Walk in the autumn forest. Autumn composition from natural materials "Autumn Forest". Master class with step by step photo Composition autumn forest from natural materials
Fall is a great time for crafts with kids. One has only to go outside and look around how many beautiful leaves, fruits of trees, twigs and other natural materials can be seen. There are only a few days left until the end of autumn, and therefore, in order to leave memories of this wonderful time of the year, we decided to make an interesting one together with the child. autumn composition and called it "Autumn Forest".To work on creating such a composition, the following materials will be useful:
Plasticine,
tree leaves
Dry beans
Clusters of rowan
Pumpkin seeds
Buckwheat
The container in which the composition will be placed
Scissors
First you need to prepare the basis for the future composition - it can be a box, a panel, as in my case, or a cardboard stand with sides.
They covered it with a plastic bag so that nothing would fall off the moss. Moss was brought from the forest. Beautiful very caught - lush, bright green and with the smell of an autumn forest.
They put moss.
Mushrooms were made from plasticine and beans. Dry beans must be cut with a knife into two equal slices - these will be mushroom caps. The leg was molded from plasticine.
Now you can start making forest dwellers. We came up with the idea of making a hedgehog, wood goblin, snail, fabulous bird.
The bird was made from a cone and plasticine. Plasticine was rolled out in the form of a stick, glued to the bump, and the top, where the neck goes into the head, was flattened a little. Bell pepper seeds were used as eyes. Our tail is a sprig of needles glued to plasticine. We were lucky to find green strawberry bushes in the forest. Wings were made from their leaves.
Well, what is a bird without a feeder? A small feeding bowl was fashioned from plasticine and buckwheat was poured into it.
And here she has already begun to peck the grain
The hedgehog is also made quite simply. To do this, cut off the scales of the cone with scissors, which serve as the spines of the hedgehog and stuck them into the plasticine base. Eyes made from buckwheat. Beautiful hedgehogs are also obtained using sunflower seeds or matches as rings. Here already to whom as it is necessary and as it is pleasant.
To make a snail, the plasticine was rolled into a tube and bent in a spiral. Even a small child can handle this technology. Antenna antennae were made from the pile of an old brush and plasticine balls were glued to their tips.
Leshy was made from 2 cones, which were fastened together with plasticine. The beard was made from a leaf, the eyes and the hat were made from plasticine. The ears were invented from pumpkin seeds, and two thin sticks serve as his hands.
Now that everything is ready, you can start placing the characters on the edge.
As a result, we got this autumn composition from natural materials.
Good afternoon. Today I can finally sum up a large collection of ideas for crafts made from natural materials. We already have a wide-form article with autumn leaf crafts for children and adults. There is a detailed article in the autumn theme. In this article I will publish the most interesting and non-standard tricks and techniques. I decided to do wide overview page, which will prove and show that natural material for creativity is not only acorns and chestnuts. You will see with your own eyes and fall in love with all your heart in new fresh ideas of working with natural material. Crafts made with your own hands, from branches, from leaves, from dried flowers, from everything under your feet. Nature is rich in material, and man is rich in beautiful ideas. So, let's see what crafts can be made from natural material this season.
Idea Pack #1
SCALES from cones.
The cones are made up of scales. If you collect open pine cones, then it is convenient to pull out of them with pincers, pliers, or bite SCALES with wire cutters. And then use this bumpy natural material as a mosaic coating on a variety of autumn crafts.
Note. In order for the cones to open well, spread out with scales, they can be warmed up in the oven.
Here we see mushrooms. Their legs are carved from a thick wooden chock. The hats are molded of plasticine and the top of the hats is covered with scales. It turns out cute mushrooms-crafts with their own hands. Suitable job for school.
But the spruce cones have scales flatter and smoother. They look like the smoothed feathers of birds. Therefore, the idea of \u200b\u200bcrafts comes to mind on a bird theme. We sculpt the bird's body from plasticine, we coat with PVA glue, put a layer of torn paper napkins on the glue, again with glue, again with napkins - it turns out papier mache shell. We dry this shell until it is completely lignified. And on this hard dry surface with hot glue (layer by layer, row by row) we lay the spruce “tile” of feather-scales.
And also the scales of a spruce cone are similar to the scaly armor of ancient lizards. So here's another idea for you. After all, this is a great challenge to your artistic potential. It's not just a bird here - there's a whole beast that looks like it's alive. Great crafts for boys made of natural material.
Here we act exactly the same as with the bird- we sculpt the base from plasticine, pack it in several layers of papier mache (alternating pva glue and paper napkins). And then, after this mass has dried into a hard crust, you can glue the dinosaur figure with spruce scales.
After plucking the cone, a cone BOTTOM remains. It looks like a flower with petals. From such cone flowers, you can make a new autumn craft with your own hands - for example, a WREATH. We glue the base for the foam wreath with a chopped cone - just with hot glue from a gun.
You can cover such cones-flowers with bright gouache. In order for the gouache color to become juicier and shine, it is necessary to sprinkle this product on top after drying with gouache, I recommend spraying it with simple hairspray. The color will stick and won't stain your hands.
You can make beautiful flowers yourself, choosing the most accurate and even scales of different sizes, and laying them radially from the center. The middle of the flower can be decorated with beads or rhinestones. From such a natural material, you can even make brooches in the autumn style with your own hands - and wear them with a coat, or pin them to a shawl.
Flowers from cones can not only be collected into wreath crafts, but simply laid out on a panel. Put on glue on a piece of plywood. You will get an excellent craft made from natural material for a competition in a school or kindergarten.
From whole buds You can also make great crafts. We add not only natural material to the cones, but also other materials (colored felt, cardboard, ropes, plastic, etc.).
Idea Pack #2
Crafts from natural material
WALNUTS.
From nutshells, we all made boats in childhood, or hats on plasticine mushrooms. But you can go further in your creativity from walnuts. Children will be happy to create mice or birds, and adult skillful hands and a warm spiritual heart can create a whole world out of a nutshell ... Now you will see it.
In this article I want to introduce you to a very good person. Her name is Marina. Master with an attentive soul.
This is how the account page of this master on the Fair of Masters website looks like.
I really like the work of master Marina from the site Fair of Masters. With her own hands she created amazing, in its sincerity and warmth, the world of good old women. The walnuts in the place where the wings are connected are surprisingly similar to a wrinkled smiling old woman. It remains to add eyes, a nose-bone and mentally wrap everything with a cotton handkerchief. And now the cunning old woman looks at you cheerfully.
We make a body from a bump, weave hands from rough paper packaging twine. From felt we dump warm felt boots. Each old woman can be made with her own character. Cheered up with a big smile. Or silent thoughtful, on my mind.
Old women can be both summer and winter.
You can create whole worlds from natural material in which kind old women live and work. They themselves will keep their world clean.
And after work, they will gather for a cup of herbal tea to tell stories, make fun of each other and sing songs of their youth.
Master Marina sells her crafts. You can order her work on the master's personal page - https://www.livemaster.ru/woods. Marina can make you a custom-made craft for your family and friends.
After all, how nice it is to receive as a gift the World of good old women, which will always smell like a village CHILDHOOD for you - grandmother's pancakes, a pile of firewood by the barn, chickens running around the yard, a heated tree of an old bench near the fence.
Master Marina, I want to give an idea. In one I talked about another Czech Master who created the world of ACORN PEOPLE - Dubanchikov and wrote a book with stories about them, which he illustrated with emotional scenes made from natural material. The book is published in the Czech Republic, and only in Czech. I think that many children will like our Russian book with kind stories about Russian village grandmothers, illustrated by Marina's works.
After all, this is a real miracle, to make a new world out of natural material with your own hands - kind, fabulous, REAL. More and more new houses, cozy benches, swings, carts, wagons will appear in it.
Idea Pack #3
Crafts from natural material
FAIRY HOUSES.
If you like fairy tales with fairies and magicians, then you will like the world of fairies made of natural material. You can create cozy houses for fairies with your own hands, set up entire housing complexes for them, with ponds, parks, gardens, swings.
You can bring a man-made miracle to the school competition of crafts made from natural materials. The house where the gnome lives. Parts can be attached to plasticine, staples (from a stapler), to glue from a hot gun.
Pieces of moss, acorn caps, scales torn from a cone with pliers, lichens and dry hard hanging mushrooms taken from trees in the forest. And even pieces of plants torn from indoor flower pots - any natural material will be used to build such a complex but interesting craft. The house will grow and be ennobled by natural design before your eyes.
You can base thick wooden stick found in the forest. Saw off a comfortable piece from it. Buy at a hardware store tinted stain for wood- and cover the tree in a noble dark color. Cut out of thick cardboard windows, cover them with the same stain. From ice cream sticks put together a real door, arrange a porch. Sculpt a conical roof from plasticine. Break a large pine cone with tongs or pliers on scales and lay out tiles from them on the roof of a natural house.
Some elements can be molded salt dough(a glass of fine salt, a glass of flour + water (add water a spoon at a time, and grind with salted flour with your hands until a single lump is formed, similar to plasticine). Roll out the dough - cut into bricks with a knife. Dry - and get a lot of building material for the porch , paths, fences, etc. The dough can also be painted with gouache or stain.
But the house is VERY SIMPLE. Now I’ll tell you how to make it with your own hands from the things that surround us.
- Take strong cardboard package from milk or juice. Cut windows in it - this will be the future facade of the house.
- Buy a small bag of gypsum plaster (or putty) diluted with water and coat the facade of the house with this mixture.
- Dry and cover with whitewash or white gouache (toothpaste on the edge).
Make a roof out of cardboard, also apply glue to it and lay tiles from pieces of bark or cones. or chips.
Idea Pack #4
Applications
And of course, the most common crafts made from natural material are applications using dry herbarium - herbs, leaves, flowers. We made everything from leaves of chicks or fish in an aquarium. In a special article, I give many options.
And in this article I want to show a beautiful mosaic technique of laying out dry natural material in the form of a SILHOUETTE PICTURE.
You can find a lot of ready-made silhouette templates on the Internet. If in the search bar you type the phrase "silhouette of a hare picture" or another animal.
The most important thing in such a craft is to achieve recognition - the clarity of the silhouette. Therefore, you need to choose a silhouette without small details - protrusions. And if you chose with detailed protrusions, try to make the small relief detail be made with ONE SOLID petal (like the ears of a bunny or its protrusions of the paws in the photo above).
If, when laying out the mosaic, the edge of the plant protrudes beyond the border of the silhouette, it must be carefully cut with scissors (as is done in the photo above with a cat - it has triangles of ears cut out).
Nature Idea Pack #5
Crafts from branches.
From branches of different shapes and bends, you can lay out beautiful crafts with your own hands. Branches can just decompose on a white paper background, repeating the outlines of a bird or animal. It is possible in advance on paper draw a silhouette of a bird weak pencil lines. And then pick up branches that would lie on this drawn silhouette of a bird, repeating the curves of the picture.
Crafts from natural material can be fix with glue with a hot glue gun. Or make a photo-craft. That is, lay out the branches and take a picture of the craft, thereby perpetuating your product from natural material in the form of a photograph.
You can fix the craft at the key nodes of the plexus of branches and then in these knots attach it to the base (vertical wall or horizontal shelf-stand), as is done in the photo below.
In addition to branches, you can use wood chips, pieces of bark, chips and saw cuts from logs, chocks, thick branches in your crafts. This is how crafts-owls from the photo below are implemented. Simply and interestingly made with your own hands - you can safely take it to the exhibition of autumn crafts to school or kindergarten.
One and the same idea can be embodied in different angles and different materials. Here, for example, in the photo of horse crafts made from natural material, both branches and bark, and snags are used.
You can lay out entire mosaics completely filling the silhouette image with natural material. The direction of the branches should repeat the direction of the pattern details. Spread the branches in the same directions as the fur pile of the animal, or repeat the muscular relief of the animal with branches.
Perhaps this type of crafts made from natural material will captivate you so much that turn into a solid hobby with the prospects of monetization in a profitable business. Why not make beautiful wooden sculptures for a summer residence or estate for sale.
And if you want to use branches to create crafts from natural material in class at school, then here are simple ideas for you on how this can be implemented in the lessons of labor for boys. Everyone is taught cut with jigsaws plywood figurines. In addition to animal figurines, you can put together frames from slats and make beautiful landscape paintings of an autumn forest with mossy branches overgrown with lichen.
Similar ideas can be implemented at labor lessons for girls - without plywood and a jigsaw - by making a frame from cardboard twisted into a square tube (fold 4 pieces into a frame-frame, insert branches into holes), and cut animal silhouettes from dense packaging corrugated cardboard from old boxes and paint in gouache, if desired.
Package of nature crafts No. 6
Maple and ash seeds.
Dry lobed tree seeds can be very interesting to beat in a variety of do-it-yourself crafts.
You can make a mosaic craft out of this natural material in the form of a bird (because maple seeds look like feathers). You can lay out a pattern in the form of a butterfly on the glass, and thanks to the transparency of the background, it will seem that it is hovering in the air, as is done in the photo below. Maple seeds paint well with watercolor, so your butterfly craft can be in all colors of the rainbow.
At school or kindergarten, from the same natural material, you can make very simple children's crafts with a base on thick cardboard. Maple seeds can be a hairstyle on a painted human head, they can become a fluffy squirrel tail, feathers on the wings of an owl, or needles on a cardboard hedgehog (as in the photo below).
And maple seeds look like dragonfly wings. Therefore, you can make simple children's crafts in the form of beetles. For example, string beads on a wire (this will be the body) and glue seeds to the body on glue or plasticine. Wings can be painted with nail polish and sprinkled with glitter glitter. The bulging eyes of a dragonfly can be cast from frozen drops of the same nail polish. You will get a beautiful quick and simple craft made from natural material for children.
And the same maple natural material can become the basis for fun GRAPHIC CRAFTS-DRAWING with an ordinary black marker. We paint on the missing details for the snub noses and turn the seeds laid out on a sheet of paper into interesting graphics. These are already crafts for training your imagination - a great idea for a circle on the topic "Learning to think creatively."
I told more about this GRAPHIC method of using natural material in the article.
Idea Pack #7
Crafts from natural material
STONES.
A simple rubble stone left over from summer cottage construction, or smooth river, sea stones can become the material for your natural DIY crafts. The stone itself can tell by its shape who it looks like. And you just have to take felt-tip pens or gouache to bring this image to life.
If you feel like an artist in yourself - you can make complex multi-line drawings - as is the case with the stone owl craft. Or smooth thick pebbles can look like clumsy chubby panda bears - and such crafts made from natural material will be feasible for children. First, we cover all the stones with white, dry them, and then with a black marker we draw on it the black details of the teddy bear.
Ordinary felt-tip pens draw very well on stones. After completing the general painting work, the details of the picture need to give contours(clear boundaries) black marker.
You can draw the silhouette of a snail or a sheep on the stone yourself. And to give the children the task to simply color the finished silhouettes, supplement them with a pattern of stripes and dots or curls.
From dry grass and wire or other natural material, you can make a nest. And in this craft, put the chicks made of stones with your own hands. Older children can decorate a complex picture with a chick and an open beak. For younger children, the task is easier in the form of chickens in shells.
On a piece of plywood or a round saw cut from a log, you can lay out a whole picture of stones and other natural materials decorated with paints. This craft is suitable for work on the autumn competition in school or kindergarten.
Older girls will like exquisite pictures from the life of a fashionable girl - a felt-tip pen, paints, stones and rhinestones.
You can use the mosaic technique to lay out a variety of characters from stones. Attach the stones to the glue with a hot glue gun. The stones in the mosaic can be painted with gouache, or have their own natural color.
These can be landscape paintings made of natural material (sea pebbles, glass turned by water, shells, etc.).
Idea Pack #8
Crafts from natural material
PORTRAITS.
A very interesting topic for crafts made from natural material these are portraits. The face in the picture always attracts the eye. You want to look at such a craft for a long time, it has a soul, human eyes, into which you want to look, read their thoughts. A portrait is a craft that looks at you.
You can plant all the details of a portrait from natural material on glue. Or just fold the portrait like a mosaic on a sheet of cardboard, take a picture and brush off all the details of the masterpiece with your hand from the table. And on the wall in your room there will be a photograph of a disappeared, but ever-living portrait.
As an ornamental natural material, you can use stones, dry leaves, cones, seeds, bark. For drawing thin lines, branches of different trees, straws, blades of grass.
If you are working with children, then you can give them an easier task. Print the finished face on the printer. And from natural material in this craft make additions
Good luck with your work.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site
