Autumn is a wonderful time for walking with a child. Summer heat no longer forces you to hide in the shade of trees and look for cool places, and walks in the parks are not only useful, but also extremely fascinating. Enjoying the beauty of the autumn nature, you and the baby can combine business with pleasure - and breathe fresh air, and collect a variety of natural materials for crafts.
Dry leaves are an excellent material for various herbaria and applications. A variety of shapes and colors allows you to give vent to fantasy and come up with a variety of options for stories. These can be birds, animals, houses, people and even fairy-tale creatures. And the developing effect of creativity can be supplemented with learning moments. So, collecting material for a particular craft, for example, owls from leaves, you can gradually learn with the child the name of the trees, teach them to determine them by the leaves.
Of course, the preparation of crafts must be carefully prepared. To do this, from the collected leaves should be selected the most smooth, clean and beautiful. Then you need to put them between the pages of a thick book - in order for them to level out and dry up. Ready dry leaves will fit well on the surface of paper or cardboard and stick to the glue. For the same purposes, you can simply iron the leaves with an iron.
We bring to your attention a few simple ideas on how to make an owl of natural material with your own hands.
Owl made from leaves by own hands
For the craft we need:
- cardboard;
- leaves;
- a simple pencil;
- blister from tablets;
- black, white and yellow paper;
- glue;
- scissors.
Progress:
- On the cardboard we draw the silhouette of an owl.
- Cut it out.
- We paste the owl with leaves, except for the eyes, beak and paws.
- We make two eyes from white paper.
- We make pupils from the blister from tablets and circles of black paper.
- From the yellow paper we make the legs and the beak, stick them on the base.
- The owl of the leaves is ready.
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Applique owl
To apply the owl, you can take one large sheet for the head and two smaller for the ears. The eye and beak can be made from plasticine.
As a torso you can take a maple leaf. We glue the composition onto the cardboard and the appliqué is ready.
A little secret: in order that the leaves do not crumble and crumble, turning your child's work into rubbish, before doing one of them, you should dunk them in liquid paraffin and allow to dry. The problem is solved, and the applications from such leaves will look bulky and more effective.