Autumn is such a beautiful time of year. I love all the colours of the leaves on the trees and finding acorn cups and shiny conkers. We’ve collected quite a few pretty leaves when out and about ready for crafting. When this month’s #BostikBlogger craft box arrived with some fabric leaves in pretty autumn colours, I thought we’d combine them with the ones we’d collected for a simple autumn wreath craft.
You will need:
- Cardboard (we used an old box)
- Leaves (you can use fabric ones, real ones or a mixture of the two)
- Conkers, pine cones and acorns
- Raffia or string
- Glue (we used Bostik White Glu)
- Scissors
- Pencil
- A plate or circular object to draw around
1) Draw around the plate to make a large circle on the cardboard and cut out.
2) Draw a smaller circle inside the larger circle. You can either do this free hand or use a smaller plate.
3) Cut out the smaller circle, leaving the outer ring intact.
4) Use the glue to stick leaves, conkers and acorns all around the cardboard ring. Leave to dry, preferably overnight.
5) Make a hole at the top of the finished autumn wreath. Thread some raffia or string through to make a hanging loop and hang it up.
Sophie loved this craft. I cut the cardboard ring out for her and then she glued the leaves, conkers, acorns and “fairy hats” (acorn cups) on by herself. She was very happy with the finished result. It looks very pretty hanging outside our front door.
We were sent a box of Bostik craft materials as part of being a Tots100 #BostikBlogger
Aw these look adorable. We have been making them on the farm using paper plates with the centre cut out. Autumn is so perfect for nature crafts. #TwinklyTuesday
I thought about using paper plates but I always struggle to get things to stick well on them. Hope you have more success with yours in activity hour!
Oh, that’s beautiful! My girls would love to have a go at it, they love collecting leaves and making things from them.
Nat.x
Thank you Nat, it was a lovely way to use up some of the “treasures” the girls have been collecting 🙂
That’s beautiful.
Might get Cerys to make one
Thank you Donna 🙂
Ah I love this, super easy! #twinklytuesday
Thank you – they’re fun to make 🙂
Oh this looks amazing! What a great idea:) thanks for linking up with #TwinklyTuesday
Thank you Lisa, lovely to link up again 🙂
Love the pictures of your little ones. I loved doing crafts with mine when they were young. Great idea/post.
Xo Jonet
Thank you Jonet 🙂
Such a fun idea for kids. Your little girl is adorable. If you get a chance I would love for you to stop by and link up your wreath to my More the Merrier link party. The first one will be this Monday the 16th. http://diyhshp.blogspot.com
Thank you Jamie 🙂
What a beautiful!! I never would’ve guessed how easy it was to make!
Thank you Manny, it is such a lovely simple craft 🙂
This is really sweet! Love the colours of the leaves! #twinklytuesday
Thank you, it was fun to make 🙂
This is stunning yet oh so simple – will definitely be making one of these this Autumn #KidsandKreativity
I just love autumn for all the fantastic crafting materials you can find. This looks like a lovely, independent draft for little fingers and one that we’ll definitely be trying! #KidsandKreativity
We have done something similar in the past but our leaves weren’t as pretty as yours – you have some fab colours in there! #KidsandKreativity
We love a bit of Autumn crafting. THe wreath has turned out really well! It looks really effective, yet simple enough for kids to do. Thanks for linking up with #KidsandKreativity, hope to see you back next time x