Crafts from vegetables and fruits "Gifts of Autumn"

Autumn is a beautiful time of year, rich in bright colors and crops. Traditionally in the educational institutions during this period there are exhibitions and competitions of children's works made of different natural materials and fruits. Parents can, together with the child, prepare an article made from vegetables and fruits on the topic "Gifts of Autumn". The product will be an excellent gift to the grandmother or decoration of the interior.

Funny little people

For the youngest, one should select ideas of simple products so that the baby can do it himself with little help from an adult. Even younger preschoolers will be able to make funny little men.

It is enough to take any fruit, draw or paste on it eyes, nose, mouth. Let the crumb decorate the product on your own, for example, you can add a toy hat, beads, bows.

It should be suggested that the kid try to make autumn crafts from vegetables and fruits in the form of characters from cartoons. So, the characters of the animated series "Smeshariki" do not differ in complexity. For work, you can use onions, potatoes, apples. From pumpkins, courgettes, cabbage, too, are the original little men. From such figures you can prepare an entire autumn composition.

Pumpkin Crafts

From these fruits you can make spectacular and original products. Here are a few options:

• for preschoolers, the mother can cut the middle in a pumpkin to make a vase, and the baby can be offered to decorate it at will with fruit or autumn leaves, flowers;
• interesting are wreaths and garlands of small pumpkins;
• older children can cut a vegetable ornament themselves with a knife;
• from the fruits are beautiful candlesticks;
• you can make a house, a coach.

Fruit Animals

The animal world is interesting to most children. Because they like the idea of ​​making from fruits and vegetables beautiful crafts in the form of funny fauna:

1. Hedgehogs. These animals can be easily made from potatoes, pears, apples and other fruits. It is enough to insert the toothpick into the fetus so that the needles are obtained. It will look good composition of several hedgehogs, made in this way from different fruits.
2. Caterpillar. It can be made from apples, strung on a bamboo stick. You can decorate the caterpillar with beads made of mountain ash, with satin ribbons.
3. Turtle. The shell for her can be made from halves of cabbage, to decorate it is a circle of courgettes, attached to the base of toothpicks. Also for the shell is a pumpkin, teenagers can decorate it with a knife. Parents should monitor the process to avoid injuries.

Make from fruits and vegetables own crafts on the topic "Gifts of Autumn" is not difficult, because for this you do not need to buy special tools and material. In any house you can find everything you need for the creative process, the main thing is to show imagination.