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In autumn, nature provides a huge selection of materials from which you can make various crafts, paintings and applications.

In this article you will learn how to make beautiful flowers from leaves, a vase from yellow autumn leaves, and many other crafts, including crafts that you can do with your children.

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Beautiful and simple applications for those who love autumn
Beautiful DIY crafts made from natural materials

Crafts from autumn leaves: bowl

You will need:

Colorful leaves

PVA glue

Sponge or sponge brush

Scissors.

1. Inflate the balloon.

2. Mix water and PVA glue in a 1:1 ratio.

3. Use a sponge to apply PVA glue to the ball.

4. Carefully begin gluing the leaves to the ball one by one.

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5. Apply glue over the glued leaves to secure them in place.

6. Continue gluing leaves until the entire bottom half of the balloon is covered.

*You may need to glue more leaves to the bottom of the ball to ensure the bottom of the future vase is strong.

7. Leave to dry for 24 hours, after which you can pop the balloon and you're done!

Table decoration made from maple leaves

You will need:

Multi-colored leaves (if you use artificial ones, the decoration will last a long time)

Strong thread or fishing line

Scissors

Superglue or hot glue

Baking paper

Masking tape

Centimeter.

1. Using a centimeter, measure the distance between the chandelier and the table so that you know how long to cut the thread and baking paper.

2. Cut the paper to the desired length.

3. Cut the thread, the length of which should be 15-20 cm longer than the baking paper.

4. Using masking tape, secure the thread at the top and bottom of the paper, leaving 15-20 cm hanging from one end of the paper. You will use this end of the thread to tie the craft to the chandelier above the table.

5. Starting with the top piece of masking tape, begin laying out the leaves (face down and from largest to smallest), leaving a few centimeters (5-7 cm) between them. Continue adding leaves all the way to the bottom.

6. Once you have everything laid out and are happy with how the piece looks, use glue to glue the leaves to the string.

7. Make several of these strips with leaves and tie them to the chandelier above the table.

Roses from autumn leaves

You will need:

10 leaves of different sizes (for one flower)

Short branches

Scissors

Duct tape or floral tape.

1. Take a small leaf, place it face down and bend the ends. After this, start rolling the leaf on one side to create a bud.

2. Take the second sheet, turn it face down and fold the top end towards the center.

3. Place the first leaf in the center of the second leaf, fold the outer ends of the second leaf and wrap both ends around the first bud.

4. Continue adding leaves, getting larger and larger leaves.

5. Once you've added all the leaves (or not all of them, but you've got the flower to the desired size), hold the bottom of the flower and begin wrapping it with duct tape while securing the flower around the branch. Trim off any excess parts.

6. Make several similar flowers for a bouquet.

Bouquet of roses from leaves (photo instructions)

Bouquet of roses from leaves (video)

DIY Leaf Crafts for Kids: Turkey

You will need:

Cardboard (for 5-6 circles)

Stapler

Scissors

Leaves (about 20 pieces)

Toy (plastic) eyes.

1. Cut out 5-6 circles of different sizes from cardboard. You can use cups, saucers, plates and other small round objects as auxiliary tools.

2. Remove stems from leaves. Leave two leaves with stems, because... these stems will act as turkey legs.

3. Glue each piece of paper to its own cardboard circle.

4. Stack the circles one on top of the other. They can be attached with glue or a stapler. If you use a stapler, it is better to attach each circle separately to the adjacent circle.

5. Glue a large brown leaf to the back of the large circle.

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6. Take one loose sheet and cut out a small triangle from it - this will be the turkey's beak. Glue it to the center of the first leaf.

7. All you have to do is glue on the eyes and the turkey is ready!

Children's crafts from leaves (photo)

Here are some interesting examples of how you can make beautiful children’s crafts from simple leaves:

Applications from autumn leaves: animals

Leaf Crafts for Kids: Alphabet

You can make an alphabet from autumn leaves.

Crafts from dry leaves: paintings

Very beautiful paintings can be made from fallen leaves. These paintings can decorate any interior.

Autumn compositions from leaves

While in the forest, you can make beautiful patterns from leaves on the ground and photograph them as a souvenir.

Crafts from maple leaves: large autumn leaf

You will need:

Plywood or thick cardboard

Simple pencil

Many leaves

PVA glue

Sponge or sponge brush

1. On a large piece of plywood or cardboard, draw a large maple leaf with a pencil.

2. Find fallen leaves in a park or forest and dry them on baking paper.

3. Lay out the leaves in a pattern on the plywood, take a brush and PVA glue, apply glue to all the leaves and leave to dry.

After the glue dries, all the leaves will harden. You can trim off excess parts if necessary.

4. Glue the leaf blank to plywood or cardboard. For better adhesion, use superglue.

5. Use a straight branch as the trunk of your large leaf. It can also be glued with superglue.

Ready!

DIY crafts from autumn leaves: mask

You will need:

Leaves of different sizes

Cardboard (can be from under a box of cereal, for example)

Scissors

Hot glue or PVA glue.

1. Draw a simple mask shape on cardboard and cut it out.

2. Check where on the mask you need to make holes for the eyes.

3. Make holes for the eyes and insert an elastic band into the sides of the mask so that the mask can be put on.

4. Using PVA glue or hot glue, begin gluing the leaves to the cardboard mask, starting from the outside and working towards the center.

Bouquet of flowers from leaves

You will need:

Autumn leaves of different colors (30-35 pieces)

Floral wire

Green adhesive tape (scotch tape) or floral tape

Scissors.

1. Place your leaves on a flat surface in order, from small to large. Clean them from dust and dry them.

2. Use scissors to cut off the leaf stems.

3. Take the wire and cut it into small pieces, about 10 cm long. Each piece will be used for a separate sheet.

4. Take floral tape or regular adhesive tape (scotch tape) and cut or tear off several 5 cm pieces.

5. Take the second largest sheet and wire make a hole in it 0.5 cm from the edge. After this, bend the wire and twist it. This must be done carefully so as not to tear the sheet.

Back view:

6. Use duct tape to wrap the wire. You need to attach the tape to the edge of the leaf and begin to carefully wrap the wire.

7. To attach the wire to the smallest sheet, you need to twist it and only then insert the lower part of the wire into it.

Make a stem out of wire to form the core of the flower.

Wrap the wire with duct tape.

The core and petals are ready and can be connected.

8. Wrap the second leaf around the core and add a second leaf, a third, etc.

Application of autumn leaves: owl, fish, cockerel. Types of leaf applications. Ideas for children's creativity.

Leaf applique: cockerel

The cockerel can be made in the same way as the owl.

Cockerel execution sequence

— Draw the outline of the cockerel on a piece of paper.

— We prepare the leaves: we collect them, dry them, iron them through newspaper.

— Apply PVA glue to the drawing with a brush. And glue the leaves.

— We finish drawing the paws and eyes with a felt-tip pen.

This is what Danil Timofeev, a student of 2nd grade A, got - such a wonderful cockerel! Danil studies at the Birsk correctional school - a boarding school of the 5th type.

Leaf applique: fish

The “Fish” application made from leaves is made using the same technology.

Step 1. First, draw the outline of the fish on a thick sheet of paper.

Step 2. Prepare the leaves.

Step 3. Apply PVA glue to the drawing and glue the leaves.

This fish was made by Egor Saisanov, a student of class 2 A of the Birsk correctional school - boarding school of the 5th type (Republic of Bashkortostan).

Leaf applique with children: collection of ideas

In this 3-minute video you will get many ideas for leaf appliques with children:

- butterfly made of leaves,

- cat, hedgehog, bunny, elephant, fox, elk made of leaves,

- masks made of autumn leaves,

- a variety of birds - applications,

- little men.

And another video with a collection of ideas as a source of inspiration. How to make a helicopter, a rocket, a snail, a hedgehog with mushrooms, an owl, a fish, a spider using the leaf applique technique.

Application of autumn leaves: how best to prepare the leaves

The application can be made from freshly collected leaves or from dried leaves.

The first way to prepare leaves for application . As children, we all collected leaves and put them in books. Remember this? This is one of the ways to dry leaves, which can then be used for application. In order not to accidentally stain the book, we cover each sheet on both sides with a regular paper napkin. If you have old unnecessary magazines, then dry them directly in them! The disadvantage of this method is that it takes time to dry the sheet.

The second way to prepare leaves for application. Or you can specially dry the leaves under an iron. This is a very fast way. We place our autumn leaf on a large sheet of paper, on top of it - another sheet of paper (newspaper) and dry it - iron the sheet with an iron. Then we lift the top sheet of newspaper or paper, allowing the sheet to cool.

Design of the finished application from leaves: Place the finished picture under a press (heavy book) for 1-3 days. Then we place it in a frame (you can make it from colored cardboard or a candy box).

You will learn how to make a three-dimensional figure from autumn leaves using the appliqué method from the article.

You will find more interesting autumn crafts for children in the articles on the site:

— Paper applique

Collecting beautiful leaves on a fine autumn day is a most exciting activity. And when you return home, you want to somehow preserve this splendor or use it to create something beautiful - the material simply begs for it! The most interesting thing is to make various compositions and applications from colorful autumn leaves. This type of creativity develops the child’s fantasy and imagination. In it, images can be created from ready-made shapes by simply placing them on top of each other, rather than cutting them out of paper. And the color palette of leaf fall will put any largest set of colored paper to shame!

YOU WILL NEED:
Colorful autumn leaves
Multi-colored cardboard or velvet paper
PVA glue (you can use starch glue or rubber glue)
Brush
Scissors
Tweezers
Oilcloth

DRYING AUTUMN LEAVES

Applications can be made from either freshly picked or dried leaves. If you want to preserve the leaves, two drying methods can be recommended.

The first, well-known, method is to insert leaves between the pages of an old unnecessary book. It is better to lay each leaf on both sides with a paper napkin.

The second method is express drying of the leaves using an iron. Just remember that the leaves are not sterile, so it is better to iron them on a surface that you don’t mind throwing away later, for example, on large sheets of paper. You also need to place a sheet of newsprint or a paper napkin on top of the sheet before ironing.

AUTUMN LEAVE APPLICATION TECHNIQUE

Before you start work, cover the table with oilcloth so as not to stain it with glue. Prepare the base - a sheet of cardboard, collected leaves, scissors, glue, tweezers.

First you need to come up with a future picture. Then arrange it on a separate sheet of paper. And only then start gluing the individual leaf parts to the base. It is best to apply the glue in droplets along the edges. If you apply glue to the entire surface of the sheet, it will warp when the application dries.

The finished picture should be placed under a press for one or two days.

Don't forget to frame it!

TYPES OF APPLICATIONS

Overlay applique. Try to start by coming up with pictures that do not require cutting out any details from the leaves, but are created by overlaying the leaves. You can come up with a lot of such pictures: butterflies, mushrooms, chickens and other birds... The missing elements can be drawn in with a felt-tip pen or made from other natural materials.

Having mastered simple pictures, children can begin to come up with multi-tiered images. In this technique, leaves are glued on top of each other in layers. The application will turn out bright and cheerful if the leaves are different in color.

Silhouette applique.

In this type of appliqué, excess parts of the leaf are cut off so that the result is exactly what the little artist intended.

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Modular application (mosaic).

Using this technique, a picture is created by gluing many leaves of the same or similar shape and size (or, for example, maple seeds). This way you can make the scales of a fish, the tail of a cockerel or a firebird.

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Symmetrical applique.

It is used to create individual images or entire paintings with a symmetrical structure, as well as to obtain two completely identical images (for example, reflection in water). To do this, you need to select similar leaves to get an image with its “reflection” or symmetrical in itself (“Butterfly”, “Dragonfly”, “Landscape with a lake”, “Boat on the river”).

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Ribbon applique- a type of symmetrical applique.

Its difference is that it allows you to get not one or two, but many identical images - ornaments. You get a whole “round dance” of trees, flowers, mushrooms, butterflies, etc.

In conclusion, here is a small selection of pictures collected from different parts of the Internet - to awaken the first associations in you and your baby. One has only to show the child how this is done, and his imagination will allow him to create more and more pictures from this amazingly beautiful natural material - autumn leaves!

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Your child's mind is at his fingertips. A very important component of children's development is fine motor skills training. He must sort through small things, sculpt, draw, glue. One of the creative activities with your baby is making appliques for children. The activity develops imagination, dexterity, and contributes to the formation of fantasy.

In this article you will find application templates on the theme of autumn - these are leaves, trees, mushrooms - everything from which your child will form the concept of a golden autumn.

How to make such a craft?

It's simple: you will need:

colored paper;
sheet A4;
scissors;
glue stick.

You can also prepare in advance and collect natural material - leaves, bunches of rowan, pine needles and other gifts of nature.

Applique Mushrooms

Let's make an application on the theme of autumn. Cut out and transfer the template onto colored paper, make blanks.

Gradually start gluing the applique elements onto the paper.

Stick an oak leaf on the mushroom.

There will be grass at the base.

A yellow leaf fell.

An acorn is the final element of a children's garden craft.

It turned out so beautiful.

Applications on the theme of autumn, templates for cutting out of paper:

Joint activities with children bring us closer together. Your child will be delighted if you make a craft with him on an autumn theme, and then go for a walk to look at the motifs in person.

From dried leaves, flowers and herbs you can create unique paintings - both exquisitely complex and completely simple, which even small children can make. There are several techniques for making paintings, and perhaps you yourself will come up with something new.

Collect and dry beautiful plants and enjoy creativity with your children, develop imagination, neatness and a sense of beauty.

Collect leaves, flowers and herbs for future paintings it is possible from spring to autumn.

Dry They are better in old heavy reference books or magazines. Thick plant stems do not dry well, so it is recommended to cut them in half lengthwise. Leave the plant in the book for 10-14 days.

Glue take it thick enough so that drops do not form.

If according to your intention colorful but transparent petals must be superimposed on a dark background and retain their original color, then first you need stick them on thin white paper , cut along the contour, and then include it in the composition.

So, on a fine autumn day you went out to the park or forest and collected a large collection of beautiful bright leaves and plants.

Applications can be made as from freshly picked leaves and dried. If you want to preserve the leaves, two drying methods can be recommended.

The first, well-known, method - putting leaves between the pages of an old unnecessary book. It is better to lay each leaf on both sides with a paper napkin.

The second method is express drying of leaves using an iron. Just remember that the leaves are not sterile, so it is better to iron them on a surface that you don’t mind throwing away later, for example, on large sheets of paper. You also need to place a sheet of newsprint or a paper napkin on top of the sheet before ironing. And now more details.

Powder drying

This method of drying flowers and leaves is not quick or easy. It will require bulk substances with hygroscopic properties: sifted river sand, semolina or corn grits, salt or crushed chalk.

Powder drying also has its advantage: it completely preserves the shape and vibrant color of plants or inflorescences.

Heat the sand in a frying pan so that no moisture remains and let it cool. Pour 2 cm of sand into a cardboard box and place flowers on it.

Gently sprinkle sand on top until the plants are completely covered.

After two to three weeks, you need to make holes in the bottom of the box so that the sand can spill out.

Shake the dried flowers slightly to remove any remaining sand.

Such flowers can be used for three-dimensional paintings or making floral arrangements.

Drying fast-withering plants

There are also plants that wither faster than they can dry (hydrangea, bulbous plants, heather, chicory). They require air drying and immersion of the stems in water.

Cut the lower part of the stem at an angle of 45 degrees and place it in a vessel with water to a height of 7.5 cm.

Drying plants using a hot method (express drying)

Hot drying, that is, drying with an iron, is an ideal option when you need to dry the leaves for the herbarium for tomorrow. Also, hot drying can preserve the original color of cornflowers.

Wipe the leaves with a damp cloth or cotton pad to remove dirt and dust. There is no need to wet or rub too much so as not to damage the fragile surface.

Line your ironing board with clean paper and place the leaves on it.

If you use newspapers, be careful, as printing ink can print on both the leaves and the surface of the ironing board.

Cover the top with another sheet of paper.

Switch the iron to the minimum temperature and check that there is no water in it. If your iron does not have very high power, then you can set the temperature closer to average, but not maximum, because an iron that is too hot will ruin the leaves.

Iron the leaves several times, then remove the paper and turn them over to the other side. Cover with paper again and iron.

Repeat the procedure until the leaves are completely dry.

Drying plants for garlands and crafts

Leaves and flowers that you want to use not for herbariums and paintings, but to create garlands or other crafts, need to be dried without a press.

To dry, place the plants on paper and straighten them carefully.

Tie the flowers in bunches and hang them with the inflorescences down. The room should have good air circulation and relative dryness

Drying plants and leaves under pressure

Drying leaves under a press is the most famous and simplest method.

Leaves and flowers are simply transferred with sheets of paper or paper towels on both sides and placed under a press, or in books and magazines.

The paper must be changed every day to remove absorbed moisture.

Flowers and leaves will be ready to use after a week.

If the workpieces have become too brittle, dip them in a solution of water and PVA glue (4 parts water to 1 part glue), and then dry.

Leaves dried and processed in this way are ideal exhibits for a herbarium.

Drying plants on a wire rack

Some plants can be dried horizontally on a wire rack (for example, ivy). Some are best not turned upside down (physalis).

Drying flowers in the oven

Single large flowers whose petals are rich in liquid, such as roses or tulips, can be dried in the oven at low temperature.

Watch the process carefully: the flowers should not turn brown.

Before you start work, cover the table with oilcloth so as not to stain it with glue. Prepare the base - a sheet of cardboard, collected or dried leaves, scissors, glue (preferably PVA), tweezers.

First you need come up with a future picture . Then arrange it on a separate sheet of paper. And only then start gluing the individual leaf parts to the base. It is best to apply the glue in droplets along the edges. If you apply glue to the entire surface of the sheet, it may warp when drying the application.

Need a finished picture put under a press for one or two days. Don't forget to do it for her frame!

Types of applications

Overlay applique.

Try to start by coming up with pictures that do not require cutting out any details from the leaves, but are created by overlaying the leaves. You can come up with a lot of such pictures: butterflies, mushrooms, chickens and other birds... The missing elements can be drawn in with a felt-tip pen or made from other natural materials.

Silhouette applique.

In this type of appliqué, excess parts of the leaf are cut off so that the result is exactly what the little artist intended.

Modular application (mosaic).

Symmetrical applique.

Ribbon applique.

A type of symmetrical appliqué. Its difference is that it allows you to get not one or two, but many identical images - ornaments. You get a whole “round dance” of trees, flowers, mushrooms, butterflies, etc.