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Good afternoon. Today I prepared new package of ideas for autumn children's crafts, which are suitable for fun at home with children, for classes in kindergarten or school. I will show the brightest autumn crafts, made by children's hands. Here you will find suitable ideas for the youngest children(2-3 years) and crafts for older children(7 - 10 years). We will make cut-out appliqués on the theme of autumn, children's mosaics from paper, buttons and beads. Draw with paints on autumn leaves, and also make colorful prints of these leaves on paper. I'll show you how to make an entire picture book out of natural materials and teach you an easy way to make leaf appliques. In short, there will be a lot of interesting lessons and master classes. So you won’t leave this article empty-handed.

Moreover, the site also has thematic articles - where autumn crafts are arranged according to specific topics. Popular themes for autumn are mushrooms, hedgehogs, owls, and apples. Such piggy bank articles are convenient for selecting ideas for activities in kindergarten or school.

So, let's see what children's autumn ideas I have collected in this article.

Children's autumn crafts

USING MOSAIC TECHNIQUE.

Here is a pumpkin craft using the mosaic technique, which is made without glue. We will need a white sheet of paper, a black sheet of cardboard, double-sided tape and filling.

In this example, the mosaic filler is buttons, beads and glitter for nails. But buttons in our country are expensive. Therefore, it will be great if you simply prepare multi-colored (yellow, orange, brown and reddish) pieces of cardboard, finely cut with scissors + beads and sequins. It will be cheaper this way.

Draw the outline of a pumpkin on black cardboard. Cut with scissors. We cut a white sheet of paper to the size of our pumpkin hole on the cardboard. And cover the entire surface of the white sheet with double-sided tape. Carefully attach the sticky white sheet to the back of the black cardboard so that it completely covers the pumpkin-shaped hole. And we get a sticky interior for our mosaic. Place mosaic filler in bowls or on a tray - pieces of paper, cardboard, shards of a broken cup, an orange plastic folder cut into fragments, chopped pieces of cardboard and anything else that comes to mind.

Your child will be happy to place small things on the sticky surface of the pumpkin.

If you want to conduct such an activity in kindergarten, then of course you won’t have enough tape and mosaic filler for all the children. Therefore, I suggest making pumpkins collectively - one for 4 children. There are 4 children sitting at the table - they are given one pumpkin for all, and each has a bowl of mosaic filler. Children lay the mosaic on the pumpkin together - and at the end of the work, when all the large parts are laid out, sprinkle the craft with powder.

Glitter powder costs money. Therefore, you can make your own powder coating using a cheaper product. Powder is possible make from semolina, painted orange. Semolina is painted with regular gouache and rubbed by hand into a dry, homogeneous mass. Another powder can be made from grated dry autumn leaves.

Craft mosaic from colored napkins AUTUMN LEAF .

If you stick square pieces of colored (yellow and red) table napkins randomly on top of each other, you can get an excellent material for cutting out autumn leaves.

Below, the master class demonstrates the general principle of creating such a children's autumn craft.

A colored napkin is placed on PVA glue - on top of an office file or film. Pieces of napkin can be torn (as in the photo below) or neatly cut into squares, as in the photo above.

Here maple leaf template for this children's autumn craft. By the way, This autumn leaf template can also be used as a template for a sticky mosaic craft with double-sided tape (using the same principle that we just made our own pumpkin).

You can also cut it out of cardboard in advance frame template in the form of an autumn leaf. Put a cardboard frame on a polyethylene file– colored side down. And with children's hands fill this frame with pieces of napkin. We pour glue directly onto the file and place napkins. Napkin roller should also touch the edges of the cardboard frame. Next, when the craft is dry, we separate it from the office file - the entire napkin mosaic will stick to the edges of the frame. And we hang this craft-frame with a mosaic on the window. The sun shines through bright layers of napkins. A beautiful stained glass autumn children's craft - which is easy to make in kindergarten or during school classes.

Children's autumn crafts

Trees on bushes.

Using the same mosaic technique, you can make such a children's craft in the form of autumn trees. We cover round cardboard pieces with colored napkins and insert them into the slot made in toilet paper rolls.

You can cut ovals in the form of leaves from colored paper. Kids will love putting together their fall tree. For ease of work, first place the round tree crown on the table, glue leaves on it, and only after that we put it into the slot on the toilet paper roll.

You can do it differently. Do not make a slot in the roll, but make a tree crown in the form of a POCKET, which can easily be put on the roll. Just cut out 2 silhouettes of the crown and glue them along the edges - the unglued middle will open up like a cap - and we put it on a roll-sleeve.

Children's autumn crafts

from leaves

for the little ones.

The simplest children's crafts made from autumn leaves are crafts for kids. When we offer a child a ready-made coloring printout and show that some elements on it can be made from natural materials.

Offer your child a lot of leaves and blades of grass of different shapes - and let him choose the part to be replaced - a head, or a tail, or he wants to make ears or paws from natural material.

In the same way, you can use not one autumn leaf, but several at once. Or cover the craft with a whole pack of autumn herbarium (as in the photo with the hedgehog craft).

I have collected many interesting ideas for working with autumn leaves in a separate educational article. I invite you to visit it a little later and learn new techniques for crafts made from foliage for this fall.

Drawing on autumn leaves.

children's autumn crafts.

The easiest autumn children's craft- this is to paint a large round sheet of paper with red paint and when it dries, draw red dots on it with your finger (not a brush). And then we glue such a leaf to a ready-made bug blank drawn on the leaf with black gouache.

If you don't have a round leaf, it's easy to fix. An ordinary maple leaf can be cut in a circle and you will get the desired shape.

We can stick an autumn leaf on paper. And cover it with any design, and draw the missing elements next to the leaf.

Before you start drawing We trace the contours of an autumn leaf on another sheet of paper and on this pencil copy draw a sketch of the future craft. In this way, we check in advance whether all the details of the planned design fit together well, as they fit on an autumn leaf.

And then, on a clean sheet of paper, carefully use a brush to convey all the elements of the draft sketch with bright, rich colors.

Some work can be done not with paints, but with bright, thick office markers or felt-tip pens (as was done on the frog craft in the photo below).

You can also add elements made of colored paper to a craft made from leaves with drawing. Below we see a beet family in the garden. The soil for the garden bed can be drawn, or cut out and colored paper, or made from a sprinkling of grated dry autumn leaves (grind the brown dry leaves into fine dust, pour pva glue onto a sheet of paper and sprinkle powder from the leaves on it). Or you can use regular tea leaves.

Children also just love painting large autumn leaves in bright gouache colors.

Or will it fit stained glass paint– it is thick and lays down in a beautiful glossy layer.

Children's crafts

with prints of autumn leaves.

We give the child a ready-made printable coloring sheet. A twig and the outlines of a bird should be drawn on it. The bird should be small so that there is a lot of free space on the sheet. And the twig should go across the entire sheet of paper - diagonally. This way we can place leaf prints on both sides of the branch. We cover the sheet with paint: with a brush, or better yet, with a sponge, we dilute the gouache with water in jar lids and give the children small pieces of the sponge. They blot the sheet with a sponge and put an imprint on our picture.

If you do not find a suitable ready-made coloring page on the Internet. You can draw it yourself on a piece of paper with a black felt-tip pen - and then print it out for the required number of children (this is if you work as a teacher in a kindergarten and decided to take this idea for classes in a group of 20 or more children).

And you can also translate this picture from the monitor screen - directly from this site- put a sheet of paper to the screen and trace the translucent picture with a pencil. To increase the image size to fit your sheet. Press the Ctrl key with one hand and roll the wheel of the computer mouse with the other hand - the image will change size larger or smaller, depending on where you turn the wheel: towards you or away from you.

Another autumn bird is the peacock. It is often depicted as autumn crafts. We will also make it from paper and paint. We will need paint to make leaf prints. First, we collect several autumn leaves from different trees - we need long leaves (for the central part of the tail) and small leaves (for the lower part of the tail). From paper we cut out a circle-abdomen and a pear-shaped shape for the head. Beak and eyes.

We place our future bird’s abdomen on a sheet of paper, and with a pencil around the abdomen we outline the size of the future tail. – You can immediately place the leaves in a circle - outline their location.

Then we cover each sheet with autumn color paint (red, yellow, orange) using a brush - and leave prints on a sheet of paper. We dry the prints and glue the paper parts of the bird. Ready.

Children's autumn crafts

Using the STAMP technique.

Children really enjoy making prints with paints using stamps made from a cardboard roll. Ordinary toilet paper is cut in half lengthwise (to reduce the size of the bell; a whole tube will produce a petal that is too large) - flattened into a petal shape and connected with tape. We get convenient little leaf stamps. In small bowls (lids from jars or plates for flower pots are suitable) pour PVA glue and into it add gouache. The glue helps save gouache consumption - the color is just as bright and juicy.

Cheap PVA glue sold in construction stores - called UNIVERSAL PVA GLUE or CONSTRUCTION PVA GLUE. It is exactly the same as stationery children's PVA - but its price is 4-5 times lower than that of stationery and it is sold immediately in buckets of 500 - 1000 grams. One bucket is enough for 2 months of crafts for the entire kindergarten group. Convenient and cheap.

You can also bend a cardboard roll at the top and bottom into a hollow - and secure it with electrical tape so that it does not unbend. And then you will get a stamp in the shape of an apple. Using it, you can make autumn children's crafts on the theme of fruits - with homemade preparations - compote or apple jam.

You can also use real apples cut in half as stamps.

The stamp can be cut into any shape and with an internal pattern - from ordinary potatoes. For example, cut NOTCHES on an oval slice of potato in the form of veins of an autumn leaf.

Also, the inflorescence of CAULIFLOWER is a ready-made convenient stamp for drawing an autumn tree. This children's craft is suitable for the youngest children 2-3 years old.

Regular round wine cork can also be a good stamp for a children's autumn craft in the form of an apple tree.

Children's autumn craft-landscape

in technology

MIRROR PRINT.

And the imprint technique can create an autumn landscape like this, reflected in the water. We need to divide the sheet into 2 halves horizontally. Bend this sheet along the line (so that there is a ready-made convenient fold line). Then paint the lower part of the sheet under the fold blue (the color of the water in the lake). And on the top half apply a light shade of blue sky. Dry it all.

And then VERY QUICKLY, without letting the paints dry, we APPLY BRIGHT SPOTS of trees on the upper half of the sheet - a blunder at speed. And quickly, before they dry, we bend the sheet along our fold line - so that the spots of the trees PRINT ON THE BACKGROUND OF THE LAKE. If necessary, we repeat this procedure again - apply the same paints to the same places and bend the sheet again. Then we add touches in the form of tree branches. And if necessary, after drying, we once again go over the lake half of the sheet with blue paint.

Crafts-paintings

from cut leaves

The leaves do not necessarily have to be included in the entire application - in their natural form. You can cut out any shapes from autumn leaves - squares, diamonds, circles. In the craft below we see that the leaf is cut into diamonds and each diamond is a flying kite. Long blades of grass are like the strings of kites, and bright stems are like their long tails.

Large parts can be cut from a wide maple leaf. This cute pig consists entirely of one leaf, which was cut with scissors.

Leaves are paper given to us by nature. And you can work with leaves like paper. Cut out any necessary parts for applique from the leaves and make children's autumn crafts from them. Simple and fast.

There is a whole children's book in France, which is illustrated with just such cut-out appliqués from living leaves. Why don't you come up with illustrations for your favorite stories. You can work as a whole class and do a lot of collective work. All illustrated crafts must be photographed in good quality and ordered (from a printing house or photo studio) - an album with a story illustrated by children's works. Then this trial model can be taken to the publishing house - publishers may be interested in such an idea and your class can publish a real book with a large circulation - and earn yourself an interesting class trip or excursion. Why not.

Children's autumn crafts

OWLS and HEDGEHOGS.

I don’t know why, but of all the birds, owls are best associated with autumn. It is their silhouettes that artists most often draw when they take on autumn forest landscapes. Well, let’s not lag behind the trends of great art and create our own autumn crafts, sketches with wise owls.

Let's start with a simple, but very favorite topic for all children. An owl inside a voluminous hollow. That is, we will make a real 3D tree. It's very simple to do - a sheet of paper is folded in half lengthwise - and then in half again. Now we unfold it and see that there are three fold lines on a piece of paper (that is, the sheet is divided into 4 equal long parts - now Place the outer halves of the sheet on top of each other- and we get triangular tube(that is, a pyramid tube - like the tree trunk in the photo below). On this tube (along the middle fold line) we use scissors to cut an oval hollow hole. Now, so that the tube does not unfold, we will secure these outer halves of the sheet (which we folded on top of each other) with glue - that is, we will close the back of our trunk.

We glue sticks and branches onto a sheet of paper (blue background - like the sky). In the middle we attach our triangular tree trunk with glue.

Now on a separate yellow sheet of paper draw a round owl(almost the size of a hollow). We decorate the owl with wings from paper of a different color, cut out a triangular forehead from paper of a different color and eyes from white paper.

So that our owl stays in the hollow– we glue a strip of paper, crumpled into a ring, onto the back of the owl (i.e., we cut off a strip of paper and closed the ends into a donut ring). We glue this paper ring with one side on the back of the owl and with the other side we glue it on the bottom of the hollow. It turns out that the owl sticks to the hollow and does not fall out of it.

Leftover from leftover yellow and red paper cut the leaves– stick them on the branches and draw veins on them. This is such a cute and simple autumn craft - suitable for the older group of kindergarten.

And here is another interesting craft on the theme of OWL. In the photo the crafts are made from paper plates, but we can just cut rounds from cardboard. Two circles per child.

Children cut one round piece in half (these are wings). We cover all parts with adhesive paint. If you mix paint with PVA glue - the proportions of glue are 4 times greater than gouache - then you can immediately glue the eyes and beak onto such glue paint - just put the paper parts into the liquid paint, and they will stick. Where to get cheap PVA glue immediately in liter buckets (and not in jars of a teaspoon) I already said a little higher in this article.

I posted even more crafts on the owl theme in separate article

And hedgehogs are also a good theme for an autumn children's craft. You can add a background of autumn leaves to them.

The craft above is suitable for the older group of kindergarten. We give the children a white paper cone (that is, you need to prepare cones for the number of children in advance). Using scissors, children cut the cone into fringe. Coat the fringe with glue and attach it to a background sheet of paper. Paint the cone brown (you can immediately make the cones from brown paper so as not to waste time on painting). All that remains is to glue autumn leaves onto the children's craft.

You will find a lot of ideas for crafts with hedgehogs on our website in a special article

Autumn crafts

Children's applications.

Autumn is the time of rain and fog. You can make a craft that will tell you about this side of autumn. Any weather has its beauty. And it can be reflected in a craft.

Even such an elusive natural phenomenon as fog. Using paper napkins (which we layer into thin transparent layers) you can make wisps of fog (the craft is in the photo below).

A rain craft can be presented brightly and cheerfully if you add a bright rainbow to your picture and make the cloud smile.

Children's craft applique

AUTUMN TREE.

The youngest children can make simple crafts - sticking colored ovals of tree crowns one by one. And then use a felt-tip pen to trace the lines drawn in pencil by the teacher’s hand.

The baby himself will not yet draw so symmetrically and branchily - but he will be able to trace ready-made pencil lines. You can work with a felt-tip pen only after the glue has completely dried - for example, after a quiet hour, the craft will dry out and the children can work without the felt-tip pen getting into the wet glue.

Or you can do without drawing with a felt-tip pen. Simply cut out thin slingshot trunks from brown paper and stick them on top of the colored paper tree crowns, as was done in the photo of the children's craft below.

Apple or pear trees are also a good idea for an autumn children's craft. You can make one tree with rosy apples. Or you can involve collective work and give other tables the task of cutting out leaves, flowers, and silhouettes of birds flying south. And then put it together into one overall autumn picture.

I collected a lot of crafts on the theme of APPLES and apple trees in a separate article called that

You can combine appliqué with drawing with wax crayons. The child first traces each drawn leaf along the lines with white wax chalk (or another color different from the color of the paper itself).

Then he takes scissors and cuts out the leaf without cutting the chalk line. And the tree collects from such leaves. You can assemble a common tree - one for each children's table. Then compare which table turned out smoother, more magnificent, more fun. And hand out nominations - the most lush tree, the tallest tree, the most rainbow tree, etc. - so that no one is offended.

Autumn wreaths made of colored paper are also a good idea for a children's group craft for this fall. Each child is given a simple task that is feasible for children’s hands. Cut out 1-2 autumn leaves along the contour.

Painting made from colored paper

CARPET OF AUTUMN LEAVES.

This beautiful craft can decorate any interior. It is made from ordinary colored paper - with ordinary children's hands. You can make such a craft collectively with a group of children of the same class or in kindergarten with children of older preschool age.

On a piece of colored paper, draw straight, thin lines of veins. At the end of each line we draw a circle. Then we take scissors and cut along the contour of these designs.

We glue the cut out veins onto ordinary leaves of the same shape - but contrasting in color. Then we combine all the leaves into a single canvas. So that it is holey and openwork. That is, the leaves are glued to each other only by the EDGES.

Happy crafting!

Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site

Before we knew it, autumn had arrived, which, by the way, I love more than summer) Autumn pleases us with the silence and bright colors of falling autumn leaves. The interior of our house also requires some changes; you can collect the most beautiful fallen leaves and put them in a vase to decorate any room. You can also buy a package of artificial autumn leaves and create a decorative panel or napkin from them, which is what I want to offer you in this publication.

For work we will need:

• packaging of artificial autumn leaves (sold at any florist store);
• leatherette, felt, felt or any other dense fabric;
• hot glue gun or fabric glue;
• scissors.

These are the autumn leaves sold in stores, there are only 50 pieces of leaves of different sizes in a package

We need to draw a circle on the fabric we are using, cut it out and glue maple leaves.

We sort the leaves by color and size:

Glue with hot glue in a circle:

Please note: light leaves are glued along the edges, and brighter leaves are placed in the center

The finished decorative element can be hung on the wall or placed in the center of a round table

And these are real maple leaves:

Before we knew it, autumn had arrived, which, by the way, I love more than summer) Autumn pleases us with the silence and bright colors of falling autumn leaves. The interior of our house also requires some changes; you can collect the most beautiful fallen leaves and put them in a vase to decorate any room. You can also buy a package of artificial autumn leaves and create a decorative panel or napkin from them, which is what I want to offer you in this publication.

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For work we will need:

• packaging of artificial autumn leaves (sold at any florist store);
• leatherette, felt, felt or any other dense fabric;
• hot glue gun or fabric glue;
• scissors.

These are the autumn leaves sold in stores, there are only 50 pieces of leaves of different sizes in a package

We need to draw a circle on the fabric we are using, cut it out and glue maple leaves.

We sort the leaves by color and size:

Glue with hot glue in a circle:

Please note: light leaves are glued along the edges, and brighter leaves are placed in the center

The finished decorative element can be hung on the wall or placed in the center of a round table

DIY topiary made from napkins. Master class with step-by-step photos

Holiday gift. Master Class.

Topiary “Orange Happiness”. Master class with step-by-step photos.

Yudicheva Marina Anatolyevna, primary school teacher, boarding school No. 1, Kirov.
Purpose: This topiary is a wonderful gift for any occasion. Mothers and grandmothers will be very happy to receive such a gift on International Women's Day. Topiary will serve for interior decoration. It will bring a special zest to the interior.
Description: The material is intended for children of middle school age, as well as for children of senior preschool and primary school age in collaboration with parents, it is interesting for teachers and all creative people. I highly recommend that dads and their children do this work on the eve of March 8th and make their mommy or grandma happy.
Target: make topiary - a gift for the holiday.
Tasks:
- teach how to make topiary, flowers from napkins,
- develop aesthetic taste, creativity, cooperation skills,
- cultivate care and love for others.

Progress

Topiary art is the curly trimming of trees and shrubs. Many have seen trees in the form of animals or flowers. Even the ancient Romans decorated their gardens with deciduous or coniferous balls, pyramids, and all kinds of animal figures.

Today, when not everyone can afford a garden with decorative trees, topiary art has migrated from gardens to apartments, and trees began to be made from any available material. The most popular form of topiary is a circle. This is a dynamic figure that will always attract attention. Such trees are also called trees of happiness.

(Topiary on the makeup table).
While mom is at work.
Dad and I got busy.
They made topiary.
Mom was given a surprise!
We went into the forest to get branches.
To the store for a napkin,
They bought the central station there,
And they found a flowerpot in the closet.
This is a lucky tree
We will give it to mom for the holiday.
Let mom be happier
From this wondrous beauty!
To complete the work you will need the following materials.

- flower pots
- CPS (cement-sand mixture)
- one thick willow branch (or another tree) 30 cm long, two thin branches 35 cm long
- newspapers
- threads
- napkins
- leaves from artificial flowers
- decor - ladybug
- stapler
- scissors
- glue (a glue stick is better)
Now the work is in full swing!
Dad and I got down to business!
Dad - with TsPS and branches,
Well, I’m with napkins!
1. Pour TsPS into the pots (about ¾ of the height of the pot), pour in a little water, mix everything well. Wipe off the cement from the edges with a napkin.

2. Insert the branches into the center of the flowerpot. You can sprinkle pebbles, or glass, or artificial grass on top of the DSP. They will decorate the gray mass. Leave for several hours to allow the CPS to harden.

3. We wrap thin branches around a thick branch. Let's make the trunk of our tree.

4. We attach thin branches to the top. The willow can be tied in a knot or secured with tape.

5. Take the straightened newspaper and crumple it lengthwise.

6. Wrap the crumpled newspaper tightly around the top of the trunk.

7. Make several layers and form a ball from newspapers. The size of the ball approximately corresponds to the size of the flowerpot. We secure the resulting ball with threads.

8. Take a napkin, fold it in half and in half again.

9. We fasten the resulting square in the center with a stapler.

10.Cut out a circle from the square (cut off the corners of the square with an arc).

11. Each flower has 16 layers. Take the top layer of the circle, lift it up and compress it arbitrarily towards the center.

12. In this way we crumple all 16 layers one after another. Try to ensure that the next layer does not repeat the shape of the previous one, this will make the flower more magnificent.

13. Straighten the petals and the flower is ready.

14.A topiary will require 30-35 of these flowers (this will depend on the size of your newspaper ball and the density of the flowers).

15.Glue flowers onto a newspaper ball. It’s better to start from the trunk (from the bottom up). Apply glue to a newspaper ball and glue the flower.

16 . Try to stick the flowers so that the newspaper does not show through between the flowers.

17. We enliven the flower ball-crown of the tree with leaves. 6-9 leaves are enough.

18.Glue a ladybug onto the trunk.

19.The topiary is ready.

20. Such a tree will decorate the niterier.

I bring to your attention several original ideas. 13

Happy child 20.11.2017

Dear readers, today I once again want to invite you to get creative. And, of course, it will be great if you actively involve your children in the creative process. Children always offer something new and unusual. Such joint creativity is always distinguished by originality and originality. In addition, the process of making crafts with your child brings you closer together and gives you the opportunity to talk about something important and intimate. Don't miss this opportunity! And another idea for such creativity is do-it-yourself decor and crafts from napkins, which Anna Pavlovskikh will introduce us to. I give her the floor.

Greetings, dear readers of Irina’s blog. I am very glad that my master classes and photos of creative works resonate among you. I always read comments with interest and am sincerely glad that people are passionate about creativity. This is very important for me as a teacher and as an artist.

It’s great that you create together with children. This, it seems to me, is an important component of education. How often parents are busy with work and worries, but if in this hustle and bustle you find at least a few hours a week for modeling, crafts, drawing with your child, then these are the memories that will remain with him for the rest of his life.

Now I bring to your attention crafts from napkins with children with step-by-step photos of making flowers from napkins. Such flowers can decorate both our holidays and everyday life. We will use the simplest and most affordable material - paper napkins of different colors and shades.

Napkin applique

What we need:

• colored cardboard;
• colored paper;
• napkins of different colors;
• PVA glue;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• eraser.

To begin, draw the outlines of the future application on colored cardboard. Next, you need to decide what exactly will be done in volume with colored napkins, and what will be done on a plane of colored paper.

To make balls, you need to cut the napkins into squares with a side of about 5 cm. Let the children roll small balls from these squares with dry hands - they will certainly enjoy this exciting process.

In a few minutes you will have a lot of paper balls, and all you have to do is glue them according to the design. Apply PVA glue to the desired areas of the design and glue napkin balls onto them.

Make individual parts from colored paper. You can also cut rectangles from napkins and roll them into sausage tubes, from which you can make antennae for butterflies and stems for flowers.

I suggest you look at the work of my daughter Svetlana using this technique. Perhaps you will be inspired by some ideas and do similar work with your child.

Bouquets of flowers from napkins with children

How to make flowers from napkins with your own hands? We will need the following materials:

• napkins of bright colors;
• pencil;
• stapler;
• scissors;
• glue stick;
• cardboard for the base or floral ball.

Children as young as five years old enjoy making such flowers. They are very simple to make and look impressive. You can decorate a greeting card with them or make a whole bouquet.

Draw circles with a diameter of 4-5 cm on folded napkins. Carefully cut out the circles. Secure the middle of each multi-layer circle with a stapler.

Separate each layer of napkin and crumple it up towards the middle. Fluff each layer to form a beautiful flower. Make several of these flowers and collect them on a floral ball for bouquets or on a cardboard base for a card. The postcard can also be supplemented with leaves of colored paper and a beautiful inscription.

Roses from napkins

I offer you three options for making a rose from a napkin. Take a look and choose the one you like best.

1 option

To make a rose, you need one napkin. Cut off the two folded edges of the napkin and separate all the layers separately.

To make the first petal, you need to fold one layer of napkin not in half, but so that one part is slightly larger. Start rolling the folded edge evenly along its entire length. On both sides you need to twist the corners of the resulting rectangle.

Make petals from all the separated napkins. Twist a bud from the first petal and continue to twist all the petals in this manner, gradually unrolling the petals that are further from the center. Make several of these roses and combine them into one bouquet. Similar compositions can be used for table setting.

Option 2

Lay out the entire napkin, fold the square onto the corner. Fold the bottom of the triangle over one centimeter and continue folding, leaving a small triangle at the top. Twist the wrapped strip into a spiral. Turn the remaining tails from the triangle to the other side - these will be rose leaves.

Option 3

Lay out the napkin into one large square. Roll the square into a tube. Step back six centimeters from one edge of the tube and twist it tightly - this is the future base of the bud. From the opposite side of the tube, straighten the corner - it will become a rose leaf. Roll the remaining part below the sheet tightly. Open the petals of the bud, twist the center of the bud tightly.

Rose and water lily made from napkins for table setting

On holidays, we especially want to see the table beautiful and elegant. Flowers made from napkins will help decorate it with minimal means, but such decor will look very bright, unusual, and original.

Rose

Take a small glass and napkins of the same color. Place the corner of the napkin inside the cup and turn the opposite corner of the napkin down. Place the next napkins into the cup with a slight shift in a circle and also turn the corner down.

Having inserted 12 napkins, remove the finished rose from the glass and place it on the table. Making such a rose will be a real surprise for a child and a worthy decoration for the dining table.

Origami water lily

When working with napkins, you can use a technique such as origami with great success. Let's try to make a beautiful water lily using this technology.

Lay out the napkin and fold it diagonally. Unfold and fold four corners toward the center. Next, fold all four corners toward the center two more times.

Turn the napkin over to the other side and repeat this action once. Flip it back over and turn the petals out from the corners on the underside. Also turn the corners up from the bottom side.

Let's watch a video on how to make flowers from napkins.

Today we got acquainted with such an interesting material for creativity as paper napkins. We learned how to make flowers and crafts from them. This material provides enormous freedom of creativity, is very easy to process, and is not toxic or dangerous for children. In stores today there is a huge selection of napkins of different sizes, colors and shades. This material is very accessible and inexpensive. I hope that you will definitely use my tips for working with this material, and that you will enjoy doing work using this technique with your children.