts from leaves, appliques, figures, collages), and complex bouquets and objectsfor interior decoration in the form of bouquets with flowers from autumn leaves (topiary ) or a composition of dried flowers (see photo).

You will learn how to properly process and preserve maple leaves and autumn flowers so that made from thembeautiful crafts did not become brittle, shapeless and twisted objects. And you can make any of these natural gifts of autumn in a wide variety of colors and with surprisingly different bizarre shapes.artificial flowers - big roses , little cornflowers, graceful chrysanthemums, cute daisies,gorgeous water lilies ... The color of these homemade flowers can be very different (not only yellow or red) - after all, dried autumn leaves can be painted with an acrylic primer with the addition of the desired color scheme (and then covered with colorless varnish). With the help of helium pens, you can apply different patterns and geometric shapes to the surfaceartificial flowers autumn theme.

Ideas for creativity:

- Application.
A great idea for spending leisure time with your child! Have you already collected many beautiful fallen leaves and autumn flowers in the yard, dried it, made a colorful herbarium? Let's not stop there! Spread a large sheet of thick paper or cardboard on the table, lay out our "harvest" on it and put together an original composition, combining colors and different forms of natural materials ... You can glue the details of the autumn composition to the base with PVA glue (but it is better to use photo glue or gum arabic);

- Collage.
You can put together a layered bright collage with your child under the frame. The lower layer is large dark and brown leaves, then greenish, the upper layers are small bright contrasting leaves of red and yellow colors. Add dry autumn flowers to the collage, adding different shapes from them and get a beautiful volumetric composition.
Or you can add letters or words (as well as shapes) to the collage - tightly press a sheet of cardboard with cut letters to the glued composition and carefully cut out the letter pattern with a clerical knife (of course, by the hands of parents, not a child);

- An educational game for a child.
A great idea that your preschool kid will love! Glue a half of a fallen leaf on a sheet of paper (first cut the sheet vertically). The child's task is to draw the missing half of the sheet with a pencil (felt-tip pen). Encourage your child to choose a suitable pencil color and carefully look at the shape of the halves in order to accurately reproduce the mirror part of the composition. The most difficult option is a maple leaf, leave it for later and help the kid draw a little;

- Painted autumn leaves.
You can decorate both flat and voluminous leaf crafts with painting. For this work, use helium pens and felt-tip pens (with silver, gold, white and other colors). Bouquets with decorated artificial flowers will be fine and other interior objects;

- Bouquet of autumn leaves and dried flowers.
You will find information below how to fold flowers from maple leaves with your own hands and collect a bouquet from them. If you decorate such a bouquet with dried flowers and put it in a small wide vase, you will get an excellent compositional center for your room;


- A tree or topiary made of autumn materials.
Another great option for interior decoration. From the fallen branches, you can fold a small tree and decorate it with homemade flowers made from leaves. Orfold the topiary with your own hands (see photo) by attaching a lot of such flowers to a floral ball (option: to a foam ball);

Tree (photo):


- A three-dimensional picture of the gifts of autumn.
You can use a large photo frame or a wooden picture frame as a base. The background can be donemade of cardboard, painted in a suitable color ... We make interesting compositions of maple leaves, dried flowers, fallen pine needles and other natural materials with our own hands, attaching them to the base with a wire.

Helpful hints:

How to prepare autumn leaves for making crafts and appliques at home.

- for voluminous crafts in the form of flowers and bouquets.
We will not be able to fold voluminous crafts from dried leaves, since they are too brittle. Therefore, we will specially process the collected leaves. We separate the solution - 200 ml. glycerin per 400 ml. clean water. In a dense plastic bag, carefully put the leaves fallen from the trees and level them, then fill them with the prepared solution. The bag with the contents must be sealed tightly (with a heated knife) or sealed with adhesive tape. Leave this bag in a dark closet for 3-4 days, and then spread the leaves on a paper towel to dry. From these flexible leaves that retain their original appearance for a long time, you can add a variety of flowers (below - MK: how to make beautiful roses from maple leaves with your own hands);

- for flat autumn compositions (appliques, collages).
Leaves and flowers collected in autumn are best dried in massive magazines and reference books. The collected natural materials must be well pressed with a weighty load placed on top of the reference book.

How to dry autumn flowers for crafts and compositions:

- drying with an iron.
Autumn leaves and many small flowers can be ironed dry. To do this, lay out natural materials on thick cardboard. , cover with a thin paper sheet on top and iron with a not very heated iron until all the moisture evaporates;

- natural drying.
great option for drying autumn flowers. In a dry place with good air circulation, tighten the rope. We put the collected flowers in bunches and hang them on a rope with inflorescences down;

- drying in the oven.
a great way to dry large single flowers (roses, tulips, peonies) for making compositions. The temperature in the oven should not be very high - about 50-60 ° C. Watch the process carefully so that the flowers do not turn brown and do not lose their shape during drying;

- volumetric drying of flowers.
According to many experienced florists, this method of drying autumn flowers preserves their natural shape and color. The cut flower is placed in calcined dry sand for 4 weeks. A drawer with a fine mesh at the bottom and a pull-out bottom can be used as a container. Flowers with double and voluminous inflorescences (lilies, dahlias, roses) are placed in the sand with stems down, and with flat inflorescences-baskets (buttercups, chamomile, asters, forget-me-nots) - with stems up.


What tools and materials can be useful for making autumn crafts:

- Scissors.
Small scissors with blunt ends for a child and sharp long ones for an adult;

Stationery knife and stacks.
With the help of a clerical knife, it is convenient to cut the multi-layer parts of the craft. Plastic stacks are great tools for a child, with which he can cut individual leaves for applique;

- Shiloh.
For convenience, choose a tool with a wide wooden handle (length - 5-6 cm) and a not very thick piercing part;

- Long tweezers and tweezers.
It is convenient to move small parts of crafts with tweezers. Tweezers with a flattened twisted front can be borrowed from the manicure set. Such tweezers are very convenient for twisting individual parts of the product and wire;

- Thin wire.
It is often used to form the frame of crafts and toys from natural materials. It is advisable to use a flexible and strong copper wire with a diameter of 0.35 mm to fasten the individual parts;

- Foil and foil paper.
For decorating autumn crafts, for appliques and collages;

- Sewing needle and thread.
For connecting individual parts of crafts, for forming bouquets of leaves and dried flowers;

- Paper.
The more different types of paper (differing in color, density, thickness), the better. For the manufacture of crafts, applications, bouquets, panels and wall compositions from natural materials, you can use corrugated, wallpaper, velvet, parchment, landscape, wrapping, copying and other types of paper;

- Plasticine and plastic (polymer clay).
For fastening, as well as for sculpting individual parts that complement products from leaves, dried flowers. Your child can do work with plasticine and polymer clay;

- Glue.
A variety of brands of glue can be useful in the work. PVA, BF, Mars are often used. The safest options for a child to use are PVA and glue stick.
For gluing individual parts of the craft, brushes with a hard bristle are useful;

- Paints and brushes.
To create appliques and collages - watercolors and gouache paints. For coloring voluminous crafts from autumn leaves and dried flowers - acrylic paints. It is most convenient to paint with soft squirrel brushes.


2. HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN HANDS A BEAUTIFUL ROSE FROM DANGEROUS AUTUMN LEAVES

It is very easy to make such an artificial flower with your own hands! For work, prepare autumn maple leaves, strong thread, golden colors and sunflower oil. You can treat the leaves with a glycerin solution (see recipe above) for the longevity of the harvested craft.

For making a single flower, it is best to choose solid maple leaves. Roses from leaves will turn out to be quite large. 5-7 such crafts are enough to make a beautiful bouquet. You can use the same maple leaves as the leaves for this bouquet with artificial homemade flowers. Make the roses red and yellow.

So let's get to work:

- take a maple leaf and bend it in half (front side outward);

We bend the very tip and twist the leaf into a roll;

Take the second maple leaf of the same color, put the already twisted bud in its base (see photo);

Form a maple rose petal by bending the leaf and wrapping it tightly around the bud;

We wrap the third maple leaf in the same way. The more such rose petals there are, the more voluminous and larger the rose will turn out. Move each subsequent row down a little so that the flower looks blooming;

Just above the leaf stalks, we fix the craft with a thread;

Similarly, we will make 5-7 more of the same roses (yellow, red, greenish);

Lubricate maple roses with sunflower oil so that the bouquet retains its original appearance for a long time. Now you can cover the crafts with golden paint;

It remains to dip a few maple leaves into a small vase, and then form a beautiful bunch of artificial roses.


3. MASTER CLASSES. LEARN TO MAKE CRAFTS IN THE FORM OF FLOWERS FROM AUTUMN LEAVES AND COMPOSITIONS FROM DRY FLOWERS

Master class number 1:

STAGES OF STEP-BY-STEP MANUFACTURE OF GORGEOUS BULK ROSES FROM RED MAPLE LEAVES DROWN FROM TREES (PHOTOS).

Master class number 2:

HOW TO MAKE A FLOWER FROM AUTUMN LEAVES. ANOTHER OPTION OF FOLDING FROM BIG ROSE MAPLE LEAVES BY OWN HANDS. STEP-BY-STEP PHOTO MK.

Master class number 3:

WE MAKE CRAFTS FROM LEAVES BY OWN HANDS. WE FOLD THE HEART AND PETALS FROM THE CORN LEAVES, Glue THEM AND GET A WONDERFUL WHITE FLOWER FOR DECORATING THE GIFT PACKAGE.


Master class number 4:

ANOTHER STEP-BY-STEP PHOTO LESSON FOR BEGINNERS. HOW TO MAKE ROSE FROM DANGERED AUTUMN MAPLE LEAVES.

Master class number 5:

Master Class Maryhow to make a cute composition for your home « Bouquet of flowers from dry leaves". This craft can be done with your child.

Decorating premises with natural materials is not an innovation in interior design for a long time. Decorating walls and pieces of furniture with a panel of dry leaves, topiary or other crafts can be done by anyone. DIY decor elements perform important functions. First of all, they bring positive energy and pleasant memories. And, of course, they enliven the interior.

We offer the idea of \u200b\u200bcreating a bouquet of dried leaves. Herbarium samples were collected in autumn thanks to a biology teacher. Children at school did their homework according to the educational program. After the lesson, there was a beautiful collection and a lot of extra leaves. By the way, some of them fell from a house plant. Ficus Benjamin was accidentally flooded with water. The flower dropped its foliage in protest.

So, let's put the album with neatly decorated herbarium copies aside, and we will deal with the remains. The quantity and color make it possible to make a bouquet with yellow flowers.

For crafts you will need:

  • colorful leaves,
  • thin twigs of trees,
  • petals of any colors (if there are no such, it's not scary),
  • pVA glue,
  • paints in gouache or watercolor with a brush.

Additionally, to decorate a vase will come in handy:

  • glass jar,
  • a piece of cloth
  • rubber,
  • satin ribbon.

To create a flower, we prepare a dense base, for example, a piece of cardboard. Apply PVA glue on it and apply the selected leaves in a circle. First, we work with large specimens.

We do the next tier in the same way, only we put smaller petals between the leaves of the first row.

Again, process the middle with a brush with PVA and glue real yellow flower petals. Such a move will immediately color the craft, make it bright. If there are no such petals, it does not matter, without them the finished flower will look no worse.

It's time to tackle the middle. There are several design options. You can glue a piece of black leather in the center or sprinkle the middle with semolina, and then paint it yellow with gouache. We decided to cut the center circle out of the fabric.

It turned out like this.

Leave the flower to dry for 30 minutes. We immediately get down to creating two more similar samples.

Now let's think about how to make a stem with leaves. Select suitable tree branches and paint over them with a brush with green gouache.

We put the finished stems on the windowsill. The bright sun will quickly dry up the water. After 10-15 minutes, you can continue working with the workpiece. Using PVA glue, attach the green leaves to the branches.

At the output, we get something like this.

Now you need to glue the dried ones to the finished stems. How do you like this beauty?

Oh yes! Forgot about the vase. We will also make it with our own hands. It was not for nothing that they collected jars, rubber bands and rags in the kitchen. The baby puree glass jar is stable enough. It will perfectly hold the bouquet and will not tip over.

We put the jar in the center of the fabric cut. We wrap the ends of the satin flap in it.

Press the fabric to the neck with a thin elastic band. Not very tight.

We hide the ugly elastic band behind the yellow ribbon. The bow can be left in front of the vase, but we were afraid of the excessive luridness of the craft.

I wanted to capture flowers against the background of a finished vase.

In principle, the work is over. We carefully put the flowers from the leaves in the jar, look for a place where we will leave this floral arrangement.

It turned out very nicely. The photo does not convey the naturalness of the materials. I think this is where the experiments with herbarium samples are just beginning.

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Autumn is a truly magical time. And not only for romantics, but also for those who like to work with their hands. This season provides us with a ton of natural materials that, with a bit of imagination and patience, can be turned into beautiful crafts, appliques or home decorations. Walking through the park strewn with fallen leaves, you will have the opportunity to spend time not only pleasantly, but also with benefit: having collected an armful of beautiful leaves, you can just put them in a vase, or try to turn them into something unusual.

In addition, in schools and kindergartens, they are often given the task of making crafts from leaves - and this is a great reason to walk with your child in the fresh air, collecting gifts of autumn.

We have collected for you 25 ideas for crafts from fallen leaves, cones, acorns and nuts, which will give you many unforgettable minutes spent with your children.

1. First, let's try to make a butterfly out of autumn leaves. This simple option will suit even the smallest. The only thing is that you first need to dry and straighten the leaves, placing them between the pages of books or under any other press for a day.

3. Such an unusual snail can be made from leaves of different colors and shapes.

5. Using a curly hole punch for paper or cardboard on fallen leaves, you can get a truly magical result!

7. Candles will help create a special home atmosphere of autumn. With a glass jar, leaves and a ribbon for decoration, you can fill your home with coziness and warmth.

9. In the fall, the chestnuts keep falling underfoot. Let your child show their imagination by painting funny faces of people or animals on them - rest assured, it will be impossible to tear the child away from this activity!

11. Having made such a cute hedgehog, you will ensure a good mood for yourself and your baby for the whole day.

13. The variety of colors and shapes of fallen leaves opens up room for imagination. Collect a whole zoo with your child - for him it will be a completely fabulous experience!

15. This idea is suitable not only for children, but also for decorating a gift for an adult or as an element of decor.

17. With the help of fallen leaves, you can create your own autumn landscapes. To do this, it will be enough to apply paint to one side of the sheet, and then press it against the paper. Feel like a master of painting without any effort!

19. Don't be afraid to experiment with materials. For example, to create such a tree, you have to take scissors and cut the leaves into small pieces. Paint the tree trunk with watercolor, let it dry, and then glue the chopped leaves onto its branches.

21. A little glue, plasticine, fantasy and magic - and ordinary acorns turn into a miniature set for tea drinking or fairy-tale characters!

Autumn! How much warmth and beauty is contained in this wonderful season! A countless number of variegated colors that play with magical shades in the sun, a variety of unique shapes and structures of fruits, grass cover, as well as tree leaves fluttering in the wind. Every day we look at this splendor and are inspired, enriched with magical energy, which further encourages us to do our own work. Someone paints pictures, someone composes poetry and stories, and someone is engaged in home handicrafts. From a properly selected and neat natural material, you can create beautiful dIY crafts for the New Year 2018 and other holidays, decorations for a room interior in the form of vases, flowers, baskets, topiary, panels, boxes and more. Also, children's works for a thematic exhibition in kindergarten and school in the form of various animals, birds, fairy-tale characters, wreaths, appliqués on the theme of autumn and much more come out well. Schoolchildren in grades 1-4 are especially interested in such skills. After all, children of this age have a completely different look at the world, notice all the subtleties of the luxury of natural decoration, to which adults, in turn, do not always pay attention. So, let's dive a little bit into the world of art and grace through our prepared article. In it you will find 9 ideas for easy and beautiful DIY leaf crafts. Informative master classes with photo and video tutorials will direct you to your own correct ideas and creations.

Maple leaf rose bouquet

You can make a very beautiful bouquet of roses from the leaves, which can be presented to family and friends. Such an autumn bouquet will delight and surprise them, because it looks very impressive, and most importantly, it is made by hand. In order to make it easier for you to understand how to make such a bunch, we described the craft in our master class with step-by-step instructions.

You will need:

  • Maple leaves of various sizes (7 - 10 pieces per flower),
  • A thread.

Progress:

  1. We take a natural material and bend it in half so that the sharp ends do not interfere with us.
  2. We twist the sheet into a tube with our own hands, perpendicular to the tail.
  3. We wrap the resulting tube in the same way 3-4 more times. This will create the base of the rosebud.
  4. Next, we form a bud, applying new larger sheets to the workpiece, not forgetting to hide their sharp edges, folding it in half.
  5. After you have attached a sufficient number of elements, spread the petals of our rose so that it is a more voluminous craft.
  6. We fasten our structure with a string from below, where we have the tails of the used natural material.
  7. So we make 3 - 5 roses and begin to collect the bouquet.
  8. We fasten all the roses together with a rope so that they create a harmonious handmade composition.
  9. We attach maple leaves around the roses so that they seem to hug the flowers outside.
  10. You can also add other different decorations to our bouquet - twigs with berries, or some green twigs to add brightness and contrast. In general, the idea of \u200b\u200bthe craft is quite interesting and uncomplicated, be sure to try to reproduce it at home.

Video: master class on creating a rose from maple leaves

Wreath on the wall of autumn leaves

To decorate your home, you can make a very beautiful wreath of leaves with your own hands. Such a craft can be done even with a child 3, 4, 5 years old. How to create such a wreath, you can see below in the description with step-by-step instructions and a photo idea.

You will need:

  • Maple leaves
  • Plastic plate,
  • Stationery knife,
  • Orange ribbon, 2 cm wide,
  • Burlap ribbon
  • Stapler.

Progress:

  1. In order to make a handicraft from leaves with our own hands quickly and beautifully, we need to take a plate and cut the bottom out of it with a knife. We now have the base for the wreath.
  2. We tear off the tails from the natural material used.
  3. We hold them with sharp corners up and begin to fold the edges towards the center in the form of tubes, and fix them in this position with a stapler.
  4. We make about 23 such blanks.
  5. We fasten the blanks with a stapler to the rim of the plate, the leaves should be evenly spaced in a circle. We make 2 rows of these so that there are no gaps.
  6. We attach small, even elements on top to close the corners.
  7. When all the components are attached, using a stapler we attach a burlap ribbon so that we get a beautiful spiral.
  8. On the reverse side, we cut off the extra corners so that the hand-made craft has a neat look.
  9. To decorate with an orange ribbon, we make a bow and attach it to the wreath in the part where you like best. And we make a loop from the same ribbon on which you can hang our wreath.

Video: master class on making a wreath of autumn leaves

Application "Autumn tree"

You can make various do-it-yourself applications from the leaves. In order to make an autumn tree, we made a master class with detailed instructions. Even a 1st grade student can easily cope with such creative work. Let's see how to make a beautiful craft from bright natural material yourself.

You will need:

  • snow-white paper,
  • dry foliage,
  • pVA glue,
  • brown felt-tip pen.

Progress:

  1. According to the idea we provided with the photo, you need to bend the paper material in half and draw the outline of the tree with a felt-tip pen.
  2. Then you need to make a crown of dry autumn leaves with your own hands, gluing them with PVA glue. The crown must be made both from whole small elements, and using a tear-off technique, i.e. from fragments of large natural material.
  3. Next, using a brown felt-tip pen, you can paint the tree trunk, and you can also make it with paints. Such an original craft will perfectly transform a nursery or become a worthy exhibit of a thematic autumn exhibition at a school or kindergarten.

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Autumn leaves beaten off with a hammer

You can invite your kid to make an original autumn craft. With his own hands, he will be able to create an imprint of various plants on fabric, their leaves and flowers. Such creative work is perfect for children 3, 4, 5, 6 years old. How to make such a creative creation, you can see below in the description with detailed instructions.

You will need:

  • light cotton fabric;
  • plastic bag;
  • small kitchen hammer.

Progress:

  1. For crafts, you need to put the fabric on a flat and hard surface, and then compose a composition of leaves and flowers on it.
  2. Cover the fabric with polyethylene.
  3. In order for the autumn plants to let the juice and color the fabric with it, you need to beat off your composition on polyethylene with light movements with a hammer.
  4. Using this fabric with prints, you can decorate napkins, and it is also suitable for decorating a postcard with your own hands.

Leaf loto

Autumn is a time for an exciting herbarium compilation. And also, this is a great way to introduce your child to the flora. The leaf loto can be an alternative to the usual herbarium, and the kid can help you make such a craft with your own hands. This is a very educational game for children that will give them maximum pleasure and benefit.

You will need:

  • thin cardboard, A4 format - 6 pieces,
  • dry leaves of various trees and shrubs, dried flowers and herbs,
  • fruits of trees and shrubs (optional),
  • scissors,
  • pencil.

Progress:

  1. Initially, you need to draw a cardboard, A4 format, into 6 identical parts.
  2. The 3 outlined parts will make up the lotto panel. It is on them that the child will put cards. We will devote one panel to trees, the second to shrubs, and the third to flowers and grass. Now glue the appropriate material to each panel segment.
  3. The remaining 3 pieces of cardboard should be cut into sections. There will be 18 of them, these will be cards for future do-it-yourself crafts.
  4. Glue one leaf, flower or blade of grass from each of the plants to each card. Our educational game is ready, and you can already get carried away with it with your child.

You can collect dried fruits and other natural materials in a small box. Alternatively, you can simply draw them on cards, but it will probably be more interesting for the child to apply natural material. While playing, the kid's task will be to arrange cards with flowers, foliage, fruits in certain sections that correspond to plants.

Autumn crown of leaves

The autumn foliage is very beautiful and colorful. From it you can make an adorable crown for your princess. And most importantly, such a craft can be done with your child with your own hands, because it is designed for the age of 4, 5, 6, 7 years. Let's see our master class with a step-by-step description and a photo idea.

You will need:

  • colorful autumn leaves,
  • scissors,
  • glue.

Progress:

  1. While walking in the park or square, collect the most beautiful autumn foliage. The more varied their colors and sizes are, the more beautiful our crown will turn out.
  2. Cut off the edge of the leg and fold each natural element in half.
  3. Leg of one material through the second element.
  4. Thus, continue to fasten the rest of the leaves until the moment is not large enough to put the crown on your head.
  5. Fasten the edges of the crown and glue in front a handmade jewelry made from the same natural material as the craft itself.

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Maple leaf topiary

Despite the fact that topiary trees have recently become fashionable, they have managed to quickly gain popularity. You can make this tree with your own hands from various scrap materials: flowers, leaves, fruits, coffee beans, ribbons, paper. In order to make it, you will need very little free time, in addition, you will not need special skills at all. It is worth noting that this charming craft can be a great gift for any holiday, as it brings joy and well-being.

You will need:

  • small flower pot,
  • floristic sponge (alternatively, you can use ordinary foam rubber),
  • wooden stick,
  • yellow leaves,
  • mountain ash and other elements for wood decor.

Progress:

  1. First of all, you need to fix the wooden stick in the pot with your own hands, as firmly as possible, otherwise the tree will tilt or even fall with the pot.
  2. At the very top of the stick, fix a ball made of sponge or foam rubber. All the prepared elements should be evenly stuck into this ball: leaves, branches, rowan bunches.
  3. The soil and the trunk of the tree can be decorated with grass, beads or artificial flowers, vegetation. A great addition would be a small twig that will represent a small bush. You can complement the decoration with ribbons, beads, artificial twigs and flowers for decoration. Our handmade craft is ready! She will transform any corner of your home.

Craft "Owl" from leaves

To make a quick and beautiful children's craft from leaves with your own hands for a school or kindergarten, you need to take a closer look at our idea provided with a photo. It is simple in its execution, does not require expensive supernatural material, great skills and skill. Even a child in grades 1-4 can easily cope with the creative task assigned to him. So, an owl in elementary reproduction.

For work you will need:

  • bright yellow, red, orange and green leaves;
  • stationery glue;
  • scissors;
  • snow-white landscape paper;
  • colored paper;
  • foil.

Manufacturing process:

  1. For our craft, you will need to take paper and make an approximate sketch of a bird on it with a simple pencil.
  2. After that, you need to choose the most suitable and unusual leaves from different trees that fit into the image of an owl presented by us. We lay out our natural material along the outlined lines with our own hands, so that all outlines and details are similar to the real ones. If necessary, we cut the edges of some of the constituent elements with scissors and fasten everything with office glue.
  3. We cut out the eyes and beak of an owl from foil and colored paper, attach to the muzzle, as in the photo. We've got such a simple and at the same time interesting craft, dear friends. In such a simple technique, you can create many other animals, birds and even people with your own hands, you just need to pick up beautiful leaves.