Hello, dear readers! With the arrival of autumn, for all parents whose children go to elementary school or kindergarten, it is time for deep thoughts))), but what can be done for the next autumn contest of crafts from natural materials. We have already had such a competition, a lot of interesting and original handicrafts were presented, parents and children did their best. I decided to ease your thoughts a little and give you ideas for autumn crafts for school or kindergarten with a photo.
What kind of crafts we made for the autumn competition, you can see in the article. The exhibition was held in the music hall of the kindergarten, and items from all groups were exhibited there. Any parent could freely walk in and admire the work of both his own and someone else's. This time, the photo of the crafts was taken by my husband, therefore, what he managed to capture and I will show you today, maybe for someone these crafts will give an idea for creating their own autumn composition.
Autumn composition "Visiting a fairy tale"
I really liked the craft where the fairy tale is presented. There is in the composition, in this case it is Baba Yaga's wooden hut, consisting of thin branches of a tree. It should be noted that the authors did their best, because the hut was built according to the rules for assembling real wooden houses. Serpent Gorynych, whose body consists of a cone, necks are molded of plasticine, and their heads are made of acorns. And Baba Yaga herself in a mortar is also made of plasticine, hair is made of yarn. I really liked this fabulous composition, a great idea for an autumn craft, because you can illustrate any fairy tale this way.
Another craft with a house where a forest man lives. The roof of the house is covered with leaves. A hedgehog sits in the yard near the house, the muzzle and body are made of plasticine, needles-sunflower seeds are stuck in the body, on the back it bears "apples" - rowan berries. Here we see a calf, if I understood correctly, it is made of chestnuts, plasticine and matches. Large mushrooms "grow" in the yard, made of chestnuts and plasticine.
Leaf craft ideas
I would also like to offer you ideas for handicrafts made from leaves, they were also presented at the exhibition. It seems to me that so much can be created from autumn leaves, there would be a desire and a little imagination.
Owl made from autumn leaves
Here, an owl made of oak leaves, eyes are made of dry ash earrings, pupils are made of rowan berries, the work is done on a sheet of A4 paper. For completeness, paint was used to highlight the autumn owl.
Peacock made of leaves and cones
A peacock can be made from multi-colored autumn leaves, namely, to make a tail from them, and the body and head from small pine cones, the work is done on a thick sheet of paper. The authors of this work painted with paints, as if multi-colored rays emanate from the tail.
And this bird was sent to me by my friend, they did it with her son for the competition, I really liked their idea, that is, you can make absolutely different birds and animals from ordinary colorful autumn leaves.
Autumn crafts hedgehog
Zucchini hedgehog
Another mommy friend of mine sent me what she and her daughter did for the competition. The idea is great and this hedgehog is worthy of attention. The body is made of zucchini, which was previously painted with black paint, the needles from toothpicks are also tinted with black paint, so it is difficult to distinguish them from real needles. Plastic eyes, sold in any fabric or craft store. Well, as usual, the hedgehog carries apples, leaves, cones on needles. A wonderful craft hedgehog from a vegetable marrow turned out.
Pine cones hedgehog
Here is a wonderful hedgehog made of cones. The muzzle and body are a zucchini, well-chosen for such a craft. The needles are cones that have been strung on a vegetable marrow. How this was done is not visible, but I can assume that the cones were first attached to the toothpicks, then they were strung on the zucchini. The hedgehog has real wild grapes, an aster flower, rowan berries on the "needles". It turned out to be a very funny hedgehog. A similar hedgehog was in our article.
Hedgehog from seeds
You can make such a flat picture with a hedgehog from sunflower or watermelon seeds. To draw a hedgehog, and it's even easier to cut it out of coloring and stick it on a sheet of paper, paste it over with seeds, the authors made a whole picture, a very cute hedgehog from seeds turned out, a simple and beautiful idea for an autumn craft.
By the same principle as a hedgehog from seeds, a fish is made from seeds and ash earrings, it also looks great.
Autumn composition
Here is another interesting craft, but it is not made entirely of natural material, but it looks elegant and autumnal. A tree, they took a suitable branch as a basis and pasted it over with multi-colored leaves cut out of colored paper.
A swing is attached to the tree, where the doll is swinging. Near the tree is her bike. The slot and the chair are metal, in general, the idea is not bad, if you do it all from natural material, then it's absolutely great, but I also really liked this composition, maybe it will push you on its idea for an autumn craft.
Autumn Ekibana in a basket
This is an autumn Ekibana in a basket, you can also take it as an idea. There is a huge scope for imagination, in Ekiban you can use flowers, and branches, and leaves, and dry grass, and berries.
Craft goblin from branches
Here is another goblin from a branch, an interesting craft, especially in it I liked an acorn lantern, a delicate work.
Autumn volumetric painting
A three-dimensional painting of dry grass, and if I'm not mistaken, the flowers are made of thin wood veneer, well, very similar to it. It turned out beautifully and original, take note.
Crafts from vegetables. Cucumber crocodile
Here are some autumn handicrafts made from vegetables, I liked the crocodile made from cucumber, I couldn’t make out what was made from carrots from the photo, since I didn’t see this exhibition "live", my husband took pictures of everything.
And finally, our composition is at the exhibition, the teachers decided to add a bear there, since Masha is there. And it turned out that Masha was visiting the bear during the autumn holidays, the bear was preparing firewood for the winter and watching Masha swing on the swing. It would be possible to attach a hare here if he was and next to a basket with carrots, for example, made of plasticine.
In general, there was a lot more to implement here, but there is not enough time, as always. Maybe someone will take this autumn idea and make a craft, where all the characters from this cartoon will be.
I hope this article will be useful for you and your children and will help you come up with and implement your own idea for an autumn craft.
With respect and love, Elena Kurbatova.
Children's crafts on the theme of Autumn - inexhaustible soil for creativity. To create them, you can use natural materials that have already become traditional, and other interesting objects and things.
Such simple ideas help children to discover all facets of creativity and learn to see parts of the natural world around them, even in the usual household things.
In the fall, children and adults alike return to the topic of studying vegetables. Why not make a visual aid - a carrot? We glue the orange paper in the form of a roll.
We glue it on both sides at different angles. Cut corners on one side. Glue the greens cut into strips. The paper carrot is ready!
Apple tree from a paper plate
A truly autumnal craft can be made from a disposable plate. All you need is to paint the outside of the bottom of the plate green or yellow with a foam sponge
and apply red dots on the painted surface using cotton swabs.
We glue a rectangular piece of brown cardboard from below - and now the autumn apple tree is ready. Such an apple tree will become even more attractive if you use some small round objects as apples, gluing them with polymer glue.
Look at the video on how to make a volumetric applique "Yablonka":
A cute autumn applique can be made on a disposable plate.
Apple tree from a cardboard roll
In the same way, you can arrange the crown of a tree, the trunk of which is made from half a roll of toilet paper. We glue the half to an A4 sheet and decorate the upper part with pieces of soft colored paper.
Small red buttons imitating autumn apples will complement the look.
If you use a one-piece roll of paper, you get a voluminous tree. We put red dots on green paper - these are future apples. Let the paint dry
To keep the crown better, before fixing it on the trunk, we cut the roll from the top side and bend the strips outward.
We insert the crumpled paper into the roll, forming the crown of the apple tree.
Wood from cardboard rolls
An autumn tree can be made from cardboard rolls and real autumn leaves. Cut cardboard rolls and paint brown. We prepare leaves and other natural autumn materials: acorns, chestnuts, mountain ash, branches, maple seeds.
We glue leaves and other gifts of autumn to cardboard rolls. You can decorate the resulting piece of autumn forest with two adorable plasticine and chestnut hedgehogs.
Palm tree
You can make an even more original decorative tree: circle the child's handle up to the elbow on brown cardboard,
cut out and paste over it with multi-colored paper autumn leaves. This craft can be used as a window decoration. In this case, we put the cut out pen and leaves on transparent adhesive paper and cover it with adhesive paper on the back side.
Autumn tree - decoration on the window
The leaf application can be placed on a cardboard stand - we will get a worthy exhibit of the autumn exhibition.
Crafts on the theme of autumn "tree from leaves"
Crumpled paper tree
An interesting application is a tree made of crumpled paper.
We form a trunk and branches from it.
Then we glue bright yellow-red lumps of napkins or paper for packaging on them instead of leaves and fruits.
Autumn tree from the package
The bag is cut into small strips, which are then rolled into tree branches. To make the craft more durable, it is worth first applying glue to the paper strips. Leaves are glued to the tree branches. The curved shape of the twisted stripes makes it look like a fairy tree.
Autumn tree made of threads
For crafts, glue a sheet of cardboard with a cone. Then we take thick yarn and wrap it on the cone layer by layer, fixing it on the glue (it is better to apply the glue gradually to the cone itself). The top can be decorated with a pom-pom and felt leaves can be glued on top. The result is a very unusual and spectacular autumn tree.
Autumn pendant from gifts of autumn
As a craft on the theme of autumn with your own hands for school, you can make a beautiful pendant from natural materials - tree branches, pine and spruce cones, dried physalis nuts and other components.
Such a product will organically fit into a school office or hall.
Hedgehog from a plastic bottle and cones
You can use pine cones to create fun characters like hedgehogs. We take a small plastic bottle as the basis of the craft and wrap it with a thick cloth. We begin to glue the cones one by one onto the fabric. We glue the entire bottle in this way.
We glue the eyes and ears to the hedgehog. We decorate the craft with autumn gifts - apples, mountain ash, twigs. A hedgehog made of cones and a bottle is ready!
Look at the video on how to make a forest hedgehog from cones:
Squirrels from cones
Pine cones and felt can be used to make adorable squirrels with acorns.
A squirrel can be made from plasticine and pine cones.
Birds from cones
You can make a cone bird a little differently. We fasten the chestnut, cone and leaves with glue - we get a little body, head and wings.
Weave a nest from thin branches. We weave leaves into the nest, trying to close the gaps between the branches.
We glue the eyes and beak to the birds, then place them in the nest. Such a craft can easily decorate any autumn exhibition.
Crafted from Cones, Straw, Walnuts, and Dry Leaves for an incredibly adorable dragon. For such a craft, you will need a good glue gun.
Another entertaining and very simple craft on the theme of autumn is a pine cone tree. From thin paper we make balls of "autumn" colors - green, orange, yellow, red. We put glue on the "scales" of the cones and insert paper balls into them.
Crafts on the theme of autumn from natural materials
And this is a funny little man made of natural materials! We make holes in chestnuts or acorns and insert matches into them. We fix all the details with glue.
From the gifts of autumn fruits, you can make a delicious and edible craft - a hedgehog.
The autumn handicraft "Pumpkin carriage" will become a real masterpiece of the autumn exhibition.
Watch how to make a pumpkin carriage in the video:
Young princesses will love making a pumpkin and zucchini snail! And how nice it is to decorate it with beads and rhinestones.
Autumn crafts from salt dough
Salted dough makes very beautiful autumn hedgehogs.
Another interesting fall idea for kids of all ages is making a salt dough pendant. We color the pieces of dough in the colors of the autumn scale. We roll them into layers about one centimeter thick and cut out leaves of different shapes and sizes using molds.
We dry the leaves in the open air and hang them by strings to a branch of a tree.
A very beautiful composition on the theme of autumn can be made from a molding mass that solidifies in the air. Roll out the mass in a thin layer and press a real autumn leaf against it. Cut out the imprint of the sheet in a stack.
We make a hole at the top. We are waiting for the mass to dry up and paint it in bright autumn colors. We hang the resulting leaves to a stick. The composition "autumn leaves" is ready!
Composition "autumn leaves"
Autumn crafts from plasticine
You can make a very beautiful autumn landscape from plasticine. The basis of the craft is a sheet of cardboard, on which the details of the picture are glued.
We start a craft on the theme of autumn from plasticine by fixing the trunk and branches of a birch.
We glue yellow leaves and yellow grass. We decorate the sky with clouds and a flock of birds flying away. We plant mushrooms, a Christmas tree, a Christmas tree and a hare on the ground.
Plasticine vegetables have become a classic of autumn crafts.
Leaf applications
Another great idea for autumn creativity are leaf appliques. One of my favorite applique themes is fish and the seabed.
You can decorate a cardboard tree trunk with real dry autumn leaves. Even the smallest toddlers will love this simple applique.
Application from leaves "tree"
You can make a beautiful autumn card with a mushroom from a leaf from a newspaper.
With the help of a laminator and real autumn leaves, you can make an interesting manual for children. We collect leaves from different types of trees. It is advisable to collect several pieces from each type of tree: three oak leaves, four maple leaves, three rowan leaves, five willow leaves, two chestnut leaves, three alder leaves. Laminate them.
Cut out the laminated leaves.
Educational purpose of the manual: to acquaint children with the types of trees and be able to distinguish between them. We invite the children to arrange the leaves by type and name them.
Leaves benefit
Real autumn leaves can be used to make a beautiful panel for decorating walls and windows. We need bright beautiful autumn leaves. We will leave some of them intact, and cut out hearts from others.
Place the leaves and hearts between two layers of sticky paper. The autumn composition is ready.
From autumn leaves and petals, you can make a portrait of the Queen of the Autumn.
Autumn compositions with flowers from leaves
From autumn leaves, you can make a lovely autumn composition with roses.
See how you can make a luxurious bouquet of roses from leaves:
Autumn crafts from felt
You can make a very bright autumn garland out of colored pieces of felt.
Autumn garland made of felt will be a wonderful interior decoration.
Garland of felt "Colored leaves"
Autumn bouquet from foamiran
Many will surely like a bouquet on the theme of autumn made of foamed rubber or foamiran. Cut out leaves of different shapes. We paint with paint to emphasize the edges and veins on the leaves.
We make an autumn vase from a plastic can and branches. We fasten the branches with double-sided tape.
We put the leaves in a vase and complement the composition with twigs and cones. A bouquet on the theme of autumn from foamiran is ready!
Another very popular autumn craft is a bouquet of fruits. To make this craft, we need to insert long skewers into the fruit.
We collect all the fruits in a bouquet, decorate with herbs and wrap with paper.
Crafts on the theme of autumn reviews:
Beautiful crafts, thanks!))
A find for those who make crafts on the theme of autumn with a child in kindergarten! (alevita)
The tradition of making autumn crafts with your own hands is rooted in ancient times. Once upon a time, man made the greatest discovery: food can be grown. Survival was now almost guaranteed, and there was time to think about things of a higher order. Autumn, on the eve of winter cold and hunger, became a harbinger of a long rest and holidays after hard field work. And the forest is still warm, there are mushrooms and berries. The game has grown fat over the summer, its instinct, hearing and vigilance have dulled - it is good to hunt. In the rivers and lakes there is an autumn bite, so there will be meat and fish for the winter. In general, in winter it became satisfying, but boring, so I wanted to preserve the charm of my eyes longer ...
So far, homemade memorabilia about the joyful and sad beautiful time of quiet wilting of nature are not made of everything: from simple autumn bouquets, the material for which you just need to collect and put in a vase, to complex figures and compositions that require extraordinary imagination and delicate work, see . rice. They all have one thing in common: the ability to discern the hidden essence of a thing and extend its natural life cycle as much as possible.
Some argue that autumn compositions of fresh flowers, vegetables and fruits are akin to a Buddhist-Tibetan mandala. But the monks, hiding from everyone, carefully take it out with colored sand for a year, so that then at once they themselves will sweep it away, in commemoration of the futility of all that exists. And the compositions on the theme of golden autumn, although short-lived, wither naturally and before that they manage to please many. However, let's not philosophize about both worldviews. We will see how to create more durable autumn crafts that can remind you of the sad beauty of wilting nature at least until spring. But let's not forget about the golden autumn either ...
Some innovations
A significant part of the fruits of autumn creativity are figurines of people and animals. They need eyes. Traditionally, very expressive, but, alas, short-lived eyes are obtained from the fruits of the snowberry - a common shrub in mid-latitudes, see Fig. For clear pupils, small rounded black seeds can be stuck in them, for example. mouse peas.
Eyes that can live with the figurine all its life can be made from glued-on pieces of white and colored felt, like all other additional elements, see fig. left. Its full-fledged substitute, and more accessible and convenient in work, is geofabric (geofilm). The one that is covered by greenhouses and greenhouses. You can paint it with felt-tip pens.
Parts of crafts are usually glued with PVA, Moment, etc., but recently acrylic glue has been increasingly used. Non toxic instant cyanoacrylate but water based. It is safe and easy to peel off the body. From hair - with a comb moistened with water. The same goes for acrylic varnishes and paints.
Children are very fond of expressing the emerging personality in autumn creativity. It is highly desirable, even necessary, to create children's crafts without the use of piercing and cutting objects. There is also a traditional way of connecting - matches. But they are dull, too soft and the skin of acorns, chestnuts, beans, etc. pierced with difficulty and carelessly. Now, instead of matches, it is better to use toothpicks: they are harder of wood, and their tips are sharp enough to pierce the seed shell, but not so much as to injure children's fingers.
Muzzles, paws and other small animals are most often molded from plasticine. When it comes to durable products, it is better to replace it (plastic, cold porcelain). You can also do plastic surgery yourself at home. Raw materials are inexpensive and affordable, but the cooking process itself is quite laborious. But 300-350 g of plastic obtained at a time is enough for a whole collection of trinkets. Plastic easily accepts painting and varnishing with acrylic, processed with a knife and an awl. Well, and we will recall other autumn ornamental tricks along the way, in relation to a specific material.
Cones
The most solid foundation for autumn crafts is provided by empty cones of conifers. Well-made crafts from cones retain their appearance for years and can serve as a permanent decoration of the interior. The material is hard; working with it requires a small steel tool. Therefore, adults and fairly grown children should be engaged in shishkotvorchestvo.
Unknown bumps
Cones are found not only on pines, spruces and cedars. Pine-bearing plants also include those that not all botanists call conifers. For example, types and garden form of thuja. In cultural plantings, they are common all the way to St. Petersburg. Thuja cones are small but varied, see fig. They can be used to make various complementary elements in the general spirit of pine cone compositions.
Juniper cones do not look like cones either, rather like berries, on the right in Fig. from them good and durable pupils of eyes and noses of animals are obtained. There is no need to look for a juniper, which is now rare and protected by law: its cones are a medicinal product and are sold dry in pharmacies.
Note: sometimes araucaria is grown in rooms. This is also a pine-bearing plant with small, very original cones.
One bump
Mini-crafts come out already from the 1st bump, there would be enough imagination and vigilance. By the way, in pos. 1 fig. on the back of the hedgehog - the very bumps of the araucaria, which were discussed. But - back to fantasy. The cone is most often viewed from the side of the splayed scales. And if you just look from the bottom, "at the bottom?" You see what may be there, pos. 4? Baba Yaga with a walking fly agaric instead of a goblin or Kashchei, pos. 5 - this is quite in the spirit of a dense forest from Russian fairy tales, but crocodiles do not eat cones and are not found in pine forests with spruce forests, like penguins, pos. 6 and 7.
Note: acorns organically fit into the crafts made of cones, which we will remember later.
Pineal techniques
Cones are firmly glued together with any glue on wood, so the easiest way to assemble a craft from them is to paste over a suitable base with cones. This is how the now popular hedgehogs are made from cones and a plastic bottle, on the left in Fig. But the bumps can cling on their own, if they are thrust into each other with scales, in the center. For strength, a few drops of glue are allowed into the joints.
In the same technique of mutual coupling, baskets are made of cones. But here, for greater strength, it is desirable to reinforce the product with a flexible electrical wire in insulation, on the right in Fig. Especially if the basket is not just a decoration, but also a household item - a bowl for sweets, etc.
Sometimes the crowns of dry autumn trees - topiary - are harvested from the cones. To do this, you will have to use an awl or micro drill with a thin 0.7-1.2 mm drill. In the core of the cones from the rear (where the tail was), a blind hole is drilled or punctured with a depth of approx. 1 cm. Then glue is dripped into it and immediately pushes a hard or nylon thread with a toothpick. A toothpick is broken off, leaving a plug in the hole. As an option, but much less convenient, a thin wire with a bent end is injected directly into the glue. With the tails of a cord or wire, the cones are attached to the trunk, starting from the bottom. The upper tails, which are already difficult to tie, are carried through the crown with a crochet hook and knit at the bottom.
Pine cone flowers are also a very popular craft. There are 2 methods in use here: either the top of the cone is bite off with pliers, and the scales are broken, on the left in the figure, or the crown of the flower will be the bottom of the cone, on the right. Painted in both cases with acrylic paint.
By the way about hedgehogs
Among the autumn handicrafts, hedgehogs occupy a special place. They are made of needles from sunflower or acacia seeds, straws, yarn, etc., see fig. Even from pine nuts, at current prices! This work is painstaking, but a completely plausible hedgehog comes out of a whole basket of sunflower with a scraped loose core and cut edges, on the right in Fig. To prevent the seeds from falling out, its back is instilled from a PVA medical syringe or transparent acrylic varnish, diluted with water two to three times. In any case, it is better to mold the base from plastic.
There is also a way to make an autumn hedgehog from the 1st cone, and not just a hedgehog. This is also quite painstaking work, although not as much as in the previous one. case: the needles are stuck between the scales. So as not to fall out as it dries, drip in glue. You can also stick in twigs, leaves, etc., depending on the plan, see next. rice.
Chestnuts
Horse chestnut fruits are not as durable as cones: by spring, the core dries out, the crust dulls and becomes fragile. But fresh chestnuts are very elegant, and beautiful crafts from chestnuts can be created right there, right on the street, walking with children. For example, it is enough to add eyes to the chestnuts in the plunge, and you will get funny faces, on the left in Fig. From the husked ones, figurines like a snowman are also collected right on the spot on matches, toothpicks or twigs, on the right in rice; mouth, nose, eyes can be pierced and scratched with a penknife. True, chestnut-colored snow does not exist even in areas of man-made disasters, so children call such figures (at least they once called them) “fried stuffed meow”.
The trail from the plyus on the chestnut seed is wide and looks like a monkey's face, therefore, like a hedgehog made of cones, so from chestnuts, the most common craft is a figurine of a monkey. As for the other figures, then it's only a matter of imagination; see next page for some samples. rice.
Here, as mentioned above, it is better to use toothpicks instead of matches. First, you don't have to prick the chestnuts many times. Secondly, from chestnuts on toothpicks, you can collect complex volumetric compositions, such as models of molecules of chemicals, pos. 1 in fig. on right. Bulky chestnuts with a solid surface (topiary crowns, vases, baskets) are already collected on propylene thread or nylon cord using a sewing needle. The rather wide gaps between the chestnuts need to be covered with something, acorns and beans are most suitable for this, pos. 2.
In complex autumn-themed compositions created at home, mushrooms are often made from chestnuts, cutting through the rind along the equator and cutting the core, so something similar to boletus, porcini or Polish mushroom is obtained. To imitate butter and mushrooms, it is better to put an acorn on the leg, fastened to the cap with a piece of a toothpick. The underside of the cap is tinted with acrylic paint, see fig. left. And to get a boletus or fly agaric, they already paint the hat.
Leaves
Autumn leaf crafts are the most common. Immediately on a walk from the leaves, you can weave a wreath on your head - which of the girls in childhood did not feel like a princess in it? A wreath of dead leaves is made in the same way as a wreath of wildflowers, see the video below. You just need to take leaves with long stalks - maple - and in the southern regions, plane trees are suitable.
Video: a wreath of leaves - an example of making
A dead leaf is considered a very short-lived material: it is suitable for work only for a few hours, then it dries up and becomes fragile or rotten. Crafts from autumn leaves without additional preparation and processing are kept in a room with moderate humidity for 2-4 weeks. But what is this preparation with processing?
In order for crafts made from autumn leaves to last until spring, or even several years, you will need:
- PVA glue or water-polymer emulsion. It is sold in packages of 5 liters for construction and woodwork, but this is the same PVA, highly diluted.
- Water based acrylic varnish.
- Distilled water in an amount sufficient to dilute varnish and PVA (if there is no emulsion) 3-5 times. Distilled water can be purchased at any pharmacy with a prescription department.
The essence of the method is in distilled water. To impregnate wood, PVA can be diluted with ordinary tap water of good quality, but in order to make dead leaves suitable for more delicate work and to fix the entire product, there should be no dissolved salts in the water. Step-by-step instructions for improving the ornamental qualities of a fallen leaf and strengthening autumn leaf crafts are simple:
- We dilute the varnish and, optionally, PVA, 3-5 times. Thus, we obtain a bactericidal water-repellent impregnation-plasticizer and varnish-fixer. The proportion is not critical, solutions in a tightly closed container are stored for a long time;
- Leaves, not yet brittle, are cleaned of dirt with a soft toothbrush and rinsed in tap water;
- Then we blot them with a paper towel or napkin and dry them not in direct light or near heating appliances;
- When there are no visible drops and a film of moisture on the leaves, we treat with a soft brush on 2 sides with a water-polymer emulsion or diluted PVA;
- After the impregnation has dried (1-3 hours), let the leaves work. You can only glue them with PVA or acrylic glue!
- The finished product several times, until it ceases to be absorbed, is covered with a fixative varnish;
- When the fixer dries, the craft can be opened for strength and gloss with undiluted acrylic varnish.
It is best to fix appliqués from leaves on paper in this way. On the wall, they can hang in their original form for several, up to 10 or more years. If autumn pictures from leaves are created in this way for a kindergarten or school, then it is possible to create a large gallery for several generations of children, or even a museum.
A little more about applications
Children's works made from dead leaves sometimes participate and win prizes at serious autumn opening days with an authoritative jury; parents of young authors may then be asked to accept their offspring in a school for the gifted. What are the criteria by which sophisticated art critics and artists determine worthy work?
The most important thing is laconic expressiveness, it has always been appreciated and appreciated in art. The second condition is a minimum of additional materials, coloring and cropping, as in Fig. You cannot become an artist without feeling nature, and its feeling is largely reduced to the ability to see the hidden expressive possibilities of blanks. Third, some splendor and fine detailing is not forbidden, but without frills and only where they are necessary and appropriate. And, finally, thematic compositions are especially appreciated, where the same set of materials plays with all sides, as if on the trail. rice.
Cups-vases
The same technique finds application in the creation of volumetric objects from leaves. The basis is a balloon. Inflatable balloons come in different shapes, so it is possible to make them from leaves of autumn cups, vases, jugs. The inflated ball is lubricated with petroleum jelly and pasted over with leaves treated with a plasticizer in several layers. When the workpiece dries, the ball is blown off, and the product is fixed and, if desired, varnished.
Trees and bouquets
Autumn topiary and bouquets are closely related to phytoplasty (this is the art of creating volumetric pieces of decorative art from leaves). The simplest, but rather reliable and natural-looking, stem-stem of an artificial autumn tree is a crumpled and twisted kraft paper bag. Branches and twigs are obtained by tearing the top, also twisted into bundles. Then the barrel is treated with the same diluted PVA, and then it is a matter of your imagination, see fig. on right.
The creation of autumn bouquets is a special art that also comes from phytoplastics. In addition to school ones, by September 1, they are collected from flowers for cutting for the season. Here we can say the following about autumn bouquets - decorations. First, the bouquet is the same as on the left on the trail. rice can be made much more durable, leaving it almost the same in appearance, by drying it in the sand. Building sand is needed the finest and yellowest, from a relatively soft feldspar with rounded grains, but without a large admixture of iron salts, i.e. not white quartz and not reddish or tawny. You also need a vessel made of thin plastic, in which the bouquet will fit without touching the walls and bottom. Then we proceed as follows:
- We take so much sand that the selected vessel is filled with it entirely;
- The sand is thoroughly calcined on a baking sheet in the oven, and cooled to a temperature 3-5 degrees above room temperature. Its control is a thermometer immersed in the sand;
- We hang the bouquet upside down in a dish on crossed sticks so that it does not touch the walls and bottom;
- Gently, smoothly circling the edge with a trickle, fill the bouquet with sand to the top of the dishes;
- We dry not in direct light and without additional heating in a warm dry room for 2-3 weeks;
- We put a container with a bouquet on the edge of a larger vessel;
- We cut a hole in the bottom of the drying container with a sharp knife and gradually release the sand;
- Without turning the bouquet, blow off the remaining sand from it with a syringe or a household hairdryer at the lowest power without heating.
The bouquet on the right in fig. - very popular now composition with roses from leaves. She needs fresh maple leaves. It is not necessary to process them immediately, as described above, the finished product is impregnated and fixed. And how to turn leaves into roses, see below the master class in pictures.
Harvest in the bins ...
Compositions on the theme "Golden Autumn" are also a separate art, the synthesis of phytoplastics and autumn bouquets, with their own exhibitions and competitions. They are usually timed to coincide with the harvest festival, so the indispensable elements of the golden autumn compositions are ripe fruits of fields, orchards and vegetable gardens in large quantities, see fig.
Compositions "Golden Autumn"
Here, firstly, splendor is needed, symbolizing abundance. Secondly, light, veiled, erotic hints in the form of pepper pods, etc. are acceptable and desirable. And what is it, because autumn is the time for weddings? In the old days, this made a very definite sense. It was not accepted for newlyweds to delay the conception of offspring. The wife gave birth in the spring, when the mother could already receive fresh food and vitamins. And the baby by his first winter turned out to be so strong that he could survive it, if the year turned out to be a poor harvest.
Descendants of the fallen leaf
Phytoplastics also gave birth to autumn origami. The purpose of this flow is to create an autumn mood, which is achieved with a base of dry branches, and the leaves are folded from paper, for an example, see pos. III fig. The art of paper folding is origami.
How to make leaves for an autumn bouquet - origami
There are, so you know, 2 directions of origami: origami-do, or high origami, and modular origami. In origami-do, only 1 solid square sheet of paper is allowed; possibly colored, no cuts, no glue or tools. Modular origami objects are glued from parts and can be painted. The workpieces are allowed to be trimmed.
Which of the types of origami you like more is up to you. How the origami-do maple leaf is folded is given in pos. I; willow - on pos. IV. And how it is done and what a modular origami maple leaf looks like is shown in pos. V and III resp.
Acorns
Coming to the end of our review of autumn crafts, one cannot help but linger on acorns. For children, acorn toys are a special world, because they see small objects larger, more convex and brighter than adults.
Several species of oaks grow within the Russian Federation, and a few more have been introduced from Asia and the Western Hemisphere. All of them have different acorns, pos. 1 in fig. With acrylic glue, smooth acorns are glued into complex objects; one example is shown in fig. at the beginning. But traditionally the objects of acorn inspiration are mini-compositions.
If the original cone figurine is a hedgehog, and the chestnut one is a monkey, then acorns are also inherent in manifesting themselves in micro dishes. The acorn set can also be assembled on site, pos. 2. Handles - strips of bast or thin bark. Holes for them are punctured with the edge of a penknife. The same service, but using plastic and glue, homemade is possible, pos. 3. Effective and mini-compositions of acorns on any other topic, pos. 4, it's just a matter of imagination. For example, the original frames are drawn from acorn hats - plus, pos. 5. Do you need a lot of them? Are there few acorns on the ground? As much as you like, you can string it on a cord and make an excellent wreath on the door with glue, pos. 6. And only from 1 acorn and a set of hats by the same stringing - a snake, see fig. on right.
Here in fig. "For inspiration" we give the details of the acorn watchdog and samples of figures of this type. But the little man on the right from the category of "stuffed-meow fried" can live with movable arms-legs. To do this, their acorns are pierced with an awl and the limbs are collected not on toothpicks, but on a copper winding enameled wire with a diameter of 0.6-0.8 mm or pieces of twisted pair computer cable veins ("vitukha"). The conductors of these wires are made of oxygen-free copper, which can withstand a fairly large number of bends. The conductors of electrical wires are thinner, 0.15-0.4 mm, and they are made of ordinary electrical copper, more fragile.
The insulation of the "vitukha" wires is brightly colored, so they are well suited for making acorn toys in combination with other natural materials. For a short tutorial on this part with examples of figurines, see fig. Beaks are made from sunflower, pumpkin and melon seeds, and a bird's tuft is made from a corn seed in the upper left.
Note: from acorns, pierced with wire and painted with acrylic paint, they make crafts - bunches of grapes, olive branches, etc., see fig. on right.
Autumn in an adult way
Autumn is also the most favorable time for people doing decorative arts from natural materials quite seriously and even professionally. In the rivers in early autumn there is a low-water period, the time of the lowest water level. Here you can find well-ironed and soaked driftwood along the banks. Root plastics is the art of wood carving on roots and snags, based on a successfully found blank.
Later, in the midst of leaf fall and at the end of it, burials, burls of wood on the trunks are looked for in deciduous forests. Not to be confused with a boxing mouthguard, an anti-knockout device! The burl on the tree is a masculine neoplasm.
Autumn is the time not only for garden harvests, but also for children's crafts. Those who often visit parks and squares, as well as go to the forest on weekends, know firsthand how beautiful nature is in autumn. Indian summer pleases with the last rays of the sun, warm weekends and bright colors.
During this period, it is good to collect leaves for herbarium collections. Red, yellow and orange plant samples are added to the piggy bank. In winter, you can glue all kinds of applications from dried leaves or make volumetric compositions.
In the presented master - class we will show you how to make a composition from natural materials "Autumn in the forest".
To create children's crafts you will need:
Cardboard as a basis for creative work;
- pieces of plasticine;
- chestnuts of different sizes;
- acorns;
- spiny chestnut bolls;
- dry leaves;
- cone.
We start working on the composition by decorating the mushrooms. Let it be pot-bellied boletus. Using plasticine, we connect flat chestnuts with acorns without caps. Three mushrooms are enough.
The turn has come to deal with hedgehogs. Small animals are characterized by elongated muzzles. Let's make plasticine long noses with eyes on the outside of the green chestnut boxes. It was in this package that the brown chestnuts ripened yesterday.
Real hedgehogs have a pointed nose and small ears. Our handicrafts have a nose shape that fully matches the original, and the ears are hidden under the thorns.
It is believed that hedgehogs live in a wide variety of places, with the exception of continuous coniferous forests and swamps. They prefer to inhabit meadows, forest edges, grassy plains and even parks. Surely many have met hedgehogs even in the most unpredictable places.
We will settle our crafts in an ordinary forest. Let's start decorating the clearing with a deciduous carpet. To do this, lay out dry colorful leaves and flowers in a chaotic manner on cardboard.
Let's put a Crimean pine cone in the background. This is a tree. 
Attach mushrooms to a large piece of plasticine. They turned out to be half the size of our tree, but this fact does not bother us at all. In the fairy forest, anything can happen. Of course, you have to tinker with mushrooms. Since the surface of acorns and chestnuts is flat, the caps constantly strive to slip off the mushroom leg. But we coped with the task with dignity.
Photo from afar. 
Now you can safely send a family of hedgehogs to the edge of the forest. 
We put acorn caps on the backs of the animals. Orange rowan berries, of course, would look better, but we don't have them. The composition of natural materials "Autumn in the forest" can be considered complete. If there are dry twigs or spruce branches in stock, then they should definitely be used in the craft. Unfortunately, we have lost sight of these decorative elements, but next time we will definitely fix it. Creative success!
Good afternoon, today we will be talking about autumn crafts. And we will make these crafts from natural material with our own hands. Autumn is rich in a wide variety of materials. And so we will do with The most different crafts on the theme of Autumn- from leaves, twigs, acorns, chestnuts, straw, moss, dried flowers and other natural material. I will show you interesting ways to create autumn crafts with your own hands using ordinary natural material. in an unusual design way. In this article you will find fresh ideas, that will inspire you to be creative this fall. So we go out on a quiet hunt for ideas for the best crafts of the fall-2017 season.
Autumn natural material is rich in ideas for a variety of crafts for children. Let's see what ideas you can implement this fall.
Compositions from leaves
and natural material.
Who said that autumn crafts made from natural materials should be done while sitting indoors. Golden autumn beckons with the warm sun, the smell of rotten leaves - and we don't want to sit within four walls. We go outside with the children to catch a little more warmth and warm our eyes with the yellow bonfire of autumn foliage.
Crafts on the AUTUMN theme from natural materials can be done right on the street. In my yard, next to the entrance. All you have to do is find a quiet, windless place. Instruct the children to collect a pile of bright leaves and a bucket of dry pebbles.
And now an interesting game begins - laying out crafts from autumn natural material. For beginners, this can be a simple tree. Heavy stones press yellow leaves, prevent them from flying away from the wind. The craft can be saved as a photo.
If there is a whole bunch of pebbles next to your walk, then you can make a craft from natural material on a larger scale (as in the photo below).
If you are observant, you may notice that the foliage underneath is different in color. If we collect yellow leaves from ash or birch in a separate package, red leaves from aspen or Canadian maple in another package, and a little more brown blackened leaves, then we can make such a Winnie bear on our porch.
Any silhouette picture can be laid out from a colored mosaic of nature itself. The main thing is to find a place without strong winds. And have time to photograph this beauty before it fluttered from the wind and flew away like a bird.
The natural materials of autumn themselves will tell you ideas for collages - gray branches (like the gray plumage of the wing and tail), yellow leaves (like yellow fluff on the breast). And here you are, a tit-bird.
You don't have to be an artist, you don't have to have many leaves. Even the smallest deciduous piles can be folded into beautiful autumn crafts. The simplest DIY craft, the distribution of foliage according to the colors of the spectrum, looks like real magic.
You become little wizards. Secret gnomes, assistants of Queen Autumn. You hooligan secretly, leaving kind signs, funny symbols of the autumn season.
And some crafts can be done using a tree trunk as a base. Make the tree smile. The nose is a bump, two eyes sawed off from a wood block, and a smile from physalis fruits, strung on a thread.
Do you know what mandalas are? In the east, mandalas are sacred patterns enclosed in a circle. A harmonious pattern repeating in a circle is like a map of the universe. Mandalas are drawn or laid out from mosaics, colored sand, flower petals. Mandalas are a spiritual practice that allows you to touch the divine principle within yourself. You need to make mandalas in a special state of mind - pure, serene, enlightened.
We, too, can make beautiful harmonious patterns of mandalas with our own hands in the form of handicrafts from natural material - a bright beautiful autumn one.
Your autumn mandala craft can be quite small (like in the photo below).
Or a very large one, consisting of many circles in a cyclic pattern.
Mosaic applications
on the topic AUTUMN.
All kids love mosaics. Why don't we make it from autumn natural material.
Since the leaves are too large for a mosaic (and are suitable for laying out large paintings in the yard), for indoor small works we can cut an ordinary juicy maple leaf into small squares. Divide them into bowls - yellow, green, red separately. And let the children themselves lay out a bright mosaic craft from such a pleasant to the touch natural material with their own hands.
As an ornamental material, you can use cereals or seeds. A very good natural material for autumn children's crafts is yellow corn grains or large pumpkin seeds painted with gouache.
And also a mosaic made of solid leaves can become the crown of a tree - a simple and quick craft made from natural materials, which is suitable for kindergarten children. You can glue the leaves on paper, or on a transparent office file - and then such a craft can be fixed on the window, the leaves will shine in the sun. A beautiful children's craft for a younger age.
Crafts on the theme of AUTUMN.
Natural material STONE.
And here is another wonderful idea for crafts from natural materials in the autumn theme. Ordinary flat river stones can be used as canvas for autumn paintings. You can paint the stones with a brush, but it is better to apply the drawing using the dots technique - round wooden sticks or special dots sticks (metal devices with a round ball at the end) are suitable for this. They are sold in the manicure department, as they are intended for painting on nails. The ball tips of the dots sticks come in different sizes, allowing you to draw even dots of any size.
You can also draw owls on the stones - this is the simplest drawing - the main thing here is expressive eyes, a pointed beak, and oval-wings with even rows of feathers. First, we draw with paints, then we outline each painted element with a contour (white, as in the left photo, or black, as in the right photo below). And the contour thin stroke of the elements will make the crafts-drawings clearer and more expressive.
Such crafts-owls made of natural material will look good on a snag with patches of moss, inside a wooden frame, glued to a cut of a log.
And it's even cooler to plant such an owl inside a hole cut in a thick round cut of a tree trunk.
Autumn crafts
with tree branches.
Ordinary tree branches can also become a source of an interesting autumn collage with your own hands. This natural material is lying around completely idle. On a walk, you can give the children the task of collecting beautiful, not dirty twigs in a bag, disassembling them at home, cleaning them from debris and breaking them into small pieces.
Next, on a sheet of paper, draw the outlines of a basket with handles. And either we give the child plasticine, or we arm ourselves with a glue gun and begin to collect our basket from the sticks. Then it remains to put fruits in it (cut out of cardboard, draw and then cut, or perform using the cut-off applique technique).
And if you have collected beautiful leaves together with chopsticks, then you can make a children's craft tree from natural materials.
Long sticks found in the park can not be broken, but put aside to make them a new hand-made panel made of natural materials(as in the photo below). The principle is simple. The sticks are laid in the shape of the sides of a square - we tie the junction of the sticks with twine (wire, thread). And then we decorate such a frame with natural materials and colored paper.
You can put a canvas inside the frame of branches - we tint a sheet of cardboard with paints, make holes on its sides with a hole punch - and tie the sheet with threads to the branch frame, pulling the thread through the holes and around the branch (as is done in the left photo below). And then on this canvas we make an applique made of natural material on the theme of autumn.
Or you can simply decorate the frame around its perimeter - in the lower part of the square we attach a bush, mushrooms, pieces of moss, bark, and a hedgehog made of cardboard to plasticine. On the top of our panel made of natural material we hang a garland of autumn leaves, cut out of colored paper, a sun, clouds, a kite.
From the branches you can lay out large applique in the form of an owl , children's handicraft, which is entirely made of natural material, which is rich in autumn. Branches, dry and fresh pine needles, withered fir legs. You can lay out the applique on a sheet of plywood and fix everything with glue - or make a temporary mosaic for a walk right on the ground or on a hemp.
Looks very nice handicraft Hedgehog made of natural material ... This fall craft is my absolute favorite in this article. Let me even tell you in detail how simple and easy it is to make such a hedgehog with your own hands. It is really very easy. Now you will be convinced of this.
First, we find beautiful thick twigs from a shrub or birch branches - we cut them with scissors or a knife into segments with long oblique cuts (as in the photo of the hedgehog below).
For this autumn craft, you will need plasticine - a large piece... Where can I get it? I never throw away the used plasticine from children's crafts, I put it in one common pile - then I soak this multi-colored pile in hot water - it becomes soft like a fresh dough, and easily and simply I knead this whole lump into a homogeneous mass with my hands - it turns out a large piece of fresh brown plasticine of excellent quality. You can make a variety of crafts from it for a long time.
We form the body of a hedgehog from plasticine- drop-shaped. And in the thick part of the hedgehog, row by row, we stick segments of branches - the oblique sections should look all in one direction.
2 ways to design a hedgehog's face.
1 way... I wrap the hedgehog's plasticine nose with a piece of burlap, or a piece of gauze (bandage) soaked in a solution of iodine with water.
Method 2. The hedgehog's face can be coated with PVA glue, covered with pieces of paper napkins, again coated with glue, again a layer of napkins, on top of the glue and allowed to dry - you get a layer of papier-mâché. We cover it with paint - we draw eyes on it, a nose
Craft-spider web from branches and leaves.
And you can also make beautiful decorative crafts-pendants on the AUTUMN theme from natural material. We need straight, even branches - like a willow. We look at the photo, and below I give a detailed step-by-step description of this children's craft.
A detailed master class on this craft from natural material.
We take a lump of plasticine and divide it into 2 small scones. On the first cake we put twigs in a circle (that is, radially from this plasticine center) - so that the ends of the branches meet in the middle of the plasticine cake. Slightly press each branch so that it sinks into the plasticine. Cover the top with a second plasticine cake, also pressing it on the branches. It turns out a spread with rays of branches.
Now we need coarse threads - those with which in the store they tie up packages with purchases. Such thick gray canvas-paper threads. With them, we begin to weave a cobweb between the branches - starting from the plasticine center and gradually moving to the outer edge, until our cobweb rests against the edge of the maple leaf.
Craft an autumn kaleidoscope.
Also you can do colored kaleidos made of natural material - from branches and leaves (as in the photo below).
For this craft, we'll need glue from a hot gun (or the ability to weave threads between crossed branches). Now I will give a detailed master class on how to create this craft with my own hands.
Step 1 We cut 4 rods of the same size. Two of them we cross a cross to a cross - we fasten with glue or threads. The other two we cross in the same way. We now have two crosses made of branches.
Step 2 We put these 2 crosses on top of each other obliquely - so that they form snowflake shape... We glue the middle of this clutch (or fix it with threads).
Step 3 We make a round ring from a flexible willow twig (fresh or soaked in water). We attach this ring to our "snowflake" of twigs - so that the edges of the ring are at the same distance from the center - for each rod(we measure with a tape measure). If the distances are the same, then the ring will be even, not curved.
Step 4 As a result, we got a circle out of branches, divided into triangular sectors. And all that remains is to find large maple leaves of different colors - pure yellow, pure red, pure green, pure orange. From them it is necessary to cut out triangles suitable in size to the sector-hole in the future kaleidoscope. Cut out the triangle so so that the central vein on the maple leaf passes through the middle of such a triangle- divided it in half like a bisector from geometry. And we attach all these multi-colored triangles made of maple leaves on a glue gun to the sectors of our construction made of natural material.
Autumn applications
Natural material.
And of course, all children love to make applications from autumn natural materials. Small and large paintings of leaves and dried flowers. The most favorite children's crafts on the theme of autumn.
The symbol of autumn made of natural material is, of course, a hedgehog. From what they just don't make it, from leaves, from flowers, from twigs, from maple or ash seeds.
The simplest hedgehog is done like this. Cut out the silhouette of a hedgehog from cardboard. We give children plasticine and maple seeds. We begin to fasten rows of seeds with plasticine on cardboard - you need to start from the back of the hedgehog... Children rush to start from the face - explain to them that this is not correct, that then it is not convenient to do the back rows of needles, when the front needles stick out back and get in the way.
By the same principle, a hedgehog is made from a flat natural material - leaves and dried flowers. Also, starting from the bottom - we attach it to plasticine or glue. This is the most common children's craft on the Autumn theme.
Children also love to make autumn turkeys. It is also a simple craft-bird, which does not require a lot of natural material. The body and head of the bird can be cut from cardboard. Or the head and torso can be cut with scissors from the same maple leaf (as in the photo of the craft below).
YOU can do crafts not using colored paper, but by cutting out all the parts necessary for the painting from natural material, in the event that you do not find a leaf of a suitable shape.
Here's a great idea. Large craft LEO. It can be made from real natural leaves. Or you can arrange it as a collective paper craft. In the kindergarten group, we distribute sheets of paper with a maple leaf painted on it. The task of the children is to cut this sheet along the contour. At the end of the lesson, all the children attach their leaves to the lion's mane. A good idea of crafts on the theme of "autumn" - for the middle group of kindergarten, when the children are in their first year of learning to cut with scissors along the contour - they will cut a maple leaf for about 10 minutes, and puff with zeal like steam locomotives.
If you work in a large children's team (as a kindergarten teacher or teacher, or the leader of a circle), then you can do one big collective craft. For example, here is such a bird made of natural material. We cut out parts of the bird from cardboard - separately the left wing, separately the right, separately the body and separately the tail. Divide the team into 4 creative groups... Each group of children receives their part and begins to lay the leaves on glue or plasticine. After the completion of the work of each brigade - we combine parts into one common bird craft from natural material, bright as autumn itself.
Autumn crafts-paintings
Natural material.
And of course, beautiful bright handicrafts-collages in the form of natural landscapes are obtained from the autumn material. In the photo below, we see how a panel painting was made from different materials - paper, leaves, herbs.
You can dry many flower petals. And make a big collage with the children with a blue sky and a blue river. Stretch a bridge across the river, cut out of a blackened autumn leaf (for the leaf to turn black, it must be ironed with a hot iron through the newspaper).
And if you have little dry natural material, then you can paint a picture with gouache or watercolors and lay out only individual elements of the landscape from leaves and herbs (as in this craft below).
Autumn crafts
from natural material.
The nature of autumn is rich in a variety of ornamental materials - hawthorn berries, rose hips, cones, fluffy moss. After walking in the woods, you can make an elegant autumn composition with a candle. And arrange a romantic candlelit dinner in the fall theme.
A thick saw cut of a log, birch round chocks and walnut shells - this poor natural material can become a source of inspiration for such a craft in the form of a mushroom clearing.
From the cones found, you can make a variety of characters with your own hands. And place them in the form of a single autumn composition made with your own hands from natural material (wood, leaves, moss, chips, etc.).
Fresh oak twigs plucked by a hurricane can be dried in the shade of a shed, under the roof. Oak leaves do not lose their juicy green color when dried. And then they will be able to participate in interesting handicrafts made with their own hands from autumn natural material.
A wreath - a symbol of autumn - made of natural material in all shades of bright foliage will delight your whole family. It is so interesting to collect leaves - to select only the most beautiful ones. You need to weave a wreath with your own hands from willow twigs and weave autumn leaves into it with threads, plant pine cones on wire or glue. On our site there is a special training article on weaving wreaths from twigs and branches -
Bright fruits-boxes of physalis, twigs with fruits of hawthorn, flowers of beetle flower look beautiful in autumn wreaths.
But even if you don't have a bright natural material for making an autumn wreath, don't be discouraged. You can do bright wreath of gray pine cones... You just need to take more gouache. Paint each bud with fall foliage. Sprinkle with hairspray (so that the color becomes juicier and does not get your hands dirty). And then collect all this colorful splendor of autumn in a rich wreath with your own hands.
The cones in the wreath can be placed with their butts forward (as in the photo above), or with their noses in front (as in the craft below).
You can make decorative fall wreaths from any one natural material. Only from rose hips - string the red fruits on a copper wire and bend it in the shape of a heart.
Or your fall wreath can be made from the cuts of a log found in a rasp of firewood.
In the same wood shed, you can find a natural material suitable for making compositions with owls.
Your autumn compositions can look like funny little people from birch sawn cuts, decorated with different natural materials, which autumn is rich in.
And bunches of mown grass can turn into a hedgehog if physalis blooms profusely in you (or in good neighbors). Its boxes can be sewn with threads to a straw bale. Wrap the sharp edge of the bale with twine and glue the nose and eyes.
And you can also make from natural autumn material beautiful candlestick ... We will need the lower part of any white bottle of household liquid (laundry balm, etc.).
We unfold a transparent wide adhesive tape on the table. On its sticky surface, we put beautiful small leaves, seeds and other flat natural material upside down. We put it so that there are empty spaces of sticky tape between the elements (so that there is a sticky space).
These are the new ideas for this fall - from natural materials. You found inspiration here. You fell in love with some crafts. And that means this autumn will not pass by your skillful hands. It remains only to collect natural material, which is abundant everywhere, and, fortunately, it is free. As in that rhyme ...
Autumn is walking in our park,
Autumn gives gifts to everyone.
And we give you even more other articles on the topic of autumn crafts.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site.