Crafts from forest materials will help out when they need to be brought to kindergarten or to decorate an apartment. Create possible forest houses, crafts from autumn leaves, animals and fairy-tale characters.
Forest crafts are created from natural materials. It can be found outdoors at any time of the year, but if you want to craft from non-seasonal things, then you need to prepare them in advance.
Autumn crafts from forest materials
This time of the year is very generous with the harvest. If you then want to tinker with autumn leaves for a long time, then pick them up at this time of year. Now you can find leaves of a variety of colors:
- green;
- yellow;
- red;
- variegated.
When you come home, clean them, then put them between the sheets of a book or newspaper, place the load on top. When the leaves are completely dry, you can make forest crafts from them.
Such a bright wreath will remind you of the beautiful season for a long time. To do it, take:
- thin branches;
- small dried maple leaves;
- bow in orange and gold colors;
- thin wire;
- glue gun;
- 2 rag dolls or materials for them.
Take thin branches, give them the shape of a wreath. Secure with wire. Using a hot gun, glue the maple leaves here. Tie a fluffy bow on the side. At the bottom on the other side, fix 2 rag dolls.
If you have not found maple leaves of a suitable color, paint them along the edge with regular gouache or watercolors in red and green.
Such forest crafts will look even more amazing with rag dolls. You will create them from a light canvas of fabric, and then fill the blank with filler. Draw facial features with markers, make hair, hands, lower legs from threads. Dress up these dolls in fabric clothes, after which you can attach them to the base.
The following maple leaf craft is also created on the basis of a doll, but large.
You will fill it with a light filler. Draw the face and mouth with a marker, and make the nose out of pink fabric. First, you need to cut a circle out of it, then fill it with filler, gather around the edge on a thread and sew it on your face.
You will put on children's clothes on the doll so as not to sew it additionally. Make your hair out of a washcloth or straw by gluing this material onto your head. Decorate your hair with dry maple and other leaves, rowan berries, artificial berries. These materials are glued to the hair of such an adorable doll.
For your next forestry craft, you will also need maple leaves. And nothing if they have dried out under your oppression and do not have a straight shape. These look even more natural.
To create such a craft from forest materials, you will need:
- dried autumn leaves;
- coffee beans;
- thin straight twig;
- colored paper;
- a sheet of cardboard;
- glue.
Manufacturing instruction:
- Take a sheet of blue cardboard, and if not, then glue colored paper of this shade on the cardboard or paint it.
- Arrange the branches on the right and left sides of the picture so that they form the bases of the two trees. Glue leaves to them to make the trees even more realistic.
- Draw a trickle running away into the distance with a pencil. Glue the coffee beans here, leaving a few areas free so that you can see that water is flowing over the pebbles.
- Trim the branches so that the pieces are the same length. Tie them up and glue this bundle of firewood onto the picture. To make the background, glue the leaves on the ground, and leave the sky blue.
- You can cut a kind of house out of colored paper. Stick it on.
These are wonderful forest crafts made from natural materials. They can be taken to kindergarten or admired at home. The next fall leaves will turn into the soil surface.
As you can see, a sheet of cardboard is pasted over with them. Next to these leaves, you can glue stones, rowan berries or rose hips. Place two hedgehogs on top. They need to be sculpted from plasticine, and then covered with coniferous needles, which will become the fur coat of these animals. Using plasticine, attach the cone vertically, it will resemble a small Christmas tree.
Also, the following forest crafts can be placed on a carpet of leaves. Put them or glue them in a box with low sides. Place such adorable lambs on top. Make fur coats for them from cauliflower forks, attach acorns with plasticine, which will become heads. Eyes need to be made of white and black plasticine. Also, using this material, attach matches that will turn into the legs of lambs.
The spider also looks great on a carpet of leaves. If your child also needs to bring an autumn craft to the garden, then glue the bottom of the candy box with leaves. Also attach them along the edge of this container. Make a web from threads. The bump will turn into a spider, glue his eyes, nose and mouth from plasticine. Attach the paws. They can be made from cocktail straws, cut in half, and bent. Use glue or plasticine to fix the spider to the web.
For the next forestry craft, you will also need autumn maple leaves.
But for such a wreath, you can use a variety of leaves of a beautiful color. Glue them tightly to each other on a wire or twig base. You can decorate with sprigs of mountain ash or other wild berries.
Autumn leaf paintings also look great. Show your child how to draw a background for her. To do this, let him draw a circle on a piece of cardboard. Then you need to draw a horizon line. Above it, the child will paint with blue paint, and below it, green. Then the sky will be above, and the grass below. Now you need to take autumn leaves and create one large one from several maple leaves. Glue it in the middle of the picture, attach a twig below. The leaf frame will finish.
You will have a wonderful bouquet of autumn leaves if you watch the next workshop. This is how the finished product will turn out.
To do this, you do not need to dry the leaves, you just need to clean them of dirt. Now take the first one and fold it in half. Start rolling the flower from one side. After that, tie the resulting rose with a thread. And the stick from the leaf will become its stem. Place the bouquet in a low vase, after decorating its upper part with leaves.
You can put twigs, berries between such roses, take reddish leaves so that they look more like these flowers.
The gifts of the forest are very diverse. Walking with children in such a place, collect not only leaves, but also rowan berries, moss, fancy driftwood. In the city, you can collect chestnuts, peel them and also use them for crafts.
- Take a small basket. Place the leaves in it. Place dried moss on top. Wash the snag first, paint it if required.
- Let the child think about who she looks like. If on a snake, then you need to glue the features of its muzzle and make a sting from a twig.
- With the help of plasticine, you need to attach toothpicks to a peeled chestnut, on the other hand, attach the muzzle of a hedgehog made of brown plasticine. The child will make two eyes out of white.
- Rowan berries or rose hips need to be strung on the thorns so that these gifts of nature turn into an apple.
- Smaller rowan berries will decorate the handle of the basket. Glue or attach them here with thread.
If you liked making roses from leaves, then show your child how you can create a real picture using this technique. For this, it is better to take small and medium leaves. Glue the threads first to make them look like a basket. From the braid and ribbon, create a handle by twisting the two materials. Tie a ribbon around the basket by tying a bow. Stick it on. Now use glue to attach the flowers from the maple leaves. You can wrap the cardboard in a cloth to do the job against this backdrop. Frame the picture, you can additionally decorate it with thread.
The following voluminous work looks great:
- With the help of green plasticine, let the child make a hill. You can also use cotton wool for this, gluing it to a round cardboard base, and then paint it.
- To make a mushroom, cut half of a styrofoam ball. Let the child paint or glue this hat with brown foil.
- An ordinary plastic bottle will become a leg for the mushroom, you will wrap it around with a white cloth or paint it with paint of this color. When it's dry, sketch out the facial features.
- Bend the wire into a circle with a free sector at the bottom. Glue maple leaves to it and stick into the base, fixing with glue.
You can make chaga out of cardboard or bring a small one from the forest, paint it and stick it on this masterpiece.
Tell your daughter how to make a dress for Barbie. You will decorate the lower part of it in an autumnal fashion. To do this, take a strip of transparent fabric and glue flowers from leaves, berries, tree seeds on it. Give the girl a bunch of small leaves in her hands.
Simple forest crafts can also be done with leaves. If you find a twig in the forest, turn it into a woodman. Glue two small sticks that will become hands. Two oak leaves will turn into legs, and several leaves connected together will become its cap. Show your child how to use plasticine to glue two inverted acorn caps to become eyes, or use halves of a walnut shell for this. The acorns will turn into nose and ears. The red rowan berries will turn into the mouth and the tree seeds will turn into eyebrows.
How to make a house from forest materials with your own hands?
Such forest crafts will also become a decoration and bright exhibits of the competition. Pumpkins do not grow in the forest, so you will need to buy or take such a small one in the garden. Using a spoon and a knife, remove the core, cut out a window. Further, forest materials are used. Place two sticks in a crisscross pattern to help create the window. Straw is not hard to find at this time of year. Wash it, dry it, then cut and tie at the top with an elastic band. Glue this house roof onto the top of the pumpkin. And the child will make the characters living here from plasticine.
For the following forestry craft, you will need:
- branches;
- moss;
- sedge or other grass;
- glue;
- acorns;
- cones;
- plasticine;
- chestnut.
You need to use strong glue to fix the parts, but you can also take plasticine instead.
Saw the branches to the same size. Putting them in a checkerboard pattern at an angle of 90 degrees, assemble the log house. Also, make a gable roof out of them, cover it with grass or sedge. If there are no such materials, use colored paper for this. Put the moss on the base and fix the house on a flat area made of cereals or small pebbles.
Turn the saw cut of a thick branch into a stump. Place a couple of open cones that will become trees. One branch will turn into a bridge. From acorns and plasticine, the child will make field mice, and turn a cone and plasticine into a bear.
The chestnuts will become the cap of the mushroom, and the plasticine will become its leg. The baby will make fly agarics from white and red plasticine.
The next craft made of forest materials resembles a scene from the fairy tale "Three Bears". You will create these characters together with your child from cones. Some will become a torso, while others will become a head. Attach these parts using plasticine. Cut off a couple of small ends from the spruce and attach these parts with plasticine, they will turn into Christmas trees.
A small twig with dried leaves will become a tree. Make a house with twigs and acorns. And as a roofing material, you can use ordinary pumpkin seeds. Mashenka consists of plasticine, cones, and the shoes are made of acorn caps. Lay some stones that will become a path, attaching them with glue or plasticine.
If a competition "Visiting a fairy tale" is held in a kindergarten, then crafts from forest materials will come in handy here.
- Show your child how to make Baba Yaga's house out of branches. Find a branch with three branches. She stands on a chicken leg. If you use two, then there will be two such legs.
- Separately from the sticks glue the frame and the roof of the house. Attach a plasticine crow on top. From the same material, you need to mold Baba Yaga and mushrooms. Lay moss on the base, glue a house on chicken legs here.
- Stick in some fungi. On the other hand, glue the autumn leaves and attach the stupa and Babu Yaga here. Glue small sticks vertically around the perimeter of the work and wrap them with thread of a similar color. You will have a fence.
The next forest house looks very original.
Make it out of plywood, and if this is not possible, then use the bark of a tree. Attach this structure to the base using plasticine, or by gluing it. Use the same materials to attach the moss to the bottom of the house. After all, he is forest. Glue a bunch of rowan berries to a branch, as well as cones. Put this composition behind the house. If this is an excerpt from the fairy tale "Teremok", then put the mouse in the house, and place other characters next to it.
In some fairy tales, the large mushroom is also home to magical characters and forest dwellers.
You will make similar forest crafts if you take:
- twine;
- foam ball;
- plastic bottle;
- sand;
- glue;
- coffee beans;
- twigs;
- cinnamon sticks;
- acorns.
You can find some materials in the forest and others at home. Cut the styrofoam ball in half. Fill the bottle with sand, wrap with twine, gluing the turns of that. This is a mushroom leg. Stick the top into the bottom of the styrofoam semicircle to put this cap on the stem of the mushroom.
Glue the coffee beans on top, but if this is a craft made from forest materials, then attach the acorns with glue or plasticine.
Also make a hedgehog from a bottle, twine, plasticine or glue, coffee beans or acorns.
Take a saw cut from a tree as a basis, and if it is a fragrant picture, then glue the dried orange peels down. And for crafts from forest materials, you can use leaves.
Weave a pigtail from the twine, it must be glued to the cut of the tree. Also, acorns or coffee beans need to be glued to the surface. Fix the mushroom, hedgehog with cinnamon sticks on the thorns. Then glue the branches vertically and wrap them with twine to make a wicker fence. You can make a ladder out of branches and fix a fairy elf here.
You will create the crown of the tree for the next forest craft using the facing method. Attach a tree branch to a horizontal surface. Create a crown for him from plasticine.
Cut small squares of orange paper. Twist them on the tip of the pencil, cut them and attach them to this ball. Then you need to fix it on the trunk from the branch.
Create a house from painted cardboard or bark. Make a well and a bridge from branches or small planks. Also, the facing method will help create such a beautiful embossed surface.
Beautiful houses are made from the bark. You can tie it with thread and then create a roof out of leaves or straw. But if you want to add romance to the house, then make a roof of flowers. And put candles in the rest of the blanks.
How to make owls from autumn materials?
While walking in the forest, collect the opened cones. When you come home, you will cut off their scales. Give the child a sheet of cardboard, let him make a background on it with blue and green plasticine, create a branch out of brown. Now you need to draw the outline of an owl with a pencil. Her child will stick with soft brown plasticine. The scales will be well fixed on it, which will turn into owl feathers. And make the eyes and beak out of plasticine. Also, while walking in the woods, grab a couple of small twigs of spruce. Glue them onto a plasticine branch.
The following woodland owls look like real ones. First you need to sculpt their outlines from plasticine, then glue the back and sidewalls, as well as the tops of the heads, with cones. The eyes should be made of buttons, and the beak should be made of brown paper. Glue white wool in front of the light plasticine.
Here's how many forestry items you can make. But there are still many other ideas, and now you will become familiar with them.
If you liked making an owl from forest materials, then see how you can create such a voluminous one that will decorate any interior.
A vase of autumn leaves amazes with its beauty and simplicity, originality of creation.
