Peacock made of leaves - crafts for kindergarten

2024 Author: Sierra Becker | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-26 03:47

So the golden autumn has come! Warm sunny days are calling to go for a walk in a park or forest. And at the same time, you can collect very beautiful leaves, because the time for crafts for kindergarten will soon begin!

Do you think what will be yours? Make a beautiful colorful peacock out of leaves!

The creation process is simple, interesting. Take care of it with your child and you will have an interesting evening!

Creative Tools

You will collect all the materials for a peacock from leaves during a walk, on the way from school or kindergarten, as well as in a public garden near your house. Leaves are needed - maple, birch - it doesn't matter! The main requirement is not too large and very bright!

In addition, you will need:

1. Colored cardboard;
2. Velvet cardboard black or dark green;
3. A piece of thick (can be corrugated) cardboard;
4. Glue gun;
5. Plasticine.

Tools and materials, take whatever you have enough imagination for, then create!

If you decide to spendskeletonizing leaves, then prepare baking soda and an old toothbrush.

To make your panel the most original and beautiful, make skeletons out of leaves and color them brightly. To do this is quite simple, and the result is surprising.

Introducing 2 methods for skeletonizing autumn leaves.

In the first option, the lesson will not be very pleasant, and work will need to be started at least 3 weeks before the creation of the craft. If you're up for it, give it a try.

For this method, a container is taken, foliage is laid in it, warm water is poured and everything is closed with a lid. In a warm place, such leaves quickly begin to rot. In this case, the pulp of the leaf is more likely to be destroyed, and this process concerns the hard veins last.

After 3 weeks, we need to remember our leaves. Clean water is poured into the basin and raw materials are laid out there. Very carefully it is necessary to clean off the rot, trying not to damage the veins. Everything superfluous that is not removed by hand, you should try to remove it with a toothbrush. Skeletonized leaves are placed under oppression and dried.

As you can see, not a very pleasant experience. Again, in our lives it is not always possible to prepare in advance, so there is another method - much faster!

In the second option, you need to boil the leaves in a soda solution.

To do this, 200 grams of washing soda powder is dissolved in 600 ml of warm water. Prepared leaves are immersed in the mixture, boiled for an hour and a half at a low level of fire.

After time, this liquid is poured out, and clean water is poured into the pan and cooking continues for about 30 minutes.

Use a fork to check the condition of the sheet. We finish when the separation of the pulp from the veins becomes free.

Now take out the leaves and carefully, without pressing, wipe them. Some parts may not separate, in which case boil the raw material again. Take it out of the "broth" carefully, because the leaves are very fragile and can collapse! Dry as in the first option.

Before work, the skeletons of the leaves can be ironed, and then the dye can be applied - gouache, dyes for eggs, watercolor, spray paint. Bright colors are welcome, because a peacock of leaves cannot be dull!

You can bleach them with the usual "Whiteness".

DIY leaf peacock

To create a bright panel, prepare a sheet of light-colored cardboard, velvet cardboard, scissors and leaves.

On the cardboard in the middle, draw a semicircle - this will be a sketch of the tail. Squeeze out the glue along the largest arc and very quickly, without letting the glue harden, lay out the leaves.

In order for the work to be fun, first sort all the leaves by size and shade.

Let the first row be from ordinary leaves, but the second and all subsequent ones can be laid out from skeletonized ones.

After the entire surface of the tail is filled in, cut out the silhouette of a bird from black velvet cardboard and stick it on top of the leaves.

Maple peacockleaves and plasticine

It's even easier to make such a bird, you just need to remember the modeling lessons! Better yet, have your little one help you make the body, neck and head.

To do this, take blue plasticine and knead it, and then complete the desired shape.

For the tail, collect maple leaves - the brightest and most beautiful. But all fallen leaves have an unpleasant feature - they dry out and warp, losing their delicious appearance. To prevent this from happening in your case, prepare them - preserve them in glycerin or cover with wax.

Stick a few leaves into the tail part of the plasticine body so that they peek out from one another. For the head, you can make a tuft from a twig.

Create legs from sticks and acorn caps.

Cut out a small stand from thick cardboard and paint it green or stick green paper. Glue a leaf peacock on it.

That's it! The child is delighted - because his craft will be amazing!