Golden autumn painting made from natural material. Say “YES!”: autumn crafts made from natural materials. Leaf preparation technology

An autumn girl was walking, teasing with her outfit,
Warming in the velvet light.
And with that girl, having met the gaze,
We suddenly forget about summer...

Svetlana Efimova 2

D Good afternoon, my dear friends!

Today, I share with you my new experience in needlework. It will be a picture of autumn leaves, I wanted to call it: girl - autumn. Actually, I didn't plan to do this job. But at work, there was an annual competition of crafts made from autumn materials. The manager asked me to make some kind of craft from natural materials. As a boss, would you refuse a request? And I wasn’t going to refuse this request, it’s handicraft! And I really like handicrafts. This is what I ended up with.

Painting of autumn leaves: girl – autumn.

For work I took:

Fibreboard – 50 x 40 cm;
Natural materials - ears of wheat, a bunch of autumn leaves, twigs, acorns, rowan berries, flowers, grass, millet;
PVA glue;
Acrylic matte varnish;
Acrylic paints - gold, bronze and white;
Watercolor paint – yellow.

As a basis for the picture, I took a piece of fiberboard measuring 40 x 50 cm. For the front side of the picture, I chose the back side of the fiberboard, i.e. not smooth))) There was a scratch right in the middle, but it doesn’t matter, I’ll decorate it.

I decided to decorate the picture frame using the terra technique. For this, I needed a mixture into which I would press ears of wheat and millet. Usually putty is used for this, and I was sure that I had it. But during the whole break, I didn’t find it, it turned out that it was over, but I didn’t want to go to the store... But I had dry glue for tiles and I decided to experiment. Let the glue be the basis of the mixture. I needed to get a medium-thick mass into which wheat and millet could be pressed. In this case, the mixture should eventually harden and stick firmly to the frame. And I did this, mixed: tile glue (6 parts) + flour (3 parts) + PVA glue. I actually used PVA instead of water. That is, as soon as the mass became the consistency I needed, I stopped adding it.

Frame mix

First, I generously coated the canvas with PVA glue along the entire perimeter, in the place of the future frame. After letting the PVA dry a little, I began to apply the experimental mass, in a layer of about 1 cm, in advance.

Applied the base for the frame

And she immediately began to press ears of wheat into this mass, and then sprinkled it generously with millet. She pressed everything in so that the wheat and millet were pressed in, but at the same time were clearly visible.

Pressed wheat and millet

Then, she put the picture on its edge and shook off the excess millet.

After about 30 minutes, I mixed PVA glue and acrylic varnish in equal proportions and covered the wheat and millet with this composition. When you apply this composition, it is white, but after drying it becomes transparent.

Covered with a mixture of PVA glue and acrylic varnish

When the mixture of glue and varnish had dried, I painted the frame liberally with gold paint. I painted with a wide brush. And after drying, I went over the ears of wheat with bronze paint.

Now, finally, the picture itself of autumn leaves. I want to say right away: I am not friendly with drawing, and especially with painting with paints! I painted it as I thought.))) I poured white acrylic paint into a separate container and diluted it lightly with water, so the paint would be applied more evenly. Then, I painted the surface of the fiberboard (without touching the frame). Thus, I prepared the canvas by lightly priming it. By the way, in the end, it looked like the painting was made on canvas. Once the white paint had dried, I began painting the background of the painting. I made all the strokes smooth, semicircular or something (I don’t know what artists call it). In the middle, closer to the top, I painted it with white paint again. Then she began to darken the background, bringing it closer to the edges. To do this, I gradually began to add gold to the container with white acrylic paint. The further to the edges, the more gold I added, making the tone darker.

Painted the fiberboard while making the background

After looking at the result, I wanted to add a yellow tone. I didn’t have yellow acrylic paint, so I took watercolor paints. Mixing white and yellow watercolor paints, I went right behind the edge of the white background. That's it, I put the painting aside until the paints were completely dry.

For this work, I collected a few different autumn leaves, thin birch branches, and grass. Also, twigs with rowan berries, acorns, flowers from narwhal flower beds (luckily they weren’t fined))). But my husband found the highlight for me. While helping to collect acorns, I found a sleeping dragonfly (it’s good that it was no longer alive).

I placed the leaves and flower petals between the pages of the books, so they stayed with me for about two days. I had them in my work, only slightly dried out.

But first, I drew a silhouette of a girl on paper (I found it on the internet) and applied it to the picture to determine the size.

I drew a silhouette of a girl

Then she cut off the skirt and painted the girl with gold paint. It could have been acrylic, but I had gold spray paint))). From the waist, I cut off a small pointed piece, these will be eyelashes.

Painted the “girl” with gold paint

Then, she glued the girl to the place that she had decided on in advance. I didn’t take pictures of my further steps, because... I'll tell you in words.

She formed a wreath for the girl from grass, leaves and twigs with rowan berries. Everything was glued using a mixture of PVA glue and acrylic varnish (in proportions 1/1). In the future I used this composition. Let me explain why I used exactly this composition. Before I started making the painting, I scoured the Internet in search of how to preserve the color of autumn leaves. And I found information that the color and elasticity of autumn leaves can be preserved, including with the help of this composition. Other options did not suit me (I won’t write about them).

I continue. The skirt was made from leaves. I glued it in rows, starting from the hem, going higher.

The bodice of the dress was made from flower petals.

Since, initially, there was a scratch on the fiberboard, I glued a twig with leaves in its place. And she glued the dragonfly, spreading its wings. I really liked this dragonfly.

I made a girl, glued a dragonfly and a twig

On both sides of the girl, I glued twigs and leaves, trying to imitate trees. I started gluing from the top level, then, going lower, I glued the next branches and leaves.

And in the lower left corner I glued panicles, small twigs of flowers and a few acorns.

And further! While examining the work, I discovered that there were unpainted areas on the frame. Therefore, I once again went over the frame with gold paint.

Glued grass and acorns

Then, I went over all the leaves, twigs and flowers again with a mixture of glue and varnish.

That's all. My painting of autumn leaves is ready. Of course, this is most likely not a painting, but a panel... But let it be a painting, I want it so bad)))

Friends, if you found my master class useful, share it with your friends!

Autumn time is a whole storehouse of natural material that can be found right under your feet in a park or forest. There is probably not a single child who does not collect rustling leaves or carry whole handfuls of shiny chestnuts into the apartment. And it’s not only children who suffer from this contagious “autumn thriftiness”! Natural raw materials have always enjoyed nationwide popularity for their cheapness, availability and environmental friendliness. Cones, tree branches, acorns, chestnuts, tree bark, moss, leaves, seeds, various seeds, tree mushrooms - all this can be used to create all kinds of crafts and paintings. Today we will tell you how to make several panels from a wide variety of natural materials.

Parents and their children can create the simplest panel of autumn leaves alone for kindergarten or school. Start with simple compositions. Collect colorful leaves of different shapes and sizes, clean them of dirt, and place them under a press between the pages of newspapers or old books. After a few days, the leaves will dry and you can start creating. To work, you may need scissors, thick cardboard, PVA glue and brushes. Together with your child, come up with the plot of your painting, select the necessary leaves and background, cut off the excess, try it on and you can glue the parts. If necessary, add something with a felt-tip pen or pencils.

Charming panels are made from dried leaves and flowers, with the addition of berries, spikelets, maple “flies” and other materials. The flight of fancy is unlimited. Don't be afraid to experiment! Even if something doesn’t work out, you can always redo it, fix it, or replace it with another material. The main thing is to create with pleasure!

We make a simple panel from natural materials: from pine cones and twigs

For work we will need:

cones;
alder branches with cones;
a little buckwheat;
cardboard;
beads;
glue.

The sequence of actions in making the panel can be seen in the photo.

First you need to draw a vase of any shape on a sheet of thick cardboard. We cover its entire surface with PVA glue and cover it tightly with buckwheat. We press down. Let it dry.
We take a cone, separate the scales and form a simple flower out of them. It is better to combine the scales into flowers according to size. It is better to glue the petals of our flower onto a round cardboard base with strong glue.

Glue the beads into the center of the flower. Let it dry well.

Now we take alder branches and begin to assemble our panel on a sheet of cardboard. The placement of parts is arbitrary. The twigs create the volume of our composition, so do not glue them along the entire length, but only in places of contact with the cardboard.

We insert the finished panel into a frame and decorate it. Agree, it's cute!

Making a beautiful autumn painting “Basket of Flowers” from seeds

If you have stocked up on pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds, then we suggest making a whole basket of flowers with your own hands together with your child.

An adult draws the outline of a basket on a piece of cardboard with a pencil. The child spreads glue and begins to gradually lay out pumpkin seeds along the contour of the basket, as well as filling it inside. Let's not forget about the basket handle.
Inside the basket, simple flowers of seven to eight petals - large and small - are laid out with seeds. Let the glue dry.
Then we take multi-colored gouache and begin to paint our basket and flowers.

The finished picture can be decorated with stickers, beads, and sparkles.

Let's try to make a quick and simple openwork panel from natural materials

A magnificent panel on the theme “Autumn” can be built together with your child even in winter, if you stock up on a variety of natural materials. To work you will need:

any dry twigs of approximately the same length;
threads, preferably wool, bright and thicker;
strong ropes or threads for tying twigs;
any light natural material: leaves, moss, bark, dried flowers, spikelets.

First you need to make a frame. To do this, take twigs and

tie them together with ropes or threads to make a square. Although the shape is not important here, you can tie the branches in the shape of a triangle or rectangle.

Then we attach a bright woolen thread to one end of the resulting frame and begin to wrap the branches, pulling the thread. We wrap the frame to the end and fix the end.

When the thread mesh is ready, let your child take the initiative in arranging the natural material and creating a unique composition. Your autumn masterpiece is ready!

A selection of videos on the topic of the article

And finally, I would like to invite you to watch a few videos that may be useful as ideas for creating your own unique paintings. Good luck!

Our blank shows the required colors: yellow, orange, green, brown, blue. We chose the appropriate colors of gouache, only we took 2 shades of green: light and dark (for artistry). We made white and shades of blue in advance for another craft. Polina loves the color pink, so I had to make a little pink in a separate glass, which was then added to the picture a pinch at a time :-) . We put the millet into bowls and started coloring. Using a large brush, we carefully poured and stirred the dried gouache directly into the jars; the resulting liquid was gradually added to the millet and stirred thoroughly. I prepared spoons for stirring, but a brush turned out to be more convenient. As you stir, it becomes clear whether to add a little more water to the gouache or not. If at a certain point the millet stops coloring, you need to add a few drops of water and stir further. The main thing is not to overdo it with water, otherwise it will take a very long time to dry.

Our millet dried in about 40 minutes, but every 10 minutes I stirred it so that the lower layers would also dry. Again, for the sake of artistry, after drying we mixed our colors a little. A small pinch of yellow millet was added to orange, a whisper of orange to yellow, and so on. You can see this in the photo.

The long-awaited moment has come for the child, when the preparation is already completed and the fun begins...

I squeezed a lot of PVA out of the tube, but did not smear it, so that the layer of glue would be thicker. In this case, the cereal will stick to the paper better and will not crumble later. I applied glue to the paper in parts: first, trees on one side, and Polina covered it with millet, then they made trees on the other side, then grass, and at the very end they applied glue to our path in dots, sprinkled yellow and orange millet, like fallen leaves.

To make the landscape artistic and the colors to mix like paints, millet was scattered in small pinches, changing colors. For example, when making a tree with yellowed leaves, we alternated colors: a pinch of yellow, a pinch of orange, etc. It's more difficult with a green tree. It has 2 shades of green, and the leaves are starting to turn yellow, yellow and orange, and at the very end there is a pinch of brown on the side where the shadow is.

There is one important nuance: you cannot cover trees and grass equally densely; it just turns out to be a chaos of color, where shapes and objects are not visible. I only realized this when we were all fast asleep. I had to take a wooden stick and remove some of the millet from the grass under the trees. In the final version of our landscape you can see empty, unfilled stripes. Optimally, there should be even less millet.

When everyone was covered with cereal, they carefully pressed the millet onto the paper with the palm of their hand and left it to dry overnight.

In the morning we framed our autumn landscape and took it to kindergarten. They promised to return it, and if this happens, we will cover the picture with varnish so that the millet does not fall off over time, and hang it on the wall.

Good afternoon, today we will talk about autumn crafts. And we will make these crafts from natural materials with our own hands. Autumn is rich in a variety of materials. And so we will do with A variety of crafts on the theme of Autumn- from leaves, branches, acorns, chestnuts, straw, moss, dried flowers and other natural materials. I will show you interesting ways to create autumn crafts with your own hands using ordinary natural materials. in an unusual design way. In this article you will find fresh ideas, that will inspire you to get creative this fall. So, we go on a quiet hunt for ideas for the best crafts for the fall 2017 season.

Autumn natural material is rich in ideas for a variety of crafts for children. Let's see what ideas you can implement this fall.

Leaf compositions

and natural material.

Who said that autumn crafts from natural materials should be done while sitting indoors? Golden autumn beckons with warm sunshine and the smell of rotten leaves - and we don’t want to sit within four walls. We go outside with the children to catch a little more warmth and warm our eyes with the yellow fire of autumn leaves.

Crafts on the AUTUMN theme can be made from natural materials right outside. In my yard, next to the entrance. All you need to do is find a quiet, windless place. Instruct the children to collect a stack of bright leaves and a bucket of dry pebbles.

And now an interesting game begins - laying out crafts from autumn natural material. For novice craftsmen, this can be a simple tree. Heavy pebbles press down the yellow leaves and prevent them from flying away from the wind. The craft can be saved as a keepsake in the form of a photograph.

If there is a whole pile of pebbles near the place where you walk, then you can make a craft from natural material on a larger scale (as in the photo below).

If you are observant, you may notice that different trees have different colored foliage. If we collect yellow leaves from an ash or birch tree in a separate bag, red leaves from an aspen or Canadian maple in another bag, and a little more brown, blackened leaves, then we can make this Winnie the Bear on our porch.

Any silhouette picture can be laid out from a colored mosaic of nature itself. The main thing is to find a place without strong wind. And have time to photograph this beauty before it flutters from the wind and flies away like a bird.

The natural materials of autumn themselves will give you ideas for collages - gray branches (like the gray plumage of a wing and tail), yellow leaves (like yellow fluff on a chest). And here you are, the tit bird.

You don't have to be an artist, you don't have to have a lot of leaves. Even the smallest piles of leaves can be used to create beautiful autumn crafts. The simplest DIY craft, arranging foliage according to the colors of the spectrum, looks like real magic.

You become little wizards. Secret gnomes-assistants of Queen Autumn. You misbehave secretly, leaving good signs, funny symbols of the autumn season.

And some crafts can be made using a tree trunk as a base. Make the tree smile. The nose is a bump, two eyes are cut from a wood log, and a smile is made from physalis fruits strung on a thread.

Do you know what mandalas are? In the east, mandalas are sacred patterns closed in a circle. A harmonious pattern repeating in a circle is like a map of the universe. Mandalas are painted or laid out from mosaics, colored sand, and flower petals. Mandalas are a spiritual practice that allows you to touch the divine principle within yourself. You need to make mandalas in a special state of mind - pure, serene, enlightened.

We can also make beautiful harmonious mandala patterns with our own hands in the form of crafts from natural material – bright, beautiful autumn material.

Your autumn mandala craft can be very small (as in the photo below).

Or a very large one, consisting of many circles in a cyclic pattern.

Mosaic applications

on the theme AUTUMN.

All children love mosaics. Why don't we make it from autumn natural material.

Since the leaves are too large for mosaics (and suitable for laying out large paintings in the yard), for small indoor works we can cut an ordinary succulent maple leaf into small squares. Place them in bowls - yellow, green, red separately. And let the children themselves lay out a bright mosaic craft from such a pleasant-to-touch natural material.

You can use cereals or seeds as an ornamental material. A very good natural material for autumn children's crafts is yellow corn kernels or large pumpkin seeds painted with gouache.

And a mosaic of whole leaves can become a tree crown - a simple and quick craft made from natural material, which is suitable for kindergarten children. You can stick the leaves on paper, or on a transparent office file - and then such a craft can be mounted on a window, the leaves will shine in the sun. A beautiful children's craft for younger children.

Crafts on the theme AUTUMN.

Natural material STONE.

Here’s another wonderful idea for crafts made from natural materials in an autumn theme. Ordinary flat river stones can become a canvas for autumn paintings. You can paint stones with a brush, but it is better to apply the design using dots technique - round wooden sticks or special dots sticks (metal devices with a round ball at the end) are suitable for this. They are sold in the manicure department as they are intended for painting on nails. The ball tips on the dots sticks have different sizes, which allows you to draw even dots of any size.

You can also draw owls on stones - this is the simplest drawing - the main thing here is expressive eyes, a pointed beak, and oval wings with even rows of feathers. First we draw with paints, then we outline each painted element with a contour (white, as in the left photo or black, as in the right photo below). And a thin contour outline of the elements will make the craft-drawings clearer and more expressive.

Such owl crafts made from natural material will look good on driftwood with scraps of moss, inside a wooden frame, glued to a cut of a log.

And it’s even cooler to put such an owl inside a hole cut in a thick round cut of a tree trunk.

Autumn crafts

with tree branches.

Ordinary tree branches can also become the source of an interesting DIY autumn collage. This natural material is lying around completely unused. You can give children the task of collecting beautiful, non-dirty twigs in a bag while on a walk, disassembling them at home, clearing them of debris and breaking them into small pieces.

Next, on a sheet of paper, draw the outlines of a basket with handles. And either we give the child plasticine, or we arm ourselves with a glue gun and begin to assemble our basket from sticks. Then all that remains is to put the fruit in it (cut it out of cardboard, draw it and then cut it out, or use the cut-out applique technique).

And if you collected beautiful leaves along with sticks, then you can make a children’s craft tree from natural materials.

Long sticks found in the park can not be broken, but put aside to make them a new craft-panel made from natural materials(as in the photo below). The principle is simple. The sticks are laid in the shape of the sides of a square - we tie the junction of the sticks with twine (wire, thread). And then we decorate such a frame using natural materials and colored paper.

You can place a canvas inside a frame of branches - we tint a sheet of cardboard with paints, make holes on its sides with a hole punch - and tie the sheet with threads to the branch frame, pulling the thread through the holes and around the branch (as was done in the left photo below). And then on this canvas we make an application from natural material on the theme of autumn.

Or you can simply decorate the frame along its perimeter - at the bottom of the square we attach a bush, mushrooms, pieces of moss, bark, and a cardboard hedgehog to the plasticine. On the top of our panel made of natural material we hang a garland of autumn leaves cut out of colored paper, a sun, clouds, and a kite.

From the branches you can lay out large applique in the shape of an owl , a children's craft, which is entirely made from natural materials that autumn is rich in. Branches, dry and fresh pine needles, withered fir legs. You can lay out the applique on a sheet of plywood and secure everything with glue - or make a temporary mosaic on a walk right on the ground or stump.

Looks very nice DIY HEDGEHOG made from natural material . This fall craft is my favorite in this post. Let me even tell you in detail how to simply and easily make such a hedgehog with your own hands. It's really very easy. Now you will see this.

First, we find beautiful thick twigs from a bush or birch branches - we cut them with scissors or a knife into segments with long oblique cuts (as in the photo of the hedgehog below).

For this autumn craft you will need plasticine - a large piece. Where can I get it? I never throw away used plasticine from children's crafts, I put it in one common pile - then I soak this multi-colored pile in hot water - it becomes soft like fresh dough, and easily and simply I knead this whole lump into a homogeneous mass with my hands - I get a large piece of fresh brown plasticine of excellent quality. You can make a variety of crafts from it for a long time

We form the body of a hedgehog from plasticine- drop-shaped. And row by row we stick pieces of branches into the thick part of the hedgehog - the oblique cuts should all point in one direction.

2 ways to design a hedgehog's face.

1 way. I wrap the hedgehog’s plasticine nose with a piece of burlap or a piece of gauze (bandage) soaked in a solution of iodine and water.

Method 2. The hedgehog's face can be coated with PVA glue, covered with pieces of paper napkins, coated with glue again, another layer of napkins, glue on top and allowed to dry - you will get a layer of papier-mâché. We cover it with paint - draw eyes and a nose on it

Craft-web from branches and leaves.

You can also make beautiful decorative pendants on the AUTUMN theme from natural materials. We will need straight, even branches - like willow. Let's look at the photo, and below I give a detailed step-by-step description of this children's craft.

A detailed master class on this craft made from natural materials.

Take a lump of plasticine and divide it into 2 small pellets. On the first cake we place the branches in a circle (that is, radially from this plasticine center) - so that the tips of the branches meet in the middle of the plasticine cake. Lightly press each branch so that it sinks into the plasticine. Cover the top with a second piece of plasticine, also pressing it onto the branches. It turns out to be a splay with rays of branches.

Now we need coarse threads - the ones that are used in the store to tie up packages with purchases. Such canvas-paper thick gray threads. With them we begin to weave a web between the branches - starting from the plasticine center and gradually moving towards the outer edge, until our web rests against the edge of the maple leaf.

Craft autumn kaleidoscope.

Also you can do colored kaleido made from natural material – from branches and leaves (as in the photo below).

For this craft we will need hot glue (or the ability to weave threads between crossed branches). Now I will give a detailed master class on how to create this craft with your own hands.

Step 1 Cut 4 rods of equal size. Two of them we cross cross over cross - fasten with glue or thread. Two others we cross in the same way. We now have two crosses made of branches.

Step 2 We place these 2 crosses on top of each other diagonally - so that they form snowflake figure. We fasten the middle of this clutch with glue (or fix it with threads).

Step 3 We make a round ring from a flexible willow rod (fresh or soaked in water). We attach this ring to our “snowflake” made of twigs - so that the edges of the ring are at the same distance from the center - along each rod(we measure with a tape measure). If the distances are the same, then the ring will be even and not crooked.

Step 4 As a result, we got a circle from the branches, divided into triangular sectors. And all that remains is to find large maple leaves of different colors - pure yellow, pure red, pure green, pure orange. From them you need to cut out triangles that are suitable in size to the hole sector on the future kaleidoscope. Cut out the triangle like this: so that the central vein on the maple leaf passes through the middle of such a triangle– divided it in half like a bisector from geometry. And we attach all these multi-colored triangles made of maple leaves with a glue gun to the sectors of our structure made of natural material.

Autumn applications

Made from natural material.

And of course, all children love to make appliques from autumn natural materials. Small and large paintings of leaves and dried flowers. The most favorite children's crafts on the theme of autumn.

The symbol of autumn made from natural material is, of course, a hedgehog. What can it be made from, from leaves, from flowers, from twigs, from maple or ash seeds.

The simplest hedgehog is made like this. Cut out the silhouette of a hedgehog from cardboard. We give children plasticine and maple seeds. We begin to attach rows of seeds to cardboard with plasticine - you need to start from the back of the hedgehog. Children are eager to start with the muzzle - explain to them that this is not correct, that then it is not convenient to do the back rows of needles, when the front needles stick out back and get in the way.

Using the same principle, a hedgehog is made from flat natural material - leaves and dried flowers. Also starting from the butt, we attach it to plasticine or glue. This is the most common children's craft on the theme of Autumn.

Children also love making fall turkeys. This is also a simple bird craft that doesn’t require much natural material. The body and head of the bird can be cut out of cardboard. Or the head and body can be cut out with scissors from the same maple leaf (as in the photo of the craft below).

YOU can make crafts without using colored paper, but by cutting out all the parts necessary for the picture from natural material, if you do not find a leaf of a suitable shape.

Here's a great idea. Large craft LION. It can be made from real natural leaves. Or you can design it as a collective paper craft. In the kindergarten group, we distribute sheets of paper with a maple leaf drawn on it. The children's task is to cut out the contour of this sheet. At the end of the lesson, all children attach their leaves to the lion's mane. A good idea for a craft on the theme “autumn” is for the middle group of kindergarten, when children are in their first year of learning to cut out contours with scissors - they will cut out a maple leaf for about 10 minutes, and puff with zeal like steam locomotives.

If you work in a large group of children (as a kindergarten teacher or a teacher, or a circle leader), then you can make one large collective craft. For example, this bird is made from natural material. We cut out parts of the bird from cardboard - the left wing separately, the right wing separately, the body separately and the tail separately. Divide the team into 4 creative groups. Each group of children receives their own piece and begins to place leaves on glue or plasticine. After completing the work of each team - we combine the details into one common bird craft made from a natural material as bright as autumn itself.

Autumn crafts-paintings

Made from natural material.

And of course, autumn material makes beautiful, bright collage crafts in the form of natural landscapes. In the photo below we see how a picture-panel was made from different materials - paper, leaves, herbs.

You can dry many flower petals. And make a big collage with the children with a blue sky and a blue river. Stretch a bridge across the river, cut out of a blackened autumn leaf (in order for the leaf to turn black, it must be ironed with a hot iron through a newspaper).

And if you don’t have enough dry natural material, then you can paint a picture in gouache or watercolor and lay out only individual elements of the landscape from leaves and herbs (as in this craft below).

Autumn crafts

from natural material.

Autumn nature is rich in a wide variety of ornamental materials - hawthorn berries, rose hips, pine cones, fluffy moss. After a walk in the forest, you can make an elegant autumn composition with a candle. And have a romantic candlelit dinner with an autumn theme.

Thick cut logs, round birch logs and walnut shells - this poor natural material can become a source of inspiration for such a craft in the form of a mushroom clearing.

From the found cones you can make a variety of characters with your own hands. And place them in the form of a single autumn composition, made with your own hands from natural materials (wood, leaves, moss, wood chips, etc.).

Fresh oak branches plucked by a hurricane can be dried in the shade of a shed, under the roof. Oak leaves do not lose their rich green color when dried. And then they will be able to take part in interesting crafts made with their own hands from autumn natural materials.

A wreath - a symbol of autumn - made from natural material in all shades of bright foliage will delight your whole family. It is so interesting to collect leaves - to select only the most beautiful ones. You need to weave a wreath with your own hands from willow twigs and weave autumn leaves into it with threads, plant pine cones on wire or glue. On our website we have a special educational article on weaving wreaths from twigs and branches -

The bright fruit boxes of physalis, twigs with hawthorn fruits, and immemorial flowers look beautiful in autumn wreaths.

But even if you don't have bright natural material to make an autumn wreath, don't worry. You can do bright wreath of gray pine cones. You just need to take more gouache. Paint each pine cone in shades of fall foliage. Spray with hairspray (to make the color richer and not stain your hands). And then collect all this colorful splendor of autumn into a rich wreath with your own hands.

The cones in the wreath can be placed with their butts forward (as in the photo above), or with their noses forward (as in the craft below).

You can make decorative autumn wreaths from one natural material. Only from rose hips - string the red fruits onto copper wire and bend it into a heart shape.

Or your fall wreath can be made from a log of wood found in a woodpile.

In the same woodshed you can find natural material suitable for making a composition with owls.

Your autumn compositions can look like cheerful people made from birch cuts, decorated with various natural materials that autumn is rich in.

And tufts of mown grass can turn into a hedgehog if you (or good neighbors) have physalis blooming profusely. Its boxes can be sewn with thread to a straw bale. Wrap the sharp edge of the bale with twine and glue on the nose and eyes.

You can also make it from natural autumn material beautiful candlestick . We will need the bottom part of any white bottle of household liquid (washing balm, etc.).

We unroll transparent wide tape on the table. On its sticky surface we place beautiful small leaves, seeds and other flat natural material, wrong side up. We place it so that there are empty spaces of adhesive tape between the elements (so that there is adhesive space).

These are the new ideas for this fall - made from natural materials. You've found inspiration here. You fell in love with some crafts. And that means this fall will not pass by your skillful hands. All that remains is to collect natural material, of which there is plenty everywhere, and, fortunately, it is free. Like in that poem...

Autumn is coming in our park,
Autumn gives gifts to everyone.

And we give you even more other articles on the topic of autumn crafts.

Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site.

Panels made from natural materials are widely used to decorate walls. These can be coffee beans, cereals, dried flowers, slices of fruits or vegetables, autumn leaves.

Making panels is very convenient with children: creative activity develops imagination and the ability to think creatively. Working with small materials helps develop fine motor skills, which is useful for young children. And most importantly, there are many ideas for this activity that you want to bring to life.

Coffee bean panel

A coffee panel is ideal for the kitchen or room where you are used to relaxing. It is believed that the smell of coffee, like the drink itself, tones the body and gives a boost of energy.

Scientists have proven that at the same time, the smell of coffee beans has an anti-stress effect. The more often you inhale their aroma, the less susceptible you will be to external irritants.

View options for panels made from coffee beans - video:

To make a simple coffee bean wall hanging, you will need the following materials:

Coffee beans of one or more varieties, differing in color, size and smell.
Basis for the panel. It can be made from scrap materials: burlap, other durable fabric, cardboard, paper, wood.
PVA glue, or better yet, “Titan”.
Drawing.
Copy paper.
Pencil.
Frame.

This is the minimum list of materials you will need. But you can make a panel from beans and coffee.
A panel of cereals, diluted with coffee beans, looks like a real painting, since here you can collect the entire palette of colors:

Coffee – green, brown, other shades of brown.
Peas are orange.
Beans – red, white.
Semolina is white. It is perfect for a winter-themed mural.
Rice – brown, white.
Corn is yellow.
Wheat – beige.
Pearl barley – beige.
Oatmeal – creamy.
Rye – light brown, dark beige.
Poppy seeds – black.
Buckwheat – brown shades.
Lentils – yellow, orange, green.
Millet – yellow.

How to make a panel from grains:

To glue crumbly grains such as corn or semolina, ground spices and instant coffee, you need to smear glue on a part of the picture and cover it generously with the desired grain or spice. After some time, the excess residue is blown off.

Large shells are an independent decoration. And small ones become excellent materials for creating wall paintings in the form of panels.

The simplest option for a panel with shells is to glue shells of various shapes and sizes onto the base in a chaotic manner or in the form of a specific pattern.

In addition to shells, rocks and dried starfish are great options. The panels created with them are great for the bathroom: they help you imagine that you are on the seabed and looking at the sea relief.

If you make a picture out of shells, starfish and stones, and then cover it with gold or silver paint, you can achieve such a dazzling effect.

This is a master class on creating panels from shells on a fabric basis - on burlap. It is very easy to make: it will take no more than a couple of hours to make.

You need the following materials:

Smooth and thin branches from trees for the frame.
Sackcloth.
Strong twine.
Cardboard.
Brown wrapping paper.
Gypsy needle.
One large fish eye bead.
PVA glue;.
Glue gun.
Pebbles, shells.
Seahorse or starfish.
"Chicken God"

First, cut out a fish shape from cardboard and carefully cover it with burlap. Wrap the body of the fish, with the exception of the head and tail, tightly with twine. Then prepare the base:

Hem the burlap from the edges, forming an even square.
Make a square frame from the twigs, tying them at the ends with twine.
Using twine, using an over-seam technique, secure the burlap to the frame.

Now tear the wrapping paper so that the edges are jagged. This will achieve greater effect. Using a glue gun, glue a fish, a large pebble and a starfish onto the paper.

Then glue pebbles and small shells. As a result, you will get the same wonderful panel as in the photo.

A service such as making stone panels is offered by many construction companies. Typically, specialists create mosaics from natural stone by cutting it, creating a variety of patterns and even paintings.

Since natural stones are painted in different colors, the panel can be made on either a summer or spring theme. If you use white stones, you will get an excellent winter panel. In the photographs you can see what beautiful mosaic panels are in stores.

But you can make a stone panel with your own hands. Pebbles collected from the bottom of the river or from the seashore are suitable for this. The more varied the shape of the stones, the more interesting the picture will be. Examples of hand-made stone panels:

Stones can be laid in a mosaic fashion to create a picture.

To do this you will need colored pebbles. They can be arranged in a pattern. You can do with them whatever your imagination is ready for!

For creative people, wood is one of the best materials. It would seem, how can you make a wooden panel? To do this, do you need to know at least the basics of wood carving? Not at all: the panel is not necessarily decorated with carvings.

If you have the right tools, you can make a beautiful panel without any special knowledge or experience. The effect is given by the natural texture of the tree, its shape.

We will make a similar wooden panel:

The following materials will be required:

A sheet of dimensions 170 by 80 cm made of very durable and multi-layer plywood.
Wooden slats for the panel frame. To accentuate rough branches, the slats should be large. Even bars 10 centimeters wide and 6 centimeters thick are suitable for this. Two bars should be 150 cm long, the other pair of bars should be 80 cm. The outer side of the bars should be rough, as if sawn. They require light processing so that there are no splinters upon contact with the skin.
Three types of sawn branches. Each “stump” should have a diameter of 4 to 5 cm. Several dozen stumps should stand out with a large diameter (from 6 to 7 cm). Several units can be made with a diameter of even 7-8 cm.

Garden species are ideal as branches: apple and cherry with preserved bark. Before work, the branches are dried well so that they do not crack or become deformed during work.

Stain for painting wood.
Varnish for woodworking. Opt for a matte varnish that does not interfere with the natural texture of the wood. It is absorbed into the structure of the stumps and remains invisible. But it protects perfectly from splinters, dirt and dust.
Hot glue gun with pencils.
Brushes for painting wood with varnish and stain.

Master class on making a wooden wall panel:

Nail the frame and glue it to the base. It is better to entrust this task to a man.
Place hemp cut from branches onto the finished frame for testing.
Clean the stumps and the base for the plywood panels from sawdust and dust using a vacuum cleaner.
Paint the base and frame with stain using a brush. It will take 2-3 layers.
Leave the base to dry.
Using a hot gun, glue the stumps in the same way as you laid them out during fitting.
Let the panel dry for a whole day.
Apply varnish to the resulting decoration.

Then let the product dry for another two days. Now the panel can be hung on the wall. If desired, you can decorate it using other materials.

Leaves panel

A panel of autumn leaves is suitable for working with children. For kids, it is real happiness to spend time with their parents and do common things.

First, you can take a walk with your child in the park or along an autumn alley, through the forest, to pick bouquets of various leaves, as in the photo below.

Flowers dried in summer are also used. If a panel of leaves is suitable for decorating with an autumn theme, then a panel of flowers is reminiscent of summer.

On the theme of summer, a panel can be made using leaves decorated in the form of flowers. Flowers can be made with applique, as in the photo below:

Or you can make voluminous roses from several leaves, like here:

There is freedom for imagination here. Each leaf can be associated with something. Thus, yellow maple leaves resemble the cartoon faces of foxes. It remains to supplement them with some elements to get the full picture. From a variety of leaves you can create an original dragonfly.

How to make a rose from autumn leaves?

One of the most original elements for a wall panel can be a rose made from a maple leaf. It can be made without a stem by attaching the base to canvas or cardboard onto sepals of dried green leaves. But we will look at an example of how to make a rose on a stem. You can make a whole bouquet from such roses and strengthen it on the basis of a panel.

To make one rose you will need:

A few maple leaves for the petals.
Thin branches for stems.
Green electrical tape.
Scissors.

There is no need to describe the entire process of making a flower, since everything becomes clear if you look at the master class for making a rose from leaves below.

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The very last photo is the result of the finished work. It is unlikely that you will succeed the first time. It will take some time to practice, so stock up on a whole armful of leaves.

Leather panel

Leather is a noble material. A leather panel is ideal as a solid wall decoration. Such decor can decorate a study, hall, living room or hallway. And you can make a leather panel with your own hands.

Let's look at a master class on making leather panels using the example, the photo of which is located above. In exactly the same way, you can make a wall decoration using any other design. For work you will need the following materials:

Leather of different colors.
PVA glue, but Moment is better.
Cardboard.
Tracing paper.
Pencil;
Basis for the panel.
Acrylic paint.
Paint brush.
Scissors.
Brush for applying glue.

Step-by-step instruction:

Paint the big picture.
Transfer all the details onto tracing paper, numbering them to quickly find what you need.
Transfer the pieces onto cardboard and cut them out.
Using a brush, coat each piece with glue.
Glue the cardboard to the skin.
Trim the leather, leaving allowances that will need to be folded so that the front side of the piece is covered with leather.
Glue the seam allowances to the wrong side of the cardboard.
Cover the entire base with a large piece of leather.
Recreate the pattern on the base using leather pieces.
Cut strips of leather - flagella - to form roofs for the houses.
Glue the “roofs” to the houses.
Moisten the pieces of leather, spread with glue and glue, forming a “road”.
You can decorate the frame in the same way (moisten and glue).
Paint the leather painting with acrylic paint as you wish.