author Raud Yu., photo by the author

A new autumn has arrived, and our golden autumn bouquet roses made from leaves. This is just some kind of miracle! The reality of unreality is to fold rose petals from a maple leaf!

The author of the idea of ​​making roses from autumn leaves is my colleague, teacher primary school Natalya Yakubova. Unfortunately, her lesson - how to make a rose from maple leaves - was copied from us by many sites without indicating the authorship of these materials...

We are happy to share this art with the readers of the site.

So, a virtual lesson from Natalia: the sequence of making such a wonderful bouquet of roses from leaves, with my photographs and comments.
At the end of the article - advice from our readers who learned how to make a bouquet of roses from leaves.

Making a rose from maple leaves step by step

We collect suitable leaves (too small, dry, diseased, torn leaves are NOT suitable for us) of various colors. To make one flower, it is better to choose leaves of the same color.

We fold the first sheet in half, across the central vein - so that the front side of the sheet is on the outside.
Now we roll this folded sheet into a tight roll. This roll will be the “core” of the rose.

Now we begin to place “petals” around this “core” of the flower. To begin with, we take a leaf, and place the “core” in its center (note that the front side of the leaf is inside the future flower!).
We bend this sheet outward in half. The edge of the inflection of the “petal” is located above the “core” by a centimeter and a half. Smooth out the fold of the sheet.
And now we also bend this protruding edge of the sheet outward, but do not smooth out the fold...

We wrap the side edges of this double-folded sheet on both sides around the “core”.
We pinch the lower edges of the leaf at the very base of the flower.
We take a new sheet for the next “petal” and repeat the operation just performed. Only this petal is now placed on the side opposite to the first leaf.

Next, we perform several similar operations, adding new leaves - now the petals are collected into a bud. Add leaves until you think it is enough to complete the flower.
When the bud is ready, we tie threads around its base to secure the flower.
How many flowers there will be in your bouquet is up to you. For this “photo shoot” we had three...

Making a bouquet

Now let’s take care of the “greenery” of the bouquet that frames our roses. The most beautiful and variegated leaves are suitable here.

To prevent these leaves from curling into a tube the next day when drying, it is better to first iron them between sheets of newspaper. After this procedure they will become more fragile, but if handled carefully they will not be damaged.

We evenly arrange the prepared leaves in a circle, placing them under the buds in the hand. Then we fix the now finished bouquet at its base with the same threads.
By the way, you can wrap this knot with yellow paper tape (painting tape) over the threads. The ribbon will hide the threads and make the bouquet look neater and more complete.

Here is our autumn bouquet of roses from maple leaves and it’s ready!
I’ll tell you a secret that I folded one of the three roses in this bouquet :)

Here's some advice we received from users of the forum of the site www.eva.ru:
“In order for a bouquet of roses made from leaves to last longer, you need to lubricate the already rolled roses with vegetable oil (with a brush). The oil is absorbed after two days. The leaves become soft, do not dry out, do not lose color and do not shrink.”

Tips from our readers:

“Indeed, leaf flowers smeared with sunflower oil last much longer. Checked: our rose has been standing for a year now, and is still the same beauty :)
By the way, you can add a couple of drops to sunflower oil essential oil. I added pine and really liked the result. Or you can take orange - it has been proven that it improves mood. Experiment!”

“Sunflower oil will dry out over time and turn into a sticky drying oil.”
Florists use for.
If you put twigs or leaves in a mixture of glycerin and water (3:1, hot water), they will not dry out, but will remain soft. The only thing is that there may be an unpredictable change in the color of the leaves.
You can probably lubricate the autumn leaves with pure glycerin to make them softer. Or liquid silicone."

“You can go to the flower department and ask to cover all this beauty with a special varnish, which is used to treat cut flowers when necessary and when not necessary.”

“You can process a ready-made bouquet of roses and regular varnish for hair :)))
I watched how they make mats from autumn leaves - they are coated with some kind of special glue that makes the entire texture of the leaf clear. Then all its veins become very distinct, and the color of the leaf plays out.”

“At home I have a can of flower varnish (well, for glossy leaves indoor plants shined better). So we coated our bouquet of 11 roses with this varnish, and it turned out really great!”

“I was able to secure this stunning bouquet of autumn leaves using melted wax. Roses and individual leaves after such treatment they did not lose their color and have been making us happy for the second year!”

“We also sprinkled glitter on our made roses, and it turned out absolutely gorgeous!”

“Last fall I painted rose leaves made from leaves with gold paint, and in winter I decorated the Christmas tree with them.”
Here's what happened:

“And in Israel we made roses from sycamore leaves.”

“We don’t have maples with red leaves in our area. I had to use wonderful crimson-red leaves both to make miniature roses and to frame the bouquet.”

“You definitely need big maple leaves to make roses. Moreover, if the size of the leaves is different, then you need to start with smaller ones, because for the growing volume of the rose, a larger leaf is needed each time.”

Yuri Raud, labor teacher (Narva, Estonia)
www.lobzik.pri.ee

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Roses from maple leaves. Master class with step-by-step photos

Handicraft master class: in the technique of “working with natural materials”.
Master class title:"Flowers from autumn leaves."
Author of the work: Nikolaeva Natalya Anatolyevna, teacher additional education MBOU DOD "House of Children's Creativity" Osinniki, Kemerovo region.
The master class is designed for children and additional education teachers.
Purpose of the master class: With the onset of autumn, I want to show and tell you how you can make a bouquet of roses from bright autumn leaves. I am ready to tell you how you can enjoy not only a walk in the park, when you collect autumn leaves of extraordinary beauty, but also aesthetic pleasure from the resulting bouquet of these same leaves. This extraordinary decor will decorate your home, and most importantly, it will remind you of a pleasant holiday in nature.
Target: decorating a wicker basket with roses from autumn hazel leaves.
Task:
- introduce the possibility of using fallen leaves to create roses with your own hands;
- cultivate a love of creativity and creative work.

Materials and tools:
- natural material (hazel leaves),
- jute rope,
- scissors,
- scotch,

Wicker basket.
- oasis.

Step by step process manufacturing:
1. Take a yellow or still green hazel leaf and fold it in half (across, not lengthwise!)

2. Roll it into a tube (roll)

3. Take the second hazel leaf and place the first one on it - rolled

4. Wrap the second sheet in the third sheet

5. Take the fourth sheet and as in paragraphs 3.4

6. Wrap the base of the resulting rose with thread or jute rope and tighten it tightly

7. And here is our first rose! Thus, we make the quantity we want

8. Using the same method, make a few more roses (preferably an odd number)

9. To decorate the basket, take a maple leaf and lay the base

10. Lay a floral brick and insert roses from leaves into it

11. When all the buds are ready, we connect them together, and then everything depends only on your imagination. You can “wrap” them with the same maple leaves, you can take chestnut or hazel leaves.
This is how the eco-composition turned out.

Advice for crafters:
Flowers from autumn leaves will stand and please the eye, but after a couple of days the leaves will begin to dry. They will take on a different look, no less beautiful, but different. Therefore, for those who want to preserve flowers in almost their original form, there is advice: as soon as you make your roses from leaves, cover them with varnish (just do not under any circumstances use nail or hair varnish). Parquet varnish or plastic varnish works well. You can also paint roses with acrylic varnish and then they will always be the way you want.

, genuine leather and other improvised materials for making crafts, from which we learned to make beautiful artificial flowers.

Autumn has long come into its own and painted the world around us with bright, colorful colors. Autumn gave us wonderful natural materials for making unique crafts with our own hands - fallen from trees

autumn leaves of different sizes and fancy shapes, as well as numerous flowers and inflorescences, which we will use to make beautiful flowers, cute lamps , graceful bouquets with artificial roses, original compositions of vegetables and fruits for interior decoration.

And children will be happy to help their parents create amazing crafts out of hand, absolutely waste natural material . Such joint leisure is very useful for the development of imagination, fine motor skills, and sensory abilities of young children and primary schoolchildren.

From autumn natural materials you can make not only simple crafts, children's educational toys, applications and herbariums. Interior designers have long adopted the unique beauty and indescribable sophistication of autumn gifts. The walls of the rooms can be decorate with exquisite panels and paintings with compositions in the form of flowers from autumn fallen leaves (maple, oak, chestnut), folded with your own hands in a special way. In order to use fallen tree leaves and dry flowers for making crafts , bouquets and compositions with your own hands, it is important to properly prepare these natural materials before work. You probably already know that autumn leaves can be placed between the sheets of albums (books, magazines, newspapers) and a load can be placed on top. This preparation method is suitable for forming a herbarium, children's applique or collagefrom dried leaves.

But for making volumetric crafts and bouquets of flowers from autumn leaves that have fallen from trees, this method is not suitable. Before you start twisting such flowers from leaves that have fallen from trees (for example, roses from red maple leaves), it is important to properly process them in order to the crafts retained their original appearance for a long time. We will tell you about this in detail later in this article. In addition to advice and useful ideas on creating bouquets and compositions from natural materials, you will find here video lessons , as well as master classes, with the help of which you can quickly make with your own hands how simple compositions(children's crafts from leaves, appliques, figurines, collages), as well as complex bouquets and objects for interior decoration in the form of bouquets of flowers from autumn leaves ( topiary ) or compositions of dried flowers (see photo).

You will learn how to properly process and preserve maple leaves and autumn flowers so that those made from them beautiful crafts did not turn into brittle, shapeless and twisted objects. And you can make any of these natural gifts of autumn in a wide variety of colors and with surprisingly different fancy shapes. artificial flowers - large roses , small cornflowers, graceful chrysanthemums, cute daisies, gorgeous water lilies . The color of these homemade flowers can be very different (not just yellow or red) - after all, dried autumn leaves can be painted with an acrylic primer with the addition of a tint of the desired color (and then covered clear varnish). With the help of gel pens you can apply different designs and geometric shapes on the surface artificial flowers autumn theme.

Ideas for creativity:

- Application.
A great idea for spending leisure time with your child! Have you already collected a lot of beautiful fallen leaves and autumn flowers from your yard, dried them, and made a colorful herbarium? Let's not stop there! Spread a large sheet of thick paper or cardboard on the table, lay out our “harvest” on it and create an original composition, combining colors and different forms of natural materials . You can glue the details of the autumn composition to the base with PVA glue (but it is better to use photo glue or gum arabic);

- Collage.
You and your child can put together a multi-layered bright collage under a frame. The bottom layer is large dark and brown leaves, then greenish, the upper layers are small bright contrasting leaves of red and yellow. We add dried autumn flowers to the collage, adding different shapes from them and getting a beautiful three-dimensional composition.
Or you can add letters or words (as well as shapes) to the collage - tightly press a sheet of cardboard with cut out letters to the glued composition and carefully cut out the letters according to the template with a stationery knife (of course, with the hands of the parents, not the child);

- Educational game for children.
A great idea that your baby will love preschool age! Glue half of a fallen leaf onto a paper sheet (first cut the sheet vertically). The child’s task is to draw the missing half of the sheet with a pencil (felt-tip pen). Advise your child to choose suitable color pencil and carefully look at the shape of the half in order to accurately reproduce the mirror part of the composition. Most difficult option- leave a maple leaf for later and help your child draw a little;

- Painted autumn leaves.
You can decorate both flat and three-dimensional crafts made from leaves with painting. For this work, use gel pens and felt-tip pens (with silver, gold, white and other colors). Bouquets with decorated artificial flowers will be great and other interior objects;

- A bouquet of autumn leaves and dried flowers.
You will find information below on how to make flowers from maple leaves with your own hands and assemble a bouquet from them. If you decorate such a bouquet with dried flowers and place it in a small wide vase, you will get an excellent compositional center for your room;



- A tree or topiary made from autumn materials.
Another great option for interior decoration. You can make a small tree from fallen twigs and decorate it with homemade flowers made from leaves. Or make your own topiary (see photo), attaching many of these flowers to a floral ball (option: to a foam ball);

Tree (photo):


- Three-dimensional picture of the gifts of autumn.
You can use a large photo frame or a wooden picture frame as a base. The background can be made from cardboard, painted in a suitable color . We make interesting compositions with our own hands from maple leaves, dried flowers, fallen pine needles and other natural materials, attaching them to the base using wire.

Helpful Tips:

How to prepare autumn leaves for making crafts and applications at home.

- for voluminous crafts in the form of flowers and bouquets.
We won’t be able to make voluminous crafts from dried leaves, as they are too brittle. Therefore, we will specially process the collected leaves. Divide the solution - 200 ml. glycerin per 400 ml. clean water. Carefully place the leaves that have fallen from the trees into a thick plastic bag and level them, then fill them with the prepared solution. The bag with the contents must be hermetically sealed (with a heated knife) or sealed with adhesive tape. Leave this bag in a dark closet for 3-4 days, and then spread the leaves on a paper towel to dry. From these flexible leaves that retain their original appearance for a long time, you can make the most different flowers(below - MK: how to make beautiful roses from maple leaves with your own hands);

- for flat autumn compositions (appliqués, collages).
Leaves and flowers collected in autumn are best dried in massive magazines and reference books. The collected natural materials must be thoroughly pressed with a heavy weight placed on top of the directory.

How to properly dry autumn flowers for crafts and compositions:

- iron drying.
Autumn leaves and many small flowers can be dried with an iron. To do this, lay out natural materials on thick cardboard. , cover the top with a thin paper sheet and iron with a not very hot iron until all the moisture has evaporated;

- natural drying.
An excellent option for drying autumn flowers. Stretch the rope in a dry room with good air circulation. We put the collected flowers in bunches and hang them on a rope with the inflorescences facing down;

- oven drying.
A wonderful way to dry large single flowers (roses, tulips, peonies) for making compositions. The temperature in the oven should not be very high - approximately 50-60°C. Carefully monitor the process so that the flowers do not turn brown or lose their shape during drying;

- volumetric drying of flowers.
According to many experienced florists, this method of drying autumn flowers allows you to preserve their natural shape and color. The cut flower is placed in calcined dry sand for 4 weeks. As a container, you can use a box with a fine-mesh mesh at the bottom and a retractable bottom. Flowers with double and voluminous inflorescences (lilies, dahlias, roses) are placed in the sand with the stems down, and with flat inflorescences-baskets (buttercups, daisies, asters, forget-me-nots) - with the stems up.

What tools and materials may be useful for making autumn crafts:

- Scissors.
Small scissors with blunt ends for a child and sharp long ones for an adult;

Stationery knife and stacks.
Using a stationery knife is convenient for cutting multi-layered parts of a craft. Plastic stacks are great tools for child, with the help which he can cut individual leaves for appliqué;

- Shilo.
For convenience, choose a tool with a wide wooden handle (length - 5-6 cm) and a not very thick piercing part;

- Long tweezers and tweezers.
Tweezers are convenient for moving small parts of crafts. Tweezers with a folded twisted front part can be borrowed from manicure set. These tweezers are very convenient for twisting individual parts of the product and wire;

- Thin wire.
Often used to form the frame of crafts and toys from natural materials. To fasten individual parts, it is advisable to use flexible and durable copper wire with a diameter of 0.35 mm;

- Foil and foil paper.
For decorating autumn crafts, for appliques and collages;

- Sewing needle and thread.
For connecting individual parts of crafts, for forming bouquets of leaves and dried flowers;

- Paper.
The more different types paper (differing in color, density, thickness), the better. To make crafts, appliqués, bouquets, panels and wall compositions from natural materials, you can use corrugated, wallpaper, velvet, parchment, landscape, wrapping, copying and other types of paper;

- Plasticine and plastic (polymer clay).
For fastening, as well as for sculpting individual parts that complement products made from leaves and dried flowers. Working with plasticine and polymer clay your child can do;

- Glue.
A variety of brands of glue can be useful in your work. PVA, BF, and “Mars” are often used. The safest options for use by a child are PVA and glue sticks.
For gluing individual parts of a craft, brushes with hard bristles are useful;

- Paints and brushes.
To create applications and collages - watercolor and gouache paints. For painting three-dimensional crafts made from autumn leaves and dried flowers, use acrylic paints. It is most convenient to paint with soft squirrel brushes.

2. HOW TO MAKE A BEAUTIFUL ROSE FROM FALLEN AUTUMN LEAVES WITH YOUR OWN HANDS

It is very easy to make such an artificial flower with your own hands! For work, prepare autumn maple leaves, strong threads, golden paints and sunflower oil. You can treat the leaves with a glycerin solution (see recipe above) for the durability of the assembled craft.

To make a separate flower, it is best to choose plain maple leaves. The rosettes from the leaves will be quite large. 5-7 of these crafts are enough to fold beautiful bouquet. You can use the same maple leaves as leaves for this bouquet with artificial homemade flowers. Make the roses red and yellow.

So, let's get to work:

- take a maple leaf and bend it in half (front side facing out);

Bend the very tip and roll the leaf into a roll;

We take a second maple leaf of the same color and place the already twisted bud at its base (see photo);

We form a maple rose petal by bending the leaf and wrapping it tightly around the bud;

We wrap the third maple leaf in the same way. The more such rose petals there are, the more voluminous and larger the rose will be. Move each subsequent row down a little to make the flower look blooming;

Just above the leaf petioles we secure the craft with thread;

Similarly, we will make another 5-7 of the same roses (yellow, red, greenish);

Lubricate maple roses with sunflower oil so that the bouquet retains its original appearance for a long time. Now you can cover the crafts with golden paint;

All that remains is to drop a few maple leaves into a small vase, and then form a beautiful bouquet of artificial roses.

3. MASTER CLASSES. LEARNING TO MAKE CRAFTS IN THE FORM OF FLOWERS FROM AUTUMN LEAVES AND COMPOSITIONS FROM DRIED FLOWERS

Master class No. 1:

STEPS OF STEP-BY-STEP PRODUCTION OF GORGEOUS VOLUMEROUS ROSES FROM RED MAPLE LEAVES FALLEN FROM TREES (PHOTO).

Master class No. 2:

HOW TO MAKE A FLOWER FROM AUTUMN LEAVES. ANOTHER OPTION FOR FOLDING A LARGE ROSE FROM MAPLE LEAVES WITH YOUR OWN HANDS. STEP-BY-STEP PHOTO MK.

Master class No. 3:

WE MAKE CRAFTS FROM LEAVES

Children are easily captivated by something new and interesting. If your child is already bored with drawing or modeling, you can invite him to make crafts from bright autumn leaves. This process is extremely fascinating - amazing things are born from simple dried leaves with the help of glue, thread and other improvised devices. By taking up appliqué or making vases and bouquets, the child will not only be able to develop his creative skills and imagination, but also get to know the environment better. Collecting a herbarium together for crafts is an excellent opportunity to teach your child to distinguish between different tree species. So, what can you make from leaves?

Preparing leaves for crafts

To make any craft from leaves, you only need well-dried material; fresh leaves are not suitable. Preparing the leaves takes a long time, so you will have to be patient. In addition, the material needs to be dried correctly, here are the basic rules:

1. If the evenness of the leaves is not important for the craft, they can be placed in a spacious container (for example, a large wicker basket) and left in the fresh air. This will allow the leaves to dry quickly and allow air circulation to prevent mold from developing.
2. To get perfectly smooth leaves, you need to place them between book pages or album sheets under a press. Carefully place the material between the sheets of books or albums. It will take at least 14 days for the material to completely dry and be ready for use.
3. If you don't want to wait a long time, you can use a special herbarium press. To do this, fold a stack of leaves, alternating each layer with newsprint or scrap sheets. In a few days, the material for the crafts will be ready.

How to Skeleton Leaves

Leaf skeletons, due to their lightness and transparency, look very impressive as decoration. To achieve this effect, you need to resort to a special technique - skeletonization.

What you will need:

• any fresh leaves;
• soda;
• egg dye;
• small container - ladle or pan;
• toothbrush;
• paper napkins.

How to make skeletonized leaves:

1. Mix soda and water in proportions of 1 to 4 and place the leaves in the prepared solution so that they are completely hidden by water.
2. Bring the mixture to a boil and leave to simmer for 30 minutes.
3. Remove the pan from the stove and remove the leaves, carefully placing them on the table with the glossy side up.
4. Remove excess moisture using napkins.
5. Clean the pulp from the leaf with a brush (this must be done very carefully, the leaves are quite fragile).
6. Rinse the skeleton under water and then paint it the desired color.
7. Leave the painted skeletonized leaves to dry.

The resulting material is ready for use.

Bouquet of flowers from leaves

A bouquet is the simplest thing that can be made from leaves, and it is worth starting with it if the child has not previously done such crafts. To make a craft in the form of a home bouquet, it is not necessary to use real flowers, dry them, etc. The buds can be made from multi-colored leaves collected on a walk. Involve children in every step of the process, creating a real creative workshop.

What you will need to make the craft:

• maple leaves (fresh) with stems;
• spool of strong thread.

To make a bud from maple leaves, you will need to perform several steps:

1. First take one sheet and fold it with the glossy side out.
2. Roll the leaf into a tube.
3. Fold the next sheet in half and wrap it around the tube.
4. Continue wrapping the leaves around the bud until the flower is quite full.
5. Wrap a thread around the base of the bud to prevent the flower from falling apart.

Using this method, you can make any number of flowers, which are then simply collected into a bouquet.

Topiaries can be made from the most different materials. You can often find crafts made from coffee, banknotes, sweets, hearts, etc. This version of topiary involves the use of maple leaves.

So, what is needed for topiary:

• pot;
• wooden stick for the trunk;
• a foam or foam ball as a base;
• gypsum;
• dye;
• hot glue;
• elements for decoration.

The procedure for creating an autumn topiary looks like this:

1. The stick must be inserted into the pot and secured tightly with gypsum mortar. As a result, the structure will be strong and stable.
2. Paint the pot and stick a color you like, such as gold to match the leaves.
3. We attach a foam ball to the top of the stick - this is the future crown of the tree.
4. Stick the required number of leaves into the ball. For decoration, you can use berry bunches, ribbons, beads, as well as artificial twigs and flowers. To make the leaf stems more durable, they must first be soaked in a hot solution of glycerin (1 to 2) and left in this form for 10 days in a dark, cool place .
5. Next, we decorate the trunk and soil of the tree using dry moss, bark, and beads.

How to make a decorative autumn wreath

You can weave a beautiful wreath from bright autumn leaves to decorate windows, doors, walls, etc. A wreath attached to the front door will delight not only you, but also your guests.

What you will need for the craft:

• flexible branches of any tree;
• dried leaves of different colors (contrasting combinations, for example, yellow and red, look best);
• bunches of red berries (rowan, viburnum, etc.);
• physalis;
• glue;
• spool of strong threads;
• decorative metallized threads;
• small bird figurines for bouquets.

How to weave a wreath:

1. The branches will serve as a frame - make a round or oval shape.
2. For strength, secure the structure with thread in several places.
3. Wrap the frame tightly with gold thread, leaving small branches free.
4. Glue the leaves to the branches.
5. Attach the berry clusters using thread.
6. Glue or wrap physalis with threads.
7. Finally, attach the birds to the wreath.

A finished craft made from leaves in the form of a wreath can be hung anywhere in the house; it will delight you with its beauty for a long time and remind you of the most colorful time of the year.

Beautiful autumn leaves can be used not only for simple children’s crafts, but also for complete interior decoration. One such product is a fruit bowl.

To make such a vase you need:

• glue and brush;
• inflatable ball;
• petrolatum;
• scissors;
• maple leaves.

Step-by-step instructions:

1. Inflate the balloon to the size you need.
2. Lubricate the surface of the ball with Vaseline, this is necessary so that the leaves do not stick to it during the process and are easily separated from it.
3. Fix the ball in a stationary state, this will make it more convenient for you to make your vase.
4. Glue maple leaves to the ball, having first generously coated them with glue.
5. To make the vase strong enough, you will need several layers of maple leaves.
6. As soon as the last layer is completed, carefully coat the product with glue again and leave for 3 days.
7. Burst or deflate the balloon and remove any remaining residue from the product.

The original interior decoration is ready.

Photo frame in autumn style

Children love to decorate the walls of their room with their drawings and favorite photographs. A craft made from leaves in the form of a frame is perfect to complement the design of the room. Help your child decorate a frame with autumn leaves, where he will then place his favorite photo.

For the craft you need:

• thick cardboard;
• glue;
• leaves you like;
• pencil;
• scissors.

How to make a frame:

1. Cut a square or rectangular frame from cardboard the right size. The center of the frame where the photo will be placed needs to be cut slightly smaller than the size of the photo.
2. To wrap a frame with leaves, first soak them in hot water, this will soften them and prevent them from tearing or breaking in the process.
3. Glue the leaves onto the frame.
4. Wait for the product to dry.

When the frame is ready, insert the photo into it, securing it with glue or tape.

Applications from autumn leaves

Appliques are one of the simplest types of crafts made from dried leaves. Using leaves different forms and sizes, you can create real paintings, which will then become a decoration for your home. You can make a whole series of panels united by a common theme. These can be animals, landscapes, etc. Next, several small master classes will be presented on making applications in the form of an owl, the Firebird, a fish and a lion.

Owl

To make an applique with an image of an owl, you will need:

• small leaves of brown tones (for this you can use oak, willow, birch);
• colored paper;
• a small twig of thuja;
• sheet of cardboard;
• a bunch of rowan berries;
• any tree branch;
• glue.

Before starting work, the leaves and berries must be dried. Once all the materials are ready, it’s time to move on to the most important thing:

1. Cut out the outline of an owl from cardboard.
2. Birch or oak leaves will represent the ears and paws of an owl; glue them in the right places.
3. For feathers, use long, narrow willow leaves.
4. Cut out eyes and beak from colored paper and glue them on.
5. Glue your owl onto a tree branch, which will become a stand for the craft.

For additional decoration, you can use moss or thuja branches. You can also use rowan trees as owl paws. The product is ready.

Firebird

For the Firebird applique you will need:

• sheet of paper;
• leaves of linden, birch and rosehip;
• pumpkin seeds;
• thuja twigs.

And here's what the process itself looks like:

1. A linden leaf is glued to the place where the bird's body will be.
2. Birch leaf - head.
3. Rosehip leaves are glued individually onto the tail.
4. Whole sprigs of rose hips will serve as an additional decoration for the tail.
5. Glue birch leaves to the body, these will be the wings.
6. Eyes are made from pumpkin seeds, as well as decorations for the body and tail of the Firebird.
7. The final stage is a tuft from a thuja twig or any other suitable plant.

The firebird is ready.

Lion

Children love different animals, so they will be especially interested in making some familiar animals.

What you will need for the lion cub:

• rounded yellow linden leaves;
• black felt-tip pen;
• ash seeds;
• horse chestnut (nuts);
• glue;
• small pine branch;
• scissors;
• a sheet of yellow paper;
• sheet of orange cardboard.

Having collected all required material, it’s time to start making crafts:

1. Draw a lion's head on yellow paper or print the image on a printer and cut it out along the outline.
2. For the mane, use linden leaves, gluing them around the head.
3. Draw a nose for the lion and glue a chestnut in its place.
4. Pine needles will be used for the mustache.
5. The ash seed will represent a tongue.

As soon as the craft dries, it will be completely ready.

Fish

What child doesn't know about the goldfish that grants wishes? Making crafts with your own hands will be very entertaining for your child.

To make a fish craft you will need:

• dry quince and linden leaves of brown and yellow color, respectively;
• glue;
• marker;
• ash seeds;
• acorns;
• paper scissors;
• sheet of blue paper.

How to do:

1. Draw the outline of the fish on blue paper and cut it out.
2. Make scales from linden leaves and glue them to the body of the fish.
3. Use brown quince leaves to decorate the tail.
4. Using acorn caps, draw the outline of the fish’s head.

That's it, the real goldfish is ready.

Every autumn, colorful leaves delight the eye as they fall to the ground. This beauty quickly fades in the rain, turning the leaves into a solid brown mass. However, there is a way to preserve the beauty and brightness of autumn leaves - dry them or skeletonize them and use them to make various things from children's crafts to interior decorations. This activity will appeal to both children and adults.

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