DIY autumn bouquet - original options for an exhibition or a gift

Tell me, what can you make an autumn bouquet with your own hands? The child was told to bring it to school, but nothing else comes to my mind except flowers. I ask what exactly is needed, he says, all the same, if only it was a bouquet. You can even cut paper flowers. But it seems to me that it will be too easy, maybe some special ones. Suggest beautiful, but not too complicated, crafts so that we can handle it.

Autumn is a hot season not only for gardeners and gardeners, but also for all kinds of crafts. With the help of her generous gifts, various interesting ideas can be brought to life. For example, make an autumn bouquet with your own hands. He is suitable for a gift, and just decorate the house. Moreover, you can use not only flowers for a bouquet. Everything you need is literally under your feet. Leaves, berries, cones and even vegetables and fruits easily turn into flower arrangements. You just need to show a little imagination.

DIY autumn bouquet from rowan

Not only asters and other flowers delight with bright colors in autumn, but also colorful rowan clusters. Small scarlet beads, collected in lush bunches, in themselves can already serve as a bouquet. And if you add flowers of a contrasting color or colorful leaves to them, you get a beautiful autumn bouquet.

Standard bouquets are no longer surprising. But the cute spherical ikebana will delight you with both originality and simplicity. In order to make it, you only need beautiful large leaves, preferably red, and mountain ash, red and black. You will also need to make a base - a ball, using strong jute thread. The technology is simple, as in the manufacture of New Year's toys: an ordinary balloon is inflated. Jute is well moistened with PVA glue and wrapped around the ball. Then it should dry well, after which the ball is deflated.

It is best to use aspen leaves.

When the base is dry, you can proceed to further work. Manufacturing step by step:

1. Make rose leaves. To do this, roll the first sheet with a tube, fixing the lower tip with hot glue. Wrap the second sheet around the tube, also gluing at the bottom. Thus, wrap the leaves, forming a rose. You need about 15 such flowers.
2. Attach roses to the ball by inserting cuttings inside and gluing. There should be space for rowan trees between them.
3. Among the roses, glue bunches of rowan so that the base is not visible.

Now it remains only to place a ball with rowan and roses from leaves on top of a vase or bottle and the bouquet is ready.

DIY autumn bouquet of fruits

What to use and how to arrange the components of the craft depends on your imagination. But in general, there are general guidelines for fruit bouquets that must be followed:

1. Fruit can be whole, cut in half, or figuratively sliced. If the bouquet will not be delivered immediately, it is better to use the first option. A bouquet of fruit slices requires a refrigerator to store, and it won't stand for a long time. The fruits, and especially the berries, will run out of juice, they must be eaten immediately.
2. It is advisable to wrap the halves of the fruit in plastic wrap. This will slightly extend the life of the bouquet, and also protect it from dust.
3. Long wooden skewers are suitable for fastening. It is convenient to string even hard apples or quince on them.And the length allows you to arrange fruits at different heights, giving the bouquet a rounded shape. The excess tip of the skewer is easy to cut off with a pruner.
4. For large fruits such as grapefruit, several skewers are needed. For smaller ones, one is enough for each fruit.
5. You can collect strung fruits by placing them on the table, if the bouquet is flat. To give a rounded shape, it is more convenient to do it in your hands. The skewers joined together will help secure the tape.
6. Berries and soft fruits (peach, kiwi) hold less well than hard and firm fruits.
7. If the bouquet contains fresh flowers, they can be inserted into special capsules with water. Then the flowers won't wither.
8. Beautiful bouquets come in baskets or boxes. In this case, the base is laid on the bottom of the container - a piece of polystyrene or a floral sponge. And fruits on skewers are simply inserted into the base.
9. You can complete the look of the bouquet by wrapping it in wrapping paper or floral net.

Examples of fruit bouquets

Fruit bouquets are an original gift that can be easily given instead of flowers. Or create a whole composition by combining fruits or berries with autumn flowers. Such a craft will be both beautiful and edible at the same time. You can use both fruits and berries. In autumn, it may not only be seasonal fruits. Will organically fit into the bouquet and citrus fruits, which are always on store shelves.

Bouquets made of such fruits, berries and additional elements are very beautiful:

• just apples, decorated with twigs;
• apples, orange, grapefruit, lemon, grapes with orchid flowers;
• kiwi, orange, apples, plums, limes, nuts, decorated with roses and leaves;
• pomegranate, figs, kiwi, grapes, pear, decorated with roses and leaves;
• basket with figuratively chopped apples and grapes on skewers.

Do not use metal skewers or wire to attach the fruit. Only wood material, as the metal oxidizes from the sap.

DIY autumn bouquet of vegetables

Vegetable compositions are no less beautiful than fruit bouquets. For decoration, you can use lettuce leaves, spicy herbs, flowers, just beautiful leaves or twigs. The same wrapping paper will serve as a wrapper. And if you put vegetables in a basket beautifully, you get a whole grocery set for the hostess. An original gift will be a composition in style carving - artistically cut different figures from vegetables. The combination of vegetables and fruits also looks good. The main thing is not to overdo it. Large vegetables, such as heavy pumpkin, are best used not as part of a bouquet, but as a base, making a basket out of it.

Before collecting a bouquet, vegetables must be thoroughly washed and dried.

Both men and women will be pleased with vegetable bouquets made from such gifts of the garden:

• pepper, potatoes, beets, radishes, cabbage, cucumber, carrots;
• onions, garlic, champignons, potatoes, cabbage, artichoke;
• peppers with herbs;
• eggplant, artichoke, onion, cabbage.

Do-it-yourself autumn bouquet made of corrugated paper

Paper flowers will not replace natural ones, but if you use corrugated paper, you can get a good result. It has an interesting wrinkled surface, very similar to the natural structure of flower leaves and petals. And such material is also very pliable, stretches well, bends, but at the same time keeps the given shape.

Often in stores you can find paper called a reaper or crepe - it's the same thing. To create flowers, it is better to use a material with a density of at least 120 grams. It has deep folds, stretches better, does not get wet from glue.

Very natural flowers are produced from the header. They are collected from separately cut petals according to a pattern or from a solid strip, wrapping it around the base. The base is a wire or wooden stick.

So, you can quickly and easily do:

• hyacinths;
• carnations;
• roses.

Paper bouquets will look more original and will serve as an interesting gift. Especially if the flowers are made on the basis of sweets, fastening the paper around each. And such crafts themselves are very beautiful. For example, you can make a bouquet for the school on September 1 and give it to the teacher instead of fresh flowers. Such compositions look beautiful:

• sunflowers;
• candy roses;
• flowers in a basket of sweets;
• bouquet with sunflowers from candies and paper.

DIY autumn bouquet from natural material

Bright leaves, multi-colored berries, gorgeous flowers, cones, acorns ... Autumn is rich in its gifts, which can be used for a sincere gift. Natural materials are often used in the kindergarten, teaching children the simple work of making appliques. And they also make beautiful bouquets, because only autumn is rich in such colors. It can be just a floral bouquet from seasonal crops: marigolds, chrysanthemums, rudbeckia, physalis. Dried flowers look no less gorgeous, which will stand until next autumn and longer.

And if there is an opportunity to collect cones, they can also be turned into an unusual bouquet. It should be noted that working with cones is a pleasure, because they will be associated with fresh flowers. The unopened fruits will serve as buds, and the fully expanded scales really resemble flowers. They can be left in their natural form or painted. To collect a bouquet, cones are glued to wooden sticks or wrapped with wire. Then they are simply combined into one composition. You can complete the design by placing fresh flowers or twigs between the cones - flowers.

Beautiful bouquets of cones decorate the home interior or serve as an unusual gift for a loved one.

For example, you can make such compositions by adding to the buds:

• acorns;
• roses from leaves, leaves, flowers;
• roses and other natural flowers;
• coniferous twigs;
• Without adding anything, just painting the buds in different colors.

How to make a bouquet from natural materials - video