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Felt Leaf Coasters

Another autumn inspired craft for you this week: some seasonal coasters for your cups inspired by autumn leaves.

You will need:

  • Felt in autumnal colours
  • A large leaf (to make a template, or use ours!)
  • Paper and pencil
  • Scissors
  • Embroidery thread in autumnal colours
  • Needle
  • Pins

Step 1.

Using your leaf as a guide, make a paper template that is leaf shaped and big enough to put your cup on.

Step 2.

Pin the paper template to your felt and cut out two leaves. We used different colours for each side of our coaster.

Step 3.

Stitch the two leaves together with running stitch, we stitched lines to look like the veins in leaves.

Step 4.

Make yourself a nice cup of tea and test out your coaster!

Autumn Leaf Rubbings

As the weather is changing, we are thinking about the turning of the seasons at Heathlands. The leaves are changing colour and starting to fall, the nights are drawing in and its becoming chilly.

Today we have been making patterns and pictures using leaves and crayons. These rubbings can also be made with textures around your home, think about coins, baskets, keys or even cutlery!

Below are written instructions and a how to video:

You will need:

  • Paper
  • Wax crayons
  • Leaves

Step 1

Collect your leaves. Try to get ones that aren’t too dried out as they will crumble. If your leaves are wet, dry them off.

Step 2

Place a leaf under your paper with the bottom, textured side of the leaf facing up.

Step 3

If your crayons have paper wrappers on them, take them off and pick a colour. Turn the wax crayon on it’s side and rub the crayon over the paper where the leaf is with pressure.

Step 4

Repeat step 3 with different leaves and different colours and fill your paper.

Leaf Animals

Be creative and make a critter!

For this activity you could collect leaves from your own garden or perhaps collect some if you are going for a walk. Please remember to follow government guidance during COVID-19. You can find more information here.

We have made this short video on how to make a leaf animal for you. All you need is a variety of leaves, a few sticks, a couple of googly eyes and your imagination!

Have fun!