Autumn is a golden time not only because everything around is painted in yellow and lemon shades, it shines and glows, pleasing the eye with short-lived splendor. Autumn is generous with the harvest of fruits and vegetables, as if nature is specially trying to endow people with its abundance. And from her gifts you can make not only supplies for the winter, but also interesting crafts. Which will pleasantly surprise your loved ones, will please little children. And you can help your child make crafts for school or kindergarten competitions. Thus, your hobby will also be useful, and the family will unite. After all, how interesting it is to make something special from familiar objects!
Where to begin
If you came up with the idea of ​​a composition of vegetables, then, of course, you should consider it in detail. And here everything is important: color, shape of vegetables, their compatibility. And also how long they can keep their presentable appearance. An undoubted advantage of the composition will be its practical usefulness, when after demonstration of the exhibit it can be eaten. True, it is desirable that at least a day on your creation can be admired.
Penguin family
Take eggplant for example. They can make original compositions from vegetables under the name “Penguin Family”. What is needed for this: 5-6 blue different sizes and intense dark color, without spots and damage, always with green tails. Several large cauliflower inflorescences or a couple of ordinary white cabbage heads. We begin the preparation of our vegetable composition with eggplant processing. Point the ends of the tails at them, these will be the beaks. With a knife, carefully make incisions in them where you can insert small dark buttons-eyes. Cute faces of the characters of the composition of vegetables "Penguin Family" are ready. Now mark the breasts and abdomen, peel off the peel tape under the beaks along the entire vegetable, capturing the rounded opposite end. On the sides, make incisions on the peel, lifting it like penguin wings. So that the eggplant composition made of vegetables, made with your own hands, does not darken the pulp without the peel, wipe it with vinegar. Then your penguins will flaunt snow-white breasts and bellies all day just like real ones. Take a large tray. Fix the figures on it in picturesque poses. Arrange the white cauliflower inflorescences like snowdrifts. And admire the result! And if your kids learn how to make such compositions from vegetables with their own hands, they will probably take prizes in competitions at a kindergarten or school.
Alpine pasture
Vegetables are a surprisingly fertile material for creativity and expression even for those who are not endowed with special artistic talents or simply do not have the skills of modeling, woodcarving, etc. To craft, you need only a little imagination, and it possesses at least a small degree everyone. And if you come up with and make the whole family attractive compositions of vegetables with your own hands, then you will have an original general hobby. Isn't it great? But back to the master classes. Imagine succulent meadows with delicate emerald grass, on which curly white-lamb sheep graze. Do you think this wonderful pastoral is difficult to recreate using crafts from vegetables? The photo in the article and step-by-step instructions will prove the opposite to you! After all, all you need for the composition is a few heads of cabbage and the same amount of mushrooms with legs, bunches of parsley and dill, a sheet of thin foam or cardboard.
Cute sheep
Let's start with the main element of the craft of vegetables (photo attached) - lambs or lambs, as you like. At the cabbage, cut exactly the cuttings, which will play the role of legs. Sheep must graze in the meadow! For mushrooms, cut the legs closer to the hats so that they look like sheep's muzzles. With the inner side forward, attach the champignons to the heads of cabbage using matches that can mimic the eyes. And curly inflorescences will completely pass for curls of sheep's wool. Using the same matches or toothpicks, fasten each lamb on the foam. Now make holes on the sheet where you insert the branches of greenery in groups. So you have a wonderful meadow - a real Swiss idyll!
Cornucopia Basket
A colorful and uncomplicated composition “Autumn” made of vegetables can be compiled by schoolchildren for contests that are usually held in educational institutions among students of elementary and middle grades. If you prepare for the competition in advance, for 2 weeks, then this idea is proposed. Take a very large pumpkin, preferably the brightest color. From it you need to hollow out the whole core, so that only the crust-bowl remains. Dry it and get the foundation for the Basket of Plenty. Now it's up to the small. You can make a handle out of willow branches using the braid weaving technique on your head. Secure it with a wire. And then quite simple. Put all the most beautiful in the basket! Striped zucchini, green cabbage, orange carrots with lush tops, yellow and red tomatoes, colored bell peppers, purple eggplant - all these autumn gifts will find a place in your basket. If you use the idea for a mixed composition of vegetables and fruits, then a luxurious bunch of grapes, rosy apples and golden pears will complement the splendor of a still life and tell in detail about the fertile lands of your homeland. Thus, your work will also tell about patriotic feelings.
Cucumber Wahns and Sharks
Thinking over various crafts, compositions from vegetables, use
associative connections. With whom, for example, do you associate a cucumber? Of course, with green frogs and crocodiles. And even with sharks! Cute little animals will cause a storm of delight among your young children, and even if they have problems with appetite, they will agree to eat an unloved vegetable without long persuasion. Where do we start? Place the cabbage leaf on a plate. Take some small pickles. Cut each crosswise into 2 halves: one large, the other smaller. Divide the smaller one in half, trim by making the paws. At the larger end, make a small slit-like incision - the mouth. To make your cucumber quack really resemble the real one, make eyes out of blackcurrant berries. With matchsticks, fix the paws and eyes in the appropriate places and place the frog on the cabbage leaf. And get down to the next. Just remember to take out the matches when the child eats vegetables!
Edible bouquet
If your child is lucky to be born in the fall, you will find useful compositions from vegetables, made by yourself with your own hands for kindergarten, especially in combination with a variety of fruits. Children will eat these “bouquets” with pleasure as a treat from the birthday person. True, they need to be cooked immediately before serving. You will need: thin wooden skewers, tomatoes and cucumbers, apples, plums, oranges, large grapes,
watermelon, melon, pineapple. Wash all products well. From
melon, watermelon, pineapple, cut pieces of medium-sized pulp. Cut apples into slices. Peel the oranges, also divide into slices. Remove grapes from brushes. Cut cucumbers and tomatoes in large circles. Place the foam sheets on the trays. On plates - flowers, cucumbers with tomatoes, garnish with drops of mayonnaise. String the fruit platter in random order on the skewers, and then stick them into the foam. Place trays with fruit and vegetable compositions on the tables during lunch for children. And congratulate with them the hero of the occasion!
Carving comes to the rescue
The art of slicing, or carving, will help you give special beauty and expressiveness to vegetable crafts. Thanks to him, from the usual fruits of fields, gardens and kitchen gardens, you can create real masterpieces. And come up with the original name of the composition of vegetables. For example: “Frigate of hope” (source materials are melon or pumpkin, white cabbage), “Eye of charm” (a bouquet of bell pepper, carrots, parsley and celery), “Vegetable ceramics” (pumpkin, zucchini of different varieties), etc. e. So the flesh of a watermelon or apple will bloom in a lush flower in the hands of the master. Special knives will allow you to cut an elegant pattern on the pumpkin peel, turning it into a kind of old clay vessel. And the fruits of sweet pepper will turn into exquisite bells. Try it and you will succeed!
Potato crafts
Speaking about vegetable crafts, listing various source materials, we undeservedly ignored potatoes. And, strangely enough, from it, dear, you can also create a lot of interesting things. For example, make fabulous piglets. Wash medium-sized potatoes and boil in their skins until cooked. Take out, let cool. Boil a few carrots. Peel the vegetables. Cut the carrot into "wheels" a couple of centimeters thick. It will be a patch of stigmas. Stick them with matches to potatoes. Insert into each tuber 4 matches-legs, set on plates. Arrange between them cucumber glades and invite the children to have dinner!
Banana rockets
Usually kids love bananas. And if the child is capricious and does not want to eat healthy fruit, explain to him that this is ... a rocket! Peel a banana, cut across in half. Insert mugs of kiwi portholes and apple doors into each half. Point the rockets with sharp ends up and command the start of the flight - straight into the mouth of your baby, who will be happy to take part in the game. Here is such a tasty and healthy fantasy! And if you spread around the “star” of berries, then the child will receive a portion of this vitamin mix, which will most positively affect his well-being. And the mood.