How to Make Natural Looking Paper Oak Leaves
Easy craft tutorial for making paper oak leaves for fall.
Equipment
- Scissors
- Container for coffee & water
- Old Towel
Materials
- Printed Leaves
- Instant Coffee
- Water
Instructions
- Right click on the leaf image, click "save" and head over to the folder you saved it in, scale to 56% and print on an 8.5" x 11" sheet of regular copy paper. The leaves will print out similar in size of their real life counterpart.
- If you plan to make a lot of leaves, most scissors can handle a stack of four pieces of paper. Keep the paper generally lined up, separate the leaves (you can see better what I mean in the video I made on Instagram) and then cut along or cut slightly inside the lines of the leaf. If you don't cut these out perfectly, that's OK, this is not a fussy project, it's meant to be easy and it allows for mistakes.
- Mix up instant coffee and warm water. Dip a cut out leaf flat (do this one at a time) into the coffee, remove, cumple the leaf and dip it back into the coffee. Very carefully uncrumple the leaf and lay it on an old towel. Sprinkle some dry instant coffee onto the wet leaf.
- Allow leaves to air dry on a towel or you can use a heat gun to carefully dry the leaf. I arranged my leaves so that they would dry with peaks and valleys.
- Now your leaves are ready for use as a bowl filler or whatever your imagination can think of!