Craft for kindergarten "Autumn fantasy" from natural materials, vegetables, chestnuts, cones

Make an original one craft for the autumn exhibition in kindergarten it is possible both from natural materials and from available improvised means. It is necessary to prepare in advance everything necessary for the implementation of the idea, and also to show fantasy and imagination.

What you need to prepare for crafts

It is not necessary to make autumn crafts from natural materials, although such products look original and have a special energy. You can use improvised means and various materials for creativity.

To make autumn crafts you need to stock up on the following materials and tools:

Natural	acorns; chestnuts; nutshell; cones; various seeds (pumpkin, sunflower and others); twigs and branches; driftwood; dried multi-colored leaves; dry grass; dried flowers; pine and spruce needles; small vegetables (pumpkin, squash and others); rowan berries; birch bark; moss; stones of different sizes.
Henchmen	plasticine; pasta; cereals; salt dough; fabric scraps; foamiran.
Auxiliary	simple pencil; ruler; PVA glue; hot glue; glitter gel; colored ribbons; colored paper; cardboard; leg-split; beads or rhinestones; coloring templates.

After collecting natural materials, they must be cleaned, dried and put into a box (plastic bags are not allowed because of the difficult air circulation). This way, the prepared elements will be preserved longer, and will look attractive in the finished craft.

Volumetric hedgehog made of seeds and plasticine

Step-by-step instructions for making a hedgehog from seeds and plasticine:

• You need to take 2 sheets of plasticine of brown, black or grey color (sheets of two colors can be mixed), knead them a little between your palms, and then roll them into a ball.
• One half of the ball needs to be pulled out a little to the side so that a drop is formed instead of it - this is how the hedgehog's muzzle is formed.

• From a piece of black plasticine you need to form 2 small balls for the eyes and 1 larger one for the nose, and then attach them to the animal’s muzzle.
• Now the base needs to be filled with improvised needles - for this, the seeds are inserted into the plasticine with their wide part.
• You can make a small ball from a piece of red plasticine, attach a thin green plate to it - you will get an apple, which you need to put on the hedgehog's needles. You can also decorate the craft with grass, acorns, plasticine mushrooms.

Hedgehog from dry leaves

How to make a hedgehog from dried autumn leaves:

• First, you need to print out the hedgehog template, cut it out along the outline and glue it onto a sheet of cardboard (you can transfer or redraw it onto cardboard).
• Now the picture needs to be coated with PVA glue, without touching the animal’s face, after which you can start gluing the leaves.

It is better if they are approximately the same size, otherwise large leaves are glued at the back, smaller ones – at the front (near the hedgehog’s muzzle). You can also use dried flowers together with the leaves.

• The first layer of leaves should be glued along the outline of the drawing, slightly (by half a leaf) going beyond it. The second layer should be glued overlapping, putting it on the first one to the middle. The same goes for the third, fourth, etc. – the number of layers depends on the size of the leaves and the scale of the drawing.
• The nose and eyes can be cut out of felt, cardboard or molded from plasticine, and the mouth can be drawn with a red marker.
• The finished craft must be placed under a press so that the leaves stick well to the base.

Plasticine autumn tree

The craft for kindergarten "Autumn Fantasy" can be made from plasticine in the form of a tree with multi-colored leaves.

Description of the manufacturing process:

• First, you need to draw a tree trunk on cardboard.
• Next, take some brown plasticine and, tearing off small pieces, roll them into sausages.

  

• The plasticine sausages must first be attached to the cardboard along the contour of the trunk.
• Then you need to lay them out in the middle of the trunk.
• Next, dividing the long sausages into several parts, you need to form branches on the tree.
• Tear off small pieces of yellow, orange, and red plasticine and roll them into sausages.
• When forming spirals from sausages, you need to attach them to a cardboard base above the trunk between the branches, alternating colors.
• You can make grass from the same green sausages.
• To do this, small pieces of sausages need to be folded in half in the form of a check mark. The grass is attached below the trunk and on the sides of it.
• By placing spiral leaves between the tree crown and the grass, as if flying in the air, you can depict autumn leaf fall in your picture.

Pumpkin Seed Trees

It is very easy to make a beautiful tree from pumpkin seeds. And you can create a whole garden from several such trees.

Scheme for making the craft:

• First, you need to paint the pumpkin seeds with gouache on one side, lay them out on a sheet of paper and let them dry.

• On the back of a sheet of brown paper, draw a tree trunk, then cut it out and glue it onto a sheet of white cardboard.
• Applying PVA glue to the white side of each pumpkin seed, you need to glue them between the tree branches, forming a multi-colored crown. Do not skimp on the glue: the leaves should be well attached to the paper.
• Some of the colored seeds can be placed at the bottom of the leaf, as if on the ground, under a tree. Several improvised leaves are glued to the sides of the trunk, depicting leaf fall.

"Macaroni" tree

This amazing pasta tree is made in a few simple steps:

1. Pasta sheets can be made in almost any shape:

• round;
• in the form of horns;
• bows;
• shells and others.

It is better not to use large spirals and small sticks. For the trunk, you can take pasta in the form of tubes or spaghetti. Having laid out the pasta for the leaves on a sheet of paper, you need to paint them in different autumn colors on one side. You do not need to paint the spaghetti in advance.

2. On white or blue cardboard, you need to draw a tree trunk and lay it out along the contour and inside with spaghetti or tubes. You can also make branches from this type of pasta for a more complex version of the craft. For a simplified version, you need to draw a rounded crown.
3. Before gluing the pasta, paint the trunk and branches brown with gouache.
4. When using the first (complex) option, the macaroni must be dipped in PVA glue and attached to the branches and between them. In the second (simple) option, the macaroni must be glued first along the contour of the crown, and then inside it.

Unusual trees made from cereals

Creating unusual trees from cereals is a fascinating activity that develops fine motor skills.

Step-by-step instructions for creating the craft:

• You can use any kind of cereal, either one type or several at once (buckwheat, rice, barley, etc.). The first stage of work on the craft is to sketch the trunk and branches of the tree with a simple pencil on a sheet of colored cardboard.
• Next, the trunk and branches need to be coated with PVA glue and lined with buckwheat or any other type of glue.
• In the first case, you won’t have to paint the trunk and branches, since buckwheat itself has a brown tint.
• Then glue is applied between the branches, after which cereal is scattered on it.
• Also, the cereals need to be glued in separate piles on the sides of the tree and under it, depicting leaf fall.
• After the glue has dried, using gouache and a medium-sized brush, paint the tree crown in autumn colors: red, orange, yellow.

Pumpkin

The craft for kindergarten "Autumn Fantasy" in the form of a pumpkin made from peas and flax seeds looks very interesting and is created quickly:

• On a sheet of cardboard, you need to draw the outline of a pumpkin, marking the stripes inside that divide the vegetable into slices.
• Apply PVA glue to the strips and lay out flax seeds (can be replaced with sunflower seeds).
• Next, alternately greasing the slices with glue, you need to lay them out like pea halves.

• Instead of a stem, you can glue a piece of a twig to which you attach a small green dried leaf.

Easy pine cone compositions for kindergarten children

From spruce and pine cones you can make simple figures of various animals.

Family of hedgehogs made from spruce cones

Step-by-step instructions for making the craft:

• For the craft, you need to take fir cones of different sizes. Autumn leaves, twigs, chestnuts can also be useful for decorating the composition.
• A small piece of plasticine rolled into a ball is attached to the narrow part of each cone – the nose, and eyes of the same size are attached above it.

• The paws are molded from plasticine and attached to the bottom of the cones.
• At the end, you can make a composition: glue autumn leaves and branches to the cardboard using PVA, then arrange the hedgehogs, attaching them to the "ground" with plasticine. You can make mushrooms from chestnuts and plasticine.

Pine Cone Owls

How to make the craft:

• The top half of 4 pine cones needs to be cut off - these parts will not be used for the craft.
• Each pair of lower halves should be connected together using plasticine or hot glue.

• From colored paper you need to cut out ears, eyes and a beak for both owls, then you need to glue them to the top cones of the figures.
• The owl is glued to a sheet of cardboard using hot glue. After that, tree bark is laid out along the contour of the base, previously coated with glue. The joints between the parts of the frame can be hidden with twigs of thuja.

Autumn crafts from acorns

Acorns are an affordable material for making beautiful crafts for the autumn exhibition.

Elf service

The elf service is a very cute miniature craft that will not leave anyone indifferent and will definitely take first place at the autumn exhibition.

It is created very simply:

1. A small piece of a twig needs to be attached to a large acorn using hot glue – you should get a teapot with a spout.
2. On the back side, attach a wide straw or flexible stick, forming a semicircular handle for the teapot.
3. The cups will be made from “caps” - the tops of an acorn, to which handles made from straws and bottoms made from nutshells or pieces of tree bark are glued.
4. You can also make plates from the tops of acorns and mold small spoons from plasticine.
5. All elements of the service must be glued to a fresh leaf. If you use a dried leaf for this, you must first glue it to cardboard and cut it out.

Little mice

The process of making cute mice from acorns will definitely appeal to a preschooler:

• To create 1 mouse you need 2 whole acorns and 4 acorn tops. Using hot glue, glue the acorns together to form the body and head.

• Glue eyes onto the top acorn. Instead of ready-made ones, you can use buttons, beads or plasticine.
• One pair of acorn tops will serve as the mouse's paws: they need to be glued under the animal's body.
• The other pair of tops will be used instead of ears: they are glued to the mouse’s head.

What can be made from zucchini

The craft for kindergarten "Autumn Fantasy" can be made from a whole zucchini. It will take a little time to make a whale figurine, but the result will be impressive.

The process of making the craft:

• The wide part of the vegetable will serve as its muzzle, the narrow part – as its tail. On both sides of the wide part, using a plasticine knife, draw the whale’s mouth and teeth, as well as its eyes.
• Instead of a fountain, you can insert a small bunch of greenery on top of the whale's "head", but before doing this, you need to make a hole using a wide toothpick or steak.

• Instead of fins, you can use carrot or cucumber slices. To secure them, make holes on the sides of the whale's "body" using a steak, and insert the slices, securing them with plasticine.
• Carrots, cucumbers, and cabbage leaves can also be used as a tail. To form the tail, you need to make a deep cut in the narrow part of the zucchini, insert the tail elements into it and secure with plasticine.

Autumn Crafts from Fabric

Fabric crafts are especially bright and attractive, and creating them is very interesting and fun.

Felt panel "Autumn weather"

Making the craft won’t take much time, as felt is one of the easiest materials to work with:

• From blue felt you need to cut out clouds, from light blue – raindrops and puddles. All this should be glued with PVA to a white or light blue sheet of felt.

• From brown felt you need to cut out a tree trunk, from orange, yellow, red – small leaves. By gluing the parts to the base, you need to form an autumn tree from them.
• From green felt you should cut out a Christmas tree, which is also glued to the base. You can also make grass by cutting a strip of green felt into a fringe.

Maple leaf

How to make a maple leaf from fabric:

• You need to print out a maple leaf template, cut it out along the outline and glue it onto cardboard.
• Next, take a piece of fabric that is one and a half times larger than the template. The sheet blank inside the outline must be generously coated with PVA glue.

• The patch must be placed on the template and formed into a maple leaf, using your fingers to drape it in the right places.
• It is important to try to follow the outline of the leaf when forming it, using scissors if necessary and trimming the fabric at the corners.

Autumn crafts from salt dough

Crafts made from salt dough are also beautiful souvenirs, the making of which will bring a lot of joy to a preschooler.

Gifts of Autumn

Step-by-step instructions for making the craft:

• From the salt dough, wide plates with uneven edges are formed, as well as a small ball. One of the plates is wrapped around the ball, forming the first layer of cabbage leaf. After it comes the second layer, the third, the fourth, the fifth.

• To make carrots, roll a piece of dough into a wide, short sausage. Then roll one half of the sausage between your palms so that it stretches out a little and narrows, resembling a carrot.
• To make beets, a ball of dough is pulled out on one side (right from the edge) into a narrow tail.
• A tomato is a ball of dough with long slices on top. A cucumber is a thick short sausage.
• You can also make lemon, orange, apple, banana, zucchini and other fruits and vegetables, which should then be painted with gouache in the appropriate colors and placed in a box or basket.

Panel "Rowan"

Scheme for making a panel from salt dough:

• A large piece of salt dough must be rolled out into a flat cake and using a steak, make 2 holes for the twine on one side at the top.

• From the dough you need to roll many small thin sausages, which should be attached to the base, forming a branch.
• To make the berries, you need to roll a lot of small balls that need to be attached to the bottom of the branch, forming rowan clusters.
• To obtain leaves, the dough is formed into plates, which are given the appropriate shape. The leaves are attached to the top of the branch.
• The craft must be painted in certain colors: berries - orange or red, branches - brown, leaves - green, and left to dry in a warm and dry place.

Autumn craft made from needles, chestnuts, acorns

Crafts made from readily available autumn materials such as chestnuts, pine needles and acorns are the most common in kindergartens.

This does not prevent them from being original, because each child shows their own imagination when making them. Having created compositions according to the master class described below, you can refine it, decorating it according to your own wishes with any materials at hand.

The process of making the craft:

• A branch with needles (or a bunch of individual needles) must be attached to a sheet of cardboard using hot glue.
• Chestnuts (5-6 pieces) need to be connected together with matches or toothpicks, another piece should be attached on top of the last chestnut from any edge - you will get a caterpillar.
• Use plasticine to make eyes, a nose and a mouth for the caterpillar, then attach it to the pine needles with hot glue.

• At the end, you need to decorate the “forest clearing” with mushrooms, which can be easily replaced with acorns.

Autumn crafts from branches

From such a simple material as dry branches, you can create amazing compositions.

Cobweb

Scheme for making the craft:

• You need to take 4-6 branches of approximately the same size, fold them into a star shape and secure them together with hot glue – this should be the basis of the web.
• The twine should be tied around the branches in several layers, making turns so that the web becomes more like a real one.
• Next, you need to attach eyes, a nose and a mouth made of plasticine to the acorn, as well as 6 broken branches on the sides (3 on each side) - you will get a spider.

• The spider also needs to be attached to the web with hot glue, exactly in the middle. Its legs need to be fixed with glue on the twine. And to make the broken branches of the legs hold on tighter, they should be treated with glue.
• You can decorate the craft with leaves and acorns at your discretion.

Hut

Step-by-step description of making a hut from branches:

• Dry branches of different thicknesses must be fastened together with hot glue, forming a hut, which should be wider at the bottom and narrower at the top. Do not forget to leave a small hole on one side, which will be designed as an entrance to the hut.
• Having generously coated the lower parts of the branches with hot glue, you should attach the hut to the base, which can be a sheet of cardboard, a piece of wood or bark, etc.
• Next to the hut, you need to attach several branches in a vertical position with glue - these are trees. You can make mushrooms from plasticine and place them on the sides of the hut.

• The craft should be decorated with various natural materials (pine needles, acorns, etc.) at the child’s discretion.

Autumn bouquet from foamiran

The process of creating an autumn bouquet from foamiran:

• On yellow and orange foamiran, you need to trace maple leaves of two different sizes using templates, after which they should be cut out.
• Next, you can use wax crayons to draw veins on the resulting leaves and shade the edges of the leaves.
• You can use dry twigs of different sizes as stems, another option is to wrap cut pieces of wire with green electrical tape or floral tape.

• Then you need to attach the leaves to the branches using hot glue, and then connect the stems together to form branches. The edges of the branches should be wrapped with floral tape or electrical tape, connecting the stems together.
• To make the craft look beautiful, you should get at least 5 branches. The bouquet can be placed in a jar or a small vase.

Making compositions and products on the theme of "Autumn Fantasy" is a useful and exciting activity that can interest preschoolers both in kindergarten classes and at home. The process of creating crafts promotes the development of creativity, imagination, coordination and motor skills of the hands, and also gives children a feeling of self-satisfaction.

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