Leaf applique: animals, sunshine, an autumn tree, a vase, a girl and a leaf fall

In the fall, during warm, sunny days, when the leaves on the trees are painted in a variety of colors, a child gathers a pile and decides to bring home.

Of this pile you can choose those that will decorate the house simply by their presence, and there will be some that will be the material for an unusual, original application of autumn leaves.

You can also use other natural materials, which only can be found. All of them, collected in golden autumn, will make the crafts cozy, beautiful, warm and, in addition, original and unique.

Preparing leaves for work

Before you start something to make, leaves are important to prepare. All because many of them are dirty and can cause unnecessary waste in the future. Yes, and look the product with a dirty will not be particularly neat.

First of all, the raw material for the work should be washed under a gentle stream of warm water. Then the leaves should be laid out to dry, and a little later - put in some thick book.

They should smooth out so that the work is a little easier.

Materials and tools for making appliqués

As is already clear, the main material will be colorful autumn leaves. But other natural material will also be needed, such as dried flowers, berries, sticks with twigs and others. It is possible to take whatever you want. In addition, it is necessary to stock up on paper and colored paper and cardboard.

From the tools it is important not to forget to prepare scissors, PVA glue, tape, paints, pencils, felt-tip pens and anything else you think you need.

Animal Applique

It's no secret that many kids love animals. And so, make some sort of an animal out of improvised material for them to be very exciting and addictive activity.

For each animal, like this, the child can think of and draw their environment, think of friends.

Here are some such applications from dried leaves, which will appeal to you and your baby.

Lion

In this handicraft there will be one feature: the leaves will be taken not only smoothed, but also ordinary. After some time, they will curl up and make the mane of the king of beasts even more magnificent:

• Take a drawn or printed template-silhouette of a lion and glue the entire space of the head with yellow leaves;
• Take a black marker and mark the big nose and mouth of the animal;
• Separately from the head do the work, making two ears from suitable sheets, and then glue to the main template;
• Also separately construct small eyes from colored paper, glue them in the right place;
• Now you can do mane: a little darker leaves should cover the whole circumference of the head. It is important to do it very carefully, not much touching the muzzle;
• Whiskers easy to build from the tails of the leaves. They need to be very carefully glued to the desired location with good glue.

Such application of leaves for children is not difficult to create, and most importantly, interesting and exciting.

Bunny

To make such a bunny, you need a variety of leaves: from maple, birch, aspen, oak:

• Begin by marking the body of the animal: a large, beautiful maple leaf will serve as the body, and a large aspen leaf as the head;
• For the cheeks, small birch leaves are ideal. Glue them to the bottom of the head;
• A leaf of oak will play the role of ears. You just need to divide it in half and glue it to the head of the bunny;
• From small leaves, which you will have, build legs and collar for the animal. Not bad for this purpose would work birch leaves;
• All other details on the face (eyes, nose, antennae, mouth) cut out of colored paper, and then glue each piece in its place, using PVA glue.

You can take other leaves, not necessarily the ones mentioned here. You can improvise and make something very original, unique.

Owl

• To begin with, you should find a natural material, most suitable in shape;
• Choose a yellow leaf, which will serve as the body of the bird, and trim it with scissors;
• Glue the leaf-head onto the cardboard;
• Use plasticine to glue small eyes and place them on the head of the owl;
• Take a sheet of red, make a small beak from it;
• From a sheet of yellow color in the same way make the eyebrows;
• From two green leaves, similar in size, you can make paws;
• All elements assemble into one piece and glue.

Fish

• The yellow leaf should be glued to the middle of the cardboard - this will be the body of the fish;
• A couple of red leaves will be the tail;
• From them also cut out the heart with scissors. This element will become the sponges of the fish;
• Again using these sheets, take one and cut off half. The resulting two parts will play the role of fins;
• From colored paper, make an eye, as well as decorations for the background: seaweed, pebbles, underwater hills and many other things that only your imagination can do.
• All parts glue in their places.

That's it, the craft is ready! By the way, you can use small twigs with live green leaves for the background. They just need to be glued with glue or scotch tape as desired.

Hedgehog

For this application of the hedgehog again need a template. You can draw it yourself, or find blanks on the Internet, and then print them.

• Glue is applied over the entire area of the silhouette;
• Instead of needles, the animal will have leaves, so you just need to glue them in any order.

To make the product even more interesting, you can think of an unusual composition. For example, cut out of paper of different colors of apples, mushrooms or other fruits, and then glue on the back of the animal.

It's great to think of something with a background. Leaves can be placed under the feet of the hedgehog, as if he ran through the autumn forest. Behind would be a good idea to draw trees or other desired objects.

Fish with scales

In this product is again involved templates. They are printed out, or redrawn, and then cut out the outline of the future fish, which should be glued to the cardboard.

Well, now just give free rein to your imagination: paint, cut, glue, decorate. You can use absolutely any natural materials and place them as you want.

Do not forget about the background. As the fish live in the water, think of some kind of marine composition.

It will be interesting to look sunken ship or a chest with treasure among the bushes of algae. Or it will be a seashell with a pearl. It's up to you - let your imagination run wild and create a very interesting and beautiful application of flowers, leaves, and other natural materials.

Peacock

• Five yellow leaves are placed in a semicircle on a piece of cardboard and then glued;
• On top of lay another seven, but now a red shade and a little smaller, and also glued;
• After that, the peacock is cut out. You can draw it yourself, or you can find it and print it out on the Internet. The peacock can also be cut out and glued together from separate pieces of colored paper. It is glued on top of the leaves;
• Now you can add all the missing parts or do the background.

Sunshine

For such an applique from dried leaves, you need to prepare those that will be thin and long in form. Willow or ash will turn out to be a good option. But you can also take others, which will fit the criteria.

The leaves should always be dried and smoothed, so that after a while the product has not lost its appearance and continued to please the eye.

For the basis it is well suited cardboard in dark colors, for example, dark blue. So the sun will look more effective, and this color is reminiscent of this sky in the fall:

• From yellow colored paper will need to cut out a circle, which will serve as the face of the sun. Immediately you can decorate it: cut out and glue eyes, mouth and nose. Try to do everything carefully, following the proportions, to look great in the handicraft;
• All items prepared attach in the center of the face. A pen or marker pockmark freckles. Sunshine often gives people those, but he himself has such spots;
• Around the face of the sun glue the leaves neatly in a row. Such layers should be two. In the first, it is better to try to stick to the same length of leaves. The second layer will have to add puffiness and remove gaps, if any;
• Now you can already attach the face of the sun on top.

Thus, it is easy and simple to make this product, giving you warmth and comfort. It will be placed in the interior of the house and contribute to the overall atmosphere of joy and light, will be pleasing to the eye.

The same technique can be created and other applications of leaves, such as butterfly, peacock or hedgehog.

Autumn Tree

• Using plasticine, make a trunk and branches;
• Glue the resulting parts to the cardboard sheet, pressing them tighter to the plane;
• Using a stecker, reproduce the cracks in the trunk;
• Mark the approximate borders of the crown with a pencil;
• Crush the leaves and, applying glue to the crown area, scatter them on the cardboard;
• Fill all the resulting gaps with pieces of leaves;
• Mark out where the ground is approximately and do the same thing by covering it with fall leaves.
• Decorate the handicraft with rowan berries and other natural material.

Vase .

• Take cardboard of any shade and depict the vase in any way: drawing, cutting and gluing, folding the leaves and others;
• Select the most attractive twigs and leaves for the bouquet;
• "Place" the bouquet in a vase, decorating with dried flowers.

Autumn foliage

To create a similar applique, a combined technique is used - applique and drawing at the same time. First, the background is painted with paints and pencils, the trees are marked, and then the leaves are glued to them. They are also glued chaotically in the air, as if falling to the ground.

Girl

• First, a blank is printed or drawn;
• Autumn leaves are attached, like a girl's hair;
• The resulting handicraft is colored with pencils, paints or felt-tip pens

Think about how else to decorate this product, including his imagination.

Now you know how to make leaf crafts yourself and be able to take this child. If he goes to the 1st grade, this information for him will be incredibly useful, because now at school the kid will be able to show all his skills and prove himself by creating a stunning applique.

Pictures of children's leaf applique

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