Autumn is my favorite season. Autumn is romantic, beautiful, rich in colors, full of comfort and warmth. And in the fall, you can make a huge number of different crafts, considering that the leaves of the trees take on a beautiful color, and cones and acorns just fall under your feet when you walk along the city alleys.
Autumn crafts made from natural materials is a wonderful way to spend a few hours with your child outdoors, collecting yellow leaves, chestnuts, nuts and cones.
This is also a very creative pastime that will help your child create a beautiful piece of work for a school autumn exhibition or a craft for kindergarten.
Crafts from autumn materials
Editorial "So simple!" prepared for you 25 ideas for crafts made from natural materials which are definitely worth doing with your children.
- A simple and at the same time interesting option for creating a butterfly from autumn leaves, which even the smallest ones can implement.
Before working, the leaves should be dried for 24 hours under a press to make them flat. When the material for autumn crafts is ready, you can start working.
- A creative way to create a snail from autumn leaves. This composition looks very good on dark cardboard.
- To implement this idea you will need a figured hole punch. Quite original, isn't it?
- The first thing that comes to mind when thinking about autumn home decoration, -
candles. They always create a special atmosphere, be it a small light or a fragrant flame.Here is a simple and beautiful option for creating an autumn candle holder using a regular glass jar, leaves and decorative ribbon.
- Making such a craft is not at all difficult. While walking with your child, start collecting chestnuts, and at home start coming up with different faces for them. I'm sure your baby will be absolutely delighted with this pastime!
- How do you like such a cute hedgehog? Looking at him, it’s simply impossible not to smile!
- Here are easy and fun ways to create fall leaf applique. All you need is paper, glue and autumn leaves of various shapes, structures and colors. And, of course, your irrepressible imagination!
- But I will definitely take this idea into account. I really want such an extraordinary bouquet!
- This drawing is simply mesmerizing to look at. And what’s interesting is that they painted it using autumn leaves.
Generously coat one side of the leaf you like with paint, and then press it onto a clean sheet. With the help of such prints you can create real masterpieces. To do this, give free rein to your imagination and start creating.
- To create such an interesting applique, draw the silhouette of a tree and chop the leaves using scissors. After the paint has dried, coat the paper with glue around the silhouette and sprinkle the areas covered with glue with chopped leaves.
- A little glue and plasticine - and simple acorns turn into a miniature set or fairy-tale people!
- Pine cones, a little felt, plasticine, dry maple leaves and an hour of free time - that’s all you need to create a whole fairy-tale world with your child!
- But creating such an application will take more time than creating a simple butterfly, and you will have to work hard. It is necessary to select the leaves so that one color smoothly transitions into another. And also draw or print the base - the shadow of a woman. But the result clearly justifies all the efforts.
The bright colors of autumn in our garden inspire us to create original autumn garden crafts made from natural materials. We offer you wonderful ideas on how to make fun crafts with your own hands.
For example, children can draw a face on a pumpkin with felt-tip pens and then color it with gouache.
And funny crafts made from cones and acorns can unexpectedly captivate even the most serious and adult person.
Such bright, cheerful crafts will add a cheerful sparkle to a cool autumn day.
Autumn crafts for the garden from natural materials. Making from pumpkin.
Autumn is generous with harvests and therefore you can use almost any vegetables and fruits for crafts. But pumpkin is traditionally the most popular material for autumn crafts.
The simplest techniques will help you achieve a beautiful effect in the garden: children's carnival masks on pumpkins or a vertical “bed” of small pumpkins.
How much fun it will be for both old and young to build a “carriage for Cinderella” from an ordinary pumpkin grown in your own garden!
Bright, beautiful table decoration ideas for the autumn holiday will also lift everyone’s spirits.
Romantic autumn notes will also come in handy in home decor: for this we need small pumpkins, a mirror, a glass vase and candles in glass candlesticks, which are attached with wire to the sides of the vase.
Autumn is a time of generous harvests, weddings and preparations for the winter. Autumn crafts made from natural materials are simply imbued with this sunny mood. A riot of colors, tastes and smells is the last cheerful chord of nature before the laconic colors of winter.
Autumn crafts for the garden from grass and leaves.
You can make amazingly beautiful crafts from dry grass, such as feather grass. After all, traditionally folk toys were made from straw.
We bend a bunch of grass in half, forming the head and body, while leaving half of the grass to form the wings. 
Bend the remaining stems to form the right and left wings. Carefully trim the grass from below, making a tail for the owl.
We make an owl's head from ears of corn and berries. These beautiful garden crafts can be made from natural materials.
Using various natural materials for crafts: fruits, flowers, branches, leaves, hay, you can create your own original garden figurine.
Simple, but no less beautiful garden crafts can be made from leaves. After all, the beauty of autumn leaves is mesmerizing. The simplest autumn bouquet will take on a completely sunny mood. if you add a funny face to the middle of it. You can decorate the table with an autumn bouquet of branches, pine cones and leaves; such decor will look especially beautiful in the warm light of candles.
You can decorate the front door with a wreath of leaves - such a wreath is made on the basis of a frame of branches to which leaves, berries and fruits are attached. The trunks of climbing garden vines such as clematis can be used as the basis for exterior home decor. We decorate the bare trunks with branches, small pumpkins and add a funny face made of plywood.
You can make a funny little man for the garden from flower pots, decorating it with an armful of leaves, flowers and reeds. A simple but cute craft made from a beach straw hat. And it is very simple to do, you can do it with children: you need to cut out eyes and a mouth from paper, and attach a variety of autumn decor to the wide ribbon of the hat.
Autumn crafts from acorns and cones.
Acorns and cones are the most favorite materials for children's autumn crafts. There is so much material like this that you could make a whole series about the life of acorn men.
These are some cute autumn crafts you can make with your kids for the garden.
Even adults will be interested in making such exciting stories from the life of acorns.
This craft can be a cute and unexpected gift for someone special.
For mushrooms...
Even acorns educate themselves...
What do acorns do on weekends...
It seems that autumn is also a very romantic time.
The main steps on how to make crafts from acorns using acorns, twigs and glue:
Cones lead exciting lives too! 
Good afternoon. Today I can finally summarize a large collection of ideas for crafts made from natural materials. We already have a large-format article with crafts made from autumn leaves for children and adults. There is a detailed article on autumn topics. In this article I will publish the most interesting and non-standard techniques and techniques. I decided to do wide overview page, which will prove and show that natural material for creativity is not only acorns and chestnuts. You will see with your own eyes and fall in love with all your soul with new fresh ideas for working with natural materials. Crafts made with your own hands, from branches, from leaves, from dried flowers, from everything that is under your feet. Nature is rich in material, and man is rich in beautiful ideas. So, let's see what crafts you can make from natural materials this season.
Package of ideas No. 1
SCALES from cones.
Cones are made up of scales. If you collect open pine cones, it is convenient to pull them out with pincers, pliers, or bite the SCALES with wire cutters. And then use this cone-like natural material as a mosaic covering for a variety of autumn crafts.
Note. So that the cones open well, their scales spread out, they can be heated in the oven.
Here we see mushrooms. Their legs are carved from thick wooden blocks. The hats are made of plasticine and the top of the hats is covered with scales. You get some cute DIY mushrooms. Suitable work for school activities.
But FIR cones have scales flatter and smoother. They look like smoothed feathers of birds. That’s why the idea for a craft comes to mind on a bird theme. We sculpt the body of the bird from plasticine, coat it with PVA glue, put a layer of torn paper napkins on the glue, again with glue, again with napkins - it turns out papier mache shell. We dry this shell until it is completely lignified. And on this hard, dry surface, with hot glue (layer by layer, row by row), we lay a spruce “tile” of feather-scales.
And also The scales of a fir cone are similar to the scaly armor of ancient lizards. So here's another idea for you. After all, this is a great challenge to your artistic potential. It’s not just a bird here—it’s a whole animal that looks as if it were alive. An excellent craft for boys made from natural materials.
Here we act exactly the same as with the bird.– we sculpt the base from plasticine, pack it in several layers of papier-mâché (alternating PVA glue and paper napkins). And then, after this mass has dried into a hard crust, you can paste over the dinosaur figure with spruce scales.
After plucking the cone, the cone BOTTOM remains. It looks like a flower with petals. From such cone flowers you can make a new autumn craft with your own hands - for example, a WREATH. We glue the base for the foam wreath with a chopped pine cone - just use hot glue from a gun.
You can cover such flower cones with bright gouache. To make the color of the gouache richer and shine, I recommend spraying this product with a simple hairspray after drying with gouache. The color will stick and won't stain your hands.
You can make beautiful flowers yourself by selecting the most accurate and even scales of different sizes, and laying them radially from the center. The center of the flower can be decorated with beads or rhinestones. From such natural material, you can even make brooches in autumn style with your own hands - and wear them with a coat, or pin them on a shawl.
Flowers from cones can not only be collected into craft-wreaths, but also simply laid out on a panel. Place it on a piece of plywood with glue. It will make an excellent craft from natural material for a competition for school or kindergarten.
From whole cones You can also make some great crafts. We add not only natural material to the cones, but also other materials (colored felt, cardboard, rope, plastic, etc.).
Package of ideas No. 2
Crafts made from natural materials
WALNUTS.
In childhood, we all made boats or caps on plasticine mushrooms from nut shells. But you can go further with your walnut creations. Children will be happy to create mice or birds, and adults with skillful hands and a warm heart can create a whole world from a nut shell... Now you will see it.
In this article I want to introduce you to a very good person. Her name is Marina. A master with an attentive soul.
This is what the account page of this master looks like on the Fair of Masters website.
I really like the works of master Marina from the Fair of Masters website. With her own hands she created amazing, in its sincerity and warmth, the world of kind old women. The walnuts in the place where the flaps join are surprisingly similar to a wrinkled, smiling old woman. All that remains is to add eyes, a nose-bone and wrap everything up with a cotton scarf. And now the cunning old lady looks at you cheerfully.
We make a body from a pine cone, weave the arms from coarse paper packaging twine. We make warm felt boots from felt. Each old woman can be made with her own character. I'll run wild with a wide smile. Or silent, thoughtful, on her own mind.
Old ladies can be both summer and winter.
You can create entire worlds from natural materials in which good old ladies live and work. They themselves will keep their world clean.
And after work, they will gather over a cup of herbal tea to tell stories, make fun of each other and sing songs of their youth.
Master Marina sells her crafts. You can order her works on the master’s personal page - https://www.livemaster.ru/woods. Marina can make you a custom craft for your family and friends.
After all, how nice it is to receive as a gift the World of kind old women, which will always smell like a village CHILDHOOD for you - grandma’s pancakes, a woodpile of firewood by the barn, chickens running around the yard, the heated wood of an old bench near the fence.
Master Marina, I want to give you an idea. In one I talked about another Czech Master who created the world of ACORN PEOPLE - Dubanchikov and wrote a book with stories about them, which he illustrated with emotional scenes made from natural material. The book is published in the Czech Republic, and only in Czech. I think that many children will love our Russian book with good stories about Russian village grandmothers, illustrated by Marina’s works.
After all, it’s a real miracle to create a new world with your own hands from natural material - kind, fairy-tale, REAL. More and more houses, cozy benches, swings, carts, and carts will appear in it.
Package of ideas No. 3
Crafts made from natural materials
FAIRY HOUSES.
If you love fairy tales with fairies and magicians, then you will love the world of fairies made from natural materials. You can create cozy houses for fairies with your own hands, set up entire housing complexes for them, with ponds, parks, gardens, swings.
You can bring a man-made miracle to a school competition for crafts made from natural materials. The house where the gnome lives. Parts can be attached to plasticine, staples (from a staple gun), or glue from a hot gun.
Pieces of moss, acorn caps, scales pulled out of a cone with pliers, lichens and dry hard hanging mushrooms taken from trees in the forest. And even pieces of plants torn from indoor flower pots - any natural material will be used to build such a complex but interesting craft. The house will grow and be ennobled with natural design before your eyes.
You can take as a basis thick wooden driftwood, found in the forest. Cut off a convenient piece from it. Buy at a hardware store tinting stain for wood– and paint the wood a noble dark color. Cut from thick cardboard windows, cover them with the same stain. From popsicle sticks put together a real door, decorate a porch. Sculpt a conical roof from plasticine. Break a large pine cone with pincers or pliers on scales and lay tiles from them on the roof of a natural house.
Some elements can be sculpted made from salt dough(a glass of fine salt, a glass of flour + water (add water one spoon at a time and rub with the salted flour with your hands until a single lump similar to plasticine is formed). Roll out the dough - cut into bricks with a knife. Dry - and you will get a lot of building material for the porch , paths, fences, etc. The dough can also be painted with gouache or stain.
But the house is VERY SIMPLE. Now I’ll tell you how to make it with your own hands from the things that surround us.
- Take a durable cardboard milk or juice bag. Cutting windows in it will be the future façade of the house.
- Buy a small bag of gypsum plaster (or putty), dilute it with water and coat the façade of the house with this mixture.
- Dry and cover with whitewash or white gouache (toothpaste at best).
Make the roof out of cardboard, also apply glue to it and lay tiles from pieces of bark or pine cones. or wood chips.
Package of ideas No. 4
Applications
And of course, the most common crafts made from natural materials are applications using dry herbarium - herbs, leaves, flowers. We all made chicks or fish in an aquarium from leaves. In a special article, I give many options.
And in this article I want to show a beautiful mosaic technique of laying out dry natural material in the form of a SILHOUETTE PICTURE.
You can find a lot of ready-made silhouette templates on the Internet. If you type the phrase “silhouette of a hare picture” or another animal in the search bar.
The most important thing in such a craft is to achieve recognition - clarity of the silhouette. Therefore, you need to choose a silhouette without small details - protrusions. And if you choose one with detailed protrusions, try to ensure that the small relief detail is made with ONE WHOLE petal (like the bunny’s ears or the protrusions of its paws in the photo above).
If, when laying out the mosaic, the edge of the plant protrudes beyond the border of the silhouette, it needs to be trimmed carefully with scissors (as was done in the photo above with the cat - triangles of its ears are cut out).
Natural ideas package No. 5
Crafts from branches.
You can make beautiful crafts with your own hands from branches of different shapes and curves. Branches are possible just spread out on a white paper background repeating the outlines of a bird or animal. You can do it on paper in advance. draw a silhouette of a bird faint pencil lines. And then select branches that would lie on this drawn silhouette of a bird, repeating the curves of the drawing.
You can make crafts from natural materials secure with glue from a hot glue gun. Or make a photo craft. That is, lay out the twigs and photograph the craft, thereby immortalizing your product made from natural material in the form of a photograph.
You can fix the craft at key nodes of the branch plexus and then attach it to the base (vertical wall or horizontal shelf-stand) at these nodes, as was done in the photo below.
In addition to branches, you can use natural wood chips, pieces of bark, chips and saw cuts from logs, logs, and thick branches in your crafts. This is how the owl crafts from the photo below were implemented. Simple and interesting, made with your own hands - you can safely take it to an exhibition of autumn crafts at school or kindergarten.
The same idea can be realized from different angles and with different materials. For example, in the photo of a horse craft made from natural materials, branches, bark, and driftwood are used.
You can lay out entire mosaics, completely filling the silhouette image with natural material. The direction of the branches should repeat the direction of the details of the drawing. Place the branches in the same directions as the fur pile of the animal, or use the branches to repeat the muscle relief of the animal.
Perhaps this type of crafts made from natural materials will captivate you so much that will turn into a solid hobby with prospects for monetization into a profitable business. Why not make beautiful wooden sculptures for sale for your dacha or estate.
And if you want to use branches to create crafts from natural materials in class at school, then here are simple ideas on how this can be implemented in labor lessons for boys. Everyone is taught cut out with jigsaws plywood figures. In addition to animal figurines, you can put together frames from slats and create beautiful landscape pictures of an autumn forest with mossy branches covered with lichen.
Similar ideas can be implemented in girls' labor lessons - without plywood and a jigsaw - by making a frame from cardboard rolled into a square tube (fold 4 pieces into a frame frame, insert branches into the holes), and cut out animal silhouettes from thick corrugated packaging cardboard from old boxes and paint in gouache, if desired.
Natural crafts package No. 6
Maple and ash seeds.
Dry lobed tree seeds can be very interestingly used in a variety of DIY crafts.
You can make a mosaic craft from this natural material in the shape of a bird (because maple seeds look like feathers). You can lay out a pattern in the form of a butterfly on the glass, and thanks to the transparency of the background, it will seem that it is hovering in the air, as is done in the photo below. Maple seeds take well with watercolors, so your butterfly craft can be all the colors of the rainbow.
At school or kindergarten, you can make very simple children’s crafts from the same natural material with a base on thick cardboard. Maple seeds can be the hairstyle on a drawn human head, they can become the bushy tail of a squirrel, the feathers on the wings of an owl, or the needles on a cardboard hedgehog (as in the photo below).
And maple seeds look like dragonfly wings. Therefore, you can make simple children's crafts in the form of Coleopteran insects. For example, string beads onto a wire (this will be the body) and glue the seeds to the body using glue or plasticine. The wings can be painted with nail polish and sprinkled with glitter. The bulging eyes of a dragonfly can be cast from frozen drops of the same nail polish. The result is a beautiful, quick and simple craft made from natural materials for children.
And this same maple natural material can become the basis for funny GRAPHIC CRAFTS-DRAWINGS with a regular black marker. We paint on the missing details to the snub noses and turn the seeds laid out on a sheet of paper into interesting graphics. These are already crafts for training your imagination - a great idea for a circle on the topic “Learning to think creatively.”
I talked more about this GRAPHIC technique of using natural material in the article
Package of ideas No. 7
Crafts made from natural materials
STONES.
A simple rubble stone left over from dacha construction, or smooth river and sea stones can become the material for your own natural crafts. The stone itself can tell by its shape who it resembles. And all you have to do is take markers or gouache to bring this image to life.
If you feel like an artist in yourself, you can make complex multi-line drawings – as was done in the case of the owl craft made from stone. Or smooth, thick pebbles can look like clumsy, plump panda bears - and such a craft made from natural material will be feasible for children. First, we cover all the stones with white, dry them, and then with a black marker we draw the black details of the teddy bear on it.
Ordinary felt-tip pens draw very well on stones. After completing the general painting work, details of the drawing need to be given contours(clear boundaries) black felt-tip pen.
You can draw the silhouette of a snail or sheep on the stone yourself. And give the children the task of simply coloring the finished silhouettes, adding them with a pattern of stripes and dots or curls.
You can make a nest from dry grass and wire or other natural material. And put chicks made from stones with your own hands into this craft. Older children can color a complex picture with a chick and an open beak. For younger children, a simpler task in the form of chickens in shells will suit them.
On a piece of plywood or a round cut from a log, you can lay out a whole picture of painted stones and other natural materials. This craft is suitable for an autumn competition for school or kindergarten.
Older girls will enjoy exquisite pictures from the life of a fashionable girl - felt-tip pens, paints, stones and rhinestones.
You can use the mosaic technique to lay out a variety of characters from stones. Attach the stones with glue from a hot glue gun. The stones in the mosaic can be painted with gouache, or have their own natural color.
These can be landscape paintings made from natural materials (sea pebbles, pieces of glass ground with water, shells, etc.).
Package of ideas No. 8
Crafts made from natural materials
PORTRAITS.
A very interesting topic for crafts made from natural materials these are portraits. The face in the picture always attracts the eye. You want to look at such a craft for a long time, it has a soul, human eyes that you want to look into and read their thoughts. A portrait is a craft that looks back at you.
You can plant all the details of the portrait from natural material on glue. Or simply fold the portrait like a mosaic on a sheet of cardboard, take a photograph and brush all the details of the masterpiece off the table with your hand. And on the wall in your room there will be a photograph of a disappeared but ever-living portrait.
As an ornamental natural material, you can use stones, dry leaves, cones, seeds, and bark. For drawing thin lines, branches of different trees, straws, blades of grass.
If you work with children, then you can give them an easier task. Print the finished face on a printer. And from natural material into this craft make additions
Good luck with your work.
Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site
Sharing with your finds. All or almost all of us have to do crafts with children for kindergarten or school... You will also find fantasies here for home creativity with kids.
Let's start with the trees...
And now - pumpkins...
You don't have to do everything for a specific master class... And strictly adhere to the proposed topic. Can just take a craft idea and remake it in your own way.
Fantasies about candles...
Accessories of the “Queen of Autumn”…
Papier-mâché... And not only...
Well I didn’t put the owls first again. They are always the first and most important for us...
There are, in addition to owls, other living creatures…
And again - improvised material. Not only the one found in the forest... But also the “home” one... For example, pistachio shells...
AND door (wall) wreaths... good not only for New Year and Christmas... In autumn they especially cozy and bright it turns out...
And again pumpkins... Some people have a lot of them in their dachas! I’m not a dacha lover (no, no): my mother just hands me buckets of vegetables. But my godmother gave me a pumpkin last year. Ahhhh... Maybe I'm Cinderella?
If you don't understand how cover with leaves or dough bowl from below, to get such beauty, watch the master classes...
Many people make baskets now. A very popular craft. On this topic "Gifts of Autumn"... Well, the baskets really turn out very colorful and juicy...
And again leaves... And again owls... And a lot of art...
In our kindergarten, Alice’s group is very talented, kind and hardworking teachers- Olga Grigorievna and Anna Sergeevna. They love children. And they adore them make all sorts of things in the educational process... Or draw...
Us crafts for children in kindergarten teachers left on a large panel- attached to paper clips that hang on fishing lines... Now I’ll find a post in a magazine when we made such a panel (with owls, of course) for crafts...
Some parents ignore creative activities... They say that paints are a lot of dirt and stains - you can only get by with pencils or felt-tip pens... And all that comes out is a mess... But the child, they say, doesn’t understand the plasticine - he rejects it... Start small- just give the child the materials. A couple of lessons... Then again... And then start gradually advise and help... To encourage creativity, to create... I also don’t really like dolls and LEGOs covered with plasticine... But accuracy, diligence and imagination... they won’t come from anywhere from a child if you don’t work. Daily.
Of course, there is always not enough time. Of course, there is a lot of work and household chores. But the child is delighted that his autumn work is also on display in a kindergarten or school. This - a source of pride yourself and your family...
Maybe this year... Maybe next... Your work will be recognized as the best at the exhibition. Even a prize. It will be a wonderful day. In the meantime, let family evenings be warmed by autumn candles, and photo frames decorated with leaves or acorns adorn the shelves...
By the way, my friend and I once made of papier-mâché just made giant mushrooms... All the children made them as tall as a palm... And here we have... Giants. Mutants...)))
Who hasn't read mine yet? 100 ideas for autumn, be sure to read. And apply - partially...
We a lot of things have already been used and done with Alisa and Shura- I’ll tell you in other posts...
And I’ll show you not today or tomorrow... autumn video...And pictures. According to last fall. Ours is so beautiful There was a family shoot. It’s just so complicated for a video combination of video and photo...So I'm waiting for Shura will finish installation. For now he has a lot of work to do.
P.S. Yes, I show you very few personal and family photos. Otherwise you will get tired of me...
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Outside the window, autumn has already arrived and everything around has begun to be covered with beautiful multi-colored fallen leaves. And before the rain turns this beauty into a wet mess, it’s time to get creative! Especially if your child comes home from kindergarten or school with an assignment to make an autumn-themed craft.
You can make autumn crafts with children from natural materials from anything - leaves, cones, acorns, chestnuts. These could be appliqués or some interesting figures. I present unique step-by-step master classes on how to make autumn crafts with your own hands using photos.
DIY autumn crafts master classes
DIY autumn wreath of acorns “Breath of Autumn”
Bright autumn colors linger in your soul for a long time. Let's create an autumn wreath of acorns with our own hands to prolong the autumn mood. Made from natural materials, it will look even more interesting.
DIY autumn wreath of acorns 
A handmade autumn wreath of acorns will become an original and stylish decoration for any interior.
Autumn craft with leaves “Pear on a plate”
A herbarium of leaves collected in the fall is a whole wealth and raw material for children's crafts. You can come up with a lot of options for using such natural material. Since it is necessary to practice creative activities on creating unusual figures with children, we offer you an interesting idea for creativity.
Just work with dried and fragile material very carefully.
By practicing such activities, children will eventually independently learn to think creatively and notice the amazing features of natural objects.
If your soul wants something original, we suggest creating an autumn flower arrangement. Namely, the bouquet “Autumn Mood”.
The product consists of two elements – a vase and flowers.
For flowers we need:
- leaves of different sizes and colors;
- glue gun;
- wire or thin twigs (for the stem);
- scissors, pliers (for wire).
Be careful with the glue gun if you are doing leaf crafts with your child. It’s better to trust your child to select the leaves, arrange them by color, cut them and serve them to you.
As it turned out, leaves with slightly curved edges produce more realistic roses (green flower). Try to curl the edges of the leaves to avoid any petals sticking out. Large leaves can be cut in half. For a rose 8-10 cm in diameter, you will need 15-20 leaf fragments measuring 5-6 cm.
Progress:
1. Take the wire and bend the edge.
2. We begin to form a rose from leaves and their fragments. We wrap the first sheet around the eye of the wire and secure it well with glue. We continue to glue the leaves in a circle, filling the empty spaces.
3. The bottom row is the sepals. Take 5 leaves of small size and contrasting color. Glue it in a circle, thereby covering all the “insides” of the flower. In the photo you can see small red leaves under green petals - these are the sepals.
4. The stem of the finished flower can be wrapped in floral tape and several leaves can be tied to the stem. If you are using twigs, simply glue a couple of leaves along the stem of the flower. The autumn rose is ready.
To form a beautiful bouquet you will need several flowers - 3,5,7. Try to make them different in both color and size. It will look more colorful this way. You can fit several buds into the composition. They will help fill empty spaces in a flower arrangement.
Vase for autumn bouquet
For a themed vase you will need any small bottle (glass or plastic), twine, a couple of acorns or hazelnuts. And, of course, a glue gun or any other glue. We wrap the bottle with thread, periodically securing the result with glue. We attach nuts or acorns to a small piece of twine using glue. We tie the result on a vase.
If your bottle was large, you can decorate it with an appliqué made from halves of a nut shell or any cereal at all. Instruct your child to come up with something to decorate the vase with. Direct his imagination in the right direction.
Now you can form a beautiful bouquet of flowers and put it in a vase. It will be more convenient if the height of the stem of each flower is different. You can fill the space in several tiers.
Such crafts made from autumn leaves can not only become an original decoration for any interior, but will also help you win at any school exhibition.
Nature itself suggests thousands of ideas. You don’t need to be an experienced craftsman to create a unique decoration for your home filled with warmth and care with your own hands. And kids are happy to participate in the creative process and make amazing crafts just like adults. Master class - how to make one - read here.
Why not make a hedgehog with your child from a pine cone and plasticine? Autumn colorful leaves will add special colors to your work.
Encyclopedias say that hedgehogs live in forests and parks, but sometimes they can also be found in village courtyards. Spiny animals make nests in woodpiles. At night, individual daredevils or a full-fledged family go out in search of food.
The dried greenery in the beds rustles quietly. At dusk, the direction of the hunters is clearly visible. Hedgehogs do not worry that the owners of the yard see their movements. As a rule, quiet and harmless neighbors are not driven away, sometimes even fed with milk.
What does a hedgehog eat? Insects, slugs, mice. This means that such an animal is beneficial for those who garden.
The hedgehog made from a pine cone turned out so cute. As a decoration, you can decorate the thorns with plasticine or a real small apple, and place the hero himself on a carpet of autumn maple leaves. Read a detailed master class on how to make one here.
By the way, hedgehogs are considered fast animals. They are capable of speeds up to 3 m/s. At the same time, prickly animals jump and swim well.
The resulting hedgehog, unlike the real one, can be safely picked up. It will not hiss and curl up into a ball, warning of danger. This hero will not run away from his little owner, but will happily stand all autumn and even winter. The pine cone hedgehog does not hibernate. He is ready to celebrate winter and New Year holidays with his children.
How to make one - read here.
These fun ones are very easy and quick to make. See the detailed master class here.
Autumn motifs in the home interior
Seasonal flowers and herbs, autumn colorful leaves will be the best decoration for your home.
How to make a toy Autumn goddess from fabric
Doing something with your own hands is so fun and interesting. Well, if it also turns out beautifully, then such toys simply have no price. You come to an exhibition of handmade products and your eyes just widen. Let's try to reveal some of the secrets of the masters and consider the method of making the goddess of Autumn, which you can give to children or hang on the wall in your home.
So, we will need: acrylic paints for fabric (with gold and silver jars), a set of brushes, cotton fabric, filler, thread and needle.
Step one. Making a layout
In the layout we have to figure out what our toy will look like. At this stage we make an initial sketch, then a pattern, and sew the parts together.
Our autumn is sewn from a single piece of material. You just need to make her legs and one arm separately (the arm is cut out from another piece of fabric and sewn on top of the product). When all this is ready, you need to fill the toy with cotton wool or other material and sew up all the holes.
Step two. Time for creativity
Now we must draw our autumn goddess. You can completely repeat the drawing of the finished product, which will be given below. In any case, you should use orange, gold, yellow and red colors, because autumn is rich in these colors.
Our autumn has a big tambourine in her hands, as if she is convening the whole world so that people, animals and animals can rejoice in the last warm days. Next, you need to paint the toy (to make the paint stick better, you can apply PVA glue to the fabric).
Step three. Decorating our toy
You can decorate our beauty endlessly. After all, autumn is unique. You can glue a bead to it, add sparkles - whatever your heart desires. Look what a wonderful autumn we have had. Lovely to watch.
Goddess of autumn with your own hands Physalis in pumpkin
Autumn bouquets can be made not only from fresh flowers, but also from oak branches with acorns, sea buckthorn, barberry, rose hips, viburnum, elderberry, rowan, wild grapes, bright physalis lanterns, ears of corn, etc.
Such compositions look great in a pumpkin vase, wicker basket, tin bucket, or clay jug. The vessel can be decorated with ears of corn and decorated with ribbon.
Will-o'-the-wisps
Acorns, birch bark, physalis, hawthorn berries, and small decorative pumpkins will help you decorate candles in an autumn style. Simple thick candles can be wrapped in birch bark or inserted into small pumpkins, where the top is cut off and some of the pulp is removed. Glass candlesticks will look original and festive if you paint them with stained glass paints.
If you drill holes in a thick branch the size of candles, decorate with small pumpkins, pine cones and berries, then an original candlestick for your home is ready.
September wreath
To set the mood, you can weave a wreath on the wall or front door. Flexible branches are suitable for its base. Bet on a vine, straw or wire coat hanger curved into a circle. The hook has been received. It is better to imagine decorative elements with leaves, hop cones, grass panicles, tree branches, grapevines, acorns, rowan berries. In any case, it is convenient to attach it to the base with a heat gun (an alternative fixation is with a thin wire).
Decorate the wreath in an autumn style; fortunately, there are plenty of natural materials - bright leaves, thin branches, vine balls, etc. Or you can hang the leaves from the frame. An old lampshade or wooden staircase is suitable for it.
Leaf fall on the sofa
What could be more pleasant than a cup of aromatic tea, drunk on a sofa with soft pillows and a warm fleece blanket? In textiles, it is better to use soft velvety fabrics of autumn colors (brown-red, bright orange, burgundy, marsala, terracotta, muted green), prints in the form of leaves, vegetables, autumn flowers.
It is convenient to cut out the decor in the form of autumn leaves from thick fabric and sew it to the background with a zigzag. If the leaves are made of felt and the edges do not require additional processing, you can stitch them onto the pillowcase using a regular seam - this will give volume and help create a planned composition.
Acorn frame
Cover a passe-partout made of thick cardboard with felt, decorate it with a bouquet of small decorative elements in autumn style: apples, acorn caps, felt leaves, berries, etc. The bouquet can be made removable, attach a pin to it and use it as a brooch.
Invite the children to cover a cardboard frame with acorn caps, insert a thick piece of plain cardboard or a burlap background inside, glue in a beautiful leaf or any other gift from nature.
What about the holiday table?
Use autumn motifs in table setting. Make napkin clips in the form of an oak bouquet: felt leaves, acorn caps with a soft colored “nut”. Mossy twigs can be collected into a ring and decorated with half a walnut. Don't forget to make small bouquets of oak leaves and berries.
The yellow and red leaves can be used as placemats or to decorate dishes. Let autumn bring bright colors and comfort to your home!
