Colored autumn leaves for printing. Autumn leaf patterns
On this page you can download and print stencils and coloring of leaves of various trees. All variants of tree leaves can be printed on a printer in order to be used as coloring pages for children or as stencils for decoration. Stencil forms are usually printed, carefully cut out, and then used for their intended purpose. For example, artistic painting of walls or as independent design elements. All suggested tree leaf stencils and colorings are in vector PDF format. They can be downloaded or printed without loss of quality in any size, not just in A4 format.
Maple leaf - stencil and coloring
Below you can download or print the maple leaf. Maple Leaf located on the left is suitable for coloring. From the link on the right, you can download or print a maple leaf stencil, which has a thicker and shorter leg, which is more convenient to cut.
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The article presents a variety of paper accordion leaves, patterns and step by step instructions creating this or that sheet. Such leaves can be in the very different color, for example, if they are timed to fall events - it is better to use colored paper in yellow, orange and red colors, to spring - good option there will be leaves of light green and green shades. Even for winter celebrations, you can make leaves from silver or white paper.
For work, you will need the following materials:
- Colored paper of a variety of colors suitable for the leaves;
- Scissors, glue stick, pencil.
Accordion paper leaves step by step: 8 options with templates
Option 1. Maple paper accordion
You need yellow or green colored paper... Cut an arbitrary rectangle from it.
Fold it in half.
Redraw or print yourself the template. Cut it out and place it on the colored paper that has been folded in half, keeping in mind that the straight long side of the template falls on the fold.
Circle with a pencil. In the photo, the fold is on the left. And in the future, all the stages presented with the paper folded in half will be folded on the left.
Cut out the workpiece, carefully cutting off all the wavy lines.
Now open it. You should end up with a similar detail, with symmetrical edges.
At this stage, it's time to make a paper accordion. It is better to start from the bottom, widest side. Fold a small fold, no more than 7 mm wide, but extending over the entire sheet area. Press firmly and then fold the same fold the other way. Repeat this process until all of the paper has turned into an accordion.
For convenience, flip the accordion long side up.
Find the middle and fold in half. Press well, especially around the bottom fold, and glue the inner sides. In the photo, this area is shown with arrows.
Depending on the structure of the paper, sometimes it becomes necessary to glue two or three bottom folds of the sheet. Most often they disperse in very thin paper. Dense holds all the folds together well and without glue.
A maple sheet of paper with an accordion is ready, straighten its folds and glue a thin stalk.
Option 2. Autumn sheet of paper accordion
Of course, it may not only be autumn. If you make it out of green paper, the leaf will be quite spring or summer.
To create it, you also need a piece of rectangular paper.
As in the first option, the paper needs to be folded in half.
Then you should use a pattern or draw a simple zigzag line that resembles one part of a Christmas tree. 
This line should start from the fold of the paper and end at the bottom of it.
Cut out the drawing obtained using a template or your own efforts.
Open up the sides.
Make small folds, from one side to the other, and 5-7 mm wide. If the sheet is large or the children are small, the folds may be larger.
The accordion is done, for convenience, turn it over with its wide side up.
Mark the middle and fold it in half neatly. Press down, especially at the very bottom.
Apply glue to one of the inner sides and glue them together. In the photo, this area is shown with arrows. If necessary, glue a few folds at the very bottom of the leaf.
At the end, straighten the sheet with an accordion a little and glue the petiole, which is a thin strip of colored paper from which the sheet itself is made. But such a stalk is not durable, it can only complement the leaf, and, for example, sticking the leaves to a homemade tree will not work. It is better to use colored cardboard for these purposes, or colored paper, twisted into a flagellum and threaded through a hole in the bottom of the sheet.
Option 3. Accordion paper oak sheet
The outline of this leaf is similar to that of an oak leaf, only the longitudinal folds slightly worsen this definition. But as a variety, this version of the leaf is also useful, especially in those works or events where you need a lot of leaves of the most different shapes.
Cut a square out of paper.
Fold it in half, fold on my left.
Use a template or draw large waves yourself, starting from the fold side and reaching the bottom side. 
Cut the part through two sides at once, but do not touch the left. It must be whole.
Uncover the paper.
And, as always, make subtle folds starting at the widest part of the paper. Gently fold all the paper into an accordion, one fold to one side, the next to the other. For convenience, the paper can be turned over during operation. As a last resort, draw light longitudinal lines simple pencil and already fold a leaf on them.
Place the resulting accordion with its longest side up.
Find the middle and fold the accordion in half. Glue the inner sides together.
Straighten the folds, glue the petiole and the accordion oak leaf is ready.
4 version of the sheet with an accordion of paper
This species looks like a hornbeam or beech leaf. And on the leaves of many other trees. The main thing is that no templates are needed for it, it is extremely simple to make it.
You need paper to make this oblong leaf. triangular... You can first cut a square out of paper.
Fold in half by connecting opposite corners.
Cut in half to form two triangles.
One triangle is needed per sheet. Turn it wide side down and start making folds in the same place, like an accordion.
Convert the entire triangle into an accordion.
For convenience, turn it over with its longest side up.
Find the middle and fold exactly in half, bringing the ends together. In the middle, on one side, apply glue and glue the side pieces together.
Spread out a little and glue the stem. The sheet is ready.
5 version of a sheet of paper accordion
The most common type, the shape resembles the leaves of poplar, linden, birch. For a change, let it be green, although the leaf is no less interesting in the autumn, yellow-orange version.
It needs a not very wide paper rectangle.
Fold the rectangle in half, fold in the photo on the left.
Use a template or draw your own convex line, the beginning of which is from the side of the fold, and the sloping slope reaches the bottom side of the folded sheet in half. 
There are no exact proportions and layouts here. If you want a narrower tip that stands out more, the indentation in the line can be made more pronounced.
Cut out the pattern without touching the left side.
Uncover the paper.
Make the accordion starting from the straight, longest side. As usual, the width of the folds is ideal in the region of 5-7 mm.
Turn the accordion over, straight side up.
Fold in half and glue the inner sides. If necessary, glue the bottom folds.
Spread out the leaf and glue the stem.
Option 6. Another maple leaf of accordion paper
There are quite a few varieties of accordion-folded maple leaves. It all depends on the template. There are very simple ones that can be drawn almost arbitrarily, and more complex patterns, which it is still advisable to follow as accurately as possible. In the second case, the maple leaves are more perfect, close to the original.
Despite the fact that the very first I have already shown one type of maple leaf, I still can not resist, and will show another one that I really liked.
You will need square colored paper for it.
This square then needs to be folded in half.
Print the template and carefully reproduce its lines on colored paper, taking into account that the fold is on the left. 
Then everything is as usual. Open the paper piece.
Make narrow folds, starting from the straight, wide side and all the way to the top.
Find the middle and fold the accordion-folded paper in half. Here you can see that this yellow paper is thinner than the previous ones, at the very bottom the folds are not held together. Therefore, they need to be forced to do this with glue. You can safely apply glue at the fold on the bottom three folds. And, of course, glue the inner two sides, where indicated by the arrows.
Straighten the folds a little, glue the stalk and a beautiful one, in this version, the autumn maple leaf is ready with an accordion.
7 variant of the leaves with an accordion
Simple round shape sheet. It can be of a variety of colors inherent in the leaves.
You will need a rectangular segment.
Fold it in half.
With a compass or something suitable circular, draw a rounded line connecting the sides of the paper. The fold in the photo is on the left.
Cut along the contour.
Unfold and you will have an even semicircle.
Make small folds from the straight side of the semicircle all the way to the top.
Flip the accordion piece with the long, straight side up.
Fold in half and glue the inner sides.
Carefully flatten and glue the stem. The round sheet is ready.
Option 8. Thin oblong leaves like an accordion
The shape is inherent in the leaves of willow, olive and some others.
To make such a sheet, you need a rectangular, rather narrow strip of paper. The narrower it is, the thinner the leaf, although it is more difficult to make it very thin.
Fold the strip in half.
Draw an oblique line. Keep in mind that in the photo the fold of the paper is on the left.
Cut along the line to make a double triangle.
Expand parts of it.
Fold into a small crease. As you can see, it is problematic to make even folds on very narrow paper, but this will not appear on the sheet.
Flip it long side up and fold the accordion in half. Glue the middle.
You will get such a narrow sheet of paper accordion.
And although autumn is already running out, and everyone is searching with might and main, the topic autumn leaves popular at all times.
The needlewomen especially fell in love with the maple leaf, the template of which in different variations I am giving you today. It is so unusual, beautiful, and the color of this leaf is very different - yellow, orange, red, not to mention green.
In general, no wonder, but a maple leaf stencil can be found quickly and easily.
Where? In nature itself, of course! We go to the nearest park for shopping, collect fallen leaves - and voila! - a sketch according to which we will draw in our hands.
There is nothing easier to attach a leaf (after straightening it, of course) to the paper and carefully circle it. You can then draw the "gossamer" of lines yourself. Or you can use a contour to get an unusual effect.
But not in all regions of Russia, unfortunately, this tree grows - this time. Someone did not have time to make a herbarium for the summer-autumn, and in winter it is already impossible - that's two. Well, it's so simple, without leaving your home, to print a picture and start creating, right?
Still, I urge you to walk more often (especially if you have children) in the fresh air. Children can be taught to make beautiful wreaths from maple leaves. Well, dry the leaves, of course. You can always make beautiful and original crafts from them.
Very large image size of a leaf (useful for large-scale painting):
In general, choose whichever one suits your taste! 
