Autumn is not a reason to be sad due to rainy and gray weather. Orange, yellow and red leaves are so beautifully circling on the streets, which is not voluntarily thinking about how to bring this bright beauty to your home. An excellent solution will be a panel of leaves with their own hands. Pretty simple creation technology helps to make a spectacular picture that will raise you mood in rainy days. Panel will be an excellent option for children's creativity. The child will develop small motor skills, attentiveness and perfection. Quite often in kindergartens and elementary schools hold contests made from natural materials. If you just have such a contest on the nose and you do not know what to prepare, without thinking, proceed to the manufacture of a panel of leaves.
Preparation of leaves
For the manufacture of panels on the Autumn topic, you will need the following materials:
- cardboard or colored paper;
- brush;
- PVA glue;
- frame;
- Dried leaves and flower petals.
Do not forget to stock fantasy, desire and a little patience.
The newly assembled leaves and flowers will help you in the manufacture of a beautiful composition. To begin, it is necessary to prepare raw materials, but do not worry, it is not at all difficult. You will need:
- Fresh leaves, flowers and petals;
- scissors;
- wool;
- Thick books that you will no longer be useful;
- threads;
- cardboard.
It will take a lot of time to drying the material, but as a result you will get high-quality blanks for the future panel.
Stages of drying:
- Take the unnecessary book (the leaves can be stained it) and spread the sheets between the pages. Do not lay out the leaves in a row for each other, better skip several pages between them. So the drying process will pass faster and the leaves will not stick together.
- Carefully close the book so that no sheet flew out.
- Put the heavy item on top of the book, for example, a few more books or box.
- Leave everything in this state for several days.
- Check out the readiness of the leaves. If it seems to you that they are still insufficient dry, then leave for some time. If everything suits you, then you carefully get the material and proceed to work.
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Preparation of flowers
Flowers perfectly complement the leaves in the picture, so it will not be superfluous to put several flowers. Most colors can be dried by the same technology as the leaves, but there are exceptions. In order to dry roses or asters, follow the following instructions:
- Take cardboard or tight paper and fold in half.
- In the center do a small hole.
- Inside the thin layer, lay out cotton wool.
- Put the flower on your cotton layer and add more wits from above.
- Close up flower by connecting both parts of the cardboard. Secure them with rubber bands or threads.
- Put a heavy item on top.
- A few days later, remove the gum or threads and check the result. If the flower is dry, then get it out. If he is not ready yet, and wool is very wet, then change your cotton and leave the flower for a few more days.
We make the composition for the interior
For the manufacture of panels, use not only leaves, but also other additional materials: flowers and cones, grains, seeds, cereals, spikelets, etc. Panel manufacturing technology is so simple that even the child can easily cope with this task. Come up with your painting theme, for example, a very popular autumn topic, also think over in advance what exactly you want to portray.
To create a unique panel, you need to do the following:
- Take cardboard or tight colored paper.
- Prepare the templates of the items you want to be present in the picture.
- You can make from the leaves only the background, and on top of gluing the deserted patterns.
- Another option: Turn the templates to the cardboard, lubricate the glue and gradually lay out the leaves. Hinting edges with scissors.
- After complete drying, insert it into the frame.
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