Colored paper is an excellent material for crafts. You can make appliqués, various figures and many other creative things from it. In this article we will look at: how to make crafts from colored paper for children junior classes with your own hands.

You will need: thick colored paper, glue gun, ruler, scissors, tape, rubber band, pencil, pen spring.

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  1. Take a sheet of paper and a pencil, twist the tube diagonally from the corner, then secure it with tape and pull out the pencil.

  2. Twist the second piece of paper around the first tube, then separate them. The second paper tube should be slightly larger in diameter than the first so that it can be used to shoot in the future.
  3. Secure the second tube with tape, then cut off the edges.
  4. Twist 2 more paper tubes in the same way.
  5. Cut the tubes into pieces of this length: trunk - 2 tubes 15 cm long; handle – 7 tubes 5 cm long; trigger – 1 tube 8 cm long.
  6. Glue 5 cm tubes diagonally to form a handle.

  7. Glue the 8 cm tube on top of the handle so that the remaining 3 cm protrudes to the right. This is the trigger.
  8. Glue two 15cm tubes together and glue them to the top of the gun as the barrel.
  9. Roll two thin tubes from yellow paper.
  10. Bend a thin tube into a “U” shape and insert one end into the trigger and the other into the upper tube of the handle. Trim off the excess. This will be the trigger.
  11. Make a trigger guard from the second thin tube. To do this, place one end of the tube into the handle (into the second tube from the top) and glue the rest of the tube to the bottom of the barrel.

  12. Twist the pink one paper tube, flatten it and glue the handle as shown in the image. It is worth noting that the rear hole in the trigger must be open.
  13. Pull the trigger out of the top tube of the handle and insert the spring. It is worth noting that the spring should rest against the tube covering the back of the handle. Reinsert the trigger.
  14. Roll up a thin, thick tube of yellow paper, secure with tape and trim the edges so they are even.

  15. Fold the edge, put on an elastic band and secure with glue.
  16. Insert the tube with the rubber band into the lower tube of the gun barrel and pull the rubber band forward, hooking it between the two tubes.
  17. Roll paper bullets, load the gun and fire.

You will need: colored cardboard, scissors, glue stick, cotton wool, stapler.

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Rainbow in the clouds is ready!

Binoculars

You will need: yellow cellophane, scissors, tape, black paint, brush, green and black paper, glue, rubber band, wine cork, string or elastic band.

Master Class

  1. Cut out 2 circles of yellow cellophane and tape them to the circumference of the sleeves as binocular lenses.

  2. Paint the circumference of a wine cork black paint and cover it with green paper.
  3. Cover the bushings with green paper and glue the black stripes as shown in the image.

  4. Glue the bushings together and secure with a rubber band. After a while, remove the rubber band.

  5. Glue the taped cork between the bushings.

  6. Prepare an elastic band or rope of the required length, make a hole in the side of the bushings and secure the elastic band.

The binoculars are ready!

Origami rose

You will need: double-sided colored paper, scissors, a simple pencil.

Master Class

  1. Fold a sheet of colored paper diagonally as shown in the photo and cut off the excess strip to make a square.
  2. Bend the square to create a second diagonal.

  3. Fold the square in half to create lines like a snowflake.
  4. Move the sides of the workpiece in this way: the top - from the right side to the left, and the bottom - from the left to the right, to form a triangle.
  5. Fold all 4 tops over to the middle and run your fingers along the folds.
  6. Expand the workpiece to a double triangle and bend the upper corner back.

  7. Straighten the bud and bend the curved corner inward.
  8. Gather the double corner back together and run your fingers along the folds.
  9. Bring the 4 side corners up to the top.

  10. Flip over, then fold each side in toward the middle. You should end up with a blank with a hole at the bottom.
  11. Blow strongly into the hole from below to straighten the bud.
  12. Curl the petals using a simple pencil.

  13. Take the strip of paper you cut at the beginning.
  14. Fold the stem and insert it into the bud.

The origami rose is ready!

Moving 3D fish

You will need: colored paper, scissors, glue, pencil, black felt-tip pen.

Master Class

  1. Take a piece of blue paper and make a square.
  2. Fold the sides toward the fold line, then open the paper.

  3. Fold the paper in half to create a triangle as shown in the image
  4. Make cuts along the fold line, then open the paper and overlap the uncut parts.
  5. Make the fish's face flatter by cutting off a corner.

  6. Cut out the fins and tail from the pink one, then draw stripes with a felt-tip pen.
  7. Cut out the eyes from white paper and draw the pupils with a black felt-tip pen.

  8. Glue the fins, tail and eyes, and don’t forget to draw eyelashes.

  9. Cut out an elongated semi-oval and glue it as the lower jaw.

You will need: a sheet of colored paper, a felt-tip pen and scissors.

Master Class

  1. Fold a sheet of colored paper in half.
  2. Place your palm on the piece of paper so that the large and forefinger touched the edge of the leaf, thereby forming half a heart.
  3. Circle your palm.
  4. Cut out the palm and unfold the craft.

A heart in hands made of colored paper is ready!

You will need: white and yellow colored paper, a simple pencil, ruler, glue, coin or compass.

Master Class

  1. Cut 9 strips of paper the same size.
  2. Make 2 circles on yellow paper.
  3. Cut them out.
  4. Glue the ends of the strips together to form petals.
  5. Glue the petals to the yellow circle, then glue the second circle on top.

You will need: red colored paper, a pencil, scissors, a round object.

Master Class

  1. Circle the item round shape on colored paper.
  2. Draw a spiral in a circle.
  3. Cut out the circle.
  4. Cut the spiral in such a way that you get a “spring”
  5. Twist the rosette and make the required number of rosettes in the same way.

The original colored paper roses are ready! I recommend watching the video master class!

You will need: double-sided colored paper, glue gun, stick or skewer as a stem, button.

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A creative flower made of colored paper is ready!

You will need: 4 sheets of colored paper, double-sided tape.

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  1. Fold each sheet into an accordion shape.
  2. Fold each accordion in half to form a fan.
  3. Glue 4 sheets together to form a circle.

The fan flower made from colored paper is ready!

You will need: colored paper, stapler, cut out butterfly (from a magazine, notebook, picture), felt-tip pen.

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The case for surprises made of colored paper is ready!

You will need: colored paper of black and yellow, a simple pencil, scissors, ruler, glue, compass, glitter.

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The colored paper owl is ready!

You can also make a cute bunny out of colored paper, and see how in this video!

Sisters made of colored paper

You will need: paper of two colors, 2 wooden sticks, buttons for eyes, rubber bands or strings for hands, pencil, glue.

How bright and varied creativity such as appliqué can become for children 3-4 years old. The main thing is simplicity, convenience and safety in work.

It is recommended to select scissors with rounded ends and, of course, take into account the mood and wishes of young creators. You need to get used to tinkering, starting with simple options: sun, house, butterflies. You can come up with a lot of interesting crafts on the theme “summer”. The child will be happy to display what he has planned on paper and share his impressions of what he saw on the street: the river, the bright sun, juicy strawberries, green leaves. Maybe there were drops of dew on them since yesterday morning. I wonder what they will look like on paper?

What to make it from?

For crafts, children will need:

  • colored paper;
  • cereal;
  • plasticine;
  • pieces of glass;
  • shells;
  • leather;
  • beads;
  • cotton wool;
  • newspaper;
  • threads;
  • stones;
  • paints.

Interesting models are obtained using:

  1. Colored napkins.

Tear into small pieces and roll into balls. Then draw the outlines of an object on paper and glue the balls in the center. This is a great activity for kids to develop motor skills.

  1. Papers.

Various kinds of figures are cut out and glued to the base or to the drawn contours.

  1. Dry leaves, for playing compositions on autumn theme by gluing to cardboard in the form of butterflies, birds, trees, falling leaves.
  2. Cereals.

Not many parents think about how many different exciting summer crafts they can come up with by gluing grains to paper or cardboard in the form of animals, insects, and butterflies.

  1. Cotton wool, from which you can roll small balls, draw, for example, a lamb on a cardboard base, and glue cotton balls similar to wool to its body.
  2. Egg shells, which just need to be painted with bright colors, are not a material for creativity? Can be glued to drawn templates on paper in the form of different compositions: flowers, leaves, Christmas trees, mosaic figures.

If you get creative, you can make the summer applique voluminous and fluffy using cotton wool, fringe, and colored woolen threads. Volume makes crafts on paper more alive and real.

So, let's make chickens:

  • for grass, cut a strip of green paper 6 cm wide;
  • cut along the edges in the form of a fringe;
  • coat the cut piece of paper with glue;
  • glue carefully to the base;
  • straighten the fringe with your hands;
  • cut out 3 circles of different diameters from yellow paper for the future chicken;
  • make small cuts on each circle;
  • start sequentially gluing the large, medium and small circles, lubricating the middle of each with glue;
  • Use a pencil to draw on the chicken's eyes, legs and beak, or simply cut and glue using red paper.

The chicken sketch is ready. All that remains is to add liveliness to the application and feed the birds by scattering some grains and gluing the grains onto the glue in a chaotic manner.

Kids should be given the opportunity to imagine - maybe the picture is missing the sun, a house, a stream, a green lawn, which should be painted on with colored pencils or paints, or cut out from colored paper.

Usually, by the age of three, children speak well on their own, so a joint creative process in the form of an application for children from 3 years old can become very fruitful.

Summer options

Crafts on the theme “summer” are always relevant in kindergartens. It is important to give the child the opportunity to display on paper what he has recently seen, thus expressing his emotions and impressions. As an option, you can make a street applique.

You need to prepare cotton wool, scissors, colored paper, cardboard, glue stick.

  • Take cardboard as a base, glue a black strip of asphalt at the bottom, and a white strip in the middle to create a dividing strip.
  • Glue the green one over the black stripe. It will be weed.
  • Cut rectangles out of brown paper, make slits in each for windows - you get high-rise buildings.
  • Glue the houses to the lawn, and to them roofs in the form of a trapezoid made of corrugated cardboard.
  • If you take brown corrugation and cut tree trunks from it, and leaves and Christmas trees from green corrugation, you will end up with green spaces.

What else can you add? A traffic light was cut out of black paper and glued near the road, as well as cars, using paper of different color palettes.

Other variations of paintings

For children 2, 3, and 4 years old, the following simple application options are suitable:

  • bridge over the river;
  • sea, waves, rocking boat;
  • a pyramid on paper by cutting and gluing circles of different diameters on top of each other;
  • various geometric figures in the form of a kitchen, which any little girl will like;
  • there are mushrooms in the picture, but if you paint on their eyes, mouth and nose, they will begin to smile, and the summer sun painted above will bring the mushroom meadow to life;
  • chickens on the lawn in summer: white and yellow, and butterflies fluttering nearby;
  • spring flower meadow (various small figures for petals, leaves, stems are cut out of colored paper).

Kids will carefully mix all the parts on the base, putting them together into a single whole. This kind of application is good for instilling a love of nature from an early age.

There are ready-made application kits on sale for kids containing everything they need to conduct creativity lessons at home or in kindergarten.

What does the application provide for the development of children 3-4 years old?

Of course, it develops logic, thinking, perseverance, attentiveness, and intelligence. The teacher or mother just has to choose an appropriate topic for creativity, captivate the child, explain the features of work and use of objects, and give complete freedom for imagination and fantasy.

Experts recommend carrying out the process together with the child, helping in the work, unobtrusively pointing out mistakes, and giving hints if necessary. There is no need to do all the work for a child at three or four years old. Let him try to capture something on paper on his own using various kinds of available materials. Children aged three or four usually already have their own opinions.

The task of parents and teachers is to help just a little in the process of work. Children will be happy to share their emotions and impressions on paper.

Little children never sit still because they have so much energy and desire to learn something new!

They don’t like to be bored at all and come up with a new activity every minute. One way to keep a fidget busy is to make a craft with him.

After all, already at the age of 3-4 years, kids are able to create works of art and surprise their parents.

Moreover, joint crafts for children aged 3-4 years with their own hands help develop their creativity, taste, imagination and fine motor skills.

Creative abilities are the individual characteristics of each child.

Some people know how to draw well, others show talent in singing, and others are interested in creating crafts with their own hands.

Each child has his own interests, character and individual imagination.

First of all, creativity helps to absorb new information, include your imagination and fantasy, put into practice the life experience gained.

For one child, creativity can become a favorite activity that does not require much effort. And for another, backbreaking labor that does not cause positive emotions and the desire to do it. But if you try to develop at least small creative abilities, then it will be easier for the child to communicate, receive new information, and learn something.

It is better to start developing such abilities with early age. It is at 3-4 years that a foundation of knowledge is formed, which will be improved and replenished throughout our lives.

If an adult’s creative abilities were not developed in childhood and parents did not pay due attention to this, then they are unlikely to appear later.

Paper mice

In early preschool age, children develop fantasy and imagination, they compose stories with fictional characters and events.

Parents have a positive influence on the development of creative abilities. By communicating with the baby and guiding him, they help him explore the world through creativity, “with his own” hands. There are many types of activities that help a child develop at this age, these are: games, modeling, drawing, reading books, and of course, making crafts. Some useful tips

  1. for the development of creative abilities in children:
  2. Create an environment in which it will be easier to work.
  3. Create with your child.
  4. Support and praise, believe in his success.
  5. Make sure that you always have creative materials at hand: paper, paints, brushes, plasticine, cardboard.

Do not suppress the imagination of a small person. The leading activity of young children preschool age is role-playing game

. We must try to accompany creative activities with even the simplest scenario. This will make it more interesting for the baby, and he will be more willing to complete the task.

The benefits of crafts in education

Children's creativity contributes to the child's mental development and understanding of the world around him. Developing fine motor skills hands, spatial thinking

, entire groups of skills and emotional assessment of what is happening are improved. All these advantages, of course, apply to doing crafts.

When creating crafts with your own hands, a child first of all gets acquainted with various materials and their properties. By cutting out colored paper and gluing twigs and leaves onto cardboard, the child creates beautiful pictures and develops his artistic taste. Material for crafts is quite easy to find, the main thing is to turn on your imagination and imagination.

  • Along with standard paper, cardboard and plasticine, you can use items that are in everyday use:
  • eggshell;
  • cotton pads;
  • matches;

plastic bottles. While walking with your baby you can find a lot natural material

  • . The most popular of them:
  • chestnuts;
  • dried flower;

leaves.

Of course, in other types of activities, parents will be assistants or mentors for the beginning “artist.” But doing crafts together is easy and rewarding!

Crafts from paper and cardboard for children 3-4 years old: features and ideas

The most common type of working with paper is appliqué. In terms of its content, it has five varieties, but with children of this age it is advisable to use object applications (made from cut out fruits, vegetables, flowers, mushrooms).

This is the simplest variety to implement. The older the child gets, the more interesting and unique ideas can be realized.

Crafts made from paper and cardboard

The most simple material To make crafts with children, use colored paper and cardboard. Little ones love working with colorful pieces of paper because it's easy and fun. Already at the age of 3-4 years, a child can make wonderful applications that will inspire him to be creative in the future. And how many ideas can you come up with!

When the baby gets older, he can make more complex crafts. can be made not only from paper, but also from cereals and natural materials.

You can see options for children's crafts made from acorns.

What can you build from matchboxes with your child? Watch and make your own.

Multi-colored butterfly made from children's hands

Very interesting applications are obtained from paper children's palms. This type of work will give your child a lot of positive emotions!

You will need:

  • sheets of multi-colored paper;
  • small scissors;
  • cardboard;
  • glue stick;
  • any elements for decorating the butterfly (glitter, markers, paints).

Butterfly made from palms

  1. First you need to ask the baby to place his palms on sheets of colored paper and with a simple pencil circle them. First of all, circle right hand, then left. You should get 4 palms for the butterfly wings.
  2. Place your palms on a sheet of cardboard in the same way as the wings of a butterfly. Two on one side, two on the other. Glue them to the base.
  3. Now you need to draw an oval on a sheet of paper of a different color and allow the child to cut it out himself. This will be the body of our butterfly. Glue it between your palms.
  4. The last step is to depict the butterfly's eyes and smile. This can also be done from colored paper. Let the baby make the choice and complete this step himself. It is imperative to guide him and help him at every step.

Decorating the wings using children's fingers and paints will be original and interesting. The child dips his fingers in paint of different colors and leaves marks on each of the wings. This activity will delight your baby!

Children's crafts from plasticine

Plasticine is especially popular among children 3-4 years old. It is soft, pleasant to work with and bright material. You can use it to sculpt a variety of shapes:

  • animals;
  • flowers;
  • fairy-tale and cartoon characters.

You can create such crafts either according to patterns or at will, using only your fantasy and imagination. You can sculpt three-dimensional figures or create entire compositions using cardboard. For example, you can make aquarium fish, and then create an entire application using the plasticine technique.

Plasticine bird

You will need a few necessary materials:

  • plasticine of bright colors;
  • modeling board;
  • materials for decorating fish.

Step-by-step instructions for creating a fish:

  1. First you need to roll up a plasticine ball of the chosen color and press it down so that you get the “body” of the fish.
  2. Make a tail and fins of any shape. It is better to take plasticine of a different color from the body.
  3. Connect the parts to the body and attach the eyes. You can use beads, large beads or black plasticine.
  4. You can decorate the figurine with sequins (creating scales) or multi-colored plasticine. This will make the craft look brighter and more realistic.

Crafts made from natural materials

Natural material is the most accessible for making crafts. To purchase it, you don’t need to go to the store, but just take a walk. You can fill a whole basket there required material! These are cones, and twigs, and autumn leaves, and acorns. These items are fun and easy for your child to work with!

Hedgehog in the forest

How to make a prickly forest dweller with a baby? What materials can be used for this to make it look like the real thing? It turns out that everything is very simple!

Materials:

  • plasticine;
  • autumn leaves from different trees;
  • sunflower seeds;
  • cardboard of any color;
  • glue stick.

Craft hedgehog

Operating procedure:

  1. On cardboard, glued in random order autumn leaves. This forest clearing, where hedgehogs will walk.
  2. Roll a ball out of plasticine and give it the shape of a hedgehog’s body. It should be a little oblong. Use small balls of plasticine to form eyes, a mouth and a nose.
  3. Apply a thin layer of glue to the top of the leaves and glue them onto the clearing with artistic taste.
  4. All that remains is to make needles for the hedgehogs. To do this, insert the seeds with the sharp part up, along the entire perimeter of the forest dweller’s body.
  5. You can decorate the hedgehog with mushrooms and plasticine apples.

Crafts from household materials

To make crafts with your baby, you can use household items. Much that is used in everyday life is suitable for creating beautiful and original crafts. And the baby will be interested in working with familiar objects.

Snowman made of cotton pads

Probably every mother has cotton pads in her cosmetic bag. This is a very comfortable and soft material for crafts. Kids enjoy working with him!

For this you will need:

  • cotton pads – 3 pieces;
  • cotton wool – not a large number of;
  • glue;
  • scissors;
  • cardboard;
  • colored paper.

Instructions:

  1. Glue the bottom part of the snowman onto the cardboard base. No need to change shape or size.
  2. Next comes the torso. Using scissors, you need to slightly reduce the size of the second cotton pad. Help your child cut off the excess.
  3. Make the head smaller than the body. All cotton pads must be glued sequentially, one after another.
  4. Using colored paper, cut out eyes, nose and mouth. Glue everything onto a cotton pad - the head.
  5. Using cotton wool, decorate a sheet of cardboard around the snowman - small pieces of cotton wool and applied in random order. The snowman is ready!

Fir and pine cones are a treasure trove of inspiration. accessible to both the youngest and older children.

You can see ideas for crafts for preschoolers and schoolchildren from plastic bottles by going through.

Recommendations for parents on raising a creative personality

  1. You should always ask your child what he likes most. Maybe your favorite pastime will be drawing, singing, or, for example, modeling.
  2. Children's imagination has no limits and it is very important not to scold a child for his inventions and fantasies.
  3. If your child is inclined to invent, it is worth helping him find materials for his inventions.
  4. Show your own creativity and imagination. It will be interesting for the child to see an adult example and this will contribute to a trusting relationship.
  5. Always allow your child to express the ideas that come to him during the day. Despite being tired at work or if you have your own “adult” thoughts in your head.

Crafts are a wonderful creative activity for children. Can be used various materials with your baby and spend time together. This has a positive effect on the development of the child’s personality and his communication with the outside world. You should always introduce your child to something new and learn with him, supporting him in all his endeavors. Creative success!

Video on the topic

Already at 1 year old, children are ready to get acquainted with the application.

But in order not to discourage a child’s interest in this type of creativity, you need to follow several important rules.

In this article you will find ideas for applications with children aged 1 – 3 years old, and learn about the rules for teaching them.

You can download application templates one file. The link contains more than 100 templates for all types of applications that I talk about in this article.

You will also find a large number of ideas in the album VK group “It’s easy to be a mother”.

In our classes we also use ready-made manuals for creating applications. I will review such benefits in one of the following articles.

The benefits of applications

Many parents postpone appliqué lessons until later in life, believing that one year old baby it is too early. But that's not true.

While practicing appliqué, the child:

  • develops fine motor skills,
  • improves hand coordination;
  • gains new sensory experiences;
  • gets acquainted with the surrounding world;
  • develops speech (while playing out the plot and discussing what you are doing);
  • activates imagination and creativity.

This is exactly what needs to be intensively developed at an early age.

How to make appliques with children

Classes should bring joy to both the child and the parents.

Moms usually have two difficulties: lack of ideas and lack of time to prepare.

In this article I’m just sharing applique ideas for kids.

As for the second difficulty, I believe that preparation for any classes and not only appliqué should take a minimum of time. There is no need to pervert and come up with everything extraordinary and complex.

Neat appliqués made using complex techniques look beautiful in Instagram photos, but in reality, if the child is small, everything turns out not so colorful. Either the entire sheet is covered in glue, or the elements are glued crookedly, or even in a different place altogether. And this is wonderful - it means that it was the child who did this appliqué (under the strict guidance of his mother, of course, and not with her hands).

Take it simple ideas for use, draw, cut from what you have, in a matter of minutes. You are not preparing for an exhibition, but doing one of the hundreds of crafts with your child that he still has to do.

And only later, when these activities become commonplace, complicate the technique, come up with something new.

As for children, here you need to remember the following:

  • The application is, first of all, a game, which means we weave in an interesting and understandable plot for the child;
  • Applications should be simple and accessible for his age;
  • No coercion;
  • The lesson should take no more than 5-7 minutes with kids and 15-20 minutes with older children. And with some fidgets, even 3 minutes will be enough;
  • There should be nothing unnecessary on the table - only glue and paper (or other material that you use);
  • Alternate the materials from which you make the applique: variety is important for the child;
  • If the child is patient enough, then you can cut out the details in front of him. So the child will become interested in scissors. And closer to three years, if desired, he will be able to cut out simple parts himself;
  • If the child is impatient and gets tired quickly, prepare everything you need in advance;
  • Classes must be regular. We do appliqués about once a week.

On many crafts we write the date and age and put them in a folder.

I find most of my ideas in a book. Elena Yanushko “Applique with young children”(Labyrinth, Ozone). A wonderful guide that presents a methodology for conducting appliqué classes with young children.

A huge number of ideas with detailed description each lesson, including what you should say to your child while doing the appliqué. In general, I recommend everyone to read it.

What to make applications from

To diversify your activities, it is useful alternate materials. Ideal for making appliqués:

  • colored paper: plain, double-sided, velvet,
  • napkins,
  • stationery stickers,
  • stickers,
  • magazine clippings,
  • foil,
  • felt,
  • textile,
  • cotton wool and cotton pads,
  • plasticine,
  • natural materials,
  • cereals,
  • sand,
  • salt,
  • insulating tape.

Try to use cardboard or thick paper as a basis. We most often use A5 format in our works, sometimes A4.

Where possible, it is better to color the base template and cut it into the desired shape (Christmas tree, vase, etc.) - it’s more interesting for the child.

As for glue, you must have both a glue stick and regular PVA. Now, at 3 years old, Antoshka suddenly began to disdain to pick up a piece of paper with ordinary glue, which he applied with all his heart. And we temporarily switched exclusively to glue sticks.

Ideal for children who are barely one year old. No glue required. Nowadays there are a lot of different stickers, they even come in the shape of animals and cars, but many games can be created with ordinary ones.

Here are some simple ideas:

Hide the mice(bunnies, etc.). Draw a few mice on a piece of paper and ask your child to hide them from the cat. The child places the sticker directly on the mouse. Then it’s so interesting to see who’s sitting there. You can cut out leaves from stickers and hide worms, bugs, etc. under them.

Can also be glued garages for cars.

Raindrops. Draw a cloud and invite your child to glue raindrops - small rectangles cut from the sticky part of the sticker.

You can make rays for the sun, petals for a flower, grass, whiskers for a cat, needles for a hedgehog, scales for a fish. From small round stickers or decals - spots for a giraffe, balls for a Christmas tree.

All this can be done and on a magnetic board for drawing:

Stickers also great fun and material for appliques. You can buy them in whole themed sets.

Simple applications with a chaotic arrangement of elements

This is the first stage in mastering the art of appliqué.

Here you also need to print (or draw) and cut out the base for the applique in advance, and cut out the remaining elements. Let the child decide for himself where exactly he wants to glue this or that element. Here are some ideas:

  • Salt cucumbers, tomatoes;
  • Cut out the frying pan and bake pancakes in it;
  • Cook jam, mushroom soup;
  • We draw a plate and feed the rubber animals with oranges, cabbage, carrots, etc.;
  • We decorate the Christmas tree, hat, mitten, boot;
  • We glue leaves, apples, pears to the trees, and plant vegetables in the beds;
  • We put fish in the aquarium, ducklings in the pond;
  • We collect mushrooms in a basket;
  • We cut out a thin strip - a road for cars and glue the cars.

You can also make ice from foil:

Applications from geometric shapes

At 1.5 - 2 years old, applications can become more complex. Print or draw outlines of the elements on the base. Invite your child to glue the appliqué elements onto these outlines.

I print out the template, cut out the geometric elements, trace it on colored paper and cut it out.

This makes it convenient to make applications not only from geometric shapes, but also any other form.

Applications without outlines

This is a complicated version of the previous type of application. The difficulty is that there is already no ready-made contours.

First, the child, together with you, lays out the elements of the application on the base to see what should or can happen. And only then glues it.

There is simply an endless number of options here. If the child is small, then it will take a little time to prepare. But closer to three years, you will want to do something original, and then you will have to spend time both searching for ideas and preparing.

The simplest option:

A little more complicated:

A child can make such applications by the age of three. Here we also study the numbers:

Applications from magazines and ready-made pictures

In order to make appliqués, you don’t even need to have colored paper. Use old ones magazines, catalogs goods.

Here Antoshka and I filled the refrigerator. I cut out products from the catalog of the nearest supermarket, and Antoshka placed them on the shelves.

Using the same principle, you can arrange toys on shelves, fill baskets with fruits and vegetables, hang clothes in the closet, etc. Drawing the base will take you no more than a minute. All that remains is to cut out food or other things.

Applications made of cotton wool and cotton pads

Cotton wool makes excellent: bunny, swan, polar bear, sheep, cat, dog and other animals that can be white and fluffy. And also snow, snowflakes, dandelions, clouds.

Use coloring books for little ones or applique templates as a basis.

Tree in the snow:

You can draw the base together with your child. Clouds made of cotton wool:

Applications from cereals and sand

I talked about cereal applications in an article about.

Essentially, it’s two in one: drawing and appliqué.

Print out coloring pages for kids. Invite your child to apply glue to the coloring book and sprinkle it with rice, corn grits, semolina, etc.

Semolina It can be painted beautifully with gouache (just don’t add water), or you can leave it white and create masterpieces in a winter theme.

Rice The child can easily paint it himself. This is a separate useful entertainment.

Available for sale colored sand for creativity.

Squirrel from dyed semolina:

And this is a sunflower made from buckwheat, corn grits and dyed rice:

You can also learn letters and numbers making appliqués from semolina.

Here you can also print out coloring pages for the little ones. The base should be no larger than A5 format. Invite your child to smear the plasticine over the base. To begin, select pictures that need to be covered with one color:

And then make it more complicated:

The simplest version of plasticine applique is to make giraffe spots, dots ladybug and so on. The pressure technique is used here.

Write in the comments, does your baby like to make appliques? Does he have the patience to deal with this difficult task?

What to do on a rainy or windy evening with your baby? Of course, creativity! We share ideas for quick crafts for autumn evenings.

Even if you are the busiest mother in the world, do not forget that it is very important for your child to spend time together and engage in interesting joint activities.

Nothing brings people together like solving problems and spending time together. A win-win option - hand-made. By making small crafts, you can analyze your child’s behavioral patterns, evaluate abilities and give the most important thing for any person on the planet - communication.

We have made a selection of the most simple crafts and quick crafts that you can do together with your baby. Even if you hated labor lessons at school, here you will definitely find something to your liking.

1. Multi-colored pebbles

If in the summer you collected not only shells, but also pebbles from the sea, it’s time to decorate them.

What do you need: acrylic paints, pebbles, water and brush, sippy cup.


2. Bottle with sand

Making another beautiful piece of furniture together is very simple.

What you need: colored sand (you can take colored crayons and rub them on sandpaper and mix with fine sea salt), transparent dishes.

N.B. In order for the bulk mixture to fall directly into the narrow neck of the bottle, you need to make a small cone with a hole out of paper.

3. P anno "We're cooking" jam" .

What you need: A4 paper or cardboard, scissors, apples and pears, gouache, brushes.

Cut out the shape of a jar from cardboard. Cut apples and pears in half. Using a brush, apply gouache to the cut halves and press them down to leave imprints on the cardboard. We complete the bones, leaves and tails after making the prints.

You can also make such an applique using leaves. Apply to one side of a leaf or flower with a brush and gently press onto colored paper for an imprint.

4. Craft “Kapitoshka” (or Christmas tree toy )

What you need: colored cardboard, an inflatable ball, PVA glue, a small container in the form of a bowl, thread.

Inflate the balloon and tie it. Pour PVA glue into a small bowl, coat the entire length of the thread in glue and wind it in a chaotic manner around the ball. Let it dry and burst the ball, decorate it with different details - nose, eyes, hairs.

5. Developmental toy for hand motor skills

What you need: Flour, watering can, balloon, marker, multi-colored threads.

Using a watering can, pour flour into the ball and compact it. We tie the filled ball, add eyes, and tie a thread in the shape of hair.

6. Butterfly — pin

What you need: A4 paper or multi-colored cardboard, pencils, clothespin.

We cut out “wings” from paper in the form of two figure eights: one larger, the second smaller, and clamp them closer to the base of the clothespin.

7. Underwater world

What you need: Paints (acrylic or gouache), colored cardboard, scissors, disposable plates, imagination :)

8. Mouse on a plate

What you need: Paper, markers or paints, disposable plate, scissors, thread.

First you need to cut a circle out of A4 paper, paint it one color, roll it into a cone and glue it. Cut out, paint and glue the ears. Cut out eyes from cardboard. Glue the thread like a tail.

9. Crafts from disposable cups

What you need: Disposable cups, colored paper and cardboard, glue, scissors (additional needle and thread) .

10. 3 D aquarium

What you need: An old box, threads, shells, scissors, colored paper, regular tape, double-sided tape, PVA glue, felt-tip pens, paints (gouache or acrylic), you can additionally take cling film to “close” the aquarium.

At the “bottom” of the box, use felt-tip pens or paints to draw a “background” underwater world. Cut out fish, seahorses, and seaweed from colored paper or cardboard. We hang fish from the “ceiling” of the aquarium on strings. We glue “algae” to the opposite edge. Glue shells to the bottom with double-sided tape. Wrap the aquarium in cling film.

11. Lamb from napkins And cotton wool

What you need: Cotton wool or napkins, divided into small pieces, one sheet of cardboard, colored paper, PVA glue or glue stick, felt-tip pens.


12. Handmade jewelry -made

What you need: Threads, a set of large beads (can be found in Montpasier stores), cardboard and scissors.


13. Feeder

What do you need: Plastic bottle, two tablespoons, thread and knife

We all know that with the onset of cold weather, birds have nothing to eat. With older children, you can make such a feeder at home and hang it in the park near your house.

14. Bookmarks

What you need: Floss threads, colorful cardboard, stickers, rhinestones, felt, colored paper, scissors and glue.

You can make bookmarks like these for your favorite books and teach your child discipline from childhood.


15. Mask

What you need: colored cardboard, scissors, glue stick or double-sided tape, needle or hole punch, rubber band.

You don't need a reason to make masks. A mask can be a great excuse to have a masquerade!

16. Angel

What you need: Napkins for glasses, wooden beads, scissors, wool threads, floss threads, PVA glue

We cut out the napkin in the shape of a “candy”, as shown in the picture, make small cuts in the form of unfinished triangles and a hole in the center of the circle. We bend it in half and get the body of an angel. We take 6-8 pieces of thread, tie them together in the middle with floss threads, which we throw to one side, string a bead on them and thread them through the hole in the center of the circle. We tie a knot. We stretch another thread through the bead so that you can hang the toy.

17. Christmas tree made of wine corks

What you need: wine corks, paint, glue, paper.

To make a Christmas tree from wine corks, you need to prepare a cone shape, drape it with colored paper and stick wine corks on top, which will act as “needles”.

18. Button applique

What you need: A lot of multi-colored buttons, double-sided tape, PVA glue, threads, cardboard, colored paper, glue stick.



19. Chest of drawers with a secret

What you need: matchboxes, PVA glue, felt-tip pens, colored paper.

We glue together 4, 6 or 8 matchboxes (9 or 10 are possible, the main thing is to get a rectangular shape), wrap the fixed part and glue colored paper onto it. We draw decor with a felt-tip pen - handles, coils, flowers, etc.

20. Hedgehog

What you need: plasticine, sunflower seeds

We sculpt a small oval and press it on one side to create a “muzzle”. Using the sharp end, we insert the seeds in rows into the hedgehog’s body. Don't forget about the eyes and nose.

Depending on the time of year, you can also consider certain types of activities. In the fall - collect and dry a herbarium together, cut out or paint a pumpkin for Halloween. In winter, cut out snowflakes or garlands and decorate them Christmas balls, to make a snowman. Decorate in spring Easter eggs, plant seedlings or just small flowers. And in the summer...Imagine what you can do together in the summer.