Greetings! Today I have selected for you a lot of ideas on the theme of "Autumn". More precisely, we will figure out how to make autumn bouquets with our own hands. With the start of classes in schools and kindergartens, parents are often puzzled by what needs to be done. I think that in the presence of fruits, leaves and dried flowers, it is easiest to create a composition of flowers.

And they turn out so beautiful that they are suitable for a gift for a ball, for Teacher's Day and for the autumn holiday itself.

And to facilitate the search for parents, I decided to make a selection where I collected the most interesting ideas for bouquets using everything that is at hand: from paper to twigs and seeds. There will be simple ideas and more complex ones for those who feel a creative touch and want to create a masterpiece.

One of the most accessible autumn materials are leaves. They have already turned red and yellow. They are collected in beautiful compositions, make the basis for bouquets, or simply put in a vase without embellishment.

And we can roll a rose out of them. And already from such roses and buds to make a bouquet. This is done very easily and for 1 rose you will need from 5-7 leaves. It depends on the level of openness of your flower.

It is important to take those leaves that are still easy to bend and do not break. From dry things, unfortunately, nothing will come of it.

By the way, pick them up so that there is a long tail at the base. It will help to comfortably hold the workpiece and tie a “rose” with it will also be easier.

So let's take:

• 5-7 leaves
• threads.

Let's start by choosing the smallest piece of paper available. Fold it in half horizontally.

And twist into a tube. This is what we got in the middle.

Hold the middle with one hand. And the second again fold the next sheet horizontally. We wrap it around the middle. We don't tighten it too much.

We wrap it in this way until the leaves run out. Not all of them can be used if you want to make a bud.

We open the "petals" and tie all the tails with a thread. To make it more convenient, ask for help from relatives.

This is how the blanks turned out. They can already make a bouquet.

I think that any student will be able to repeat these simple steps and create a bouquet of "roses" on their own.

And now we compose the composition. Indeed, in floristry, not a single bouquet is made without it. The idea always comes first.

You can combine such roses with fresh flowers, dried flowers or mountain ash.

The main thing is that there are no voids in the bouquet, otherwise there will be a feeling of incompleteness. Here is an example with the addition of ordinary leaves. After all, they are also beautiful in their own right.

And here the flowers lie on a beautiful substrate and the center is highlighted with a bright accent.

If you try, you can make roses of different shades, which will look very realistic in a bouquet.

It is not a shame to present such beauty at the Autumn Ball or on Teacher's Day.

It is very beautiful when leaves of different colors and shapes are combined. Nevertheless, our autumn is very diverse and plays with all the colors of the rainbow.

Another idea is when green plant branches are used.

I really liked how the leaves were beautifully wrapped in a tube in this photo. This immediately highlights the composition and makes it individual.

Here, in a composition with autumn fresh flowers, the leaves also actively draw attention to themselves. Agree, it turned out very original.

Another small composition on the theme "Autumn". Very cute and beautiful idea with an apple.

It is worth going into a park or a forest and you can immediately collect a whole bag of material. Twigs of birch, maple, mountain ash, apple tree - everything will suit us.

A variant of the autumn tree in the form. It can also replace the bouquet. All the gifts of trees are used: from leaves to berries and cones.

You can not fold the leaves, but simply collect them beautifully and tie them with a ribbon. You can keep the color style. For example, take only green or only red leaves.

But you can use the branches themselves! See how self-sufficient they look.

I think that any mother will be happy to help her child create such compositions. And the joint collection of leaves in the forest for a walk will only bring the family closer.

Autumn bouquets of vegetables and fruits

You can use autumn fruits. Bouquets with them are also very popular now and look rather unusual.

For creativity, you need to pick up beautiful, small fruits. No dark spots or wrinkled sides.

Let's start considering possible options for compositions from fruits and berries. And then we move on to vegetables.

Here is an idea with tangerines and rowan. Fruit strung on skewers. For strength, they are fixed with adhesive tape or a special floral tape.

Here you can see that the apples are strung on skewers. They are beautifully combined with asters and mountain ash and bird cherry. Parents made a very original coaster from birch bark.

Apples are combined with any leaves and berries.

Here the emphasis is on rowan. Sprigs of coniferous trees add splendor to the composition.

These bouquets are made to order. Here it is important to firmly connect all the workpieces to each other.

I was captivated by the idea of ​​coloring fruits. For example, such “golden” apples look very expensive. It won't take long to realize that they are real!

Variations with fruits, cones and berries in a pumpkin. A little later I will show how you can use this vegetable.

You can put the composition not in a pumpkin, but in a zucchini.

Apples go great with the "roses" we made earlier.

Step by step video on making fruit compositions.

Now I will show options for bouquets with vegetables. You can not collect all types. And turn on design fantasies and use only two types - pepper and garlic. See what came of it.

Small fruits make pretty compositions.

The entire space between the vegetables, where the junctions can shine through, was covered with rowan berries.

By sticking to a certain color scheme, you can create a very stylish bouquet. For example, using cabbage and succulents. After all, autumn is different.

In this photo, I was subdued by a substrate of rolled leaves. The composition is clearly visible here. A highlight in the form of earrings descending under their weight.

See how beautiful the idea of ​​\u200b\u200bpainting the ears looks. Very bright and lively.

Now let's move on to a very common idea to use a pumpkin as a vase for flowers and grass.

Bouquets with pumpkin

It is convenient to put bouquets in a pumpkin. But in order for them to stand and not wilted longer, all plants need water. How to place it in this large vegetable?

There are three most convenient options: using a floral sponge, using a tin can, or combining both of these options.

So, from the pumpkin we take out the middle with seeds. They can be dried and used for applications and panels. Below will be about this.

And inside lay out a floral sponge. It is sold in many flower shops, as well as in the departments for creativity.

Then water it with water and insert flowers. Most often, this option is needed when you create a bouquet of fresh flowers. The sponge also helps keep the shape of the composition when the stems are stuck into it.

You can also put a tin can inside. In this case, it is not necessary to remove all the pulp. The main thing is that the jar is not visible. We use canned pineapple containers. You can also pour water into it, or you can not do this if you are using dried flowers.

For these purposes, it is better to take a wide pumpkin.

You can use a glass instead of a jar. Its upper side indicates the diameter that needs to be cut out so that the glass fits. For fresh flowers, put a floral sponge inside and saturate it with moisture.

Ideas for compositions in a pumpkin are in front of you.

A vegetable vase can be decorated with ribbons or braid.

There are only fresh flowers here.

And here we see the use of spruce branches, bunches of bird cherry and mountain ash.

A whole composition on the theme "Autumn".

Such crafts will appeal to both schoolchildren and children of the older group of kindergarten.

The main thing is not to be afraid to use the materials that are at hand. Making a bouquet is a very entertaining and creative process.

How to make paper compositions on the theme "Golden Autumn"

I have an idea to make autumn paper bouquets. Initially, flowers are harvested from which the composition is created.

It turns out very beautifully using the origami technique.

With a splash.

Let's add leaves in autumn shades to them.

This master class describes the detailed process of creating leaflets.

The ends of the sheet folded with an accordion are smeared with glue and connected.

Maple leaves can also be made using the origami technique.

Here is a detailed tutorial.

If it is not clear from the photo, then I attach the video.

Everything is described in detail here. I think that you can definitely create a craft from the video, repeating all the steps in stages.

Master classes and ideas from natural material in kindergarten

For little kids, you need something simpler. Therefore, I suggest using natural material for bouquets. We will look at ideas from cones, peanut and pistachio shells, pumpkin seeds, dried flowers.

From cones

It turns out that the cones are very similar to flowers. Especially if they ate unopened things put in water. They absorb moisture and open up. My child, when he saw these metamorphoses, was simply delighted.

The cones can also be attached to skewers, sushi sticks, or toothpicks. To create a round composition, use round floristic foam balls. I made them from ordinary polyurethane foam.

They come in different diameters. All kinds of plants and materials are stuck into them. You can use both fresh flowers and branches, and any other materials.

A beautiful bouquet when the buds are turned tip first. It turns out a very neat composition. The tips themselves are decorated with beads, ribbons, rhinestones and flowers. They adhere well to hot glue.

How do you like this autumn composition. I think it's very original.

Also, the cone lends itself perfectly to painting. They can be painted with gouache or spray paints. The intensity of the color depends on the number of layers.

dense gouache will also be able to cover the natural brown shade of the cones.

If you remove the inner branches, then the flowers will turn out to be more open.

And you can take only one thing and make it the center of the composition.

Another idea from the gifts of the forest. Everything that lies at the trunks and under our feet is used.

Agree, cones are an excellent material for creating an autumn bouquet for children in kindergarten.

From pumpkin seeds

Pumpkin seeds also make great flower petals.

There are two options for buds. The first is to stick seeds on paper in several rows. Here is a detailed tutorial.

The middle can be painted or covered with a piece of colored cotton wool.

With the use of plasticine, you can make such daisies.

Or those flowers.

Let's take a closer look at how this is done. Pumpkin seeds are inserted into the plasticine ball in rows. You can form different buds and variants of inflorescences.

It's also very interesting, don't you agree?

From peanut shells

We rarely buy peanuts, but we often take the shells from friends after the men's get-togethers. To once a year in the kindergarten to make such bouquets for educators.

Whole “hydrangeas” are obtained from pistachios.

It is convenient to attach them to plasticine.

It will be easy for kids to make such daisies. Younger children can insert shell petals into plasticine. And the elders connect them with hot glue.

Using floristic balls (I wrote about them a little higher), you can create the correct spherical shape of a sunflower. See how organic coffee beans look. After all, these are all the gifts of autumn.

Whole pistachios and peanuts can be presented as a gift. To do this, connect them into bags and decorate with corrugated paper.

With walnuts

Of course, walnuts are not bypassed. From the shells you can make an autumn topiary.

Walnut bouquets with whole fruits look very presentable.

You can close the gaps with pieces of napkins.

For interest, you can combine all of the listed natural materials and fruits.

from dried flowers

Dried flowers are very suitable for our autumn theme. They look noble, they can be painted. They will complement any composition.

Everything will do - dry herbs, cereals, leaves.

And here the spikelets were painted.

Cotton flowers want the composition to be very delicate and airy.

A beautiful bouquet of dried flowers in a stand decorated with branches.

More ideas for you.

An interesting frame for a bouquet of branches.

We mix dried flowers and roses from leaves.

Golden ears have a very presentable appearance. It’s just that you have to go far for the material - on the field. Look for unharvested wheat.

Dry grass with leaves are combined harmoniously.

Many of the ideas I just love.

Applications with flowers on the theme of autumn in the middle group

For the older group, you can offer ideas for applications or panels. They are made from leaves, dried flowers, cereals and seeds.

Idea with a vase in which twigs are inserted. Only the sides and bottom are glued. The top is left free so that the material can be inserted.

Use the candy box as a base and frame for the panel.

Leaves, cones and coffee beans create such an autumnal bouquet.

Different types of flowers from pumpkin seeds for application.

Use coniferous branches.

All bones, seeds and cereals hold well on hot glue.

Leaves and flowers made of paper are no worse than natural material.

You can take the usual frame for the base.

You can make applications in the form of bouquets simpler, or more complicated.

Autumn ideas for candy and crepe paper bouquets

Corrugated paper flowers look incredibly realistic and beautiful. For Teacher's Day, there is an idea for a small bouquet with sweets.

Or a gift idea.

Flowers for a gift can be packed in autumn leaves.

You can use these flowers without sweets.

Let's combine sweets with natural materials: dried flowers, cones and leaves.

Composition with sweets in a basket.

And now a detailed master class on creating roses from corrugated paper. It is easy to stretch and bend and can imitate real leaves.

The colors of autumn are very cheerful and any yellow, orange and red flowers are suitable for them.

I am attaching a video on how you can make several types of flowers.

Corrugated paper is sold in book and stationery stores, in places for floristry, creativity and holidays.

Ideas how to arrange a bouquet

And now you have already decided what your autumn bouquet will be made of, even blanks are made. But you need to arrange it somehow so that it has a more marketable and presentable appearance!

So I offer a few ideas.

For example, take the now popular craft paper. Or packing dense mesh or fabric.

From the same corrugated paper you can make a beautiful envelope. With such a design, it is not a shame to present your craft.

Insert the craft into a paper bag. It can even be folded from scrapbooking sheets.

Mounting foam, foam rubber, floral sponge or polystyrene are inserted inside.

Ideas from reed napkins are beautifully obtained.

You will need:

• napkin,
• can,
• cardboard,
• pencil,
• hot glue (glue gun).

We put a jar on cardboard and circle the bottom. We cut it out and stick it on a tin. We also glue the sides with cardboard.

We measure the height of the walls of the tin and cut off its size on a napkin. We wrap the sides and fix with hot glue.

That's it.

The bouquet can be placed in hat boxes or shoe boxes. To do this, they are pasted over with a cloth or special paper. The bottom is lined with a film on which we put a floral sponge. We fill it with moisture and begin to form a composition.

There is a fun idea for decorating jars with plastic straws for cocktails. The main thing here is to cut them neatly and evenly.

Insert dried flowers or paper flowers into paper boxes. Here is one of the ideas. By the way, in this article I described very much, suddenly you will like something.

Cardboard fits very harmoniously into this composition. Original and beautiful.

To congratulate teachers, you can decorate the packaging with letters.

Or just put the bouquet in the basket. They are now made not only from vines, but also from newspaper tubes, paper and canton.

Thank you for your attention and wish you fruitful joint creativity. I'm just sure that you can find an idea for yourself and create such a composition that you are not ashamed to give to the teacher and send to the exhibition!

Good afternoon - we continue theme of autumn crafts for interior decoration. And today we will talk about compositions and lamps. pumpkin… about elegant flower-fruit compositions with wicker baskets... about how you can make beautiful autumn flowers with your own hands fillings in transparent vases... and I will give a large selection of compositions with candles and candlesticks decorated in autumn style. In short, there will be many interesting interior ideas for creating an autumn atmosphere in the house, for decorating a wedding in the fall.

Autumn compositions - crafts with PUMPKINS.

Pumpkin is, one might say, a SYMBOL OF AUTUMN. And pumpkin crafts for interior decoration can be very different. You can glue a white pumpkin with yellow autumn leaves (if they do not sit well on PVA glue ... you can plant them on acrylic lacquer) ... Or you can stick the leaves on - and just apply paint on them - and attach to the barrel of the pumpkin AS A STAMP ... and it will remain on the pumpkin peel leaf print.

Or you can do a PUMPKIN CARVING. To do this, you need to ... attach an autumn leaf to a pumpkin - circle around the contour with a pencil ... then cut out the contour with a knife - and peel off the skin inside the contour - you get a beautiful CARVED PATTERN on the pumpkin (as in the left photo below).

You can put a few pumpkins on the table and braid them with branches of a berry bush ...

Or you can make beautiful LIGHTS from a pumpkin. To do this ... you need to cut off the lower part (bottom) of the pumpkin ... through this cut, cut and take out all the pulp of the pumpkin - so that only the walls remain.
Then we need cut round holes– to make it work well – it is best to use metal tube with thin sharp walls and a hammer. We apply a cut of such a metal pipe to the side of the pumpkin from the INSIDE - (that is, we put the pipe inside the pumpkin ... and the pumpkin should lie on the side that we are going to punch). And now we apply an iron tube to the barrel - and knock on it with a hammer (or press hard) - and the sharp edges of the tube make holes in the pumpkin side (just like a cookie cutter makes holes in rolled out dough).

You can choose the patterns at your discretion ... if you take tubes of different diameters, you will get holes of different sizes.

If miniature decorative pumpkins have grown on your beds, then you can make a beautiful wreath composition with asters, cones and bright ribbons from them (as in the photo below).

If the pumpkin does not have a convenient tail to tie a ribbon- then you can drive a construction dowel with a metal eye into a pumpkin ... or just a long nail bent into a loop

To get such a bent stud- you must first drive it 1 centimeter into the board - and then hit it with a hammer at a crooked angle - so that the nail bends - and then remove it from the board and drive it into a pumpkin at an angle - and you get a metal grip for tying the ribbon.

YOU CAN DO IT HERE such a wreath from small pumpkins and patissons (photo below).

For such a wreath you need metal rim(quite strong) - to the rim for volume, you can screw dry branches in a circle- winding them with wire.

And then with the same wire and attach the pumpkins. For this each fruit must be perforated - from one side with a through hole (like a button)- so that there is an entry hole for the wire and a hole for the exit for the wire 3-7 cm from it.

To get such an "underground passage" - you just need pierce a gourd with a bent nail... a nail bent in the form of an arch - will enter the pumpkin - and exit immediately next to the entrance hole. And we will get such an EAR as a button. We will thread the wire through this eye, and the pumpkin will turn out to be strung on it like a mushroom - and it can be tied to the wreath base.

Autumn compositions - IN BASKETS.

Ordinary wicker baskets can also participate in the creation of autumn interior crafts.

Inside the basket you can make an AUTUMN BOUQUET. Buy an “oasis” in a florist shop (this is such a material similar to green sponge plasticine) - you stick flowers into it and they do not wither for weeks, feeding on moisture from this “oasis sponge”.

Or can you do DRY compositions autumn floristry in a basket - or even take three baskets of different sizes and make a beautiful autumn pyramid out of them from cones, rose hips, dry ornamental herbs, velvet sage leaves and coniferous twigs.

If your basket is old and shabby, and an oak tree is actively fruiting in the neighborhood, then you can pick up acorns ... arm yourself with a glue gun(sold in hardware stores costs 3 or 5 dollars) and pave the entire basket, paste over the bodies and hats of acorns. You will get a beautiful autumn craft as in the photo below.

GIFTS OF AUTUMN IN A DISH - as interior compositions.

Or you can not be too cunning and just make a fruit-leaf display in a beautiful bowl. pumpkins for glitter rub with paraffin(spread a candle) and then polish with a dry cloth to a glossy finish..

Bright fruits of persimmon and silvery velvet leaves of garden wormwood... or other plants have the same velvety gray leaves - for example cleaner, cineraria- they look very nice in dry autumn bouquets and compositions.

And you can make the dish itself for a fruit composition from cut (half horizontally) pumpkin.

You can make an autumn composition of small pumpkins, garden flowers and seed umbels of plants.

But you can think even more interesting ... and create a small fruit masterpiece... Glue rhinestones on ordinary ruddy pears (ordinary glue rhinestones that are sold in stalls ... they already have a sticky surface on the back and are easy and quick to stick on. By the way, this table decoration looks good for decorating a wedding in nature.

Artistic compositions - from natural and plant material.

You can make beautiful autumn outfits from stones, dry snags and flowers.

You can make a real autumn composition from a carved pumpkin ... with birch stump and toy deer. Place it on the coffee table and let it please the eyes of you and your children ... Let them play in this cozy pumpkin house... it's such a great childish treat. And by the way, the children themselves can take part in the manufacture of such a composition from a hollow pumpkin - let them decide how to equip the house

You can also buy it in the gift shop. little decorative birds... they are made from papier-mâché and feathers - they look like real ones. And make a beautiful composition of autumn leaves, berries and birds sitting on a perch. Children will be happy to take part in such a craft. How to make such a bird's corner with my own and children's hands, I told in great detail and step by step in the article "AUTUMN CRAFTS for children (to school and kindergarten) - 15 best master classes"

And next to it, you can put a beautiful composition with a birdhouse on an aged coffee table ... an autumn bouquet of autumn twigs and a beautiful dry vine.

Or you can make an autumn Ekibana - beautiful on a platter lay out dry herbs, branches, rosebuds, apples, and perennial inflorescences in rows. To keep pink buds fresh for a long time, they can be stuck into pieces of a spongy “oasis” soaked in water.

AUTUMN FILLINGS - made from natural materials to decorate the table.

And you can make bulk Ekibans ... we take several transparent vessels and pour different natural materials into each of them ... chestnuts, acorns, cereal stalks. Somewhere you can insert candles.

Rose hips and poppy boxes look beautiful ... especially if they are sprinkled with dry perennial flowers.

It is also beautiful if you surround the glass with carved autumn leaves and tie it with twine.

The size of the overall composition depends on your idea and the amount of natural materials and suitable glass containers.

Or you can just make a small cozy table setting - with autumn branches ... and poured into a vase of cones ... beautiful bunches of leaves and candles to match the overall composition. A wonderful autumn still life that just asks for a picture.

And here is an example of pouring into small containers with autumn bouquets of flowers and herbs.

AUTUMN PICTURES - from leaves, acorns, branches, etc.

You can also make wall compositions from natural materials ... These can be mat panels

Or three-dimensional paintings from bright colored leaves filled with varnish (photo below).

I told more about how to make such a picture in the article.

You can dry the leaf and insert it between two glasses- under one frame.

Autumn compositions WITH CANDLES for interior decoration.

Also, the autumn composition on the table will be decorated candles from pumpkins ... or from apples. In the evening, such lighting will give our autumn still life artistic lighting, where each color will sparkle with glare of shades that sway when the candle flame fluctuates. .

Or like this autumn candlesticks which can be made from empty glasses. If the glasses are tied with leaves, sprigs of berries and tied with a rope. Very beautiful.

You know ... I found so many ideas for autumn candle decoration - that I have to separate them into a separate article and give a link to it ... here "Autumn compositions WITH CANDLES - 28 photos of beautiful ideas"

AND MORE...

And I also have other articles on the autumn decoration of your home ...

As well as a series of articles on new crafts from various natural materials.

Let autumn be cozy and beautiful.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site

Autumn gives us a lot of materials for creativity. These are leaves of various colors, and chestnuts, and dried flowers, and acorns, and a decorative miniature pumpkin.

But, before you start making souvenirs from them, you need to properly prepare them, namely, dry them and, if necessary, varnish or paint them.

If you make crafts from unprepared raw materials, then this will be a short-lived product.

As soon as the material dries on its own, the souvenir will lose its shape and will have to be thrown away. And besides this, half-baked leaves can simply rot or become moldy.

Therefore, let's start by drying our autumn finds.

Let's prepare the leaves for the herbarium as follows:

1 way:

Put them between the book sheets and put them back on the shelf, pressing the other books firmly on the side. After about a week and a half, the leaves will become suitable for crafts.

This method is the best, since the natural color of the leaves does not change and then they do not break for a long time.

2 way:

This method is good if you do not have the strength to endure a week and a half and want to quickly get to work. Place the sheet between two white sheets of paper and iron on the lowest setting.

In this case, the yellow and red leaves retain their color, but the green ones can darken and become an ugly, brown hue.

We dry chestnuts, acorns and decorative pumpkin.

1 way:

Dry outdoors in the shade. It will be necessary to wait quite a long time before these materials acquire the dryness we need.

Sometimes this process takes a month. This is especially true of decorative pumpkins, from which wonderful autumn DIY crafts come out.

You will see for yourself when the moment of readiness of the gifts of autumn comes. Acorns and chestnuts will become lighter, and the pumpkin will become like a rattle, as the cavity inside will dry out and shrink, and dry seeds will beat against the walls.

2 way:

We use the oven for this. It must be set to a temperature of up to 60C, and dried until tender, stirring occasionally.

The main thing is not to rush and do not set a high heat, as the fruits will simply boil and become completely unusable.

Drying dried flowers

There is only one way and it is long-playing. Flowers should be strung on a thread threaded through the stems and hung in a dry place, peduncles down.

Drying in a book or an iron will not work, so the shape will be lost and they will become flat. After the dried flowers are completely dry, they must be covered with a layer of hairspray. It will give them the right density and will not allow them to crumble at the slightest touch.

Well, now, let's move on to specific master classes and examples.

1. Panel of autumn leaves

We offer you a great DIY leaf panel idea. It is not difficult to make it, but the result is quite impressive.

It would be nice if you placed other autumn decor elements next to the finished leaf painting. For example, pumpkins, spikelets and other gizmos suitable in style. Then you will have a whole autumn ensemble.

What we need to work:

1. 1. Dried maple leaves of yellow-red color.
2. 2. Tree branch for the trunk
3. 3. A piece of square plywood
4. 4. Stain or dark varnish
5. 5. Simple pencil
6. 6. PVA glue
7. 7. A bunch of dry spikelets
8. 8. Wicker basket for pumpkins
9. 9. A few Jack Be Little or Baby Boo pumpkins

If you do not have such pumpkins, then the basket can be filled with chestnuts and acorns. But next year it would not hurt to grow them, as they look very colorful and festive. Of course, if you have a piece of land.

See what a variety of varieties and how harmoniously they combine with each other:

Master class step by step:

1 step. Sand the board, paying special attention to the edges. They must be smooth.

2 step. Cover it with stain or varnish, preferably with a brownish tint. Apply the coating in several layers, trying to make the board not of a uniform color, but slightly “spotted”.

3 step. Freehand draw a large maple leaf.

4 step. Start gluing on the maple leaves. Start from the edges, gradually approaching the middle. The edges of the leaves should match the edges of the sketch as best as possible. The next row of leaves should overlap the previous one. Do not glue the ends, they should be “overhang” so that the effect of volume comes out.

5 step. Glue the selected branch in place of the stem.

Now hang a hand-made autumn panel over a cabinet and arrange other decorative elements around.

2. Topiary from a herbarium and other autumn materials

Topiary is an ornamental tree. In autumn, you can collect beautiful leaves and make such a wonderful and cozy element of decor.

Any leaves, dried flowers, acorns, spikelets will be used here. The main thing is to understand the essence and make the right foundation. And what to fill it with - fantasy will tell.

What we need to work:

1. 1. Ceramic pot of soft color
2. 2. Smooth tree branch for the trunk
3. 3. 1 ball of foam rubber, polystyrene or special floral foam
4. 4. Dry moss, sesame or a handful of beautiful pebbles, acorns, dry mountain ash
5. 5. Glue gun
6. 6. Gypsum dry
7. 7. Decorative elements: herbarium, dried flowers, mountain ash, acorns, etc.

Master class step by step:

1 step. Let's start with the base. Take a styrofoam ball and put it on a branch that will serve as a trunk for you. Then remove it and drop glue from the gun into the hole formed. Reattach the ball and let dry.

2 step. Secure the stem in the pot. To do this, put a drop of glue on the free edge of the branch, attach it to the base of the pot.

Then, dilute the gypsum with water to the consistency of liquid sour cream and fill the container. Keep in mind that you will still need to decorate everything on top with moss or acorns, so leave a gap of about 3-4 cm from the top.

3 step. Now we insert leaves, dried flowers into the ball, sticking their stems inside. If you want to add acorns to the composition, then first put them on pieces of wire.

4 step. Now you just have to decorate the top of the pot so that the gypsum is not visible.

That's all. According to this simple scheme, you can make a variety of autumn crafts with your own hands, not only from leaves, but also from dry peas, nuts and other things. All of them will look just fine!

3. Roses from maple leaves

Looking at this elegant bouquet of roses, it would never occur to you that it is made from ordinary maple leaves!

But, nevertheless, it is so. It is enough just to learn how to fold them correctly and you will get a chic basis for many ideas.

Such roses can be included in various autumn topiaries, wreaths, compositions and panels. They look great in combination with any natural materials.

Well, let's get down to business.

What we need to work:

1. 1. Maple leaves not dried
2. 2. Thread or soft wire
3. 3. Matte hairspray

Master class step by step:

1 step. We form the middle of the bud. To do this, fold the sheet as shown in the pictures below. Try to twist it as tightly and evenly as possible. First in half, and then sausage.

As a result, we should get something like this:

2 step. Now take the second sheet, fold it in half again and wrap the base around it.

The sharp edges of the maple leaves need to be carefully hidden inside, like this:

3 step. We continue to build up mass around the base, fitting more and more new leaves. If you want to end up with a bud, then twist it tighter, and if you ate a more lush rose, then loosen the twist a little.

4 step. When you see that a real rose has “bloomed” in your hands, you need to fix it with threads, as tight as possible.

5 step. We cut the edges with scissors and put the rose on a lining of leaves, preferably already dry. We cover the composition with varnish and admire!

Such roses from leaves stand for a long time, for the whole autumn season it will definitely be enough. You can make as many of these colors as you like. The more of them, the more chic this autumn composition looks, resembling a fabric motif in appearance.

4. Compositions from decorative pumpkins

Even if you do not grow this vegetable on your site, in the autumn you can freely buy them on the market and then dry them yourself. How to do this, we have already told above, so let's not waste time talking.

Let's get creative!

There will be no master classes in this block, we will just show you examples of such decor, and how to make them is quite clear from the photo.

Of course, there are more complex techniques, for example, carving or painting on dry lagenaria, but this topic is extensive and worthy of a separate article. Here we will consider only the simplest compositions that even a schoolboy can do.

1 option. Basket with a scattering of pumpkins. It couldn't be easier, but the view is spectacular!

Option 2. Candlesticks from mini pumpkins. To do this, you need to cut a hole large enough with a knife so that you can put a foil-based candle in it.

Or this option:

Incredibly simple, right?

3 option. Wreath on the door of pumpkins. Take any circle as a basis, for example, an embroidery hoop, and attach mini-pumpkins to it.

Pierce the tails with wire and screw it to the base, circle. As additional decorative elements, use berries, acorns, twigs and autumn leaves.

It will look something like this:

5. Chestnut Topiary

To create this spectacular do-it-yourself autumn craft, we will need the same materials for the base as for creating a decorative herbarium tree. And for decoration, you just need other elements.

For work we need:

1. Ceramic pot
2. Styrofoam ball
3. Gypsum dry
4. Glue gun
5. Tree branch for the trunk
6. Cones, chestnuts, acorns
7. Harsh thread or twine to form decorative balls

Master class step by step:

1. 1. We form the base of the tree in the same way as in the case of the leaf topiary.
2. 2. We fix the base in a pot with glue and plaster
3. 3. We apply drops of hot glue to chestnuts, acorns and other elements and randomly attach them to the foam ball-crown.
4. 4. A wreath on the chestnut door

Such a wreath of chestnuts on the front door will cheer up not only you, but also passers-by. It is very easy to make it. Follow all the steps given for making a pumpkin wreath.

Find some kind of dense base, then pierce the chestnuts and other elements through the reverse side, insert the wire, form a hook and use it to screw them to the circle.

Complement the chestnut composition with leaves, acorns, berries and other autumn decorative elements that this fertile time of the year gave.

6. Autumn garland "Leaves" from salt dough

This is a very spectacular autumn craft with your own hands. The big advantage of such a garland is that it is not seasonal and will decorate your home for many years.

After all, it is made not from natural materials, but from salt dough, which does not deteriorate for years. The only thing is that such products are fragile and must be handled with care so as not to break. But, even if this happened, they can always be glued together, but the joint will not be noticeable.

What we need to work:

1. 2 cups flour
2. 1 glass of salt
3. 0.5 cups of water
4. Gouache
5. Sewing pins with hook eye
6. Twine
7. Oven
8. White landscape paper, pencil

Master class step by step:

1 step. We draw patterns of leaves of various types on the landscape sheet, but approximately the same size. We cut them out.

2 step. Knead a stiff dough of flour, salt and water. If the dough turns out to be non-plastic, then liquid can be added drop by drop. Mix well the resulting material and roll it out on the board. The layer should be approximately 5-7 millimeters.

3 step. We lay out the templates on the rolled out dough and cut them along the contour with a knife.

As a result, we should get about as many blanks.

4 step. We make holes with pins and carefully fix the heads. On them we will hang our leaves. We squeeze out the veins with a knife.

5 step. We dry the dough in the oven at a temperature of 50-60C until completely dry.

6 step. We color the blanks from the dough with gouache, trying to make natural tones and transitions.

7 step. We string the garland on the twine, making a knot over each leaf so that they do not move.

So our autumn do-it-yourself craft is ready. You can hang it anywhere, it will be in place in any corner of the house, especially if you have some other autumn-style decor elements.

7. Vases and houses from an ordinary pumpkin

Autumn is the season for pumpkins. It costs mere pennies and finding a beautiful shape and coloring is not difficult.

And to make an element of autumn decor on its basis is as easy as shelling pears! There is no need for any step-by-step technologies and accessories.

All you need is pumpkins, a carving knife, a tablespoon to pick out the pulp and flowers to fill these colorful vases.

Look at our selection of photos of pumpkin vases. Looks very dignified and autumnal.

As you already understood, you only need to cut off the top and clean the core of the vegetable. Then fill the container with water.

And you can make houses out of pumpkins. To do this, you just need to cut holes in the right places. Where exactly they are located, you can see in the picture below. Kids love these things!

8. Wreath on the door made of natural materials

We have already given above an example of wreaths of pumpkins and chestnuts. How to make them - you already know. Here we just give a selection of the most spectacular, in our opinion, ideas.

9. Frame of acorns for a photo or a mirror

Decorating any base in this way is very simple. We think no explanation is needed here.

The only thing we can advise is that you should not glue acorns on a glue gun or PVA. Much better if you use plasticine.

Because, most likely, you will soon get tired of such decor and have to throw it away. And so, you can always dismantle the acorns and get a regular photo frame back into use.

This is how it will look like.

There are whole acorns on the photo frame, and only hats on the mirror. Thus, you can create a variety of autumn crafts with your own hands and decorate any surface: caskets, bread boxes, and more.

10. A bunch of acorns

This autumn craft will look best if you paint the “berries” in natural colors, and instead of grape leaves add a maple herbarium of various colors.

Also, a bunch of acorns is a wonderful element of any autumn wreath on the door or a large topiary. After all, it can be made not only desktop, but also in human growth!

Only instead of a foam ball, you need to take some large, plastic one. Grapes from acorns are made very simply, we will now tell you exactly how.

What we need to work:

1. Acorns without caps
2. Shilo
3. Wire
3. Glue gun
4. Acrylic paint
5. Autumn leaves for decoration

Master class step by step:

1 step. We pierce holes in the base of the acorn with an awl.

2 step. We break or cut the wire into pieces 7-10 cm long.

3 step. Dip the ends of the wire in a drop of glue from the gun and insert into the punctured holes.

4 step. We paint acorns in any color you want. The main thing is that it is combined with leaves that will complement the composition.

5 step. We collect acorns in a bunch, forming a wire rod on top. Then we attach leaves to it.

Now you can make any decoration based on this fall craft. Panel, wreath and more.

11. Autumn crafts from felt

Working with this fabric is a pleasure! The material does not crumble, perfectly holds its shape. And this means that any beginner can make an autumn craft from felt with his own hands and it will turn out no worse than the products of experienced craftswomen.

We offer you a selection of the best and simple decors in autumn style, and you already choose any of them! They are so simple that they do not need to describe in detail their step-by-step technology.

As you can see, on the basis of felt leaves, you can make both a wreath and a garland, like the one we already made from salt dough. Here are a couple more options for do-it-yourself autumn wreaths.

All you need to do is draw patterns, cut out the felt and decorate it according to our photos.

12. Pigtail of garlic and red pepper

How cozy it is when bundles of garlic, onions, red peppers hang in the kitchen! But if you hang them fresh, they will very soon lose their appearance or simply run out, because they will go to food.

Let's do something like this, but for the ages! Now we will look at how garlic and pepper are made, from which we will form a pretty braid for the kitchen.

For work we need:

1. White nylon tights or plastic bag (for garlic base)
2. Cotton wool or synthetic winterizer (for filling)
3. White harsh thread (for dressing and forming lobules)
4. Glue gun
5. Buckwheat or twine (to simulate garlic roots)
6. Fabric for sewing peppers or salt dough for modeling it

Master class step by step:

1 step. We form the body of garlic. To do this, we need to cut into squares or nylon tights or simple plastic bags. Garlic made of nylon looks, of course, more realistic.

But the package looks good too. But most importantly, this material is always at hand. So, cut out a square, about 7 by 7 cm in diameter.

2 step. We roll a ball out of cotton wool or synthetic winterizer, put it inside a flap of nylon and form a head of garlic. It looks like it is shown in the photo.

3 step. Then we begin to tie the head with a harsh thread, forming garlic cloves. First, divide in half, then into quarters, then into 8 parts.

Look at the photo, the process is clearly shown there.

4 step. In the place where the roots of real garlic are located, we drip a drop of glue and sprinkle this place with crushed buckwheat. If you want, you can replace it with twine, which needs to be unraveled and finely chopped.

5 step. We make a pigtail out of twine and attach the resulting garlic cloves to it.

6 step. Now it's time to do the pepper. You can sew it, but a pepper made from salt dough looks much better.

We have already given the recipe for kneading, in the subheading “Garlands of autumn leaves”. This is how the peppercorns should turn out in the end.

7 step. We make holes in the tails of the peppercorns (we will then thread the twine into them and with its help we will fix them on the pigtail with garlic). You can do this with an awl or any item at hand.

The main thing is to make them large enough so that you can thread the thread freely later. Otherwise, after drying, you will not be able to attach the finished product to the composition in any way.

And one more thing: if you make a hole, make sure that the edges of the legs remain more or less large. Otherwise, after you pull the thread, the thin walls may crack and the pepper will fall to the floor.

8 step. Dry in the oven, paint with acrylic paint, after drying, cover them with varnish. When the pepper shines, it looks more natural.

Dry at a low temperature, do not rush, because otherwise, your work may burst and you will have to sculpt everything again. Cracked peppers can no longer be painted the way you would like.

9. We fasten the pepper to the garlic and hang this autumn composition in the kitchen. You can make several of these links. You can make carrots from salt dough, and from brown tights you can make an onion bunch.

The principle of making bulbs is the same as garlic, only even simpler. Slices do not need to be formed.

Also, a bunch of mushrooms on the wall will look great, which you can also mold from dough and paint realistically.

This is the end of our long review. You saw many examples and any kind of autumn crafts with your own hands. We really hope that our master classes will be useful to you and you will definitely take something into service.

To decorate any place, whether it is an apartment, house or office, you can create many beautiful elements yourself. For example, you can make an ekibana. For it, you can use different artificial materials or natural natural elements.

Very often, ekibana is made for some serious events to decorate a table or a room for celebration, but on ordinary days, you can make an ekibana to maintain the mood and comfort in the room. You can use flowers, paper products, fruits and many other elements that seem suitable for this. It must be remembered that a live ekibana requires special care and can quickly lose its appearance, while artificial ones delight everyone with their brightness for a long time.

Do-it-yourself autumn ekibana

Ekibana can be made in different shapes and sizes. For example, autumn-style ekibana is made using living elements, and its size and shape are chosen individually by each person. Autumn Ekibana can differ in its brightness, since for its manufacture you can collect leaves of all colors, sizes and shapes, you can add some flowers to this set, after drying them.

The most important thing in the manufacture of Ekibana is to properly prepare all the decorative elements. So, having collected all the leaves and flowers, they need to be dried by hanging upside down in a dark and dry place. After the leaves are dry, they must be soaked in a solution of glycerin with water and dried again. Glycerin will help maintain the shape and color of all elements of the ekibana.

If elements such as bark or tree branches are used, then hairspray can be applied to them, using sparkles, thus, the dead wood takes on a festive look.

You can choose a vase or container for autumn Ekibana according to different criteria, it can be a vase, plate or other stand. The main thing is that the vase should not be too bright, then all attention will be directed to it. After all the steps taken, the leaf ekibana will be ready, you just need to decide on the method of attaching all the components of this autumn bouquet. For example, wet sand or foam will do a good job of fixing the composition.

Do-it-yourself Ekibana for the New Year

In order for the New Year mood to appear, you can make a festive ekibana. This time you can use different decorations, ranging from artificial to living objects. For New Year's ekibana, you can take live tulips and coniferous branches, the number of such elements depends entirely on the container in which the ekibana will be placed. For example, if a vase has a small neck, then there cannot be many decorative elements, but if the container allows you to place many flowers and branches, you can dream up.

Also, for winter Ekibana, you will need a special floral sponge that will not allow the flowers to fade. So, you can start preparing the container for the ekibana: to do this, you need to cut out a shape suitable for the size of the vase from a sponge and glue it to the bottom of the vase. The sponge can be taller than the vase to give the ekibana a denser look.

Next, you need to fill the vase with a special liquid, which will soak the sponge. The flowers need to be trimmed so that they are easy to insert into the sponge, and extra leaves do not interfere. Then the sponge must be filled with flowers, but do not forget about the free space for coniferous branches. After all the flowers are inserted into the sponge, you need to prepare the coniferous branches, after cutting them off and clearing them of unnecessary elements.

Branches need to be inserted into empty places so that the ekibana has a beautiful appearance without bald spots. This is how Ekibana is made from fresh flowers on the eve of the New Year holiday. You can also make an ekibana from cones, complementing the finished composition of flowers and needles with cones, you can either glue them or simply put them on coniferous branches.

Fruit Ekibana

Fruit ekibans are usually made as a gift, because such a composition cannot stand for a long time and will not serve as an interior decoration. Therefore, you need to make such a gift quickly and eat it on the same day.

To prepare fruit ekibana, you need to decide on the fruits that will fill the container, and with their type: they can be cut, or they can be served as a whole. Usually, if you make ekibana from whole fruits, you can use a basket, and no auxiliary materials are needed. But if you want to make an original gift, you can choose a vase of any size, buy a special sponge into which you can insert fruits, and skewers.

Fruits need to be beautifully cut, they can look like hearts, flowers and other beautiful elements. You need to put a few fruits on the skewer and insert it into the floral sponge. And so you need to do until the entire vase is filled with fruit. There is an option to use hard dough instead of a sponge, but this is at the request of the creator. The main thing is to quickly deliver the gift so that the fruits do not have time to lose their appearance and taste.

Ekibana from paper elements

Decorative ekibana can be made from paper, that is, from various elements that are made from paper. For example, it can be used to make beautiful flowers, fruits and other shapes. In order to make flowers, you need to buy special paper that holds the shape, wire and a vase. Such flowers can be used both independently and in combination with other elements of the ekibana. For a more detailed study of the scheme for making paper elements, you can watch photo and video master classes.

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