How to make a flower of maple leaves and crafts from dried flowers
Autumn has long come to their rights and painted the world around us with bright multi-colored paints. Autumn presented us with remarkable natural materials for the manufacture of unique crafts with their own hands - fallen from trees
autumn leaves different sizes and with bizarre forms, as well as numerous flowers and inflorescences that we will use for the manufacture of beautiful colors,sympathetic lamps , elegant bouquets with artificial roses,original compositions from vegetables and fruits For interior decoration.And kids will gladly help their parents to create amazing crafts from the priest, absolutelysandy natural material . Such joint leisure is very useful for the development of imagination, shallow motors of the hands, sensory abilities of small children and schoolchildren of junior classes.
From autumn natural materials you can do not only simple crafts, children's educational toys, appliques and herbaria. Interior designers have long been adjacent to the unique beauty and indescribable refinement of autumn gifts. Room walls can bedecorate with exquisite panels and paintings with compositions in the form of flowers from autumn fallen leaves (maple, oak, chestnuts), composed with their own hands in a special way. In order to use fallen leaves of trees and dryflowers for making crafts , bouquets and compositions do it yourself, it is important to properly prepare these natural materials before work. You probably already know that the autumn leaves can be paved between the sheets of albums (books, magazines, newspapers) and place the cargo on top. This method of workpiece is suitable for the formation of herbarium, children's appliqué or collagefrom dried leaves.
But for the manufacture of bulk die and bouquets with flowers From the autumn leaves who fell from the trees, this method is not suitable. Before you start twisting from those who fell from the trees of leaves such flowers (for example, roses made of red maple leaves), it is important to correctly process them in order tocrafts retained their original species long time. We will tell you about this in detail in this article further. Besides tips and useful ideas on creating bouquets and compositions from natural materials, you will find herevideo lessons , as well as master classes, with the help of which you can quickly make with your own hands as simple compositions (children's crafts from leaves, appliqués, figures, collages), and complex bouquets and objectsto decorate the interior in the form of bouquets with flowers from autumn leaves (topiary ) Or the compositions of dried flowers (see photo).
You will learn how to process and save maple leaves and autumn flowers so that made of thembeautiful crafts Not turned into brittle, shapeless and curled objects. And you can make from these natural gifts of the autumn of a wide variety of colors and with surprisingly distinguished bizarre forms can be anyartificial Flowers - Big Roses , small cornflowers, elegant chrysanthemums, cute daisies,elegant pitchers . The color of these homemade colors can be the most different (not only yellow or red) - after all, dried autumn leaves can be painted with acrylic primer with the addition of the combat of the desired color (and then cover with colorless varnish). With helium handles, you can apply different drawings and geometric shapes on the surface.artificial flowers Autumn topics.
Ideas for creativity:
- Applique.
Great idea for leisure with a child! Have you already collected many beautiful fallen leaves and autumn flowers in the yard, dried, made a colorful herbarium? Let's not stop on the achieved! Pulling on the table a large sheet of thick paper or cardboard, spread our "crop" on it and lay the original composition, combining colors and different forms of natural materials. . It is possible to glue the part of the autumn composition to the base on the basis of the PVA (but it is better to use photocles or gumiarabics);
- Collage.
You can fold together with your child a multi-layer bright collage under the frame. The bottom layer is large dark and brown leaves, then greenish, upper layers - small bright contrast leaves of red and yellow flowers. We add to the collage of dry autumn flowers, folding from them different shapes and get a beautiful bulk composition.
And you can add letters or words (as well as the shapes) into the collage - tightly press to the glued composition of the cardboard sheet with cut letters and gently cut on the template of the beaks with a stationery knife (of course - the hands of the parents, not a child);
- Developing game for a child.
A wonderful idea that your baby preschool age will enjoy! At the paper sheet, glue the half of the fallen leaves (first cut the vertical sheet). The task of the child is to draw a lack of half a pencil (felt-tip pen). Advise the baby to choose the appropriate color of the pencil and carefully look at the form of halves to reproduce the mirror part of the composition. The most difficult version is a maple leaf, leave for later and help a little baby to draw;
- Painted autumn leaves.
You can decorate both flat and volumetric crafts from the leaves of painting. For this work, use helium handles and markers (with silver, gold, white and other colors). Bouquets with decorated artificial flowers Will be fine and other interior objects;
- Bouquet of autumn leaves and dry flowers.
About how to add flowers from maple leaves with your own hands and collect a bouquet of them, you will find information below. If you decorate such a bouquet with delights and put it in a small wide vase, you will get a great composite center for your room; 
- Drug or Topiary from autumn materials.
Another excellent option for interior decoration. Of the fallen sprigs, you can fold a small tree and decorate it with homemade flowers made of leaves. Orfolded topiary (see photo), Attaching many of these flowerflowers on the floral ball (Option: on a ball of foam); 
Tsevilla (photo):
- bulk painting from the gifts of autumn.
As a basis, you can use a large photo frame or a wooden frame for paintings. Background can be donefrom cardboard, appropriate . We make interesting compositions from maple leaves, dry flowers, fallen pine needles and other natural materials, attaching from a wire with a wire.
Useful tips:
How to prepare autumn leaves for making crafts and appliques at home.
- For volumetric crafts in the form of colors and bouquets.
We will not work out the surround crafts from dried leaves, as they are too britter. Therefore, we will specifically process the collected leaves. We divide the solution - 200 ml. Glycerin by 400 ml. Clean water. In a dense plastic bag, we neatly put the leaves with the trees and recall them, then poured the cooked solution. Package with contents should be sealed (heated knife) or stick with adhesive tape. Leave this package for 3-4 days in the dark chulana, and then decompose the leaves on a paper towel to dry. From these flexible, long preserving the initial view of the leaves can be added a variety of flowers (below - MK: how do you make beautiful roses from maple leaves with your own hands);
- for flat autumn compositions (appliques, collages).
The leaves collected in the fall and flowers are best dried in massive magazines and reference books. The collected natural materials need to be pretty pressing with a tremendous cargo, supplied from above on the directory.
How to dry the autumn flowers for crafts and compositions:
- Drying Iron.
Autumn leaves and many small flowers can be dried using an iron. To do this, place natural materials on dense cardboard , cover the top with a thin paper sheet and stroke the non-heated iron until the whole moisture evaporates;
- Natural drying.
excellent option for drying autumn colors. In a dry room with good air circulation, pull the rope. Collected flowers we put in bundles and hang out the inflorescences from the rope;
- Drying in the oven.
a wonderful way to dry large solitary flowers (roses, tulips, peonies) for the manufacture of compositions. The temperature in the oven should not be very high - approximately 50-60 ° C. Carefully follow the process so that the flowers do not boil when drying and do not lose the form;
- Volume drying of flowers.
According to many experienced florists, this method of drying autumn colors allows you to preserve their natural shape and color. The cut flower is placed in the calcined dry sand for 4 weeks. You can use a small-scale mesh box as a container at the bottom and retractable bottom. Flowers with terry and volumetric inflorescences (lilies, dahlias, roses) We place in the sand with stems down, and with flat inflorescences - baskets (buttercups, chamomile, asters, forget-me-not) - stems up.
What instruments and materials can come in handy for the manufacture of autumn crafts:
- Scissors.
Small scissors with blunt ends for a child and sharp long - for an adult;
Stationery knife and stacks.
With the help of a stationery knife, it is convenient to cut multilayer details of the crafts. Plastic stacks are excellent tools for a child with which it can cut separate leaves for appliqué;
- Shilo.
For convenience, choose a tool with a wide wooden handle (length - 5-6 cm) and not a very thick stitching part;
- Long tweezers and tweezers.
Pinzeta is convenient to move small details of the crafts. Plippers with a swapped front part can be borrowed from a manicure set. Such tweezers are very convenient to spin the individual parts of the product and wire;
- Thin wire.
It is often used to form a frame of crafts and toys from natural materials. To fasten individual parts, it is desirable to use a flexible and durable copper wire with a diameter of 0.35 mm;
- Foil and foil paper.
To decorate autumn crafts, for applications and collages;
- Sewing needle and threads.
To connect separate details of the crafts, to form bouquets from leaves and dry flowers;
- Paper.
The more different types of paper (different in color, by density, in thickness), the better. For the manufacture of crafts, appliqués, bouquets, panels and wall compositions from natural materials, you can use corrugated, wallpaper, velvet, parchment, landscape, wrapper, copying and other types of paper;
- Plasticine and plastic (polymer clay).
For fastening, as well as for modeling individual parts, complementing products from leaves, dry flowers. Your child can work with the plasticine and polymer clay;
- glue.
A variety of glue brands can be useful in work. Often use PVA, BF, Mars. The most secure options for use in the work of the child - PVA and adhesive pencil.
To glue individual details of the crafts, brush with a solid pile;
- Paints and tassels.
To create appliques and collages - watercolor and gouache paints. For coloring volumetric crafts from autumn leaves and dried flowers - acrylic paints. Draw the most convenient than the whole squirrel soft tassels.
2. How to make it yourself a beautiful rose from fallen autumn leaves
Such an artificial flower make it yourself very easy! For work, prepare the autumn maple leaves, durable threads, golden paints and sunflower oil. You can handle the leaves with a solution of glycerol (see the recipe above) for the durability of the collected craft.
For the manufacture of a separate flower, it is best to choose monophonic maple leaves. Rosets from leaves will be quite large. 5-7 such crafts are enough to fold a beautiful bouquet. As a leaf for this bouquet with artificial homemade flowers, you can use all the same maple leaves. Roses make red and yellow.
So, let's start working:
- We take a sheet of maple and bend in half (facial side - out);
The most tip bend and twist the leaf into the roll;
We take the second maple leaf of the same color, put already a twisted bouton in its base (see photo);
We form the petal of the maple rose, bent the sheet and turning tightly around the bouton;
Similarly, turn around the third maple leaf. The more rose petals will be, the volume and more rose will turn out. Shift a little down each subsequent row so that the flower looks blossomed;
Just above the leaf cuffs fix the craft of thread;
Similarly, we will make another 5-7 of the same roses (yellow, red, greenish);
Lubricate maple roses with sunflower oil so that the bouquet lasts the initial look for a long time. Now you can cover the crafts of gold paint;
It remains to lower several maple leaves into a small vase, and then form a beautiful bouquet of artificial roses.
3. Master classes. Learning to make crafts in the form of flowers from autumn leaves and compositions from dried flowers
Master class №1:
Stages of step-by-step production of chic volumetric roses made of red maple leaves that fell from trees (photo).
Master class number 2:
How to make a flower from autumn leaves. Another option of folding from the maple leaves of a large rosette with your own hands. Step-by-step photo MK.
Master class number 3:
We make crafts from leaves with your own hands. We fold from corn leaves the core and petals, glit them and get a wonderful white flower for decorating gift packaging.
Master class №4:
Another step-by-step photo lesson for beginners. How to make a maple rose from the fallen autumn leaves.
Master class number 5: