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Master class “Autumn crafts from natural materials. Application “Hedgehog made of leaves”. DIY crafts from tree leaves Crafts on the theme of autumn hedgehog made from leaves

How beautiful autumn is, every time this time of year appears in a completely new color. Despite the fact that all nature reduces its activity and prepares for sleep, everywhere we can observe bright and rich colors and endless beauty. At this amazing time, you can create real masterpieces using a variety of natural materials, bringing your most fabulous fantasies to life. It is especially interesting to do arts and crafts with children. In this tutorial you will learn how to make a cute “Hedgehog” applique from maple leaves.

Appliqué is a special technique of decorative and applied art that came to us from ancient times, when nomadic peoples decorated their everyday life in this way. In simple terms, applique is cutting out any elements from paper, fabric and other materials and gluing them onto a background prepared in advance.

What do applique classes give a child? Of course, first of all, it is the development of imagination and the ability to bring your ideas to life. This type of creativity does not require large financial costs, because all the necessary materials can be found while walking in the forest. It’s so nice to make such outings, especially when the sun gently warms us with its autumn warmth. In autumn, sometimes maple leaves are painted in very bright and fresh colors, and with their fancy carved shape they undoubtedly attract the attention of passers-by.

Applique using maple leaves is one of the most favorite for children. Thanks to its bizarre shape and bright colors, maple leaves make beautiful and unusual crafts. The applique in the shape of a hedgehog is very funny. We have prepared for you a selection of interesting paintings made using the appliqué technique of autumn leaves. All actions are described in great detail and accompanied by photos.

Where to begin

Regardless of which appliqué technique you choose, there is a certain procedure that must be followed. First, natural material must be collected. You need to choose whole, undamaged leaves of a wide variety of colors. Then the leaves should be dried. There are two main technologies for drying leaves:

  1. Place each sheet separately between the pages of an old book;
  2. Carefully iron each sheet placed between two sheets of paper with a warm iron.

Choose the method you like best. Next, let's prepare our workplace: cover the table with oilcloth, take sheets of paper or cardboard, PVA glue and scissors and felt-tip pens.

It is important to remember that teaching a child to keep the workplace in order is an important element of raising a little person.

If you are creating an application together with a small child, it is better to use fresh leaves and then dry the entire finished composition. In other cases, after preparing (harvesting and drying) the natural material, you can come to the most interesting thing - creating the image of your future application. After choosing the main idea of ​​the painting, you should prepare the necessary leaves and arrange them on the sheet in accordance with your creative idea. First, we need to glue the base of the future figure onto our background - for the hedgehog, the base will be its torso. Other leaves will be attached to it. Do not apply glue to the entire sheet , otherwise after drying the craft will become uneven. After all the dried leaves are glued, the application is placed under a press, for example, in an old thick book for two to three days.

Let's start the lesson

How to make a hedgehog from dry maple leaves for 1st grade children? Below we will describe the method of making such an application. In addition, for the base we need one birch leaf. We make a body for our hedgehog from a small birch leaf, and we will have a maple leaf protruding in the form of thorns. After gluing with felt-tip pens, we draw a cute face for the hedgehog and apple-shaped supplies.

In the photo below you can see what kind of hedgehog you will get:

You can make an applique using a pencil sketch that will replace the hedgehog’s body. Then the forest dweller will look like this:

If you come across a maple with multi-colored leaves in the forest or park, you can make such a bright hedgehog. On a sheet of colored cardboard (we took blue cardboard) we draw the outlines of the future hedgehog. We glue multi-colored maple leaves onto the body, and outline the muzzle and legs with a dark felt-tip pen.

Application of dried leaves “Hedgehog”

Goals: Strengthen children's ideas about what a hedgehog looks like, where it lives, what it eats, and how it prepares for winter. Teach children to make a composition from dry leaves, arranging them beautifully on a landscape sheet, and carefully work with foliage and glue.

Tasks:

1. Develop fine motor skills of the fingers in children.

2. Strengthen the skills of gluing leaves.

3. Develop creativity, imagination, attention.

4. Cultivate artistic taste and aesthetic perception.

5. Expand knowledge about forest animals.

6. Strengthen ideas about the appearance of a hedgehog: shape, color, names of body parts.

Materials for the lesson:Illustrations with a hedgehog,dry maple leaves, album sheets with a picture of a hedgehog, glue, brush.

Progress of the lesson:

Educator:

Guys, I know an interesting riddle about a small forest animal.

Lying under the fir trees

Pillow with needles

Lying, lying

Yes, she ran.

Who is this?

(Hedgehog)

Educator:

You guessed correctly, it's a hedgehog.

Look (shows an illustration of hedgehogs)on these hedgehogs. One day, while walking in the forest, I saw a hedgehog near a Christmas tree. I froze and began to watch him. The hedgehog was preparing his hole for winter. He curled up into a ball and rolled on the fallen leaves, and then carried these leaves to his hole on his needles. Why do you think the children carried the hedgehog into its hole?

Children's answers:

To keep him warm in winter.

Educator:

Why does a hedgehog need a hole? What is he doing in it?

Children's answers:

He's probably sleeping in a hole?

Educator:

Hedgehogs dig their holes near the roots of a thick fir tree so that during rain, water does not fall into its hole, but flows down the branches of the trees.

Children, do you think hedgehogs are beneficial, and what do they do for this?

Children's answers:

Hedgehogs hunt mice.

Educator:

Well done! Hedgehogs are very useful and hardworking animals in our forest and they need to be protected. You cannot bring a hedgehog home from the forest; it may die from changing its place of residence.

Look, guys, what a beautiful application of dry leaves we will make with you:

Educator:

Who do you see in the picture?

Children :

Hedgehog

Educator:

See how you can make hedgehogs out of leaves. You need to take dry leaves and carefullyGlue them one at a time onto our hedgehog.

The children do the work.

4. SUMMARY OF THE LESSON.

We lay out the completed work on the table and examine the work.

Autumn is a magical time of year when the air becomes clear and the leaves on the trees take on all sorts of shades: from burgundy and brown to purple and gold. I want to preserve this beauty. During the November holidays, you have the opportunity to create original autumn crafts from natural materials. Making a hedgehog from leaves is not at all difficult, but you will get a lot of positive emotions.

Materials for making a hedgehog from leaves

There are many variations of this fun craft made from fallen leaves, but today we offer you a collage. The work process can captivate a child of any age, and an excellent result is guaranteed. In addition, the applique will show the creative uniqueness of each baby, because hedgehogs can be of any size and color, they can even have their own unique character.

For the craft we will need:

  • White cardboard
  • Colored paper
  • Pencils, paints or markers
  • Hedgehog image
  • Printer
  • Colorful fallen leaves

Choose the sheet format to your taste; remember that it is more convenient for small children to work with large sheets of thick cardboard.

Making a hedgehog from leaves

The most important material for our painting is autumn leaves; you and your child will find them in abundance in city gardens and parks. Choose those that you like, however, but narrow, sharp leaves are best suited for crafts. Pay attention to the oak and rowan. At home, thoroughly rinse our natural material, then dry thoroughly. If there is not enough time, then iron the leaves with an iron, they will become smooth and beautiful.

Next we prepare the basis for our application. There are several ways to do this. The easiest option is to find an image of a hedgehog on the Internet, print the picture and stick it on cardboard. Remember that the image should be black and white, because children will love coloring their forest dweller. If you are good at drawing, then you can draw a hedgehog yourself.

To further develop your son or daughter’s fine motor skills, draw an outline on a piece of paper and ask them to cut it out. Additionally, outline the outline of the figure with a brown felt-tip pen so that it is bright and clear. Always focus on the age of your baby and the skills that he has or, conversely, those that need development.

When our foundation is ready, it's time to begin the most interesting and enjoyable part of our work. Spread the hedgehog's body with glue and begin to carefully glue the autumn leaves-needles. You shouldn’t limit your child’s creativity; let him realize his ideas and fantasies. After our hedgehog acquires its prickly coat, the application will need to be put aside for a while to allow the glue to dry thoroughly.

To prevent your child from getting bored, invite him to think about how you will further decorate your work. Show him pictures of an autumn forest or watch a funny cartoon where the main character is a funny prickly animal. When the sheet has dried and there is no chance of damaging the already created craft, we proceed to the final, decorative stage of the work. First, we paint the face and give it a certain expression. Our hedgehog made of leaves can smile or, on the contrary, frown with its drawn eyebrows. Imagine with your child, come up with a story about where the forest dweller is running and what he is carrying. Draw him the apples and mushrooms that he drags into the hole. You can also recreate a forest or clearing. If you have leaves left, you can make trees using the applique technique. Don’t forget that the sun should be shining in the sky and white clouds should be floating.

Good afternoon. In this article you will find a large collection of ideas for creating a HEDGEHOG craft. Here are some ideas that are suitable for children in kindergarten and school. We will work with our own hands using a variety of techniques. Glue hedgehogs from paper and cardboard, make a hedgehog craft from natural materials. I will show you the most beautiful hedgehog appliques using several techniques. We will sew hedgehogs from felt and felt them. Cross stitch hedgehogs. Crochet hedgehogs and much more. I also have articles with hedgehogs’ favorite foods – apples and mushrooms. You can also make an apple craft or a mushroom applique for your hedgehog.

Here's what you'll find in this article.

Crafts hedgehogs

For small children

(age 3-4 years).

In the junior group of kindergarten, children are just learning paper appliqué techniques. Children 3 years old cannot yet use scissors - and their task is simply to glue the ready-made appliqué parts, cut by the hands of the teacher, into the right places with glue. And this is already quite a difficult job, a craft that is not easy for small children. Using a clumsy brush, try to distribute the sticky glue evenly over the paper part. And stick all the parts in the right places, without confusing anything or turning it upside down.

Here are convenient applications for children 3-4 years old. A simple cute chubby hedgehog for children - pictured below. It is simple and easy to make with your own hands. First we glue the spines, then we put the tummy part on them and lay out the paws and ears. Just for 15 minutes - that’s how long a lesson lasts in kindergarten in the 2nd junior group.

But in this craft below, children are given a hedgehog back made of cardboard. And paper outlines of the head and paws. Girls can also be offered a bow. As a boy, add an apple to the back. It is better to let the teacher himself draw the eyes and mouth on the face in advance (a pencil in children’s hands will tear the paper wet from glue, and a felt-tip pen may get into a puddle of glue and stop writing).

Here is another task that children can do - a hedgehog craft. Here a prickly back is glued onto a cardboard apple, then a muzzle on top, then eyes, cheeks, and a nose on it. It looks like a complex craft - but simple and accessible to children 3-4 years old.

And here is another craft below - where a hedgehog hugs an apple. Children really like the very fact of COMMITMENT. Important Note – do not give children hedgehog hands in advance. They will rush and glue them to their tummy before the apple - and will cry that their hedgehog does not hug the apple.

First, let them glue an apple to the hedgehog’s belly, and give the hedgehog’s hands to those who succeeded.

But the task is already for the second half of the junior group. Here it is important to correctly glue the triangles of spines onto the hedgehog - so that the acute angle was facing the other way from the face of a hedgehog. Keys can be cut not only from ordinary colored paper. It is very good to cut spines from COVERS of colored paper - this way they will turn out to be multi-colored with bright splashes of pattern. Paper is saved and covers are not thrown away. And the hedgehog turns out to be festive.

Craft Hedgehog

For the middle group of kindergarten

Age 4-5 years.

In the middle group of kindergarten, children are already beginning to master scissors. They learn to hold them correctly and do CHICK-CHIK in the air without straining their fingers (make sure that during the chik-chik process the child’s fingers do not curl from tension). Let him learn to do this movement in a relaxed manner.

The first tasks of cutting with scissors for children are the simplest. As a rule, this is cutting fringe grass. Using this fringe cutting technique, you can also make a craft in the shape of a hedgehog. We give the child a wide oval (a rectangle with rounded edges). And the child’s task is to push this oval into the cuts in a circle (as in the picture below). You can draw lines for future cuts on each oval in advance with a pencil. This way the child will have a clear guideline for applying the scissors.

Pay special attention to children , that when we glue hedgehog needles onto a paper background, we apply glue ONLY to the MIDDLE of the back - we DO NOT apply glue to the cut fringe at all. And after gluing, we twist this fringe onto a pencil - or bend it upward with our hands.

In preparation for the lesson, the silhouettes of the hedgehog’s body can be drawn with a black marker on a sheet of paper - and this sheet copy on a photocopier. You need to cut out the body silhouettes of the hedgehogs so as not to create marker lines. The child’s task will be to bend the hedgehog’s arms and head forward. And in order for the hedgehog’s ears to stick out above the fold line of the hedgehog’s head, you need to remember to cut them in advance.

And so another craft using the FRINGE technique(cutting with scissors) – for children in the middle group of kindergarten = in the shape of a hedgehog.

For younger children a ready-made curved base of the hedgehog’s body is given . Older children They themselves bend a wide strip of paper into the shape of a DROP.

THEN you will need to teach children to control scissors well: keep the hand with the scissors straight - change the cutting direction without turning the hand with the scissors, but by turning the sheet of paper (this is the correct cutting technique)

And when the children master this technique, you can give them the task of cutting out the prickly silhouette of a hedgehog’s coat with zigzags (as in the photo below). This is already a task for the second half of the year in the middle group of kindergarten.

You can offer children this hedgehog craft (as in the photo below).

On a sheet of colored paper we draw a large silhouette of a hedgehog. We make cuts on it with a blade in advance (children will not make such internal cuts themselves with scissors). And the child’s task will be to cut out the entire hedgehog drawn on the cardboard along the contour and bend the cuts with his fingers.

COLLECTIVE

crafts with hedgehogs

in kindergarten.

When children become comfortable with cutting along the contour, you can give them cardboard cards on which the contours of fruits (pears and apples) will be drawn. And some children will receive the contours of a hedgehog's needle-like skin.

And then you can make such a COLLECTIVE craft, a hedgehog with fruit, in kindergarten classes. Each child participates, cuts out their part of the craft - and then at the end of the lesson, the children, together with the teacher, assemble all the parts into a craft.

In the same way, you can give children cards with the outline of autumn leaves (maple, oak) drawn on them. And after cutting out, we collect the autumn leaves into a garland held by a hedgehog cut out of cardboard.

Children's craft Hedgehog

From newspaper and glue.

You can cut a hedgehog from an unusual material - multi-layer newspaper cardboard. Let's take it white sheet of paper spread it on PVA glue- and quickly, before the glue dries, lay it on it pieces of torn newspaper. Again we spread glue on top of this sheet - and again lay out the newspaper pieces in places not covered by the newspaper. We dry this multilayer newspaper cardboard. This is the first lesson for children. Continuation of the craft in the second lesson.

After all layers have dried, place on top Hedgehog silhouette template– outline with black marker. And we succeed workpiece for the second lesson with children. On it they will have to cut out the drawn silhouette of a hedgehog. Then put dry leaves on a sheet of paper - on glue. And stick the silhouette of a hedgehog on top. On scraps of newspaper cardboard (remaining after cutting out the hedgehog) we draw an apple and a leaf. We paint them in red and green watercolors. Let's dry it. Cut it out. And glue the apple onto the back of the hedgehog.

Craft HEDGEHOG

for older children

using the VEER technique.

We fold a sheet of colored paper into an accordion (like a fan). From both ends of this folded accordion we make an OBLIQUE CUT with scissors (due to which the fan will have a jagged edge).

Now we bend the accordion in half in the middle and fold it. And we straighten the blades from one half of the accordion and from the other half of the accordion. And now all that remains is to glue the hedgehog’s face. A simple hedgehog craft for children in the senior group of kindergarten.

Crafts-pendants for the window

In the form of a hedgehog.

From cardboard we cut out the contours of a hedgehog with a large hole cut inside. We attach a piece to the back side with tape polyethylene film. And we place dry autumn leaves on it with PVA glue. We hang the craft on the window - the light shines beautifully through the foliage, and in the sun the leaves shine like an autumn lamp. Children like this hedgehog craft the most - they love working with natural materials. And below in this same article I will have many more hedgehogs made from natural material.

You can also glue pieces onto such a hedgehog-shaped frame paper napkin with a colored pattern. The napkin will also shine through in the sun when you hang this children's craft on the window.

If the edges of a cardboard frame in the shape of a hedgehog are pierced with holes (using a hole punch), then you can make craft with lacing. String beads or paper leaves through the cord as you weave. This hedgehog craft is suitable for older children - schoolchildren, because lacing is a long process.

DIY hedgehog

using the palm technique

Here are a few crafts that use prints or silhouettes of children's hands. For the youngest children, this craft is suitable, where you need to apply brown handprints several times on the already drawn outline of a hedgehog.

You can also divide the craft into 2 activities in kindergarten. At the first lesson, the child makes 3-4 multi-colored handprints on a white sheet of paper. In the second lesson, he cuts out these prints and sticks them on the back of a hedgehog cut out of cardboard.

You can do a collective community craft in kindergarten, where each child makes and then cuts out a handprint and then all the prints are glued around a hedgehog made of colored paper - I form its spines.

You can do without paints. Just trace the child's palms with a pencil on a sheet of colored paper. Then cut out and make a voluminous applique with a convex nose-cone of a paper hedgehog (as in the photo below). A simple group craft for kindergarten.

Hedgehog applications

From colored paper.

Here are some ideas for simple, beautiful hedgehog-themed paper appliques. In kindergarten, you can make such an applique with your own hands if you cut out at least half of the parts in advance. In one lesson (20 minutes long) it will be difficult for a child to cut out mushrooms, leaves and a hedgehog. Let him receive some details already ready.

Here is a craft applique based on a disposable paper plate. It's okay that you don't have any plates. You can take a regular sheet of white cardboard, put a plate on it, and trace it. Cut out the rounds. And on one half of the round piece, draw teeth-needles.

The child’s task will be simple – cut out the teeth along the contour. Decorate the circle in two colors - make the jagged half of the circle brown, paint the round half green. Then glue on the muzzle and paws, mushrooms and leaves.

But I found a very beautiful postcard with a hedgehog, made by myself. This is also a good idea for layering appliqué. Here, the hedgehog's spiny back is made from four jagged strips of cardboard. In which you need to bend the teeth and stick them in tiers one after another, starting from the back of the hedgehog. Decorate the craft with leaves and berries.

And here is another hedgehog applique for children. Here the hedgehog's coat is made up of discs folded in half with a jagged edge. The more flaps you use in the application, the more magnificent your hedgehog will be. Using the same principle, you can make a three-dimensional mushroom and cloud. But this is too much for a kindergarten. Therefore, one volumetric element using the blade technique is enough.

VOLUME hedgehog crafts

FROM CARDBOARD.

Corrugated packaging cardboard is a good and cheap material for children's crafts. If you make SLOTS on cardboard parts with SCISSORS, then you can put the parts on one by one. And we will get a voluminous craft.

Here I have drawn where to make cuts on the parts in order to correctly assemble them into a cute cardboard hedgehog. Beautiful children's craft. It is necessary to take into account that corrugated cardboard is thick, so the cuts need to be made wide - like a slit. Then the parts will easily fit on each other.

You can also expand the boundaries of your imagination and create a more complex hedgehog craft from packaging cardboard. Some of the cardboard material needs to be painted black.

And from two sheets of cardboard you can make volumetric craft lamp in the shape of a hedgehog. Triangular cuts are made on the cardboard silhouettes to form needles. We glue two silhouettes in the area of ​​the nose and in the back of the hedgehog’s back. Let the glue dry and then move the middle of the silhouettes apart - inserting a glass jar with a candle-tablet inside. It is convenient to light the candle at the bottom of the jar with a long spaghetti pasta - it burns perfectly brightly and evenly, like a long match.

Cardboard can be used not only as sheets, but also household the one we usually throw away - cardboard toilet paper rolls, cardboard egg packaging.

A hedgehog craft for children - from a toilet paper roll.

If you have colored brown double-sided paper and a toilet paper roll, then you can make a simple and quick hedgehog craft with your children.

On a piece of paper, draw a hedgehog’s prickly fur coat. Use scissors to slightly shorten the toilet paper roll in height so that it is lower. We draw on it the eyes, nose, mouth and paws of the hedgehog. We flatten the upper part of the roll and secure it with a stapler. We coat the back of the roll with glue and glue a prickly coat of colored paper. We bend the top of the fur coat forward - we get overhanging hedgehog bangs.

DIY hedgehog from an egg carton - master class in photographs .

Using scissors, we separate the cells of the box from each other, and cut each cell into petals. These will be hedgehog spines. We leave one cell intact - this will be the face of a hedgehog.

Pour boiling water over the remaining trimmings and the packaging lid. Let it sit and swell. We squeeze it with our hands and form a triangular cone from this loose mass - the basis of the hedgehog’s body. Let this piece dry for a day in the sun. Or dry it in the oven.

Thanks to the shape of the leaves and varied colors, a variety of crafts can be made from maple leaves, for example, appliqués.

What do you need for work?

Whatever application option is chosen, you will definitely need maple leaves, which must be collected and dried. There are two ways to properly dry the leaves: place the leaves between the pages of the book, it is better to lay each leaf with a paper napkin, or place the leaves on sheets of paper, cover with another sheet of paper and iron. In addition, you need to purchase sheets of cardboard, preferably colored, plasticine, glue, paints and brushes, scissors.

It is important to remember that no matter where the child makes appliqués, at home or at school, for example, if it is 1st grade and the child is just learning how to make crafts, you need to teach the child to prepare a workplace before starting work; it is best to cover the work surface with oilcloth.

Before you begin the process of gluing the leaves, you need to think through the plot of the future painting, then select the necessary leaves and arrange them according to your plan. The leaf is always glued first - the base, for example, for a hedgehog - this is the body, then additional leaves. It is better to apply glue to the edges of the leaf, and not to the middle, so that the leaf does not become deformed during drying; the finished picture can be placed under a press and a frame can be made for it.

Applique "Hedgehog" made from maple leaves

One way to make a hedgehog is to prepare one maple leaf, that is, dry it, and one leaf from another tree, and make a silhouette from them. To do this, stick a maple leaf onto cardboard (preferably green), thereby creating both a body and needles, then cut out a muzzle from another leaf with scissors and glue it on. Next, using paints, you can draw a nose, eyes, mouth and complement the composition by adding apples and grass. The results of the work are shown in the photo.

To make a hedgehog made from dry leaves look more colorful, you can make the body and spines from several colored maple leaves. To do this, you need to draw the contours of a hedgehog on a sheet of colored cardboard with a simple pencil. On the part where the contours of the body are drawn, you need to glue maple leaves. You can glue another piece of paper to the part where the muzzle is drawn, or simply trace the outlines with a felt-tip pen.

An applique made from autumn leaves. The Hedgehog looks great if both the body and face are made of maple tree leaves. It is advisable to choose a leaf for the muzzle that is different in color from the leaves from which the body is made. First, you need to glue this leaf onto a sheet of cardboard, then the leaves prepared for the body and needles. The nose, eye and mouth can either be completed, cut out of cardboard, or sculpted from plasticine. You can also make apple and grass.

Master classes with step-by-step instructions for making an applique with the image of a hedgehog

This article will present videos in which needlewomen will tell you which leaves can be used to make appliqués with the image of a hedgehog, how to make the appliqués correctly, and will show options for finished works.