Original crafts on the theme of golden autumn. Autumn crafts made from natural materials. Theme “Golden Autumn”

Good afternoon, today I continue my series of articles dedicated to autumn crafts. In this article I want to highlight non-standard crafts on the theme of autumn. Here you will not find animals made from acorns and chestnuts (for this I have a separate article for chestnut crafts and a separate one for acorn ones). On this page I will show other ideas, other techniques and materials. Lots of new ideas for DIY fall crafts. There will be crafts made from salt dough, autumn paintings made from dried leaves and flowers, felt crafts in the theme of autumn, works using the paper quilling technique and many different wreaths. I invite you to the falling leaves of autumn ideas for your DIY crafts.

And also on our website you will find other articles with autumn craft themes

And at the end of this article I will give another pack of links to our articles on the topic AUTUMN and crafts FROM NATURAL MATERIAL.

Autumn craft idea #1

Salt dough mosaic.

Mosaic pieces are like a construction set. You can lay out any objects from them. Including autumn paintings.

DIY salt dough mosaic recipe.

1 glass of salt (finely ground). 1 glass of flour. Mix and add water (pour the dumplings into the center of the slide, gradually stirring). We achieve a thick, tight consistency (as for rolling out dumplings).

Divide the dough into portions. Add food coloring to each lump (dilute powdered coloring in a teaspoon with water and mix into the dough). We get several multi-colored lumps of dough.

We wrap each colored lump tightly (without air) in a plastic bag or cling film. Place in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Take it out of the refrigerator and roll each flat cake into a layer 1-2 cm thick (more is possible). Cut into cubes, diamonds, rectangles, triangles. And we dry it (you can do it in the oven, you can do it in the sun, or just under the bed).

And we get a mosaic that can be easily glued using PVA glue or hot glue from a gun.

After completing the work, the entire mosaic picture can (and even should) be sprayed with regular HAIR SPRAY. And the colors will become bright, richness of color and a slight shine will appear.

The gaps between the mosaics can be filled with mortar- for example, dilute plaster with water and spread it on the mosaic, so that the liquid plaster is poured into all the cracks between the parts. And immediately, while the plaster has dried, wipe the entire surface of the mosaic with a damp cloth, clean those places where the plaster got on the drawing itself.

For this purpose, gypsum plaster from the store or mortar for sealing joints when laying bathroom tiles are suitable.

The background for the mosaic can be a canvas (or a piece of plywood) filled with a background of oil paint. Place a salt dough mosaic in the shape of a maple leaf on top of the oil painting (attach it to a hot glue gun). Dilute the gypsum solution to the consistency of sour cream, add food coloring (yellow or red) to it so that the color of the solution matches the shades of our mosaic. And carefully apply the solution to the mosaic with a thick brush, immediately wiping the surface, clearing the plaster at the top of the picture. In one hand there is a brush, in the other hand there is a cloth for grouting plaster.

After the plaster seams have dried, we cover the painting with HAIRSPray so that the color becomes bright again and the same shine appears on the mosaic as on the oil background of our autumn painting.

Other material

for autumn crafts using mosaic technique

Autumn mosaic made of ceramic chipped tiles.

You can use ceramic tiles with marbled patterns. Chop it with special tongs (you need to pinch off pieces of tile under a towel so that the fragments do not fly around the room or hurt your eyes). That is, you need the tile itself to be inside the bowl, which you covered with a towel, put your hands under the fabric and there, quietly, blindly, by touch, bite off the fragments with wire cutters). Before doing this, you can hit the tile a couple of times with a hammer (also under a towel), and then bite off the fragments with wire cutters.

Autumn mosaic made from eggshells.

We cook eggs in food coloring - just like for Easter. We clean the colored shells and lay out a picture of an autumn landscape.

Autumn mosaic from a broken glass vase, malachite.

It’s very good if you use a broken VASE, with beautiful iridescent sides - where the green color turns into yellow, blue, red (there are such vases). And if you break it and pinch it into pieces with tongs, you can fold a maple leaf like this (as in the photo below).

Autumn mosaic made of plastic kitchen boards.

Nowadays there are a lot of kitchen cutting boards made of plastic on sale. You can buy a red board, yellow, green. And either cut the pieces with a jigsaw (first long strips), and then use wire cutters to bite these strips into fragments of different shapes. And you will get a lot of good material for mosaic crafts in the autumn theme. Everything is simple and cheap with your own hands.

Autumn mosaic craft made from bottle glass.

Here in the photo below is an idea for crafts in the form of autumn leaves made from cement mortar and bottle glass. We break the bottle with a hammer - and under a towel (so that the fragments do not fly away) we bite off pieces of glass with wire cutters. We take a sheet of tin and bend it in a semicircle (we fix this bend with wire wrapping). Apply thick cement mortar in an even layer. We trim the edges of the cement cake so that it resembles a leaf in shape. And until the cement sets, we press pieces of glass into it with the side that is convex and does not contain sharp corners. We wipe the surface of the glass with a cloth, clearing it of any cement mortar that has fallen into it. Waiting for it to dry.

You can use smooth glass (not bottle glass) to simply cut it with a glass cutter into even strips, which you can then prick into diamond shapes with tongs. From rhombuses of the same size, you can lay out a pattern like the one in the photo below.

These are the ideas from autumn crafts package No. 1.

Now let's move on to the second set of ideas.

Autumn craft idea No. 2

Autumn crafts made from felt.

Colored felt has already won a place in the hearts of not only adult needlewomen, but also small children. Now it’s not just mothers on maternity leave who make felt crafts. Quite often the school group “Skillful Hands” teaches children the basics of sewing using felt toys.

The simplest autumn craft made from felt is to cut out the outlines of leaves and tie them to a garland or curtain.

You can buy a set of colored felt by ordering it online (cheaper from China, on the AliExpress website - photo below). Or buy in separate sheets in craft stores - but this is already more expensive... I recently asked the price in a store - one sheet of 30 by 30 cm costs the same as three packs of ice cream. It's cheaper in China.

The simplest crafts made from felt are to cut out the outlines of a leaf and use simple stitches to sew such a leaf to a background canvas draped in a hoop.

Or you can build a floral boutonniere like this from leaves (photo below) - you can fasten layers of autumn leaves from felt with THREAD or GLUE from a glue gun. If you attach a pin on the back side, we will get an elegant brooch for your autumn coat or hat.

And here’s another idea - in the photo below - an idea for a beautiful autumn craft made from felt - a whole felt painting made with your own hands. Leaves, a tree branch and a cute fox are cut from felt fabric. We take a picture frame and cover its bottom with fabric (or wallpaper background). We sew or glue a tree branch and a rope on which felt flags with the letters “AUTUMN” will hang. Then we sew a fox (or an owl, as an option) - from the remnants of the fabric from the fox we cut leaves, from another felt, also of autumn flowers, we cut more different leaves. Using a glue gun, we attach everything in a chaotic manner to the lower frame of the picture. We attach the sleeping fox with glue or thread.

A felt fox can be completely different. Here are several pattern options to choose from.

You can cut a donut ring from felt (or other fabric). Fill it with padding polyester to make the donut-wreath plump. And decorate it with felt leaves. Let's hang a mushroom, or an owl, or a squirrel.

The ring base for the wreath can be cut from regular corrugated cardboard - from an old TV box or a large family pizza. And using a glue gun or thread, sew felt leaves onto this round cardboard donut. You will also get a beautiful bright craft - an autumn wreath.

And here is a masterpiece wreath made from felt with your own hands. The owls are simply wonderful - all covered in sequins.

The base for the wreath can be purchased at the store - they sell foam rings for craft wreaths. Then you need to wrap it with threads (as in the photo below). Tie a twig to a wreath and place a bird on it (birds made from feathers are sold in home decor stores). And twist autumn roses from felt.

Here is a simple master class on how to create a felt rose with your own hands. Cut out a spiral in the shape of a snail. And we begin to twist the rose, fixing the twist with threads in the place where we hold the rosebud with our fingers.

And if the felt spiral has uneven edges - in the form of petals, then we will get a rose with round petals. By changing the shape of the edge of the spiral, we will obtain new shapes of felt flowers. For example, if the edges of the spiral are cut into fringes (scars), then we will get an aster flower.

You will find more ideas about flower crafts in my article. Many techniques for making paper flowers are suitable for DIY flower crafts made from felt (felt is the same paper, only a little thicker and softer).

Craft idea #3

Autumn wreaths.

Autumn crafts such as wreaths made from natural materials look very beautiful. Especially if this material is painted in autumn colors - yellow, red, orange, ocher. Ordinary pine cones bloom with all the colors of autumn - and it seems that the wreath is made of autumn flowers. A very simple craft.

Cut out a ring from packaging cardboard. We paint the cones collected in the forest with gouache and spray them with hairspray so that the paint shines and sticks to the cones (does not stain your hands). Now we take a glue gun and attach our pine cones to a cardboard ring as the base for the wreath. We get a non-standard autumn craft that you wouldn’t be ashamed to take to a competition.

You can twist an autumn wreath from willow twigs. Cut willow twigs must be kept in water so that they retain their flexibility. I have already described how to twist them into a wreath in a separate article. On such a willow ring you can attach physalis flowers-boxes, clusters of bright rowan berries, and beautiful red leaves (aspen has very dense red shiny leaves). To prevent our wreath from withering over time, you can dip all the elements - both the leaves and fruits of physalis and rowan - in melted paraffin from a candle. The waxy texture will seal all the juices of the plant and preserve their color and juiciness for several years.

In autumn wreath crafts, grass panicles, velvety white sage leaves, and rose hips look very beautiful.

You can make an autumn composition not in the form of a wreath, but as a bouquet of leaves and herbs. Here in the photo below we see an example of such an autumn craft.

• We stuff birch logs onto a wide board.
• On the back side of the chock, we attach a piece of iron mesh to nails bent in an L shape.
• And onto this mesh we attach bunches of leaves and herbs with pieces of thin wire or threads.
• On the same metal mesh we attach a wide ribbon of dense fabric - burlap or tarpaulin.

We tie a bow and hang this autumn craft on the door or facade of the house. It looks very elegant and beautiful.

Autumn paper wreaths

with your own hands.

You can implement the same wreath ideas from ordinary colored paper. Gather a group of children - give them scissors and let them cut out the outlines of the autumn leaves you drew along the contour. When a large pile of paper foliage grows on the table, you can start assembling the wreath. Yet again cut out a base ring for the wreath from packaging cardboard and attach our leaves to drops of glue in an elegant, colorful, chaotic order.

You can cut out leaves from cardboard and apply a stamped design on them. This is already more difficult - you need to use a smooth thin object - using pressure - to apply veins to cardboard leaves. A non-writing ballpoint pen is suitable as a tool.

You can choose interesting color schemes for your fall craft - it doesn't have to be a yellow-red-orange cloud of foliage. You can choose silver, burgundy, purple, bronze shades - in a cooler color scheme (as in the photo below).

You can also decorate a paper wreath with roses twisted from a paper snail spiral - according to the same principle as we made roses from felt in the photo above in the same article. You can also make roses using any other paper techniques. This site has a separate article about all the techniques for creating roses with your own hands -

Package of ideas No. 4

Autumn paper crafts

Using the QUILING technique.

Here in the photo below we see the autumn wreath again. It is made from twisted paper modules. Each element of this flower is a twisted strip of paper. Round paper rolls are given any shape - oval, teardrop-shaped, triangular - and whole bouquets of autumn flowers are made from these different shapes.

Here is a beautiful lace craft using the quilling technique - an autumn oak leaf with acorns also made from rolled paper.

As a beginner craftsman, you can make a small autumn card using the quilling technique.

Making a large quilled maple leaf with your own hands is painstaking work.

You will first need to draw (or print out) a template of the veins of the maple leaf. Then lay out long strips of paper along each vein. Each strip goes along the selected vein - it reaches the edge of the vein (a pin is stuck in this place) - the strip goes around the pin, bends over it and sticks to itself - a double strip is obtained. And this is repeated with each vein of the future leaf. And then each compartment is filled with shaped twist modules.

As the compartments fill with paper rolls, the pins can be removed. And stick it in the place where we want to press the glue-coated twist so that its glue side is pressed against the wall of the vein.

You can collect a whole autumn bouquet of autumn leaves made with your own hands using the quilling technique.

Package of ideas No. 5

Pictures on leaves.

(Master Class).

But here is an idea that I like because it has a huge variety of ideas for implementation. Here we see an amazing work - an owl painted on an ordinary autumn leaf. The artist’s painstaking work results in a beautiful autumn craft.

Even if you are not a very great artist, you can still make such interesting works - paintings on leaves, even a child can do it. It depends on what to draw. All children can draw eyes and a nose. All that remains is to show him how to make brush strokes - so that they look like feathers.

You can turn one single autumn leaf into an amazing autumn craft with your own hands.

Here are some simple ideas on how to decorate leaves with paints - for beginner artists... An oak leaf can become a peacock feather. Simple drawing. Nothing complicated - you just need to first think about how you will combine the colors - you can use blue, turquoise, green and yellow - or choose a different color scheme for the peacock feather - shades - pink, purple and purple.

You don't have to know how to draw to turn a maple leaf into a painting. Butterflies are a simple symmetry of the wing. You can simply knead a bright spiral of rich colors.

Or, of course, you can be bold and take a swing at a picture with a character (since there is now a fashion for owls, you can draw them in different views and angles. You don’t have to draw an owl as in a photograph - you can have cartoon owls. The main thing is to scatter the feathers in different directions - use a brush to make such strokes in a circle from the head, and strokes in a circle from each eye - you will get a disheveled owlet. All other parts of the owl that are difficult for you to draw the plumage, you can hide in a hollow and wrap in a scarf. Cunning and simple. Anyone can make this craft with their own hands.. And you will feel how interesting it is. And how nice it is to show this work to friends. Feel like an artist of a new magical reality.

Where to get ideas from. There are a lot of ideas around us. They are on social networks in communities of owl lovers, or communities of gouache paintings... Or you can find a picture in your child’s children’s book. This will serve as an idea for painting an autumn leaf.

For example, you found this owl.

Take a maple leaf. And a blank sheet of paper. Trace the maple leaf on paper with a pencil. We cut out the outlined silhouette - a hole in the shape of a maple leaf remains on the sheet. We attach this template with a hole to our picture with paper clips. And we get a ready-made template for a future craft, a painting on an autumn leaf.

Now all that remains is to take gouache, and step by step, with your own hands, transfer this picture onto a maple leaf. When everything is dry, spray the craft with HAIR SPRAY (to make the colors brighter and the sheet to sparkle with rich color).

And then, in order to preserve the painting for a long time, we dip the sheet into melted paraffin or candle wax. We quickly dip it in and quickly take it out by the tail and hang it on a thread to dry. We get a craft-picture that does not wither or fade over the years.

Package of ideas No. 6

Crafts-paintings

from leaves, herbs and flowers.

You can make beautiful crafts from herbs and flowers. The main thing is to prepare the picture in advance - draw the outline of the future landscape with a pencil (with faint lines) on a sheet of paper. Then use light watercolors to paint the sky, the reflections of the water reflecting this sky. Then place bridges cut from long wide leaves in the right place. And begin to painstakingly lay out the wooded hills - twig by twig. And then at the very end lay out the foreground of the picture - tall grasses and flowers to the left and right of the bridge line. Beautiful picturesque craft-picture. But it requires a lot of material.

A wooded hill is a whole heap of dried grass stems in the form of twigs. In order for the density of the forest to be lush, you need to first sketch the background of these hills with green watercolors, then you don’t need to lay the green stems so densely.

You can make a picture of flowers and leaves where there is no watercolor - the entire picture, both the background of the sky and the background of the earth, is made of plant materials - as in the photo below. A simple DIY autumn craft.

You can choose colored cardboard as a canvas for the painting - for example, blue as in the photo below. Then the blue cardboard itself will be a ready-made background for the sky and highlights on the water (as in the photo below).

When planning a leaf landscape painting, take care of the plans. Divide the picture into the third plan (horizon, sky, distant meadows) - background (hill, group of birch trees) - foreground (line of tall grasses and flowers).

A landscape painting of leaves looks very interesting if there is a PERSPECTIVE - an element that gradually decreases - goes into the distance. So in the craft below we see beds with flowering pumpkins or zucchini. The lines of the beds in the distance are a little thinner, and the flowers are a little smaller - than the same lines and flowers in the front of the picture.

Leaf paintings do not have to depict a landscape. It's just that landscape drawing is the easiest.

You can put together a whole still life from natural materials and scissors. The main thing is to first draw a sketch with a pencil. And then fill this sketch template like a mosaic with natural material. Using scissors, cut the leaves and stems into the shapes we need.

Do-it-yourself paintings from natural materials depicting insects look beautiful. Parts of herbs often resemble the legs or wings of an insect in their structure. Therefore, it is easy to find in nature elements similar in shape to parts of beetles, dragonflies, etc.

You can also create paintings depicting people or their things from dry leaves and herbs. Delicate canvases with ladies or girls in hats and dresses with delicate lace made of flower petals. You can twist a paper napkin into the silhouette of a lacy white umbrella and fill it with a scattering of press-dried flowers. Or you can use dried flower petals to make a girl’s dress and hat.

You can arm yourself with scissors and cut out clothes for the dancing couple - a dress and a tailcoat.

I also really like the works of the Ukrainian florist Tatyana Berdnik - she posts her works on the website Floristika. org. ua. We see her painting “Mom and Daughter” below. Tender fairy-tale pictures from a distant happy life - where everything is always good, where there are warm smiles and clear eyes, gentle hands and tender hearts. I highly recommend visiting this site - you will fall in love with these works and want to learn this magical art.

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Hello!

Today I again propose making crafts in an autumn theme. Look out the window and see how many colorful leaves are already lying there. Memories and lines from, for example, these immediately grab you:

“Suddenly it became twice as bright,
The yard is like in the sun's rays.
This dress is golden
On the birch tree’s shoulders...”

This time of year is good because there is something to craft from. Because you can take any and then you have, for example, a little man made of pine cones, or maybe you love it? Then you can also easily make a souvenir for an exhibition, for example.

You can even take ordinary leaves and create a masterpiece on paper. In general, the list can be endless. So let me introduce you to a lot of cool and beautiful ideas on this topic.

I hope you will be inspired, and once you decide, you will immediately start making crafts with your children. After all, children of any age really love such work, be it primary schoolchildren or preschoolers.

In my previous note, we have already considered many options for what you can make with your own hands from various types of materials, it can be natural, fruits, vegetables, and even waste. This time I will show you a few more options, which are also no less beautiful and attractive.

And perhaps I’ll start with a non-traditional, but a paper-plasticine miracle. Take cardboard and make blanks of maple and oak leaves. You will also need glue for ceiling tiles and a CD for the job.

Take plasticine of different colors in your hand and roll it into a ball.

Advice! You can use modeling dough instead of plasticine.

Roll out with your hands, as if painting the surface of the leaves.

Glue the finished blanks onto the disk using glue.

Mask the middle with oak leaves and roll up the red rowan berries. This is such a cool masterpiece with an autumn theme.

Do you want to create something extraordinarily cool from real rowan berries? I propose to make a picture of rowan in the form of a squirrel. You need to draw the image of a squirrel on cardboard (from under a box, thick) and then cut it out.

Use decorative tape to connect the edges of two cardboards. Or glue with regular PVA. And then fill the image of the animal with berries. It looks original and beautiful! She's a charmer, isn't she?

The next craft is a flower vase, you can make it yourself. Take any glass container and wrap it with woolen thread or twine. When doing this, first paint the jar with glue. You can see the stages of work below in this figure:

Now prepare the bouquet and place it in a vase. And a gift or souvenir for the exhibition will be ready. Good luck!

Now make a funny little guy in the shape of a sun. Cut out a circle from colored paper, glue eyes, mouth, and nose onto it. Or you can draw all these details with a marker.

Then cover the diameter of the circle with dry leaves.

Also, in order to comfortably hold the sun with your hands, glue a stick. Or then stick it in a glass, which you can also build yourself.

With preschool children in the park, collect dry leaves and then invite them to decorate them with felt-tip pens, or better yet, with acrylic paints.

It turns out to be quite wonderful and cool, you won’t be able to take your eyes off it!

You can go the other way and make a cool bouquet. I remember that I haven’t shown you anything like this before. But, I repeat.

You can give this to your mother, grandmother, or your favorite teacher.

DIY crafts for kindergarten on the theme “Autumn” (all new items)

With preschool children, you can simply use your imagination. Take and lay out magical multi-colored trees from plasticine balls. And indeed there will be a golden autumn.

In addition, you can also use paints and cotton swabs for hygiene; you can use them to create paintings and scenes on any topic.

Agree, there is nothing difficult about this, just sit there and put it on a piece of paper.

Another fun work from scrap materials, made at home, such as millet, is what the author offers.

You can also make pictures from rice and semolina, or pasta, in the same way.

Everyone knows that kids love to play with signets, so why not take advantage of it. Dip dry leaves wounds from the ground and dip them in liquid paint, you will get an excellent print.

You see how brightly and elegantly you can decorate any drawing.

Or you can go another way, put leaves (either real or paper) and use them as stencils, that is, paint directly on them, you will get prints.

Works made from palms are popular. Well, let's use this idea.

You need to take a disposable white paper cup and paint it green. Make a barrel out of a toilet sleeve and glue it to the plate.

Draw the children's hands on cardboard and cut them out.

Glue one of them brown on the trunk.

And then, in this order, everything else.

Alternatively, you can make the work in the form of acorns and even squirrels, cool!

Kids also love to use natural materials in their creations; for example, you can get by with pumpkin seeds. Print out a picture of wheat or rye on an A4 sheet of paper and decorate it with these branches. Doesn't it look creative? And most importantly, it’s simple and charming!

Read the finished description with materials and description below:

Do you want to use only colored paper? So you will need to cut strips of different colors and a couple of circles. Decide on the sizes yourself.

Fold each circle in half.

Then draw the trunk and make the crown of the tree, cut it as shown in the photo with scissors.

Glue the trunk on white paper, and the crown, that is, two circles with each other, only asymmetrically.

What is missing is, of course, colorful leaves! Cut them out in red, yellow and green.

So, what else, but here's what. You can take disposable paper plates, these are sold at a fixed price or in any hardware store. Paint them in the desired color, for example brown, and then let them dry. Cut out the body of a hedgehog or other animal from white cardboard, draw parts of the body, and let it hold a pine cone or acorn with its paws.

Probably the most primitive, but also so bright, souvenir made from cotton pads. Dilute the paint in a glass beaker and take pipettes. Carefully paint the discs with them. Let them dry.

And then glue it to any background, wow, beauty! And my mood even lifted, it was so bright and cool!

In my classmates I came across another such landscape, only it was made in a different technique.

Original works made from cones and acorns

Of course, forest or waste material is always in great demand. Especially in the autumn period. Because the gifts of nature can be found on paths and in parks and forests. If you have a desire to create something ingenious from ordinary pine cones, then here’s an idea for you, go for it.

Pour acrylic paint into a cup and dip each piece. After drying it, place it on any tray covered with oilcloth.

Then, from durable cardboard, you can even use a box, cut out a ring and decorate it with cones, they are glued with a glue gun. Just be careful not to get burned.

Carry out this procedure only together with adults.

Try to glue the cones tightly to each other so that there is not much space between them.

Here's a wreath for you, isn't it cute? I really liked it. By the way, you can use it as

You can also make a bouquet from them, who would have thought, but it looks so beautiful, especially if the vase is made by your own hands.

I recently showed you a lot of ideas about what else can be done on this topic. These can be bunnies, hedgehogs, owls, foxes, etc. and any other animals. Here are a few more ideas for inspiration.

I would like to show you one more video. In it you will see a bunch of new products this year. Enjoy watching.

As for acorns, there are also creation options from them. People or animals are usually made, but also cutlery and cups. Additionally, matches or twigs are used.

Well, if you want to distinguish yourself, then make an original thing, this is a brooch. Good luck.

Crafts “Autumn Fantasies” for school (grades 1-4)

And now I propose to make a craft according to this master class in the style of modular origami. Wow, I’ve been asked for a long time to show how you can quickly and easily make maple leaves like this out of paper. So take note, because it is with these blanks that you can decorate the interior of a group, class, and even at a gala event, a matinee.

And then please, take it and fantasize. Here's how they decorated it on the Country of Masters website.

The next option, which is loved by younger schoolchildren, is of course the main character - a hedgehog.

In order to create it, you will need everything that you see in the picture below. This is colored paper, a glue stick, a felt-tip pen.

Take brown colored paper and fold it in half. Cut along the fold line with scissors, you will get two rectangles.

Then glue them together to form a stand.

After the glue has dried, draw and make round edges on the workpiece. Cut along the line. Using pink paper, also draw outlines in the form of a semi-oval.

It is also necessary to cut out round-shaped ears and paws from it. Arrange the parts in the correct proportions as shown below and glue to the base. Scatter real dry leaves or cut them out of colored paper.

Now all that remains for the hedgehog to do is make the spines; make cuts along the edge of the brown paper.

Draw the eyes and face. Your fabulous little animal is ready.

Using an accordion, make the work in the shape of trees. Look how original it looks.

Also, one of the favorite characters among children at any time of the year remains. I suggest making it this time from a CD. And again the paper will have to be folded like an accordion, in general, look at the instructions in the pictures and create.

What an unrealistically charming sun it turned out to be; my spirits lift when I see it.

And if you don’t have colored paper, then use napkins, although take them in a single color. Cut into small squares and roll each piece into balls.

Draw any still life, in this case the author depicted trees and a river. And sit and painstakingly glue each ball until the whole image is formed.

The next idea is work from cotton swabs, which, as you can see, were initially painted, their heads, in the desired color.

And for those who want to comprehend quilling, or are deeply interested in it, I would like to invite you to consider such a masterpiece.

Here's another fascinating idea, look how cool the author came up with it. Do you want to make it happen? Then let's get down to business. It will turn out to be just a living corner.

And if this is too difficult for you, then take a regular package and follow the photo description.

Beautiful souvenirs made from natural materials and vegetables

I think that every time you visit such exhibitions you always rejoice. Because such events are always fun. Thanks to positive and creative works. Which are made from all sorts of things.

You can take absolutely any vegetables and fruits and use them to build

The simplest and easiest idea is a basket with such characters. As you can see, the author used a lot of vegetables that are found in any home.

And even build the heroes Smeshariki and Minions, catch the description:

Here are a few more thoughts that will lead you to your next creation. You can see the rest here. By the way, you can create with it too! There would be a desire.

Well, I want you to build Gena the crocodile. Especially when there are instructions with a description. We don't need much: carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes and toothpicks.

Use a knife to cut a piece of the carrot into a cylinder shape, and then make something similar to a mushroom.

Cut off the tip of the cucumber, and cut the vegetable itself in half, but not all the way.

Connect the resulting parts with a toothpick. The result was the head of a crocodile.

Then make eyes from cucumber pulp and black olives.

Stick them also into the head using wooden sticks. Cut the tongue out of the tomato.

For the body, use a slightly rounded cucumber, and design the legs like this.

You can also make an accordion from the greens pulp, but this is optional.

Place the weirdo on a plate and run to school or kindergarten to amaze everyone.

And then there are these faces, oh, when I saw them, I was really scared). And you?

How to make an applique from leaves: quickly and beautifully

For such works, you can take absolutely any character and easily decorate it with dry leaves that you collected in the park. For example, you can lay out funny owls using cardboard and paper.

Or you can make a huge owl entirely out of leaves.

Or plant the birds on a branch decorated with bunches of rowan berries.

You can take any face, preferably some animal, cut it out, and then decorate it.

And with what, of course, leaves. Collect them and place them on a sheet of newspaper so that they do not shrink when drying.

Maple leaves are best suited as decoration, for example a lion.

Or perhaps you will be interested in working in the form of a little lion cub.

Today my kids and I made these creations. And we actually sat down to do it, and then my mother remembered that she forgot to buy glue. I’m thinking what to do, mine are about to go broke))). It's good that there was plasticine. And this is what happened.

You can easily build a vase using a balloon.

Or make an applique of seeds and plasticine.

Or you can imagine the work in the form of a three-dimensional toy.

Autumn paper crafts for kids with templates

So we’ve reached another subtopic in which you can safely take templates and print them on a printer. And of course, create, get new masterpieces, adding some of your own twists.

If you use this drawing, then later you can color it, or you can safely make a greeting card and write in it

You can take absolutely any piece of paper you like as a sample, or you can draw it yourself with a pencil. Fold a blank sheet of paper in half, and then cut out an image of the blank on one side. Cut crayon squares from office construction paper.

Scatter them in a chaotic manner and glue them with a glue stick.

This is how mysterious the postcard looks.

Now let’s take a closer look at one more master class. Before that, I already gave you some instructions, but this one is more understandable and the technology is different.

You need to cut 10 squares.

And then fold each of them like this.

This kind of work takes little time, don’t worry, you can do it in 20 minutes.

And then you have to glue each blank to each other.

Of course, looking at the pictures, everything becomes clear.

Don’t forget about other options; by the way, this craft somehow looks like

You can fold the leaf into a butterfly shape.

Also difficult, as you can see there is nothing, fold it like an accordion and glue it together.

Moreover, you can make it in completely different shapes, use your imagination.

You can make it even more interesting so that the leaf turns out to be three-colored.

Or make a bookmark using thread.

In addition, you can make a pumpkin out of paper if you cut a bunch of long strips with scissors.

How you decorate it is up to you, you can use a toothbrush.

Well, and finally, take these ideas and dress up your favorite cartoon and fairy tale characters.

Well, according to tradition, I’m giving you a few coloring pages, in case they come in handy in your spare time.

Or use an anti-stress coloring book for creativity.

That's all, dear creators! I wish you a creative approach to business. And may autumn crafts win your heart and make you want to make more next year. I wish you success and patience! Bye.

Best regards, Ekaterina

Now you do too crafts on the theme “Gifts of Autumn” for school or kindergarten? After all, soon competitions and exhibitions of crafts made from natural materials (branches, cones, leaves, straws, shells, pebbles, vegetables and fruits) will begin in schools and kindergartens. Many parents immediately have a question about what they could do with their own hands that would be so beautiful and original. Look at the photos sent by our readers, get ideas and come up with something of your own. Send photos of your autumn crafts made from nature materials, vegetables and fruits (), and we will be happy to publish all the new items. A big request to all participants of the competition: do not send copies of works already available here. Hedgehogs made from seeds, deer made from cones, caterpillars made from apples and other crafts that are repeated from year to year are no longer accepted! Send your new and original crafts, show your imagination!

New crafts “Gifts of Autumn - 2018”

"Dragonfly and Ant". Kulikov Kirill Andreevich.
The work is made from natural materials (cones, leaves, acorns, branches, bark). Also used: a candy box, acrylic paints and hot glue.

"Autumn Umbrella". Zyulyaeva Ulyana.
The umbrella is made of cardboard, decorated with flowers from maple leaves, pine cones, rowan berries, dead wood, and spruce branches.

"Autumn Enchantress." Garkushin Nikita.
They took the doll and covered it with dry autumn leaves; other natural materials were also used: cones, acorns, nuts, etc.

"House in the Forest" Polyakov Elizar.
The work required moss from the forest, pebbles, spruce branches, pumpkin, thuja branches, rose hips, physalis shell, sticks for the wedge, twine, a cone from a climbing plant in the garden for the Hedgehog. Glue gun.

"In the autumn forest." Dyatlov Dmitry.
Glue tree bark and twigs onto a colored background. We draw the silhouette of an owl and put seeds inside it. We make owl wings from leaves. The eyes are made of dry blades of grass, the pupil is a plum pit. Now we glue the dried leaves of autumn rowan. They will beautifully complement the appliqué.

Pig, eagle owl, fish and mermaid made of pine cones and plasticine - step by step

"A difficult bouquet." Solodovnik Anya Valerievna.
The bouquet was made by the head of the circle of the Poltava city center of out-of-school education, Solodovnik. A flowerpot is made from paper tubes. Flowers made from cones painted with acrylic paint. Autumn leaves and berries. This is what happened.

"Autumn Bouquet". Elena Batrakova.
A bouquet of maple leaves, roses (made from), hawthorn, quince, physalis, hydrangea, spruce branches.

"Wreath". Groshev Andrey.
Mother - Grosheva Anastasia Vladimirovna.
The work is made from tree branches, rowan berries, and bush hearths.

"Turkey". Grachev Vyacheslav.
The work is made from pumpkins and leaves.

"Autumn Mr. Kolobok." Kozlova Maria 3.5 years old.
The work is made from a pumpkin, the nose is from a carrot, the hair is from grass picked from a flower bed. The hat is made from newspaper tubes. The eyes are blueberries.

"Autumn Beauty" Iskhakova Angelina.
The work is made of flowers.

"We travel as a family." Nelyubina Darina.
Eggplant, onions, carrots, matches, plasticine.

"Magical forest". Berseneva Ulyana.
When performing the work, moss, lingonberry sprouts, and plasticine were used.

"Ladybug in daisies." Garkushin Nikita.
We painted a pebble from the Black Sea coast with acrylic paints. At the end of the work, the product was coated with varnish. The result is such a funny ladybug.

"Wreath of pine cones." Kallaeva Elena.
Cones, gouache, glue, cardboard.

An original craft made from a material unusual for our latitudes - “A house made of coconut and its inhabitant.” Kallaeva Anna.
Coconut shell, plasticine, grass, pine cones, acorn cap.

"Grandfather forester." Kirsanova Taisiya.
The work is made of wood, ears of corn, burlap, beaded material, dry leaves, and wrapping paper.

"Baba Yaga". Sorkina Lydia.
The work is made of natural material: the body is made of a fir cone, the arms and legs are made of birch branches, the paws and handles are wrapped in jute twine. Also used were alder cone, viburnum berries, and beads for the eyes.

"Owl". Trushina Lydia.
The owl's body is made of paper and covered with corn hairs (snouts). The paws and eyebrows are made of maple wings, the nose is made of an acorn. The eyes are glued onto calendula flowers. Everything is glued with PVA glue.

"Small Motherland" Tsareva Angelina, 7th grade.
This work was made from natural materials for a school competition.

"Family of owls." Cheldrikova Ekaterina.
The work was made using wooden hemp, cones, rowan berries and viburnum.

"Magic Castle" Razumkova Sofia.
The castle is made of tree bark, decorated with pieces of moss and dry leaves. Various natural materials were used in the craft: cones, twigs, dead wood, chestnuts. Prince and princess figurines are sewn from pieces of fabric.

"Mishkin's estate." Sayfutdinova Renata Azamatovna.
Made from natural materials: cones, spruce and birch branches, leaves, rowan berries, wooden blocks for hives. Bees are made of clay. Bear, Masha and others are taken from Kinder Surprise.

"Magic House". Ignatiev Vladislav.
Pumpkin, paints, potatoes, onions, plasticine.

"Cinderella on the way to the ball." Ikonnikova Essenia.
From vegetables with the addition of pumpkin seeds, paints.

"Firebird". Riyazutdinova Larisa Semenovna.
The work is made from ash seeds.

"A whale swimming on the waves." Dmitriev Timofey.
Vegetables used in the work: cabbage, zucchini.

"Happy Rat" Klochkova Sasha.
The work is made of zucchini, the nose, ears, paws and tail are made of carrots, the eyes and teeth are cut out of white cardboard. Antennae made from fishing line were inserted into the nose.

“Pumpkin tree”, “Pumpkin flowers”. Samoilov Valery.
The work is made from pumpkin seeds, the seeds are painted with gouache.

"Aunt Owl." Zhalskikh Anastasia.
The work is made of autumn leaves, acorns, and cones. Decorated with fabric and satin ribbons.

"Owl". Koven Svetlana.
The work is made from leaves, cones and waste material.

"Forest Master" Kovtorov Ivan.
Cones, dried leaves, plasticine, acorns.

"Hedgehog in the autumn forest." Moskvin Roman.
Cones, leaves, plasticine.

"Autumn Hedgehog" Group "Romashka".
The work is made of autumn leaves.

“Hedgehog in the fog (Ekaterinburg).” Zvereva Christina.
For work you needed:
- plasticine,
- a ball from a dry pool,
- coffee beans,
- grass, autumn leaves,
- paints,
- glue.

Hedgehog, bear, hare and crocodile made of shells and plasticine - .

"Pointe". Kalycheva Victoria.
The work is made of cucumber. Decorated with satin ribbon and sequins.

"The sparrows are singing." Flegontova Kira.
The work is made from dry leaves.

"Swans". Kushnirenko Victoria Nikolaevna, 10 years old.
Cones, autumn flowers, bird feathers, fir branches and plasticine were used to complete the craft. The body of swans is made of cones painted white, and the wings and tail are made of feathers. Swans swim on a plasticine “lake”. The craft made from natural materials turned out to be bright and colorful.

"In an autumn meadow." Chernoyarova Valentina Aleksandrovna, 10 years old.
When performing the craft, pine cones, chestnuts, acorns, lentils (eyes), autumn leaves, and plasticine were used. These natural materials were used to create funny forest creatures that we met in the clearing.

"Bunny". Chernoyarova Natalya Aleksandrovna, 10 years old.
The craft is made from natural materials - it all grows in our dacha. The main character, the bunny, is made of cabbage (the body), the ears and paws are made of zucchini, and the whole composition is complemented by viburnum berries, autumn leaves, an inflorescence and an ear of corn. Such a colorful and bright craft will decorate the “Autumn Festival!”


"Gold fish". Prysich Anna, 6 years old.
The fish template is printed. The head is decorated with a felt-tip pen, the tail and body are made of autumn leaves. Algae from a Christmas tree.
Make a wish.

"Autumn outfit." Yakupova Elina.
This applique is made of leaves and rowan.


"Lady Autumn" Sorokin Artyom.
Applique of dry autumn leaves.

"Autumn time". Renzhina Victoria.

"Autumn Bouquet". Averkin Alexander.
The work is made from dried leaves and flowers.

"Breath of Autumn" Pinaeva Anna.
The work is made from dried leaves and flowers.

"Magic autumn landscape." Nadezhda Viktorovna Topolnikova.
The work measures 25x17 cm. The base is a candy box. The background is made of plasticine in red, orange and brown colors. tree - made from branches and acorn caps. The mushrooms are also made from acorn caps and sculpted from plasticine by my son.

"Autumn Courtyard" Nerusheva Anastasia Mashoshina Anya.
The work is modeled from cardboard, paper, glue. Decorated with natural materials - maple leaves, seeds, twigs. Apples, buckwheat and beans were used.

"Autumn Fantasy" Vdovina Daria.
Made from natural material.

"Hedgehog made from natural material." Polyakov Gleb 5 years old and Georgy 3.5 years old.
A hedgehog was drawn on a piece of paper. They made a base with plasticine and the children stuck sunflower seeds into it. Then the paws were made from cotton swabs and PVA glue, and the belly was made from dyed millet. The legs were made using PVA glue and buckwheat. Dry leaves were crushed and sprinkled on glue, thus creating a clearing. An apple, leaves, and an acorn from Fix Price were glued onto the finished hedgehog.

"Autumn forest". Voronin Stepan.
Dried leaves, felt.

"Sovunya." Collective work of the middle group “Daisy”.
We picked up cardboard,
The outline was cut into it,
Outline of Owl - owls,
Wise bird of the whole Earth.
Quick glue - gun
We glued the outfit;
Variegated leaves all around
They sparkled like fire.
A bow was attached to the neck,
We took plasticine in our hands,
They made her glasses
Let them be for Wisdom.
Next are the cheeks
Sharp beak.
And Sovunya is just great!
A treat for all of us!

"Autumn picture." Dobrynin Danil.
Rowan, leaves.

"Lion cub." Sibgatullin Daniyar.
Drawing of a lion cub, leaves, glue.

"Autumn in the forest." Gleb Timokhin.
The base is penoplex. Covered with leaves and a tree branch. All the animals are made from chestnuts and acorns. Owls made of cones.

"Kolobok" Nikolenko Maxim, 5 years old.
MDOBU d/s 48 “Kapitoshka” r.p. Chunsky
The work is made of natural materials: pumpkin and pine branches.

"Merry vegetable garden" Vitalya Emoldinov, 5 years old.
MDOBU d/s No. 48 “Kapitoshka” r.p. Chunsky
The work is made of natural material: moss and vegetables: beets, potatoes, onions, peppers, tomatoes.

“Even if you go halfway around the world, you won’t find a healthier cake.” Kulik Vitaly.

The five-tier cake is made from fresh vegetables, berries and herbs. The base of the tiers is made of pumpkin, zucchini, squash, eggplant, and bell pepper. The decoration is carrots in the shape of a spiral and the base for a water lily, tomatoes, parsley, beans, onions in the shape of a water lily, raspberries, bell peppers and hot capsicum. The fastening is made with wooden sticks and skewers. The cake can take center stage on the exhibition table, and children will look at it with interest and think about when they can eat it :)

"Apple Caterpillar" Kozlova Maria, 3.5 years old.
For the work you needed: apples, toothpicks for joining, hawthorn fruits, chokeberry fruits, carrot tops, plasticine.

Kandaeva Natalya Viktorovna, Moscow.

This craft is made with love for autumn. They will remind us of the passing autumn for a long time.

“A small bird in the forest in autumn.” Artyom Malyshev, 10 years old, Serpukhov - 15, Kurilovskaya Gymnasium Municipal Educational Institution.
To make this autumn craft I needed: Christmas tree branches, autumn leaves, bark, moss, fir cone, acorns, chestnuts, bird feathers and plasticine.
It’s nice to take a walk in such an autumn forest, breathe in the forest air and admire the nature that the golden Autumn gave us!

Crafts “Gifts of Autumn”, photos by category

There are crafts of varying degrees of complexity that are suitable for both junior, senior or preparatory groups in kindergarten, and for school. Last time we sorted the works by materials: “ “, “ “, “ “. This time, for your convenience, we have divided all the submitted photographs of crafts made from various natural materials into thematic sections.

Choose a topic and look at the pictures:

Houses

"Cheerful old ladies." Razumkova Sonya with her mother Nadezhda.
The entire craft is made entirely of natural materials: moss, bark and tree branches; figurines of grandmothers: walnuts and cones; background: leaves of various trees - all autumn gifts.

"House in the village". Shitova Sonya.
Wood, birch bark, matches, forest moss, pine cones, hay, painted maple leaves, river pebbles for decoration.

The craft aroused admiration among kindergarten teachers and parents.

"Forest clearing". Balayan Masha.
The work uses twigs and cones - gifts of golden autumn.

"Grandma Yaga's Hut" Krasnov Yura, Krasnova N.O.
The walls of the hut and the steps are made of corn stalks. The basis of the roof is cardboard, on which bean pods, spruce branches and an eggplant pipe are attached. A maple branch acts as a “chicken leg”. The well and buckets are made of beans and sunflower seeds. Baba Yaga's head is made of potatoes, her body is made of an ear of corn, her arms and broom are made of twigs. The stupa is made from zucchini. The composition is fixed on a birch cut, decorated with autumn leaves. The gifts of nature made it possible to create such a craft with your own hands!

"On forest paths." Perestoronin Yuri.
The donkey Iashka delivers the gifts of autumn throughout the forest. Potatoes, garlic, rowan, pumpkin, moss, pine cones, peppers, apples - generous gifts of autumn!

"Forest House" Chumakova Alena.
The base of the house is made of cardboard. We used bark, moss, cones, wood cuts, mirror chips, juniper twigs - the bountiful gifts of autumn. This is such a beautiful craft.

"House of Caterpillars" Zelepukhin Daniil.
The house is made of pumpkin, the caterpillars are made of chestnuts, and the hedgehog is made of seeds.

"Gifts of Autumn" Baeva Anastasia.
Wood, leaves, cones, acorn, chestnut, flowers, cardboard, plasticine, glue, colored paper, viburnum berries, spruce, peas, buckwheat, bird feathers, foil.

"Gifts of Autumn" Moskvin Roman.
The craft is made from pine cones, dry leaves, pebbles and dry twigs.

"The Gnome's House" Kirill Radostev.
A zucchini house decorated with plasticine.

"Dreamland". Steshina Polina.
To make the craft, the following materials were used: moss, nuts, flowers, fabric, branches, base. .

"Spider's House" Esipova Polina.
The house is made of a pumpkin, the spider is made of a bulb, the landscape is made of moss, beans, and dry leaves.

"Birdhouse". Stepanova Anastasia.
Our craft consists of red and white beans, castor bean seeds, a broom and rope.

"Baba Yaga's Hut" Lavrentieva Polina.
“Baba Yaga’s Hut” is made of aspen branches, pine cones, hemp, plasticine, and threads.

"Forest House" Makhanov Semyon.
Acorns, leaves, wild grapes, blackberries, chestnuts.

"House in the village". Varyanitsyna Ksenia.
The house is made from: beans, peas, straw, buckwheat and wheat groats. The roof is made of pine cones, the fence is made of willow. The base is strewn with semolina. The wheelbarrow is made of chestnut and felt pumpkin. The well is made of beans, branches and a cardboard bucket with foil.

"Teremok". Bekbulatova Anya.
The work is made from the “gifts of autumn” - vegetables, autumn leaves, pine cones, berries.

"Collecting gifts of autumn in the village." Ulyanets Kira.
The clearing is covered with real moss from the forest, with Christmas tree cones and dried flowers around the perimeter. In the center is a house covered with pistachios. The house has a real door made of mini planks. The roof of the house is covered with dried flowers. Grandfather and grandmother have heads made of potatoes, their bodies are pine cones. In the center is a real pumpkin from my garden. The well is covered with real round boards. In the pen there are animals made from acorns and nuts.

"House in the Forest" Manakov Ilya Sergeevich.
Materials: spruce and pine cones, rowan berries, linden blossom, peach and cherry beans, pine needles, stones, dried rowan leaves, birch and aspen leaves, shell, matches, cardboard. The child collected all the materials in the forest, helped glue the parts, sculpted a snail, laid out leaves and other materials. Made under the guidance of my mother.

"Uncle's House AU" Kozlov Vladislav Viktorovich.
The craft “Uncle AU House” is made from materials that include: linen fabric, maple branches, wool thread, pine nuts, bamboo sticks, paper, lilac branches.

“Who, who lives in the house?” Gryaznov Artyom.
Material: foam, trimmed with twigs. The roof is made of reeds. The staircase is made of twigs. For stability, the hut is attached to a tree branch and placed in a flower pot.

Owls

"Forest Guardian" Nikolaev Daniil.
The eagle owl is made of willow and rowan leaves. They are glued to cardboard on both sides. The eyes, nose and paws are made of plasticine.
The bowl is made of acorn caps glued together with hot glue. The bowl is filled with viburnum berries.

"Owl." Eliseev Narotam.
Pine cone, pumpkin seeds, melon seeds.

"Owls." Chumakova Alena.
The owl is made from pumpkin seeds, pine cones, twigs, feathers, juniper. Also bark and moss.

“Owls are beauties.” Kovalev Alexander.
Used: branches, dried leaves, rowan, wood cut, cardboard.

Ryabukhina Alina.
Owl-Owl, spruce and cones from a branch.

"Autumn owl". Kryazheva Ekaterina Nikolaevna.
Autumn eagle owl, made from tree seeds, so-called “airplanes”. The frame is a plastic bottle covered with padding polyester, into which the “airplane feathers” were stuck.

"Three little owlets." Strutskaya Valentina.
Birch stumps, cones, moss.

"Owl". Turbylev Nikita, 5 years old.
The owl is made of pine cones.

"The Owl Kingdom". Ryazanova Ekaterina.
The owls are made of pine cones; eyes, beak, legs are made of plasticine. A hedgehog is walking under a tree.

Hedgehogs

“Craft made from natural material “Hedgehog”. Gordeev Denis.
The frame of the Hedgehog is carved from hardened foam, pine cones on top, and the nose is made of cork.

"Northern Hedgehog" Skripnikov Igor Alekseevich.
My Northern Hedgehog is made from pine cones and hot glued to foam.

"Forest hedgehog" Kandakov Leonid.
The work is made of cones, acorns, leaves, plasticine, plastic bottles, grass.

"Hedgehog". Tokar Alisa.
The hedgehog is made of paper, seeds, and viburnum.

"Hedgehog". Timofeev Alexander Nikolaevich.
Radish, cones, gifts of autumn.

"Hedgehog Fufik." Malofeeva Alena.
The craft is made from a plastic bottle and pine cones. In addition, decorative apples, rowan berries, and tree leaves were used.

"Charming hedgehog." Zhogin Nikita, 4th grade, school No. 155. Novosibirsk city.
The hedgehog is made of a sponge (wet), aster flowers, the head is made of a pumpkin, the eyes are made of peppercorns. You can use any blades of grass and leaves. Tomato on “needles”.

"Hedgehog". Sumenkova Valeria.
Cones. Barberry. Thorns. Heather. Spikelets. Cowberry. Leaves. Rowan. Plasticine.

"Family of Hedgehogs" Malyshev Arseniy 3 years old and Malysheva’s mother Elena.
This is the Hedgehog Family! There are 7 of them, that is, the 7th!
Hedgehogs are made of different materials: the bodies of hedgehogs are plasticine and modeling dough, and almost all of them have different needles - one of the leaves,
the second from pine needles, the third from birch sticks, the fourth from pine cones, and three from watermelon seeds. Leaves, moss, sticks, tree bark, rowan berries, hawthorn and mushrooms - everything is real, natural!

"Hedgehog". Ochneva Victoria.
The work is made from salt dough using natural materials: cones, rowan berries, leaves and moss.

"The Yezhov Family". Shirnina Evgenia Nikolaevna.
Cones, papier-mâché.

"Forest hedgehog" Permyakova Anastasia Antonovna.
The work is made of cones, rowan, and tree leaves.

"Tsvetik the Hedgehog." Nikolyuk Lisa.
September flowers, leaves, viburnum.

"Autumn Pantry" Minin Alexander Sergeevich.
The work was done for a kindergarten on the theme: “Autumn Pantry.” They made it from thorns from a bush, as well as plasticine, leaves, PVA glue, a glue gun, a 0.5 liter plastic bottle, a pine cone for decoration, and colored paper.

"Protect the environment.". Novikov Daniil and Novikov Vadim.
The work is made of cones, seeds, spruce branches, autumn leaves and plasticine/

"Hedgehogs in the forest." Elizaveta Petrenko.
Cones, plasticine, spruce needles, potatoes, leaves.

"Autumn Fantasy" Baev Kirill and mother.
Hedgehogs are made from potatoes, black rowan, toothpicks and plasticine. The clearing is decorated with leaves, moss and rice, as well as apples and wild rose hips.

"Funny hedgehogs." Filippova Sophia.
Pear, grapes, vegetation.

"Hedgehogs." Reshetnikov Nikita.
Potatoes, cones, pine needles.

Characters

"A good fairy tale." Lyulikov Georgy.
Baba Yaga and Leshy are made of sticks, the stupa is made of a jar, covered with branches.

"Minion is a pumpkin." Grebennikov Borya.
Pumpkin, plasticine.

"Moose." Ordova Alisa.

Pumpkin, twigs.

"Grandma the Hedgehog." Orlov Stepa, 3 years old.
The work is made from two cones, hair from threads, a stupa - a jar of yogurt covered with threads. The broom and hands are made of twigs. Eyes made of plasticine, beads made of rowan.

"IA's birthday." Guskova Elizaveta.
Donkey: potatoes, eggplant, plasticine; owl: eggplant, buttons, beans; lake: mirror, birch leaves, roses.

"Turtle Tortilla" Collective work of the "Daisies" group.
The craft is made from pumpkin and potatoes. Some details (eyes, mouth, shell elements) are made of plasticine. The hat is made of an openwork napkin, the glasses are made of soft wire. What a beauty it turned out to be!

"Crocodile Gena and Cheburashka." Polyakov Elizar.
Crocodile Gena is made of zucchini, carrots. Eyes are made of chicken protein and black pepper.
Cheburashka is made of white eggplants, eyes are made of cloves, a hat is made of an acorn cap, stands on a squash.

"Smeshariki in the forest." Surovtsev Anton.
The work is made of plasticine, pear, apple, nuts, cedar, garlic, onion, potato, mushroom, leaves, rowan.

"Sovunya." Romadova Victoria.
The sovunya is made of pumpkin and decorated with felt details; for the beauty and completeness of the work, moss, cones and rowan berries were used.

"Fabulous Autumn at the edge of the forest." Khaliullin Kamil Adelevich.
Plastic, wood, toys, plasticine, gouache, lemonade bottle, glue, tree branches, viburnum, chokeberry, squash, sunflower, rose hips, wildflowers.

"Here I am". Isaeva Ekaterina Olegovna.
Zucchini.

"Minion". Trofimova Polina 5 years old. Cherepanova Anastasia 13 years old.
For our craft, we chose the ripest yellow zucchini. They painted it with gouache, made hair from toothpicks, and eyes from corks. Everything is simple and very beautiful!!!

"Minions". Rybin Artem.
Material: Boiled corn and plasticine.

"Gold fish". Lebedev Matvey.
The product is made of leaves, and nut shells are attached to the salted dough. And the crown is made of a cone.

"Lesovichok" Kuchumov Artyom.
The craft is made from natural materials: pine log (torso), branches (arms and legs), moss (hair and beard), chaga - birch mushroom (feet), spruce branches (headdress), stand - birch cut + moss and twigs ; eyes are lemonade lids.

"Autumn Fairy" Vasilisa.
Fairy or queen of autumn.
The doll is dressed in a dress made of autumn leaves. Also used in the work are ash earrings, rowan and raffia - all natural materials.
Vasilisa spent 7 years gluing everything herself, her mother only helped with the head.

"Crown of the Autumn Queen." Kozlova Victoria Viktorovna.
The “Crown of the Autumn Queen” craft is made from natural materials, which include: maple branches, poplar branches, lilac branches, maple seeds, wool thread, pine nuts.

“Mom and Dad Kartoshkin on an autumn walk.” Trofimov Vova and Polina.
Our crafts are made from very interesting, unusual potatoes. We dressed them up for an autumn walk and came up with umbrellas in case it rained.

"On a visit to Cheburashka." Ivanova Daria.
Made from vegetables (zucchini, cucumbers, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots), plastic, moss, flowers, plasticine.

"Heavenly Creature" Kosyanenko Matvey.
The work is made of pumpkin.

"Fairytale friend of Autumn." Arkhipova Victoria Yurievna.
This work was completed by a 7-year-old girl, Vika, together with her parents. The work is very colorful, bright, and most importantly - autumn... Our friend (let's call him Mr. Pumpkin) came to visit us from a fairytale forest. Made from gourd (this is its base), the arms and legs are made from fabric. On our friend’s head is a straw hat decorated with rowan berries. Our Mister is sitting on a birch stump (the flower pot was turned into a stump), in the middle of a green lawn, strewn with rowan berries and apples. Wonderful work that used the “gifts of autumn”!

Vegetable animals

"Wonder Bird" Timofeeva Ulyana, 9 years old.
The work is made of pumpkin and squash. The bird is decorated with calendula flowers.

"Autumn Glade". Popova Yulia Evgenievna.
Made from pumpkin, spider from potatoes, caterpillar from apples and carrots.

"Kittens." Perestoronina Arina.

Pumpkin, turnip, rowan, pepper, apples.

“Hedgehogs are preparing for winter.” Atanov Ivan.

The work is made of sweet peppers, twigs of cloves, leaves, chestnuts, flowers, rose hips and decorative ornaments.

"Smiley Bunny." Moskalev Platon, Municipal Budgetary Educational Institution “Secondary School No. 21 named after. N.I. Rylenkova", the city of Smolensk.
the work is made from vegetables (cabbage, zucchini, carrots), fruits (apples), flowers (asters).

Ena Nikolay. "Bunny"
Made from cabbage.

"Mother hen." Volkova Lyudmila.
The work is made of pumpkin, zucchini, and maple leaves.

"Glamourous snail" Grigorenko Daria.
The snail's house is made of pumpkin, the head and neck are made of zucchini, and the horns are made of rowan berries. The work is decorated with rhinestones and other decorative elements.

“Who, who lives in the little house?” Berezanov Daniil.
The tower is made of pumpkin, decorated with oak-shaped rowan, red pepper and leaves. The animals are made from onions, potatoes and apples + plasticine. Under the tower there are leaves, spruce branches and flowers.

“What a company...” Tsintserova Alena Gennadievna.
Zucchini, straw, chicken fluff, bird cherry.

"Cheerful Penguin" Lityago Elena.
Pumpkin, potatoes, bell pepper.

“Pigs from Tayushka!” Apacheva Taisiya.
We used cardboard, leaves, branches, rowan berries, potatoes, hops, plasticine and a lot of good mood!)

"Mischievous insects" Falkin Ivan.
Pumpkin house. A caterpillar made of acorns and a spider made of chestnuts. Cobweb - threads.

"Caterpillar". Volodichev Ilya.
Made from apples and chokeberry berries.

"Little Pig." Andriychuk Daria.
From vegetables and fruits.

Transport

"Race car" Klochkov Alexander, 6 years old.
The car was made from zucchini and tomatoes. The parts of the car are made of paper. The person in the car is made of plasticine.

"Sail". Belyaeva Ulyana with her mother.
The work is made of reeds, dry maple leaf, corrugated cardboard, sticks and glue.

"Boat of Knowledge" Soloviev Alexey.
The “Boat of Knowledge” craft is made from zucchini, carrots, cabbage, thread, sticks, and plasticine.

"Into the sky". Marchenko Kirill.
Airplane made from natural material.

"Zucchini Engine" Lonsky Artyom.
The work is made from zucchini with the addition of small details.

"For the harvest." Sirotkin Artem Vyacheslavovich, 4 years old.
The work is made of vegetables: the car is made of potatoes, carrots, the girl sitting in the car is made of vegetables and waste material.

"Machine". Galkin Mikhail.
The car is made of eggplant, the work is decorated with rowan berries, and next to the car is a caterpillar made of tomatoes.

"Roma in a stroller." Strizhova Polina.
The work is made from delicious gifts of autumn)))

"Ship of Autumn" Vanya Chernykh.
The craft is made of pumpkin and paper. Figures of heroes from Kinder Surprise.

"Car". Maksimov Dmitry.
The work is made from zucchini, the man is made from carrots, onions and tomatoes.

"Forest Harvest" Linkov Yuri.
The craft is made of wood, pine cones and acorns.

Compositions and still lifes from natural materials

"Autumn Harvest" Lika.

The basket is made from natural materials with the addition of decorative elements. The basket is made of pine cones. Filling: apples, rowan, chokeberry, moss litter, added pine cones and chestnuts.

"Rainbow Childhood" Osipova O.I. Konovalova O.S.
Flowers.

"Cute Chicken" Lekgova Sophia.
Pumpkin seeds, decorative decorations.

"Swans made of cones." Garkushin Nikita.
The work is made from pine cones, cardboard, chenille wire and feathers.

"Magic Wand of the Forest" Petrov Dmitry.
Topiary is made of pine cones and autumn flowers.

"Autumn is coming." Solovyova Ksyusha.
Natural materials.

"Autumn Bouquet". Solovyova Svetlana.
Zucchini, peppers, grapes, leaves, toothpicks.

"In a hot air balloon in autumn." Timofeev Andrey Nikolaevich.
Made from natural materials: pumpkin, acorns, apples, rowan, leaves.

"Gifts of Autumn" Ogurtsova Irina.

"Hello, school!" Trushina Lydia.
Cones, acorns, acorn caps, nuts, peas, physalis, leaves, thuja branches, spikelets, orange peel roses, various berries and seeds.

"Autumn Umbrella". Ivashechkina Yana and mother Lena.
Umbrella: cardboard, flat wire, twine;
Bouquet: leaves of small shrubs, fir cones, barabaris fruits, snowberry fruits, thuja twigs;
Roses: maple leaves;
Hot glue, threads.

"Bird and Flowers" Tugarinova Yana.
Flowers from pine cones, birds from leaves.

"Wind Catcher" Egorova Ksenia.
We were inspired to create “Wind Catcher” by the bright colors of autumn and colorful autumn leaves, which easily succumb to every breath of wind, tremble on tree branches, break off and, spinning in the air flow, fall smoothly or in a whirlwind to the ground. We used thin oak branches as a base, twisted them into a ring and secured them with threads, then tied them a little with oak leaves, chestnuts, acorns, berries, bladderworts, rose hips and sugared pears, and at the very top, in front of the fastening loop, we threaded thread through a small green apple. The pendants consist of birch and maple leaves, they are secured with transparent fishing line to create the effect of weightlessness.

"Autumn Mushrooms" Gameevs Yulia and Alexandra.
Wooden saw cuts of different diameters, dried cones, leaves and blades of grass.
Additionally: paints, plastic eyes.

"Autumn tree." Safonova Svetlana Alexandrovna.
To create this beautiful tree we needed:
1. Planter (can be a pot)
2.Gypsum
3.Newspapers
4.Making tape
5.Strong rope
6.Strong stick
7. Natural buds
8. Spruce needles
9. Rowan branches
10.Wolf white berries
11.Fallen leaves
Cooking steps:
We crumple the newspaper and give it the shape of a ball. Then, so that the ball holds its shape, we wrap it with masking tape (for a more durable job, I wrapped it with rope). Now we need to attach a branch to our ball. To do this, cut a small hole in the ball, 2-3 cm deep, coat the twig with glue and insert it. When the glue dries, we begin to glue the ball. We will glue the cones first (they must be well dried, because if the cones are damp, they will not stick). Then we will glue the leaves. Next you can glue rowan branches, spruce branches, wolf berries and any other decorations that fit our autumn theme. Then we prepare the solution in unnecessary containers and pour it into a flowerpot with a tree. In order for the solution to dry, you need to wait about two hours. After we have made sure that the solution has hardened, we proceed to decorating the flowerpots. We cover the surface of the solution with spruce branches, cones and anything else. So our bright tree is ready!

"Forest Beauty" Serova Natalia.
The work is made from a Barbie doll; her dress and train are decorated with maple leaves and decorated with flowers.

"Proud deer." Gavva Ekaterina.
The work is made from cones, acorns and walnut shells. All parts are fastened with plasticine. The legs are made of toothpicks. Antlers are thin branches.

"Berry Falls" Levin Stepan Vasilievich.
The work is made from natural materials. It contains:
1.raspberries
2.barberry berries
3. chokeberry berries
4.rose hips
5. Rowan berries
6.cherry berries
7.Oakleaf rowan berries
8.thuja cone
9. currant leaves
10. Rowan leaves
11.barberry leaves
12. chokeberry leaves
13.birch leaves
14.walnut leaves
15.oak leaves
16.cherry leaves
17.rose hips
18. branch of mountain ash
19.maiden grape leaves
20.sumac leaves
21.linden leaves
22.leaf of rowan oakleaf
23.grape vine
At the top is a decorative dragonfly. Golden, like autumn itself.

"A bountiful harvest". Kulik Vitaly. (7 years).
The horse is made of straw and grass, the eyes are made of chokeberry, and the crown contains a flower made of rowan berries. The cart and harness are made of birch branches, and the crops in the cart are real miniature vegetables and berries that were grown by the author of the craft.

Rusina Victoria. "Forest Bowl"
MA preschool educational institution » Kozlovsky CRR - kindergarten “Bee”, Chuvash Republic, Kozlovka.
Head: Tsirulina Ekaterina Vitalievna.

"Ostrich". Kallaeva Anna.
Cones, plasticine, stick, ash seeds.
Ostrich girl with a flower at her feet.

"The goblin collects mushrooms." Kallaeva Lyubov.
The goblin is gathering supplies for the winter and comes across a very beautiful fly agaric.
Pine cone, shell, acorn caps, ash seeds, plasticine.

"Duck with ducklings for a walk." Chmylikov Matvey Alexandrovich.
Duck material: Salt dough and feathers.
Pond material: Painted sawdust.
For decoration around the pond: rowan, immortelle, flowers and reeds made of polystyrene foam and colored paper.

“Bugs and spiders in an autumn meadow!” Maria.
Pumpkin, tomatoes, onions, grapes, viburnum, autumn leaves. We cut out a window in the pumpkin and another hole for the web. I made an umbrella from the cut off top of a pumpkin.

"Star of the East" Golubeva Alena.
Apple, rose, birch branch, spruce branch, berries.

"Autumn forest". Malova Sofya Maksimovna.
The work is made from natural materials, the toys are from Kindersurprise.

"Forest gifts". Evdoshenko Denis.

"Harvest from Alina." Zaryankova Alina Stanislavovna 5 years old.
The work is made of natural materials: leaves, cones, vegetables, seeds.

"Tricks of Autumn" Akolzina Victoria.
This topiary is made from cones, rose hips, rowan and birch leaves. Also decorated with a decorative bird.

"Autumn mood". Ivanov Artyom.
The mushroom stem is daikon, the cap is tomato, the dots are mayonnaise.

"Autumn Decor". Makeev Nikita Sergeevich 2 years 2 months, mother Elena.
Russula, pigweed, moss, rowan, chestnut leaves, birch, American maple, larch, pine needles, viburnum, acorns, beets, cones.

"Autumn Fishing" Odaev Vladislav.
Cardboard; cones; plasticine; branches; moss; maple helicopters; pine twig; mushroom.

"Autumn Meadow" Ignashina Sonya.
Natural material, plasticine.

"Autumn tree." Alexei.
The craft is made from maple leaves, black and red rowan fruits. There are barberry berries, acorns, and birch leaves.

"Moose in the forest." Polyakov Elizar.
Moss, fir cones, pine nets, spruce, cotton swabs, plasticine, pebbles, pine bark.

"Cobweb." Lebedev Arseny.
The craft is made from willow branches (cobwebs), chestnuts, and acorns (spiders).

"Birds of the Lakes" Anna Chaprak.
Cones, feathers, plasticine.

"Autumn Girl" Lavrentieva Polina Igorevna.
Work from rowan, leaves, cones, branches and other natural materials, plasticine figurine.

Autumn is a great time for needlework, because it gives us so many wonderful materials: leaves, vegetables, fruits, flowers, acorns, pine cones and twigs. And how cozy a house becomes if you decorate it with yellow and purple tones. In this material you will find 6 ideas for DIY autumn crafts for adults and children with step-by-step master classes and a selection of photos for inspiration.

Idea 1. Autumn topiary

Topiary is a decorative tree that can be used to decorate a dining table, mantel, or front door area. To make it, you can use natural or artificial materials, for example: leaves, berries on twigs, acorns, cones, chestnuts, flowers, dried citrus slices, as well as felt, sisal, linen and whatever your imagination tells you. In the next slider you can see several examples of such autumn crafts.

Materials:

1. Clay pot;
2. Wooden stick or branch;
3. Two polystyrene or floral foam balls;
4. Materials for decorating the crown;
5. Dry moss (you can replace it with sisal);
6. Glue gun and several glue sticks;
7. Scissors;
8. Side cutters or pruning shears;
9. Acrylic paints for painting the trunk, ball and pot (optional).

Instructions:

Step 1. Cut a hole in the base ball with a sharp tool for the barrel, about a third of its diameter deep. Place a drop of hot glue into the hole and insert the barrel into it.

Step 2: Insert the second ball into the pot. If the ball does not sit tightly enough in the pot, place newspaper around it. Cut a hole in the ball for the trunk, 2-3 cm deep. Insert the trunk with the crown into the hole and adjust its length. Next, drop glue into the hole of the ball, place the barrel in it and begin to fill the hole with glue, placing small pieces of paper around the barrel. This is necessary so that the hot glue does not deepen the hole too much.

Step 3: Paint the pot the color you want if you don't like the original look. In this project, the pot was painted with spray paint in a dark bronze shade from Rustoleum (sold in construction stores, for example, in Leroy Merlin).

Remember that the design of the pot should be simple and unpretentious so as not to distract attention from the crown. If necessary, paint the barrel and/or balls at this stage. It is advisable to paint the balls so that the gaps between the decorative details are invisible.

Step 4. While the paint on our blank is drying, sort the decorative parts by type and size. If you use artificial leaves, flowers and berries with a wire base, then when cutting them, leave “stems” about 2 cm long. This is necessary in order not only to glue the parts, but also to stick them into the ball - then they will hold more securely . If the “stems” do not have wire, then it is better to cut the parts “at the root”.

Step 5. Now it's time for the fun part - creating the crown. First, evenly distribute and glue the largest parts onto the ball, then the middle ones. Finally, fill in the gaps with small embellishments.

Step 6. Well, that's all, all that remains is to decorate the ball in the pot with dry moss or sisal, after treating it with glue.

Idea 2. Pumpkins made from toilet paper rolls

Here's another vegetable-themed fall craft idea you can make with your kids - pumpkins made from toilet paper rolls. The possibilities for decorating these crafts are endless. For example, children can use colored paper, gouache or glitter, while adults can use gold leaf, fabric or lace.

Materials:

• Toilet paper or paper towel rolls;
• Scissors;
• Leg-split;
• For decoration: brushes, gouache or acrylic paints, PVA glue and glitter or book pages, etc.;
• Cinnamon sticks or sprigs (to create the core of the vegetable);
• Burlap, felt or cardboard (for creating leaves).

Step 1: Flatten the toilet paper roll and cut into rings.

Step 2: Decorate the rings with a material you like, such as craft paper, scrapbooking paper, fabric, ribbon, or simply paint them with acrylic paint. You can also decorate pumpkins exactly as in this master class - with glitter and stripes of book pages.

Method 1. Using a brush, coat the outer sides of all rings with PVA glue, and then sprinkle plenty of glitter on them. Wait until the pieces dry, and then cover the glitter with a second layer of PVA glue to protect it from falling off.

Method 2. Cut thin strips of paper from book pages and glue them to the rings using PVA glue or a glue stick.

Step 3: To shape your pumpkin, pass a strand of twine through the rings, then tighten the two ends and tie a knot as shown in the photo.

Step 4. Now glue cinnamon sticks or cut branches into the center of the pumpkin.

Step 5. Hurray, your pumpkins are almost ready, all you have to do is add leaves cut from burlap, felt, cardboard or any other material you have on hand.

Using the same principle, you can make a pumpkin from rings of any material.

Idea 3. Panel of leaves

Next, we present to you an idea for crafts made from autumn leaves. Since this master class does not use hot glue or sharp objects, you can safely involve children in the work, and especially in collecting material.

An idea for an autumn craft made from natural materials that you can make with your children and use for seasonal home decoration

Materials:

Instructions:

Step 1. Cut out the wood with a jigsaw and sand the ends with sandpaper.

Step 2. Paint the board with stain and leave to dry.

Step 3. Using a marker, draw a maple leaf on the board by hand, using a template or stencil.

Step 4. Start gluing the pre-dried leaves (see how to dry them at the end of the article) like a fan, trying to place them so that their edges coincide with the outline of the picture. At the same time, you should not glue the leaves completely; let their tops be a little loose so that the panel gains some volume. Place a press of suitable size on each glued leaf for a minute.

Keep in mind that the leaves will not stick immediately, but after the glue dries they will stick well.

Step 5. To make the outlines of the design clearer, trim the leaves in some places. However, try to resort to such correction as little as possible so as not to lose the beauty of natural lines.

Step 6. Now attach the twig to your panel in place of the stem, break off the excess and glue it.

The following selection of photos presents examples of no less original autumn panels.

And finally, we suggest watching a video tutorial on how to make an autumn craft with your own hands in the form of a panel of leaves with a frame of acorns.

Idea 4. Wind chimes made from natural materials and more

The following project is an example of an interesting, but very easy-to-make craft from natural materials and ready-made parts, which a child can make almost independently.

Materials:

• Two or one sticks;
• Natural and manufactured materials for decorating threads: pine cones, flat stones, acorns, wooden beads, small metal candle stands (used in this project) and anything else that comes to hand and matches the fall theme;
• Leg-split;
• Hot glue gun and glue sticks.

Step 1. Paint some elements of the future wind chime, if necessary. In this master class, the author painted the pebbles in bright yellow and red colors.

Step 2. While the decorations are drying, tie two sticks crosswise and tie the center of the cross with twine as shown in the photo below. You can also just use one long stick or, say, a hoop.

Step 3. Cut 9 ropes of twine to the desired length with a small margin for knots, so that in the future you will have two rows on each branch and one in the middle.

Step 4: To create one row of wind chimes, take a piece of twine and begin stringing beads or other pieces onto it, passing the strings through the holes twice at a time or tying them well into knots. The stones should be additionally fixed with hot glue. In order not to make a mistake with the order, the parts should first be arranged in the desired order. By the way, it is better to place especially sonorous elements opposite each other so that their chime in the wind can be better heard.

Step 5. Tie knots at the end of each rope.

Step 6. Once each thread is completed, tie them to the branches using double knots with a drop of glue added.

Below are other examples of this unusual decoration made from pine cones, acorns and leaves.

Idea 5. Candlesticks in the shape of autumn leaves made from salt dough

Leaves can be used not only as a decorative or finishing material, but also at the same time as a template and stamp for creating crafts from any modeling mass. Take note of the idea of ​​autumn crafts with children in the form of these cute salt dough leaves. By the way, they are not only beautiful in themselves, but can also perform a practical function, for example, you can store various decorations on them or put candles on them.

Materials:

• Ingredients for kneading salt dough: ½ cup salt, ½ cup water, 1 cup flour;
• Container for kneading dough;
• Glass bowl;
• Rolling pin;
• Large leaves;
• Vegetable oil;
• Acrylic paints in yellow, red, orange and brown.

Instructions:

Step 1. The first thing to do is go for a walk with the whole family and find at least two beautiful large leaves.

Step 2. Then knead the salt dough. To do this, simply mix all the ingredients and roll out the dough to about 6mm thick (no less), so that it is not too thick, but not too brittle.

Step 3: Place your leaves on the dough and run a rolling pin over it using light pressure.

Step 4: The next step is to cut out the shape around the leaf. Use a sharp knife and, of course, take this part of the work yourself.

Step 5. Remove the leaves. Invert the glass bowl and coat it with a thin layer of vegetable oil.

Step 6: Carefully lift the sheets and place them on the bowls.

Step 7. Place the bowls with the dough in the oven preheated to 250 degrees and leave them to bake for 2-3 hours.

Step 8: Remove your pieces from the oven and let them cool in the bowls for about 15 minutes. Then carefully lift the leaves and leave to cool completely.

Blanks

Step 9. Once the bowls have cooled, start painting. To do this, pour paints of each color into cups and let the children mix them themselves and paint the inside of the leaves first, and then the outside. Crafts made from salt dough are quite fragile, so you need to paint them carefully, without pressing. Wait for the paint to dry and, if desired, cover the bowls with a layer of PVA glue. It will give the craft a matte finish and make it a little stronger.

Painting the bowl

Leaf shapes may vary.

By the way, if you don’t want to bother with salt dough, you can replace it with soft plasticine. The photo below shows an example of such a craft.

Idea 6. Felt garland

Although felt is not a natural material, crafts made from it are the most autumnal. Today we invite you to make a simple garland from felt leaves.

Materials:

• Several sheets of felt in fall colors;
• Leg-split;
• Scissors;
• Glue;
• Thick threads with a needle;
• Pencil.

Instructions:

Step 1: Download and print the leaf templates (see downloadable template below), then cut them out and outline them.

Step 2. Cut out the blanks.

Step 3. Sew the veins by hand using large stitches.

Step 4. Now, maintaining equal intervals, hang the leaves on the twine. To do this, wrap the tail of each leaf around the twine and secure with glue. If you wish, you can sew on the details. Woo-ala, the autumn felt garland is ready!

Using the principles of this simple master class, you can create a variety of garlands with decorations in the form of acorns, pine cones, pumpkins, etc. The following selection of photos shows some examples of autumn felt garlands.

How to dry leaves and flowers

Method 1. This method is suitable if you want appliques or other non-voluminous crafts. Place leaves or flowers between the pages of the book at a distance of about 3 mm from each other and move them to other pages every day (also maintaining an interval of 3 mm). Within a week, the paper will absorb all the moisture from the plants, and you will be able to use them for creativity.

Method 2. If your craft does not involve the use of flat leaves, then you can dry them by simply collecting them in a bunch and hanging them upside down in a dry but ventilated area. At the same time, keep in mind that the leaves will lose their color completely in the sun, but will retain their color in the shade.

Method 3. This method is suitable for drying and preserving the color of leaves and cornflowers. Blot fresh, just picked leaves/cornflowers with a napkin if they are wet. Place each sheet between two layers of wax paper, and place a paper towel on top of the resulting “sandwich.” Preheat your iron and make sure the steam setting is off. Using pressure, iron the paper towel for 2-5 minutes. Turn the sandwich over and pat it again through the paper towel, then carefully remove the wax paper.

• To prevent dried leaves and flowers from breaking, they must be dipped in a solution of water and PVA glue, diluted in a ratio of 4:1, and then left to dry.