How to collect and store natural material?
To work with children to create incredible autumn crafts, you should stock up on creativity. Literally all the gifts of nature go into the course. Of soft and juicy fruit, handicrafts will not be stored for a long time, while from dense ones they will be able to decorate themselves throughout the winter.
Both in school and in the kindergarten children's autumn crafts made of colorful leaves painted with autumn colors are often made. To keep this natural material for the whole winter and with enthusiasm to make various applications, when the window is already snowing, you need to store the leaves correctly.
Collecting leaves for autumn crafts should be in dry weather in the middle of the day. It is best to take still not too dried leaves, and those that have only turned yellow or have acquired a reddish tinge. If you break the "immature" leaflets, they will eventually turn black and will not be suitable for work.
After collecting, the leaves are folded between the pages of an old thick book and put under oppression. But to dry them with iron is not worth it - they will become very fragile and literally disintegrate in their hands.
Acorns and chestnuts after harvesting are washed and pierced with an awl. So they will dry better inside and not spoil. Rowan should be stored as late as possible, when it has dried well on the tree. If you collect it in a wet form, you have to dry it at home in the kitchen.
Ideas of autumn crafts for children
Children's autumn crafts made of natural material are very diverse. Ideas for them can be gleaned from the worldwide network, or even better developed independently. It is much better if the child will be proud of his product, as he himself came up with and implemented it:
- You can make a funny caterpillar of chestnuts. Fortunately, in autumn they can be found in any yard or park. As a connecting material traditionally serve as toothpicks, and for decoration - plasticine.
- A good housewife in the fall in the kitchen is full of all sorts of vegetable food. If it becomes boring, then you can offer the child to make a curious hedgehog from a pumpkin, with vegetables and fruits strung on needles and toothpicks.
- An experienced master of school age can offer to build a hut of acorns. To do this, you need even a tight cardboard and glue gun.
- The girl will like the making of a tea set from hats of acorns and plasticine.
- For some reason they avoid children's crafts on an autumn theme from onions. But this vegetable, which releases volatile phytoncides, can not only be successfully beaten, but also useful. Putting such a cat on the bedside table near the bed, you can protect the child from colds.
- From eggplant or as it is also called "blue", you can build a real racing car and put a pilot in it - just like in "Formula 1".
- All children love apples. So why not make them funny people?
- On the autumn morning, a homemade mask of leaves will be very welcome.
- Rosehip, leaves, cones, poppies - from this simple set you can build little characters for the puppet theater.
- Build the ladybirds of the halves of the walnut will be able to even the smallest.
- From the ordinary spruce cone there will be a beautiful cockerel.
- Plasticine, cones and needles - and we have a pretty hedgehog.
Time of bright colors will fly very quickly, if not delay it with the help of handicrafts from the gifts of autumn. This joint process will bring pleasure not only to the kid, but also allows parents to plunge into their childhood.