Hello everyone, today we are publishing a selection of pictures from black and white templates leaves. Beautiful stencils of autumn leaves will help you create crafts on the theme of Autumn. All leaf stencils are already adjusted to the size of a standard A4 sheet- this will make it easier for you to prepare templates for printing. Pictures with the contours of autumn leaves will help teachers organize art classes (drawing, modeling, appliqué). Collected here very different leaf patterns - maple, oak, birch, alder leaves. And also, along the way, I suggest you ready-made ideas for crafts with these stencils and templates.
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Leaf patterns
Outlines of a MAPLE leaf.
The maple leaf is the most beautiful. Its carved shape with pentagonal projections, its vibrant autumn coloring makes it the king of all autumn crafts. We offer you several types of maple leaves in clear and large patterns.
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The maple leaf template can serve as a stencil for a variety of crafts. Here is one of the interesting ideas AUTUMN GARLAND. We take a regular white New Year's garland and wrap the white LED light bulbs with yellow transparent tape (electrical tape). And made of yellow plastic (in construction stores sold in sheets) cut out the outlines of maple leaves. We attach them next to the LED light bulbs.
The most different shapes maple leaf templates... with smooth smooth edges and torn carved ones. 
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You can print out maple leaf designs on sheets for art activities with kids. Their task will be to cover the leaves with plasticine pellets (autumn colors - orange, yellow, red) ... or paint the leaves with wax crayons. The colors of the crayons can be mixed by rubbing them with your fingers on the paper. 
You can come up with absolutely any coloring for your maple leaf template. Let it be patterns or stripes or round spots.
Little children will love this smiling autumn leaf. This template can be colored watercolor paints- eyes and smile will shine through the watercolor. 
OAK leaf patterns.
with acorns.
Oak leaves look beautiful in crafts. Here are beautiful large oak leaf templates for you. And also black and white drawing acorns with caps.
It is convenient to paint such large leaf patterns with a brush and gouache. Children will love this drawing activity. The contours and veins of the leaves can later be outlined with black gouache for contrast. 
Based on such stencil templates with oak leaves, you can make beautiful crafts for drawing or cutting appliqué.
How to make a craft with oak leaves (pictured below) I described in the article
Here are beautiful patterns of oak leaves with large acorns. This coloring book is very convenient to print for children in kindergarten and use it in art classes.
Leaf patterns.
Autumn leaf fall.
Here are more beautiful leaf templates from other trees. Clear contour silhouettes of autumn leaves will become a source of bright crafts for appliqués.
Chestnut leaves pattern. Color it beautifully golden yellow with a reddish brown border around the edges.
Contours of an ash leaf - this leaf turns bright yellow in autumn. Like the sun.
The composition looks beautiful in the form autumn leaf fall- patterns of leaves flying in the wind. Each leaf can be made a different shade of fall.
You can add templates of other autumn gifts to our autumn assortment of leaves - pumpkin, corn, acorns. 
Here is a coloring template with small sized leaves. Suitable for coloring with pencils.
Stencils for DIY projects
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STRIPED COLORING.
Coloring silhouettes using the CONTRAST STRIPS method looks very nice. That is, we take regular coloring With leaf templates and a ruler, draw straight lines over the picture. And then we paint all the objects on the sheet alternating these linear zones by color.
In the example below, we see that the coloring is drawn using a compass (round lines) - but these are not necessarily your lines, you can make them with a straight school ruler.
Here are suitable leaf templates that you can draw onto stripes (straight or arced stripes) and then paint in the same style. I alternate the pencils from strip to strip and use different colors for the background areas and different colors for the leaf areas.
Leaf patterns
for SECTOR COLORING.
Very beautiful crafts on the theme of autumn will turn out if the template autumn leaf divide into sectors and paint each sector separately with similar shades of the palette or, conversely, with contrasting colors.
You get the feeling of STAINED GLASS... as if the picture was made up of multi-colored pieces of glass. But in reality it's regular watercolor, or crayons, or pencil (your choice).
As you can see, everything is simple. We take a sheet template and divide it into sectors. We paint each sector with its own color (it is possible with smooth transitions of spills of shades from one to another) And then we outline the entire contour of the sheet along the edges with a clear color.
To make your work easier, I provide leaf TEMPLATES with ALREADY READY sector sawing.
You can simply print out these pictures and give them to the children and ask them to color each sector with crayons. different colors. To make coloring faster, you don’t have to change the chalk in your hand every time you move to a new sector. Show the children that it will be faster if you first take a red chalk and color 5-7 different sectors with it (not adjacent ones, but randomly). Then take a yellow chalk and also randomly fill in 5-7 other sectors. It will be faster this way, and you will fit within the time frame of the art activity class.
Large leaf templates can be filled in with a thin brush and watercolor or gouache (like the stencil below).
Leaf patterns
for APPLICATIONS
In kindergarten, leaf templates can be used as stencils for applications on autumn theme.
Such leaves made of colored paper can become a background or decor for any application (mushrooms in the foliage or a hedgehog in an autumn meadow).
You can use these contours to make a paper autumn wreath - a collective craft in kindergarten ( senior group She can already cut out leaf shapes herself with scissors).
Beautiful leaf patterns
for crafts and coloring books.
In kindergarten or in an adult office, they love to color large anti-stress coloring books. So I specifically found templates for such coloring pages made from autumn leaves.
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Also to help educators and teachers junior classes I give bare tree templates for crafts on the theme AUTUMN TREE.
- You can add leaves to these trees using gouache and prints with a wide brush, using fingerprints and cotton swab marks.
- You can cut small leaves from colored paper and cover the tree with them.
- You can add bright splashes of paint to tree branches using toothbrush.
- You can coat the crown with PVA glue and sprinkle with salt and then paint this salty crust with gouache (you’ll get a beautiful texture of autumn foliage)
Here are some more beautiful fall-themed templates. Fly agaric mushrooms and a squirrel on a branch. Your kids will love these fall coloring pages.
And finally, I give you an AUTUMN HEART MADE OF LEAVES - a beautiful template for bright coloring.
Here they are interesting ideas crafts and a variety of clear leaf patterns I have prepared for you in this autumn article. Let autumn be bright and bring a rich harvest of your crafts.
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Hello, comrades!
We have already learned how to depict relatively simple leaves. But how do we draw maple leaf? Beautiful and carved, it is clearly not so simple.
Of course, it is best to draw from life.
Drawing a maple leaf
Children, as a rule, having a maple leaf in front of them, without any doubt, begin to draw from the outline and carefully draw the teeth: peaks and valleys like a cardiogram. Well, again, as a rule, the ends literally do not meet: having started to dance from the stove (petiole), you need to return to the starting point. And for this you need a PLAN! That is, you need to see the pattern according to which these long and short cloves are distributed.
If you listened to the wonderful rock opera "Alice in Wonderland", then you probably remember Alice's aria:
To avoid falling into a trap,
So as not to get lost in the dark,
To never go astray,
To in the right place to land, to splash down, -
Draw a plan on the map.
And walk and sing carelessly,
Tiri-tiri-there-there, tiram!
The meeting is guaranteed -
Everything is noted in the plan
Exactly, flawlessly
So I repeat: to draw a maple leaf we need a plan. And this plan will be the veins. They are the reinforcement and make it clear what everything is based on. Draw the veins of a maple leaf with a pencil.
We draw and look carefully: the petiole, then the middle vein, up and to the sides two veins almost the same length as the middle one and two more almost on the same straight line, they are a little shorter. There are only five, and they all come out from the same point. There are main highways. Having made sure that the angles between the veins are taken correctly and the proportions are also correct, we can move on to drawing with a felt-tip pen.
Now you can draw the side ones: smaller veins extend from the upper three veins approximately from the middle. There are fewer of these secondary branches on the lower veins.
A plan of the internal structure of a maple leaf has been drawn up. Now it's time to draw the outline. The ends of the veins go into the teeth.
The scientific name for the maple leaf is palmate. Kind of like a palm. On three “fingers” in the middle there are three teeth - a median one and two lateral ones. But the lower “fingers,” or rather the blades, are simpler and have fewer teeth.
Our leaf, in fact, looks quite symmetrical, but in nature a complete pattern is rarely found, and if you look closely, you can see that the halves are not strictly mirror-like.
And since we are drawing this particular leaf, we will make sure that the number and length of the teeth and the depth of the depressions between the blades are exactly like our leaf.
This is how we drew a maple leaf from life. Correct and similar.
Soooo, who else came here? The leaf is carved, five-lobed... maple again!?
If we drew a maple leaf from our imagination, we could easily mistake this leaf for a maple leaf. But no, using some external resemblance, Hops is gaining our trust here! Hmm, if he promises to lead a sober lifestyle, then we will agree to draw his sheet for the edification of our ancestors and descendants. In its own way, it is no worse than maple, beautiful and carved.
The hop leaf also has five lobes, but the shape of the lobes and the contour of the edge are completely different. Well, let’s draw it from life as it is and in the future we won’t confuse different plants. What is our plan of action? Petiole - central vein - lateral veins.
There are no particularly large teeth here and we will start drawing the outline.
I note that the lower blades have such characteristic “ears”.
If you have no imagination or want to plunge a little into the autumn magic, spend time with your child drawing a maple leaf. This is a fun activity with lots of bright colors and a positive charge of emotions.
The maple leaf is one of the most beautiful. Besides what he has original shape with five pointed ends, its color is very bright and colorful. It doesn’t matter for what purpose you need to draw this drawing, for children's competition or autumn landscape, This a useful pastime for anyone.
Drawing a maple leaf is easy. They will help you with this step by step sketches:
- First of all, you should draw the frame of the leaf. To do this, you need to draw an arched vertical line - this is the stem of the leaf.
- Then draw two horizontal crossing lines by hand. This is the basis for its five-pointed shape.
- Trace the ends of the drawn lines, and then erase the sketch inside the drawing. The base is ready!
After that, start detailing your drawing. It is necessary to make sharp tips along the edges of the leaf so that it looks realistic.
Detailing the drawing After that, erase extra lines sketch and draw characteristic veins on the leaf.
Veins on a maple leaf After that, all you have to do is paint the sheet in colorful colors: yellow, orange, brick, brown, red, green. The sheet can be monochromatic or have many shades.
Maple leaf coloring option Image and outline of a maple leaf, template
If you don't have the artistic skills, time, or even desire to painstakingly draw a maple leaf, you may template will come in handy. This template can be circle on clean slate paper and then color it to your liking. This is how you get neat and beautiful drawing.
Templates for drawing a maple leaf:
Maple leaf, template. Option #1 
Maple leaf, template. Option No. 2 
Maple leaf, template. Option No. 3 
Maple leaf, template. Option No. 4 Autumn maple leaf: drawings for children
You can get ideas for creativity and draw a maple leaf (one or a whole bouquet) with your child by studying ready-made works.
Drawings for children with maple leaves:
Realistic drawing maple leaf 
Children's drawing: maple leaf 
Colorful maple leaf: drawing 
Maple and maple leaf: drawing 
Beautiful maple leaf: drawing The leaves that adorn the trees at any time of the year attract much attention. In the spring they begin to appear from seemingly dead trees; in the summer they delight the eye green, and in the fall they turn into a charming golden carpet.
Many people consider leaves to be the most unique and beautiful decoration existing on our planet. Personally, I like leaves best in the fall. I love the period when the leaves begin to fall, and I just can’t stop admiring this unusual carnival of golden colors that exist in nature.
Each leaf is beautiful in its own way and it makes no difference at all whether it is green or already yellowed. Probably the most unusual and at the same time beautiful leaves at the maple. In my opinion, they stand out from everyone else because of their unusual shape, as well as size. That is why I would like to devote this lesson to drawing a maple leaf.
To begin with, we will try to acquire the skills of drawing one leaf in order to create huge bouquet from these leaves. I suggest you decorate your room with this bouquet of multi-colored maple leaves. I think the room will become bright and beautiful.
As in previous lessons, we will draw in stages. We take a pencil and draw the outline of our leaf. When the drawing is ready, paint the sheet with paints.
Let's start our task by drawing a horizontal line. For this we use a simple pencil and do not use a ruler. We draw a vertical line in the center of the sheet, then on each side of it we make several curved lines.
I want to explain to you why I did not recommend using a ruler. The fact is that the leaves have an irregular geometric shape; it simply cannot be otherwise in nature.
Before drawing a leaf, I recommend that you first thoroughly study its structure. So when you're walking in the park, find a few leaves and bring them home. By drawing leaves “from nature”, you can convey their realism in the picture.
This stage requires maintaining symmetry, which is actually the main rule for drawing veins. Draw small veins arbitrarily, but note that our main horizontal vein should not have too many branches.
This task probably couldn’t be simpler. You only need to outline all the drawn veins with a line, making it solid. You can copy my drawing, but this is not necessary.
Don't forget to make the edges sharp. We make noticeable gaps between the particles of the leaf. As we know, the leaves have a solid shape with slightly noticeable breaks, but maple leaves are a little different, as they have several segments. This is what makes maple leaves different from all other types of leaves.
Now we need to start working on the main veins, namely, draw thickenings for them. After this we will depict the leg, we will make it thicker at the base. Thus, we have worked on the lower contour of our leaf, and then we move on to the next stage.
I think you are convinced that drawing a maple leaf is easy. The main thing here is to correctly depict small details, as well as accurately convey the shape of the leaf. Next we will add a small number of strokes to our masterpiece, remember, they should be small. Well, now you can start coloring the leaf. It's up to you to choose what you paint with.
It's time to get busy the last stage our lesson. When drawing my leaf, I sketched shadows with a regular pencil, but I suggest you make your picture multi-colored. That's why we take up colored pencils.
You may have thought about using paint for this step, but I want to warn you that you can ruin the small details by painting over them. This applies to those with little experience in this matter.
Perhaps your leaf looks lonely, then draw other maple leaves side by side. Make them smaller and paint them with any shade, giving your leaves the colors of autumn falling leaves.
And you can look at the paintings of young professional artists on the Art-Attic website. Art Attic is a website of three artists presenting their work to the public.
The maple leaf is beautiful not only for its appearance, but also healing properties.
Maple, maple leaves: description
Most of the maples are trees 10-40 m high. There are also shrubs 5-10 m high among them.
Maple is mainly a deciduous plant. However, there are also evergreen species (in South Asia and the Mediterranean region).
Description of the maple leaf various types plants may vary.
Maple leaves are opposite, palm-shaped (palmated) in many species. Each blade has 3-9 veins, one of which is in the middle. There are several species with leaves that are compound palmate, compound pinnate, even with pinnate venation or without lobes.
A small number of maple species have trefoil leaves (gray, trifloral, Manchurian and Maximovich maple). The ash-leaved maple has complex pinnate leaves, consisting of three, five, seven and even more leaves. The leaves of the hornbeam maple are the simplest and have pinnate veins, reminiscent of hornbeams.
Places where maple trees grow
Maple is widespread in the Northern Hemisphere (polar regions of Europe and North America, tropical regions of Central America and South Asia). They predominate mainly in temperate latitudes.
In tropical areas only a few species of maple are known, and in the Southern Hemisphere there is only one - laurel. In the very north of Africa, maples live along the coast Mediterranean Sea. In Australia and South America- absent at all.
There are about twenty species of maples in Russia. Norway, field, Tartary and white maples grow especially well. They live mainly in the European part of Russia. They are absent in Siberia. Japanese Maple is included in the Russian Red Book.
In the southern territories, maples are mainly distributed in mountainous regions, and mainly at an altitude of up to 3000 m above sea level in the Himalayan mountains. A small number of species also grow on the plain. In practice they grow singly or in small groups.
Medical and other uses
IN folk medicine Treatment with maple leaves and more is widely used. Young leaves (sap), seeds, maple branches and root bark are used.
And cooking makes extensive use of sugar maple sap. Syrup and sugar are made from it.
The branches, seeds, leaves and wood of this tree are even used in magic.
Young maple leaves produce juice - a tasty and very healthy drink for the body. Perfectly quenches thirst and has good tonic properties. The very first mentions of maple are in folk “healing books”. This dates back to the 16th-17th centuries. Practice has shown that maple sap helps against 45 diseases.
The healing properties of the plant have been known for a long time. Maple (and its parts) is widely used in medicine and healing.
What are the healing properties of maple leaves?
1. Young leaves are sticky, white, a pleasant-tasting juice rich in vitamin C.
2. It has antiscorbutic, tonic and diuretic properties.
3. Seeds and leaves have choleretic, diuretic, antiseptic, wound healing, anti-inflammatory, tonic, and analgesic effects.
4. The bark of maple branches and roots has good astringent properties.
5. Spring maple sap has properties similar to birch sap.
6. Maple leaves (decoction) are used to treat arthritis and blood vessels.
7. This drug perfectly crushes stones in the bladder and kidneys.
8. Klenovka (sweet maple juice) is drunk for scurvy and pain in the lumbar region (lumbago). The juice contains a substance that resembles antibiotics in its properties.
In some areas of Canada and Russia, where people from Russia and Ukraine live, maple sap is used as a remedy for treating shallow wounds. Perhaps this juice also has disinfecting properties.
In addition to the juice, the bark is also harvested in the spring for medicinal purposes.
Autumn maple leaves
In the fall, maple leaves turn yellow and red-orange colors interspersed with the remaining summer greens. Moreover, each leaf vein can have its own color. One small leaf can have about 6 colors.
The maple leaf is incredibly beautiful in autumn. It can be yellow, red, orange. There are motley and spotted ones. During the period when the fantastically beautiful maple leaves fall, it becomes unusually fabulous in the forests and parks.
And how beautiful are the golden landscapes during the bright autumn with maple forests!
Many artists and photographers are expanding their collections of works beautiful works precisely at this time of year: still lifes, landscapes.