Outside the window, the golden time of autumn is in full swing, which means it's time to decorate everything that surrounds us in autumn style. Autumn-style decorations include: yellow leaf paintings, autumn bouquets, autumn decorative wreaths, etc.

In this article, the website news portal has prepared for you another good option for decorating the interior - an autumn garland. And it is best to engage in the manufacture of the garlands proposed in our article in the company of your beloved children.

autumn garland

Garland of autumn leaves

Garland of autumn leaves

Many people make garlands from real fallen autumn leaves, and we suggest you use ready-made templates and make autumn leaves from colored paper yourself.

So, print the proposed template. Then carefully cut it out.

Using the template, cut out as many colorful leaves as possible from colored paper.

Draw a vein on each leaf with a black marker.

Connect the leaves together using the holes in the paper leaves and protruding ponytails.

Hang ready-made paper garlands of autumn leaves from the cornice, window frame, doorway, ceiling or hang on the walls. You will get a bright and original decoration.

DIY autumn garland

Garland of apples

Autumn is harvest time! And of course, tasty and fragrant apples are included in the list of fruits that are harvested in the fall. We propose to make just such an unusual apple garland!

For crafts, you will need one apple, paints and paper.

Cut the apple in half! Coat the inside of the half well with paint, and then apply it to white paper. Use half an apple as a stamp.

Decorate the finished apple prints with a green tail, which you draw with a brush. Now cut the apples with scissors and connect them together with a needle and thread.

autumn garland

walnut garland

And one more version of an unusual autumn garland! This time you will need the following materials: walnuts, paper clips, green fleece, paints.

Make a loop out of a paper clip and attach it to the walnut.

Cut out small green leaves from green fleece and attach them to a paper clip.

Walnuts must be dyed red.

As a result, miniature apples should be obtained from walnuts.

Using a paperclip loop, hang the apples on any tight rope, thread, tinsel or elastic band.

And who said that autumn is a cold, rainy and sad season? Who, if not mothers, should know that autumn is the time when you can dress your child warmly and go for a walk in the autumn forest with him, where during this period you can find many bright leaves, acorns, cones, etc. Explore the parks and forests with children is a very exciting and enjoyable activity. And to make the mood of you and your children even better, you just need to bring autumn into the house. Fall decor is a great idea. And today we offer you to make a bright garland of leaves according to our template. Such leaves will last you all three months, as they will be made of paper. And now, take the kids and sit down to create beauty with them!

You will need:

• scissors;
• colored thick paper (or cardboard);
• adhesive tape (or good glue);
• dense threads (as an option - garden thread).

Doing

To get started, save our leaf template for yourself, enlarge it to the desired size and print it out (although we give two types of templates: large leaves and small ones). You can simply immediately print on colored sheets of paper.

When future leaves are on paper, cut them out.

Well, now that all the leaves are ready, unwind the required amount of thread and glue the leaves to it with adhesive tape.

Such garlands of artificial autumn leaves look great at some distance from the wall, around flat chandeliers and lamps in the center of the room, and also as curtains in doorways. Another similar garland can be hung over an unused large dining table right up to the table surface so that it conditionally divides the table top in half along its entire length. Colorful fabric leaves cascading down from the ceiling create the most breathtaking, magical fall look.

To you will be required:
- Artificial (you can also try real ones - see below) autumn leaves of different colors and preferably shapes - made of fabric;
- Sharp scissors;
- Strong (silk or silk-like) threads of a pale autumn shade (any of the palette, better than beige or muted gold - more inconspicuous);
- Large needle;
- Stationery, or ornamental, or hot glue (any glue that is transparent after drying, which will not spoil the fabric);
- Mastic for posters (for wall mounting it is safe for wallpaper and whitewashing - “Poster putty”), wall brackets, small suction cups or any other point method convenient for you to hang light things from the ceiling (not required if you hang a garland like a panel on wall - you can use a wooden beam for the upper base of the panel, on the chandelier itself or nail the garland to the door jamb at the top);
- Roulette;
- Decoupage glue as needed and desired (for real leaves).

1. We buy sets of artificial leaves in needlework supermarkets, home and garden stores or various RuNet stores. You can also purchase easily disassembled garlands. Choose leaves from fabric of any density, you can with small plastic parts, you can even plastic or plastic coated. But the last 2 options are not suitable for curtains, because they will scratch the skin and cling to hair and clothes. So, if this is a garland, we cut ourselves a lot of individual leaves with small cuttings.

You can try to work with real leaves, but they are too fragile when dried, and being strung “alive” on a thread, they quickly curl up into dull rolls and turn brown. Here you can try to experiment with decoupage glue, covering it in 2-3 layers (drying each layer completely before applying a new one) all sides of the leaves, both “live” and dry (very carefully so as not to damage), then you MAY have something it will work with real fallen leaves. But for curtains, natural leaves, of course, are also not suitable.

2. Using a tape measure, measure the distance from the ceiling to the desired length of each level of the garland, write down the data obtained. If you decide to hang a garland over the festive table, it is optimal that it ends 30-45 cm before the countertop, so as not to get into the food and not interfere with the communication of the guests. Do not forget that the garland should not hang over the lit candles and close to them - start a fire!

3. Cut the required number of threads (depending on the density of the garland) according to the lengths obtained in paragraph 2. The color of the thread should be such that it practically disappears purely visually, being suspended already with leaves. When threading into the needle, leave a short tail of at least 10 cm, since such a thread slips out of the needle very easily during this work.

4. For each thread, depending on its length, we string 4-5 leaves through the center of the latter. Try to immediately determine the point approximately in the center of the sheet, on which it will be balanced suspended. Change the distance from the upper end of the thread to the first leaflet and between the leaves on the threads so that the garland does not turn out to be monotonous with wide stripes-empty "holes" along the entire length.

In the place where the thread is in contact with each leaf, apply a drop of suitable glue from below (under the leaf) so that all the leaves are more or less securely fixed in place. Before lifting and hanging the garland, leave it on the table overnight - until the glue has completely dried.

5. If, in order to hang, you have to transfer the finished garland to another room, take your time and be careful, because the leaves are VERY easy to tangle, besides, they are not well fixed on the threads so that they can be quickly and easily untangled. It is best to pack each individual thread with leaves in a separate bag, a large envelope or wrap it in a roll in wax paper before moving around the house or, moreover, transporting it to another building.

6. We fix the garland on the ceiling in any convenient way. The easiest and most harmless thing (for the ceiling - it will not leave any traces after itself and is easily removed at the same time) is to use the modern mastic described above in the list (you can buy it on eBay): it is plucked off the bar, rolled into a ball and the upper tip of one thread is placed in it with leaves.

7. Then the ball with the tip of the thread is simply pressed against the ceiling - and that's it! Will keep! Do not forget to make equal large gaps between the threads, because the leaf fall is not very thick. But you can use any other method of mounting to the ceiling. By the way, remember that suction cups fall off pretty quickly from almost any surface, even if there is almost no weight on them.

After hanging about 4-5 threads, step back from the garland and see if you like how it is distributed in space. In the picture below, 20 garlands of the same length are suspended. Hanged - cut off all the ends of the ropes hanging down after the last leaf on each garland. And if there is a purely aesthetic reason, you can cut some garlands even higher, cutting off the last 1-2 leaves.

Add-ons:

- At other times of the year, instead of autumn leaves, you can use artificial rose petals made of fabric or snowflakes;

- If you have a certain frame hanging above the dining table (with lighting, dishes, etc.), it is easiest to hang such threads on the frame;

- No matter how hard you try, a couple of threads from a garland will still get tangled and / or damaged. This is life, accept this fact with universal calmness, and unravel the threads VERY slowly and carefully!

There is no other time of the year when, during a walk, people collect so many items that will serve as a decoration for the interior, made with their own hands. Chestnuts, cones, branches and leaves will decorate a table or windowsill. Let's take a look at a great fall decor idea: a garland of fall leaves.

Beautiful perspective: bright autumn leaves on the window draw the eye and give another reason to enjoy autumn. Just collect a few maple, oak, linden leaves, physalis lanterns or twigs of mountain ash, wild rose and string them on a fishing line. Hanging right in front of the window, the garland creates a feeling of closeness to nature in our stone jungle.

Shiny garland of leaves. What could be simpler and more effective: the leaves can simply be hung on a beautiful ribbon and attached to the wall with a button or tape. Lucy from the portal decorenvy I took it one step further: sprayed artificial leaves (available at art supply stores) with spray glue and generously sprinkled with autumn-colored glitter, and after drying, hung them on brown santine ribbons. So the leaves do not dry out, but shine like the rays of the sun in the tops of the trees.

The most beautiful golden garland of cones with your own hands. In general, because of its brilliance, it looks almost winter-like, but it seems to us a great autumn idea. And, in the end, winter will come sooner or later, so let this chic garland hang longer! Now cones can be found in the forest at every step, it remains only to collect and dry them. Attach the ears with glue, let dry, and then wrap in gold foil. A detailed tutorial (in English) can be found on The Sweetest Occasion blog: www.thesweetestoccasion.com/2012/12/diy-pine-cone-garland/.
Of course, the cones can also be first painted or sprayed with paint from a spray can, then screw in small screws with an eye and hang them on a linen thread at the same distance from each other.

And finally, two simple fall decor ideas that you can easily implement with your children by decorating the interior with garlands of autumn leaves.

The simplest and at the same time very interesting product will be garland of dry leaves which will transform the interior of your home for a long time. You can make this decoration yourself or with your child. We will find the main material for crafts in the nearest forest or park. So, we need:

• leaves of various shapes and sizes;
• needle and thread;
• transparent glue or varnish;
• scissors;
• paper clips and buttons, or adhesive tape.

First of all, you need to dry the collected leaves. We will place them between sheets of old newspapers, putting something heavy on top as a press. A slightly heated iron will help speed up the drying process. If you want to garland served as long as possible, then with a brush, cover the leaves with a thin layer of varnish or transparent glue.

We carefully pierce the dried leaves with a sewing needle with a thread threaded into it (punctures should be done at the handle, so that the leaf hangs with its tip down). Try to alternate colors so that our leaf garland turned out bright and expressive. We tie small loops at the ends of the thread for fastening - and the craft is ready!

You can place the decoration in a window or doorway, as well as on the wall of your apartment, fixing it with carnations, buttons or ordinary tape. If desired, you can make a curtain on the window from several garlands.

The garland will delight you with magical tints of color for a long time!

paper leaf garland

To make a beautiful craft, it is not necessary to wait for autumn. Let's find out how to make a leaf garland using materials that are available at any time of the year. Required:

• colored paper (plain or cigarette);
• colored pencils and markers;
• scissors;
• a thread;
• stencil;
• adhesive stick or tape.

To begin with, let's draw leaves of various shapes and sizes on colored paper, which we will collect in a garland. You can rely on your artistic ability or use a prepared stencil.

If you have tissue paper on hand, crush it a little and use it for our work.- leaves from this material look very interesting.

Be sure to leave a long stalk of size 3 for each leaf.- 5 cm for attaching to a thread. Cut out the leaves by bending the cuttings in half. With colored pencils or felt-tip pens, draw veins. Using tape or glue stick, we fix the leaves on the thread, making a loop out of the handle. Garland ready!

In the process of creativity, you can use not only paper, but also any other source material, be it cardboard, fabric, or even make crafts from cones, fruits and vegetables- it all depends on your imagination.