Creating applications is the type of creativity that is perfectly suitable even for the smallest. From cardboard, paper and girlfriend, excellent postcards and memorable baubles are obtained.
Peculiarities
Appliques for children 3-4 years old can be created not only in kindergarten, but also at home. This process helps to develop:
- coordination;
- small motility of hands;
- accuracy;
- imagination;
- observation;
- The ability to beautifully combine colors.
To create beautiful applications, you can use different materials.
- Colored paper. It can be both one-sided and bilateral. Buy colored paper is easy in any store for creativity.
- Coated paper . From this thick paper, it is good to cut some original parts for the decoration of the crafts.
- Self-adhesive paper . This type of paper is used to decorate the base of crafts. It can be both monophonic and decorated with various patterns. A large plus use of such paper is that the child does not have to work with glue.
- Cardboard . Like colored paper, cardboard can be one-sided or double-sided, matte or glossy. Due to its density, the cardboard is perfectly holding the form and practically does not absorb glue. Therefore, the crafts always look carefully.
- Natural materials . You can also use well-dried flowers, leaves and even twigs. Often, decorations decorated with dry berries, seeds and other things.
- Screw tools . Coloring and appliques made of threads, buttons, pasta and other materials are obtained. They are easily attached to paper with the help of ordinary glue.
The novice Creator will also need scissors, a stationery knife, brushes, pencil, line and glue.
What to do from colored paper?
When choosing the subject to create a craft, you can use a variety of ideas.Animals
Most kids like animals. Therefore, children are happy to make cards and bulk figures depicting various animals.
- Bunny . To create a surround hare, a child may need help someone from adults. It is used for this white and pink paper, as well as adhesive pencil. A piece of light paper should be collected in the harmonica and bend in the middle. The edges, which were near, should be thoroughly wrapped with glue and combine together. The same must be done with another piece of paper. These billets are connected to each other. Of the dense white cardboard, neat ears, paws and animal face are cut out. These details are decorated with pink and black paper or colored felt. All billets are glued to the base. A bunny created on this technology can be used to make a full-fledged postcard. In addition, the same work method is used to create chickens, lions and other animals.
- Hedgehog . Using the same scheme, a beautiful hedgehog can be made of colored paper. To do this, you need to make one paper harmonica and gently bore its edges. This base is glued to the cardboard. Complements the hedgehog nose cut from yellow cardboard. Hedgehog can be decorated with a bulk paper apple. The picture itself will complement the green grass, clouds and mushrooms. All other details in the picture can be drawn by markers or ordinary black handle.
- a lion . The spectacular lion with a big mane on a postcard looks very interesting. It is made from cardboard and strips of paper. Each of them needs to be folded in half. From yellow paper cut the body of a lion and head. Paper strips glue in a circle. Paws, tail and other details draw on a sheet of markers.
All these characters are obtained bright and beautiful.
Technique
Little children who are fond of space can be offered to make their own hands a beautiful rocket. The process of its creation consists of several stages.
- To begin with, a yellow paper rectangle must be folded in half.
- From the red cardboard, we cut three triangles and three mugs.
- These details are attached to the basis of cardboard.
- Decorating the edge of the rocket, making a tail from unnecessary slices of yarn. To do this, we make several small holes on a cardboard basis. Threads tie to this section of paper. The edges remain free.
Decorate free space next to a rocket big silver stars.
Excellent version of crafts for boys - Cute Layer . It is made from simple geometric shapes cut from colored paper. Clear such a craft is on a dense cardboard.
To make a beautiful 3D-figurine, paper wheels can be replaced by volumetric circles from dense cardboard.
Flowers
To create beautiful colors, the baby will need not only colored paper and cardboard, but also plastic tubes. The phased process of creating such a volumetric applique consists of the following steps.
- For the beginning, plastic pipes are wrapped with beautiful self-adhesive paper.
- From a dense yellow cardboard, cut out neat smooth circles.
- Color paper cut on even strips of the same length. Each of them fold in half.
- The edges of the paper gently glue and attach to a yellow basis.
- To the back of each flower attached a pre-prepared stalk.
- After that, all the flowers glue to the cardboard is random. Each plant can be decorated with green foliage.
Such a simple handicraft can be an excellent birthday gift to Grandma or Mom.
Birds
Another beautiful handicraft, which can be done as a gift to a near person, is a Christmas card with bullfinch. She also made from simple figures. Step-by-step work process looks like this.
- To start on a cardboard basis, we draw a neat spruce sprig. You can do it with pencils, markers or watercolor paints.
- From white paper cut the bird's head.
- It is glued at the top of the sheet.
- A red paper circle is fixed on top.
- Decorate the basis of the wing and tail of black.
- From the same dark paper cut the beak and a hat for a bird.
To decorate the free space of postcards can be snowflakes painted with colored felt-tip pen.
Fishes
To create this applique, you will need color double-sided paper. The fish of the fish is cut out of the bright material and glued to a cardboard basis. From colored paper, small smooth circles scales are cut. Each of them must be bent in half. Such simple billets are glued to the body's body. Lips, tail and fins are made in the same way. When the base of the application is ready, it can be decorated with algae and underwater pebbles cut from colored paper.
Using the same scheme, from paper you can make the actua of the crab. Details folded in half are attached to the roundabout. Each of them is made from two such billets. Decorate the resulting craft and mouth and mouth.
Interesting crafts from napkins
Such a developing technique is great for young children. From the napkins kids can make flowers, fruits and figures of various animals. To understand how to make them can be used for example, one simple craft.
- To begin with, red napkins need to be slightly smashed with fingers and form loose lumps of them.
- On the cardboard, draw an image of strawberries and wrapped it with glue. For this basis, paper lumps are attached. They should be located as close as possible to each other.
- From yellow napkins twist thin little flagella. They glue in chaotic order to base berries.
You can decorate the napkin with green leaves. They can be made of green napkins or double-sided paper.
Pictures from buttons
If a large number of unnecessary buttons have accumulated at home, you can make beautiful pictures with the child. The main thing is to ensure that the baby behaves very neatly with them. Such light applications are made in the same way as ordinary paper postcards.
- Autumn tree . To create such a craft, the child will need buttons, glue and paints. On paper basis, draw a tree trunk and its branches. Buttons for registration of the crafts should be chosen similar. They are located in chaotic order. Buttons are glued to the cardboard on high-quality glue. The cauldron is very simple and cute.
- Giraffe . It looks pretty and simple children's postcard with a giraffe. The basis of this craft should be drawn in advance. You can do it with pencils, wovers or paints. Buttons in this case play the role of decor. They are selected in the color of the postcard.
Buttons to a cardboard basis should be fixed reliably so that they do not disappear at the most inopportune moment.
Ideas from crop
Suitable for creating pretty applications and various cereals. For work it is worth using only high-quality and non-spoiled materials. Before you begin to create crafts, the cereal must be easy to sift, getting rid of excess garbage. Only in this case the postcard will look neat. You can use rice, buckwheat, lentils, peas and other cereals that are at home.
DIY can be both color and monophonic. One of the beautiful examples is a pretty white bear. To create it on a sheet of paper, you need to draw contour pictures. After that, this part of the sheet is thoroughly labeled with a dense layer of glue. Top tedied neat movements should pour rice. It is necessary to ensure that the croups completely covered the entire picture. Next, the picture should be well dry. At the face of the character attach two dark beads.
In order for the baby to work easier to work on creating his future masterpiece, the picture should be printed on the printer . It may be a cute hedgehog, squirrel or wolf. Fill the figure must be suitable in color croups. The missing details can be drawn independently.
If the child does not want to make something very complicated, you can create simple patterns from the croup. It can be various chess drawings, spirals and colored circles.
Production of natural materials
Crafts and crafts are prettier. You can use leaves, pumpkin seeds, thin branches or any other gifts of nature. The easiest version of the crafts is a fish out of leaves. To create it, foliage of different colors is used. The base of the figure is made of small light yellow leaves. Feds, head and tail are obtained larger. They are also made from leaves. If you wish, these details can be additionally tinted so that they are brighter.
It looks beautiful and owl of leaves decorated with buttons. This applique is much faster. It can be used to create some more volumetric picture.
Crafts from seeds are made extreme more difficult. It is necessary to harvest the material for work in advance. Seeds need to dry well. Before working, they must be cleaned from husks. From pumpkin seeds you can make a very beautiful tree. For this, the material before work must be additionally painted with gouache or acrylic. Coloring seeds better on both sides. On the paper sheet you need to draw the foundation of the tree. Seeds are attached to its branches. The remnants of the material can be used to decorate the bottom of the sheet.
Using these simple ideas, the child can easily learn to make simple appliques with their own hands. You can store his creations in a regular box or specially dedicated album. The main thing is that the appliqués do not hit the straight sun rays and water drops.
About how to make the pretty applique of "ladybugs" with children, see the next video.