So if your fingers are tingling again and you feel the need to get creative, get the children together. Take a walk to collect natural treasures, which you can then use to make cute mushrooms from natural materials. Or maybe you already have one or two materials at home.
Make your own fly agarics with tangerine peels
The peels of the eaten tangerines or oranges are perfect for making mushrooms in different ways. One variant would be a garland, another would be small figures to put up. Or, best of all, try both!
Make a garland out of the bowls
Make yourself comfortable and snack on a tangerine or orange. You can now either dry the shells first or start straight away and then dry the finished mushrooms. You need:
- Peels of oranges or tangerines
- Punch for small circles
- Glue
- Awl or other sharp object for perforating (metal shish kebab skewer, for example)
- cord
- optional template for a mushroom
How to make the pretty autumn decorations:
- Place the shells between newspaper and then in a book to dry and press. If necessary, weigh the book down from above. After 2-3 days (orange peels maybe a little longer) the peel should be dry. In the air, in the oven or in the sun is also an option, but then the edges curl up, while in the book you end up with a flat shell that is a little reminiscent of leather.
Or:Skip this step and make the mushrooms straight away. You can still press it afterwards.) - Draw a mushroom on a piece of paper or cardboard and cut it out. Also separate the hood from the stem. Make sure the design is not too large to fit on the shell pieces.
- Trace the outline of the mushroom onto the dish and cut out the shapes.
- Glue the mushroom cap and stem out of the tangerine peel and glue them together, with the orange side of the cap facing up and the white side of the stem facing up.
- This way you can make as many more mushrooms as you want.
- Then punch out small circles from the leftover shells and glue them onto the mushroom cap as dots.
- If you didn't dry peel in advance, you can do so now.
- Poke two holes through the mushroom cap for each mushroom to thread the string through.
- Hang the garland.
Tipp:You can also attach the string vertically (one hole through the top of the hat and one through the stem end) and then hang the garlands vertically, creating a curtain.
Orange peel with stick
Half an orange peel can be turned into a mushroom pendant or figurine for a small, autumnal arrangement. A stick serves as a handle. So you need:
- half an orange peel (for smaller mushrooms you can of course also use tangerines)
- Stick of appropriate size
- Glue or eyebolt
- white color and optional red
This is how it's done:
- If you want, you can initially paint the bowl red, although orange works well too. Let them dry and then add a few dabs of white.
- Once the paint has dried, you can glue the stick into the bowl.
- If you want to make a pendant, insert the eyebolt through the shell from above and screw it into the stick. It might be helpful if you screw the hole into the stick beforehand to make it easier later and not to potentially break the shell.
Have you ever noticed this similarity? Well, from now on you will probably do that every time you look atAcorns with their little capssee. And making these cute toadstools is incredibly easy. You can use them to create a beautiful autumn decoration, for example by arranging them with other natural materials in a decorative bowl. But they also look very pretty when simply placed on the table in small groups.
- Remove the acorn hat and wipe it and the acorn with a dry cloth to remove dust and sand.
- Paint the hat red.
- Allow the paint to dry.
- Meanwhile, you can paint the acorn white because it will become the mushroom stem.
- Dab a few dots here and there on the hat.
- Once all the colors have dried thoroughly, glue the hat onto the acorn. Complete!
Use leaves for fly agarics
It is not difficult to draw a mushroom stem, so you can easily draw some yourself on paper as a base. Leaves in a reddish color then serve as a mushroom cap for the fly agaric. Then use acrylic paint or white markers to dab a few more dots on the sheet and your mushroom is ready. With a wider range of leaf sizes, you can also vary the size of the mushrooms. This variant is great if you are making mushroom crafts with children.
You can also use leavesthese pretty animalsconjure up.
Branch and stone for an autumn decoration in the garden
The variantwith the orange peelYou can also try it with a stone:
- Try to find a stone that is roughly the right shape.
- Clean it and let it dry so the paint can adhere better.
- Paint the stone with red acrylic paint and let it dry.
- Add white dots.
- Then use a suitable adhesive to attach the stone to a branch.
- Put the finished mushroom in a bed or an empty bucket so that it looks nice even in winter without flowers.
How to make egg carton mushroomsfind out here.
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