A simple walk in the park or forest can be the start of an incredibly interesting and exciting creative process. The best time to implement creative ideas with natural materials is autumn.
This is a great time to develop children's imaginations, as well as get new feelings and impressions. After all, it is they who create a powerful stimulus for sensorimotor development.
DIY autumn crafts train the child's ability to see some kind of image in its natural form. The development of lateral thinking and creative imagination are very important skills that can be developed regardless of where we live or income level, because nature generously shares its gif.webpts with us.
Interaction with natural materials also fosters in the child subtle perception and observation, accuracy and attentiveness, and also teaches them to be sensitive and respectful of nature.
Learning to see the image in its natural form
How to make autumn crafts, if the leaf seems to be just a leaf, and the cones are seen only as modified shoots of a coniferous tree? Exercises to awaken associations will come to the rescue, which will help develop the child's spatial thinking.
On a walk, it will be useful to play a game with the child: to think of who a leaf that has fallen from a tree looks like, which resembles a passing cloud, into whom an acorn can be turned. At home, offer the kid a choice of two leaves, different in color and shape, and ask which leaf that can be cut.
For younger children, you can formulate the task in a simpler way, and immediately offer answer options in the question.
It is necessary to clarify, for example, from which leaf you can make a ladybug, and from which - a carrot or an orange? Gradually, a child (and an adult too) will learn to see an image in seemingly previously inconspicuous things and natural phenomena.
The awakening of associations and the development of associative thinking is a good guarantee of future independent creativity.
We invite you to a master class on creating crafts, in which we will analyze the main types of creativity with natural materials. We will also show you interesting ideas for autumn crafts.
Preparing to create an autumn craft
Autumn crafts can be done in one plane - applications. So be voluminous.
- For the autumn application, you need to collect leaves of different colors, sizes and shapes.
- Also for the application you need cardboard or thick paper, PVA glue, glue brush, scissors, paper napkins.
- For voluminous figures, chestnuts, cones, acorns, berries, sticks, twigs, feathers are useful.
- To fasten voluminous natural elements together, you will need glue, wire or plasticine.
Features of creating applications
Your attention is invited to step-by-step instructions for creating an autumn craft:
- First, you need to carefully consider the available leaves and plan which ones and for what can be useful.
- Compose a composition. Composition is the union of various parts and elements into a single whole.
- Determine which elements in the composition will be the main and which will be secondary. The main elements are usually larger, in the foreground or center. It is with them that you need to start creating a composition, gradually supplementing it with secondary elements.
- Some leaves can be used in full, for example, to make up a whole forest.
- Other leaves will need to be cut or cut out the necessary elements for the overall composition.
- Simple compositions are glued to the background immediately, while observing the order of the details.
- It is recommended to first lay out complex compositions on another sheet. And then gradually stick to the background.
- Composition can be static or dynamic. In a static composition, the elements are combined in such a way that when contemplating, a feeling of balance and peace is created. A dynamic composition conveys some kind of movement.
The finished picture of the leaves must be covered with a paper napkin and placed under the load for about a day.
Features of creating volumetric figures
- First you need to inspect all the collected natural material in order to think over the images, which can then be realized in the craft.
- Volumetric figures are located horizontally, vertically or obliquely. The perspective defines the creative idea that is realized in the craft.
- Also, individual elements of the craft may look different depending on their location in space. For example, the head of a man, animal or bird can be attached to the body straight or at an angle, and also with or without a neck. A medium-sized stick, wire or tube is suitable for the neck.
- Legs or feet that are perpendicular to the torso will form a static image. If they are at an angle, then the feeling of dynamics will be created as if the character is running, jumping, bending over, sitting, lying or swimming.
Beasts, birds, insects
To create animals, you can use:
- Acorns,
- Chestnuts,
- Cones,
- Branches,
- Sticks,
- Reed,
- Thistle,
- Needles
- Pines or spruce, etc.
The body of a bird can be made from a medium-sized cone, chestnut or acorn.
- The bird's head is made of berries or walnuts.
- Feathers - from seed-winged maple (ash), leaves, spruce twigs.
- You can fantasize with a neck: it can be made of wire or twigs. But you don't have to do it at all.
- Small pebbles of different sizes and colors are perfect for the body of bugs and spiders, as well as acorns, chestnuts, shells, walnut shells or a piece of bark.
- For the caterpillar, rowan, viburnum or rosehip berries are useful, which the child can string on a stick or thread.
Trees and shrubs
- For tree trunks, you will need medium-sized sticks or branches.
- The crown of deciduous trees can be made from colorful autumn leaves.
- For the crown of coniferous trees, cones, found branches of pine and spruce are perfect.
Bouquets and still lifes
- For autumn bouquets, not only autumn flowers that grow on a flower bed are suitable, but also colorful leaves, red-orange rowan clusters, cones, poppy heads and sunflower baskets, pine and spruce branches, dead wood and even weeds.
- When creating a still life, items can be placed in a basket or in a vase. First you need to lay out the largest item, slightly shifting it from the center. Then you can add smaller elements to the composition. The finishing touch can be a beautiful twig.
Don't be afraid to experiment, fantasize and create! You can even take a photo of the autumn crafts as a keepsake.
After all, each work can be unique and completely in its own way, even if it is the simplest bird from an ordinary acorn.
Photo of autumn crafts
