Of course, you can find the time and desire to do crafts all year round. However, no other season like the third offers as many materials for crafting and decorating and even for free. Autumn crafts with natural materials are particularly fun. Below we present 7 great craft ideas. These are suitable for children as well as adults, seniors and simply anyone who enjoys crafting.
Autumn crafts with natural materials are particularly fun. You can see how ordinary found objects can be transformed with a little creativity and ingenuityto unique decorative objectsbecome. Not much is needed for this. Most of the time you can get everything you need directly in nature. Wooden sticks, branches, stones, chestnuts, acorns, cones, autumn leaves and others can be found in every forest, city park and certainly in every garden or backyard. The easiest things to find and transport are definitely the autumn leaves. With this you can do so many small and beautiful things yourself. Like this cute mobile here? Isn't it inspiring?
Crafts for children, adults and seniors
The deciduous trees throw theirsAutumn leavesand thus prepare for the coming winter. The autumn leaves delight with the most beautiful colors: yellow, red, orange and brown. It is a great starting material for fun crafts. Autumn leaves can be used to match both objectsfor autumn decorationdecorate as well as create beautiful autumn crowns and leaf garlands.
Make your own crown out of autumn leaves
An autumn crown with foliage can be designed in different ways. On the one hand you can use paper or another strong material as a base and on the other hand you can use the crown exclusivelyCraft autumn leavesby connecting them together using a special technique. Below we show the two variants.
Make an autumn crown with wire – instructions
Craft or jewelry wire can be used as the basis for a beautiful autumn crown. It's best to choose one with a gold, brass or copper look. First you form a circle around your own head and fix the wire. Then attach the autumn leaves to the wire. To ensure that the autumn crown finally becomes stable, we recommend wrapping the wire around two or three times. To attach the individual leaves to the wire, we recommend using special florist tape. It helps the professional florists to fix the fresh flowers and leaves together.
When nothing is available but autumn leaves
Maple leaves with long stems are best suited for this beautiful autumn crown without any additional tools and only made from autumn leaves. First you need to fold almost all of the leaves in two sideways so that the stem is oriented to the left or right. All sheets should be folded the same way. Then you just have to put the leaves together. Each stem acts as a kind of thread and is passed through the next leaf.
Crafts for children – coloring in an acorn
There are imaginative ideas on how you can use the chestnuts and acorns that you previously collected in the forest or in the park decoratively. We have already shown how to do this in another postMake your own autumn decorations from acorns. Here we present another wonderful idea for autumn crafts with natural materials, which is wonderful for both children and seniors.
You don't need much for our fall crafts with acorns: acorns, acrylic paints, a brush and maybe glue. All you have to do is color the acorn in any color you want. First you have to dry the acorn in the oven at a low temperature (around 80 – 100°C). This also eliminates the bacteria and organisms in the acorns.
Then you can color the acorns in any color you want. Acrylic paints are best suited for this. After the paint is completely dry, the glans caps can also be attached to the glans using a transparent adhesive. The colorful acorns look particularly good as a complement and a nice detail to other autumn decorations.
Wooden blocks turn into pretty pumpkins
Crafts made from natural materials have the advantage that you can add something to them at any time. It looks simply beautiful when a wooden table or chest of drawers is decorated with acorns and cones. It is precisely the natural element that connects furniture and decoration and ultimately has a direct influence on the living atmosphere.
Autumn crafts made of wood – instructions
Wood is a natural material that is particularly suitable for crafting. It is easy to edit and can even be colored with traditional acrylic paints for decorative purposes. Here we present an exciting craft idea that is also suitable for children. Small wooden blocks are transformed into beautiful pumpkins with the help of a little paint and their rectangular shape means they can be placed somewhere next to the front door or on the windows.
Only a brush and some orange acrylic paint are needed for this great craft project. Of course, there should also be a few wooden blocks that are not too large and can simply be painted as desired.
Make pumpkins out of wooden slices
In a similar way, you can make beautiful decorative pumpkins from another wooden material, namely wooden discs. For this you need a few wooden discs whose shape is reminiscent of a real pumpkin. Orange acrylic paint, a brush, hot glue and a few popsicle sticks are also needed.
First, the wooden discs are designed in orange. Here the tree bark might work well as a decorative outline, but it might not. Dye the popsicle sticks brown and cut them long enough to look like a pumpkin stick. Then fix the stems in the right places using hot glue. Finally, add a few pipe cleaners that you have previously twisted into a spiral, simply as decoration.
Autumn crafts with natural materials for adults and seniors – lavishly decorate dried mini bottle gourds
Bottle gourds are not just for consumption. When dried, they were used in the past as everyday objects, vessels, tools and even as musical instruments. However, the calabash is used to transport liquids. Mini varieties are wonderful for fall decoration. Mini calabashes look particularly chic when they are lavishly decorated with colored rhinestones. Here we introduce a nice DIY project that is more suitable for adults and seniors.
Decorate mini calabashes with rhinestones
For this autumn craft you will need a few mini calabashes, lots of rhinestones of any size and color, possibly glue and universal contour paint, for example in copper or gold. You attach the rhinestones directly to the pumpkins using the glue and after it dries, you fill the space between the stones with beautiful ornaments, which you create playfully with the contour paint. When the paint dries, you can decorate a shelf or table with the lavishly decorated pumpkins.
