What are autumn wreaths and how to make them?

Creation of various unusual crafts is a fun and interesting activity for both children and adults. Currently, there is a huge variety of master classes that will allow you to make unusual wreaths with your own hands. Often, such decorative products are created on a theme such as autumn. Today we will look at how you can make such crafts that you need for this.

Autumn wreaths can act as an interesting decoration for the home, a gift for a holiday, an item for school exhibitions. These items come in various designs, they are made as one-sided and double-sided.

The appearance of your wreath will directly depend on the leaves that you collect and prepare. You can make a product from only one type of leaves, but more often they collect a large number of completely different elements with different colors.

Also, all parts must be clearly distributed throughout the product according to their dimensions. When preparing the supporting part of the future composition, the characteristics of the material used should be taken into account.

Often, ready-made autumn compositions are complemented with various figures and toys. So, these products will look interesting with a small owl, artificial pumpkins, and a squirrel.

Autumn wreaths come in many different types. They are characterized by several criteria.

These decorative wreaths can be used for various purposes. They often become original interior items. These crafts can be hung on the wall, front door.

Often, such additional elements become independent accents in the overall design. With the help of these crafts, you can decorate a house or apartment for a holiday.

They are also sometimes used when conducting photo shoots on an autumn theme.

Homemade bright wreaths are also taken for exhibitions in schools and kindergartens.

Autumn decorative wreaths can be made with your own hands from various materials. Most often, cardboard, plain colored paper, corrugated paper are used. It is easy to make crafts using the origami technique.

Also, in the manufacture of such crafts, natural thin twigs, vines, birch branches, willow branches, physalis can be used. From such elements, you can weave a beautiful base, additional products for decorating a wreath.

Leaves can be made independently from various woven materials, including tulle, felt, knitted yarn. Such raw materials can be sewn to cardboard bases using simple threads and a needle. Natural materials are also used: chestnuts, acorns, simple dried leaf blades. For decoration, they take ribbons, rhinestones, beads. Sometimes the compositions are completely molded from plasticine.

Before you start making autumn wreaths, you should prepare all the materials and accessories necessary for this. Most often, a base (cardboard, paper), scissors, glue or threads with needles, as well as the selected material, are prepared in advance at the workplace.

If you plan to use only natural raw materials, then it should be prepared in advance. It is better to collect leaves of various colors and shapes. They are completely dried; if desired, the same can be done with small berries.

Next, we will analyze how to make some options for such wreaths on our own step by step.

Maple leaves are often used to create these kinds of crafts. In this case, you must first take a large number of such sheet plates, they must be well dried. Cuttings are cut off all of them, after which one first leaf is taken, the lower edge is slightly bent in such a way that the end result is a line parallel to the stalk.

Then you need to pierce the second maple leaf with the stalk of the first blank. Then it is also bent, with the third element they do the same, so we continue to the last leaf blade. At the final stage, you should carefully pierce the first and second leaves with the handle of the last part.

Also, if desired, this product can be decorated with dried rowan bunches, beads, beads, multi-colored ribbons.

To make such an autumn wreath, you will first need to prepare suitable edible gifts. Apples, corn, rose hips, as well as many other dried fruits, berries and vegetables can work great.

It is better to form the basis for the future decorative product from strong thin willow branches.

The material is bent so that a base of the desired diameter is formed. The workpiece should be wound tightly together in several places using strong metal wire. The workpiece should be supplemented with several sprigs of barberry.

After that, apples are taken. To fix these fruits on the craft, you need to use a special double-sided tape. The whole wreath is completely wrapped with it, and then the fruits themselves are carefully attached to the adhesive surface. Corn and rose hips are added in the same way.

If desired, the finished craft is decorated with thin satin ribbons and beads. The resulting product will be an excellent option for decorating the front door.

To create such an interesting variation, it is better to take a vine. She will act as a skeleton for future crafts. When forming a product, you can take only one cereal cultivated plant and grass, or you can collect several different types of such material and combine in one composition.

For the process, you will need bunches of various herbs. Optimal use:

• lavender;
• Bay leaf;
• rosemary;
• mint.

In addition, it is better to immediately prepare a thin metal wire for weaving with beads, as well as thin silicone rubber bands. It is advisable to pre-dry herbaceous plants, and then collect them in small and neat bunches. The formed bundles are attached to a ring made of grape twigs in one direction, all this is wrapped with a special floristic tape.

To make the elastic bands invisible, all bundles should be overlapped.

When the work on the outside is finished, you can proceed to processing the back. First of all, you need to hide the protruding ends of the greenery, as well as wires and ribbons. All of them are tucked a little and set into a base made of grape twigs.

The longest parts should simply be trimmed with scissors. Later, the top of the wreath to be created is determined and a wide satin ribbon is passed through its vine. The decor is ready and can be hung on the door.

This craft will be the best option for girls to go to school or kindergarten.

To make such an autumn composition, chestnuts and acorns are first collected. Next, they prepare a solid foundation for the future product. Densely and firmly twisted bundles of straw, branches, and also foam plastic can act as a support.

The base should be completely wrapped in a brown cloth. Its ends are necessarily glued, otherwise the material will not be able to hold tightly. When the bezel is decorated, you can start working with natural material.

A small amount of glue is applied to the structure, and then chestnuts and acorns are immediately leaned against.

At the final stage, it is advisable to tie a small snow-white bow to the finished wreath.

Dried flowers are a light natural material, so it is best to take foam or cardboard as a basis for crafts. Sometimes a skeleton woven from dried straw and ears is used. Before starting work, you need to prepare all the necessary elements.

Flowers and ears are woven into small bunches. Long ends can be trimmed straight away with scissors. Then they are tied with tape. Next, the wreath blank is tightly fitted with a woven base. Dried flowers are gradually glued to it.

After all the elements are firmly glued, you need to hide all the formed places with small sisal balls. It is better to decorate the finished wreath with small bows and braid.

An autumn-themed wreath made of felt will look unusual. First you need to prepare the woven fabric. It is quite soft and docile, it is easy to form craft blanks from it. It is worth preparing several sheets of different colors at once.

After that, they begin to form the base.A sheet of cardboard is taken, on which a circle is drawn with a simple pencil, it is necessary to decide in advance on the diameter of the future craft. Next, mark the outer contours of the rim. The width is selected independently depending on the thickness of the felt and the density of the felt parts. The base is cut along the outer and inner contours.

The resulting support part must be decorated. For this, small strips of yellow fabric are cut, they are wrapped around a cardboard blank. Then they are fixed with an adhesive or staples.

At the same time, several different leaf shapes must be prepared. They are applied to felt sheets of different colors. They are neatly outlined with a pencil or pen, and then cut out with scissors.

The resulting soft blanks are laid out on the rim in small separate groups (several parts each), all this is sewn to the base. To decorate the finished product, you can use beads or beads.

There are many other step-by-step master classes that allow you to make autumn decorative wreaths.

To make such a composition, first the vine is taken, it will act as the base. From two thin branches, a blank is formed in the form of an even circle, while the diameter is determined independently.

Next, dried leaves are prepared, their size must necessarily correspond to the diameter of the base. Leaf blades alternately begin to be placed on the rim. It is worth fixing them with a glue gun. Moreover, one part of such natural material will have to be on the inside, and the second part on the outside. Be careful not to create empty spaces.

Thus, the entire vine is pasted over, after which the cones are taken, only a few pieces will be enough. They are also attached with a glue gun to the vine at small intervals around the entire circumference. At the same time, walnuts are taken, they are attached two pieces next to each cone.

At the final stage of manufacturing, you can also glue some acorns. If, nevertheless, empty areas have formed on the rim, they can be easily removed with the help of artificial small bunches of berries.

To create this composition, first take a sheet of colored paper or cardboard. Two circles with a diameter of 10 and 20 centimeters are drawn on it, they are carefully cut out. After that, the resulting blank is completely wrapped with a wide satin ribbon of any color. It must be fixed on both sides with a small amount of glue. Next, a small bow is made to decorate the wreath. To make it, a satin ribbon of any bright color is also taken. Four strips 10 centimeters long are cut from it, after which they are folded in half and the ends of the tape strips are connected at the bend, and a needle is strung there. All satin blanks are connected to each other in a small bow.

At the same time, dried maple leaves of the same size are prepared, from which blanks in the form of roses will be formed. To do this, each leaf plate is cut across in half, the resulting parts are folded in half and their corner is folded, it should be fixed with glue. The corner will need to be wrapped a few more times and also fasten it all with an adhesive. The workpiece is twisted slightly into the outer part, thus forming a rose. It is better to make several such elements.

Flowers from maple leaves are attached to the rim, and simple dried buds, leaf blades and a bow made earlier are also attached to it.

To make this craft in the autumn style, first take a strong metal wire. It is gently bent in the shape of a heart. You can also use a ready-made solid base. Later, the mountain ash itself is prepared. It is worth picking up small inflorescences with berries so that the bunches look quite lush and voluminous. Then each such bunch is attached with twine and fishing line. At the same time, the fruits can stick out a little in different directions, this will not spoil the overall design of the autumn composition.

Foamiran is considered a soft material that can be easily processed, cut, and easily shaped. When creating a wreath, several sheets of such material with different bright colors are prepared at once, and leaf templates should also be selected in advance. They are printed, applied to foamiran and cut out; all the contours are best done with a simple pencil. After that, you will need a mold to give the cut leaves a characteristic texture.

It is better to tint the edges of the sheet plates with a piece of sponge and oil-based dyes. This will make the composition as realistic as possible. The workpieces are processed with a heated iron.

Then they take a special floristic wire, cut it into separate pieces 5-7 centimeters long, and then small loops are formed at their end. On each made sheet, such a wire is glued from the front using an adhesive composition. The elements are pressed in such a way that the loop is not visible. The edges of the parts can be additionally treated with a lighter to form small characteristic folds. As a result, the leaves take on a natural look.

To dilute the composition, you can use artificial berries on a metal wire. The best option would be such elements made of polymer clay. When all the blanks are completely made, they start assembling the crafts. Separately, you can make small roses from red foamiran. Further, several elements are connected together in bundles.

A wire of sufficient thickness is suitable as a base, it is wrapped with a special tape, which is fixed on both sides with glue. All the details are gradually being glued onto it. Rosettes should be inserted between leaves and berries. At the end of the resulting product, ribbons are attached for decoration.

An autumn wreath made of a solid base that is woven from flexible branches will look good. At the same time, you can decorate only part of such a support. It is decorated with yellow, green, orange leaves of different sizes.

A dried large sunflower flower is placed in the central part. This interior option can be suitable for different styles.

Another idea would be a wreath made of thin twigs with lots of bright maple leaves. It is also better to dilute the general composition with several berry bunches; thin long ears can also be inserted. On one side of the woven base, fasten a large bow made of burgundy or red lightweight fabric.

Such an autumn craft made of maple leaves of different colors with cones will look unusual. Moreover, the entire base is pasted over with sheet plates, and the cones are attached only in a few pieces. You can fix chestnuts or walnuts in the same way. The finished product should be as lush and bright as possible.

How else you can make an autumn wreath with your own hands, you will see in the next video.