Crafts from dried leaves, flowers for children of primary school

There are many things you can make from natural autumn materials. The best examples are dried leaves. They are often additionally skeletonized before use. Thanks to this, the crafts turn out to be even more interesting and attractive.

Preparing leaves for crafts

Home creativity with autumn materials gives the opportunity to create wonderful crafts.

Drying

For creative activities with natural materials, the leaves are dried in thick magazines or books. The plants should remain in this position for up to 14 days.

The leaves are placed between the pages, lined on each side with paper napkins. The collected materials can also be dried with an iron, placed between the album sheets.

Skeletonization

With this type of processing, very beautiful openwork blanks are obtained from the leaves.

The table shows what types of skeletonization exist and their features:

Type of skeletonization	Processing time	What to use
Dry	Almost 20 min. per 1 sheet	A hard brush with natural bristles
Natural	1 month	Water, a container with a lid, medium-hard brushes.
Wet	3 hours for cooking and 2 days for drying	Water, chemical solvent, toothbrush.
Chemical	Soak until the blanks turn white	Water, bleach and a press to dry.

Ready-made skeletons can be additionally:

• decorate;
• laminate;
• to paint.

Master classes of crafts from dried leaves for elementary school

From dried leaves they make:

• wreaths;
• bouquets;
• compositions;
• topiary and panels.

Bouquet of flowers

To liven up the interior, you can make a beautiful bouquet of flowers from dry leaves:

• Pieces of cardboard are used as a basis to form flowers.
• The cut out pieces of thick paper are coated with PVA glue and large leaves are placed on them in a circle.

• The next row is made similar to the first, but now smaller materials are glued between the previous ones.
• Next, design the middle: you can glue a cut-out circle of bright fabric or black leather to it.
• While the finished flower is drying, the required number of similar specimens are made.
• Tree branches, painted green with gouache, can be used as stems.
• Green leaves and newly created flowers are glued to the prepared stems.

Topiary

To create this craft you will need:

• medium light leaves, the brighter the better;
• scotch;
• hot glue gun;
• spray paints;
• 2 foam balls;
• wooden stick;
• flowerpot.

Manufacturing:

1. First, decorate the flowerpot. Then insert a foam ball and glue it to the walls of the pot. Paint the top of the foam blank for camouflage.
2. A stick treated with glue is placed into the hole made in the sphere and fixed well.
3. Next, the resulting trunk of the future tree can be painted with spray paints.
4. The second ball is attached to the other end of the stick in exactly the same way as the first, gluing it well.
5. Dried leaves coated with glue are pressed onto the foam base for the crown. They are placed one on top of the other or formed into bunches, from which a composition is then created, filling the entire space of the ball.
6. The finished crown is additionally decorated with dried rowan or chestnuts.

Decorative wreath

You can make a wonderful wreath from a bunch of dry leaves:

1. First, you need to form a circle from the twigs. Then it is fastened with wire.
2. Leaves are tied onto the resulting ring in an overlapping manner.
3. To hang it, attach a ribbon loop to the wreath.

Crafts from dried leaves will work if the materials for them are collected and prepared correctly.

For example, for a vase, choose a single- or multi-colored natural raw material. The leaves for it are dried naturally, using sand. This way they will be less brittle when working.

Vase

A vase made from dry leaves is made as follows:

• The balloon, inflated to the required size, is half-lubricated with PVA glue diluted 1:1 with water.
• The dried raw material treated with the same agent is attached to the sticky surface.

• The ball is covered with several layers of leaves.
• The last layer on top is covered with glue again and left to dry for 3 days.
• After this time, the balloon is carefully burst and removed.

Autumn style photo frame

This craft, which will fit perfectly into any interior, is created as follows:

• First, a frame base is made from fairly hard cardboard with a slightly smaller middle than the photo itself.

• The front part of the craft is decorated with an applique of leaves.
• The back of the photo is attached to the frame using tape or glue.

Garland

The garland is made using:

• scissors;
• hot glue gun and hot glue;
• scotch tape;
• wax paper;
• fishing line and leaves.

Guide to making this craft:

1. Leaves without petioles are grouped by size.
2. The ends of the fishing line are secured to the laid out paper with tape.
3. The leaves are glued to the fishing line face down.
4. After the glue has dried, the tape is removed.
5. Similar to the resulting garland, several more are made.
6. Finished products are used to decorate the interior.

Panel

This wall decoration can be considered original.

For this you will need:

• canvas with frame or wooden base;
• scraper;
• black paint;
• hard bristle brush;
• spray adhesive;
• foil;
• various dry leaves.

The panel is made according to the following instructions:

1. Glue is sprayed onto the base and the front of the leaves.
2. They are then pressed onto the canvas or base and gently pressed down.
3. Next, the leaves are necessarily smoothed out, eliminating any creases in the future craft.
4. The glue is again sprayed onto the panel and foil is applied to it, which is smoothed until the veins of the leaves are clearly visible.
5. The top of the aluminum sheet is covered with black paint and allowed to dry.
6. The created product is scraped to give it the necessary texture and highlight the color depth.
7. The places where the foil is torn are masked with a black marker.

Owl

Dried autumn materials are excellent bases for creating stylish decorations. This is especially true for leaves. They make very beautiful and refreshing interior crafts.

To create an owl, eyes with pupils are made from colored paper. Then its paws are cut out. Next, take a file and stuff leaves into it. The two upper ends, tied with threads, will be the ears. Then the eyes and nose are glued to the bag with leaves. The paws are attached to the bottom last.

Firebird

This fairy tale character is created according to the following algorithm:

• The silhouette of the firebird is cut out of cardboard.

• The bird's body is painted yellow, and an eye is drawn on its head.
• The bottom of the tail is covered with ash leaves, and then red and then green maple leaves are attached to them.
• The pasting with alternating materials continues right up to the top of the tail.
• Then the wing is made in a similar manner.

Lion

The craft is created by:

• The lion's head is drawn or cut out ready-made, and then glued to a sheet of paper from an album.

• Next, they begin to glue different leaves around the blank in a chaotic order, forming a lion's mane.
• At the end, the craft is covered with PVA glue and left to dry.

Fish

For this applique, take small multi-colored leaves and:

• A poplar or raspberry leaf is glued to the prepared cardboard, with the back side facing up.

• The fish's eye is made from dried bird cherry or blueberry.
• For the fins and tail, select smaller leaves and glue them to the body.

Ideas for autumn crafts from dried materials

Crafts made from dried leaves are very bright and original. Along with leaves, you can also use other materials, such as dried flowers or pine cones. Acorns and chestnuts are also suitable for joint creative activities.

From leaves, cones, acorns

To make crafts with acorns and cones together with leaves you will need:

• hot melt glue;

• various decorative elements, such as glitter and ribbons;
• plasticine;
• felt;
• aerosol paints;
• chestnuts and walnuts;
• colored paper.

Installation "Autumn has come":

1. Dried leaves are glued onto cardboard.
2. Cones and dried flowers with branches are placed on them.
3. You can also make mushrooms from plasticine.

Volumetric owl:

1. Paws and a nose made from orange colored paper are glued to the pine cone.
2. The bird's eyes are made from acorn caps and also attached to the body in the form of a cone.
3. Wings made from brown leaves are glued to the sides.

You can also make cute fairies from pine cones:

1. Take 4 fir cones and attach walnuts to them on top. These will be the heads of the fairies.
2. They design faces.
3. Ribbons are tied between the cones and nuts, which can replace scarves or kerchiefs.
4. The finished fairies are glued to appliqués of multi-colored leaves that imitate their wings.
5. Hands are made from branches for the fairies and attached to the sides of each craft.
6. After all this, the interior is decorated with wonderful fairies. They can be attached to the wall or even to the closet. Such crafts are also often hung from the ceiling or chandelier.

From leaves, branches, acorns

From such materials you can make:

• a picture of a winter night;
• autumn landscape;
• a real portrait of a girl or a man.
• a fence with a picket fence made of branches and decorated with dry leaves;
• pig house;
• various installations.

Collage of butterflies:

1. Glue 4 green leaves onto the cardboard in the center, forming wings from them.
2. On top of them, 4 red leaves are attached, but smaller ones.
3. The butterfly's body will be represented by a thick and not very long branch or an acorn. It is glued on top of the created wings.
4. The antennae are made either from thin blades of grass or from wire.
5. On the sides of the finished butterfly, make 2 more of the same, varying only the types of leaves for the wings.

Composition Lark in the forest:

1. Thin branches are attached to cardboard.
2. Small dried leaves and flower petals are glued to them.
3. In the center of the composition, a bird is created from multi-colored leaves.

From leaves and flowers

Crafts made from dried leaves can be flat or three-dimensional. They introduce children to natural raw materials and teach them how to handle them. They usually begin with appliques and then move on to three-dimensional items.

Various compositions and bouquets are made from dried flowers and leaves.

Among the crafts made from these materials are:

• bookmarks and greeting cards;
• volumetric paintings;
• symmetrical installations;
• applications in the form of flower bouquets in vases and baskets;
• outline images of people and animals.

Application Cat:

1. An outline of a cat is drawn on paper.
2. They take dry leaves and flowers of different shades and sizes and coat them with glue.
3. The materials are attached to the paper without going beyond the edges of the previously drawn silhouette.

Volumetric painting Butterfly over daisies:

1. At the bottom of the sheet, make a field of dried daisies.
2. A little higher up, use felt-tip pens to draw the body and head of the butterfly.
3. Horns and eyes are drawn onto the head.
4. The upper wings are made from a pair of large leaves, and the lower ones from two thin and long ones.
5. The wings can be made in several layers by gluing multi-colored leaves in 2 or 3 rows onto the already created flying parts of the butterfly.

A herbarium and a collection of prepared leaves can always be used to create various works for school exhibitions. Crafts from such dried materials are great for decorating autumn holidays and interiors.

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