Walking in the autumn park with the kids always ends with the fact that you bring a basket with different gifts of nature into the house: chestnuts, acorns, dry twigs, cones or just bouquets of foliage. This is all - great material for making crafts. Together with the children you can make interesting products that will decorate your home and will remind you of the delights of autumn for a whole year. And almost every school and kindergarten hosts thematic exhibitions of crafts made from natural material. So, you will already have blanks. It remains only to figure out what to do autumn compositions with their own hands. This topic is revealed in this article.
Chestnuts and acorns are the favorites of childrenChildren most often like to make autumn compositions from natural material from chestnuts and acorns. From these fruits figures of people and animals look very funny. Just the kids can just fasten these natural materials together with plasticine. Older children can be allowed (under adult supervision) to use an awl. They puncture holes in the fruits, insert matches or toothpicks into them. Another chestnut (acorn) is put on the other end, and a reliable fastening is obtained. Fruits connected in this way hold well and for a long time. From these gifts of nature, you can create whole plot autumn compositions with your own hands, taking as a basis some kind of fairy tale or real story.
Flowers and leaves - a fertile material for creating ikebana
The breath away from the saturation of the colors of foliage and flowers in the fall. You can bring this beauty to your home and save it in the form of ikebana. To make autumn
compositions of flowers and leaves with your own hands, you will need, in fact, these natural materials themselves, a wicker basket, a flower pot (without holes), a
floral sponge, and a ribbon. Ikebana is very fast. Insert the pot into the basket, put a sponge in it, soak it with water. Insert any flowers you want, twigs with berries or foliage into the same place. If they bend, you can additionally attach them with fishing line or thin ribbons to the wall of the basket. The whole bouquet can be wrapped in a bright wide bow. The basket itself can also be decorated with any jewelry (beads, ribbons, flowers). Spray water on the ikebana every day and, if necessary, moisten a sponge from a watering can with a long nose.
We create autumn compositions with our own hands from dry leaves
Floral panels and paintings, in other words, applications from dried leaves, are very relevant today in interior design. You can do such a thing yourself. Pre-collect beautiful leaflets, flower petals and dry them between the pages of the book. Further, the composition you want from the material of the prepared herbarium is collected on the basis of thick cardboard and glued with PVA glue. After drying, the picture or panel needs to be placed in a frame that can also be decorated with natural materials. If desired, the framing can be done with glass.
Do-it-yourself autumn compositions are always unique. They can be not only an adornment of your home, but also great gifts for friends and family. Create beauty with pleasure!