Children's crafts made from natural materials: 25 ideas and step-by-step master classes for children of preschool and primary school age.
Children's crafts made from natural materials
In this article you will find more than 25 ideas for making crafts with children from natural materials (leaves, branches, seeds, chestnuts, acorns, vegetables and others) using different techniques. All master classes in this article were prepared for you by readers of “Native Path”, participants in the competition.
Craft 1: Maple Leaf Roses
This craft was sent to our competition by Anna Baranova and her daughter Lera and Lera’s teacher from the nursery MBDOU garden No. 3 "Rowan" ( junior group) Inza Ulyanovsk region. And also Khabibullina Liliya Rustamovna (Madou "Kindergarten No. 174 of a combined type" of the Moskovsky district of Kazan) and Davletberdina Malik (5 years old).
Material for making:
- Maple leaves bright colors(orange, yellow, red),
- twigs with viburnum berries,
- raw threads for forming a bouquet of roses,
- golden hairspray to strengthen and strengthen the bouquet (optional),
- several strong branches to strengthen the bouquet of roses.
How to make a bouquet of roses from maple leaves:
Preparing to make crafts: We collect suitable leaves of various colors. We need fairly large, not too dry and whole leaves. Leaves that are too small, dry, diseased, or torn are not suitable for making a bouquet. To make one flower, it is better to choose leaves of the same color.
Step 1. Take one Maple Leaf, hold it with the stem facing you and fold it in half front side out. Next, we roll it into a tight roll - a tube. This will be the “core of the rose,” that is, the middle of the flower.
Step 2. Now we begin to lay the “petals” around this “core” of the flower. We take another maple leaf, hold it the same way - with the petiole facing us - and place a prepared tube-like core on it, closer to the petiole, in the middle of the leaf. The front side of the leaf should be inside the future flower. We very carefully bend the sheet in half outward. The edge of the bend of the “petal” is located above the “core” by a centimeter and a half. Smooth out the fold of the sheet.
And now we bend this protruding edge of the sheet outward again, but do not smooth out the fold. We try not to compress the fold and keep it elastic.
Step 3. Take the next maple leaf and make a second petal on the other side of our center - the tube. We continue further until we get a rose flower. Each time you need to take a maple leaf a little larger than the previous one.
Step 4. Having decorated the flower, you need to wrap the base tightly with threads. A strong thin twig can be tightly tied to the base to give the flower strength.
Step 5. Having collected a bouquet of several roses and decorated it with viburnum branches, you need to tightly wrap all the branches with thread again, collecting them into a bouquet.
How many flowers there will be in your bouquet is up to you. We evenly arrange the prepared leaves in a circle, placing them under the buds in the hand. Then we fix the now finished bouquet at its base with the same threads.
Here's ours autumn bouquet roses from maple leaves and you're ready!
Step 6. To add strength, beauty and shine, you can spray the finished roses with golden hairspray. But this is optional.
Another option for decorating such a bouquet of maple leaves was made by the family of Margarita Kasanova (5 years old), Kazan, MADOU “Kindergarten No. 174 of a combined type”, Moskovsky district of Kazan. Teacher - Kalmykova Olga Dmitrievna
Craft 2: corn
This craft was sent to our “Autumn Workshop” competition by teacher Elena Anatolyevna Rim (Moscow State Budgetary Educational Institution “School No. 166”, Structural Unit No. 7). And Yulia Terekhina (5 years old), Elena Anatolyevna’s pupil, performed the corn.
How to make the “Corn Corn” craft:
Step 1. Prepare corn cobs (large, medium and small), cardboard base for crafts, hot glue, fern leaves, fir cones, acorns, leaves, nuts, cereals (barley), decorations for corn (bows, hats, beads, eyes, etc.)
Step 2. Form the corn cobs into characters.
Step 3. Place on cardboard base Corn and decorate the surface waste material. The craft is ready! Good luck!
Craft 3: autumn forest.
This craft was sent to our competition by Anna Yuryevna Kazakova. And Anna’s four-year-old son Maxim completed it during drawing classes under the guidance of teacher Alexandra Vladimirovna (the “Happy Childhood” club, the “Kalyaka-Malyaka” drawing circle for children, Yoshkar-Ola).
You will need:
- landscape sheet of A 4 format,
— autumn leaves,
- watercolor paints,
brush.
Step by step description:
Step 1. Bring back autumn leaves from a walk.
Step 2. Color the white space of the album sheet as the background. Next, on a sheet of paper, draw vertical lines—the trunks of autumn trees.
Craft 4: Old Man Lesovichok
This craft was sent by teacher Tatyana Vladimirovna Fedorova from Birsk (Bashkortostan), MADOU Kindergarten No. 8 “Alenushka”. It was made by a child from Tatyana Vladimirovna’s group ( senior group) with the help of a teacher.
Craft material: larch needles and cones, plasticine. All the parts of the forest tree made from natural materials are fastened together with plasticine.
Craft 5: Hedgehog Applique
This hedgehog was made and sent to our autumn competition children's creativity Sofia (5 years old) and her mother Anna Shikhareva.
Material for making crafts- pine needles, felt, pine cone, cardboard and PVA glue.
If you prefer not applique, but a voluminous hedgehog, then you can easily make it with children from a piece of plasticine, dried chestnut skin and trimmed cotton swabs. But this is a really prickly hedgehog, so be careful. This hedgehog was made by Yulia Romanovna Ruzaeva and her daughter (2 years 8 months) from St. Petersburg. And you will find another craft by Yulia and her daughter, “Giraffe made from chestnuts and acorns,” in the master class in the article
Craft 6. Hedgehog made from piaflora and natural materials
And here is another hedgehog using a different manufacturing technology. It was made and sent to us by Mironets Anna Vladimirovna (mother) and her son Maxim (4 years 9 months) from the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar.
To make the craft we will need:- piaflor, - dried leaves of rowan, gooseberry, serviceberry, - dried flowers, - hairspray.
Description of the craft:
Step 1. Take half a piaflor brick and cut out the body of a hedgehog from it (it will be shaped like a droplet). Sharp corners must be smoothed out with your hands. Piaflor does not need to be soaked.
Step 2. Divide the dried rowan leaves into separate leaf plates, which are then inserted into the piaflor (into the body of the hedgehog).
Step 3. Hedgehog ears can be made from dried gooseberry leaves. And we’ll make the paws from dried serviceberry leaves.
Step 4. Fold the leaf cuttings several times. We make eyes and a nose out of them.
Step 6. Secure our craft with hairspray. This is the kind of hedgehog you will get.
Craft 7. Caterpillar and hedgehog made from chestnuts
This craft was made and sent to us at our “Autumn Workshop of Children's Crafts” by 4-year-old children together with their teacher Olga Nikolaevna Tegaeva (Moscow region, Sergiev Posad district, Shemetovo village, Novy district, MGBOU d/s no. 75 "Fairy Tale")
To make this craft you will need:
Chestnuts,
- moss,
- branch cut,
- acorn cap,
- tree leaf,
- plasticine.
How to make a caterpillar and a hedgehog from chestnuts:
— We dry the chestnuts to make it easier to separate the prickly skin from the nut.
— While the chestnut nuts are not completely dry, we pierce them with an awl on both sides and insert matches without heads into the resulting holes (for reliability, we glue the matches with glue).
— We form a caterpillar. To do this, select the nuts by size, starting from largest to smallest.
— Glue an acorn cap onto the caterpillar’s head.
— We make caterpillar eyes out of plasticine and attach them.
— Glue the caterpillar onto the stump.
- Now we make a hedgehog from plasticine, and make its prickly back from chestnut peel.
— We place a maple leaf ironed through sheets of white paper on the hedgehog’s spines.
- Lay out the moss.
This is the kind of hedgehog - the caterpillar's friend - you can do.
Craft 8. Basket of pine cones
This craft was made by Polina Durnova (9 years old, Samara, school 118, grade 4B), Maxim Durnov (2 years old) with Durnova’s mother Svetlana from Samara, Krasnaya Glinka village. First, Svetlana and the children tried to make a basket of cones according to the description on the Internet using a glue gun, but...a day later the resulting basket lost its shape and “went” to different sides. Therefore, Svetlana came up with her own technology for making a basket of cones.
How to make a basket of pine cones:
Step 1. Go to the forest, collect a lot of cones.
Helpful Tips:
— If you want to make a durable basket that will serve you for a long time, then you need to take into account this possible fact: closed cones open in a warm room. And this is undesirable if by this time you have already woven the basket. Therefore, it is recommended to cover the cones with a liquid solution of wood glue.
— The strongest connection of cones into a basket is the connection with brown wire (the color of the cones, so that it is less noticeable). To do this, wrap the first cone with wire, then continue to wrap the cones around the wire in a circle, wrapping each of them. We do this until we get a circle the right size. We do this for 2 - 3 rings. And then we connect them into a frame. Connect the pine cones into a basket using a glue gun. But in the next steps you need to secure this structure.
Step 2. Using thin wire, fasten three rings, then connect them into a single basket structure and screw the handle on top. The cones for the handle are also wrapped with thin wire and then tied with wire to a thick base of the handle or thick wire.
Step 3. Place a cardboard circle on the bottom of the resulting structure. Place rowan branches with berries and spruce cones in a basket. It will turn out beautiful autumn composition.
Craft 9: Autumn Ship
Autumn is the time of colorful ships made of leaves, which set off on a voyage known only to them through the endless airspace. The main thing is that the wind is fair. It's time to make your autumn ship.
This ship was made and sent to us at our autumn workshop of children's crafts by Svetlana Nikolaevna Matveeva (Liski, Voronezh region) together with her son (child's age - 3 years 8 months).
To make a craft - a ship from natural materials - you will need:
- plastic tray for food,
- several leaves that can be found on the street (it is better that at least three leaves of them are large sizes- we use them for sails),
- a stick for a sail with a length of 20 to 30 centimeters,
- several thin sticks for making handles,
- plasticine different colors,
- colored paper,
- glue stick,
- ate a few cones,
— parachute seeds of maple or ash maple (optional, optional)
How to make a craft - a boat from natural materials:
Step 1. Make the torso and head of the sailors. The sailors' torso will be cones. From pieces of plasticine we sculpt eyes, a mouth and noses, which we attach to the bumps so that we get the faces of sailors.
Step 2. We make caps for sailors - big shots.
For this:
— Using caps of various diameters, we draw circles on colored paper - the future caps of our sailors (select the diameter of the circle suitable size).
- Cut out circles.
— From paper of a different color, cut out several thin strips, calculating two strips per circle (the length is arbitrary, but keep in mind that these will be visor ribbons, so do not overdo it with the length).
— Glue two strips to each capless mug close to each other.
— In the center of each capless circle we glue a piece of plasticine the size of one or two beans.
- We attach these caps to the tops of our cones - the sailors now have caps.
Step 3. We make the arms and legs of the sailors.
- Determine where your sailors will have their hands and glue a couple of pieces of plasticine there, to which you attach small thin sticks - these will be the hands of the sailors.
— We make the legs from plasticine. The shape of the legs should resemble flippers so that the bump stands and does not fall in our ship. To make legs, we sculpt from pieces of plasticine the size of Walnut“sausages” are small but thick, and then we flatten them and attach them to the bottom of our cones.
The sailors are ready.
Step 4. Making the sails. Using a large stick, we make holes in several large leaves, and we pull the latter through this stick to make several sails on one mast. The junctions of the leaves with each other can be slightly glued with plasticine, then the leaves will not move towards each other and fall down.
We placed a basket of ash maple “helicopters” at the top of the mast. To do this, we simply covered a piece of plasticine with these helicopters, dividing them into single seed plates, and then glued this piece of plasticine to the top of the mast. However, such a “basket” is not necessary if you have no “helicopter” seeds.
Step 5. Attach the mast to the base of the ship.
To attach the mast to a ship from a plastic tray, we glue a piece of plasticine slightly smaller than a walnut to the tray approximately in the middle (don’t skimp on the plasticine, we need the mast to hold tightly). We insert our mast into it. For better fastening of the mast, you can stretch the plasticine a little along the trunk of our mast.
Place our sailors in the empty spaces in the boat tray, lightly pressing their flippers and legs to the bottom so that they stick and hold firmly on the deck. Leaves can be glued to pieces of plasticine along the sides of the ship. different trees and/or flowers, but this is not necessary - see for yourself what you like best. It is also not necessary to put a dragon's head on the bow of your ship.
The bow of the ship can be anything, but we made a dinosaur head out of plasticine and attached it to the bow of our ship.
The autumn ship is ready and can go to any fairy tale that you want to create with your child!
Craft 10. Picture for V. Suteev’s fairy tale “Under the Mushroom” made from natural materials
Four-year-old children, Katerina Mochalova, Adele Kuchieva, Kolya Krupennikov, Vlad Sbudyshev, Anatoly Akhtemenchuk and Yana Mukhantseva, made this craft for dramatizing Suteev’s fairy tale “Under the Mushroom” together with their teacher. Teacher - Denisova Svetlana Aleksandrovna. Children go to kindergarten MADOU d/s No. 2 “Caramel” ShchMR MO in the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow region.
Preparatory stage: watching the cartoon “Mushroom Teremok”, reading the fairy tale “Under the Mushroom” by V. Suteev.
Materials for making crafts based on a fairy tale from natural materials:
- pine and spruce cones
- plasticine
- wire
- mushroom toy
- base for crafts
- maple, rowan leaves
- corrugated paper
- scissors
- PVA glue
- pine twig
- matches
- cork
Step-by-step instructions for making crafts:
Step 1. Prepare the base.
We cover the A4 size box with green corrugated paper. On this paper we glue maple leaves, previously ironed through sheets of white paper.
Step 2. We make trees as decorations.
Take a piece of plasticine, roll it into a ball and knead it until you get a round cake. We insert a rowan leaf, previously ironed through a sheet of paper, onto this cake with a branch facing up. You can also insert a pine twig into the “cake”. Such trees decorate our foundation.
Step 3. Attach a large mushroom.
In the middle of the base we attach the finished mushroom - either to plasticine or glue.
Step 4. D Let's look at the main characters of the fairy tale (ant, butterfly, sparrow, bunny, fox).
All heroes are made from pine cones and plasticine.
How to make fairy-tale characters from pine cones and plasticine:
Ant:
Take a fir cone. The narrow tip of the cone is pulled out using brown plasticine. Eyes made of black plasticine are attached to the “head” of the ant. The paws can be made from wire, attaching them evenly over the entire cone with plasticine. We make the antennae of the ant from 2 matches without heads.
Sparrow:
The toy is created from a pine cone, the eyes are made from two small corks, the paws are made from three matches (attached to plasticine). The beak and tail are made using plasticine: attach the plasticine to the pine cone and stretch it into the desired shape.
Butterfly:
A butterfly can be created from a fir cone by attaching two multi-colored circles of corrugated paper to it using wire. To do this, a hole is pierced in the paper (from the edge of the circle closest to the cone), a wire is threaded into the resulting hole and the wing is attached to the component part of the cone. The same action must be done from the other end. The butterfly's head can be made from plasticine by attaching it to the body of the toy on the narrow side of the cone.
Hare: the toy consists of a fir cone and blue plasticine. The paws, ears and head are molded from plasticine. We also make the eyes from platinum of a different color.
Fox: The fox is easy to make. We will need a fir cone and orange plasticine. The fox's muzzle is molded from a plasticine orange sausage and stretched out in the shape of a fox's nose. A black nose is attached to the muzzle.
Step 5. We make a composition based on a fairy tale.
Let's put the heroes under a mushroom. We attach the butterfly in the corner to the base of the composition.
We wish you creative fantasies and imagination, and then you will have your own fairy tale!
Craft 11. Apple caterpillar
This craft was made by Danila Ankushev together with his parents from the Strekhninsky kindergarten (senior group “Friendly Family”). And teacher Elena Yaroslavtseva sent us a craft for the autumn workshop.
How to make a caterpillar: The caterpillar's body is made from apples. We make the legs out of earplugs (sold at the pharmacy). Wooden toothpicks are used to hold the parts together. The craft is decorated with a grape snail shell.
Another option for making caterpillars from apples was sent to us from Kungur Perm region(MADO "Kindergarten No. 6"). This caterpillar was completed by Arina Kulyashova, 6 years old. Teachers: Zueva Tatyana Vladimirovna, Karaguzheva Rufina Viktorovna.
How else can you make a caterpillar from apples: option 2.
This caterpillar is made from apples. The apples are held together with toothpicks. The legs are carved from carrots. They also hang on to toothpicks and walk on autumn leaves glued to a landscape sheet. The fashionista dressed up in chokeberry beads. Berries are collected on a string. The eyes are made of red rowan and are also held on with toothpicks. The caterpillar put on a beautiful flower instead of a hat, hooked it on itself with a toothpick and went to the fair.
Arina created such a cheerful caterpillar made from natural materials.
Craft 12. Cheerful family made of acorns
Alexandra Albertovna Naumkina made this and the next three crafts from natural materials with her children, together with her son Vanya (4 years old) and daughter Masha (1 year 3 months), Barnaul, Altai Territory. Here's what Alexandra writes:
To make this craft you will need:
- a piece of branch or tree bark,
- acorns,
- black marker,
- glue gun or Moment glue.
How to make a cheerful family from natural materials:
Step 1. Draw faces.
I showed my son how to draw a face on an acorn. Gave him permanent marker and acorns and left him. These are the weird faces we got.
Step 2. Glue the hats on our little men.
We glued the hats with Moment glue.
Step 3. Attach the family.
But I had to tinker with gluing it to the bark. I spread Moment glue on the bark. Place something rectangular behind it so that the craft will hold while gluing, place the acorns on the bark and leave them to stick.
Please note: Moment glue can only be used by an adult without the presence of children in a well-ventilated area, because it's toxic. Instead of glue, you can use a safety glue gun; an adult can also use it.
All! The cheerful family is ready.
Craft 13. Interior craft “Autumn Branch”
We made a beautiful interior craft. My son made it himself. The main thing is that it is done very simply.
Step 1. We found more interesting branches in the forest and brought them home.
Step 2. Dried the leaves in books between the pages.
Step 4. Then we decided to complement our composition and make owls from plasticine and place them on autumn branches.
To do this, we took cones, maple seeds (“helicopters”) for the wings, and plasticine.
I made the first owl, my son made the second.
We attached them to branches using plasticine and they held up well.
Like this beautiful composition decorates our home now! And, most importantly, this craft is very easy to make.
Another option for making an autumn branch was sent to us by Natalya Oshueva (Balashikha) and her son Oshuev Vanya (3 years 8 months).
Autumn branch on the wall: second version of the mobile
Natalya writes: “I first laminated the leaves. My son and I cut them out, made holes and threaded strings. The branch was found on the street. They hung it with leaves. The end result was a branch with fallen leaves.”
Craft 14: hedgehogs made from pine cones and salt dough
Alexandra Naumkina shared with us her experience of making hedgehogs with her son.
Step 1. We kneaded salty dough together with my son. He loves baking so much that he kneads all the dough himself, and I just tell him what to use and in what proportion.
Salt dough recipe (proportions): wheat flour - 2 cups, fine salt - 1 cup, water - 3/4 cups. Ready dough should not crumble or stick to your hands.
Step 2. We molded two hedgehogs together: mother and baby. Here I gave more of the final shape. We stuck the cones in and put the oven in the oven.
Step 3. The next day (after the hedgehogs had cooled down), we painted them with gouache paint. But if you need hedgehogs for a longer period, then it is better to use acrylic paints. We sculpted a nose from plasticine and glued on the eyes.
My son and I were just studying it, so my son became so interested in sculpting mushrooms from plasticine that he himself sculpted a lot of different mushrooms for hedgehogs.
Craft 15: Autumn leaf mobile
for the development of speech breathing in children
Alexandra Albertovna Naumkina also made this craft from natural materials for her children - Vanya (4 years old) and Masha (1 year 3 months). This family lives in the city of Barnaul, Altai Territory.
Alexandra writes:
“Our craft was born, one might say, spontaneously.
Step 1. As a base for the mobile, I cut out a rim from a cardboard disposable plate.
Step 2. I tied a string of yellow yarn onto the resulting headband at approximately the same distance. From the same yarn I made a pendant that our craft will hold on to.
Craft 16. Application from seeds “Hedgehog”
This application from natural materials was made by Khaliullin Arthur (6 years old) from the Children's Garden No. 174 of a combined type, Moskovsky district of Kazan. Teacher: Khaliullina Rafida Raisovna.
You will need:
- paper,
- pencil,
- PVA glue,
- seeds,
- colored pencils (markers),
- leaves for decoration,
- spruce branches.
Progress of the craft:
Step 1. Draw a hedgehog with spines on paper. If the child is already old enough, then he can draw a hedgehog himself.
Step 2. Apply a thick layer of PVA glue to the back of the hedgehog. Then we place the seeds on the layer of glue. Make sure that the sharp tips of the seeds are directed in one direction.
Step 3. Color the hedgehog's face and paws with colored pencils.
Step 4. Decorate the background with rowan and birch leaves; cones, spruce branches.
Craft 17. Wheat applique “Lion Cub”
“Wheat Lion Cub” is a children’s craft - an applique made of fleece and wheat. This craft is very simple to complete. First, glue ears of wheat onto colored cardboard, and then glue the lion cub’s face on top of it. Glue it with Liquid Nails glue.
This craft was made by a 5-year-old child, and was sent to us by Irina Babarinova from Sergiev Posad (School No. 166 SP No. 7, Moscow) for our competition of children’s crafts.
Craft 18. Lady - Cabbage and Forest Tale
These crafts were made from natural materials by children from Bataysk.
The work is made from a head of cabbage. The eyes, nose, and mouth are made from purchased blanks for soft toys. The head is decorated with a wreath of rowan and leaves. The stand can be anything, it is decorated with material and decorated with leaves.
The forest fairy tale is made from natural materials. The little fairy is made of autumn flowers. Firebird - made from ash cones and seeds. The work is decorated with natural materials collected by the children.
Craft from natural materials 19. Autumn meadow
This craft was sent to us by teacher Liliya Rustemovna Samigullina from Kazan. And this craft was made with the help of adults by Izmailov Rodion (3 years old), a pupil of the MADOU “Kindergarten No. 174 of a combined type” in the Moskovsky district of Kazan.
Required material: Box, scissors, PVA glue, plasticine, natural materials (cones, dry leaves, acorns, chestnut peel), toothpicks.
How to make an autumn meadow with children:
Step 1. For the base of the craft, prepare a box. Let's cut off one side of the box so that the autumn meadow is visible.
Step 2. We attach dry leaves inside the box and decorate it with various natural materials (cones, toys, pebbles).
Step 3. Making fairy-tale characters from chestnuts. We make crafts from fruits that have just fallen from the tree while they are soft (this applies to crafts from chestnuts, acorns and cones).
The main way we will use to fasten the parts of crafts together is with plasticine and toothpicks. For this:
- first, carefully pierce the chestnuts with an awl,
— insert toothpicks into the resulting holes and secure the joints with glue.
In the photo, the bear is made of chestnuts and plasticine, the man is made of chestnuts and acorns, the hedgehog is made of chestnut peel and plasticine, the owl is made of chestnut.
The birds' eyes are made from acorn caps, and the birds' beaks, legs and wings are made from plasticine.
Spiders can also be made from chestnuts. Small holes are made in the chestnut with an awl in the places where the legs will be attached. The spiders' legs are made from toothpicks, which are inserted into the holes in the chestnuts and secured with glue.
Craft 20. Autumn forest
This craft was made and sent to our autumn children's craft workshop by Stefania (3 years old) with her mother Yulia Anatolyevna Fefelova (Barnaul, Altai Territory).
For the “Autumn Forest” craft we will need the following materials:
- Herring jar (or any container of suitable shape and depth)
- Foam rubber
- Rubber glue or glue gun
- Gouache or acrylic paints and brush
- Colored paper
- Plasticine
- tree branch
- Dried leaves
- Maple "airplanes"
- Pine cones
- Fir cones
- Pine needles (needles)
- Stones (pebbles) oval shaped different sizes
- A piece of cardboard
- Dried flowers
- Rowan berries
How to make an “Autumn Forest” craft from natural materials:
Step 1. Making the base for our craft:
- paint the foam rubber with yellow gouache,
- after drying, make a hole in the middle and insert a branch into it,
- fix it with glue to the jar,
- Cover the end of the can with yellow paper.
Step 2. We make owls: we attach eyebrows, eyes and a beak to plasticine fir cones. Using plasticine we attach wings from maple “airplanes”.
Step 3. We make hedgehogs: we sculpt a muzzle and mushrooms from plasticine. We attach the needles using plasticine. Attach the hedgehog's face, mushrooms and rowan berries.
Step 4. Making the bunny and ladybugs:
- paint the stones with gouache ( gray- for a bunny, in red - for ladybugs).
- glue ears on the bunny from cardboard, make eyes, nose, antennae from plasticine or draw with a felt-tip pen.
- we also complete the production of ladybugs with plasticine parts or finish drawing them with a black felt-tip pen.
You can coat the crafts with varnish.
The photo shows fragments of the autumn forest and its inhabitants, made from natural materials.
Step 5. We attach dried leaves to our tree using plasticine. We stick dried flowers into plasticine. Leaves, animals, dried flowers are attached to the foam rubber using glue.
The autumn forest is ready!
Craft 21. Autumn sun made from natural materials
The idea of this craft was shared with us by Maria Shchukina, mother of two children (Vova - 4 years and 8 months and Anyuta - 1 year and 3 months), St. Petersburg. Maria writes: “This is my favorite autumn craft, and I have been nurturing this idea for a long time. We did it with great pleasure :). We came up with everything ourselves.”
What you will need to make an autumn sun from natural materials:
- PVA glue,
- a lot of autumn leaves from different trees and shrubs (we even collected from rose hips),
- rowan berries,
- dog-rose fruit,
- acorns,
- watercolor paints,
- thread and needle,
- any natural material.
How to make a sun with children from natural materials:
Step 1 Draw a large circle on A3 Whatman paper and cover it with maple leaves. We collected the leaves in advance, and for some time they were kept in our journal. This way they became very smooth and easily stuck to the paper.
Step 2 Then we use our imagination and also paste in a circle any leaves and natural materials to your liking. The circle becomes more voluminous.
Step 3 Draw the sun's face: eyes, nose and mouth.
The mood of the autumn sun can be anything - cheerful or sad, surprised or delighted - whoever feels the autumn mood, discuss this with the children when making crafts.
Step 4 Sew rowan earrings on the sun (you can sew on rose hips or any flowers). I used the largest needle and simply sewed the rowan to the Whatman paper as if it were regular fabric. At the same time, on back side Whatman paper I secured the thread with tape. You can also sew on many other decorations.
Step 5 In the upper corners of the Whatman paper we glue the acorns with PVA glue, having previously cut them in half lengthwise. I hope you like our autumn sun from available natural materials :).
Craft 22. Shell applique. Autumn Walk
This creative work was performed by Nastya Kuznetsova, 6 years old. And Maria Sharygina (Vologda) sent it to us at the autumn children's crafts workshop.
How to make a craft:
— First, we draw a drawing on paper with a pencil.
— Then we glue small pieces of egg shells onto the silhouettes of the crown and tree trunks. We are waiting for the glue to dry.
- Shake off excess shells.
— We paint the work with gouache.
Craft 23. Hut on the forest edge
This children's craft from natural materials was made by Anastasia Viktorovna Dergunova and her nephew Alexander (6 years old) from Saransk, Republic of Mordovia.
How to make a craft:
Step 1. Leaves various shapes(birch, rowan, maple, etc.) paint with paints of different colors and apply to clean slate paper so that fingerprints remain on it. Paint the sun with paints.
Step 2. While the leaf prints are dry, we will break sticks of the required diameter from a small twig for the hut. We grease the paper in the place where the hut will be in the future with glue and lay out the hut from sticks, in the middle of which we place a birch leaf as a window.
Step 3. Use a stapler to attach the leaves and rowan bush to the clearing.
Step 4. Coat the bottom of the clearing with glue and lay out a path of watermelon seeds.
Step 5. Cut out a solar circle and rays from birch leaves, then glue them onto the already dried sun. From black and blue threads we lay out a cloud in the sky at the top of the craft.
Craft 24. Autumn park for dolls made from natural materials
This craft was invented and performed by Valeria Brusyantseva, she is 9 years old, Orenburg.
Necessary materials:
- cardboard box,
- light-colored paper,
- colored pencils and markers,
- glue stick, PVA, double-sided tape and colored tape,
- plasticine, beans,
- leaves, tree branches with leaves, rowan,
- stones,
- matchboxes.
How to make a craft:
— We cut out the base of the park of any configuration from a cardboard box, leaving a high wall for the screen and a low wall for the fence.
— We cover all the edges of the base with light paper. We outline with a pencil where the benches and paths will be.
— We design the screen. We cut out a rectangular sheet of white paper of suitable size, draw any picture on it and glue it to the screen.
— Design of the installation site for benches. We cut out rectangular sheets of white paper of suitable size and color them (for example, you can paint them in the form of colored tiles). Glue to the base in the designated places.
— We design the paths. We apply plasticine to the paths marked on the base and attach the beans to it.
— We decorate the trees. We attach tree branches with leaves to plasticine, forming a park.
— We are decorating the stone ruins of the castle. We fasten the stones using plasticine.
— We are decorating the lawn. We attach leaves and rowan berries to the remaining free spaces of the base using PVA.
— We make two benches from matchboxes and colored tape.
All is ready! The doll can walk along the paths of the park, admire the picture on the screen or the ruins of a stone castle, and also arrange photo sessions.
Craft 25. Panel: Autumn puddle
This panel was invented and made by Maria Vostrikova (4th grade B, MBOU Secondary School No. 118, Samara), teacher - Vera Evgenievna Belyanskaya.
Materials used:
- poplar twig,
- leaves,
- dried grass,
- cellophane,
- masking tape,
- threads,
- glue moment,
- green felt-tip pen.
Sequence of execution of the panel “Autumn Puddle”:
— Make a ring out of a twig and secure it with masking tape.
— Place autumn leaves inside a plastic bag so that the leaves are fixed. To obtain the effect of a frozen puddle, the composition must be ironed with a warm iron through a sheet of paper.
— Trim the composition to the size of the ring.
— Use a hot nail to make holes along the edge of the composition.
- Drag the thread through the holes and fasten it with the twig ring into one piece.
— Color the masking tape with a green felt-tip pen and glue the grass onto the twig.
Children's crafts made from natural materials on the go
You don't have to make a complicated children's craft. Many crafts from natural materials can be made on the go, without preparation. They can be used as quickly created attributes for children's games. Natalya Mikhailovna Oshueva (Balashikha) shared her ideas with us. These are very simple crafts she did it with her son Vanya, aged 3 years 8 months, and with her daughter Masha (1 year 4 months).
Wreath of leaves
We collect a lot of leaves while walking and string them on wire. We connect the ends of the wire and get an autumn wreath of leaves. We hang the wreath by a rope. We also decorate the rope with leaves.
Crown of leaves
The crown is very simple to make.
Step 1. We made a blank from paper - a “hoop” according to the size of the child’s head, approximately 5 cm wide.
Step 2. We glued double-sided tape on top, and then my daughter glued leaves onto it.
Autumn trees
Natalya writes: “To quickly make autumn trees, we used rolls from toilet paper And corrugated paper, cut into strips. The children pushed the paper inside the roll as best they could. In the end, it turned out well, bright and autumn-like.”
You can also place autumn branches and autumn leaves collected during a walk in a roll.
Pumpkins made from pine cones
In this craft we used fluffy wire. They took a cone and wrapped it in orange fluffy wire. Next, leaves made of green fluffy wire were attached to it. To make green spring leaves, we first wound the wire around a pencil, then removed it from the pencil and got green spirals.
Hedgehog
To make the hedgehog we used an eaten sunflower.
— The muzzle and body were cut out of foam plastic. It is better to do this in advance as an adult.
— The top of the muzzle was covered with plasticine.
— The sunflower “needles” were glued to the foam with glue using a hot gun.
— We decorated a clearing for the hedgehog with autumn leaves and pine cones.
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Autumn can rightfully be called the time of children's creativity. After all, it is from September to November that schools hold exhibitions dedicated to making crafts from natural materials.
If you also need to show your imagination and make an interesting piece of work, but you don’t know what exactly to do, see the photo below. We have collected for you best ideas autumn crafts For primary school.
Pine cone spider
Ideas for crafts made from natural materials for school
We use cones
Pine cones are the optimal material for making autumn crafts in first and second grade. They last a long time and are easy to put together into fun compositions. So, having collected them, you can do:
- beautiful hedgehogs;
- cockerels;
- deer;
- hares;
- protein;
- penguins;
- cats;
- bears and many other animals.
To shape the body of the selected forest dweller, you can use a glue gun, then the craft will last a very long time.
Beautiful composition
Christmas decorations
Baskets and wreaths made from pine cones look incredibly beautiful.
Basket
Festive wreath
Subtleties of making crafts from pine cones
Using pine cones need to know a little trick: so that the work retains its quality for a long time original appearance, natural material must be prepared in a certain way. First you need to rinse and dry it. Then carefully coat with varnish or adhesive.
Works from chestnuts
Finding chestnuts in the fall will not be difficult, nor will it be difficult to turn them into interesting children’s crafts. Artificial trees made from them - topiaries - look great.
Topiary using chestnuts
They are based on a ball made of newspaper, covered with natural material, and a barrel made of wire, decorated with ribbons or threads. You can also use a thick branch of a suitable shape as a “leg”. Then the craft will look very natural and harmonious.
Beautiful craft made from chestnuts
It’s easy to make real checkers from chestnuts. After the exhibition ends, they can be used for games. The field can be made of cardboard, painted accordingly, or black and white scraps of durable fabric.
Other chestnut crafts also look great:
Funny insects
Caterpillar
Fairytale tower
Crafts for grades 1 and 2 made from acorns
Acorns make very funny people, small wild animals. They are also often used to make tiny dishes.
Fairytale men
Ideas for original crafts made from acorns
Beautiful work using acorns
Chestnut and acorn spider
To connect the acorns to each other, you can use a needle and fishing line or thin wire. Also, this natural material adheres well to hot glue. To add some color to your autumn craft, you can decorate it watercolor paints or gouache, cover with varnish on top. It will turn out very unusual and fun.
Crafts for elementary school from leaves, berries and flowers
The easiest way to make an autumn craft is, of course, from leaves. At this time of year they literally fall under their own feet. In addition to original collages and applications, you can prepare bouquets of very beautiful flowers from foliage.
Leaf flower
Roses from maple leaves
The buds need to be secured with strong threads. You can also attach the petals to each other using hot glue.
Cat made of flowers
Work from dried herbs and flowers
When making autumn crafts for elementary grades, the main thing to remember is that there are no clear rules and laws. A child can take note of an idea he likes, but prepare a work that will only vaguely resemble the “source”. And this is great, since each craft must be unique and convey the children’s worldview and mood.
Autumn crafts made from natural materials offer plenty of room for imagination. Children see the world differently than adults. In their imagination, a composition of moss, chestnuts, acorns and twigs turns into a small fairy-tale kingdom. Cool Mom has selected 15 ideas for DIY autumn crafts. Offer them as a basis to your baby and help him create something cute, beautiful and cozy in autumn.
Autumn crafts from leaves and seeds
1. “Pink” bouquet of maple leaves
The first thing that comes to mind is a herbarium. You will need it in creating autumn crafts from leaves, but there are more interesting options. How do you like the idea of creating a “pink” bouquet from maple leaves? These roses will look great on their own or as part of a more serious autumn composition. They are not difficult to make, you just have to practice.
2. Crown with maple leaves
Autumn crafts made from natural materials do not necessarily have to be in the format of an exhibit at a school exhibition. For example, a crown made of maple leaves is a wonderful prop for an autumn family photo shoot. The main thing is to choose bright multi-colored leaves and “sew” them, folding each one in half. The craft seems to be for children, but let’s be honest, I would like to try on such a crown for myself.
3. Decorative wreath of leaves
Tradition decorative wreaths came to our door from the west. A similar decorative element is popular during the Christmas holidays, but in terms of creating coziness, autumn wreaths are in no way inferior to winter ones. So, we prepare a cardboard frame, glue, decorations to your taste and lots and lots of colored leaves. We sit down next to the child, enjoy the family idyll and create beautiful things.
4. Glass candle holder made from maple leaves
This could be an autumn craft for the home, but probably not for school or kindergarten. Still technology fire safety. To create a cozy decor element you will need glass jar(preferably wide), glue, tablet candle, decorations and maple leaves. You can use this idea as a basis and add your own unique components.
5. Applications from leaves and seeds
This is where you will need the previously prepared herbarium. And also maple seeds, cereals and other natural materials to suit your taste. We turn on our imagination and turn colored leaves into animals, landscapes, and maybe even portraits. For a child, this little masterpiece means a lot. Don't be lazy and put the picture in a frame.
6. Dragonfly from maple seeds
For this autumn craft you will need maple seeds, paints, a twig and plasticine. Can be used Additional materials- there is already space for children's imagination. For example, it will be good if you apply glue with glitter to the wings of a ready-made dragonfly. Imagine with your kids.
Autumn crafts from chestnuts
1. Decorative wreath of chestnuts
Autumn decorative wreaths on the door you can create from chestnuts and scrap materials. However, note that if a cardboard frame is sufficient for a similar wreath of leaves, then the chestnuts should be attached to a solid base using a glue gun. As an option, blanks for wreaths are sold in craft stores.
2. People and animals made from chestnuts
Classic autumn crafts for school and kindergarten. The instructions here are superfluous: we stock up on chestnuts, plasticine, matches, toothpicks and other small items. Tip from Cool Mom - buy a set of ready-made toy eyes at a craft store. Autumn crafts made from natural materials with such eyes look very pretty.
Autumn crafts from pine cones
1. Owl made of cones
Pine cones are an ideal material for autumn crafts. Owls look very cute. Other natural materials (acorn caps, leaves), colored paper or felt pieces are suitable for decoration. The latter, by the way, can be cut out by the child himself. Felt is just as easy to work with as cardboard.
2. Hedgehogs made from cones
What animal does the cone resemble? Of course, a hedgehog. All you have to do is add a face made of felt or cardboard, glue on purchased eyes (or make them from plasticine) and a cozy autumn craft is ready. From the same felt or paper, make several miniature apples or mushrooms and the hedgehog will become even cuter.
3. Forest fairy with pine cones
The basis of this craft is a pine cone, but to create it you will also need an acorn, maple seeds, a twig, small leaves and glue. Invite your child to paint the fairy's face, making her more realistic.
Autumn crafts from vegetables and other natural materials
1. Pumpkin UFO
That’s right, from a pumpkin you can make not only a carriage for Cinderella, but also a vehicle for aliens. To make this autumn craft you will need toothpicks, garlic, carrots, leaves, viburnum and plasticine. Small heads of garlic are turned into interesting aliens with the help of plasticine, and carrots are turned into UFO legs. Encourage your child to come up with their own details - you'll be surprised how creative the new generation is.
2. Vases and baskets made of pumpkin
Both we and our parents made such autumn crafts with our own hands. The scope for imagination is vast. Flowers, leaves, berries, fruits and other vegetables are suitable for making the composition. If you try hard, you will get not just an exhibit for an exhibition, but a wonderful decorative element.
3. Animals made from nut shells
You will need whole walnut shell halves, paint and patience. The result is worth it. Such animals look great in a clearing with moss - another classic autumn craft for kindergarten or school.
Greetings to all guests and regular readers of the blog. Recently I touched upon the issue of manufacturing for various competitions and exhibitions in kindergarten and school. I realized that this issue is very relevant, so I decided not to stop and devote a couple more articles on this topic.
However, today we will no longer create from orange vegetable, but from natural materials, that is, from what can be found in the world around us. Most often, moss, bark, acorns, leaves, flowers, chestnuts, dry twigs, mushrooms, etc., that is, all plant elements, are used for children's creativity. Mineral materials include shells, sand, shells, and stones.
We will do handicrafts on a specific topic, and I think you can already guess which one. Of course, all products should be close to the autumn theme, because the Autumn Festival is celebrated in all preschool and school institutions.
Don’t forget that in addition to organizing all kinds of competitions, matinees are always held. Therefore, it’s great if you and your child not only work with your hands together, but also memorize a couple. But let’s not deviate from the topic and get down to choosing and creating crafts.
What crafts from natural materials on the theme of autumn can be made with your own hands quickly and beautifully
First, let's understand and figure out what can be created. After scrolling through a bunch of different sites, I selected different variants creative works. I would like to note that they are all very similar to each other, but at the same time, each work has something unique.
And here is the first product. The so-called autumn in the forest. Take cardboard and cut a circle out of it. Decorate (glue) the imaginary ground with leaves and berries. The house can be built from sticks or paper. Fir or pine branches work well as trees. Also use logs from thick dried branches. Don't forget about the pebbles. Well, plasticine will always help you.
But what kind of house can be made from twigs and colorful autumn leaves. Next to the hut you can settle some fairy tale hero or forest animal.
Another variation of a house made from cereals and various natural materials. It looks very beautiful and bright!
How do you like these cute burdock hedgehogs? Well, it's just a miracle. By the way, you will find out how to make such a craft below, it will be detailed master class with description and step by step pictures. So don’t rush to leave the page, read everything to the end.
Here's another idea with a hedgehog. Only here the painting acts as a product. Kids can easily cope with this type of activity.
As an addition to any craft, you can use a Barbie doll in the role of the Queen of Autumn. And to make her more elegant, make her a dress from maple leaves.
I really liked the next composition. Animals made from cones are so cute and funny. The work is just great!
You can make any cartoon characters from chestnuts. They perfectly complement a forest clearing.
I don’t know about you, but the photo below really grabbed my attention. To convey the whole autumn mood so subtly, it’s simply a masterpiece.
Hedgehogs, hedgehogs! They are the most popular in crafts made from natural materials, so admire them and do it yourself.
Forest deer are simply beautiful. They are made very easily and simply. Connect all the parts using brown plasticine.
Another idea is that you can paint the pine cones and make whatever you want out of them. This is what an autumn composition turned out to be.
Ideas for autumn crafts made from natural materials for elementary school for an exhibition
In fact, such creativity is very useful, and if your child becomes interested in it, then you will then have to prepare natural materials in advance and learn how to store them correctly. But this is, of course, another topic, not about that today. Therefore, the following works will help you.
Option with a sailboat and a forest dweller. Simple, but tasteful.
I see that houses are also often found in products. Apparently because they look impressive and are appropriate in any product.
And this is what I talked about above. That various animals, fairy-tale and cartoon characters are easily made from natural materials.
What a squirrel that brought a nut. Just a cutie. And for work you only need cones, acorns, leaves and a stand. And also plasticine.
Well, the owls are like real ones. And feathers are also part of natural materials, so don’t forget about them.
Now the hedgehogs are not made from burdock, but from your favorite cones. Looks cool too.
The following creation is perfect for schoolchildren. It develops imagination, perseverance and accuracy very well.
Here are more works on the theme “Autumn in the Forest.” I think many people will want to do this with their own hands.
And finally, these funny puppies who went for a walk. Bravo to their creators! Looks original.
And I would like to invite you to watch the following video story. It tells in detail and shows how you can create a craft from natural materials, namely, make a clearing with mushrooms. A great idea for kids to get creative.
Crafts made from natural materials for the autumn holiday in kindergarten
Now let's see what our kids can do. Yes, actually everything. So all the works are suitable for both schoolchildren and preschoolers. Help from adults is, of course, welcome and will not be superfluous.
The next work is called “There was a birch tree in the field.” You found a strong birch twig, yellow leaves from the birch tree and your tree is ready. Additionally, they built a hut from branches, covered the ground with moss, lined the path with pebbles or cereals, and everything was ready.
Here is a picture in a frame. All the same familiar materials: leaves, grass, plasticine and sunflower seeds.
And what a bright ladybug can be made from rowan berries. Indescribable beauty!
Don’t forget that natural materials go well not only with plasticine, but also with vegetables from the garden. Such cute little lambs and pigs!
Well, this craft is quite simple. But how a child will be happy with his creation like this.
What kind of miracles are these? I think this is Leshy and his girlfriend. It turned out to be a cheerful and romantic composition, do you agree with me?
Remember, just above it was shown closely how you can do forest deer? But now they are not separately, but in the whole composition.
That's autumn trees look almost like real ones. And the cute and prickly hedgehogs are already here.
And another variation of making a wise owl.
I never tire of being amazed at how rich human imagination is and what our skillful hands. I say “Bravo!” to the authors of the works.
Interesting DIY projects for grades 1-3 using natural materials
Well, I still have some amazing autumn works for you. If you are not tired, then read on and be sure to choose products for creativity with your children.
For example, you can make something like this three-dimensional picture. And you can call it this way - Autumn bouquet in a vase.
What do we see below? Wow, a real tree and a super bouquet of leaves. Class!
Oh, I can’t stop, I found another chestnut hut. We have a lot of them in Tula.
And here is a hedgehog without a head and legs). So big and with a crop on the thorns.
And how beautifully you can decorate a basket with moss and berries! Moreover, the basket itself can also be woven from twigs yourself.
If time allows you and there is a forest not far from you, then wander around it in search of interesting materials for work. You will definitely be lucky and you will find something special, for example, like in the picture below.
By the way, you can create bouquets of roses from autumn leaves. It looks very nice.
Here is another work dedicated to the theme of autumn in the forest. Beauty, what else can you say.
Dancer girls made of leaves, acorns and twigs. Original, original!
And here is just a bouquet of roses made from leaves. Just twist the not yet dried leaves and the buds will be ready.
Original crafts made from natural materials and plasticine on the theme of golden autumn
Now I propose to look at options for products containing plasticine. I won’t describe in detail what and how, since everything is clear and understandable from the photographs. If you have any questions, then write in the comments and I will answer.
- "Caterpillar";
- “Collecting mushrooms”;
- "Forest Animals";
- "Walk in the Woods";
- "Visiting Baba Yaga";
- "Puppy";
- "Happy Snails";
- "Animals";
- "Butterfly";
- Insects";
- "Life in the Forest";
- "Mushrooms"
Step-by-step master classes on making autumn crafts “Hedgehog”, “Cockerel” and “Owl”
Well, as I promised above, I will tell you and show you in detail how you can make the most popular crafts from natural materials. Ready?! Then let's begin!
Burdock hedgehogs in an autumn meadow
You will need: leaves, twigs, cones, tree mushrooms, burdock, plasticine, sticks, any box, scissors, PVA glue, hawthorn berries, rowan berries or any others.
Work process:
1. To make a clearing we will need cardboard. Take any box and cut out the cardboard to the required size.
2. Draw a forest edge on a piece of cardboard. Glue the leaf, cones, berries and tree mushrooms. And in order for the branches to stand, secure them with plasticine.
3. Made from plasticine yellow color make a head for the hedgehog. And make eyes and a nose out of black.
4. Insert a non-fragile stick into the plasticine head.
5. Now form a body with thorns from the burdock.
6. As a result, you should end up with a hedgehog like this. Just don’t forget to stick a piece of plasticine on the end of the stick, otherwise the face will outweigh it.
7. Place a couple of berries on top of the thorns.
8. Make another hedgehog and place them in the autumn meadow. Your craft is ready.
Cockerel made from pine cones
You will need: pine cones (large and small), plasticine, scissors, autumn leaves, rowan berries.
Work process:
1. Take two small dense leaves, preferably with the greatest predominance of red color. Cut them into narrow strips as shown in the photo. Cherry leaves are very suitable for this task.
2. Attach the resulting leaves to big shot(torso) using small pieces of plasticine.
3. Now make a long and colorful ponytail. To do this, you need to use the technology described in point 1. Take yellow, green and red leaves. Rowan, ash and grape leaves work well. Fasten the blanks with a piece of red plasticine.
4. Attach the tail to the top of the pine cone.
5. Make a stand for the cockerel from green plasticine. Decorate the stand with rowan berries.
6. Attach the torso to the stand.
7. Now make the head. Take a small pine cone. And from red plasticine, mold a beak, a comb, and long earrings. Roll out round eyes from black plasticine. Secure everything onto the pine cone.
8. Make a neck from orange plasticine. And take one leaf and also cut it into strips.
9. Attach the neck to the body, and then attach the head to the neck. Stick a cut leaf to your neck.
10. Finally, place the cockerel on hard surface and decorate his place with any autumn natural materials.
And for a snack, an owl. The craft is made from dry leaves and a transparent bag. Everything is very, very simple. The result exceeds all expectations. So quickly watch the video and do everything according to the model.
And since I can’t stop, catch more cute ideas.
Little fox sister made from carrots. And her clearing is made of different natural materials.
Smeshariki also visited autumn. There is a fantasy - there is a result.
Another family of mushrooms. You can take brown branches, and then simply paint them with white paint.
And here is a hedgehog who found a ripe apple. There is a plot, which means the craft is ready.
Well, the invented forest dweller will decorate any work.
Well, that’s it now, I have to stop, otherwise I won’t finish writing). Finally, I would like to note that all the collected works are not mine, but taken from the Internet. So I’ll once again praise all the authors - “you’re great,” the crafts are all great and for every age and taste. And I wish you, dear readers, to work hard and take prizes at exhibitions. Let your children receive their first certificates and awards. Bye, bye everyone.
Each season presents people with its own natural materials from which they can create spectacular crafts. In summer it can be stones and shells brought from the sea, and in autumn yellow leaves and cones.
There are also many creative solutions using flowers, acorns, vegetables and fruits. Bird feeders, home decor items, paintings and garden items can be made from different materials.
Types of crafts
The reason for making crafts can be any holiday. Most often people do various products with your own hands from natural materials in the following cases:
- To decorate a portrait on Mother's Day.
- For the New Year.
- Autumn crafts for home decoration.
- Household products in the form of baskets or vases.
- Halloween Pumpkin Crafts.
- Garden decorations.
All these items will be made exclusively from environmentally friendly materials, which means they will not harm health. It is worth noting that the family will not spend a penny on this; all they need to do is go to the forest or park and collect the necessary items.
How to give a gift in honor of Mother's Day?
Mother's Day is a special day for every man or son. At this moment I want to please my mother with something. In this case, a craft made from natural materials is perfect, because the most expensive gift is a gift made with your own hands.
There are several types that can be given to the hero of the occasion. They can be light, which even Small child or more complex.
Portrait decoration
One of the most creative and at the same time simple ideas is to decorate the mother's portrait with a beautiful autumn outfit.
To do this you will need the following materials:
- grains of wheat or other grains;
- beads;
- pumpkin seeds;
- maple yellow leaves;
- glue;
- picture frame.
- A4 colored paper.
First you need to prepare the frame and background for the future portrait. Here it is better to use calmer colors; the background should not be flashy and attract all the attention. Pastel colors work well.
When the frame with the background is ready, you need to find a full-face photograph of your mother and the larger it is, the better, this will allow you to fully use all the prepared natural materials and give more space for creativity.
If the photo is large, you only need to cut out the face and glue it to the background. Now you can start decorating the picture. First you need to make hair from wheat grains. The hairstyle can be absolutely anything, not necessarily the same as it was in the photo.
On top of the head you need to leave room for a crown of maple leaves. Here you can also fantasize or pick up ideas from films and cartoons.
Below, under the neck, you also need to stick a large maple leaf, but upside down. It will be part of a necklace that will be made from pumpkin seeds. At your discretion, you can add multi-colored beads to the composition.
Decorate the “dress” with flowers
New Year's crafts
New Year is one of the most important and long-awaited holidays for every family. It is always very important to make it special; crafts made from various natural materials, made independently, can help.
These can be not only toys for the Christmas tree, but also New Year's wreaths on the door made of pine cones, boxes, decorations for walls and tables.
How to make a New Year's wreath for a door from pine cones?
To make a pine cone wreath, you first need to make a round base. If you wish, you can make it yourself or buy it suitable item in the shop. You can also look for something at home that resembles a circle; absolutely any object will do.
To create a full-fledged New Year's craft, you will need the following materials:
- Glue.
- Cones.
- A round object, such as an embroidery mug.
- Wide ribbon (preferably red).
- Small tree branches.
- Berries.
- Acorns or nuts.
- Wire.
- Spruce branches.
The first thing you need to do is think through to the end what the design of the wreath from natural materials will be. It is advisable to draw a sketch on paper. Depending on what is used as a round base, you need to choose the best option fastening the cones.
If it is a circle made of foam plastic, the cones can be attached using wire; in other cases, reliable glue is more suitable. But before gluing them, you should think about repainting them in a different color, for example, red or golden cones look very impressive.
Sometimes the idea is to glue the cones in their natural position, but this does not always work out. In this case, you can increase the gluing area and apply them sideways, first breaking some of the petals. For convenience, pliers are used for this.
How to decorate a Christmas wreath?
Sometimes a New Year's wreath serves not only as an object for decorating a home and creating a cozy atmosphere. In some cases, it serves as a talisman. To make it, it is necessary to use appropriate natural materials that have the appropriate spiritual power. These may be the following plants:
- viburnum is a symbol of family cohesion and unity;
- sunflower is a symbol of financial well-being;
- oak acorns - will add health (like walnuts), as well as strength and longevity;
The same applies to the color of the Advent wreath:
- Blue and gold – health.
- Red – energy and strength.
You can also use items such as: Christmas balls, dried lemon mugs, cinnamon sticks, garlands and ribbons, fruits, candies or rain. How to make autumn-themed crafts for kindergarten?
It is the autumn time that involves the production large quantity crafts made from natural materials for kindergarten. At this time, educators and teachers are trying to awaken in children creative nature, and parents can help them with this.
Young children are encouraged to start with the simplest things. The most common craft is a photograph of a child in which he is trying to blow the wind. It is glued to one side of the leaf, and the leaves to the other, so it looks as if the baby is inflating the leaves and they are flying through the air.
Other simple crafts made from natural materials can be the following:
- Hedgehog.
- Owls.
- Wreaths on the head made of leaves.
- Crowns.
To make a hedgehog, you will need an A4 sheet, pencils, glue and preferably birch leaves, if they are not found, any others with pointed ends will do. On paper you need to draw the face of a hedgehog or the whole thing. Next, on the body, where the needles are located, the sheets are glued with the sharp ends up. The hedgehog is ready!
For the wreath you will need any round object that can be placed on your head. As a last resort, you can cut it out of cardboard and glue the ends together. Leaves with long petioles are better suited here to tie it to the base. In the same way, you can attach different flowers to the wreath.
Using a petiole you can tie the wreath to the base