DIY tree do it yourself?

Want to find ideas on how to make an autumn tree with your own hands? In fact, there are a lot of ways. The choice depends on the purpose of making the craft, as well as the one who performs it. In any case, all the products presented in the article can be created from simple and affordable materials. Almost any method can be mastered even by a preschooler. Choose your favorite idea and start a fascinating creative process together with the baby.

Flat panel

If you have not received specific work requirements, focus on the amount of free time and the availability of materials. Do-it-yourself autumn tree can be made both in a flat version, and in volume. In the first case, the craft will be a relief. It is made using the technique of application, they work with plasticine, dried leaves, paper, and fabric. Almost everything that can be painted in yellow-orange colors (or already having such a shade) will do. The crown of the tree is made in the form of a general shape, for example, a circle, or create volume and texture by gluing numerous individual elements. Choose a method depending on the age of the child.

Volumetric products

In this embodiment, the same materials are used as in the first case. The difference is that here the basis is not a flat sheet of paper or cardboard, but a voluminous frame in the form of a ball or branches made of wire, sticks, rods. Such crafts look much more spectacular and original, even if the material is the same with the panel.

Do it yourself autumn tree from leaves

The easiest and most affordable way to create crafts - making it from collected maple, linden and other leaves. They already have the right color, however, it is important to dry them correctly. This is usually done by spreading the collected material between the pages of an old book.

From dried leaves it is easy to make an autumn tree with your own hands for kindergarten. Special skills and additional tools, for example, scissors, are not required here, so even a younger preschooler will cope with such a task. This method makes both flat and three-dimensional objects. You can fix the leaves on the base with glue or even plasticine.

How to make an autumn tree with your own hands: a master class (paper and foil work)

These are very interesting materials that make it possible to be creative in creating crafts.

Having a regular sheet of whatman paper, you can make the following options for the autumn tree:

1. Stencil leaf shapes, dye them and stick to the base.
   
   Tinted foil or designer metallic paper is good for this. If the tree is carried out in volume, it is best to make a frame in the form of branches made of wire wrapped in foil and already distribute the cut leaves evenly on it.
2. As a stencil, you can use handprints. This option will look very original and unusual.
3. You can make an autumn tree out of paper using the quilling technique, when rings or delicate elements are twisted from thin strips. They stick together between themselves and the base. So get stylish lace crafts.
   
4. The original thing can be obtained in the technique of origami, especially modular, using colored paper.

Pompons

Traditionally, this decor is used for hats, but if you approach the manufacture of fluffy balls creatively, it turns out that you can get fruits and animals from them, and even make an autumn tree with your own hands. To do this, use any yarn of the corresponding shades.
Regular round pompons are made like this:

1. Cut two rings from cardboard.
2. Connect them and wrap them with thread. Alternate colors in any order.
3. As a separate thread, you begin to pull the perimeter of the ring, gradually incising the bending point of the yarn.
4. Remove cardboard blanks.

For the autumn tree, you can use one large pompom or many small and different size fluffy balls.

the cloth

They work with shreds in the same way as with paper or foil, cutting out the shapes of the leaves and gluing or stitching them to the base. It is good to make an autumn tree with your own hands from felt or fleece, that is, those materials that do not form untidy edges that require processing.

An autumn tree can be made from pieces of satin ribbons by cutting out the shapes of leaves and singeing off the edge where the threads begin to blossom. The second way, which allows you to get very spectacular products that look like real works of art, is the kanzashi technique. Here, from the squares made of satin ribbons, individual modules are made by certain folding methods. Connecting them together with glue or thread, you can get a complex three-dimensional shape.

Crafts from the gifts of the forest and garden

If you need to make an autumn tree with your own hands from natural material, use pine or spruce cones. They are the easiest to collect.

You can use nuts, acorns, chestnuts, as well as vegetables and fruits. The latter, however, will not retain their original appearance for too long.

It is better to make an autumn tree of natural material in the form of a ball using a papier-mâché or ball base, which you can simply paste over with colored cones, attach a stem to it and set the tree in a pot. So you also get an original, popular souvenir called topiary.

Pebbles, beads and plasticine

Instead of cones in the above embodiment, you can use any other material of a fine fraction, which can be glued to the surface of the base and painted. Coffee beans, pebbles, beads, balls will do. All this is attached to the ball even with the help of plasticine. This craft is performed quickly and at no particular cost, and it looks very stylish and impressive.

Beads, beads or those elements in which you can make a hole yourself, can be used as material for crafts of any complex shape. It is enough to first make a base in the form of a trunk and branches of a tree, and then attach decor to it. You can connect beads or beads with the help of threads, fishing line, thin wire. Such products will look very decorative and elegant. In general, you can use everything that your fantasy tells you.

So, you saw how diverse the solutions to one problem can be. You can make an autumn tree yourself with any of the following methods. Choose! Get involved! This process is likely to be carried away not only by the child, but also by yourself.