DIY autumn crafts from. Autumn crafts for kindergarten

Good afternoon, today I continue my series of articles dedicated to autumn crafts. In this article I want to highlight non-standard crafts on the theme of autumn. Here you will not find animals made from acorns and chestnuts (for this I have a separate article for chestnut crafts and a separate one for acorn ones). On this page I will show other ideas, other techniques and materials. Lots of new ideas for DIY fall crafts. There will be crafts made from salt dough, autumn paintings made from dried leaves and flowers, felt crafts in the theme of autumn, works using the paper quilling technique and many different wreaths. I invite you to the falling leaves of autumn ideas for your DIY crafts.

And also on our website you will find other articles with autumn craft themes

And at the end of this article I will give another pack of links to our articles on the topic AUTUMN and crafts FROM NATURAL MATERIAL.

Autumn craft idea #1

Salt dough mosaic.

Mosaic pieces are like a construction set. You can lay out any objects from them. Including autumn paintings.

DIY salt dough mosaic recipe.

1 glass of salt (finely ground). 1 glass of flour. Mix and add water (pour the dumplings into the center of the slide, gradually stirring). We achieve a thick, tight consistency (as for rolling out dumplings).

Divide the dough into portions. Add food coloring to each lump (dilute powdered coloring in a teaspoon with water and mix into the dough). We get several multi-colored lumps of dough.

We wrap each colored lump tightly (without air) in a plastic bag or cling film. Place in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Take it out of the refrigerator and roll each flat cake into a layer 1-2 cm thick (more is possible). Cut into cubes, diamonds, rectangles, triangles. And we dry it (you can do it in the oven, you can do it in the sun, or just under the bed).

And we get a mosaic that can be easily glued using PVA glue or hot glue from a gun.

After completing the work, the entire mosaic picture can (and even should) be sprayed with regular HAIR SPRAY. And the colors will become bright, richness of color and a slight shine will appear.

The gaps between the mosaics can be filled with mortar- for example, dilute plaster with water and spread it on the mosaic, so that the liquid plaster is poured into all the cracks between the parts. And immediately, while the plaster has dried, wipe the entire surface of the mosaic with a damp cloth, clean those places where the plaster got on the drawing itself.

For this purpose, gypsum plaster from the store or mortar for sealing joints when laying bathroom tiles are suitable.

The background for the mosaic can be a canvas (or a piece of plywood) filled with a background of oil paint. Place a salt dough mosaic in the shape of a maple leaf on top of the oil painting (attach it to a hot glue gun). Dilute the gypsum solution to the consistency of sour cream, add food coloring (yellow or red) to it so that the color of the solution matches the shades of our mosaic. And carefully apply the solution to the mosaic with a thick brush, immediately wiping the surface, clearing the plaster at the top of the picture. In one hand there is a brush, in the other hand there is a cloth for grouting plaster.

After the plaster seams have dried, we cover the painting with HAIRSPray so that the color becomes bright again and the same shine appears on the mosaic as on the oil background of our autumn painting.

Other material

for autumn crafts using mosaic technique

Autumn mosaic made of ceramic chipped tiles.

You can use ceramic tiles with marbled patterns. Chop it with special tongs (you need to pinch off pieces of tile under a towel so that the fragments do not fly around the room or hurt your eyes). That is, you need the tile itself to be inside the bowl, which you covered with a towel, put your hands under the fabric and there, quietly, blindly, by touch, bite off the fragments with wire cutters). Before doing this, you can hit the tile a couple of times with a hammer (also under a towel), and then bite off the fragments with wire cutters.

Autumn mosaic made from eggshells.

We cook eggs in food coloring - just like for Easter. We clean the colored shells and lay out a picture of an autumn landscape.

Autumn mosaic from a broken glass vase, malachite.

It’s very good if you use a broken VASE, with beautiful iridescent sides - where the green color turns into yellow, blue, red (there are such vases). And if you break it and pinch it into pieces with tongs, you can fold a maple leaf like this (as in the photo below).

Autumn mosaic made of plastic kitchen boards.

Nowadays there are a lot of kitchen cutting boards made of plastic on sale. You can buy a red board, yellow, green. And either cut the pieces with a jigsaw (first long strips), and then use wire cutters to bite these strips into fragments of different shapes. And you will get a lot of good material for mosaic crafts in the autumn theme. Everything is simple and cheap with your own hands.

Autumn mosaic craft made from bottle glass.

Here in the photo below is an idea for crafts in the form of autumn leaves made from cement mortar and bottle glass. We break the bottle with a hammer - and under a towel (so that the fragments do not fly away) we bite off pieces of glass with wire cutters. We take a sheet of tin and bend it in a semicircle (we fix this bend with wire wrapping). Apply thick cement mortar in an even layer. We trim the borders of the cement cake so that it resembles a leaf in shape. And until the cement sets, we press pieces of glass into it with the side that is convex and does not contain sharp corners. We wipe the surface of the glass with a cloth, clearing it of any cement mortar that has fallen into it. Waiting for it to dry.

You can use smooth glass (not bottle glass) to simply cut it with a glass cutter into even strips, which you can then prick into diamond shapes with tongs. From rhombuses of the same size, you can lay out a pattern like the one in the photo below.

These are the ideas from autumn crafts package No. 1.

Now let's move on to the second set of ideas.

Autumn craft idea No. 2

Autumn crafts made from felt.

Colored felt has already won a place in the hearts of not only adult needlewomen, but also small children. Now it’s not just mothers on maternity leave who make felt crafts. Quite often the school group “Skillful Hands” teaches children the basics of sewing using felt toys.

The simplest autumn craft made from felt is to cut out the outlines of leaves and tie them to a garland or curtain.

You can buy a set of colored felt by ordering it online (cheaper from China, on the AliExpress website - photo below). Or buy in separate sheets in craft stores - but this is already more expensive... I recently asked the price in a store - one sheet of 30 by 30 cm costs the same as three packs of ice cream. It's cheaper in China.

The simplest crafts made from felt are to cut out the outlines of a leaf and use simple stitches to sew such a leaf to a background canvas draped in a hoop.

Or you can build a floral boutonniere like this from leaves (photo below) - you can fasten layers of autumn leaves from felt with THREAD or GLUE from a glue gun. If you attach a pin on the back side, we will get an elegant brooch for your autumn coat or hat.

And here’s another idea - in the photo below - an idea for a beautiful autumn craft made from felt - a whole felt painting made with your own hands. Leaves, a tree branch and a cute fox are cut from felt fabric. We take a picture frame and cover its bottom with fabric (or wallpaper background). We sew or glue a tree branch and a rope on which felt flags with the letters “AUTUMN” will hang. Then we sew a fox (or an owl, as an option) - from the remnants of the fabric from the fox we cut leaves, from another felt, also of autumn flowers, we cut more different leaves. Using a glue gun, we attach everything in a chaotic manner to the lower frame of the picture. We attach the sleeping fox with glue or thread.

A felt fox can be completely different. Here are several pattern options to choose from.

You can cut a donut ring from felt (or other fabric). Fill it with padding polyester to make the donut-wreath plump. And decorate it with felt leaves. Let's hang a mushroom, or an owl, or a squirrel.

The ring base for the wreath can be cut from regular corrugated cardboard - from an old TV box or a large family pizza. And using a glue gun or thread, sew felt leaves onto this round cardboard donut. You will also get a beautiful bright craft - an autumn wreath.

And here is a masterpiece wreath made from felt with your own hands. The owls are simply wonderful - all covered in sequins.

The base for the wreath can be purchased at the store - they sell foam rings for craft wreaths. Then you need to wrap it with threads (as in the photo below). Tie a twig to a wreath and place a bird on it (birds made from feathers are sold in home decor stores). And twist autumn roses from felt.

Here is a simple master class on how to create a felt rose with your own hands. Cut out a spiral in the shape of a snail. And we begin to twist the rose, fixing the twist with threads in the place where we hold the rosebud with our fingers.

And if the felt spiral has uneven edges - in the form of petals, then we will get a rose with round petals. By changing the shape of the edge of the spiral, we will obtain new shapes of felt flowers. For example, if the edges of the spiral are cut into fringes (scars), then we will get an aster flower.

You will find more ideas about flower crafts in my article. Many techniques for making paper flowers are suitable for DIY flower crafts made from felt (felt is the same paper, only a little thicker and softer).

Craft idea #3

Autumn wreaths.

Autumn crafts such as wreaths made from natural materials look very beautiful. Especially if this material is painted in autumn colors - yellow, red, orange, ocher. Ordinary pine cones bloom with all the colors of autumn - and it seems that the wreath is made of autumn flowers. A very simple craft.

Cut out a ring from packaging cardboard. We paint the cones collected in the forest with gouache and spray them with hairspray so that the paint shines and sticks to the cones (does not stain your hands). Now we take a glue gun and attach our pine cones to a cardboard ring as the base for the wreath. We get a non-standard autumn craft that you wouldn’t be ashamed to take to a competition.

You can twist an autumn wreath from willow twigs. Cut willow twigs must be kept in water so that they retain their flexibility. I have already described how to twist them into a wreath in a separate article. On such a willow ring you can attach physalis flowers-boxes, clusters of bright rowan berries, and beautiful red leaves (aspen has very dense red shiny leaves). To prevent our wreath from withering over time, you can dip all the elements - both the leaves and fruits of physalis and rowan - in melted paraffin from a candle. The waxy texture will seal all the juices of the plant and preserve their color and juiciness for several years.

In autumn wreath crafts, grass panicles, velvety white sage leaves, and rose hips look very beautiful.

You can make an autumn composition not in the form of a wreath, but as a bouquet of leaves and herbs. Here in the photo below we see an example of such an autumn craft.

We stuff birch logs onto a wide board.
On the back side of the chock, we attach a piece of iron mesh to nails bent in an L shape.
And onto this mesh we attach bunches of leaves and herbs with pieces of thin wire or threads.
On the same metal mesh we attach a wide ribbon of dense fabric - burlap or tarpaulin.

We tie a bow and hang this autumn craft on the door or facade of the house. It looks very elegant and beautiful.

Autumn paper wreaths

with your own hands.

You can implement the same wreath ideas from ordinary colored paper. Gather a group of children - give them scissors and let them cut out the outlines of the autumn leaves you drew along the contour. When a large pile of paper foliage grows on the table, you can start assembling the wreath. Yet again cut out a base ring for the wreath from packaging cardboard and attach our leaves to drops of glue in an elegant, colorful, chaotic order.

You can cut out leaves from cardboard and apply a stamped design on them. This is already more difficult - you need to use a smooth thin object - using pressure - to apply veins to cardboard leaves. A non-writing ballpoint pen is suitable as a tool.

You can choose interesting color schemes for your fall craft - it doesn't have to be a yellow-red-orange cloud of foliage. You can choose silver, burgundy, purple, bronze shades - in a cooler color scheme (as in the photo below).

You can also decorate a paper wreath with roses twisted from a paper snail spiral - according to the same principle as we made roses from felt in the photo above in the same article. You can also make roses using any other paper techniques. This site has a separate article about all the techniques for creating roses with your own hands -

Package of ideas No. 4

Autumn paper crafts

Using the QUILING technique.

Here in the photo below we see the autumn wreath again. It is made from twisted paper modules. Each element of this flower is a twisted strip of paper. Round paper rolls are given any shape - oval, teardrop-shaped, triangular - and whole bouquets of autumn flowers are made from these different shapes.

Here is a beautiful lace craft using the quilling technique - an autumn oak leaf with acorns also made from rolled paper.

As a beginner craftsman, you can make a small autumn card using the quilling technique.

Making a large quilled maple leaf with your own hands is painstaking work.

You will first need to draw (or print out) a template of the veins of the maple leaf. Then lay out long strips of paper along each vein. Each strip goes along the selected vein - it reaches the edge of the vein (a pin is stuck in this place) - the strip goes around the pin, bends over it and sticks to itself - a double strip is obtained. And this is repeated with each vein of the future leaf. And then each compartment is filled with shaped twist modules.

As the compartments fill with paper rolls, the pins can be removed. And stick it in the place where we want to press the glue-coated twist so that its glue side is pressed against the wall of the vein.

You can collect a whole autumn bouquet of autumn leaves made with your own hands using the quilling technique.

Package of ideas No. 5

Pictures on leaves.

(Master Class).

But here is an idea that I like because it has a huge variety of ideas for implementation. Here we see an amazing work - an owl painted on an ordinary autumn leaf. The artist’s painstaking work results in a beautiful autumn craft.

Even if you are not a very great artist, you can still make such interesting works - paintings on leaves, even a child can do it. It depends on what to draw. All children can draw eyes and a nose. All that remains is to show him how to make brush strokes - so that they look like feathers.

You can turn one single autumn leaf into an amazing autumn craft with your own hands.

Here are some simple ideas on how to decorate leaves with paints - for beginner artists... An oak leaf can become a peacock feather. Simple drawing. Nothing complicated - you just need to first think about how you will combine the colors - you can use blue, turquoise, green and yellow - or choose a different color scheme for the peacock feather - shades - pink, purple and purple.

You don't have to know how to draw to turn a maple leaf into a painting. Butterflies are a simple symmetry of the wing. You can simply knead a bright spiral of rich colors.

Or, of course, you can be bold and take a swing at a picture with a character (since there is now a fashion for owls, you can draw them in different views and angles. You don’t have to draw an owl as in a photograph - you can have cartoon owls. The main thing is to scatter the feathers in different directions - use a brush to make such strokes in a circle from the head, and strokes in a circle from each eye - you will get a disheveled owlet. All other parts of the owl that are difficult for you to draw the plumage, you can hide in a hollow and wrap in a scarf. Cunning and simple. Anyone can make this craft with their own hands.. And you will feel how interesting it is. And how nice it is to show this work to friends. Feel like an artist of a new magical reality.

Where to get ideas from. There are a lot of ideas around us. They are on social networks in communities of owl lovers, or communities of gouache paintings... Or you can find a picture in your child’s children’s book. This will serve as an idea for painting an autumn leaf.

For example, you found this owl.

Take a maple leaf. And a blank sheet of paper. Trace the maple leaf on paper with a pencil. We cut out the outlined silhouette - a hole in the shape of a maple leaf remains on the sheet. We attach this template with a hole to our picture with paper clips. And we get a ready-made template for a future craft, a painting on an autumn leaf.

Now all that remains is to take gouache, and step by step, with your own hands, transfer this picture onto a maple leaf. When everything is dry, spray the craft with HAIR SPRAY (to make the colors brighter and the sheet to sparkle with rich color).

And then, in order to preserve the painting for a long time, we dip the sheet into melted paraffin or candle wax. We quickly dip it in and quickly take it out by the tail and hang it on a thread to dry. We get a craft-picture that does not wither or fade over the years.

Package of ideas No. 6

Crafts-paintings

from leaves, herbs and flowers.

You can make beautiful crafts from herbs and flowers. The main thing is to prepare the picture in advance - draw the outline of the future landscape with a pencil (with faint lines) on a sheet of paper. Then use light watercolors to paint the sky, the reflections of the water reflecting this sky. Then place bridges cut from long wide leaves in the right place. And begin to painstakingly lay out the wooded hills - twig by twig. And then at the very end lay out the foreground of the picture - tall grasses and flowers to the left and right of the bridge line. Beautiful picturesque craft-picture. But it requires a lot of material.

A wooded hill is a whole heap of dried grass stems in the form of twigs. In order for the density of the forest to be lush, you need to first sketch the background of these hills with green watercolors, then you don’t need to lay the green stems so densely.

You can make a picture of flowers and leaves where there is no watercolor - the entire picture, both the background of the sky and the background of the earth, is made of plant materials - as in the photo below. A simple DIY autumn craft.

You can choose colored cardboard as a canvas for the painting - for example, blue as in the photo below. Then the blue cardboard itself will be a ready-made background for the sky and highlights on the water (as in the photo below).

When planning a leaf landscape painting, take care of the plans. Divide the picture into the third plan (horizon, sky, distant meadows) - background (hill, group of birch trees) - foreground (line of tall grasses and flowers).

A landscape painting of leaves looks very interesting if there is a PERSPECTIVE - an element that gradually decreases - goes into the distance. So in the craft below we see beds with flowering pumpkins or zucchini. The lines of the beds in the distance are a little thinner, and the flowers are a little smaller - than the same lines and flowers in the front of the picture.

Leaf paintings do not have to depict a landscape. It's just that landscape drawing is the easiest.

You can put together a whole still life from natural materials and scissors. The main thing is to first draw a sketch with a pencil. And then fill this sketch template like a mosaic with natural material. Using scissors, cut the leaves and stems into the shapes we need.

Do-it-yourself paintings from natural materials depicting insects look beautiful. Parts of herbs often resemble the legs or wings of an insect in their structure. Therefore, it is easy to find in nature elements similar in shape to parts of beetles, dragonflies, etc.

You can also create paintings depicting people or their things from dry leaves and herbs. Delicate canvases with ladies or girls in hats and dresses with delicate lace made of flower petals. You can twist a paper napkin into the silhouette of a lacy white umbrella and fill it with a scattering of press-dried flowers. Or you can use dried flower petals to make a girl’s dress and hat.

You can arm yourself with scissors and cut out clothes for the dancing couple - a dress and a tailcoat.

I also really like the works of the Ukrainian florist Tatyana Berdnik - she posts her works on the website Floristika. org. ua. We see her painting “Mom and Daughter” below. Tender fairy-tale pictures from a distant happy life - where everything is always good, where there are warm smiles and clear eyes, gentle hands and tender hearts. I highly recommend visiting this site - you will fall in love with these works and want to learn this magical art.

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Autumn is the golden time of the year and a great opportunity to create unusually colorful crafts.
It is this time that gives us a rich selection of bright materials for creativity. Seeing all this beauty of the autumn landscape, you can dream up your imagination and you will come up with wonderful works. Moreover, this is the time when children no longer spend so much time outside, but the beauty and bright leaves with puddles beckon and call)))

We offer you ideas for fall crafts that you can make with your children using inexpensive and accessible materials. This will be about wonderful crafts for the fall holiday in kindergarten.

Autumn crafts for kindergarten

Autumn leaves made of paper

For this easy, but quite interesting craft, you don’t need a lot of material. All you need is:

colored paper
scissors
double sided tape
wire

You can use paper of any color.
To begin, on a colored sheet, in this case orange, draw the outline of a leaf and cut it out.
Then fold it like an accordion in a circle.
Now we proceed to our ponytail, we take the wire and wrap it with a strip of colored paper on adhesive tape.
When both of our blanks are completed, we proceed to the last stage of our work, and glue the tail to the leaf between its ribs on the back side of our orange leaf.

And now our bright autumn leaf is ready. By making a lot of these leaves you can make a garland and decorate a child's room.

painted leaves

Or you don’t have to, but just collect leaves from the yard and paint them. Here you just need imagination when it comes to colors. And for the kids to like this activity, they just need to be prompted.

Look at some original ideas: from leaves you can make a fish, a dog, and Indian feathers... Well, of course, you will come up with something more interesting and fun. The start has been given...Crafts about autumn for kindergarten

Owl made of pine cones

Tree - palm

This is a very interesting craft that you should definitely do with your children, they will really like it.
What you will need:

paper black, white
colored paper (corrugated)
scissors

To begin our work, we need to make some preparations.
The first of them is the trunk of our tree. Ask your child to trace his hand with a pencil on black or brown paper. And we cut it out.
We also make leaf blanks. Mode - colored, corrugated paper into small pieces and crumple it with your fingers, your baby can handle this.
It is advisable to make leaf blanks from two colors, it will be more interesting.
Now that all the blanks are made, let's proceed to our applique itself.
We glue our stem-palm onto a sheet of white paper, and on top there are leaves of two colors in a chaotic order. As shown in the photo.

The autumn tree is ready. Such a children's masterpiece can be framed and used to decorate a room.

Application “Autumn Trees”

A bright and cheerful autumn craft for children.
You will need:

paper black and white
scissors
glue and brush
simple pencil
colored paper (corrugated)

First, you should make some preparations.
To do this you will need three sheets of white paper, the same size, approximately 10x20 cm.
We take colored paper (corrugated), it can be purchased at any stationery store, and use the mode for small rectangles of different sizes.
Having cut a sufficient number of colored pieces, glue them onto the white blanks in a chaotic manner. As shown in the photo.

Then we draw silhouettes of three trees on black paper and cut them out.
When our three sheets with colored rectangles are dry, we can start gluing our trees.

If desired, pre-cut small light green leaves or any other color can be glued to the top.

This is not for the little ones, crafts for the day of autumn in kindergarten, but for those who are already older.

Apple tree

This is an unusual painting that will undoubtedly cheer up not only your children, but also you.
For this fun drawing you will need:

paper
paints
apple

Draw a tree trunk on a sheet of paper in advance with brown paint, as shown in the photo. Let the paint dry, 5 minutes will be enough.
Then the fun and interesting part of drawing begins.
Cut the apple in half and paint one half with red paint and the other half with yellow.
And we make prints, making the crown of the tree.
It is best to use gouache paints; they are bright and dry quickly.
This drawing does not take much time, but will be interesting for children of any age.

The same beautiful apples can be made on pieces of fabric (burlap). You will end up with either an autumn garland or a home decoration in Vintage style.

Autumn has come

Autumn is a fascinating craft for children about the transition from summer to autumn. It's easy to do, you only need paper and colored pencils. Children with great pleasure turn the picture over, seeing different images. For them it's like a mini-cartoon.

First you need to take a sheet of paper and fold it like an accordion.

Then you need to lay the paper on one side and draw a tree with a crown and leaves. We draw first with a pencil so that we can correct (erase).

When you turn, you get this picture

Then you finish drawing the branches for the autumn tree and the leaves for the summer one.

You paint it in green and summer colors.

Having painted the autumn tree, we get this picture.

And this is the changing picture we get as a result:

Pumpkin in Art Nouveau style)))

A very simple and very accessible craft about autumn. In the fall, a lot of pumpkins ripen and making another orange beauty is just right.

Oka, by the way, looks like a pumpkin from the fairy tale about Cinderella. It is made very simply from ordinary colored paper in 2 colors. Well, all you need is:

orange and green colored paper;
scissors;
glue;
marker.

Hedgehog made from autumn leaves

A hedgehog can turn out to be kind and thrifty, or fat and thin. It all depends on how many leaves your kids collect.

For the little ones, of course, you need to prepare a blank drawing of a hedgehog, so that all they have to do is glue on the leaves collected in the garden. Adult children can draw a hedgehog based on the model themselves.

It is also important to show children autumn crafts before they go to the garden and collect leaves. You can conduct a whole lesson on botany, telling children the leaves of which trees they will collect for the hedgehog’s back.

Birds flying south

A very bright and funny craft for children about autumn.

What is needed for such creativity:

colored paper;
disposable cups;
scissors;
glue;
artificial eyes for children's creativity.

This is a creative lesson with a story about birds flying south. Birds can be made different by making tails from single-color or multi-colored paper.

If, after finishing such creativity, you pour cocoa into these cups, the children will drink it even with nasty foam.

Dense autumn forest

The blanks need to be drawn and cut out for each child in advance. and distribute before the start of the creativity lesson. And with the idea of gathering the kids and going for a walk with them, collecting leaves.

If you have a large group of children, then it is interesting to make the trees tall, as tall as the children. Then, by placing them along the wall, you will have a real autumn forest in your classroom or creativity room.

Autumn red apple

A very bright and simple craft. It is made from used plastic bottles. Therefore, in parallel, you can conduct a lesson with children about preserving our nature and using already made things that will simply be thrown away.

To make an apple you need:

2 plastic bottles (transparent);
a piece of green felt;
red braid;
a piece of wooden stick or twig;
red colored paper;
scissors;
glue.

Cut off the bottom of a plastic bottle to a height of 5-7 cm.

We crumple the red paper with our hands and place it in the cut-off bottoms of the bottles

We connect the cut bottoms by inserting one into the other. Glue them together and tie them with a red ribbon

Using scissors, we make a hole in the top of our apple and insert a twig there. If the red paper inside the apple lies tightly enough, then the twig will not need to be secured.

Cut out leaves from green felt and glue them onto a branch.

Candlestick with leaves

Children are very creative people. They love to talk on stage, receive gifts, discover something new... The only thing is that they cannot engage in this creativity without adults. And of course we must help them with this!!!

crafts for kindergarten on the theme of autumn

Crafts gifts of autumn for kindergarten - ideas from natural materials (video)

Sharing with your finds. All or almost all of us have to do crafts with children for kindergarten or school... You will also find fantasies here for home creativity with kids.

Let's start with the trees...

And now - pumpkins...

You don't have to do everything for a specific master class... And strictly adhere to the proposed topic. Can just take a craft idea and remake it in your own way.

Fantasies about candles...

To the hedgehogs I have a special weakness, so to speak. Once my family and I were picking mushrooms (I was still little)… We thought that there was a big milk mushroom under the tubercle. It turned out that We woke up the hedgehog. And you can’t really put him back (as it should be) - he’s so sleepy... And I had to take him to my home - he spent the winter in a mailbox (yes, my childhood was in the 80s) under a pile of paper (and all this time slept)... And then he went into the forest in the spring... Khalesy was like that...

Accessories of the “Queen of Autumn”…

Papier-mâché... And not only...

Well I didn’t put the owls first again. They are always the first and most important for us...

There are, in addition to owls, other living creatures…

And again - improvised material. Not only the one found in the forest... But also the “home” one... For example, pistachio shells...

AND door (wall) wreaths... good not only for New Year and Christmas... In autumn they especially cozy and bright it turns out...

And again pumpkins... Some people have a lot of them in their dachas! I’m not a dacha lover (no, no): my mother just hands me buckets of vegetables. But my godmother gave me a pumpkin last year. Ahhhh... Maybe I'm Cinderella?

Let's move on to crafts made from leaves and houses...

If you don't understand how cover with leaves or dough bowl from below, to get such beauty, watch the master classes...

Many people make baskets now. A very popular craft. On this topic "Gifts of Autumn"... Well, the baskets really turn out very colorful and juicy...

And again leaves... And again owls... And a lot of art...

In our kindergarten, Alice’s group is very talented, kind and hardworking teachers- Olga Grigorievna and Anna Sergeevna. They love children. And they adore them make all sorts of things in the educational process... Or draw...

Us crafts for children in kindergarten teachers left on a large panel- attached to paper clips that hang on fishing lines... Now I’ll find a post in a magazine when we made such a panel (with owls, of course) for crafts...

It’s such a shame to throw away homemade crafts. Of course, for some time they will please the eye... Some drawings will go into the family archive... But still you won’t keep them in a row... Therefore take photos of your creations. At least collect a photo collection as a souvenir... Only if you take pictures on your mobile phone, Don’t forget to “merge” the photo onto your computer. There are often notices around the city: “Your phone is lost, return it: ALL THE PICTURES OF MY CHILD are there!!!”

Some parents ignore creative activities... They say that paints are a lot of dirt and stains - you can only get by with pencils or felt-tip pens... And all that comes out is a mess... But the child, they say, doesn’t understand the plasticine - he rejects it... Start small- just give the child the materials. A couple of lessons... Then again... And then start gradually advise and help... To encourage creativity, to create... I also don’t really like dolls and LEGOs covered with plasticine... But accuracy, diligence and imagination... they won’t come from anywhere from a child if you don’t work. Daily.

Of course, there is always not enough time. Of course, there is a lot of work and household chores. But the child is delighted that his autumn work is also on display in a kindergarten or school. This - a source of pride yourself and your family...

Maybe this year... Maybe next... Your work will be recognized as the best at the exhibition. Even a prize. It will be a wonderful day. In the meantime, let family evenings be warmed by autumn candles, and photo frames decorated with leaves or acorns adorn the shelves...

By the way, my friend and I once made of papier-mâché just made giant mushrooms... All the children made them as tall as a palm... And here we have... Giants. Mutants...)))

Who hasn't read mine yet? 100 ideas for autumn, be sure to read. And apply - partially...

We a lot of things have already been used and done with Alisa and Shura- I’ll tell you in other posts...

And I’ll show you not today or tomorrow... autumn video...And pictures. According to last fall. Ours is so beautiful There was a family shoot. It’s just so complicated for a video combination of video and photo...So I'm waiting for Shura will finish installation. For now he has a lot of work to do.

P.S. Yes, I show you very few personal and family photos. Otherwise you will get tired of me...

In kindergartens, with the onset of autumn, active work is underway - teachers, together with children, actively use natural materials in classes. After all, you don’t need to purchase it - everything can be collected in the nearest park during a walk or even in your own garden.

Parents are also invited to show their imagination by making “Gifts of Autumn” crafts for kindergarten with their own hands, together with their child. Watching how mom or dad create miracles from the most ordinary vegetables or fruits, the baby will also want to take part in this. Such activities increase perseverance, develop imagination and simply lift the spirits of participants in the creative process.

Ideas for autumn crafts “Gifts of Autumn” for kindergarten

Every year in kindergarten, starting with the younger group, an exhibition-competition “Gifts of Autumn” is held. To participate, you only need a desire and a few available materials, which are often used as plant seeds, chestnuts, and cones:

The youngest participants in the autumn crafts competition “Gifts of Autumn”, which they will take to kindergarten, can be offered an easy job. By placing an ordinary chestnut in front of your baby, you can invite him to fantasize and imagine it in the form of some kind of animal. Using plasticine, which is often used to hold together the parts of crafts, it is easy to make a funny spider.

But not only chestnut kernels can be used to make crafts. Its peel with needles is also suitable for this purpose. They will make an excellent hedgehog, which can be decorated with rowan berries and leaves.

The chestnut theme is inexhaustible. You can create a whole zoo from ordinary fruits lying under your feet. And for this you only need to take toothpicks and bright plasticine.

And if on the back side of the chestnut you glue a piece of yellow felt and an acorn to it, you will get a very plausible moss mushroom.

Little beauty creators will love working with paints. With their help, you can paint acorns in bright colors and fill a transparent container with them - such an unusual work will undoubtedly attract attention.

It is easy to make people and animals from acorns collected in green form using toothpicks.

If you have walnuts, chestnuts, acorns and pieces of moss, you can invite your child to make a decorative wreath for the front door of the group - it looks unusual and elegant.

Don't forget about vegetables. With their help, stunning crafts are created for the garden for the “Gifts of Autumn” exhibition, and if you do them step by step, then even a child will not have any difficulty in the work. For example, ordinary potatoes can be an excellent starting material for various people. Thanks to its round or oval shape, the craftsman already has a blank of the desired shape. All that remains is to think of the scenery.

In addition to edible pumpkin, on the plot of land, there are also types of pumpkins that are specially designed by nature for creating crafts. Some of them are very tiny in size and have a variety of bright colors. Taking advantage of this gift from nature, you can create a cheerful pumpkin family.

Using plasticine and seeds you will get an excellent hedgehog. By planting it in a clearing of grass and moss and decorating it with mushrooms and acorns, we will get a realistic mushroom clearing.

Round, red-sided apples are always associated with a cheerful caterpillar. To make such a craft look original and not hackneyed, you should complement it with unusual decor - beads, feathers and flowers.

Little children will be delighted that from a simple pine cone, a couple of leaves and a piece of plasticine they can make a beautiful swan.

The pine cones make funny animals, such as squirrels. If there are pieces of chenille (fluffy) wire in the house, then it can be used as legs and a tail, and a pine cone will serve as the body.

In the area where walnuts grow, you should not throw away their shells, because they are an excellent natural material. By painting them “mushroom-like” and planting them on wooden legs made from twigs, we get a whole mushroom meadow.

And if you paint the nuts in different colors using gouache and place them in a basket of leaves, it will become an original decoration.

Collage "Autumn"

Prepare:

Multi-colored threads
- flowers and leaves for decoration
- thin dried twigs

How to do:

1. Make a circle of dried twigs. Secure the structure with wire or thread.
2. Take a colored thread and wrap the circle so that you get a “cobweb”. Secure the end of the thread with a strong knot.
3. Decorate the round frame with leaves. They need to be inserted between the threads of the web. You can use any natural material for decoration.

DIY natural crafts on the theme of Autumn

"Crown of Leaves"

Necessary materials:

Scissors
- thick paper or cardboard
- colorful leaves and natural materials for decoration
- adhesive tape

Stages of work:

1. Measure the circumference of the baby's head. Add a few centimeters to this length. This data will be needed to cut a strip 5 centimeters wide. If one cardboard sheet is not enough, you can cut out 2-3 strips and glue them together.
2. Cut one strip again, but now zigzag. Only one side should be zigzag cut.
3. Cut a piece of adhesive tape the same length as the cardboard strips. Place the ribbons, sticky side up, on a flat surface.
4. Glue 1 cardboard strip to the top half of the tape, and the jagged part to the bottom. There will be an empty part of the adhesive tape in the center. This is where you need to glue natural materials for decoration.
5. Instead of adhesive tape, you can also use PVA glue.

Make some like this too.

"Finger puppets"

Necessary materials:

Thin brush or thin branches
- cardboard cylinders
- leaves
- colored paper
- PVA glue
- glue stick
- scissors
- small stones or buttons

How to do:

1. Start gluing the sheet evenly to one end of the cylinder. First you can glue colored paper, and then the leaves.
2. Glue small branches on the sides - these will be hands.
3. Glue pebbles or buttons along the cylinder.
4. Make eyes from plasticine and fix them on a cardboard cylinder.

Try doing this too.

DIY autumn garden craft

"Pine Pine Spider"

Prepare:

Thread
- thin branch – 4 pcs.
- cone
- plasticine or plastic eyes
- glue “Moment”

Stages of work:

1. Make paws from twigs.
2. Attach eyes to the bottom of the pine cone.
3. Tie a thread and hang the spider.

DIY crafts autumn kindergarten

"Stars from branches"

Necessary materials:

Raffia or paper tape
- gouache or acrylic paint
- branches of the same diameter and length
- Super glue

Stages of work:

1. Collect twigs in the forest, cut them to obtain material of the same length. In total you will need 5 pieces.
2. Form a star from the twigs. If desired, the branches can be painted with gouache or acrylic paint.
3. Using raffia, connect the branches to form a star.
4. Wrap the craft with bright ribbons or raffia.

DIY autumn theme photo:

"Decorations for napkins"

Collect acorns from a forest or park, clean them of dust and dirt, and rinse with water. Pierce each fruit through with a needle or awl. Stretch wire, fishing line or thread through the acorns. As a result, you should have a ring. Glue the acorn caps to the surface with superglue and coat with varnish.

"Tree with acorns."

Separate the caps from the fruits, paint them with paint of any color so that the craft blends organically into the interior. Attach loops made from twine to the hats. If there are branches left on the caps, tie a rope to them. If there are no branches left, use glue. For best results, place the vase on a tray covered with fall leaves and acorns.

Autumn candle

The easiest way to decorate a candle is to place it in a glass container. Beautiful handmade candlesticks will make the atmosphere in your home festive and cozy. First of all, choose a beautiful glass vase. If the candle is too low, pick up any object on which you can place the candle. A bowl works great. Just turn it upside down and install the candle. Additionally, decorate the bowl to make it unnoticeable. You can use willow branches for decoration. They bend well, so you can wrap them around a bowl. Fill the gaps between the walls of the bowl and vase with hay, moss, etc. Place a candle in the center and decorate it. To do this, use red and yellow leaves. Just cover the outer wall of the vase with them. Weave the twine into a braid and tie the leaves. The rope not only holds the leaves in place, but also serves as an additional decoration.

Room decor with branches

Branches are an excellent environmental material. To create compositions from them, you do not need to have special materials and tools. You can see unusual shapes in simple branches and driftwood and use them to create original crafts.

Be sure to clean and dry the collected branches. The branches can be used in their pure form or covered with paints or varnish. Large, sweeping branches will look great on the walls. They will become not only a decorative element. They can be used as lamps or hangers.

DIY autumn crafts for kindergarten

Application “Pieces of Autumn”.

During your walk, collect chestnuts, acorns, and beautiful leaves with your child. Even from the simplest leaves you can make funny little animals, as well as beautiful patterns and ornaments. Joint creativity will develop the baby’s fine motor skills, imagination, attentiveness and perseverance. Creating an applique is a simple process. Prepare dry leaves, clean them of dust and dirt, smooth them with an iron, placing them between two pages of a book or paper sheets. Prepare the paper, glue the prepared leaves using PVA glue. You can use scissors and cut out beautiful details. Children very often cut out animal figures. To cut out a realistic silhouette, just use a template.

Original candlestick

Candles make the interior cozy, interesting and magical. Prepare a large candle and decorate it with small ears of corn. Give your child the opportunity to paint the cobs with all the colors of the rainbow. Place a rubber band around the candle, insert heads of corn into it, and tie it with a beautiful ribbon. Coat each head of cabbage with additional glue so that it is better fixed to the candle.

Decorative basket

Necessary materials:

Beautifully colored leaves
- cones
- chestnuts
- acorns
- fruits vegetables
- wicker basket
- all kinds of cereals

How to do:

Line the inside of the basket with paper. If you have a floral sponge, place it on top. It is very convenient to insert autumn flowers into it. Place cereal and autumn leaves along the edges of the basket. Place the fruit in the center and insert the stems into the sponge. For better fixation, string the fruits onto wooden skewers and insert them into a floral sponge.

Autumn leaves made of felt

Prepare 2 pieces of fabric of different colors. Mark the veins on one section and cut them along the contour. Pin 2 leaves together with pins and sew along each vein. For this purpose, use a sewing machine or a needle and thread. Make the veins in the center of the leaf using machine or hand stitches. You can make a beautiful garland from these leaves and hang them in your home.