Various crafts made from paper and cardboard. Simple crafts from colored paper for primary schoolchildren

Summer holidays- it's time to create beauty. Colored paper is an endless field for creativity. So why not decorate your home with colorful paper masterpieces, or maybe you want to give your mom an unexpected surprise?

I have prepared for you Schemes for making products from colored paper for children for any taste: from the simplest to the most complex and refined.

Summer lawn made of paper

Summer means sunshine, flowers, butterflies, bugs and fish, unique beauty all around, lightness and airiness in everything. Let's Let's make bright summer crafts from colored paper for preschoolers and we will enjoy the beauty of nature not only on the street, but also at home.

You will need: colored paper and cardboard, serpentine, scissors, glue, tape.

I suggest making colorful fish, a bunny, a cockerel and other children's paper crafts. It's very simple! And you will find hints in the pictures. Happy creativity!

Glue a yellow circle of colored paper onto cardboard and cut out along the contour. This way the sun will be stronger and more durable. Glue rays of serpentine to the back of the sun (can be replaced with strips of paper). Using tape, glue the sun to the cardboard stick.

Scheme for making a fish from colored paper

Using the template, cut out the details of the fish. Make loops from strips of paper and glue fish scales. Stick on the head. Turn the fish over and glue the serpentine tail.

Templates for making a bunny, fish, sun and butterfly

And here’s what the finished crafts will look like:

Making a cockerel and a dragonfly from colored paper

To make a cockerel and a dragonfly from colored paper, start by cutting out the details of the templates.

Cut the parts into strips in the right places and make loops out of them. Glue to the main parts. The cockerel will need to glue the wing and tail, and the dragonfly only the wings. When the crafts are ready, glue them to the cardboard base.

Look what wonderful crafts you and I have made!

Animals made of colored paper

These crafts will surely appeal to children of primary school age or kindergarten students. "Why?" - you ask. Yes, because making them is as easy as shelling pears!

Print the templates on white or colored paper, cut out the animal you like, bend it in the right places, and go ahead and play with the pets of your own zoo.

Crocodile

Elephant

bear

Dinosaur. Grrrr!

Goat

Zebra

Toys made of colored paper

Oh, how cute they are! These colored paper toys will delight anyone. Hurry up, make exclusive crafts and delight your loved ones with small gifts!

Glue a large cone along the white line. Make a fringe at the bottom of the cone (cuts along the black lines). Place the small cone on the large one, also cutting along the lines.

Inside the large cone, glue the legs along white stripes, on top - the head, and on the sides - little arms. Round the antennae on the edge of the table and glue them to the bee. That's all!

Paper crow

Print and cut out the template pieces.

Smart girl! Now glue the cone together. Cut the template tails along the black lines and glue them to the cone. First - blue, and then - red.

Lightly coat the wings with glue at the base and glue them to the body. First - burgundy, and then - yellow-red.

Glue the eyes, but only halfway. This way they will look more realistic. And finally, add the bangs and glue the legs, after bending them in the right places.

Sly paper fox

Cut out the necessary parts and start assembling the toy.

Glue the cone together, leaving a small hole at the bottom. Glue the nose (from inside the cone) and mustache. Now, maintaining symmetry, glue on the fox’s eyes, paws and ears. All that’s left is to glue and attach the tail to the bottom of the cone and tie it with a thread to the top of the cone so that it sticks up.

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Good afternoon, today I decided to collect in one article all ways make paper crafts that are feasible for children. For the 2017 craft season - it turned out decent photo collection of ideas which a child can make from paper with his own hands. These paper crafts can be used for activities in kindergarten or school (grades 1-5). There will be some easy crafts here for children preschool age (from 3 to 7 years) – for junior, middle and senior group. There will also be more complex crafts that require more long school session(for 45 minutes) – suitable for labor lessons for children in grades 1, 2, 3, 4. And also leaders of creative circles “Skillful Hands” in kindergarten or school they will find a lot for themselves useful ideas paper crafts.

• We will do flat crafts-appliques.
• Volumetric crafts made from colored paper and corrugated cardboard.
• Crafts toys made of cardboard or thick paper.
• Crafts using various techniques(half-discs, fan, symmetrical fold, postcard).

On this moment We already have thematic articles on our website with paper crafts,

And also many ideas for paper NEW YEAR crafts in the article:

And in this article, we will look at different techniques that can be used for paper crafts for children of different ages.

So let's see what paper crafts I collected in this piggy bank.

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Using the HALF-DISC technique.

Crafts made from colored paper that we see in kindergarten and school most often look like appliqués. I really like it myself applications with effect 3D. There are quite a few ways to create bulges on an applique.

In this article I want to highlight a technology that is interesting in its graphics - these are crafts from round paper discs. When all the work is laid out in the form of whole or folded paper rounds.

This mosaic applique of round parts is suitable for children 3-4 years old. It suits their pedagogical needs just right. of this age when children do not yet know how to work with scissors, but are already happy to glue ready-made template modules from colored paper.

Such applique crafts look bright and unusual due to PARTIAL GLUEING of the modules - we place only half of the disk on the glue, and its second part sticks out in a fold.

And from circles or ovals bent in half you can make not only flat applications, but also paper crafts and toys. Here's one for inspiration caterpillar made of ovals bent in half– children from 3 years old cope with this task if you help them fold the ovals in half. Children 4 years old will fold ovals themselves, and even cut out several of them. And children 5 years old need to be given colored rectangles, they themselves will cut the corners of the rectangles, thereby turning them into ovals, they themselves will bend them in half and fold them into a caterpillar.

Be smart and think about WHAT ELSE you can construct from paper semicircles or semi-ovals. Surely you can make a frog, panda, giraffe, hippopotamus, penguin from such round or oval half-discs.

VOLUMETRIC applique

Made from paper blades.

Here is another technology for convex paper appliqués. When the parts are glued together in advance into BLADES, and then such a bladed paper craft is glued with its blades onto the application cardboard.

Blades are obtained if Bend 3-4 identical parts in half, and then the bent walls of adjacent parts are glued to each other.

For example, the ladybug in the photo below consists of from three paper circles. We cut out three circles and folded them in half. First, glue the halves bent in half on the left and right. And then the third round piece lies like a book on the protruding halves of the glued round pieces.

The Ladybug craft is suitable for children 3 years old. And the craft " Balloon" With big amount blades are suitable for children 4-5 years old.

Any paper shape can be turned into a bladed part; the number of blades and the splendor of the part depends on how many parts you use in your volumetric gluing.

In the same way, you can make paper crafts with your own hands in three-dimensional form (in the form of objects) - like these paper fruits in the photo below. Watermelon is suitable for crafts in the older group of kindergarten.

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ON SPRINGS.

Here's another paper craft with a convex effect. Here the volume of the applique is conveyed by gluing in relief a strip of colored paper folded into three folds. This autumn applique is easy to make with your own hands - suitable for middle and older children (5, 6 years old).

In the center of the upper fold we cut a hollow and place the silhouette of an owl inside. So that the owl hangs at a distance from the back wall of the hollow, need on reverse side owls glue a paper spring. How to make a spring You will now understand using the example of the following paper craft with a volumetric effect.

Here below we see a paper craft of a BEAR. The bear's paws are also glued at a distance from the body. And this distance between the paws and the body is achieved by gluing paper springs. Everyone made these spring worms when they were kids. Below we see a master class that shows the process of creating such a paper spring and the entire craft as a whole.

The BEAR craft is suitable for children 3 - 4 years old (if all the parts have already been cut out and the springs have been folded). Children 4 - 5 years old You can slowly cut out the silhouettes yourself. Children 5-6 years old already able to fold the springs ourselves (and The lesson can be divided into 2 parts- in the first lesson we make springs and cut out some of the silhouettes - in the second we finish cutting and putting everything together.

You can do any craft in the same way. Below we see that the crown of the tree is made according to this principle. But you can do just as well a bunch of balloons on a greeting card. Or bouquet of flowers made of paper, where each flower will be at its convex level.

You can highlight any details of paper crafts with a voluminous spring - bird wings, tiers of hedgehog spines (photo below).

Or hares in thick grass (spring craft in the photo below).

You can also make such a paper craft, using spring stands inside. It turns out to be a beautiful effect. Also, stand legs for multi-layered applications can be made not from paper springs, but from purchased thick double-sided tape. They sell this kind of puffy tape - it has a thick, foam-like tape and it is sticky on both sides. It can be cut into stumps and glued between layers of crafts..

From such springs you can make not only applications, but also independent paper crafts. Make a spring and beat it with other paper parts. For example, attach an oval muzzle, round ears, paws at the bottom and a long stripe-tail - and now it all starts to look like a paper mouse.

But here are paper penguin crafts based on the same spring. Or bug crafts. In kindergarten there is always unused black paper in a set of colored paper - you always don’t know what to make from it - but here you have black bugs, penguins and little crows.

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WITH A FAN.

A paper fan is often used in children's crafts as a way to quickly create the desired shape of a part. Most often, a glued fan is used as a tail for paper birds (or as wings).

The spread fan blades may remind you of wings bat. Children's craft on average age(4-5 years).

The fan is similar to the lampshade of a table lamp - which means it will make an excellent DIY lamp craft (craft for children over 3 years old)

The fan can become the basis for children's crafts in the form of fairy-tale characters - penguin friends or northern bears (craft for children aged 5-7 years).

If we fold the fan in half - and bend its blades into 2 semicircles - and glue the meeting semicircles with glue, then we get a ROUND FAN.

From such a blank you can make many paper children's crafts. The simplest and fastest are apples (add a stalk and a leaf) or birds (add a wing, eye and beak).

Ready-made round fans are used in classes with children 3-4 years. And at the age 5 years The child is already given the task of creating such a round fan himself from colored paper.

By adding various details to a paper fan, we can get the image of any paper animal (a black cat, or a red, white bunny (as in the photo with children's crafts below).

All you have to do is teach your children how to make a fan with their own hands and practice several times. Then teach them to bend the fan in half and unfold both halves into two semicircles - and glue these semicircles with a glue stick. And then the children themselves will surprise you, they will throw up more and more new ideas for crafts, turning a round paper fan into a snowman, then into a mermaid’s bra, into a round red nose of a clown.

And if we make several round fans of slightly different diameters at once and string them on wire, then we can get a three-dimensional spherical paper craft. The fan ball can become an apple, pumpkin, snowman, sheep, white rabbit and any other children's character.

Children's crafts

on an accordion stand.

There is another original way to make paper crafts for children. Below we see the principle of creating such a craft. We roll up a regular accordion from cardboard. And we use it as TIERS for sticking paper parts.
In the photo of the children's craft below we see how the accordion turned into a cake craft. Each row of the accordion is a tier of a cake with candles.

Note, it is not necessary to make the high side part of the craft in the photo below (where the balloons are).

In the same way, according to this principle, we can use rows of accordion trees like rows of fir trees in a forest. And between them put a deer or a snowman, or hide a bunny.
Rows of pots can be used as streets on which to place houses.
Or the rows of such a stand can be folded from blue paper and designed like SEA WAVES, and then all that remains is to stick dolphins or rows of boats on them. Or peeping sharks.

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on a flat cardboard template.

And now we’ll look at crafts for children, where all the elements are glued on a silhouette cut out of thick cardboard.

For example, we take cardboard and draw the silhouette of a shark on it. Any child from 4 years old already learns to cut with scissors - he cuts out the silhouette himself with his own hands, slowly crookedly, but he should already myself cut along the line holding the scissors in a stationary hand, and rotate the sheet of cardboard as the cut line rotates along the silhouette..

When the silhouette of a shark is cut out of blue cardboard, we give the child a round piece of white paper - the child’s task is to cut it into teeth (simply scribble the triangles obliquely with scissors, and then bend each tooth so that it protrudes inside the general circle. And this mouth made of paper remains to be glued onto the silhouette of the shark. And we will get awesome craft for children 4-7 years old. Sharks make great crafts for boys. Little brave souls will be happy to tame this dangerous sea predator.

The appliqué parts do not have to be made of colored paper. For example, the scarf on the polar bear below was cut from a cover of colored paper (the cover was checkered). And the carrot on the hare craft is white cardboard, which were first painted with gouache (yellow-orange-red stripes were painted).

You can see ideas for appliques on a cardboard silhouette in children's cartoons, or see them in children's coloring books.

Such paper crafts for 5-year-old children can become the basis for a children's theater. If you stick on the back of each craft long handle made of thin wooden slats(can be bought in the construction department of the store) - or the handle can be rolled up from a sheet of paper and tightly wrapped with tape for density.
Children, hiding behind a screen and holding their characters on sticks, can perform plays entertaining parents and grandparents with homemade reprises of famous fairy tales.

You can also cut round holes in this craft for children’s fingers - then you can act out scenes from the TABLE THEATER. In the photo below we see a sheep and a hare made of paper with such slots for fingers.

And your paper characters can also have a special FOOT GRIP, and you can insert candy or a pencil and a small gift into this grip for someone.

By the way, here's a good idea - you can stick such a character on a postcard and give him the rolled up one in his paws 100 dollar bill– you will get a gift card with money for a friend’s birthday.

Such crafts made from flat cardboard can be supplemented with FOLD elements (as on the bunny in the photo below), or TWIST elements (as on the snail below). Or additional ENTOURAGE elements (as with the cat below).

Children's crafts

with paper stripes.

You can also make the applique three-dimensional if you use PAPER STRIP LOOPS. Colored paper is cut into strips, and each strip is smoothly folded and glued at its ends. Such curved stripes can be the petals of a lush aster or a modest daisy.

Or such paper loops can serve plumage of a swan– left photo below. This craft is suitable for children aged 4 years and older. They themselves glue the already cut strips into loops and stick them in rows on the tail of the swan.

But the peacock (in the right photo above) is already craft for older children. For grades 1-2 - because in a kindergarten class, children will not have time to make a peacock from start to finish in 25 minutes. But in 45 minutes of a school lesson, children will cope with this task.

Please note that the peacock is made from paper from strips of different lengths. The yellow stripe is the shortest - it is the first to bend into a loop. Then the green strip is glued to the loop with one edge and is also bent to the place where the yellow loop-strip is glued. Then we do the same with a slightly longer blue stripe.

Thus we get EIGHT TRI-COLOR LOOPS for the peacock tail. They all stick together ribs to each other- in one bunch-bouquet. And at the joints of their gluing we attach peacock spots. Then we attach to the back cardboard silhouette of a peacock. Great creative craft.

Below we see how a flower craft is created using the same principle. We also make the tail of our peacock from the photo above in the same way.

Or a paper craft for girls - SANDAL SHOES - here the stripes serve as straps to create a woven toe of paper flip-flops.

And if you cut strips of the SAME LENGTH, then it is convenient to make a spherical braid from them. Such a braid in the form of stripes crossed in a circle can serve as a shell for a turtle, a balloon, or the center of a lush flower or a snowball from a snowman.

Or it could be a tasty apple bitten off from the side (left photo below). You can also put a worm made from a paper spring inside such an apple (see the method with a spring above).

If we glue the strips crosswise in the center... and pierce holes at the ends with a hole punch... and lift these ends with holes up... and collect them on a thread, then we will get a paper pear craft (look at the right photo above).

And if take NOT INDIVIDUAL strips - and cut a sheet of paper into strips WITHOUT CUTTING TO THE EDGE - like a long fringe. And then decorate this long strip fringe in the form of a paper craft-hat.

Using a similar principle, beautiful crafts are made from paper in the form cages with birds. This craft seems complicated only at first glance. But in fact, everything is available for children from 4 years old. And even a 3-year-old child can do it with the help of an adult who will show him where to apply glue and where to stick it.

Below we see this cell in the blank (photo master class). First, these are paper strips on a wide strip of base. Then we wrap the base into a ring. And we bend the strips sticking up into an arch, each relative to each other. A quick and easy craft. All that remains is to make a bird out of paper and hang it on a string under this paper roof.

That is, such a craft is easy to make with your own hands for children even 3-4 years old.

You can also make paper children’s crafts from strips BASED ON A BALL. A ball of stripes is collected on a needle and thread. Since you can’t give a needle to children, you can go the other way and use a hole punch to make holes in three places on each strip in advance - along the center and at two edges.

The strips are folded crosswise onto the central hole - a thread with a bead hanging from below is threaded into it. A large bead at the bottom prevents the strips from slipping off the thread. Next, several more beads are strung on the thread (look carefully inside the sheep, they are visible in the photo). And then the same thread is threaded through all the holes at the ends of all the strips - THIS IS HOW YOU GET A BALL. If anyone doesn’t understand, there is a photo master class in

You can attach any details to such paper balls, turning them either into frogs or hares (as in the photo of children's crafts below). With your own hands and your imagination you can make a wide variety of animals.

Craftswoman Tatyana made these chickens and a hen. What characters will you come up with? Such crafts from stripes can be carried out in 1st, 2nd, 4th grades of school. And it is also suitable for diligent children 5-6 years old.

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using the QUILING technique.

You can also wrap paper strips in a tight roll. Then give this twist the shape of a petal or leaf and make paper flower appliqués with such twists. The technique is quite well known, called quilling. The technique is suitable for children from 5 years old, when the fingers are already dexterous enough to hold the twist on the holder rod.

Below we see how an ordinary round twist is given different shapes (they clamp it with a finger with the right parties) and the twist becomes teardrop-shaped or cup-shaped or triangular. And from such twisted modules we create a quilling applique.

Below we see children's crafts made from colored paper using this technique. You see, the paper consumption does not have to be large - the craft itself looks miniature and can decorate a postcard self made. The child will be pleased to give his mother a handmade card.

Within a school or kindergarten, the time for doing such crafts is limited - and we can make only a few such modules. The process is labor-intensive for children's fingers and takes time. You can divide the craft into 2 lessons - in the first we do modules, in the second we form the craft.

Girls really like this children's craft in the form of a cupcake.

Cupcake and bird is a very quick craft because it doesn’t require a lot of twisting. Children in grades 1 and 2 can make this craft - slowly, carefully twisting and gluing the tails of the twist.

But a bear or a bunny is already a paper craft for children who have gotten their hands on simple quilling tasks. For grades 3, 4, 5, this level of complexity of DIY crafts is just right.

Using the same principle, you can make larger twisted crafts - if you take not a thin cut strip, but a folded sheet of paper. Folding the sheet thickly will allow you to get large twisted parts and from them you can make a large applique - for example, this penguin or an owl from paper.

And large twisted crafts are made from corrugated cardboard. Due to the ribbed relief, such corton forms wide three-dimensional parts and can be used to make 3D paper toys. Craft for the older group of kindergarten or for school (grades 1,2,3,4).

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based on CONE.

A paper cone is also a good base for children's craft ideas. We all made our own Christmas tree from a cone in kindergarten. And now we can make any character out of paper in the form of a cone craft.

To ensure that the cone is not too wide and not too narrow, its layout (flat pattern) should make an angle of more than 90 degrees - usually 120 degrees (as in the photo below) - that is, a third of a full circle.

For a giraffe, you can make the cone thinner and sharper. Then we will need a quarter of a circle (that is, not 120 degrees, but 90 degrees will be enough).

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folded in half.

But here are children's crafts that are made from a sheet of paper that was folded in half and the silhouette cut out - in the end we got a double-sided craft with identical symmetrical sides.

And paper birds can also be made using the same technique. In the bird (pictured below) we see that the wings are a fan made of paper or napkin. And in the fold of the top part of the bird we make a slot and insert a fan there.

For animal crafts, elephant ears can be inserted into such a slot. And also, for example, a lion’s mane made of cardboard or thick paper.

To such FLEXED CRAFTS you can attach not only wings, but also a head - which will be perpendicular to the body. See the photo below with an example of a children's craft “Black Cat” made from paper.

The head of this cat is attached according to the same principle as the wings-fan of the bird above - ALSO IN THE SLOT. If you look closely you will see that the head has also folded, which divides the head into 2 planes (back and front).

THE BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD continues with the ears, AND THE FRONT PLANE OF THE HEAD contains the glued-on eyes and whiskers of the cat.

A slot is made in the back of the cat (like the bird above for the wings) - and the BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD is inserted into this slot. And the front plane simply hangs in front and does not fit into the slot.

A very simple paper craft for older children (age 5-6 years). And for children in grades 1-2 it’s also a great DIY project.

It is possible to provide crafts for such a scheme belly addition– like these hares below. To do this, you just need to draw additional branches of paper in the abdomen area, which then, after bending the silhouette, WRAP IN A ROLL and fasten with a stapler or glue.

You can slightly modify this principle of the craft - leaving the UPPER BACK AREA between the two halves-sides. That is, at the top of the part, make not one fold, but two folds at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other - this is how we get the back.

These cardboard (or thick paper) bears have just such a back.

And these paper birds (pictured below) also have a back. And thanks to this platform, we were able to provide the tail part (it became a natural continuation of the dorsal part of the bird).

Both birds and bears according to this scheme can be drawn in advance on a paper template, then this template can be traced on a sheet of cardboard by drawing in advance the internal fold lines (those that go along the back). And the child’s task is to embed the silhouette of the template and bend it along the internal lines. That is, the craft is accessible to children from 5 years old, and is suitable for middle and older groups of kindergarten and for school lessons on creativity and labor.

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SIMPLE ORIGAMI.

For small children, it is difficult to make multi-step origami crafts. Therefore it is better to start with simple circuits, which are then supplemented with cut out elements, giving them a resemblance to the intended character. This way we will get some easy crafts.

You yourself, with your own hands, you can experiment with a piece of paper - fold it this way and that, and then think about what this folded piece of paper might look like... what if there are ears here, eyes here, and a nose here... wow, this looks like it could make a great MOUSE.

Here’s another simple folding of paper along diagonal lines that makes it possible to get a fold for the “Ladybug” craft. The spots and face can be drawn with a marker or cut out of colored paper.

The simplest thing a small child can do is fold a piece of paper into two folds and get base blank for a character made of paper, whose mouth opens, and therefore you can make him not only a muzzle, but also a mouth with teeth and tongue.

This children's craft is suitable for classes in paper construction in kindergarten. It requires double-sided colored cardboard or equally thick paper. It’s good to buy office equipment for such crafts. colored paper– it has a higher density than standard children's colored paper.

Or children can make these easy ones with their own hands clamshell crafts. To do this, a sheet of paper (A4 size) is cut along a beveled diagonal. And then it is folded into 2 folds (to make 3 parts). The wide side of the folded paper is glued onto a sheet of colored cardboard and then decorated according to the sketch.

Children's paper crafts.

DROP template.

If we fold a wide strip of paper with the ends together, we get drop-shaped twist.

Based on such a simple blank, you can also make a variety of craft designs - a whale made of blue paper, ladybug(glue wings to the drop).

It is convenient to make mice or a hedgehog from a drop-shaped paper template.

Can i add to such teardrop-shaped details on top round paper roll- to make a head. So even more options for simple and easy crafts - bunny, duckling, swallow.

Turn on your imagination and multiply ideas.

And if you connect a whole series of strips together like CHAIN ​​LINKS, you can get such a green crocodile from paper loops.

And here are some more simple crafts based on a wide strip bent into a ring or scaphoid shape.

In the craft with a boat - we first make holder at the bottom of the boat- it’s just a small rectangle of paper with small sides folded on both sides. And then to these curved sides we glue REAL BOAT SIDE BOATS MADE FROM BLUE PAPER. Rectangle with sides in the center will not allow the sides of our boat to collapse towards each other.

The craft is suitable for children aged 5 years and older.

And here is a children's paper craft, which also has white edges made of paper strips that imitate the body of a swan. Here the form holder is a roll of white paper rolled into a long tube. Craft for children 5-6 years old.

Crafts-cards

from paper.

And of course, if you like to make children's crafts from paper and cardboard, then postcard openers are a suitable theme for children aged 3 years and older. Ideas for opening crafts can be very different. For example, an aquarium with fish. Or a Valentine craft with spring birds.

You can make a simple children's craft in the form of a castle - the gates of which will be opened for boys by knights and soldiers, and for girls by beautiful princesses hidden inside a paper bastion.

Crafts-cards can be an excellent handmade gift for March 8th. For example, this cup with tulips. The handle for the cup can be cut out as a separate piece and glued to the side of the mug.

Or you can make an apron craft with carved lace from paper (lace can be obtained from ready-made paper napkins, or cut out a snowflake from paper, trim its lace edge and we will get a border for the apron.

You can cut out the silhouette of a can on a craft and cover it with a thin layer of file (with double-sided tape). And also glue a paper pocket (the back wall of the craft) and put a heart in this transparent pocket at the front.

Here's another technique VOLUME CARDS. It's simple. Fold a sheet of paper in half. And on the edge of the fold we make 2 cuts scissors (any length and width). And then we simply push the space between these cuts inside the postcard with our FINGER - and it PULLS OUT in the form of such a rectangular stand.

And now we stick any element onto this stand. For example, a cupcake.

If you make three pairs of such cuts and push them with your finger inside the card, then you can glue a cupcake to each of them. And on top there are flags. Here is a simple children's craft and it's ready. Interesting and non-standard.

First, practice on a piece of regular sheet - bend it in half, cut it twice and push the cut part inside. You will see that it is simple.

And you can show your children the same thing. And then on such a stand (already pushed inside the postcard) you will stick any craft (butterfly, dinosaur, rocket).

Any original ideas can be implemented using this technique of volumetric postcards. That is, this is another field for children's fantasy paper crafts.

The longer you make paired cuts, the further the stand strip inside your card will be curved. You can see this in the example with the postcard craft in the photo below.

Craft openers can have a surprise in the form of a clamshell fan. Under such a folding bed you can decorate a peacock with a bushy tail.

Of course, such a complex carving (as in the photo below) is difficult for a child. But for children, you can simplify any idea - let the fan not be carved, but simply cut out the peacock spots separately and stick them on the fan blades.

Or the clamshell inside the postcard can be in the form folding chain of symmetrical elements– butterflies, flowers (that is, the main thing is that there is symmetry of the folds).

We cut out any identical details - butterflies, flowers, hearts. The main thing is that the left half and the right are like a mirror image of each other. And then these parts can be glued in halves to each other (not all halves should be coated with glue, but only the outer edges). And then we will get a multi-colored accordion of parts. And paste this accordion into the postcard. Also a beautiful craft - moths, bright against a dark sky background.

These are the ideas I collected and systematized - for your future paper crafts. I am sure that now you will not only be able to repeat the crafts presented here with your children, but also CREATE YOUR OWN WORKS using each of the proposed METHOD.

After all, when you understand the method, and when you see that it allows itself to be widely interpreted - multiplying the same technical idea in the form of the most various crafts– then you just have to CONTINUE THE CHAIN ​​OF IDEAS.

And I wish you the most original creative finds. And the children will be very happy to implement them in the most diligent and inspired way.

Good luck with your children's crafts.
Olga Klishevskaya, especially for the site

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The youngest children begin their acquaintance with the world of crafts with applications made from paper. Next, learning about paper crafts becomes a little more complicated - children learn to make simple cards, flowers, and origami crafts from paper.

And for those who are seriously interested in the technique of quilling, three-dimensional origami, trimming, making baskets from paper tubes, making three-dimensional models, paper becomes the basis for creative self-expression, and often even income-generating work.

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A wall newspaper for Victory Day, made by children with their own hands, is much more than decorating a room. This is a tribute to the memory of our ancestors who died in the battle for freedom. home country. This is a tribute to the heroes who returned home.

With children, every holiday becomes an opportunity to realize interesting ideas and bold ideas. And a craft for Cosmonautics Day should definitely be distinguished by its originality, because the very thoughts about Space begin to excite our imagination.

What form can a children's paper craft for Cosmonautics Day take? Perhaps it will take the form of a starry sky, Space, a rocket, a flying saucer. Or perhaps a real astronaut in a shiny metal spacesuit.

Crafts for children become especially interesting when they have a good practical use. Therefore, in order to instill in a child an interest in creativity, it is better to make with him something that will be useful in the near future - for example, various souvenirs, decorations and gifts for the holidays, which our country is very rich in.

All the children, without exception, make postcards for March 8th in kindergarten with great pleasure. Still would! After all, this gift is intended for the dearest and most important person in their life - MOM.

A DIY Valentine's card will be a very sweet and touching gift for any occasion. The uniqueness of this postcard is that it can be opened and closed thanks to a special rivet.

Are you planning to make a craft for one of your defenders? We invite you to master another interesting technique for working with paper – trimming. By February 23, as well as for any other holiday, using this technique you can make an original and very cute postcard or panel.

Spring is approaching, which means that soon children in all kindergartens will begin making crafts for March 8th. By that time, the older group has already achieved noticeable mastery in this matter, so the crafts of the older group’s children by March 8th are usually distinguished by a certain complexity of production.

The most will come soon fabulous holiday — New Year. The time is coming for New Year's crafts, especially snowflakes. It’s very easy to make voluminous paper snowflakes with your own hands, and the result will be simply amazing.

A candy heart made with your own hands for a loved one will be a very pleasant surprise for anyone. holiday. Its production will not take much time, and the effect after delivery will exceed all your expectations!

Often at school and in kindergarten they give tasks to children, read - to parents, to make crafts on a specified topic, usually for the fall holiday, federal holidays, such as New Year, etc. And here begins the dance of fantasy and the competition of skillful parental hands, we try to remember what we ourselves did in childhood.

But you want the child to also participate in the process and receive pleasure and satisfaction from it. Still, everyone needs creativity. That’s why today I picked up a few fairly simple crafts that you wouldn’t be ashamed to use at a school or kindergarten exhibition. And the baby will be able to repeat this himself, under your strict guidance.

Have you ever cut out snowflakes by folding a piece of paper several times and then cutting out circles and triangles? Most likely yes, and they probably compared later which one turned out more beautiful and more delicate. So the craft that I want to invite you to make is created using this technique.

This basket is suitable for kindergarten and for keeping a small child occupied.

And today we will make a basket.

We need two blanks, as in the photo. I will give you a template, but you can make them yourself; I will also describe the process below.

1.To make them yourself, you need to take a piece of paper and make a 16*16 cm square out of it.

2. And roll towards the middle 4 times.

3. Remember how you made snowflakes as a child. Now we cut off a part from the edge in a semicircle.

It turned out to be a flower.

From each edge between the petals you need to trim a little so that the petals can curl.

4. We also prepare the leaf. Make the leaf square.

We do not cut off a semicircle, but first we need to make a long pestle.

Let's expand.

5. You need a strip of 30*2 cm, glue the handle of the basket.

We decorate it with multi-colored flowers, circles, beads or beads.

We bend the edges of the green leaf.

And glue the basket to the leaf.

You can use this template.

Of course, if the child is small, then you will have to make the blank yourself, but let the baby decorate the basket. He should enjoy this activity.

How to make a watch quickly and easily

And many more can remember how, carried away by the game, they remembered about the craft only for the coming sleep. There is simply no time to stretch out the process: the child has to go to school, and you have to go to work. We need to create something fast, cute and big.

Here is the next version of paper crafts just for this case. It's called "Clock". Depending on the chosen color and decor, this could be a New Year's watch, an autumn holiday, a decoration for a birthday, etc. You can continue the list yourself.

We will need:

• 4 sheets of A4 colored paper
• 4 circles with numbers
• Scissors
• Strip 20-30 cm long
• A piece of black construction paper

The basis for the clock is a fan made from sheets folded into an accordion. Let's start making them.

1. We begin to make an accordion; to do this, we fold the sheet in half along the long side.

2. Now fold the fold line to the edge again and repeat again.

3. Unfold and fold the edge in half towards the first fold.

4. And we continue to bend the sheet of paper in this way until we get a smooth, beautiful accordion.

We also fold the remaining 3 sheets.

5. Fold each corrugation in half and find the middle.

6. Now we make a fan, to do this we coat the edge with glue and glue both parts.

This is what the preparation should look like. We form the remaining fans.

7. Now we assemble the clock, for this we glue the fans together.

8. Cut out arrows from black paper.

9. And glue them to the clock.

10. Cover the junction with decor, a circle, a snowflake.

11. Glue the numbers.

12. Glue a strip to hang the clock.

That's all the work!

We make DIY crafts step by step for children from 9 to 11 years old

For older children, nine or eleven years old, I can offer an option for a simple, beautiful craft. But it requires care and accuracy. This is a beautiful ball of paper. You can also decorate a room with it, or you can take it to school for a holiday, or use it to make fruits or vegetables from your homework. And it looks very beautiful and unusual.

By the way, it is done without the use of glue, stapler, or tape. All you need is paper and scissors.

We make blanks as in the photo, you need to make 12 of them.

We cut out the blanks. You can make them yourself, so there is no special template.

To draw them beautifully, I suggest first drawing a pentagon with equal sides, and then using a compass to draw a semicircle with a diameter equal to the width of the side to each side. I hope I explained it clearly. In other words, the pitch of the compass leg will be the same as the width of the side.

Cut straight lines and bend them a little. Now we insert the blanks into each other.

Here is a photo of what the ball looks like in the process.

This is a fairly simple craft, but it requires dexterity and accuracy, so it will be just right for children 9-11 years old. Small child may not cope with this task or tear the workpiece.

By the way, you can take thicker paper, so the ball will turn out denser.

Corrugated paper cone

Flowers and candy bouquets are usually made from corrugated paper, but we will make a cone. Because boys like to make flowers more, but all children, regardless of gender, can make a spruce branch with cones.

We will need:

• Corrugated paper: brown and blue (green)
• Scissors
• Thread

1. Take a brown roll and cut off one edge without unpacking.

2. Cut the fold to make two strips.

3. Bend the edge 1 cm along the entire length.

4. Now we wrap the tucks along this edge, as in the photo.

5. We begin to roll this ribbon into a cone, leaving only the openwork edge on top.

6. The end of the cone can be tied with a rope, then we wrap it with a strip of blue or green corrugated paper.

7. Now we make twigs from the green strip. We cut the edge wider than the middle.

8. And we roll these strips into pine needles and twist them lengthwise, like a cone.

And here is a detailed video on how to make a bump.

Cardboard crafts for kids 5-6 years old

Well, what to do with small children? After all, they are interested in it in most cases. I offer two simple crafts. Not everyone still knows how to cut exactly along the lines, but they should still like the result. We will make a three-dimensional tree from cardboard and paper and a simple dog using the origami technique.

Cardboard tree

We will need:

• sheets of paper,
• cardboard,
• pen,
• glue,
• scissors.

1.Two A4 sheets need to be folded together and folded in half vertically.

2. And draw a tree so that part of the trunk is on the bend. Cut out the workpiece.

3. Fold the tree in half to determine its middle.

4. Now we separate the sheets and get 2 blanks.

We also find the middle of the second tree.

5. Now we retreat 3 mm from the fold for the first workpiece from the bottom to half, and for the second from the top to half.

6. You get two such halves of one tree.

7. Now we transfer these patterns onto cardboard and cut out the trunk.

8. You need to cut out leaves of different sizes from colored paper and glue them to the branches.

Now the tree needs to be assembled by inserting cardboard blanks into the grooves of each other.

You can make flowers or juicy fruits fruits and berries.

Paper craft for kids “Dog”

The entire craft is created from just one piece of paper and is done quickly, the child will not have time to get tired. But diligence must be on top level to bend everything correctly.

leaf white 10*10 cm.

Fold the leaf diagonally. This will be the head of our dog. Then we fold it again, so we determine the middle.

We wrap the edges, form ears, we do this in any order, but so that the tip extends beyond the sheet.

Now we are making a muzzle; for this we bend the bottom corner a little.

Let's cut out two small circles in advance and draw black pupils in them, these will be the eyes. Cut out a pink tongue and a black nose. And glue it all to the muzzle.

Did your children like the dog?

Paper leaves for school: 4th grade on the theme of autumn

Autumn is usually represented by either colorful leaves or an abundance of fruits and vegetables. We will also recreate it in the form of leaves. But they will be quite labor-intensive, but very beautiful.

Craft “Autumn leaf”

We will need:

• Need 5 squares 15*15 cm
• Rectangle 15*5 cm
• Double sided tape
• Scissors
• Stapler

1. Find the diagonal of the square by folding it in half, and then in half again.

2. We make 3 cuts on this triangle, leaving 3 mm from the fold.

We open the workpiece.

3. We begin to glue the corners into a tube. The first layer is to make the middle, using double-sided tape.

4. Turn over and glue the next corners.

5. And glue the remaining two corners, but alternately turning the leaf over.

This is the part of the leaf you will get. We make 4 more such leaves.

6. For the stem, simply twist a tube from a paper rectangle.

We connect the leaves with the stem, securing them with a stapler.

Watch the video on how to make these leaves.

Craft “Wreath of autumn leaves”

And here we will create a whole composition of autumn leaves, it looks very elegant and self-sufficient!

We need 10 squares 8*8 cm. Choose the color of the paper to match the colors of autumn.

Let's start making a yellow leaf.

1.Fold it in half, then fold each side into another half. You will get two large triangles.

2. Turn the leaf over and fold the remaining part to get two small triangles. As shown in the photo. We make 6 such blanks.

3. Now fold the next leaf in half again.

4. We wrap the two edges to make two large triangles and leave them.

5. Now we collect the leaf. We take the first two blanks and one with large triangles, coat the edges and glue it inside the first two blanks, as in the photo. It's like we'll put it inside.

6. Now you need to make a twig. To do this, turn the leaf over front side and put another piece of paper under it.

Glue it.

7. Turn it over to the wrong side and trim the leaf for the branch along the edges of the future leaf. This is necessary so that everything looks neat.

8. Now we wrap the cut edges inward and glue them.

We need at least 8 of these leaves.

Lay out a circle and glue them on top of each other to create a rounded shape for the wreath.

All leaves need to be connected to each other.

Schemes and templates

Most often, it is kids who make crafts, so I want to give here a few templates and diagrams that can be used in joint creativity.

For example, simply trace, attach a blank sheet of paper to the computer, cut out and let your child decorate.

Or suggest gluing butterflies to a piece of paper, but this is more related to appliqués.

Or make a wreath from such leaves.

Patterns of animals and trees.

Or tell your child that the bell is blue, cut it out and color it.

These are the crafts I prepared today to complete homework or decorate your apartment for the holiday.

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 you need: acrylic paints, pebbles, water and a brush, a 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, 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 thread.

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, using felt-tip pens or paints, we draw the “background” of the 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. We 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, markers, 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 form 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, decorate Christmas balls, and sculpt 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.