Autumn crafts

Applications from natural material on the theme "Autumn"

Applications from natural material on the theme of Autumn
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  2. How to make animals?
  3. DIY original autumn flower
  4. More ideas

Autumn is a great time. At this time, harvesting begins, leaves begin to crumble, chestnuts fall, Wandering around the park or square, you can collect various components to create future crafts. Colored fall leaves, curved branches, chestnuts, and pine cones can be great materials for this. Making handicrafts from natural materials is a very interesting creative work that requires perseverance and attentiveness. It develops creative thinking, contributes to the formation of taste. Even small children can handle it, not to mention schoolchildren.

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Using the collected natural materials, children in kindergarten will be able to create simple crafts.

Preschool children are not yet able to perform monotonous work for a long time, so they should prepare simpler tasks.

For a kindergarten, it is better to choose simple applications from pre-collected natural material on the theme "Autumn".

Having collected an armful of leaves and dried them, kids can make an applique. To create it, you need to prepare:

  • dry leaves - it is desirable that they have different colors and differ in their shape, this will make the composition more interesting;
  • cardboard;
  • colored paper;
  • scissors;
  • glue;
  • pencils.

And you can also take a special varnish for fixing the finished product. Using it will give it a shine.

From the listed material, you can make an autumn tree.

  • Draw the trunk of the future tree on colored paper. You can use a ready-made template, or make it yourself.
  • Cut the trunk. Glue it onto prepared cardboard or thick white sheet of paper.
  • Using dried leaves glue them in the form of a crown for a tree.

The shape of the crown itself will depend on the number of leaves, their shape and color.

You can use a toilet paper sleeve as a barrel; such a voluminous craft will look very unusual.

Even from an ordinary branch found in the park, you can make an amazing composition.

It is enough to find a suitable branch, prepare a dried herbarium, take glue, a brush and scissors. It remains to put the branch on the base and glue the decorative elements with glue. These can be dry leaves, flowers, and even dried insects. You can leave the applique on the base, or put a twig in a vase as a decorative element.

How to make animals?

A lot of various crafts can be made from natural materials. These are applications, and various figures, and paintings using the most unusual components.

Children of preschool and school age will be happy to make various volumetric animals using collected leaves, cones, acorns or chestnuts.

Squirrel

It will not be difficult for children to make a squirrel from the collected components. This cute little animal of cones turns out very beautifully.

To work on the production of proteins you will need:

  • spruce cones - 2 pcs. different sizes;
  • some plasticine;
  • acorns - 2 pcs.

It remains to collect all the details and make a squirrel figurine.

  1. You need to take two spruce cones and form from them the body of an animal with a tail... To do this, a large bump is used for the body, and a tail is made from the smaller bump, fixing it in the lower part of the body with the help of plasticine.
  2. Squirrel legs are made from the remaining soft mass.... They are fastened in the upper and lower parts of the cone-body.
  3. Squirrel head is made from acorn... It is also attached to the body with plasticine. They complement it with ears from small pieces, attach pea eyes made of plasticine.

The squirrel is ready. It remains to put the prepared acorn in her paws and put it on the shelf for everyone to see.

Mouse

A funny mouse can be made from walnuts and plasticine.

Two large walnuts are chosen for crafts. One nut is used to make a torso for a mouse, and the second is used to create its head. Details are fastened with plasticine.

For crafts you need:

  • take a little soft mass of white and blue colors, as well as pieces of black and red plasticine to form the eyes and mouth of the mouse;
  • roll up flagella from white plasticine and make paws for a mouse, roll slippers from blue balls.

It remains to attach a tail to the mouse, made of a thin plasticine flagellum. The ears are made of white plasticine and attached to the mouse's head. They complement the figure with eyes, make the mouse a mouth and nose.

hippo

Using the overhead applique method, you can make a figurine of any animal, and even a hippo. Making such a craft is quite simple. It is enough to take a dry rounded sheet and stick it on paper or cardboard, creating a plot. They complement the figure with small details, or add some elements.

You can make a funny hippopotamus yourself from ordinary potatoes. The shape of the figurine depends on the shape of the selected tuber. Since the hippopotamus itself usually has an impressive size and volumetric shape, the potatoes should be picked up in a similar shape.

Small details in the form of a nose and eyes can be sculpted from plasticine balls, or you can take small-colored beans. The massive legs of the hippopotamus are made of suitable material, punch holes in the body and insert into it.

Dog

Using fir cones, kids will be able to independently make a craft in the form of a fun dachshund.

To do this kind of work, you need to take a few steps.

  • Take two cones. One cone will be used as a torso for a dachshund.
  • The second smaller bump is taken for the dog's head.... Instead of a cone, you can choose an acorn or a nut. The main thing is that this material should be suitable for the future craft in shape and appearance.
  • Paws should be molded from pieces of plasticine, giving them the required appearance... Dachshund's legs are short, slightly crooked.
  • Then the remaining parts are molded in the form tail-flagellum and ears.
  • All parts should be folded, and connected using pieces of plasticine. For greater reliability, it is advisable to fasten the cones with toothpicks.

At the final stage, work is done on the design of the dog's face, gluing the eyes and nose of the dachshund.

Other materials such as acorns can be used in place of buds. You can easily make a mini-dog from acorns. The algorithm of actions is similar to the previous version:

  • it is enough to take acorns and a piece of plasticine;
  • build the body of the animal and its head from two acorns;
  • plasticine is used to form legs, long ears, tail, eyes, nose and tongue are attached.

An acorn cap is put on the head.

Cat

You can mold a lot of different figures using natural materials. Crafts like this foster creativity, fantasy and imagination.

From the cones collected in the park, you can make a figurine of a frolicking cat. To create an animal figurine, you need to take:

  • several cones of different sizes;
  • spruce branch;
  • some plasticine;
  • a brush with synthetic hairs;
  • scissors;
  • glue "Moment";
  • peppercorns.

To create a cat from the materials found, take cones of different sizes. A torso is made of two large cones, and legs are made of two medium-sized cones that have an oblong shape. For the formation of the ears, the smallest parts are used.

The work progress consists of several steps.

  1. It is necessary to take 2 cones and insert them with sharp tips so that their scales catch on. Additionally, it is recommended to fix them with glue.
  2. Using a brown plasticine mass, medium-sized bumps are fastened to each other.
  3. Glue them to the workpiece.
  4. A cat's tail is made from a small spruce cone or spruce branch. They attach it to the back of the body.
  5. With the help of plasticine, the kitten's ears are glued.
  6. They make eyes and a mouth with cheeks from a soft mass, make a nose.

Such a figurine can be placed next to other crafts made from similar materials.

Chestnuts can also be used as a suitable material for making a kitten figurine.

For this you need to take:

  • chestnuts of various shapes;
  • plasticine;
  • toothpicks;
  • awl;
  • scissors.

To create a playful kitten from these materials, you need to follow the instructions.

  1. Take chestnuts, fasten them to each other with plasticine. For better fixation, you can use toothpicks, having previously made holes for them with an awl.
  2. Using soft mass, form legs for the kitten, make him a tail and ears. Blind your pet's eyes, nose, cheeks and mouth from small plasticine balls.

If you wish, you can blind a ball for a kitten, make a fur shirt.

DIY original autumn flower

For children, you can come up with an interesting task related to the manufacture of various applications, crafts on the autumn theme. You can make simple appliqués on paper, or build a more complex composition.

Using ordinary fallen maple leaves, elementary school students will be able to independently make original bouquets with their own hands.

Roses made from twisted leaves turn out to be very beautiful. A similar craft can be brought to school or left to decorate a student's room. Such a bouquet will look very unusual.

To create a rose, you need 10-12 maple or grape leaves of different sizes.

And you should also take:

  • strong threads;
  • scissors;
  • teip tape;
  • wire for the stem.

Here's what you need to make a rose.

  1. Take the smallest leaf and use it to form the middle. Its ends are bent inward, and the sheet is folded into a roll.
  2. The following sheets also fold, and wrap the core. Each next sheet should be larger than the previous one.
  3. The base of the flower follows wrap tightly with threads, doing this after each turn.

One bud usually takes 10 or more leaves. The outer petals should not be tightened to make the flower appear more luxuriant.

After the formation of the bud, a wire is applied to its base and wrapped with tape. Having made several of these buds, you can form a whole autumn bouquet. The color of the "pink" buds themselves can be very different and depends on the selected leaves.

More ideas

Taking as a basis fallen leaves, dried flowers and other natural materials, you can make a very beautiful panel. A voluminous composition on an autumn theme or a painting using unusual materials will look very organic both in a home interior and at an exhibition.

Using waste material, you can create unique products. Such works of authorship will be highly appreciated by spectators and lovers of original things.

A cute hedgehog can be made from a regular plastic bottle and cones. The body of a hedgehog is made from a bottle. Pine cones are used as needles for it. The eyes of a hedgehog are made from lids. By connecting all the details, you get a funny figurine. Such a cheerful hedgehog from waste material will find a worthy place in a summer cottage or garden area.

Choosing an ordinary pebble for crafts and painting it in different shades, you can create a panel. As a basis, you can take a regular disposable plate.

Fish from flat stones, painted with paints, will be an organic complement to the picture.

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