Autumn is perhaps the most suitable time for making various crafts from such a natural material as leaves. After all, it is in the fall that the leaves acquire an incredibly beautiful bright color.
I suggest you make an original bunch of maple leaves.
To make a beautiful bunch of maple leaves you will need:
- maple leaves (the amount depends on the size of the bunch, one flower requires 8-10 leaves with petioles);
- twigs 20-25 cm long (these will be the stems);
- green insulating tape;
- threads to match the leaves;
- green mesh (for wrapping a bouquet);
- ribbon in the color of the leaves.
So, the first step is to make flowers. To do this, you need to take one maple leaf of the smallest size and bend it in half lengthwise, then twist the bag from the resulting part, you should get a dense bud.
Now you need to take a larger maple leaf, turn it facing away from you and bend the top of the leaf inside out, and the two remaining blades in the opposite direction, carefully wrap the bud with a leaf, fix everything with thread. Make the rest of the flower petals in the same way, using at least eight leaves. Thus, you need to make the required number of flowers.
The next step is to create the stems. To do this, take a pre-prepared twig, attach it to the maple flower (to the leaf stalks) and carefully wrap it with green electrical tape in a spiral, starting from the very beginning of the bud and to the edge of the branch. Make the rest of the stems in the same way.
The last stage is the creation of the bouquet. To do this, you need to collect all the flowers, making the stems a cross, not a cross, fix everything with threads, then wrap it beautifully with a green net and tie it with a bright ribbon in the color of maple roses. The original bunch of maple leaves is ready.
