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

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

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

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

So let's dry up our fall finds first.

Prepare the leaves for the herbarium as follows:

Method 1:

Place them between the sheets of books and place them back on the shelf, pressing firmly against the side of the other books. 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.

Method 2:

This method is good if you do not have the strength to withstand a week and a half and want to get to work as soon as possible. Place the sheet between two white sheets of paper and iron with the lowest iron setting.

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

Dry chestnuts, acorns and decorative pumpkin.

Method 1:

Drying outdoors in the shade. You will need to wait a long enough time before these materials acquire the dryness we need.

Sometimes this process takes a month. This is especially true for decorative pumpkins, from which wonderful autumn do-it-yourself crafts come out.

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

Method 2:

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

The main thing is not to rush and do not put on a lot of heat, as the fruits will simply cook and become completely unusable.

Drying dried flowers

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

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

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

1. Panel from autumn leaves

We offer you a great do-it-yourself 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 picture of leaves. For example, pumpkins, spikelets and other gizmos that fit the style. Then you will have a whole autumn ensemble.

What we need to work:

1. 1. Dried yellow-red maple leaves.
2. 2. A branch of a tree 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. Several pieces of 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:

Step 1. Sand the board, paying particular attention to the edges. They should be smooth.

Step 2. Cover it with stain or varnish, preferably brownish. Apply the coating in several layers, trying to make the board not uniform in color, but slightly "spotty".

Step 3. Draw a large maple leaf freehand.

Step 4. Start gluing on the maple leaves. Start from the edges, gradually approaching the middle. The edges of the leaves should line up as closely as possible with the edges of the sketch. The next row of leaves should overlap the previous one. Do not glue the ends, they should be "overhang" for the effect of volume to emerge.

Step 5. Glue the selected twig in place of the stem.

Now hang a do-it-yourself autumn panel over a curbstone and lay out other decorative elements around.

2. Topiary from herbarium and other autumn materials

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

Any leaves, dried flowers, acorns, spikelets will be used here. The main thing is to understand the very essence and make the right foundation. And how to fill it - your imagination will tell you.

What we need to work:

1. 1. A ceramic pot of a dull color
2. 2. Smooth tree branch for the trunk
3. 3.1 ball of foam, 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:

Step 1. First, let's make the base. Take a styrofoam ball and place it on the branch that will serve as your trunk. Then remove it and drop glue from the gun into the hole formed. Reattach the ball and let dry.

Step 2. Secure the trunk to the pot. To do this, put a drop of glue on the free edge of the branch and 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. Do not forget 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.

Step 3. Now we insert the leaves, dried flowers into the ball, sticking them with the stalks inside. If you want to add acorns to the composition, then pre-plant them on pieces of wire.

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

That's all. Using 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, etc. They will all look great!

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. You just need to learn how to fold them correctly and you will have a great basis for many ideas.

Such roses can be included in various autumn topiary, 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:

Step 1. 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 the following blank:

Step 2. Now we take the second sheet, fold it in half again and wrap the base with it.

The sharp edges of the maple leaves must be carefully hidden inward, like this:

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

Step 4. When you see that a real rose has blossomed in your hands, you need to fasten it with threads as tightly as possible.

Step 5. Cut off the edges with scissors and place 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, they will definitely be enough for the entire autumn season. You can make as many of these colors as you like. The more there are, the more gorgeous this autumn composition looks, which looks like a fabric motif.

4. Compositions of 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. We have already described how to do this above, so let's not waste time talking.

Let's get started!

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

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

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

Option 2. Candlesticks made of mini pumpkins. To do this, you need to cut a hole with a knife so that you can place a foil-based candle in it.

Or this option:

Incredibly simple, right?

Option 3. A 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 ponytails with wire and screw it to the base, the circle. Use berries, acorns, twigs and autumn leaves as additional decorative elements.

It will look something like this:

5. Chestnut topiary

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

For work we need:

1. The pot is ceramic
2. Styrofoam ball
3. Gypsum dry
4. Glue gun
5. A branch of a tree for the trunk
6. Cones, chestnuts, acorns
7. Severe 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 topiary from leaves.
2. 2. We fix the base in the pot using glue and plaster
3. 3. We put drops of hot glue on chestnuts, acorns and other elements and fasten them in a chaotic manner to a foam ball-crown.
4. 4. Chestnut wreath on the 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 from the back 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 presented.

6. Autumn garland "Leaves" from salted dough

This is a very spectacular do-it-yourself autumn craft. 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 not made of natural materials, but of salt dough that does not deteriorate over the years. The only thing is that such products are fragile and you need to handle them carefully so as not to break. But, even if this happened, they can always be glued together, and the joint will not be noticeable.

What we need to work:

1.2 cups flour
2.1 glass salt
3.5 cups water
4. Gouache
5. Sewing pins with an eye-hook
6. Rope
7. Oven
8. White landscape paper, pencil

Master - class step by step:

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

Step 2. We knead a tough dough from flour, salt and water. If the dough turns out to be non-plastic, then you can add liquid drop by drop. Knead the resulting material well and roll out on the board. The layer should be about 5-7 millimeters.

Step 3. Lay out the templates on the rolled dough and cut them along the contour with a knife.

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

Step 4. We make holes with pins and secure the heads neatly. We will hang our leaves on them. We squeeze out the veins with a knife.

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

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

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

So our do-it-yourself autumn 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 elements of decor in the autumn style.

7. Vases and houses made of ordinary pumpkin

Autumn is the time for the ripening of the pumpkin. It costs mere pennies and it is not difficult to find a beautiful shape and coloring.

And making an element of autumn decor based on it is as easy as shelling pears! There is no need for any step-by-step technologies and accessories.

The only thing you need: pumpkins, a carving knife, a tablespoon to choose the pulp and flowers with which you will fill these colorful vases.

Take a look at our selection of photos of pumpkin vases. Looks very dignified and autumnal.

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

Or you can make pumpkin houses. 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. Children 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. You already know how to make them. Here we just present a selection of the most effective ideas, in our opinion.

9. Frame made of acorns for a photo or a mirror

It is very simple to decorate any base in this way. We think that explanations are not needed here at all.

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 this decor and have to throw it out. And so, you can always dismantle the acorns and get back to use a regular photo frame.

This is how it will look.

There are solid 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 bin, etc.

10. Grape bunch of acorns

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

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

Only instead of a foam ball, you need to take some kind of 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. Shiloh
3. Wire
3. Glue gun
4. Acrylic paint
5. Autumn leaves for decoration

Master class step by step:

Step 1. We pierce the holes at the base of the acorn with an awl.

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

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

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

Step 5. We collect the acorns in a bunch, forming a wire rod from above. Then we attach the leaves to it.

Now you can make any decoration based on this autumn craft. Panel, wreath and so on.

11. Autumn crafts from felt

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

We offer you a selection of the best and simplest decors in the autumn style, and you can 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 DIY options for autumn wreaths.

All you need is to draw templates, cut out felt and arrange it according to our photos.

12. Pigtail of garlic and red pepper

How cozy it is when bunches of garlic, onions, and red peppers are hanging in the kitchen! But if you hang them fresh, they will lose their appearance very soon or simply run out, because they will be used as food.

Let's do something like that, 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 a plastic bag (for the base of garlic)
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 imitate the roots of garlic)
6. Cloth for sewing peppers or salted dough for sculpting

Master class step by step:

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

But it looks good even from the packages. But most importantly, this material is always at hand. So, we cut out a square, about 7 by 7 cm in diameter.

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

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

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

Step 4. On the place where the roots of real garlic are, 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 loosened and finely chopped.

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

6 step. Now it's time to tackle the pepper. You can sew it, but pepper sculpted from salted dough looks much better.

We have already given the recipe for kneading, in the sub-heading "Garlands of autumn leaves." These are the spices that should come out in the end.

7 step. We make holes in the ponytails of the peppercorns (we will then pass the string through them and use it to 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 in no way be able to attach the finished product to the composition.

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

Step 8. Dry in the oven, paint with acrylic paint, cover them with varnish when dry. When the pepper is shiny, it looks more natural.

Dry on a low temperature, do not rush, otherwise, your work may burst and you will have to re-sculpt everything. Cracked peppers can no longer be dyed the way you would like.

9. Attach the pepper to the garlic and hang this autumn composition in the kitchen. You can make several of these bundles. You can make carrots with salted dough and brown tights for an onion bunch.

The principle of making bulbs is the same as for garlic, only it is even simpler. Lobules 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.

So our great review has come to an end. You have seen many examples and any kind of autumn DIY crafts. We really hope that our master classes will benefit you and that you will definitely take something into service.

Useful Tips

From such a natural material as acorns, you can come up with many different crafts that will decorate a house, cottage or garden.

All these crafts can be done together with children, as they are very simple, and you do not need to have special skills to make them.

All you need is a few tools, acorns, imagination, and time.

On our website you will also find:

• Do-it-yourself beautiful crafts from natural material

Here are some very interesting and simple cone crafts that you can make yourself or with your children:

Crafts from acorns and plasticine: a small nest

You will need:

Acorn caps (mules)

Plasticine, clay, or legumes (beans, soy)

Artificial grass

Hot glue or super glue

Paint (blue in this example) if using legumes instead of plasticine

Thread or fishing line.

1. From plasticine, make 3 figures that look like small bird eggs. If you are using legumes, then it is advisable to paint them.

2. Apply a drop of glue to the inside of each acorn cap and glue some artificial grass.

3. Apply a drop of glue to the legumes, which act as eggs, and stick to the grass. If you are using plasticine, then simply insert the blanks into the nest.

4. Tie or glue a string or fishing line to the craft so you can hang it.

Autumn crafts from acorns: bright hats

You can make various crafts from these hats, but if you paint them, your work will become even brighter and more beautiful.

1. First you need to wash and dry them (you can in the oven). If you want to hang these hats in the house or on the tree as a decoration in the future, you can make small holes in them with a drill with a thin drill or awl.

2. Prepare your gouache or acrylic paints and start painting the acorn caps.

You can put these bright hats in a transparent simple glass or a small vase, and they will become a beautiful decor for your home.

Another way to paint acorn caps

You will need:

PVA glue.

1. Paint the inside of the cap with a marker.

2. Pour PVA glue inside each cap and leave for 48 hours.

You will notice how the glue has mixed with the marker and the caps are bright and beautiful.

How to make a craft from acorns: a house for a mushroom

You will need:

Artificial grass

Small saw or utility knife

A mushroom or other small toy.

1. Cut off half of an acorn (or slightly less) and peel everything inside.

2. Glue a small toy inside (in this example, artificial grass and mushroom).

3. Attach the string to the acorn head. Use thread and a needle or superglue.

What to make from acorns: magnets

You will need:

Small magnets (sold at stationery or craft stores)

Super glue or hot glue.

1. Collect the acorns and glue to the small magnets one at a time.

2. You can draw funny faces on acorns.

Now you can attach your crafts to the refrigerator. You can also attach a calendar to the refrigerator and use acorns with magnets to mark important dates.

DIY acorn crafts for children: multi-colored acorns

You will need:

Baking paper

Oven

Acrylic paints

Brush

Hot glue or super glue (if needed)

1. Place baking paper on a baking sheet and place clean acorns on top of it.

2. Put the baking sheet in the oven and keep the acorns in it at a temperature of 150-170 degrees for about 2 hours.

* Some acorns may crack or burn slightly.

3. Remove the acorns from the oven. Everyone should have a hat, if an acorn has a hat, glue it on. Start painting the acorns with acrylics. Use a variety of colors.

* These acorns can be placed in a vase and used as an interior decoration, or they can be glued to a craft or postcard.

* You can also tie or glue them to string and use as a garland.

DIY acorn crafts: photo frame decorated with acorns

You will need:

Acorn caps

Smooth wooden frame

Hot glue

Paint and brush (optional)

Ribbon (length 50 cm, width 1-1.5 cm)

A suitable picture or photograph.

1. If your frame has glass - remove it and paint the frame.

2. Prepare the tape and glue the acorn cap to the middle.

3. Stick the ends of the tape to the frame (at the corners) so that the frame can be hung.

4. Begin gluing the acorn caps to the frame, covering it completely.

5. Insert a picture or photo into the frame and glass.

Crafts from acorns for children: squirrel

You will need:

Pencil or printer

Empty photo frame (no glass)

PVA glue

Acorn caps.

1. Draw or print the silhouette of a squirrel on paper and paint it dark.

2. Cover the entire silhouette of the squirrel with acorn caps, gluing them with PVA glue.

3. Insert your craft into a photo frame.

Crafts from acorns on the theme of autumn: garland

You will need:

Canvas or other thick fabric

Scissors

Twine or other heavy thread

Glue (PVA, hot glue or superglue)

Big needle.

1. Cut some squares out of thick fabric.

2. Glue one acorn to the center of each square.

3. Thread the needle and start connecting all the squares. Don't forget to make a knot at the beginning and end of each square.

4. While connecting all the squares, secure the acorns with a double loop as shown in the image.

Leave 7-10 cm between the squares.

Now you can hang the garland anywhere.

What can be made from acorns: a vase

You will need:

Plastic pot

Hot glue or super glue

Acorn caps.

1. Start gluing the acorns to the plastic container from bottom to top.

2. Cover the top of the container with acorn caps.

It is better to keep such a vase outside, as debris and insects can accumulate in so many acorns.

Autumn crafts from acorns: wreath

You will need:

Vine wreath

Artificial or natural acorns

Hot glue or super glue

Sequins (optional)

Jute fabric

Double-sided tape.

1. Start gluing the acorns to the wreath. Fill in the entire wreath.

* You can cover some areas with glitter.

Making a bow:

2. From jute fabric, cut a wide strip (10 x 50 cm).

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Content

Autumn is a wonderful period when there are abundant materials that can be used for creativity, needlework. All elements are absolutely free and available to everyone, and due to their naturalness, they can be used by children without fear. Handicrafts made from acorns with their own hands for children are especially popular, since it is very easy to find oak fruits, it is easy to work with them. Below are master classes for making compositions using such material.

What kind of craft can be made from acorns on the theme of autumn

Using simple natural materials, a variety of creative works on the fall theme can be created. Such crafts are often found and are popular among children:

• Figures of animals (hare, squirrel, caterpillar, giraffe, snake, etc.).
• Vegetables, fruits, mushrooms.
• Panels, paintings.
• Heroes of fairy tales and cartoons, gnomes, little men, fishermen, kids.
• Ekibans, topiary.
• Frames for photographs, paintings.
• Christmas decorations, decorative elements of the interior (candlesticks, baskets, flower arrangements).

Step-by-step instructions for making acorns for children

There are no hard and fast rules for making crafts, especially if you use natural materials. Having included imagination, it is easy to come up with new images and forms, but sometimes it is easier and more logical to use ready-made master classes, where everything necessary for this kind of creativity is shown and told step by step. Below you will find some DIY tutorials using oak acorns and twigs.

The simplest craft: a family of gnomes or little men

You can have fun and usefully spend time with your child, creating various creative works using natural materials. The simplest handicraft made of acorns for children is a family of little funny people. This is an easy creative process that even a three-year-old can do, and a preschooler will get a lot of pleasure not only from work, but also from the final result.

To create little men you will need:

• large and small acorns (preferably with caps);
• pencil;
• matches or thin branches;
• glue;
• leaves of trees.

Step-by-step creation of a family using acorns:

• Glue the caps to the acorns so that they do not fall off.
• Draw on them with a pen or pencil eyes, nose, mouth. Experimenting with facial expressions, make funny or sad people (by idea or mood).
• To create an unusual composition, add thin branches, matches or toothpicks that will imitate arms, legs and help create unusual gnomes. Additionally, other natural decorative elements can be used. Your imagination guarantees the uniqueness of the children's handmade acorn craft.
• Ready-made gnomes can decorate the herbarium, panels, complement the work on the autumn theme.

Original craft Little owlets

With the help of acorns, an original family of birds can be made with their own hands. The process of creating owlets will appeal to both children and adults, and the resulting crafts can participate in an exhibition or serve as an excellent safe toy for a child. The creative process requires a minimum of elements and tools:

• felt in several shades;
• acorns;
• scissors;
• PVA glue;
• beads.

How to make an owlet using oak fruit step by step:

• Remove the caps from the acorns - they will not be needed in the work.
• Cut out small wings, noses, eyes from felt (beads can be used) for owls.
• Glue all the elements on the fruits, creating the most realistic bird figures.
• Attach the finished owls with glue or plasticine to a tree branch to make the composition logically complete. Additionally, it is easy to decorate the work with dry leaves or flowers.

Flowers from acorns and their caps

Using natural materials, it is easy to create unique flowers that will decorate any room. They will retain their original appearance for a long time, and do not require additional maintenance. It will be possible to make an easy craft with the help of oak fruits, their hats, at the same time connecting imagination and creative thinking. An original bouquet or composition can easily serve as a decor for a room.

To create crafts you will need:

• oak fruits;
• wire;
• dried leaves of an oak or other tree;
• glue;
• brush;
• paint, glitter, or nail polish.

Creating colors step by step:

• Using an awl or a thick needle, make a hole in the acorn and pull a wire through it, securing it on one side and leaving a large tail on the other.
• Glue the caps around the oak fruit, forming a flower.
• Wrap the wire with corrugated paper or brown or green tape can be used for this purpose.
• Decorate the finished flowers with the selected paints, decorate with sparkles or in another way.
• Place ready-made elements in a vase, add dry leaves of oak or other trees. The original long-lasting composition is ready.

Bunches of grapes or olive branch

With the help of oak fruits, not only animal figurines (hedgehog, bear, frog, lamb, deer, spider) can be created, but also decorative elements that can complement the interior and create a special atmosphere in the house. You should definitely involve a child in the creative process, this will help to spend time in an interesting, informative way, and the result of the work will become a real pride. Using acorns, you can easily make a decorative branch of grapes or olives that will perfectly fit into the interior of the kitchen and will become a reminder of fascinating handicrafts.

To create a composition you will need:

• capless acorns;
• gouache paints (blue for grapes, green for olives);
• glue;
• wire, awl;
• decorative artificial leaves or dried natural elements;
• glue or silicone gun.

Do-it-yourself step-by-step master class:

• In each acorn, make a hole with an awl and fasten the wire, leaving a tail on one side, and securing it with a small knot on the other.
• Wrap the wire with tape or corrugated paper.
• Paint the acorns with green or blue paint, it all depends on the desire of the master and the composition being created.
• Grape leaves should be used natural dried, artificial or created independently from paper.
• Combine all the elements into one composition to shape a bunch of grapes or an olive branch using glue.

Woodpecker in a tree or in a nest

The figurine of a bird, created using acorns, looks interesting and unusual, which will complement the interior of the room and even revive it. It is not so difficult to make such a masterpiece with a woodpecker in a nest or on a tree with your own hands, because it will give the work originality, warmth and uniqueness. The creative process will take a minimum of time, effort and materials, and the finished result will delight the hosts and guests for a long time.

To work you will need:

• acorns;
• cardboard;
• tree branches;
• straw;
• beads;
• glue or plasticine.

Step-by-step creation of crafts from acorns with your own hands for a nursery:

• Connect two small branches and attach to the base (this can be tree bark or cardboard blank).
• Twist a small amount of straw into a nest; a drop of glue or a piece of plasticine can be used to fix it. Place the finished product between the installed branches.
• To create a woodpecker figurine, you need to glue two acorns, glue the eyes to the head (cut paper circles or two black beads).
• To create a complete composition, you should plant a bird in a nest or stick it to a tree - it depends on the desire of the master, his creative vision.

Horse

A beautiful and interesting horse can be made using acorns. Such an original figurine can become an element of a large composition, but it will be good in and of itself. The creative process provides an opportunity to fully use the imagination of a child or an adult and use a variety of natural materials for work. To create a horse, you need to prepare:

• two oblong acorns;
• awl;
• plasticine;
• toothpicks or matches;
• glue;
• grass or other natural materials.

How to make a horse in stages:

• To create the body, you need to use two oak fruits (one large, the other smaller with a cap and a twig). Using an awl, make a hole in a large acorn (not very deep), insert a branch. For additional fixation, it is permissible to use glue or plasticine.
• The next step is to make the legs of the horse: for this, four holes are pierced in the body with an awl, where halves of toothpicks or small branches are inserted.
• Use plasticine and beads to make the eyes of the animal.
• Collect the grass in a bunch and attach the horses to the body using plasticine to form a tail, and the second such detail to the head will form a mane.

Picture frame

The design of the photo frame with acorn caps looks original. Despite the simplicity of the process and the materials used, the finished result will amaze everyone, and such creative work can be a wonderful gift or decorate the interior of your home. To decorate the frame, you will need the following materials and tools:

• acorn caps;
• glue;
• gold or silver paint;
• base for the frame (wooden or cardboard).

DIY step-by-step creation of crafts:

• Preparatory stage: carefully separate the caps.
• Glue them around the perimeter of the frame using silicone glue.
• If you want to decorate an accessory, you need to cover it with gold paint or sparkles, but even without additional decoration, the frame looks beautiful and original.

Christmas decorations from acorns for the New Year

Adults and children are looking forward to the New Year holidays filled with miracles, and the most vivid and long-awaited ritual is decorating the Christmas tree and decorating the room. It is easy and simple to make toys for the spruce with your own hands, involving a child in the creative process and creating a special atmosphere long before the celebration. For work, natural materials can be used, for example, chestnuts, dried flowers, and decorative elements created using acorns look especially delightful.

For work, you will need the following tools, materials:

• gouache paints of various bright colors;
• acorns;
• threads;
• paint brushes;
• sequins, sequins, beads.

Step-by-step creation of a New Year's decoration:

• If you want to create original Christmas tree decorations, you need to take care of the availability of natural materials - acorns in advance. They should be prepared in the fall.
• To work, you need to tie or glue a thread to the acorn cap, with which the element will be hung on the tree.
• Paint acorns with brushes, choosing bright shades for this and experimenting with combining colors.
• To make jewelry more interesting, try additionally decorating them with sequins, beads, beads, sequins.

Workshop on making panels from acorns and leaves

With the help of acorns, a beautiful panel can be created that will decorate any room. For work you will need:

• oak fruits;
• the basis for the panel;
• glue;
• frame;
• other natural materials (nuts, their shells, vines).

Autumn time is generous with gifts. A typical family walk in a park or forest can end up collecting beautiful leaves, pine cones, nuts, and more. By connecting imagination and skillful hands, amazing crafts can be created from these stocks. Pine cone crafts can be seen. The author of these master classes is Anastasia Batina.

Try making a brown bear with your children from chestnuts, acorns and plasticine. A detailed description with a photo will help bring this original idea to life.

For children's creativity you will need:

• 2 chestnuts;
• 3 acorns;
• small bump;
• colored plasticine;
• modeling board, stacks;
• hairpin (toothpick);
• wet wipes.

Create a brown bear figurine out of natural materials and multi-colored plasticine.

Select two large chestnuts, wipe with a damp cloth if necessary.

Thoroughly knead the brown plasticine, roll up four rollers. Give each limb a clubfoot shape. Use a hairpin to make notches, separating the fingers (claws).

Connect the legs to the body of the animal. Stick a small brown ponytail behind.

Take three acorns: two large and one medium. Carefully remove the caps from them.

Fill the inner cavity of the hats with brown plasticine and connect the parts to the head. You will have two ears and a muzzle like in the picture.

Roll a small black plasticine oval. Select the nostrils with a hairpin or stack, make a longitudinal notch. Connect the nose to the muzzle.

Form the eyes from white, brown and black plasticine, as in the picture. Stick them over the beast's nose.

Make a mouth by pressing red plasticine on a brown base in the form of a "drop". Connect the mouth to the muzzle.

Form a beautiful red bow, highlight the folds with a toothpick or stack. Stick your head to your torso with a small piece of brown plasticine. Press the bow against the animal's body.

Give the bear a small pine (spruce) cone.

The brown bear made of plasticine and natural materials is ready!

What a wonderful figurine of a forest dweller we have turned out - a real club-footed bear! As a gift, he brought the most beautiful pine cone that he found in the forest. The bear loves honey and raspberries, so you can invite a new friend for tea with these sweets.

Master class "Funny pig" from an acorn and plasticine

Children really like to create from - this convenient material allows you to create interesting crafts, paintings, panels and compositions. Most often, young dreamers sculpt animal figurines from plastic mass. Invite them to make a funny (symbol of 2019) from an acorn and plasticine - this idea will surely appeal to little craftsmen.

To implement the idea, you will need the following materials and tools:

• whole acorn;
• colored plasticine;
• toothpick;
• hairpin;
• stacks;
• plastic board;
• wet wipes.

We simulate a funny pig from an acorn and plasticine, step by step.

Take a large acorn, remove dirt and dust with a damp cloth.

Roll a small round patch out of yellow plasticine. Stick it in the center of the acorn cap. Use the hairpin to select the nostrils as in the picture.

Blind a small oval mouth, attach pink plasticine in the center and make a depression with a hairpin. Stick your mouth on one side of the patch.

Form the eyes: make white flat circles, stick a light blue iris and black pupils on top. Add small white highlights to the corners of the eyes.

Roll up a yellow plasticine roller, cut into four parts. From each piece, make a leg with a hoof, dividing the bottom with a toothpick. Connect the limbs to the body. Roll a small piece of yellow plasticine into a thin flagellum. Twist into a spiral and stick the ponytail to the body.

Make the ears a triangular shape, smooth the corners. Select the inside with a charcoal stack. Stick the ears to the animal's head.

Form the elongated pink plasticine cap. Trim a purple elastic around the edge, and stick a round pompom on the tip. Put on the headgear for the piglet.

A funny pig made of acorn and plasticine is ready!

What a nice pig in a funny cap we got! Such a figurine can be used for various exhibitions in kindergartens and schools, supplemented with a composition or presented as a souvenir for relatives for the New Year!

Other crafts from chestnuts, nuts and acorns

What other crafts you can do with your own hands from acorns, nuts and chestnuts, look at the exhibitions of competitive works:

A chestnut caterpillar from the Shevtsov family:

Caterpillar of Kudryavtseva Sveta:

Segizekov Ilnar Sanzharovich. "Gifts of Autumn". Basket of chestnuts,.

Maria Naumova.

Ilyin Artem. A man and a dog made of acorns.

"Magic Autumn Landscape". Nadezhda Viktorovna Topolnikova.
Work measuring 25x17 cm. The base is a box of chocolates. The background is made of red, orange and brown plasticine. tree - from a branch and caps from acorns. Mushrooms are also made from acorn caps and molded from plasticine by my son.

Mikhalkovsky Leon, 4 years old, head: Kochekova Irina Vasilievna.
"Miracle tree" - topiary of cones and acorns.

Garkushin Nikita "Bouquet of cones and walnuts".

Kukushkina Arina, 3 years old, educator Kamynina Irina Viktorovna
Application "Owl" of cedar cones, sunflower seeds and pumpkin.

Crafts made from acorns are an interesting and simple form of creativity. These fruits can be held together with toothpicks, painted in any color, or patterned on them. The use of plasticine will be appropriate in crafts on the theme of autumn.

Children's crafts from acorns that you can make with your own hands are incredibly popular not only in schools, but also in kindergartens.

Family of little men made of acorns

A family of funny little people is the simplest craft that even children can do.

Materials:

• acorns of different sizes with caps;
• toothpicks or thin twigs;
• leaves from trees;
• pencil;
• glue.

1. If the caps on the fruits do not hold well, then they must be glued with glue.
2. On acorns, using a pencil or felt-tip pen, you need to draw the mouth, eyes and nose. If you turn on imagination, then the facial expressions of the people will be different. They can be made cheerful, sad, angry.
3. To make the composition more unusual with the help of branches or toothpicks, the little men need to make pens and nights. Do not limit yourself to this master class, you should connect your imagination and then crafts on the theme of autumn will become unique.

The family of little people is ready, it will be the same as in the photo or slightly different if you use other decorative elements.

Craft "Owlets"

The creation of such a craft will be interesting not only for kids, but also for adults.

Materials:

• different acorns;
• multi-colored felt;
• beads;
• glue;
• scissors.

Acorn horse

Crafts from acorns with the use of plasticine are able to use children's imagination to the maximum and use natural materials in the process.

Materials:

• a couple of acorns that have an oblong shape;
• plasticine;
• toothpicks;
• glue;
• dry grass.

1. One oak fruit should be large, and the other smaller and with a twig on the cap. In a large fruit, you need to make a hole and insert a branch. To keep the head in place, you can additionally strengthen it with plasticine or glue.
2. Now legs are being made for the horse. With the help of an awl, four holes are made in the body, into which toothpicks are inserted.
3. Eyes are made of plasticine and beads.
4. The dry grass is collected in a bunch and attached to the body as a tail, and the second bunch will serve as a mane and attach to the head.

You get such a horse as in the photo, but you can not dwell on this result and additionally decorate it.

Acorn grapes

Craft "Grapes" from acorns turns out to be very beautiful and realistic, this will help a simple master class.

Materials:

• acorns in the amount of twenty pieces;
• thin wire;
• green corrugation;
• lilac gouache;
• paper;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• glue;

1. Use a large pin to make a hole in each fruit. This stage is dangerous and difficult, so if the grapes are made with children, an adult needs to do it.
2. A thin wire is inserted into the holes obtained. To prevent the oak fruit from slipping, the wire must be twisted at the end.
3. With the help of a green corrugation, the wire must be carefully wrapped so that the future grapes look realistic.
4. Next, the acorns need to be painted with gouache. If acrylic paint is used, then one layer is enough, and if gouache paint, then several.
5. After the paint has completely dried, the grapes can be picked in bunches. So that the fruits do not disintegrate during the assembly process, you need to collect four berries and rewind with wire and so on until the very end.
6. After assembling the bunch, the leg is cut off and wrapped with a corrugation.
7. When the grapes are ready, you need to varnish the painted berries with gouache paint so that the look is natural. If acrylic paint was used, then this step can be skipped.
8. While the grapes need to dry, make leaves and tendrils. Leaves of the desired size are drawn on white paper and cut out. Then they are applied to the green corrugation, they are outlined and also cut out.
9. To make the grapes look realistic, veins are made on the leaves. To make them, you need to wrap small pieces of wire with corrugated paper and glue to the leaves from the inside out. Finished leaves are glued to the grapes.
10. Next, antennae are made: a wire of the desired size is wrapped in a corrugation and wound on a pencil. The wire will then look like a spiral and can be attached to grapes.