Autumn crafts made from natural materials

Autumn is the “golden time” of harvesting, the time of departure to kindergarten, school, where children learn to make all kinds of autumn crafts in the lessons of work and art. A variety of autumn "gifts of nature" allows you to create extraordinary toys, panels, forest compositions, wreaths. Natural materials are very different, this is the best way to develop creative abilities, the ability to create original decorative objects with minimal cost.

What is rich in autumn: a variety of natural materials for crafts

In September-October, the crop ripens on many types of cultivated and wild plants, red-scarlet, golden yellow, bright orange leaves, which are used for the manufacture of handicrafts, fall from the trees. All this autumn wealth is great for creating forest landscapes of berries (mountain ash, viburnum, hawthorn), ikeban of dried flowers (immortelle, lavender, marigolds, garden roses, rogoza), souvenirs of chestnuts, moss, nuts, seeds, fir, pine, cedar cones. Apply vegetables (decorative pumpkin, red pepper, garlic, corn cobs), spicy plants (cardamom, nutmeg, star anise, cloves, pepper-peas) cereals, legumes (peas, beans, coffee beans), as well as sticks, twigs, snags . As an addition, clay, salt and flour dough, threads, tapes, paper, cloth, foam plastic are used.

How to prepare material

To make products from forest materials to be durable, and not to crumble in a couple of days, they should be properly prepared and dried. "Raw" foliage, flowers, fruits will quickly begin to deform, rot, mold.

It is easiest to dry the autumn leaves for herbarium by putting them into a thick book, tightly pressing them on top with other books - in ten days they will be ready, and the color will remain almost unchanged. There is a faster drying option - with the help of iron. The leaves are laid between two layers of paper, ironed, but not too hot. The red, yellow leaves of the trees do not change color, green - darken, acquire a brown tint.

Chestnuts, acorns, decorative pumpkins dried for about a month in the open air in the shade. Dried pumpkin becomes like a rattle, as the flesh dries out a lot, seeds loosely dangle inside. Acorns, nuts, chestnuts just lose some weight. In the oven, autumn gifts are dried at a temperature of about 60 degrees, mixing from time to time.

Flower buds are dried, strung on a thread that is passed through the stems, you need to hang petals down. Another way is to bury in very dry fine sand, which will quickly draw out excess moisture. For the same purpose, you can use salt.

We start master classes from natural materials

From the "gifts of the forest", country dried flowers, cereals, fruits are made as the most simple crafts, which even a child of five or six years can do, and real masterpieces for interior decoration.

What can be done:

  • plot panel of leaves, flowers;
  • topiary;
  • bulky roses, bouquets of leaves;
  • pumpkin bowls;
  • wreaths on the wall;
  • frame for the mirror;
  • figures of animals, birds.


    

Decorative panel of autumn leaves

Panel of colorful foliage - one of the most simple, but quite spectacular decorations. For its manufacture will need:

  • red, yellow, red maple leaves;
  • a piece of plywood or chipboard;
  • spray paint;
  • stain;
  • sprig of a tree;
  • simple pencil;
  • PVA glue;
  • dry spikelets of any cereal;
  • decorative pumpkins, acorns;
  • wicker basket.

What do we have to do:

  • dosochku slightly unevenly covered with stain in several layers, dried;
  • draw on it a large outline of a maple leaf;
  • from the edges to the middle overlap dry leaves on the painted maple;
  • in the center they stick a twig-stem;
  • the whole structure is lacquered from a balloon;
  • next to a basket with pumpkins, a glass of spikelets.

Making topiary from dried flowers, chestnuts and other autumn materials

Topiary or "tree of happiness" is an original decoration of dried flowers, seeds, twigs, cones, berries, with the addition of beads, ribbons, shaped like a real tree.

For work we need:

  • clay pot;
  • straight line;
  • glue in the gun;
  • ball of foam, floristic foam;
  • Rowan, dried moss, pebbles, leaves, dried flowers;
  • dry gypsum.

How to do it step by step:

  • the ball is put on the branch, fixed on it with glue;
  • the “trunk” is fixed in a pot with glue;
  • dry gypsum is diluted with water, poured into a pot, not reaching two or three cm to the edge;
  • dry flowers, acorns, previously put on wires, are stuck in a ball;
  • The surface of the gypsum in the pot is decorated with moss, rowan, walnut shells.

When creating topiary made of chestnuts, they are attached to the ball with the help of a glue-gun, interspersed with cones, decorative cocoons of hemp rope, twine. The tree trunk is also wrapped with a cord.

Bouquets of roses from maple leaves

Roses from red, yellow leaves of a maple - the most interesting design find. A bouquet or a basket with roses looks so believable that it is not always possible to guess what it is made of. To create such a composition, we need undried maple leaves, thin wire, transparent hairspray.

Gradually, the work looks like this:

  • the maple leaf folds in half, twists into a tube - it turns out the middle part of the bud;
  • the next element is also folded in half, wound on the previous one, but a little looser;
  • in the same way, two or four more sheets are added, after which the base of the rose is tightly tied with threads or wire, fixed on a “pillow” of dry leaves, and sprayed with varnish.
    Tip: the more such roses in a bouquet, the more luxurious, solid it looks.

    
    

Decorative Pumpkin Crafts

Products from the usual, decorative pumpkin is also easy to do with your own hands. There is a lot of decoration technique - it is decorative painting, carving that requires creating a complex pattern. A jack-o-lantern for the celebration of Halloween, a house for a Barbie doll or a live hamster are made from a big pumpkin with a selected middle, slots for eyes, nose, mouth - in the latter case, the dwelling is warmed from the inside with wool and you can hope that it will not be eaten too fast.

An original vase, a goose figurine is created from an elongated lagenaria, and amazing candlesticks come out of warty, tangerine-shaped pumpkins, decorated with lush dried flowers. Several types of small pumpkins of different shapes, colors are folded into a wicker basket, small bouquets of ears are fastened from the sides - the simplest composition is ready. From the pumpkins, cut in half, pasted on a piece of plywood, there will be an excellent panel. The Cinderella's carriage will turn out to be a pumpkin of the correct form - you will have to cut out windows and doors in it, attach the wheels made of cardboard or foam, painted in a suitable color.

Making autumn wreaths

A wreath on the wall or door requires a round base made of wood, plastic, metal, onto which colored pumpkins, sprigs of mountain ash, hawthorn, acorns, leaves, walnut shells are attached to the wire. This composition is supplemented with ribbons of a suitable color scheme.

The base of the wreath is also made of foam plastic, into which the stalks of dried flowers are stuck, cones and chestnuts are glued with a glue-gun, double-sided tape. The construction of pine branches and Physalis flowers looks interesting - the stems and branches are simply twisted with each other with wire to make a circle, gently straightening, to give a beautiful appearance.

The wreath can be decorated not only with ears, cones, flowers, but also with feathers of forest or domestic birds.

Framing for mirrors, photo frames

To create an original frame for a mirror, a picture, a photo, you will need the simplest frame of wood, foam, corrugated cardboard. You can decorate it with anything - glueing with seeds of lupine, poppy, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds, acorns, hazelnuts, alder, pine cones, oak, maple, aspen leaves.

Acorns, chestnuts are recommended to be glued with the help of not ordinary clay, but ordinary clay - if the framing gets tired, it can be easily removed by replacing it with another.

Grapes of acorns

Acorns-grapes - a very interesting hack, you need to work:

  • 12-18 acorns without caps;
  • dark colored wire;
  • gun with glue;
  • blue-violet or green acrylic paint;
  • thick needle or awl;
  • maple leaves or grapes.

How to do:

  • the wire is cut into pieces of eight to ten centimeters;
  • on the stupid end of every acorn a hole is pierced;
  • using glue, wires are fixed inside the acorns;
  • acorns are painted with acrylics of a suitable color, they are collected in clusters, by twisting the pieces of wire between them;
  • Leaves - grape, maple, currant - are attached to the base of the bunch.

    

From several such "grape" bunches of different colors, it is easy to make a full-fledged wreath, panel, topiary.

Maple Leaves Vase

To create your own beautiful vase for flowers, fruits, you will need large, bright maple leaves, some PVA glue, a brush, scissors, a balloon.

Working process:

  • you need to inflate the ball, cut the stalks from the leaves;
  • glue the leaves on the ball about to its middle in several layers;
  • the ball is pierced, removed from the vase;
  • well-dried construction is ready to use.

    
    

Instead of a ball, you can use a plastic salad bowl, a large jar, any other container. Foliage is also allowed different - maple, oak, lime, etc.

Spectacular crafts from other materials

Interesting gizmos on the autumn theme are made of fabric, ribbons, cords, paper, salt dough, knitted elements, padding polyester, using foamiran, polymer clay. From all these materials, leaflets, twigs, autumn fruits, bouquets are molded, cut out, shaped in other ways. It is easy to decorate with such crafts any place in the house, a working office, a group in a kindergarten, a school class.

The easiest way to make an autumn decor of colored paper in the technique of origami. For making paper maple leaves, the sides of the colored squares are bent towards the center so that diamonds are obtained. Such figures on each sheet will need from seven to eleven. As a decoration, they draw streaks, folk ornaments, stripes, specks, waves, funny faces or snowflakes on the resulting leaves. Original look products made from musical paper, book or newspaper pages, soaked in tea. Another version of the maple leaf: take the paper, corrugate it, but cut the edges before it in the form of a Christmas tree. The structure is folded in half, glued in the middle.

    

Felt crafts

To make a garland or a wreath, you will need several pieces of felt of three or more colors. Next, different leaves are taken, outlined on cardboard, after which the parts from felt are cut out using these templates. Each felt element should have a long petiole - it is closed in the form of an eyelet, strung on a cord, creating a garland. Several of these ropes with leaves attached to the horizontal bar - it turns out this curtain.

To make the panel, a wonderful patchwork plaid, textile leaves are sewn on a suitable piece of fabric. You can also cut flowers from felt, including bulky ones, acorns, mushrooms, ears of cereals, apples and pears. The felt wreath is made in the form of a soft ring, stuffed with padding polyester. It is embroidered with inscriptions associated with the fall, as well as sew colored textile leaves, mushrooms, animal figurines.

    

Crafts from salt dough

Salt dough is made from one part of salt, one part of flour, two parts of water - the mass should be plastic. To roll out the dough, you will need a rolling pin, for coloring - wax crayons. Now you need to take any leaf, preferably the most textured one, roll out a piece of dough and press the leaf inside out to it. Then the sheet is removed, the plate is dried, painted in chalk.

Another interesting option is making a garland. Here we take a few balls of dough, dyed with gouache, food colors in different colors. After all the lumps are mixed into one, rolled out with a rolling pin - it turns out a motley multicolor. Further, contour molds are used for dough in the form of leaves, flowers, corresponding figures are cut out, in each of which a small hole is made for threading the cord, the braid.

    

If you cut out a few figures in the shape of a star or the sun from the dough, it is easy to assemble a hedgehog, whose eyes and nose are made of beads, lupine seeds. The back of the hedgehog, depending on its size, is decorated with rowan berries or small apples.

    

To make a candlestick, a circle is cut out of the dough using a glass, one or two centimeters larger than the diameter of the future candle. After the sausage rolls out of the dough, a candle is placed in the center of the mug, and the sausage gently bends around in two or three layers, in the last row the joints are smoothed. Then, using sharp scissors or a stack, spruce needles are cut on a candlestick, the design is dried in the open air for a day or about an hour in the oven - at the lowest temperature. The finished product is painted green, decorated with beads, sparkles, bows.

    

Weave a braid of garlic, hot pepper

Bundles made up of onions, garlic, and red chilli peppers once decorated each village dwelling. To store such vegetables bundles in modern apartments is not always convenient, because they are made of artificial materials.

For work take:

  • tight white nylon stocking;
  • glue gun;
  • some sintepon;
  • white or beige threads;
  • buckwheat;
  • red or burgundy satin fabric.

At the beginning, garlic heads are made - capron is cut into squares, about eight by eight cm in size. The ball of a synthetic winterizer is put inside, with the help of threads the garlic is divided into eight to ten "slices". The place where garlic will have a back is made out with buckwheat, a piece of fluffed flax twine.

Peppers are sewn from triangles of red fabric, molded from dough, painted, varnished. It is easy to make onions from a brown stocking, and carrots or mushrooms from a dough. All elements are strung on a thick thread, twine, woven in the form of a braid.

Approximately in the same way wreaths, voluminous wall panels are made of onion, pepper, garlic.

Conclusion

Beads and applications, bouquets and trees, baskets and fantasy collages from forest gifts, hedgehogs from cones, turtles from nuts and other improvised materials, are easily made with your own hands with children. It is allowed to use almost anything - acorns, chestnuts, leaves, cones, pumpkin seeds, rowan berries, dry corn, various twigs. Step-by-step master classes, detailed instructions of various types are easy to find on the pages of paper magazines, as well as on the Internet.

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