If you have no imagination or want to plunge a little into the autumn magic, spend time with your child drawing a maple leaf. This interesting activity with lots of bright colors and a positive charge of emotions.
The maple leaf is one of the most beautiful. Besides what he has original shape with five pointed ends, its color is very bright and colorful. It doesn’t matter for what purpose you need to draw this drawing, for children's competition or autumn landscape, this useful pastime for any person.
Drawing a maple leaf is easy. They will help you with this step by step sketches:
- First of all, you should draw the frame of the leaf. To do this, you need to draw an arched vertical line - this is the stem of the leaf.
- Then draw two horizontal crossing lines by hand. This is the basis for its five-pointed shape.
- Trace the ends of the drawn lines, and then erase the sketch inside the drawing. The base is ready!
After that, start detailing your drawing. It is necessary to make sharp tips along the edges of the leaf to make it look realistic.
Detailing the drawing After this, erase the extra lines of the sketch and draw characteristic veins on the leaf.
Veins on a maple leaf After that, all you have to do is paint the sheet in colorful colors: yellow, orange, brick, brown, red, green. The sheet can be plain or have many shades.
Maple leaf coloring option Image and outline of a maple leaf, template
If you don't have the artistic skills, time, or even desire to painstakingly draw a maple leaf, you may template will come in handy. This template can be circle on clean slate paper and then color it to your liking. So you will get neat and beautiful drawing.
Templates for drawing a maple leaf:
Maple leaf, template. Option #1 
Maple leaf, template. Option No. 2 
Maple leaf, template. Option No. 3 
Maple leaf, template. Option No. 4 Autumn maple leaf: drawings for children
Get ideas for creativity and draw a maple leaf (one or whole bouquet) can be done by studying already completed works.
Drawings for children with maple leaves:
Realistic maple leaf drawing 
Children's drawing: Maple Leaf 
Colorful maple leaf: drawing 
Maple and maple leaf: drawing 
Beautiful maple leaf: drawing Let's color the maple leaf.
There are too many autumn leaf templates on the Internet to count. Usually they are required as decoration for events - downloaded, printed on colored paper and cut out. They hung it on the walls and curtains - wow! - Golden autumn actually. And the adults cook everything themselves. Well, and then the grateful kids have fun. But these same autumn leaves are an excellent material for developing children’s hands and eyes. Let them paint and cut out themselves! And holidays with this design will be more dear!
So, the template is a Maple Leaf coloring book for 5-7 year old children. Here he is:
It's a big leaf, there's a lot to work on.
Let's start with tracing. I love outlines! They amazingly strengthen the hand and build confidence not only in the lines, but also in the child’s character.
They circled it - good, they’ve already done a useful job. Now we draw the veins. I usually show the steps on a board or large paper poster. I draw the main five veins one after another, and the students repeat - gradually building their pattern.
Draw the main veins on the leaf
The difficulty for children is to clearly hit the longest middle tooth of each blade with a line. Now let’s draw the lateral branches of the veins - in each clove, we won’t miss a single one, this is not only steady hand, but also attention training. And besides, you need to draw easily - without pressure, this also requires concentration. We drew a diagram of the veins and... what? - Let's color it again! Yes, we drew the next stage of outlining for ourselves.
How to make autumn leaves from paper with your own hands (3 methods + templates).
Autumn is probably the most colorful season of the year, precisely due to the fact that the leaves of trees and shrubs are colored bright colors. For many people, autumn leaves are often a source of creative inspiration.
Autumn leaves are a beautiful, but not very durable material, so you can make them from paper with your own hands.
How to make autumn leaves with your own hands
One way to make autumn leaves is to cut them out of colored paper, preferably double-sided. The edges of small leaves can be cut with curly scissors.
Leaves brought home from a walk are suitable as a template. But if you need to do a craft urgently, and there is no way to collect them, then here are leaf templates especially for blog readers "MORE creative ideas for children" :)
All leaves, except oak, are symmetrical, so they are applied dotted line to the fold line of a sheet of colored paper folded in half. After cutting, straighten the leaf and cut off the excess part of the branch.
The maple leaf template is in the article.
Another way to make autumn leaves with your own hands is to put the leaves you brought from a walk with the convex side of the veins up (the color of the leaves is not important, and Rita and I chose small leaves based on size), cover them with a sheet of regular office paper, and shade them with pastel crayons or very soft pencils suitable colors(we used watercolor pencils).
The contours of the leaf and veins themselves will appear in the drawing.
Leaves of different colors can be made from the same sample.
You can draw single-color leaves, or you can use several colors for one leaf.
In order for the leaves to turn out more openwork (so that only the veins of the leaves are printed), you need to apply almost no pressure on the pencil, and hold the pastel chalk flat.
Cut out the finished leaves.
And another way to make bright colorful leaves with your own hands is to print with leaves.
Cover the actual sheet with paint using a brush (you can use several shades of the same color or even several different colors).
Place the painted side on a sheet of paper. Press tightly with your hands, trying not to move it.
Carefully remove the painted sheet from the paper by the stem.
If you make another print with the same sheet, without covering it with more paint, you will get a more openwork sheet.
Rita and I did it in the same way. We also painted the squirrels and bunnies for this landscape using leaf prints.
Read about what can be made from such leaves in the article.
Happy creativity! Especially for blog readers "MORE creative ideas for children"(https://site), with sincere respect, Yulia Sherstyuk
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Autumn leaf masks
Parents are given the task of preparing maple leaves for the matinee.
One of possible solutions You could make an autumn maple leaf with your child and then paint this accessory for a children’s costume party.
It is better to make an autumn maple leaf with your child from cardboard or paper.
It will be a special pleasure for a child to do a craft together with his parents, especially if at the end of the work there is a finished toy waiting for him - an autumn maple leaf, with which he can play for a long time.
If the child cannot do everything on his own, then, as a rule, the parents are engaged in creativity, and the child learns and closely follows magical action- how it seems to appear out of nowhere new toy– an autumn maple leaf (to prevent it from quickly tearing, it is recommended to laminate the maple leaf for a children’s costume party).
Below are pictures that allow you to make a maple leaf with your own hands for a children's costume party.
1. Maple leaf template for a children's costume party.
2. Maple leaf for a children's costume party.
3. Maple leaf mask for a children's costume party.
4. Colored maple leaf children's party. Side 1.
5. Colored maple leaf for a children's party. Side 2.
6. Laminated colored maple leaf for a children's party (Double-sided - sides 1 and 2 are cut out, glued and laminated).
7. Dried and laminated maple leaves for a children's costume party.
Below is a gallery of pictures that allow you to make a maple leaf with your own hands for a children's costume party.
Another series of children's classes is being prepared in kindergartens. autumn matinees with fancy dress.
Parents are given the task of preparing an autumn mask for the matinee. One possible solution could be to make an autumn leaf mask for the child’s head. It is better to make masks together with your child from cardboard or paper.
It will be a special pleasure for a child to do a craft with his parents, especially if at the end of the work there is a finished toy waiting for him - a mask, with which he can play for a long time.
Naturally, in this creative process Every child needs parental help.
If the child is old enough, then parents are required to provide general guidance to the process.
If the child cannot do everything on his own, then, as a rule, the parents are involved in creativity, and the child learns and carefully watches the magical action - how, it would seem, a new toy appears out of nowhere - a carnival mask.
Below are pictures that allow you to make masks of autumn leaves with your own hands: maple, rowan, oak, chestnut, willow, aspen, water lily and larch.
Pictures need to be saved to a computer, inserted into an editor (for example, MS Word), stretched onto an A4 sheet, printed, colored together with the children and, if possible, laminated (if not, pasted on cardboard), cut along the contour and thread a string or elastic band according to the size of the child's head.
If you have a color printer, then you can color the picture together with the children on the computer, and only then print it out.
To color a carnival mask on the computer you need:
1.open the carnival mask in graphic editor(Start - programs - standard - Paint)
3. saved monochrome drawing carnival mask save as a drawing with a large number of colors (file – save the drawing as -16 colors (or 256 colors))
4. When choosing the fill color of the elements of the carnival mask, you need to color the carnival mask element by element.
Below are the entire library of pictures of autumn leaves: maple, rowan, oak, chestnut, willow, aspen, water lily and larch.
Crafts. Autumn masks. Autumn crafts with your own hands from cardboard. Autumn leaf Crafts. Autumn masks. DIY autumn crafts made from cardboard. Autumn leaf
Crafts. Autumn masks. DIY autumn crafts made from cardboard. Autumn leaf of aspen. Aspen leaf
The article presents the most different leaves paper accordion, templates and step by step instructions creating a particular sheet. Such leaves can be in the very different colors, for example, if they are dedicated to autumn events, it is better to use colored paper in yellow, orange and red colors, for spring events - good option There will be leaves of light green and green shades. Even for winter celebrations, you can make leaves from silver or white paper.
For work you will need the following materials:
- Colored paper of various colors suitable for leaves;
- Scissors, glue stick, simple pencil.
Paper accordion leaves step by step: 8 options with templates
Option 1. Accordion paper maple leaf
You will need yellow or green colored paper. Cut an arbitrary rectangle from it.
Fold it in half.
Draw or print the template for yourself. Cut it out and attach it to the colored paper folded in half, taking into account that the straight long side on the template falls on the fold.
Trace with a pencil. In the photo the fold is on the left. And in the future, all stages presented with paper folded in half will be folded on the left.
Cut out the workpiece, carefully cutting off all wavy lines.
Now open it. You should end up with a similar piece, with symmetrical edges.
At this stage it's time to do paper accordion. It is better to start from the bottom, widest side. Fold a small fold, no more than 7 mm wide, but extending over the entire area of the sheet. Press carefully and then fold the same fold in the other direction. Repeat this process until all the paper has turned into an accordion.
For convenience, turn the accordion over with the long side up.
Find the middle and fold it in half. Press well, especially in the area of the bottom fold and glue internal sides. In the photo this area is shown with arrows.
Depending on the structure of the paper, sometimes it becomes necessary to glue the bottom two or three folds of the sheet. Most often they diverge very much thin paper. Dense holds all the folds together well without glue.
The accordion paper maple leaf is ready, straighten its folds and glue a thin stem.
Option 2. Autumn leaf made of accordion paper
Of course, it can be not only autumn. If you make it from green paper, the leaf will look like spring or summer.
To create it you also need a piece of rectangular paper.
As in the first option, the paper needs to be folded in half.
Then you should use a template or draw a simple zigzag line, reminiscent of one part of a Christmas tree. 
This line should start from the fold of the paper and end at the bottom.
Cut out obtained using a template or own efforts, drawing.
Open the sides.
Make small folds, length from one side to the other, and width of 5-7 mm. If the sheet big size or children are small, the folds may be larger.
The accordion is made; for convenience, turn it wide side up.
Mark the middle and carefully fold it in half. Press down, especially at the very bottom.
Apply glue to one of the inner sides and glue them together. In the photo this area is shown with arrows. If necessary, glue a few folds at the very bottom of the leaf.
At the end, straighten the accordion sheet a little and glue the petiole, which is a thin strip of colored paper from which the sheet itself is made. But such a stem is not strong, it can only complement the leaf, and, for example, gluing leaves to a homemade tree will not work. It is better for these purposes to use colored cardboard, or colored paper, twisted into a flagellum and threaded through a hole in the bottom of the sheet.
Option 3. Oak sheet of accordion paper
The outline of this leaf is similar to that of an oak leaf, only the longitudinal folds slightly worsen this definition. But for variety, this version of the leaf will also come in handy, especially in those jobs or events where you need a lot of leaves of various shapes.
Cut out a square from paper.
Fold it in half, the fold is on my left.
Use a template or draw it yourself large waves, starting from the fold side and reaching the bottom side. 
Cut the part through two sides at once, but without touching the left one. She must be whole.
Open the paper.
And, as always, make thin folds, starting with the widest part of the paper. Carefully fold all the paper into an accordion, one fold in one direction, the next in the other. For convenience, the paper can be turned over during operation. As a last resort, draw light longitudinal lines with a simple pencil and then fold a leaf along them.
Place the resulting accordion with the longest side facing up.
Find the middle and fold the accordion in half. Glue the inside sides together.
Straighten the folds, glue the petiole and the accordion-shaped oak leaf is ready.
4 version of accordion paper sheet
This species looks like a hornbeam or beech leaf. And on the leaves of many other trees. The main thing is that it does not require any templates; it is extremely simple to make.
To make this oblong leaf, you need paper triangular shape. You can first cut a square out of paper.
Fold in half, connecting opposite corners.
Cut in half and you get two triangles.
You will need one triangle per sheet. Turn it wide side down and start making folds there, like an accordion.
Turn the entire triangle into an accordion.
For convenience, turn it over with the longest side facing up.
Find the middle and fold exactly in half, bringing the ends together. In the middle, apply glue to one side and glue the side parts together.
Straighten it a little and glue the stem. The sheet is ready.
5 version of accordion paper sheet
The most common type, the shape resembles the leaves of poplar, linden, and birch. For variety, let it be green, although the leaf in the autumn, yellow-orange version is no less interesting.
It requires a not very wide paper rectangle.
Fold the rectangle in half, the fold in the photo on the left.
Use a template or draw a convex line yourself, the beginning of which is from the side of the fold, and the sloping slope reaches the underside of the sheet folded in half. 
There are no exact proportions or markings here. If you want a more prominent narrow tip, the indentation on the line can be made more pronounced.
Cut out the design without touching the left side.
Open the paper.
Make an accordion, starting with the straight, longest side. As usual, the width of the folds is ideal in the region of 5-7 mm.
Turn the accordion over with the straight side facing up.
Fold in half and glue the inside sides together. If necessary, glue the bottom folds.
Spread the leaf and glue the stem.
Option 6. Another maple leaf made from accordion paper
There are quite a few varieties of maple leaves made from folded paper. It all depends on the template. There are very simple ones that can be drawn almost arbitrarily, and more complex patterns that it is still advisable to follow as accurately as possible. In the second case, the maple leaves are more perfect, closer to the original.
Despite the fact that I was the first to show one type of maple leaf, I still can’t resist and show you another one that I really liked.
For this you will need square colored paper.
This square then needs to be folded in half.
Print the template and carefully reproduce its lines on colored paper, taking into account that the fold is on the left. 
Then everything is as usual. Unfold the paper piece.
Make narrow folds, starting from the straight, wide side and up to the very top.
Find the middle and fold the accordion-folded paper in half. Here you can see that this yellow paper is thinner than the previous ones; at the very bottom the folds are not held together. Therefore, they need to be forced to do this with glue. You can safely apply glue at the fold on the three lower folds. And, of course, glue the inner two sides together, where shown by the arrows.
Straighten the folds a little, glue the stem and the beautiful, accordion-style autumn maple leaf in this version is ready.
7 version of accordion leaves
Simple round shape sheet. There can be a variety of colors inherent in the leaves.
You will need a rectangular piece.
Fold it in half.
Using a compass or something suitable round, draw a rounded line connecting the sides of the paper. The fold is in the photo on the left.
Cut along the outline.
Open it up and you will have an even semicircle.
Make small folds, starting from the straight side of the semicircle and to the very top.
Turn the accordion piece over so the long, straight side is facing up.
Fold in half and glue the inside sides together.
Carefully straighten and glue the stem. The round sheet is ready.
Option 8. Thin oblong accordion leaves
The shape is inherent in the leaves of willow, olive and some others.
To make such a sheet, you need a rectangular, rather narrow strip of paper. The narrower it is, the thinner the leaf, although it is more difficult to make very thin ones.
Fold the strip in half.
Draw a slanting line. Please note that in the photo the fold of the paper is on the left.
Cut along the line to create a double triangle.
Reveal its parts.
Fold into a shallow fold. As you can see, it is problematic to make even folds on very narrow paper, but this will not appear on the sheet.
Turn the long side up and bend the accordion in half. Glue the middle.
You will get this narrow sheet of accordion paper.
