Owl, fairy, fox, hedgehog, lion and mushrooms: you can make everything with leaves! With the next simple fall ideas, weekend fun is guaranteed for parents and children!
Making an owl with leaves: two DIY ideas for autumn
Make cute owl figures out of colored paper, pasta and autumn leaves. They can be hung as window pictures or decorate the wall in the children's room.
You need the following materials:
- 2 autumn leaves
- 12 pieces of pasta type Farfalle
- Acrylic paint
- Tonkarton in Rosa
- Pink construction paper
- Googly eyes
1. First cut out the body from pink construction paper.
2. Paint the 3 noodles orange, 3 – red and the last 3 – yellow.
3. Paint the autumn leaves red or orange.
4. Glue pasta and autumn leaves.
5. Cut out the beak and legs from pink construction paper and attach them.
6. Assemble the face by gluing the beak and googly eyes.
The secondIdea is for owlfrom autumn leaves. All you need are fall leaves, pompoms and construction paper to put the owls together. Let your creativity run wild and try out different variations. Proceed as follows:
1. Collect autumn leaves with the children and let them dry on newspaper overnight.
2. The next day, take a sheet of construction paper, draw an owl freehand and attach the autumn leaves as a “feather”.
Make animals from autumn leaves: fox
Making a fox out of autumn leaves is very easy. Elm, beech or alder leaves are best suited for your first craft idea. You also need the following materials:
- 2 autumn leaves (beech, alder, elm)
- Acrylic paints
- Wooden shish kebab skewer
- Universal glue
Directions:
1. Take a thick book, open it in the middle and place a sheet of newspaper on one side. Then place the autumn leaves on the paper and cover them with a second sheet of paper.
2. Glue the two leaves together and then onto the skewer.
3. Paint ears, eyes and mouth. Complete!
The second variant is a little more complicated because you take maple leaves and then cut them to size. With a little practice, you can easily master this task.
The necessary materials at a glance:
- Maple leaves
- Scissors
- Acrylic paints
- black fineliner
Directions:
1. First press the maple leaves with a book. Leave the stems! The next morning you can start crafting.
2. Cut the leaves to size and paint the ears and mouth with white acrylic paint.
3. The details – paint the eyes, eyelashes and nose with the black liner.
The fox faces are ready and you can stick them onto a tree disc or cardboard.
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Hedgehog crafts with natural materials
Making hedgehog bookmarks out of autumn leaves is super easy. You need the following materials:
- Papier
- Motif hole punch “Star”
- Motif hole punch “hole”
- Autumn leaves from beech or elm
- Template for hedgehogs (you can download the template in our article “Make hedgehogs” and simply reduce the size)
Print out the template, attach autumn leaves. Paint on face if necessary. Punch out different motifs from the pink cardboard.
By the way, you can also make hedgehogs out of autumn leaves in large format. In this case, however, you have to attach the autumn leaves individually. If there are still no autumn leaves in nature, then just collect green leaves and paint them.
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Collage with lion made of leaves
The next lion silhouette idea is perfect for kindergarten age children. Even three-year-olds can master the task with a little help from their parents. Proceed as follows:
1. First cut out the lion's face and paint the mouth. Bring on the googly eyes too.
2. Arrange autumn leaves and glue them in place.
In this articleThere are also free lion head templates to print out.
Make your own mushrooms: DIY instructions
You can also make various autumn pictures from autumn leaves. For example, several mushrooms. For this purpose, collect various autumn leaves. For example, the following are well suited:
- Science fiction
- oak
- maple
- bee
- beech
- hazel
- birch
Directions:
1. Cut the autumn leaves, cut out small balls and put together the mushroom figures.
2. Stick the whole thing onto white construction paper. Complete!
Window pictures with cute fairies: autumn ideas for children in kindergarten
Finally, we offer a sweet idea for window pictures with fairy motifs. Simply print out a template for a doll or girl with a long dress, cut it out and paint it. Then attach autumn leaves as “wings”. Then stick the fairy on the window. You can also make a garland or glue the fairy to a branch for the children to play with.
Autumn time is craft time! Surprise the children with creative and simple craft ideas - for example in our article “Make hedgehogs with a template“
