Autumn leaves crafts with your own hands - simple and clear master classes with photo ideas

Preparing leaves for use

Many leaf products need dried material. To do this, collected leaves need to be prepared for use. If the handicrafts do not require perfectly flat material, you can leave the collected leaves to dry in a cardboard box in a warm, ventilated room.

If you need smooth, even leaves for the handicrafts, then they should be placed between newspapers or paper and covered with a heavy baler. The drying process takes about two weeks.

To speed up the drying process, you can use a household iron. Leaves ironed will become smooth and dry.

Autumn leaf appliqué

Very cute may look children's crafts from autumn leaves. Nature presents us with a variety of shades and shapes of autumn leaves. In the city park you can find leaves of all kinds of plants to use in children's applications. Children with a great imagination can make something interesting out of autumn leaves on their own.

A leaf turkey

A child doing leaf applique for the first time can use this step-by-step master class.

For this craft you need to prepare:

• Tree leaves;
• Cardboard;
• Stapler for paper;
• Scissors;
• Double sided tape;
• White cardboard, paper or felt for the bird's eyes.

At the beginning of the work it is necessary to prepare the leaves. They must be dry and without petioles. We leave only the leaf plate. It is necessary to cut several circles of different diameters from cardboard. The more circles you have, the more voluminous the turkey will be.

Then staple leaves to the circles of cardboard along the diameter. We get the circle, framed with autumn leaves.

The circles of cardboard glue to each other from large to small with glue, double-sided tape or a stapler.

The head of the bird can be combined from several leaves of the same shade, or one large. You need to get a circle, on which the eyes and beak are then placed.

For the beak you need to pick up a leaf of red hue. The triangle cut out should be glued to the center of the smallest circle.

Eyes can glue ready-made or cut them out of white paper, felt or cardboard.

Lion, owl, fish out of Autumn leaves

With the help of autumn leaves, as well as using colored paper, felt, buttons, you can create beautiful applications that will decorate the house or will be suitable for the school exhibition of autumn crafts.

Fantasizing with fall foliage is very easy. The variety of shapes, shades and texture of leaves of trees and shrubs inspires the creation of true masterpieces.

The lion's mane is maple leaves, the hare's ears are rowan, the fish are birch leaves, and aspen leaves. It is worth starting to make a collage from natural materials, and the process drags on for a long time.

Volumetric crafts

Autumn leaves are very effective volumetric crafts. Using other materials along with leaves, you can create a very beautiful piece of interior.

Miracle Tree

For a handicraft in the form of a tree will need:

• Dried autumn leaves;
• A paper bag;
• Stapler;
• Thick cardboard;
• Glue;
• Wire;
• Paper;
• Decor items.

To create a miracle tree, you need to twist a paper bag so that it resembles a tree trunk. We set the trunk on thick strong cardboard with glue.

From the wire, paper form the branches of the tree and attach them to the trunk of the tree. Next, from the leaves we create the crown of our handicraft. Leaves can be used in different ways. And the more they differ from each other in shape, size and color, the more interesting the handicraft will be.

The next stage is the most interesting. The tree should be decorated. On the branches of our tree can be hung acornsBrushes of mountain ash, cut out of colored cardboard and paper figurines of fruits and vegetables. It is possible to use purchased items of decoration. The main thing in the process of decorating is imagination and a good mood.

Roses from autumn leaves

To make roses you will need:

• several leaves of different sizes;
• dry branches;
• scissors;
• scotch tape.

To make roses, the leaves do not need to dry. Take freshly fallen leaves, which are elastic and well curled and rolled without kinks.

Rose flower begin by making the smallest leaf. Folding the tops of the leaf inside, you need to twist it into a roll. Then we take the second leaf. Also the top of the leaf fold inside and wrap them first, already rolled up leaf. The following leaves, one by one, roll up the same technology around the previous ones. Gradually we get a small bud, blooming rose flower.

Then gently holding the bottom of the flower, put through the center of a blank dry twig. Also, without releasing the leaves, you need to start wrapping the branch with scotch tape, while capturing the bottom of the rose.

By making several flowers in this way, we get a magnificent will be roses.

Oshibana from autumn leaves

Oshibana is about making paintings with natural materials: flowers, leaves, down, bark, tree branches and seeds. It is an art form that originated in Japan about 6 centuries ago. Recently, oshibana has become very popular. Ideas for creating crafts in the technique of oshinaba a lot: an autumn garden, a lone tree with falling leaves, a portrait of a girl, animal figures, still lifes.

For beginners, it's better to start with something simple. For example, you can create a picture with a picture of a tree. Depending on which tree leaves are gathered for use, that tree will be depicted in the picture. Very original would look errata of maple leaves.

To create an errata of autumn leaves will be required:

• PVA glue;
• maple leaves;
• pencil;
• scissors.

First, you need to draw a maple trunk with branches on a sheet of paper, on which later the tree crown will be glued.

Then from maple leaves, preferably in darker shades, cut out the tree trunk and branches. Carefully juxtaposing parts of the leaves, glue them to the drawing. When the trunk of the maple tree is ready, it remains of the whole maple leaves to depict the crown. The remaining leaves to glue at the base of the tree. It will be a fallen leaves. You can also glue a few leaves in the middle of the picture, representing the falling leaves.

The photo of such a picture of their dried maple leaves looks very effective and beautiful.

Golden autumn is a great theme for children's crafts and adult creativity. Good ideas for creating interesting things will prompt nature itself and imagination.

Photo ideas of leaf crafts