Applique lessons with children

Applications made from natural materials

The purpose of classes with natural materials:

■ To introduce the child to nature, to show its diversity and beauty.

■ Stimulate creativity, thinking, hard work.

■ Develop artistic taste and imagination.

How to prepare material for such applications?

Method one: drying plants in books and magazines that are placed under a press. If the preparation is made for a herbarium, the plants need to be strengthened a little. To do this, dip them in a solution of water and 20% PVA glue, after which dry the plants again, but without a press.

Method two: drying plants in bunches. This method is used to dry plants with fruits or flowers. Plants are formed into small bunches and hung in a dry place. They should not be exposed to sunlight.

Method three (fast): Plants are ironed with a hot iron. To do this on ironing board First cover with newspaper, then a napkin, then lay out the plant and in the reverse order - napkin and newspaper. Then carefully set everything aside for several hours. The ironing procedure is repeated 3-4 times until the plant is completely dry.

Lesson 1. “Herbarium”

Do not use plants that you do not know to compile a herbarium; they can be poisonous.

Purpose of the lesson: visual study of nature. (From the same tree, for example, you can collect samples in spring, summer and autumn, and observe how it changes.)

You will need: thick album sheets, thread and needle, PVA glue, colored markers, prepared dried plant.

Stages of work:

■ Attach the plants to a landscape sheet; twigs can be attached by sewing, leaves can be glued. If you have collected samples of different stages of a plant (flowering, appearance of buds, change in leaf color), attach them to one landscape sheet for clarity.

■ In the lower right corner write the name of the plant, the family to which it belongs, the location (meadow, forest, front garden, etc.) and time of collection. Your herbarium is ready!

You can make a picture like this from a herbarium

Lesson 2. “Mushroom glade”

You will need: a sheet of cardboard, PVA glue, a glue brush, a glue container and leaves.

Stages of work:

■ Show your child how to make a mushroom out of leaves. Tell them that mushrooms grow in groups, so you need to make several mushrooms.

■ Let the child decide where the mushroom will be placed. This is where you need to apply glue. You should not apply glue to the leaf itself; it may crumble.

■ First glue the leaf for the mushroom stem, then the cap.

You can make as many of these mushrooms as you like and in different sizes.

You should not trim the leaves to give them the ideal shape, as this will cause them to lose their originality and break.

Lesson 3. “Tree”

Tree can be made in different ways:

■ Glue several leaves in the form of a fan, and one leaf on top in the middle.

■ Draw the trunk and branches of the tree, and take the real leaves, only very small ones.

■ Use paints to paint the trunk and main branches, and take large leaves, different colors and shapes.

Lesson 4. “Butterfly”

You will need: a landscape sheet, a pencil, PVA glue, a glue brush, a container for glue, dry leaves and flowers.

Stages of work:

■ Help your child draw the outline of a butterfly.

■ Apply PVA glue to it.

■ Let the child choose the leaves and flowers from which his craft will be made.

■ Let the craft dry. Ready!

Many of us like to bring home pieces of nature after traveling or simple walks. These could be pebbles and shells from the sea coast, pine cones and leaves from a noisy forest, or beautiful flowers from the fields. All these gifts of nature can be used in making crafts. For those who want to become better acquainted with techniques for making appliqué from natural materials, this article offers several useful tips and ideas with photo and video collections.

Learn how to make your own appliqués from natural materials

Nature's gifts can be collected all year round, however, the richest time for this is autumn. The main thing is to guess the moment when the foliage becomes beautiful color, and collect it to your heart's content.

Winter is the time to collect seeds. Maple and ash winglets are often used in appliques. In the spring, various plants are collected and dried; in the summer, poplar fluff and all kinds of flowers are collected. Various pebbles, shells and shells are brought from the seas.

We are preparing the material for work.

The collected leaves should be sorted by type and dried. This can be done by placing them between the pages of old thick books or magazines. Or put a sheet of paper folded in half and place a weight on top. There is an option to smooth the leaves with a hot iron.

All kinds of plant seeds and eggshell washed and dried, then sorted into different boxes. Stones and shells are also washed and dried; they can be coated with varnish or paint. Poplar fluff is cleared of debris.

The cones can be left in the form in which they were collected, or the scales can be cut off, which will then need to be dried.

Types of applications.

The easiest way is the overlay appliqué technique. It does not require cutting out parts from natural materials; a picture is created by superimposing leaves and flowers on top of each other. Silhouette applique, on the contrary, involves cutting out the necessary parts from materials.

Modular technique or mosaic involves gluing together many identical materials. For example, this technique is used to create fish scales or bird tails.

Butterfly applique.

Very simple work, which is perfect for kindergarten.

You will need:

1) Cardboard or paper base;

2) Glue and brush;

3) Tree foliage, flower petals, maple wings;

4) Pencil.

Manufacturing process:

1) Using a pencil, draw the outline of a butterfly.

2) Apply glue to parts of the drawing one by one. Let's start with the abdomen.

3) Then we form the wings by gluing large leaves symmetrically to the abdomen. We decorate them with flower petals.

4) Form the butterfly's head. It can also be made from a petal, or you can use a dried berry, for example, rowan.

5) At the end we make antennae from maple lionfish. The butterfly is ready!

Applications made of poplar fluff.

Poplar fluff is a very comfortable material for children's creativity. Soft and pleasant to the touch, it will instantly win your child's heart. Because of its texture, down is most often used to depict animal fur. Below is a MK with the general basics of creating an applique from poplar fluff without using glue.

You will need:

1) A sheet of velvet paper;

2) Poplar fluff;

3) Chalk (a piece of dry soap);

4) Toothpick.

Manufacturing stages:

1) On a sheet of velvet paper, draw the outline of the future picture using chalk or a piece of dry soap.

2) Then apply a thin layer of fluff to the design, pressing and smoothing it with your fingers. Add a few more layers on top to create a three-dimensional image.

3) We correct the work by combing the fluffs and removing unnecessary details from the outline with a toothpick.

4) To create small details, be it the antennae of an animal or a nose, you should roll the fluff into a ball.

"Underwater world" made of shells.

Now let’s try to create an original painting with our own hands, using shells and other natural materials.

For this you will need:

1) Corrugated cardboard blue and brown colors;

2) Seashells different sizes, pebbles;

3) Feathers;

4) Dry grass;

5) Yellow salt;

6) Plasticine;

7) Pencil;

8) Glue and brush;

9) Scissors;

Stages of work:

1) We make the background of the picture, adjusting it to the size of the frame. Most of the background will be occupied by water (blue paper), the bottom will be at the bottom (brown paper). We fix it.

2) We depict algae; to do this, we glue dry blades of grass in selected places in the picture.

3) Lay out the crab, choosing shells of appropriate shapes and sizes. Carefully glue all the parts, starting with the body and front legs.

4) We make fish from feathers and shells and let them “swim” in the sea. We make the eyes from lumps of plasticine.

5) Add a few more dry blades of grass, representing algae.

6) Decorate the bottom with shells, glue yellow salt for brightness. It is made by painting with gouache regular salt.

And a few more photos of possible works made from natural materials.

Video on the topic of the article

Children's crafts made from natural materials: 25 ideas and step-by-step master classes for children of preschool and primary school age.

Children's crafts made from natural materials

In this article you will find more than 25 ideas for making crafts with children from natural materials (leaves, branches, seeds, chestnuts, acorns, vegetables and others) in different techniques. All master classes in this article were prepared for you by readers of “Native Path”, participants in the competition.

Craft 1: Maple Leaf Roses

This craft was sent to our competition by Anna Baranova and her daughter Lera and Lera’s teacher from kindergarten MBDOU No. 3 “Ryabinka” ( junior group) Inza, Ulyanovsk region. And also Khabibullina Liliya Rustamovna (Madou "Kindergarten No. 174 of a combined type" of the Moskovsky district of Kazan) and Davletberdina Malik (5 years old).

Material for making:
- maple leaves of bright colors (orange, yellow, red),
- twigs with viburnum berries,
- raw threads for forming a bouquet of roses,
- golden hairspray to strengthen and strengthen the bouquet (optional),
- several strong branches to strengthen the bouquet of roses.

How to make a bouquet of roses from maple leaves:

Preparing to make crafts: We collect suitable leaves of various colors. We need fairly large, not too dry and whole leaves. Leaves that are too small, dry, diseased, or torn are not suitable for making a bouquet. To make one flower, it is better to choose leaves of the same color.

Step 1. Take one maple leaf, hold it with the stem facing you and fold it in half with the front side facing out. Next, we roll it into a tight roll - a tube. This will be the “core of the rose,” that is, the middle of the flower.

Step 2. Now we begin to lay the “petals” around this “core” of the flower. We take another maple leaf, hold it the same way - with the petiole facing us - and place a prepared tube-like core on it, closer to the petiole, in the middle of the leaf. Face the leaf should be inside the future flower. We very carefully bend the sheet in half outward. 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 bend this protruding edge of the sheet outward again, but do not smooth out the fold. We try not to compress the fold and keep it elastic.

Step 3. Take the next maple leaf and make a second petal on the other side of our center - the tube. We continue further until we get a rose flower. Each time you need to take a maple leaf a little larger than the previous one.

Step 4. Having decorated the flower, you need to wrap the base tightly with threads. A strong thin twig can be tightly tied to the base to give the flower strength.

Step 5. Having collected a bouquet of several roses and decorated it with viburnum branches, you need to tightly wrap all the branches with thread again, collecting them into a bouquet.

How many flowers there will be in your bouquet is up to you. We evenly arrange the prepared leaves in a circle, placing them under the buds in the hand. Then we fix the now finished bouquet at its base with the same threads.

Here is our autumn bouquet of roses from maple leaves and it’s ready!

Step 6. To add strength, beauty and shine, you can spray the finished roses with golden hairspray. But this is not necessary.

Another option for decorating such a bouquet of maple leaves was made by the family of Margarita Kasanova (5 years old), Kazan, MADOU “Kindergarten No. 174 of a combined type”, Moskovsky district of Kazan. Teacher - Kalmykova Olga Dmitrievna

Craft 2: corn

This craft was sent to our “Autumn Workshop” competition by teacher Elena Anatolyevna Rim (Moscow State Budgetary Educational Institution “School No. 166”, Structural Unit No. 7). And Yulia Terekhina (5 years old), Elena Anatolyevna’s pupil, performed the corn.

How to make the “Corn Corn” craft:

Step 1. Prepare corn cobs (large, medium and small), cardboard base for crafts, hot glue, fern leaves, fir cones, acorns, leaves, nuts, cereals (barley), decorations for corn (bows, hats, beads, eyes, etc.)

Step 2. Form the corn cobs into characters.

Step 3. Place Kukuruzikov on the cardboard base and decorate the surface waste material. The craft is ready! Good luck!

Craft 3: autumn forest.

This craft was sent to our competition by Anna Yuryevna Kazakova. And he fulfilled it four year old son Anna Maxim in drawing classes led by teacher Alexandra Vladimirovna ("Happy Childhood" club, drawing circle for children "Kalyaka-malyaka", Yoshkar-Ola).

You will need:
- landscape sheet of A 4 format,
- autumn leaves,
- watercolor paints,
brush.

Step by step description:

Step 1. Bring back autumn leaves from a walk.

Step 2. Color the white space of the album sheet as the background. Next, on a sheet of paper, draw vertical lines - trunks autumn trees.

Craft 4: Old Man Lesovichok

This craft was sent by teacher Tatyana Vladimirovna Fedorova from Birsk (Bashkortostan), MADOU Kindergarten No. 8 “Alyonushka”. It was made by a child from Tatyana Vladimirovna’s group ( senior group) with the help of a teacher.

Craft material: larch needles and cones, plasticine. All the parts of the forest tree made from natural materials are fastened together with plasticine.

Craft 5: Hedgehog Applique

This hedgehog was made and sent to our autumn children's creativity competition by Sofia (5 years old) and her mother Anna Shikhareva.

Material for making crafts- pine needles, felt, pine cone, cardboard and PVA glue.

If you prefer not applique, but a voluminous hedgehog, then you can easily make it with children from a piece of plasticine, dried chestnut skin and trimmed cotton swabs. But this is a really prickly hedgehog, so be careful. This hedgehog was made by Yulia Romanovna Ruzaeva and her daughter (2 years 8 months) from St. Petersburg. And you will find another craft by Yulia and her daughter, “Giraffe made from chestnuts and acorns,” in the master class in the article

Craft 6. Hedgehog made from piaflora and natural materials

And here is another hedgehog using a different manufacturing technology. It was made and sent to us by Mironets Anna Vladimirovna (mother) and her son Maxim (4 years 9 months) from the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar.

To make the craft we will need:- piaflor, - dried leaves of rowan, gooseberry, serviceberry, - dried flowers, - hairspray.

Description of the craft:

Step 1. Take half a brick of piaflora and cut out the body of a hedgehog from it (it will be shaped like a droplet). Sharp corners must be smoothed out with your hands. Piaflor does not need to be soaked.

Step 2. Divide the dried rowan leaves into separate leaf plates, which are then inserted into the piaflor (into the body of the hedgehog).

Step 3. Hedgehog ears can be made from dried gooseberry leaves. And we’ll make the paws from dried serviceberry leaves.

Step 4. Fold the leaf cuttings several times. We make eyes and a nose out of them.

Step 6. Secure our craft with hairspray. This is the kind of hedgehog you will get.

Craft 7. Caterpillar and hedgehog made from chestnuts

This craft was made and sent to us at our “Autumn Workshop of Children's Crafts” by 4-year-old children together with their teacher Olga Nikolaevna Tegaeva (Moscow region, Sergiev Posad district, Shemetovo village, Novy district, MGBOU d/s no. 75 "Fairy Tale")

To make this craft you will need:

Chestnuts,
- moss,
- branch cut,
- acorn cap,
- tree leaf,
- plasticine.

How to make a caterpillar and a hedgehog from chestnuts:

— We dry the chestnuts to make it easier to separate the prickly skin from the nut.

— While the chestnut nuts are not completely dry, we pierce them with an awl on both sides and insert matches without heads into the resulting holes (for reliability, we glue the matches with glue).

— We form a caterpillar. To do this, select the nuts by size, starting from largest to smallest.

— Glue an acorn cap onto the caterpillar’s head.

— We make caterpillar eyes out of plasticine and attach them.

— Glue the caterpillar onto the stump.

- Now we make a hedgehog from plasticine, and make its prickly back from chestnut peel.

— We place a maple leaf ironed through sheets of white paper on the hedgehog’s spines.

- Lay out the moss.

This is the kind of hedgehog - the caterpillar's friend - you can do.

Craft 8. Basket of pine cones

This craft was made by Polina Durnova (9 years old, Samara, school 118, grade 4B), Maxim Durnov (2 years old) with Durnova’s mother Svetlana from Samara, Krasnaya Glinka village. First, Svetlana and the children tried to make a basket of cones according to the description on the Internet using a glue gun, but...after a day the resulting basket lost its shape and “went” in different directions. Therefore, Svetlana came up with her own technology for making a basket of cones.

How to make a basket of pine cones:

Step 1. Go to the forest, collect a lot of cones.

Helpful Tips:

— If you want to make a durable basket that will serve you for a long time, then you need to take into account this possible fact: closed cones open in a warm room. And this is undesirable if by this time you have already woven the basket. Therefore, it is recommended to cover the cones with a liquid solution of wood glue.

— The strongest connection of cones into a basket is a connection with wire brown(in the color of the cones so that it is less noticeable). To do this, wrap the first cone with wire, then continue to wrap the cones around the wire in a circle, wrapping each of them. We do this until we get a circle the right size. We do this for 2 - 3 rings. And then we connect them into a frame. Connect the pine cones into a basket using a glue gun. But in the next steps you need to secure this structure.

Step 2. Using thin wire, fasten three rings, then connect them into a single basket structure and screw the handle on top. The knobs for the handle are also wrapped with thin wire and then tied with wire to a thick base of the handle or thick wire.

Step 3. Place a cardboard circle on the bottom of the resulting structure. Place rowan branches with berries and spruce cones in a basket. The result will be a beautiful autumn composition.

Craft 9: Autumn Ship

Autumn is the time of colorful ships made of leaves, which set off on a voyage known only to them through the endless airspace. The main thing is that the wind is fair. It's time to make your autumn ship.

This ship was made and sent to us at our autumn workshop of children's crafts by Svetlana Nikolaevna Matveeva (Liski, Voronezh region) together with her son (child's age - 3 years 8 months).

To make a craft - a ship from natural materials - you will need:

- plastic tray for food,

- several leaves that can be found on the street (it is better that at least three leaves of them are large sizes- we use them for sails),

- a stick for a sail with a length of 20 to 30 centimeters,

- several thin sticks for making handles,

- plasticine of different colors,

— colored paper,

- glue stick,

- ate a few cones,

- parachute seeds of maple or ash maple (optional, optional)

How to make a craft - a boat from natural materials:

Step 1. Make the torso and head of the sailors. The sailors' torso will be cones. From pieces of plasticine we sculpt eyes, a mouth and noses, which we attach to the bumps so that we get the faces of sailors.

Step 2. We make caps for sailors - big shots.

To do this:

— Using caps of various diameters, we draw circles on colored paper - the future caps of our sailors (select the diameter of the circle suitable size).

- Cut out circles.

— From paper of a different color, cut out several thin strips, calculating two strips per circle (the length is arbitrary, but keep in mind that these will be visor ribbons, so do not overdo it with the length).

— Glue two strips to each capless mug close to each other.

— In the center of each capless circle we glue a piece of plasticine the size of one or two beans.

- We attach these caps to the tops of our cones - the sailors now have caps.

Step 3. We make the arms and legs of the sailors.

- Determine where your sailors will have their hands and glue a couple of pieces of plasticine there, to which you attach small thin sticks - these will be the sailors’ hands.

— We make the legs from plasticine. The shape of the legs should resemble flippers so that the bump stands and does not fall in our ship. To make legs, we make “sausages” from pieces of plasticine the size of walnuts - small but thick, and then we flatten them and attach them to the bottom of our cones.

The sailors are ready.

Step 4. Making the sails. Using a large stick, we make holes in several large leaves, and we pull the latter through this stick to make several sails on one mast. The junctions of the leaves with each other can be slightly glued with plasticine, then the leaves will not move towards each other and fall down.

We placed a basket of ash maple “helicopters” at the top of the mast. To do this, we simply covered a piece of plasticine with these helicopters, dividing them into single seed plates, and then glued this piece of plasticine to the top of the mast. However, such a “basket” is not necessary if you have no “helicopter” seeds.

Step 5. Attach the mast to the base of the ship.

To attach the mast to a ship from a plastic tray, we glue a piece of plasticine slightly smaller in size to the tray approximately in the middle walnut(don’t skimp on the plasticine, we need the mast to hold tight). We insert our mast into it. For better fastening mast, you can stretch the plasticine a little along the trunk of our mast.

In a tray-ship on free seats arrange our sailors, lightly pressing their flippers and legs to the bottom so that they stick and hold firmly on the deck. Along the sides of the ship, you can glue leaves of different trees and/or flowers onto pieces of plasticine, but this is not necessary - see for yourself what you like best. It is also not necessary to put a dragon's head on the bow of your ship.

The bow of the ship can be anything, but we made a dinosaur head out of plasticine and attached it to the bow of our ship.

The autumn ship is ready and can go to any fairy tale that you want to create with your child!

Craft 10. Picture for V. Suteev’s fairy tale “Under the Mushroom” made from natural materials

Four-year-old children, Katerina Mochalova, Adele Kuchieva, Kolya Krupennikov, Vlad Sbudyshev, Anatoly Akhtemenchuk and Yana Mukhantseva, made this craft for dramatizing Suteev’s fairy tale “Under the Mushroom” together with their teacher. Teacher - Denisova Svetlana Aleksandrovna. Children go to kindergarten MADOU d/s No. 2 “Caramel” ShchMR MO in the city of Shchelkovo, Moscow region.

Preparatory stage: watching the cartoon “Mushroom Teremok”, reading the fairy tale “Under the Mushroom” by V. Suteev.

Materials for making crafts based on a fairy tale from natural materials:

- pine and spruce cones

- plasticine

- wire

- mushroom toy

- base for crafts

- maple, rowan leaves

- corrugated paper

- scissors

- PVA glue

- pine twig

- matches

- cork

Step-by-step instructions for making crafts:

Step 1. Prepare the base.

We cover the A4 size box with green corrugated paper. On this paper we glue maple leaves, previously ironed through sheets of white paper.

Step 2. We make trees as decorations.

Take a piece of plasticine, roll it into a ball and knead it until you get a round cake. We insert a rowan leaf, previously ironed through a sheet of paper, onto this cake with a branch facing up. You can also insert a pine twig into the “cake”. Such trees decorate our foundation.

Step 3. Attach a large mushroom.

In the middle of the base we attach the finished mushroom - either to plasticine or glue.

Step 4. D Let's look at the main characters of the fairy tale (ant, butterfly, sparrow, bunny, fox).

All heroes are made from pine cones and plasticine.

How to make fairy-tale characters from pine cones and plasticine:

Ant:

Take a fir cone. The narrow tip of the cone is pulled out using brown plasticine. Black plasticine eyes are attached to the ant’s “head”. The paws can be made from wire, attaching them evenly over the entire cone with plasticine. We make the antennae of the ant from 2 matches without heads.

Sparrow:

The toy is created from a pine cone, the eyes are made from two small corks, the paws are made from three matches (attached to plasticine). The beak and tail are made using plasticine: attach the plasticine to the pine cone and stretch it into the desired shape.

Butterfly:

A butterfly can be created from a fir cone by attaching two multi-colored circles of corrugated paper to it using wire. To do this, a hole is pierced in the paper (from the edge of the circle closest to the cone), a wire is threaded into the resulting hole and the wing is attached to the component part of the cone. The same action must be done from the other end. The butterfly's head can be made from plasticine by attaching it to the body of the toy on the narrow side of the cone.

Hare: the toy consists of a fir cone and blue plasticine. The paws, ears and head are molded from plasticine. We also make the eyes from platinum of a different color.

Fox: The fox is easy to make. We will need a fir cone and orange plasticine. The fox's muzzle is molded from a plasticine orange sausage and stretched out in the shape of a fox's nose. A black nose is attached to the muzzle.

Step 5. We make a composition based on a fairy tale.

Let's put the heroes under a mushroom. We attach the butterfly in the corner to the base of the composition.

We wish creative fantasies and imagination, and then you will have your own fairy tale!

Craft 11. Apple caterpillar

This craft was made by Danila Ankushev together with his parents from the Strekhninsky kindergarten (senior group “Friendly Family”). And teacher Elena Yaroslavtseva sent us a craft for the autumn workshop.

How to make a caterpillar: The caterpillar's body is made from apples. We make the legs from earplugs (sold at the pharmacy). Wooden toothpicks are used to hold the parts together. The craft is decorated with a grape snail shell.

Another option for making caterpillars from apples was sent to us from the city of Kungur, Perm Territory (Madou “Kindergarten No. 6”). This caterpillar was completed by Arina Kulyashova, 6 years old. Teachers: Zueva Tatyana Vladimirovna, Karaguzheva Rufina Viktorovna.

How else can you make a caterpillar from apples: option 2.

This caterpillar is made from apples. The apples are held together with toothpicks. The legs are carved from carrots. They also hang on to toothpicks and walk on autumn leaves glued to a landscape sheet. The fashionista dressed up in chokeberry beads. Berries are collected on a string. The eyes are made of red rowan and are also held on by toothpicks. The caterpillar wore it instead of a hat beautiful flower, hooked it on herself with a toothpick and went to the fair.

Arina created such a cheerful caterpillar made from natural materials.

Craft 12. Cheerful family made of acorns

Alexandra Albertovna Naumkina made this and the next three crafts from natural materials with her children, together with her son Vanya (4 years old) and daughter Masha (1 year 3 months), Barnaul, Altai region. Here's what Alexandra writes:

To make this craft you will need:

- a piece of branch or tree bark,

- acorns,

- black marker,

- glue gun or Moment glue.

How to make a cheerful family from natural materials:

Step 1. Draw faces.

I showed my son how to draw a face on an acorn. Gave him permanent marker and acorns and left him. These are the weird faces we got.

Step 2. Glue the hats on our little people.

We glued the hats on with Moment glue.

Step 3. Attach the family.

But I had to tinker with gluing it to the bark. I spread Moment glue on the bark. Place something rectangular behind it so that the craft will hold while gluing, place the acorns on the bark and leave them to stick.

Please note: Moment glue can only be used by an adult without the presence of children in a well-ventilated area, because it's toxic. Instead of glue, you can use a safety glue gun; an adult can also use it.

All! The cheerful family is ready.

Craft 13. Interior craft “Autumn Branch”

We made a beautiful interior craft. My son made it himself. The main thing is that it is done very simply.

Step 1. We found more interesting branches in the forest and brought them home.

Step 2. Dried the leaves in books between the pages.

Step 4. Then we decided to complement our composition and make owls from plasticine and place them on autumn branches.

To do this, we took cones, maple seeds (“helicopters”) for the wings and plasticine.

I made the first owl, my son made the second.

We attached them to branches using plasticine and they held up well.

This beautiful composition now decorates our home! And, most importantly, this craft is very easy to make.

Another option for making an autumn branch was sent to us by Natalya Oshueva (Balashikha) and her son Oshuev Vanya (3 years 8 months).

Autumn branch on the wall: second version of the mobile

Natalya writes: “I first laminated the leaves. My son and I cut them out, made holes and threaded strings. The branch was found on the street. They hung leaves on it. The end result was a branch with fallen leaves.”

Craft 14: hedgehogs made from pine cones and salt dough

Alexandra Naumkina shared with us her experience of making hedgehogs with her son.

Step 1. We kneaded salt dough together with my son. He loves baking so much that he kneads all the dough himself, and I just tell him what to use and in what proportion.

Salt dough recipe (proportions): wheat flour - 2 cups, fine salt - 1 cup, water - 3/4 cups. The finished dough should not crumble or stick to your hands.

Step 2. We molded two hedgehogs together: mother and baby. Here I gave more of the final shape. We stuck the cones in and put the oven in the oven.

Step 3. The next day (after the hedgehogs had cooled down), we painted them with gouache paint. But if you need hedgehogs for a longer period, then it is better to use acrylic paints. We sculpted a nose from plasticine and glued on the eyes.

My son and I were just studying it, so my son became so interested in sculpting mushrooms from plasticine that he himself sculpted a lot of different mushrooms for hedgehogs.

Craft 15: Autumn leaf mobile

for the development of speech breathing in children

Alexandra Albertovna Naumkina also made this craft from natural materials for her children - Vanya (4 years old) and Masha (1 year 3 months). This family lives in the city of Barnaul, Altai Territory.

Alexandra writes:

“Our craft was born, one might say, spontaneously.

Step 1. As a base for the mobile, I cut out a rim from a cardboard disposable plate.

Step 2. I tied a string of yarn onto the resulting headband at approximately the same distance. yellow. From the same yarn I made a pendant that our craft will hold on to.

Craft 16. Application from seeds “Hedgehog”

This application from natural materials was made by Khaliullin Arthur (6 years old) from the Children's Garden No. 174 of the combined type, Moskovsky district of Kazan. Teacher: Khaliullina Rafida Raisovna.

You will need:

- paper,

- pencil,

- PVA glue,

- seeds,

- colored pencils (markers),

- leaves for decoration,

- spruce branches.

Progress of the craft:

Step 1. Draw a hedgehog with spines on paper. If the child is already old enough, then he can draw a hedgehog himself.

Step 2. Apply a thick layer of PVA glue to the back of the hedgehog. Then we place the seeds on the layer of glue. Make sure that the sharp tips of the seeds are directed in one direction.

Step 3. Color the hedgehog's face and paws with colored pencils.

Step 4. Decorate the background with rowan and birch leaves; cones, spruce branches.

Craft 17. Wheat applique “Lion Cub”

“Wheat Lion Cub” is a children's craft - an applique made of fleece and wheat. This craft is very simple to complete. First, glue ears of wheat onto colored cardboard, and then glue the lion cub’s face on top of it. Glue it with Liquid Nails glue.

This craft was made by a 5-year-old child, and was sent to us by Irina Babarinova from Sergiev Posad (School No. 166 SP No. 7, Moscow) for our competition of children’s crafts.

Craft 18. Lady - Cabbage and Forest Tale

These crafts were made from natural materials by children from Bataysk.

The work is made from a head of cabbage. The eyes, nose, and mouth are made from purchased blanks for soft toys. The head is decorated with a wreath of rowan and leaves. The stand can be anything, it is decorated with material and decorated with leaves.

The forest fairy tale is made from natural materials. The little fairy is made of autumn flowers. Firebird - made from ash cones and seeds. The work is decorated with natural materials collected by the children.

Craft from natural materials 19. Autumn meadow

This craft was sent to us by teacher Liliya Rustemovna Samigullina from Kazan. And this craft was made with the help of adults by Izmailov Rodion (3 years old), a student of the Children's Educational Institution "Kindergarten No. 174 of a combined type" in the Moskovsky district of Kazan.

Required material: Box, scissors, PVA glue, plasticine, natural materials (cones, dry leaves, acorns, chestnut peel), toothpicks.

How to make an autumn meadow with children:

Step 1. For the base of the craft, prepare a box. Let's cut off one side of the box so that the autumn meadow is visible.

Step 2. We attach dry leaves inside the box and decorate it with various natural materials (cones, toys, pebbles).

Step 3. Making fairy-tale characters from chestnuts. We make crafts from fruits that have just fallen from the tree while they are soft (this applies to crafts from chestnuts, acorns and cones).

The main way we will use to fasten the parts of crafts together is with plasticine and toothpicks. To do this:

- first, carefully pierce the chestnuts with an awl,

— insert toothpicks into the resulting holes and secure the joints with glue.

In the photo, the bear is made of chestnuts and plasticine, the man is made of chestnuts and acorns, the hedgehog is made of chestnut peel and plasticine, the owl is made of chestnut.

The birds' eyes are made from acorn caps, and the birds' beaks, legs and wings are made from plasticine.

Spiders can also be made from chestnuts. Small holes are made in the chestnut with an awl in the places where the legs will be attached. The spiders' legs are made from toothpicks, which are inserted into the holes in the chestnuts and secured with glue.

Craft 20. Autumn forest

This craft was made and sent to our autumn children's craft workshop by Stefania (3 years old) with her mother Yulia Anatolyevna Fefelova (Barnaul, Altai Territory).

For the “Autumn Forest” craft we will need following materials:

Herring jar (or any container of suitable shape and depth)
Foam rubber
Rubber glue or glue gun
Gouache or acrylic paints and brush
Colored paper
Plasticine
tree branch
Dried leaves
Maple "airplanes"
Pine cones
Fir cones
Pine needles (needles)
Stones (pebbles) oval shape different sizes
A piece of cardboard
Dried flowers
Rowan berries

How to make an “Autumn Forest” craft from natural materials:

Step 1. Making the base for our craft:

- paint the foam rubber with yellow gouache,

- after drying, make a hole in the middle and insert a branch into it,

- fix it with glue to the jar,

- Cover the end of the can with yellow paper.

Step 2. We make owls: we attach eyebrows, eyes and beak to plasticine fir cones. Using plasticine we attach wings from maple “airplanes”.

Step 3. We make hedgehogs: we sculpt a muzzle and mushrooms from plasticine. We attach the needles using plasticine. Attach the hedgehog's face, mushrooms and rowan berries.

Step 4. Make a bunny and ladybugs:

- paint the stones with gouache ( gray- for a bunny, in red - for ladybugs).

- glue ears on the bunny from cardboard, make eyes, nose, antennae from plasticine or draw with a felt-tip pen.

- we also complete the production of ladybugs with plasticine parts or finish drawing them with a black felt-tip pen.

You can coat the crafts with varnish.

In the photo - fragments autumn forest and its inhabitants, made from natural materials.

Step 5. We attach dried leaves to our tree using plasticine. We stick dried flowers into plasticine. Leaves, animals, dried flowers are attached to the foam rubber using glue.

The autumn forest is ready!

Craft 21. Autumn sun made from natural materials

The idea of this craft was shared with us by Maria Shchukina, mother of two children (Vova - 4 years and 8 months and Anyuta - 1 year and 3 months), St. Petersburg. Maria writes: “This is my favorite autumn craft, and I had this idea for a long time. We did it with great pleasure :). We came up with everything ourselves.”

What you will need to make an autumn sun from natural materials:

- PVA glue,

- a lot of autumn leaves from different trees and shrubs (we even collected from rose hips),

- rowan berries,

- rose hips,

- acorns,

- watercolor paints,

- thread and needle,

- any natural material.

How to make a sun with children from natural materials:

Step 1 Draw on A3 Whatman paper big circle and cover it with maple leaves. We collected the leaves in advance, and for some time they were kept in our journal. This way they became very smooth and easily stuck to the paper.

Step 2 Then we use our imagination and also paste in a circle any leaves and natural materials to your taste. The circle becomes more voluminous.

Step 3 Draw the face of the sun: eyes, nose and mouth.

The mood of the autumn sun can be anything - cheerful or sad, surprised or delighted - whoever feels the autumn mood, discuss this with the children when making crafts.

Step 4 Sew rowan earrings on the sun (you can sew on rose hips or any flowers). I used the largest needle and simply sewed the rowan to the Whatman paper as if it were regular fabric. At the same time, I secured the thread on the back side of the Whatman paper with tape. You can also sew on many other decorations.

Step 5 In the upper corners of the Whatman paper we glue the acorns with PVA glue, having previously cut them in half lengthwise. I hope you enjoy our autumn sunshine made from available natural materials :).

Craft 22. Shell applique. Autumn walk

This creative work performed by Nastya Kuznetsova, 6 years old. And Maria Sharygina (Vologda) sent it to us at the autumn children's crafts workshop.

How to make a craft:

- First, we draw a drawing on paper with a pencil.

— Then we glue small pieces of egg shells onto the silhouettes of the crown and tree trunks. We are waiting for the glue to dry.

- Shake off excess shells.

— We paint the work with gouache.

Craft 23. Hut on the forest edge

This children's craft from natural materials was made by Anastasia Viktorovna Dergunova and her nephew Alexander (6 years old) from Saransk, Republic of Mordovia.

How to make a craft:

Step 1. Paint leaves of various shapes (birch, rowan, maple, etc.) with paints of different colors and attach them to a clean sheet of paper so that prints remain on it. Paint the sun with paints.

Step 2. While the leaf prints are dry, we will break sticks of the required diameter from a small twig for the hut. We grease the paper in the place where the hut will be in the future with glue and lay out a hut from sticks, in the middle of which we place a birch leaf as a window.

Step 3. Use a stapler to attach the leaves and rowan bush to the clearing.

Step 4. Coat the bottom of the clearing with glue and lay out a path of watermelon seeds.

Step 5. Cut out a solar circle and rays from birch leaves, then glue them onto the already dried sun. From black and blue threads we lay out a cloud in the sky at the top of the craft.

Craft 24. Autumn park for dolls made from natural materials

This craft was invented and performed by Valeria Brusyantseva, she is 9 years old, Orenburg.

Required materials:
- cardboard box,
- light-colored paper,
- colored pencils and markers,
- glue stick, PVA, double-sided tape and colored tape,
- plasticine, beans,
- leaves, tree branches with leaves, rowan,
- stones,
- matchboxes.

How to make a craft:

- From cardboard box we cut out the base of the park of any configuration, leaving a high wall for the screen and a low wall for the fence.

— We cover all the edges of the base with light paper. We outline with a pencil where the benches and paths will be.

— We design the screen. We cut out a rectangular sheet of white paper of suitable size, draw any picture on it and glue it to the screen.

— Design of the installation site for benches. We cut out rectangular sheets of white paper of suitable size and color them (for example, you can paint them in the form of colored tiles). Glue to the base in the designated places.

— We design the paths. We apply plasticine to the paths marked on the base and attach the beans to it.

— We decorate the trees. We attach tree branches with leaves to plasticine, forming a park.

— We are decorating the stone ruins of the castle. We fasten the stones using plasticine.

— We are decorating the lawn. We attach leaves and rowan berries to the remaining free spaces of the base using PVA.

- From matchboxes and colored tape we make two benches.

Everything is ready! The doll can walk along the paths of the park, admire the picture on the screen or the ruins of a stone castle, and also arrange photo sessions.

Craft 25. Panel: Autumn puddle

This panel was invented and made by Maria Vostrikova (4th grade B, MBOU Secondary School No. 118, Samara), teacher - Belyanskaya Vera Evgenievna.

Materials used:

- poplar twig,
- leaves,
- dried grass,
- cellophane,
- masking tape,
- threads,
- glue moment,
- green felt-tip pen.

Sequence of execution of the panel “Autumn Puddle”:

— Make a ring out of a twig and secure it with masking tape.

- Inside plastic bag post autumn leaves so that the leaves are fixed. To obtain the effect of a frozen puddle, the composition must be ironed with a warm iron through a sheet of paper.

— Trim the composition to the size of the ring.

— Use a hot nail to make holes along the edge of the composition.

- Drag the thread through the holes and fasten it with the twig ring into one piece.

— Color the masking tape with a green felt-tip pen and glue the grass onto the twig.

Children's crafts made from natural materials on the go

You don't have to make a complicated children's craft. Many crafts made from natural materials can be made on the go, without preparation. They can be used as quickly created attributes for children's games. Natalya Mikhailovna Oshueva (Balashikha) shared her ideas with us. These are very simple crafts she did it with her son Vanya, aged 3 years 8 months, and with her daughter Masha (1 year 4 months).

Wreath of leaves

We collect a lot of leaves while walking and string them on wire. We connect the ends of the wire and get an autumn wreath of leaves. We hang the wreath by a rope. We also decorate the rope with leaves.

Crown of leaves

The crown is very simple to make.

Step 1. We made a blank from paper - a “hoop” according to the size of the child’s head, approximately 5 cm wide.

Step 2. We glued double-sided tape on top, and then my daughter glued leaves onto it.

Autumn trees

Natalya writes: “To quickly make autumn trees, we used rolls from toilet paper And corrugated paper, cut into strips. The children pushed the paper inside the roll as best they could. In the end, it turned out well, bright and autumn-like.”

You can also place autumn branches and autumn leaves collected on a walk in a roll.

Pumpkins made from pine cones

In this craft we used fluffy wire. They took a cone and wrapped it in orange fluffy wire. Next, green leaves were attached to it. fluffy wire. To make green spring leaves, we first wound the wire around a pencil, then removed it from the pencil and got green spirals.

Hedgehog

To make the hedgehog we used an eaten sunflower.

— The muzzle and body were cut out of foam plastic. It is better to do this in advance as an adult.

— The top of the muzzle was covered with plasticine.

— The sunflower “needles” were glued to the foam with glue using a hot gun.

— Decorated autumn leaves and a clearing with pine cones for the hedgehog.

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Having various natural materials, you can have fun and useful time with your child. Moreover, the main work should be done by the child, and the adult acts as an assistant. Crafts made from natural materials are distinguished by their diversity and originality due to the use large quantity material of different shape, size and texture.

Types of applications

Subject - represents individual images, for example, a tree, a house, and so on.
Decorative – it combines various elements and details of decorations.
Subject - an image of a specific event, a plot - a landscape, a basket of berries, flowers, etc.

All these types creative activity Suitable for children from the age of three. In order for the application to turn out to be of high quality and attractive in appearance, it is necessary to select the right materials.

Natural materials

This type of material can be collected all year round. It is best to choose autumn leaves. They have excellent colors: gold, crimson, copper, orange and yellow. With their help, excellent paintings are obtained. They can be large or very small.

After you collect them, you need to sort them according to size and dry them. To do this, they are placed between the sheets of books, and the books themselves are stacked one on top of the other, thereby forming a press. They should remain in this position for several days. Dried leaves retain their color, but it is not as bright as before.

The second most commonly used natural material is grass. However, you need to be careful with it, because when it dries, it becomes very brittle and crumbles if handled incorrectly.

Fruit and vegetable seeds can also be easily used to make DIY crafts. For example, melon, watermelon, pumpkin, and zucchini seeds are very suitable for this. They also vary in size and color. They must be washed and thoroughly dried on paper before use.

Corn grains can also, oddly enough, be used in making appliqués. They should dry for several days. Tree seeds (ash, maple, elm) are also used.

Such an unusual material at first glance, like nut shells, also found its application in this type of creative activity. Shells from pine nuts, peanuts and pistachios are most often used, as they are very light and adhere well to paper and cardboard.

Berries and fruits are used both whole and partially. Rowan with its bright color often attracts the attention of young craftsmen. After drying, it loses its shape and the color becomes very dull. Dried citrus peels are also used to make paintings.

Acorns are more often used in three-dimensional crafts, but they have also been noticed in appliques, only in disassembled form.

Flowers are a very beautiful natural material; their colors are very diverse. And they themselves are different in shape and size.

Cones of coniferous plants are also used to create applications; they add their own flavor to them. Volumetric crafts They are created using a solid cone, but flat applications are made from their scales.

Small pebbles, feathers, moss and fluff are also good applique components.

All this wealth must be properly stored so that it does not break. In no case can we throw everything together in a heap. Leaves and flowers are best stored in cardboard boxes. And grains, cones, acorns and similar materials are well preserved in baskets or boxes.

In addition to natural materials, you must have sheets of paper and cardboard, scissors, glue, and a pencil in your arsenal.

What applications can be made from natural materials?

The simplest thing is round-shaped compositions. You can start with this if the child is small. To make it, you need to take cones, seeds and acorns, which will be easier for a child to work with than fragile flowers and leaves.

Draw a circle on the cardboard, which can later be filled with materials or an original outline in the form of a frame can be made for it. To do this, you need to apply PVA glue in the place where you are going to stick the seed or pine cone.

A more complex composition is a basket of flowers. We lay out a basket of watermelon seeds or pistachio shells. Moreover, try to lay out the rows as evenly as possible, this will give the product a natural look.

But we make flowers from tree leaves or from dried flowers. However, the option with leaves is the most interesting, since you can create original flowers. We fix all the material with PVA glue. Such a craft can become a great gift grandmothers or mothers.

You can come up with various themes for the applique, examples of which you can see in the photos in the kindergarten manuals.

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Handicraft master class: “Gray neck” (from sections of branches and semolina)

The master class is designed for older children preschool age, teachers and parents.

Purpose: This craft can serve as a decoration for a group in kindergarten, a gift. It is possible to make this craft as part of a project to study the nature of the Vologda region.

Target: Develops in children patience, perseverance and a desire to create, to develop artistic and creative abilities.

Tasks: development fine motor skills hands, development of creative thinking.

For work you will need the following materials:

· sheet of cardboard or paper,

· PVA glue;

· sharp knife,

· backing board,

· poplar branches;

· watercolor paints;

· pencil.

Step-by-step process for making crafts

The process of making crafts takes place in two stages.

1. On a sheet of cardboard or paper, draw or trace a stencil of a duck, draw reeds.

2. Apply glue to the duck.

3. Sprinkle semolina over the duck, shake off excess grain.

4. Draw the reeds, grass, lake.

You can start the second stage only when the semolina on the duck is completely dry.

5. When the semolina is completely dry, paint the duck, starting with the beak. The paint is applied directly to the semolina layer with a soft brush.

While the duck is drying. Let's start preparing branch cuts.

6. Cut sections on the backing board.

We need round and oval cuts.

The shape of the cuts depends on the direction of the knife blade while cutting them. If you hold the knife at a right angle, you will get round cuts, and if you hold it at an acute angle, you will get oval ones. The sharper the angle between the twig and the knife, the longer the ovals will be. Try to cut the slices even in thickness and not very high.

When working with preschoolers, the teacher prepares the sections himself. It is better to cut sections while standing, the hand gets less tired and the section is better visible. The knife goes straight down, as if pushing through the wood.

7. Let's start gluing the slices

Decorate the reeds and various flowers and blades of grass with cuts.