Autumn is a golden time not only because everything around is painted in yellow and lemon tints, shining and shining, pleasing the eye with a short-lived magnificence. Autumn is generous for the harvest of vegetables and fruits, as if nature specifically tries to give people its abundance. And from her gifts, you can make not only supplies for the winter, but also interesting hand-made articles. Which will pleasantly surprise your loved ones, will please the little kids. And you can help the child make crafts for school or kindergarten competitions. Thus, your hobby will be also useful, and the family will unite. After all, how interesting is it to make something special out of familiar objects!
Where to begin
If you come up with the idea of a composition of vegetables, then, of course, you should think it over in detail. And here everything is important: color, the shape of vegetables, their compatibility. And also how long they can keep their presentable appearance. The undoubted advantage of the composition will be its practical utility, when after the demonstration of the exhibit it can be eaten. True, it is desirable that at least a day on your creation you can admire.
Penguin family
Take, for example, eggplant. Of these, you can get original compositions from vegetables called "The Family of Penguins." What is needed for this: 5-6 blue, different sizes and intense dark color, without spots and damage, necessarily with green tails. Several large inflorescences of cauliflower or a pair of heads of ordinary white cabbage. Preparation of our composition from vegetables, we begin with the processing of eggplant. Sharpen the tips of their tails from them, they will be the beaks. Knife carefully make them cuts, where you can insert small dark buttons-eyes. Cute faces of the characters of the composition of vegetables "The family of penguins" are ready. Now mark the breasts and belly, remove the ribbon of rind under the beaks along the entire vegetable, capturing the rounded opposite end. On the sides make cuts on the peel, lifting it, like penguin wings. So that the eggplant composition made of vegetables, made with your own hands, does not darken the flesh without the peel, wipe it with vinegar. Then your penguins will be a day or two to flaunt their snow-white breasts and tummies quite like real ones. Take a large tray. Fix it on the figures in picturesque poses. Spread the white blossoms of cauliflower, like snowdrifts. And admire the result! And if your kids learn how to make such compositions from vegetables with their own hands, in a kindergarten or school they will surely take prizes at contests.
Alpine pasture
Vegetables are surprisingly fertile material for creativity and self-expression even those who are not endowed with special artistic talents or simply do not have the skills of modeling, carving, etc. To master, you need only a little imagination, and it has at least a small degree everyone. And if you come up with and make up an attractive family of vegetables with your own family, then you will have an original common hobby. Is not it great? But back to the master classes. Imagine a juicy meadow with a delicate emerald grass, on which curly, flaxen sheep are grazed. Do you think this wonderful pastoral is difficult to recreate with the help of crafts from vegetables? Photos in the article and step by step instructions will prove you the opposite! After all, all you need for the composition are several heads of cabbage and as many champignons with legs, bunches of parsley and dill greens, a sheet of thin foam or cardboard.
Lovely sheep
Let's start with the main element of crafts from vegetables (photo attached) - sheep or lamb, who like it. Cut off the cuttings in the cabbage, which will play the role of legs. Lambs must graze in the meadow! In mushrooms, cut the legs closer to the hats, so that they look like sheep's muzzles. Inside the front, attach mushrooms to cabbage heads with matches that can mimic the eyes. And curly inflorescences will completely descend for curls of sheep's wool. With the help of all the same matches or toothpicks, fix each lamb on the foam. Now make a hole on the sheet, where you insert a group of green twigs. Here you have a wonderful meadow - a real Swiss idyll!
Basket of Plenty
A colorful and uncomplicated composition "Autumn" from vegetables can be compiled by schoolchildren for competitions, which are usually held in educational institutions among pupils of junior and middle classes. If you prepare for the contest in advance, weeks for 2, then the idea is suggested this. Take a very large pumpkin, preferably the brightest coloring. From it you need to hollow out the entire core, so that only the crust-cup remains. Dry it and get the foundation for the "Basket of plenty." Now it's a little thing. From willow branches you can make a handle, using the technique of weaving braid on the head. Secure it with a wire. And then it's quite simple. Put the most beautiful things in the basket! Striped zucchini, green-headed cabbage, orange carrots with lush tops, yellow and red tomatoes, colored bulgarian pepper, purple eggplants - all these autumn gifts will have a place in your basket. If the idea is to use for a mixed composition of vegetables and fruits, a luxurious bunch of grapes, ruddy apples and golden pears will complement the grandeur of still life and will tell in detail about the fertile lands of your homeland. Thus, your work will also tell about patriotic feelings.
Cucumber and Shark
Thinking of various crafts, compositions from vegetables, use associative connections. With whom, for example, do you associate a cucumber? Of course, with green frogs-cuckoos and crocodiles. And even with sharks! Cute little animals will cause a storm of enthusiasm for your young children, and even if they have problems with appetite, they will agree to eat the unloved vegetable without much persuasion. Where do we start? Put a cabbage leaf on a plate. Take some small cucumbers. Cut each across into 2 halves: one large, the other smaller. Smaller again divide in half, trim, making paws. Do more at the end, make a small slit-cut - mouth. In order to completely your cucumber like a real cuckoo, from the berries of black currant make eyes. Pieces of matches fix the paws and eyes in the appropriate places and put the frog on the cabbage leaf. And take the next one. Just do not forget to take out the matches when the baby will eat vegetables!
Edible bouquet
If your child is lucky enough to be born in the fall, you will need a composition of vegetables, made with your own hands for a kindergarten, especially in combination with a variety of fruits. Such "bouquets" children will eat with pleasure as a treat on behalf of the birthday. However, they must be prepared immediately before serving. You will need: wooden thin skewers, tomatoes and cucumbers, apples, plums, oranges, large grapes, watermelon, melon, pineapple. Wash all the products well. From a melon, a water-melon, a pineapple cut out slices of a pulp of average size. Cut the apples into slices. Oranges peel, also divide into slices. Remove the grapes from the brushes. Cucumbers and tomatoes cut into large mugs. Place the sheets of foam on the trays. On the plates - with flowers cucumbers with tomatoes, decorate with drops of mayonnaise. On skewers, string randomly the fruit assortment, and then stick them into the foam. Arrange trays with fruit and vegetable compositions on tables during children's lunch. And congratulations with them the originator of the celebration!
Carving comes to the rescue
To give special beauty and expressiveness to vegetable artifacts will help you the art of cutting, or carving. Thanks to him from the usual fruits of fields, orchards and gardens you can create real masterpieces. And come up with the original name of the composition of vegetables. For example: "Frigate of Hope" (source materials - melon or pumpkin, white cabbage), "Eye of charm" (a bouquet of Bulgarian pepper, carrots, parsley and celery greens), "Vegetable ceramics" (pumpkin, zucchini of different varieties) Etc. So the pulp of a watermelon or an apple will blossom in a magnificent flower in the hands of a master. Special knives will allow to cut out a graceful pattern on the skin of a pumpkin, turning it into a kind of old clay vessel. And the fruits of sweet peppers will turn into exquisite bells. Try it, and you will succeed!
Potato crafts
Speaking about vegetable crafts, listing the various raw materials, we undeservedly ignored the potatoes. And, strangely enough, from it, native, too it is possible to create a lot of interesting. For example, make fabulous piglets. Smaller potatoes should be washed and boiled in a uniform until ready. Take it out, allow it to cool down. Boil several carrots. Peel the vegetables from the peel. Carrots cut into "wheels" a couple of inches thick. It will be piglets-stigmas. Attach them with matches to the potatoes. Insert in each tuber 4 matches-legs, set on plates. Spread between them cucumber "glades" and invite the children to have supper!
Banana rockets
Usually children like bananas. And if the child is capricious and does not want to eat a useful fruit, explain to him that this is ... a rocket! Banana peel, cut in half across. In each half, insert circles of portholes from kiwi and doors from apples. Point the missiles with sharp ends up and command the beginning of the flight - straight to your baby's mouth, who will happily take part in the game. Here's a tasty and useful fantasy! And if you lay out around the "star" of berries, then the child will receive a portion of the present vitamin mix, which will have a most positive effect on his well-being. And the mood.