When autumn comes into its own, coloringthe world around us in colorful, cheerful colors, I want to wander endlessly in the garden, rustling the fallen leaves. And in order to keep the mood of autumn longer, you can personally create compositions from natural materials, which this season gives people in abundance. A great product will be created with Ekan from leaves with his own hands “Autumn”. In it, besides the bizarre forms of foliage, you can use both dried flowers and vegetables with fruits.
What can be done?
From the materials that presents autumn, you canto make various compositions with children. It will be absolutely free crafts from grass, but their value will be in the warmth of the relationship between an adult and a child. In addition to moral benefits, such a pastime is useful for children and physically: fine hand motor skills develop, which is necessary for speech, sensory abilities, and imagination. This is especially important for small children in the early stages of their development.
Natural materials will allow you to create a simple crafts and children's toys, applications, herbarium, educational structures. An excellent hand-made article will be an Ekiban from autumn leaves.
Adult themes developed by designersallows you to place on the walls of the rooms exquisite panels, paintings and compositions for which you can use mixes of foliage of different tree species Combines well with each other chestnut, maple and oak leaves.
Preparation of materials
Before you make ekibanu or other composition, it is important to properly prepare the source material. This is done in several ways:
- Autumn leaves are laying between the sheets.albums and on top are pressed with a load so that they do not curl when dried. To bookmark choose healthy, whole leaves. This method of preparation is suitable for the manufacture of herbaria, children's applications or leaf collages.
- To make volumetric crafts and bouquets withusing autumn foliage, the latter must be processed in a special way, as will be discussed below. This is necessary so that the foliage does not crack when twisting, is malleable and does not lose its original appearance. This method is suitable for the manufacture of topiary or dried flowers compositions.
With proper preparation of raw materials - leaves -crafts will keep a beautiful look, and the composition of leaves will not turn into twisted, shapeless, cracked masses. After all, the foliage can be made like roses, cornflowers, chrysanthemums, camomiles and water lilies. And their color will not only be natural - red or yellow - the products can be painted with acrylic colored primers. On top of the gel pen you can apply a variety of patterns, and then varnish.
Classes with a child: ideas for equibans
For manual creativity, you can offer the following ideas:
- ApplicationFor her, you can use dried castings and flowers for herbarium. On a thick sheet of paper, you need to decompose the available materials, combining them in color and shape. When the desired location is achieved, each element is glued with PVA glue or photoglue.
- Collage-ekibana on the theme "Autumn".Such a composition is made under the frame. A layer of large bright leaves of dark colors is laid out on a thick sheet of cardboard or paper, on the top is smaller and greener, and at the very top are small bright yellow and red leaves. Alternately, you can add autumn dried flowers, getting a three-dimensional picture. And also from foliage and flowers it is possible to lay out various figures.
- Beautiful compositions can be made from leaves, flowers and pine needles, fixing them on cardboard with wire.
- Fallen branches are fixed in the form of a tree, and leaves and flowers are fixed on it.
Preparation of raw materials for bulk crafts
Bulk ekibany of the natural material "Autumn" is not made by folding dried leaves, as they will break. Therefore, the material for such works is processed in a special way.
This is done like this:
- Prepare a solution consisting of 200 ml of glycerin and 400 ml of pure cold water.
- In a plastic tight bag, put fresh, fallen leaves evenly and gently and fill them with the prepared solution.
- The edge of the bag with the contents is sealed with a heated knife or sealed carefully with adhesive tape.
- The package must be left for three to four days in a dark cool place, and then removed and folded foliage on a paper towel to dry.
Leaves treated with this method will be flexible.they will retain their original appearance for a long time, and from them it will be possible to fold flowers of various shapes to create a stylish and original composition of leaves.
Preparation of material for flat compositions
For flat crafts there are several methods for drying raw materials:
- Drying with hot iron. Autumn foliage and some small flowerssizes are dried with an iron. To carry out this operation, the raw material is laid out exactly on a thick cardboard and covered with thin paper. Then all this is gently ironed by iron until complete evaporation of moisture. The iron should not be too hot.
- Drying by natural method. For this method, the collected flowers are folded inbundles, hang on a rope in a dry room, where there is good ventilation. The bunches are arranged inflorescences down. “Autumn” created from such material of Ekiban from leaves with own hands will have an original natural look.
- Drying in the oven.This method is great for drying and preparing large single flowers (roses, tulips, peonies) for making accessories and compositions. To do this, the oven does not set a very high temperature, within sixty degrees Celsius, and the raw material decomposed on the base is slowly dried. In this case, you need to carefully monitor that the flowers do not begin to grow brown or lose shape.
- Volumetric drying of flowers.This method of drying in the best way preserves the color and natural shape of autumn colors, of which the ekibana will consist of leaves. The fall will be able to be saved in such a way for a long time. After cutting, the flower is placed in pre-calcined and dried sand for about one month. Capacity for this can serve as a box with a fine-meshed mesh and a retractable bottom. Terry bulk flowers, such as roses, dahlias or lilies, are placed down stems, and flat inflorescences-baskets of flowers such as asters, buttercups, forget-me-nots or chamomiles, place the stems upwards. At the same time, holding the flower in the desired position, it is neatly layered with sand to the top.
Tools for work
Before making ekiban, for work it is necessary to prepare the following tools:
- scissors, for adults - large, long, and for children - small with rounded tips;
- stacks - for children and office knife - for adults;
- an awl with a thin sting and a comfortable handle;
- Manicure tweezers, in which the front part is twisted and twisted - for twisting some parts and wire;
- long tweezers - for small parts;
- thin, strong and flexible copper wire for frame crafts and toys 0.35 mm in diameter;
- foil paper and foil for decoration;
- thread and sewing needle - for fastening details and bouquets.
Materials for work
In order to create an ekiban from the leaves with your own hands “Autumn” Materials may be needed such:
- different in thickness, color and density of paper types (wallpaper, corrugated, parchment, velvet, copy, wrapping and landscape);
- multi-colored polymer clay and clay - for modeling additional details of the compositions;
- glue bf, pva or mars;
- brushes and gouache or watercolor paints will be useful for coloring materials and flat compositions;
- for voluminous work, soft squirrel brushes and acrylic paints will be needed.
Rose of fallen autumn leaves
Ekibana on the theme "Autumn" will originally and stylishly decorate the interior, if it includes such a flower as a rose. You can make it yourself without much difficulty.
Creatively have to work with monophonicmaple leaves, durable thread, sunflower oil and golden colors. The foliage is pretreated with a glycerol solution, as described above.
Roses of maple leaves are large, so for a bouquet of them will be enough five to seven pieces. Foliage will serve the same maple leaves.
Ekibana from the leaves with their own hands "Autumn" is performed in the following sequence:
- Maple leaf bend in half face out and twist into a roll.
- Bud put in the base of the second maple leaf of the same color.
- The second sheet wrap the bud, so forming a rose petal.
- Next take the next maple leaf and the operationrepeat with offset. The more such rose petals are made, the bigger the flower will be. For the kind of blooming flower each next sheet should be moved a little lower.
- A little above the leaf stalks the craft is fastened with a thread - and the first flower is ready.
- Make another five or seven similar flowers.
- To preserve the appearance - lubricate the maple roses with sunflower oil and cover with golden paint.
At the final step you need to take a small pot,place several maple leaves in it and arrange the roses in the form of a bouquet between them. Ekibana is ready and will delight the eye for a long time.
