Interesting crafts made from autumn maple leaves.

With the arrival of autumn, schools often assign children crafts made from leaves. Let's look at some interesting craft ideas in this article.

How to process maple leaves for crafts?

The autumn palette of trees gives us bright colors. The carved maple leaves are especially beautiful. Moreover, their colors are varied: green, yellow, burgundy. This natural material makes beautiful crafts that are interesting to both children and adults.

But in order for the results of your creativity to please you for a long time, the leaves need to be properly prepared. Experienced craftsmen use several options for processing maple leaves.

Drying under pressure- this is the simplest and most familiar method for us, which is suitable for applications and collages:

• Place maple leaves between the pages of albums or books.
• Place some flat weight on top.
• leave for a week or two.

Drying iron— an accelerated version of the preparation of maple leaves:

• Place the leaves on thick cardboard.
• cover with a thin sheet of paper.
• iron with a not very hot iron.
• remove the paper and let dry for about an hour.

Soaking in paraffin, with this treatment the leaves retain their bright color and become glossy:

• break the paraffin candle into pieces.
• melt it in a water bath or in the microwave.
• Briefly dip the leaf into hot paraffin until it is evenly coated (it’s convenient to do this with a fork).
• Place on paper towel to dry.

Preservation in glue helps eliminate the fragility of dried leaves:

• dilute PVA glue in water in the ratio: 1 part glue to 4 parts water.
• Dip the leaves into the solution.
• Place on a flat surface and let dry.

Treatment with glycerin. This option is suitable for making volumetric compositions:

• mix glycerin and water (1:2).
• pour the solution into a ziplock bag.
• put the leaves in it and smooth them out.
• zip up the bag.
• put in a dark place for 10 – 14 days.
• Remove the leaves from the bag and dry on paper.

Skeletonization is a very unusual way of preparing leaves for original flat compositions:

• take fresh maple leaves
• make a solution of 1 liter of water and 12 tsp of soda
• bring the solution to a boil
• put the leaves in there and cook for 15-20 minutes
• rinse them with cold water
• Use an old toothbrush to scrape the softened greens from the leaf.
• rinse again
• dry under pressure for 2 days

What to make from maple leaves for school and kindergarten on the theme of autumn: photo

Maple leaves are often used to make crafts for school or kindergarten. By helping your child in this process, you will not only become closer to him, but you will also enjoy creativity.

• draw a tree trunk on paper.
• glue the leaves in the form of a crown.
• Below you can draw little animals.
• Let the child decorate the picture at his own discretion.

• Use a jigsaw to cut out a tree from thin plywood.
• Use sandpaper to smooth out rough edges.
• paint with stain and let dry.
• Glue the prepared leaves onto the tree branches.

Autumn candle:

• prepare two candles.
• melt one.
• take small maple leaves.
• Apply melted paraffin to one side of the leaf with a brush.
• glue the sheet to the second candle.
• Carefully dip it completely into the melted paraffin.
• let it harden.

Photo Frame:

• take an old photo frame and clean it of decor.
• if necessary, sand it with sandpaper.
• Starting from the bottom, glue the leaves overlapping onto the frame.
• try to maintain the color scheme of the leaves (dark shades below and light shades above).

• Cut out the base of the mask from cardboard.
• attach string ties to the ends.
• Cover the mask with maple leaves.

Bunch of grapes:

• Take several acorns and use an awl to make longitudinal through holes in them.
• thread the wire through them and bend the tip so that the acorns do not slip off.
• twist the wire tails together to form a bunch of grapes.
• Attach a maple leaf on top.
• paint the acorns blue or green.

Bunch of grapes

Crafts from maple parachute seeds for children

As children, many people loved to launch “helicopters” from maple seeds. Not everyone knows that this natural material can be used for various crafts. We offer some interesting ideas.

Applications or panels. You can use natural “parachutes” to cover the outline of your drawing, depicting:

• a mop of hair framing a woman's face
• lion's mane
• bird feathers

Since maple seeds are light, it is better to create your composition against a dark background.

• Prepare plasticine, a thin twig, and two pairs of seeds of different sizes.
• Using plasticine, secure larger seeds to the edge of the branch.
• Strengthen the small “parachutes” immediately below the large ones.
• Use a piece of plasticine to form a head with antennae and place it on the end of a branch.
• Make eyes from apple seeds.
• If desired, paint the “wings” with paint.

• Twist two round pieces from newspaper for the head and body.
• secure them by wrapping them with threads.
• Connect the head and body using a stick and glue.
• stretch a wire across the body to hold the wings.
• Cut out two semicircles from thick fabric - blanks for the wings.
• secure them to the wire with a stapler.
• Cover the wings on both sides with seeds.
• cut three pieces of wire for the tail.
• secure the fabric to them with a cone.
• Cover these blanks with “parachutes” too.
• Make paws from wire.
• attach the tail and legs to the body.
• Cover the entire bird with seeds.
• Make eyes from beans, and a beak from nut shells.
• you can put your bird on a branch.

Helicopter:

• using plasticine, connect a large walnut and an oblong small bump (the cockpit and tail of the helicopter).
• On top of the walnut with plasticine, install two maple wings - “screw blades”.
• At the end of the cone, attach a couple of small seeds - a “propeller”.
• place the helicopter on a wooden block.

How to make a bouquet from maple leaves?

The carved shape of the maple leaf is beautiful in itself. Therefore, a laconic bouquet of dried leaves placed in a vase will look bright and festive. You can also cut whole branches with leaves from the maple and place it in a transparent container.

And with a little effort, you can decorate your interior with more unusual maple compositions.

• Lubricate the leaves with clear varnish or melted paraffin.
• tie several pieces with wire.
• decorate with a string of beads or lurex ribbon.
• Make a loop out of the ribbon and hang it over the doorway.

Pink bouquet:

• Fold the maple leaf crosswise with the right side facing out.
• twist a tube out of it and secure with thread.
• Fold the second leaf in the same way across and wrap it around the already twisted bud, aligning their cuttings.
• Wrap the next leaves in the same way, moving down a little and tying the cuttings with threads.
• secure the rosette to the branch.
• wrap the “stem” with decorative paper.
• make several flowers and assemble a bouquet from them.

How to make a wreath from maple leaves?

It is customary to decorate the house with wreaths of maple leaves for Halloween. And it’s just nice to liven up the interior on gloomy autumn days. They are easy to make. Children will especially enjoy this activity. Prepare:

• Maple leaves
• wire
• threads
• flexible branches (willow or birch)
• acorns, rose hips, fesalis fruits
• beads or ribbons

Get started:

• twist a ring from several rods, securing it with wire.
• Attach maple leaves to the branches using thread or glue.
• Glue acorns, bright fruits, etc. between the leaves.
• wrap the wreath with bright beads.

Use your imagination and decorate your wreath with various natural materials:

• small pumpkins
• rowan
• cones
• spikelets
• dried flowers
• bird feathers
• coniferous branches

Or you can simply weave a wreath from maple leaves in the same way as from ordinary summer flowers. With such a wreath you can decorate not only your room, but also yourself for a holiday or an autumn photo shoot.

How to make a crown from maple leaves?

A crown made of maple leaves will be an unusual decoration for a child for a matinee. It won't take much time to make:

• take beautiful leaves of approximately the same size.
• cut off the thick ends of the petioles.
• Bend the first leaf inward by about a third parallel to the cutting.
• Bend the second leaf in the same way and “stitch” the previous leaf with its stem.
• repeat the process using the remaining leaves until you have a ribbon of the required length.
• roll the ring, securing the first cutting to the last leaf.
• decorate the crown by gluing rowan berries.

DIY maple leaf hedgehog

Using maple leaves, you can make a funny hedgehog. The leaves will act as a prickly coat. There are two ways to make a hedgehog.

• Draw the outline of a hedgehog on colored cardboard.
• Using PVA glue, glue the leaves onto the animal’s body, starting from the outline and moving towards the middle (the leaves should overlap slightly).
• Make a sun and flowers out of colored paper and decorate your work with them.

• Form an oval from salt dough or plasticine.
• on one side, flatten it a little, making the face of a hedgehog.
• Take small maple leaves and cut off the petioles, leaving about 3 cm.
• Stick the leaves into the back, pressing well.
• mold the hedgehog's paws.
• Make eyes and a nose from peppercorns.

DIY maple leaf plate

You can make a decorative plate for fruits or sweets from autumn leaves. Wide maple leaves are ideal for this craft. To make a plate, prepare:

• leaves
• inflatable ball
• PVA glue

How to do:

• inflate the balloon.
• Place it in a bowl for convenience.
• Lubricate the surface with glue.
• cut off the petioles of the leaves.
• Grease the leaves with PVA and attach them to the ball.
• Lay each next row with an overlap.
• Cover the ball halfway in this way.
• At the base of the plate, glue several layers of leaves to stabilize the future product.
• let dry.
• gently deflate the balloon.

The original piece of furniture is ready!

Crafts from pine cones and maple leaves

Cones are an excellent natural material for all kinds of compositions. And in combination with bright maple leaves, they can become the basis for interesting crafts.

• Prepare a large cone, plasticine and maple leaves.
• Make a swan's neck and head from plasticine and attach it to the bump - the body.
• Using plasticine, attach leaves - wings - to the sides of the cones.
• Make a tail from a small leaf.

• take the oblong fir cone.
• Form a head from salt dough or plasticine and attach it to the wide part of the cone.
• Attach two large maple leaves to a pine cone in the form of wings.
• Place smaller wings below.
• make antennae on your head from wire.
• don't forget to glue on the pea eyes.

New Year's wreath:

• Form a base ring from polystyrene foam or branches.
• Using glue and wire, attach the cones to the base, alternating them with maple leaves.
• cover the wreath with gold paint.

• Tie cones and leaves onto ribbons, alternating them with each other.
• form garlands from several such ribbons of different lengths, securing them to one branch.
• DIY sun made from maple leaves.

In gloomy, stormy weather, a hand-made sun made from leaves will warm you.

• Cut out a circle from thick cardboard.
• prepare yellow maple leaves and trim their tails.
• cover the edge of the cardboard circle with leaves
  Thus.
• make three rows.
• Glue a large maple leaf of a contrasting color into the center of the cardboard circle.
• Make eyes from beans or small leaves.

DIY sun made from maple leaves

• Roll the maple leaves into a tube.
• piercing the tubes in the middle, string them onto two wires.
• connect the ends of the wires to form a ring.
• tie a ribbon to the “sun” and hang it up.

DIY maple leaf vase

An autumn bouquet can be placed in a vase of maple leaves. The color range of this natural material is wide, and you can easily select the desired shade for the composition. Let's get started:

• take a smooth glass vase or plastic bottle.
• Make a liquid paste from flour and water.
• Apply a thin layer of cooled paste to the surface of the vessel.
• Wrap the vase in thin paper and press well.
• Also grease the paper with paste.
• Cover the vase with leaves (it is better to cut off the tails).
• Cover the top with PVA glue.
• garnish with rose hips or rowan berries.
• let dry for at least a day.
• Carefully remove the paper with leaves from the vase.
• For strength and shine, spray the product with hairspray.

Leaf Crafts

If you plan to create compositions from living plants, then do not remove the base from the vase. Then you can pour water into it and change the bouquets according to your mood.

Crafts made from maple and oak leaves

The combination of maple and oak leaves looks impressive in various autumn compositions:

• wreaths
• garlands
• bouquets
• candlesticks
• topiary

You can especially give free rein to your imagination in applications and panels.
The stained glass window made of leaves on the door looks very unusual and beautiful:

• just tape the leaves to the glass in any order.
• rub wax crayons onto paper, place leaves on top, cover with paper on top and iron with an iron. The wax will melt and stick to the leaves.
• It is better to glue such multi-colored leaves onto glass separately.

Crafts from chestnuts and maple leaves

While walking through the park, don’t forget to pick up chestnuts. You and your child can use them to make funny figures. For this you will need:

• chestnuts
• maple leaves
• plasticine

• take two chestnuts: a small one for the head and a larger one for the body.
• Make a neck out of plasticine and connect the chestnuts.
• Use an awl to make a hole in a large chestnut tree.
• Cut the stem from the leaf, leaving 1-2 cm.
• insert the leaf into the hole - you get a bird's tail.
• Make three holes in the top of a small chestnut-head.
• insert pieces of matches into them.
• paint the match heads with colored paint.
• Make the eyes, beak and legs of the bird from plasticine.

Caterpillar:

• take six chestnuts (preferably of different sizes).
• arrange them in a row by size in descending order.
• Connect the chestnuts together with pieces of plasticine.
• Use plasticine to sculpt the face of a caterpillar on the largest chestnut tree.
• Make horns from short matches.
• place the caterpillar on a bright maple leaf.

• pick two chestnuts of different sizes (large for the body, small for the head).
• connect them with plasticine.
• Make eight long legs from thin willow twigs.
• Form large eyes from plasticine and stick to a small chestnut - the head.
• cover the spider with a leaf.

Snail family:

• sculpt the body and head of the snail from plasticine.
• Place a chestnut shell on the body.
• make several snails of different sizes.
• arrange the entire “family” on bright maple leaves.

DIY maple leaf tree

A tree made from maple leaves will be an excellent decoration for your room. It can be made in different ways.

"Herringbone":

• Prepare maple leaves of different sizes.
• Fold each one inward twice.
• Using wire, attach the leaves to the stick, starting from the bottom of the Christmas tree.
• The largest leaves should be at the bottom and the smallest at the top.

• dry the leaves in any way.
• Find a beautiful branch and coat it with varnish.
• Attach dry leaves to the branch with thin wire.
• place the “maple” in a vase or nail it to a board.
• Make two balls from polystyrene foam or a wad of newspaper - large and small (to fit in the pot).
• place a small ball in a pot and make a hole in the foam (newspaper) for the barrel.
• Lubricate the hole with glue and insert a thick branch - a trunk - into it.
• Also make a hole in the large ball and, using glue, attach it to the trunk.
• paint the balls and barrel the color you want.
• Make a small hole in a large sphere with an awl, drop some glue in there and insert a rolled maple leaf (pre-treated in any way).
• secure the leaves over the entire surface of the ball in the same way.
• You can additionally decorate the crown of the tree with cones, rowan berries or pine needles.
• Cover the base of the trunk with moss or small leaves.
• The crown of the tree can be decorated with rosettes of leaves.

This topiary will look elegant in any interior.

Crafts from rowan and maple leaves

Bright rowan berries and the carved shape of maple leaves are a great idea for a beautiful interior! Add red rowan to any autumn composition - and it will look festive and elegant.

• choose a large, beautiful maple leaf.
• Lubricate it with PVA glue.
• Place rowan berries on it like a mosaic.
• let dry.

"The music of wind":

• fasten the two branches crosswise.
• string one by one onto a thin strong rope.
• rowan berries and maple leaves.
• make 7-8 such ribbons, each of which should end with a berry.
• Attach the garlands to the branches and hang them up.

Topiary:

• make the base for the topiary as described above.
• decorate the upper sphere with maple leaves and rowan berries (put a couple of leaves and a small rowan branch into a bundle and secure with thread).
• form the crown of a tree from 8-10 such bunches.

Video: Decor of autumn leaves

Children are asked to make crafts from dry leaves both in kindergarten and at school. Therefore, you should prepare the colorful gifts of autumn with which the earth is strewn in advance. They need to be dried by placing them between the pages of thick books. This way the leaves will straighten out completely and become perfectly even, which will make further work with them easier.

Simple leaf crafts for kids

The easiest way to make it is from autumn leaves:

Application. Some of its elements can be depicted using paints. For example, works where the face of an animal is drawn by a small artist, and its fur, ears, limbs or tail are presented in the form of sheets of a suitable shape and size, look great.

Collage on paper. Leaves can be used as solid elements, stacked on top of each other to create a complete look. If you have difficulties with the lack of bright colors, the attached natural material can be decorated with watercolors or gouache.

Leaf crafts for grades 1-2

In the first and second grades there are children who still find it difficult to sit still for a long time. Therefore, it is important that their parents help them make crafts. You should not choose complex compositions for 6-8 year olds, as painstaking work will become real torture for the child.

The simplest options for crafts made from leaves for grades 1 and 2 are as follows:

Application

Sun

Aquarium

Composition of leaves

These autumn-themed crafts are made quickly and look interesting. At the same time, the child does not have to do painstaking work for a long time - his masterpiece is ready in literally 5-10 minutes.

Leaf crafts for grades 3-4

Pupils of the third and fourth grades are more diligent, so they can be asked to make complex crafts from dry leaves.

Vase of maple leaves

Handmade flowers are very popular. They look original.

Wreath of leaves

To make a bouquet, you need to prepare:

• dense maple leaves;
• threads

The sheet must be folded in half so that its glossy side is on the outside. Then you need to start folding it from the side. You should get an elastic tube. It needs to be secured with threads. Then repeat it all over again, but no longer just roll the bent sheet, but wrap the first tube in it. The more times this operation is repeated, the more magnificent the flower bud will be.

Step-by-step instructions for making flowers from leaves

The resulting flowers need to be combined into a common bouquet. If you plan to give them to someone as a gift, you can decorate the work with candies and ribbons.

Beautiful bouquet

Flowers from autumn leaves

Volumetric flowers

Leaf crafts for interior decoration

From leaves you can make not only crafts for school or kindergarten, but also unique things to decorate your own home. In addition to the flower bouquets described above, decorative wreaths are suitable for these purposes. They can be hung on the front door or gate.

Wreath of leaves, cones and berries

The wreath is made as follows:

You need to form an oval or circle from flexible branches and secure it with thin wire in several places.

Wrap the workpiece on top with a bright ribbon or thick gold threads.

Using a loaded glue gun, decorate the wreath with leaves and flowers.

Wreath on the door

To make the finished product look perfect, it can be supplemented with artificial chicks purchased at a craft store, satin ribbons, and beads.

Decorative wreath

Fall-themed collages for school

If you decide to make a collage on the theme “Autumn” for school, then you can forget about any rules - you need to give free rein to your imagination. You should only prepare in advance:

• a large amount of natural material;
• paper;
• cardboard;
• acrylic paint;
• high quality glue.

If it is difficult to independently imagine the picture that should turn out in the end, you can find a photograph of any drawing, and then try to recreate it, but with the help of dry leaves.

As a result, this might look like this:

Painting made from natural materials

Delicate collage of leaves and flowers

Daisy girl

Beautiful composition of leaves

All these works require time and patience, so they should only be undertaken by older children and adults. Kids will not be able to create such original collages on their own.

But they can make, for example, a vase like this:

Vase of leaves

Or flying leaves:

Simple collage

The tree from which the leaves are falling also looks very cool:

Collage “Falling Leaves”

Do-it-yourself leaf skeletonization

The technique of skeletonizing leaves makes it possible to create real masterpieces on an autumn theme. To get the thinnest “skeletons”, you must use:

• freshly collected leaves;
• baking soda;
• paint for Easter eggs.
• You will also need a saucepan, an old toothbrush and napkins.

Skeleton leaf flower

You need to pour four tablespoons of water into a bowl, add a spoonful of soda. Place pre-washed leaves into the solution. Boil everything for about thirty minutes. Then place the sheets on a dry cloth, glossy side up. Remove excess water.

Skeleton leaves

Carefully remove the green pulp with a toothbrush. Rinse the resulting “skeletons” under running water and place in a plate containing diluted food coloring. After a couple of minutes, remove the natural material and dry it.

Skeleton leaves will be the best addition to any autumn craft.

, genuine leather and other improvised materials for making crafts, from which we learned to make beautiful artificial flowers.

Autumn has long come into its own and painted the world around us with bright, colorful colors. Autumn gave us wonderful natural materials for making unique crafts with our own hands - fallen from trees

autumn leaves of different sizes and with fancy shapes, as well as numerous flowers and inflorescences, which we will use to make beautiful flowers, cute lamps , graceful bouquets with artificial roses, original compositions of vegetables and fruits for interior decoration.

And children will be happy to help their parents create amazing crafts from scrap materials, absolutely waste natural material . Such joint leisure is very useful for the development of imagination, fine motor skills, and sensory abilities of young children and primary schoolchildren.

From autumn natural materials you can make not only simple crafts, children's educational toys, applications and herbariums. Interior designers have long adopted the unique beauty and indescribable sophistication of autumn gifts. The walls of the rooms can be decorate with exquisite panels and paintings with compositions in the form of flowers from autumn fallen leaves (maple, oak, chestnut), folded with your own hands in a special way. In order to use fallen tree leaves and dry flowers for making crafts , bouquets and compositions with your own hands, it is important to properly prepare these natural materials before work. You probably already know that autumn leaves can be placed between the sheets of albums (books, magazines, newspapers) and a load can be placed on top. This preparation method is suitable for forming a herbarium, children's applique or collagefrom dried leaves.

But for making voluminous crafts and bouquets of flowers from autumn leaves that have fallen from trees, this method is not suitable. Before you start twisting such flowers from leaves that have fallen from trees (for example, roses from red maple leaves), it is important to properly process them in order to the crafts retained their original appearance long time. We will tell you about this in detail later in this article. In addition to tips and useful ideas for creating bouquets and compositions from natural materials, you will find here video lessons , as well as master classes with which you can quickly make with your own hands both simple compositions (children’s crafts from leaves, appliques, figurines, collages) and complex bouquets and objects for interior decoration in the form of bouquets of flowers from autumn leaves ( topiary ) or compositions of dried flowers (see photo).

You will learn how to properly process and preserve maple leaves and autumn flowers so that those made from them beautiful crafts did not turn into brittle, shapeless and twisted objects. And you can make any of these natural gifts of autumn in a wide variety of colors and with surprisingly different fancy shapes. artificial flowers - large roses , small cornflowers, graceful chrysanthemums, cute daisies, gorgeous water lilies . The color of these homemade flowers can be very different (not just yellow or red) - after all, dried autumn leaves can be painted with an acrylic primer with the addition of a tint of the desired color (and then covered with colorless varnish). Using gel pens you can apply different designs and geometric shapes on the surface artificial flowers autumn theme.

Ideas for creativity:

- Application.
A great idea for spending leisure time with your child! Have you already collected a lot of beautiful fallen leaves and autumn flowers from your yard, dried them, and made a colorful herbarium? Let's not stop there! Spread a large sheet of thick paper or cardboard on the table, lay out our “harvest” on it and create an original composition, combining colors and different forms of natural materials . You can glue the details of the autumn composition to the base with PVA glue (but it is better to use photo glue or gum arabic);

- Collage.
You and your child can put together a multi-layered bright collage under a frame. The bottom layer is large dark and brown leaves, then greenish, the upper layers are small bright contrasting leaves of red and yellow. We add dried autumn flowers to the collage, adding different shapes from them and getting a beautiful three-dimensional composition.
Or you can add letters or words (as well as shapes) to the collage - tightly press a sheet of cardboard with cut out letters to the glued composition and carefully cut out the letters according to the template with a stationery knife (of course, with the hands of the parents, not the child);

- Educational game for children.
A great idea that your preschool child will love! Glue half of a fallen leaf onto a paper sheet (first cut the sheet vertically). The child’s task is to draw the missing half of the sheet with a pencil (felt-tip pen). Advise your child to choose the appropriate color of the pencil and carefully look at the shape of the half in order to accurately reproduce the mirror part of the composition. The most difficult option is a maple leaf, leave it for later and help your child draw a little;

- Painted autumn leaves.
You can decorate both flat and three-dimensional crafts made from leaves with painting. For this work, use gel pens and felt-tip pens (with silver, gold, white and other colors). Bouquets with decorated artificial flowers will be great and other interior objects;

- A bouquet of autumn leaves and dried flowers.
You will find information below on how to make flowers from maple leaves with your own hands and assemble a bouquet from them. If you decorate such a bouquet with dried flowers and place it in a small wide vase, you will get an excellent compositional center for your room;



- A tree or topiary made from autumn materials.
Another great option for interior decoration. You can make a small tree from fallen twigs and decorate it with homemade flowers made from leaves. Or make your own topiary (see photo), attaching many of these flowers to a floral ball (option: to a foam ball);

Tree (photo):


- Three-dimensional picture of the gifts of autumn.
You can use a large photo frame or a wooden picture frame as a base. The background can be made from cardboard, painted in a suitable color . We make interesting compositions with our own hands from maple leaves, dried flowers, fallen pine needles and other natural materials, attaching them to the base using wire.

Helpful Tips:

How to prepare autumn leaves for making crafts and applications at home.

- for voluminous crafts in the form of flowers and bouquets.
We won’t be able to make voluminous crafts from dried leaves, as they are too brittle. Therefore, we will specially process the collected leaves. Divide the solution - 200 ml. glycerin per 400 ml. clean water. Carefully place the leaves that have fallen from the trees into a thick plastic bag and level them, then fill them with the prepared solution. The bag with the contents must be hermetically sealed (with a heated knife) or sealed with adhesive tape. Leave this bag in a dark closet for 3-4 days, and then spread the leaves on a paper towel to dry. From these flexible leaves that retain their original appearance for a long time, you can make a variety of flowers (below - MK: how to make beautiful roses from maple leaves with your own hands);

- for flat autumn compositions (appliqués, collages).
Leaves and flowers collected in autumn are best dried in massive magazines and reference books. The collected natural materials must be thoroughly pressed with a heavy weight placed on top of the directory.

How to properly dry autumn flowers for crafts and compositions:

- iron drying.
Autumn leaves and many small flowers can be dried with an iron. To do this, lay out natural materials on thick cardboard. , cover the top with a thin paper sheet and iron with a not very hot iron until all the moisture has evaporated;

- natural drying.
An excellent option for drying autumn flowers. Stretch the rope in a dry room with good air circulation. We put the collected flowers in bunches and hang them on a rope with the inflorescences down;

- oven drying.
A wonderful way to dry large single flowers (roses, tulips, peonies) for making compositions. The temperature in the oven should not be very high - approximately 50-60°C. Carefully monitor the process so that the flowers do not turn brown or lose their shape during drying;

- volumetric drying of flowers.
According to many experienced florists, this method of drying autumn flowers allows you to preserve their natural shape and color. The cut flower is placed in calcined dry sand for 4 weeks. As a container, you can use a box with a fine mesh at the bottom and a retractable bottom. Flowers with double and voluminous inflorescences (lilies, dahlias, roses) are placed in the sand with the stems down, and with flat inflorescences-baskets (buttercups, daisies, asters, forget-me-nots) - with the stems up.

What tools and materials may be useful for making autumn crafts:

- Scissors.
Small scissors with blunt ends for a child and sharp, long ones for an adult;

Stationery knife and stacks.
Using a stationery knife is convenient for cutting multi-layered parts of a craft. Plastic stacks are great tools for a child to use to cut individual leaves for appliqué;

- Shilo.
For convenience, choose a tool with a wide wooden handle (length - 5-6 cm) and a not very thick piercing part;

- Long tweezers and tweezers.
Tweezers are convenient for moving small parts of crafts. Nippers with a folded, twisted front part can be borrowed from a manicure set. These tweezers are very convenient for twisting individual parts of the product and wire;

- Thin wire.
Often used to form the frame of crafts and toys from natural materials. To fasten individual parts, it is advisable to use flexible and durable copper wire with a diameter of 0.35 mm;

- Foil and foil paper.
For decorating autumn crafts, for appliques and collages;

- Sewing needle and thread.
For connecting individual parts of crafts, for forming bouquets of leaves and dried flowers;

- Paper.
The more different types of paper (differing in color, density, thickness), the better. To make crafts, appliqués, bouquets, panels and wall compositions from natural materials, you can use corrugated, wallpaper, velvet, parchment, landscape, wrapping, copying and other types of paper;

- Plasticine and plastic (polymer clay).
For fastening, as well as for sculpting individual parts that complement products made from leaves and dried flowers. Your child can work with plasticine and polymer clay;

- Glue.
A variety of brands of glue can be useful in your work. PVA, BF, and “Mars” are often used. The safest options for use by a child are PVA and glue sticks.
For gluing individual parts of a craft, brushes with hard bristles are useful;

- Paints and brushes.
To create applications and collages - watercolor and gouache paints. For painting voluminous crafts made from autumn leaves and dried flowers, use acrylic paints. It is most convenient to paint with soft squirrel brushes.

2. HOW TO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ROSE FROM FALLEN AUTUMN LEAVES WITH YOUR OWN HANDS

It is very easy to make such an artificial flower with your own hands! For work, prepare autumn maple leaves, strong threads, golden paints and sunflower oil. You can treat the leaves with a glycerin solution (see recipe above) for the durability of the assembled craft.

To make a separate flower, it is best to choose plain maple leaves. The rosettes from the leaves will be quite large. 5-7 of these crafts are enough to put together a beautiful bouquet. You can use the same maple leaves as leaves for this bouquet with artificial homemade flowers. Make the roses red and yellow.

So, let's get to work:

- take a maple leaf and bend it in half (front side facing out);

Bend the very tip and roll the leaf into a roll;

We take a second maple leaf of the same color and place the already twisted bud at its base (see photo);

We form a maple rose petal by bending the leaf and wrapping it tightly around the bud;

We wrap the third maple leaf in the same way. The more rose petals there are, the more voluminous and larger the rose will be. Move each subsequent row down a little to make the flower look blooming;

Just above the leaf petioles we secure the craft with thread;

Similarly, we will make another 5-7 of the same roses (yellow, red, greenish);

Lubricate maple roses with sunflower oil so that the bouquet retains its original appearance for a long time. Now you can cover the crafts with golden paint;

All that remains is to drop a few maple leaves into a small vase, and then form a beautiful bouquet of artificial roses.

3. MASTER CLASSES. LEARNING TO MAKE CRAFTS IN THE FORM OF FLOWERS FROM AUTUMN LEAVES AND COMPOSITIONS FROM DRIED FLOWERS

Master class No. 1:

STEPS OF STEP-BY-STEP PRODUCTION OF GORGEOUS VOLUMEROUS ROSES FROM RED MAPLE LEAVES FALLEN FROM TREES (PHOTO).

Master class No. 2:

HOW TO MAKE A FLOWER FROM AUTUMN LEAVES. ANOTHER OPTION FOR FOLDING A LARGE ROSE FROM MAPLE LEAVES WITH YOUR OWN HANDS. STEP-BY-STEP PHOTO MK.

Master class No. 3:

WE MAKE CRAFTS FROM LEAVES

The autumn period is famous not only for rains and cold weather, but also for the charm of colors that colorful leaves give. By using your imagination, you can create amazing creative works using the gifts of nature. Crafts made from leaves on the theme of autumn for kindergarten are an ideal option for parents to have an interesting, useful time with their child, open up new opportunities for him, and unleash his creative potential. The beauty of such needlework is that all materials are free, and the result of the creative process is limited only by the imagination of the child and parents.

What craft to make from autumn leaves for kindergarten

The kindergarten regularly hosts exhibitions of crafts created by children and their parents. The main goal of such events is to attract mothers and fathers to activities with the child in order to reveal the child’s creative potential and introduce him to the nuances of working with natural materials. Often leaves (oak, maple, linden, etc.) and dried flowers are used for such creativity. As a craft for kindergarten you can make:

• applique of an animal (squirrel, bear, mouse, peacock), autumn forest, car;
• topiary;
• wreath;
• beautiful autumn bouquet;
• Ekibanu;
• garlands, pendants.

Step-by-step instructions for crafts on the theme “Autumn”

To create crafts based on autumn leaves, you do not need special knowledge or skills, the main thing is desire, a little imagination and the materials necessary for the work (as a rule, these are natural materials, glue, colored paper, felt-tip pens). To make your work look beautiful, work as carefully as possible, slowly - then at the exhibition in the kindergarten your work will not go unnoticed. The master classes presented below will help you create the perfect autumn-themed craft.

Application “Autumn Forest” on paper

It is possible to create an unusual application on the theme “autumn” using only dried tree leaves, felt-tip pens, glue, cardboard or paper. Even a child can cope with such work, and the finished result will give the little master a sense of pride and pleasure. Use step-by-step instructions for creating an “autumn forest” application:

1. On paper with felt-tip pens, draw tree trunks in the forest.
2. Choose beautiful leaves that are shaped like tree crowns and will help create a realistic appliqué.
3. Glue all the elements using PVA glue, and a beautiful craft for kindergarten will be ready.

How to make a “Bouquet of Roses”

To please your teachers with an original craft, make roses using maple leaves. The beauty of such a composition is that it retains its original appearance for a long time, pleases the eye, and does not require any maintenance. Children can create this bouquet if you help them a little. To work, you will need a minimum of attributes and tools: maple leaves, thread, scissors.

Step-by-step instructions for making roses:

1. Fold the maple leaf in half, twist it into a tube - the center of the rose is ready.
2. Wrap the second element around the center, forming the second petal. To get volume, do not press it too hard.
3. In the same way, wind a couple more elements to make a rose or its bud. The volume and splendor of the flower depends on the number of petals.
4. Wrap the bottom of the flower well to secure it.
5. Combine several roses into a bouquet, decorate with branches or petals to give the composition a complete look.

"Hedgehog"

It is possible to create a beautiful funny hedgehog using fir cones. To work, you will also need cardboard, which will form the basis of the craft, plasticine, glue, tree leaves (or moss). To create a hedgehog, you need to make a body for it. Plasticine or a plastic bottle can be used for this. Consider the option of creating a small hedgehog:

• Grease the cardboard well with glue and glue colorful autumn elements (leaves, moss) in random order. This background will become an impromptu forest clearing through which a hedgehog walks.
• Create an oval from plasticine, which will serve as the body of the hedgehog, and attach it to the “clearing”. Stick the cones into it, leaving space in front for the muzzle.
• Use a small piece of plasticine to make a muzzle, and for the nose and eyes you can use chokeberry berries or beads.
• A beautiful hedgehog in an autumn meadow is ready for kindergarten.

Volumetric applique “Owl”

The variety of autumn colors amazes the imagination and gives free rein to imagination. As a craft for kindergarten, you can create an original three-dimensional applique - an owl, which, due to its multi-layered nature, looks lush, interesting and quite realistic. To create a masterpiece, you need to prepare the following attributes:

• cardboard (colored or white - optional);
• dried autumn leaves - the main elements;
• PVA glue, brush for it.

Step-by-step work:

1. You need to draw or print the outline of an owl on cardboard. All you need is outlines without details or color.
2. Gradually apply glue along the contour with a brush (very carefully so that the work is as neat as possible) and glue the leaves. Do this from top to bottom, overlapping previous layers to achieve the desired volume.
3. When the entire outline is filled, you need to cut out the beak, eyes and glue them to the muzzle.
4. The original application is ready. To make the creative process not only interesting, but also developmental, while working, it is worth telling the child educational facts about the owl and its life.

How to make a Rooster applique

To create an original painting, you need desire and creative inspiration. A bright applique with the image of a rooster will definitely please a child and is ideal for display in a kindergarten. For creativity you will need:

• white cardboard;
• colorful leaves;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• ashberry.

Instructions for creating a rooster:

1. Draw the outline of a rooster on cardboard (or glue a cut-out blank). For more experienced craftsmen, it is possible to lay out the contours directly with leaves.
2. Glue leaves of different shapes, sizes and shades to create feathers for the rooster.
3. Using scissors, cut out an eye, glue an eyebrow to the work, make a pupil using a rowan berry.
4. When all the elements are glued, the work needs to be put under a press for several hours, and the wonderful applique will be ready.

Autumn wreath for children

Not only applications, compositions or decorative elements, but also an original wreath can be created from the autumn gifts of nature. In order for the decoration to keep its shape, you will need thin branches that bend well and do not break. In the creative process it is necessary to use threads, glue, elements for decoration: leaves, rowan branches, raspberries, pine cones, vegetables, fruits, etc.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a wreath:

1. Make a circle from the branches and secure with thread so that the product holds its shape.
2. To add additional volume, branches with berries or a grapevine can be used.
3. When the base for the wreath is ready, you should start decorating it. To do this, glue cones, leaves, flowers or other decorative elements in a circle. It all depends on the child’s imagination and the availability of natural materials at hand.
4. An original autumn wreath can be used for decorative purposes or as an element of a costume at a festival in honor of autumn.

Original postcard

You can congratulate a teacher or loved one on the holiday with a unique handmade card. In the autumn there is no need to buy special attributes for decoration. Nature took care of everything, creating a variety of materials for creativity. A postcard looks original when decorated with dry leaves of birch, oak, maple, cherry or other trees and bushes. To work you will need glue and cardboard.

Step-by-step creation of a product:

1. Fold a sheet of cardboard in half to make a postcard.
2. Place leaves and flowers on the front side of the product, creating a beautiful composition. Do not limit your imagination, this will allow you to create an unsurpassed postcard. It is important to ensure that everything looks harmonious (parents should help the child with this).
3. If the desired result is achieved and all participants in the process like the design, glue all the elements with glue and a brush to make the work as neat as possible.
4. The original postcard is ready and can delight the recipient.

The craft in the shape of a firebird looks original. It is difficult to name a clear list of materials that will be needed for the work; it all depends on the creative imagination and vision of the child and parents. Let's look at the instructions for creating a unique composition, for which you will need:

• cardboard, colored paper or a beautiful napkin for the base of the composition;
• various leaves, thuja twigs can be used;
• pumpkin seeds;
• PVA glue.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. We select an element similar to the body of a firebird and glue it so that there is room on one side for the head, and on the other for a chic tail.
2. Glue a birch leaf that will serve as the bird's head.
3. We make the tail using elements of the same color.
4. Decorate the tail: glue beautiful leaves of rowan or thuja to create volume and play of color.
5. We make wings for the bird using birch leaves.
6. Glue pumpkin seeds to the head as eyes. With their help it is easy to decorate the tail or body of a bird.
7. We glue a small thuja twig to the head, creating a tuft.

Master class with step-by-step production of “Butterflies”

Using simple leaves of different shades, you can create a beautiful craft for kindergarten - a butterfly. The creative process will appeal to the child, it will allow him to take a fresh look at familiar things and reveal his potential. For work you need to prepare the following materials:

• leaves from trees of different colors;
• scissors;
• double-sided tape;
• glue stick or PVA;
• colored cardboard or paper;
• hole puncher.

Step-by-step creation of a butterfly:

1. Cut the stems and middle parts from the leaves.
2. Peel off the top layer from the double-sided tape and glue a small leaf (the butterfly's head), and the middle part - the wings.
3. Do the same with the middle part of the second maple leaf. It is recommended to use legs as antennae, and an oblong thin element (part of a leaf) for the body.
4. Use a hole punch to make circles for the eyes and decorations for the wings. Glue them.
5. Attach butterflies to colored paper.

How to dry leaves for crafts

To prepare the leaves for applications and crafts, they need to be dried, and you can do this in several ways:

1. Classic option. Place elements under a press or between the pages of a book. They should not touch each other. To prevent natural materials from ruining the book, place tracing paper between the pages of the book.
2. Hot drying with an iron. Place paper on the ironing board and place leaves on it, spreading them out. Cover the material with another sheet and iron using dry ironing without steam.
3. To preserve the natural color and shape of the leaves, dry them by laying them on the windowsill. This way the elements will retain their natural appearance, which will allow you to create the most realistic paintings or compositions.

How to make leaf skeletonization with your own hands

Crafts for kindergarten that use skeletonized leaves look original. Many people reject the idea of ​​working with such material, fearing the fragile structure and not knowing how to make such beautiful elements. Creating skeletonized elements does not require much effort or time, and the resulting result will delight not only the child, but also everyone who gets to see the result of creativity.

To work you will need:

• tree leaves;
• baking soda;
• cold water.

Master class on creating skeletonized leaves:

1. Make a solution: one liter of cold water and twelve tablespoons of soda. Boil the mixture and place the leaves in it for about 25 minutes.
2. After the allotted time, rinse each element under cold water and remove the greens using a toothbrush.
3. Rinse again under running water and you're done.

Video

The creative process with natural materials will give you not only a delightful ready-made craft made from leaves on an autumn theme for kindergarten, but also a lot of fun while working. It is sometimes difficult for young children to correctly compose a composition or make an animal using the gifts of nature. Parents also sometimes have a creative crisis, and creating simple work causes difficulties due to the lack of imagination. Watch below a selection of video tutorials on creating autumn crafts for inspiration and additional knowledge about the process.

A very simple craft for kindergarten “Fish”

Children's craft made from natural material “Fox”

“Hedgehog in the grass” made from leaves and flowers with your own hands

Photos of interesting crafts on the theme “Autumn” made from leaves

Each child, together with their parents, using a little imagination, is able to create a unique craft on the theme “autumn” using leaves, chestnuts, and acorns. Using elements of different shapes, shades, textures in your work, you can create a real masterpiece that will decorate an exhibition in a kindergarten. There are no rules or restrictions in creativity - everyone creates a craft according to their capabilities or the availability of materials at hand. To get some inspiration, find the right idea and enjoy some amazing fall crafts, look at the photo.

DIY autumn topiary

Topiary "Autumn tree" Master class with step-by-step photos

DIY topiary made from artificial paper leaves. Master class with step-by-step photos

The master class is intended for middle-aged and older children, educators, teachers, additional education teachers, as well as for those who like to be creative.
Purpose: for decorating the interior of an apartment, a hand-made gift.

Target: Creating a topiary "Autumn tree"
Tasks:
-teach the sequence of making topiary;
-develop creativity and imagination;
-improve skills in working with various materials;
- to cultivate hard work and accuracy.
Autumn is the most wonderful time of the year, when nature gives us a lot of different materials for creating various beautiful crafts. All we have to do is to dream up our imaginations, choose a material and start making crafts. That’s what we will do with you now. My choice fell on making the “Autumn Tree” topiary .Handmade topiary will be a continuation of the autumn theme in any room, be it a group in a kindergarten or your apartment.

Leaf fall

Leaf fall, leaf fall,
Yellow leaves are flying.
Yellow maple, yellow beech,
Yellow circle in the sky of the sun.
Yellow yard, yellow house.
The whole earth is yellow all around.
Yellowness, yellowness,
This means that autumn is not spring.
(V. Nirovich)
To make an autumn tree we will need:

-newspapers;
-sewing threads;
-leg-split;
-PVA glue;
-gypsum;
-glue gun;
-scissors;
-wooden stick;
-paint-gouache;
-flower pot;
-artificial leaves, grass, berries;
-napkins;
-satin ribbon.
Everything is ready and we can start making topiary. The base of the topiary will be a ball, we make it from crumpled newspapers wrapped in sewing threads.

When you decide that the required size of the ball has been achieved, we proceed to gluing the ball with napkins. To do this, tear the napkins into pieces and stick them on the ball, previously greased with PVA glue

We make several layers to give a more even surface to our ball

When the entire ball is covered, give it time to dry, it is better to leave it overnight.
This is how our ball should turn out.

While our ball is drying, we make a trunk, for this we take a stick or a twig, grease it well with PVA glue and wrap it with twine and let it dry.

Now that both the crown and the trunk are ready, we begin assembling our topiary.
Make a cross-shaped cut in the ball

and insert the barrel and secure the cut with a glue gun.

We begin to decorate the crown with autumn leaves. We make small holes in the ball (I did this with a nail, or you can use an awl), apply a drop of glue with a glue gun and insert the leaves.

We glue the leaves as your imagination tells you, I did it like this

Add some berries

Having finished decorating the crown, we proceed to planting our tree in a pot. We will have the simplest flower pot as a pot. We make a solution from building plaster, the consistency of the solution should not be liquid, the solution will take a long time to dry). The solution should be like store-bought sour cream. Fill it solution into the pot, insert the stem into the middle of the pot and wait a little until the solution sets.

Let's start decorating the surface of the pot; to do this, take artificial grass and carefully place it on the plaster surface while it is not yet completely frozen.

Now we move on to decorating the pot itself, we do this using twine.

We tie a beautiful satin bow and our pot takes on a different look.
Let's add a little decor to the grass and our autumn tree is ready.
This is the “Autumn Tree” I came up with.