Applications for children – 50+ master classes from different materials

Volumetric, interesting and varied applications for children made from paper and other materials. A collection of simple ideas for creative activities.

The development of fine motor skills is of great importance for children. Applique is a great way to develop and train your fingers. Classes give an idea of the structure of the material, color, develop spatial thinking, coordination, precision of movements, and imagination.

This collection includes different themes dedicated to holidays and seasons. All works are presented in a brief summary with links to master classes that are on the website.

Volumetric applications for children: TOP best ideas

Octopus applique

A three-dimensional applique with octopuses is an interesting creative work made from scrap materials. Step-by-step creation of octopuses from a sleeve and threads.

Volumetric boat

The “Boat” application shown in this master class can become the basis of a greeting card. For example, as a congratulation on February 23rd.

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Application with a sailboat on the waves

This review presents the three-dimensional application “Sailboat”. When creating it, you can introduce children to sailboats that move using the power of the wind.

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Palm tree and island made of circles

The island palm tree applique is a simple craft idea for kids using different sized paper circles.

Applications for children - girl in the meadow

The applique “Girl in the Meadow” is a voluminous paper creative work for children, bright and interesting for summer.

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Roses in a vase

A simple applique with roses for children with step-by-step photos. Rose flowers are very simple, they are circles of different sizes.

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Flower in a vase

Bright volumetric applique “Flower in a vase”. The flower itself is made of paper strips, and the vase is paper folded into an accordion.

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Palm with flowers made from napkins

Original crafts can be made if you take as a basis a simple palm, outlined and cut out of paper. In our application it will become the basis for flowers made from napkins. You will find details on creating such a craft in the proposed master class.

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Flowers made from viscose napkins

Volumetric appliqués can be made not only from paper. This master class presents an applique with flowers made from viscose napkins.

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Chamomiles from openwork napkins

A postcard with daisies made from openwork napkins and pompons - a simple applique for children made from paper, napkins, and pompons.

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Ladybugs on the grass

A bright applique with ladybugs is an excellent option for children's creativity in spring and summer. The details are all simple, which children will love.

Ladybug in the clearing

Another voluminous applique with a ladybug - very beautiful, bright and completely simple. The work is based on the long stripes that make up the popular insect. This technique is in demand, it is often used in children's creativity.

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Volumetric cactus

An excellent applique for children is a three-dimensional cactus. For a step-by-step overview of creating this prickly plant from colored paper, follow the link.

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Dandelion

The voluminous applique “Dandelion” is made of colored paper and scrap materials. The use of different materials fuels interest and develops children's imagination and sense of composition.

Beautiful daffodils

An interesting three-dimensional applique with daffodils for children's creativity. A step-by-step overview of how to make spring flowers in 3D.

Summer applique for children with a kitten

The children's applique “Kitten” is very bright, reminiscent of a carefree summer, vacations, and entertainment. It’s extremely easy to make, especially since the review includes a template of a kitten and grass.

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simple sunflower

The sunflower applique is made of paper circles. The work itself is easy, especially if you have a figured hole punch.

Application with rowan

An interesting job for children is a rowan applique using the origami technique. This could be a group activity for fall-themed activities. The work is simple, but it requires perseverance and time to make a certain number of rowan berries and leaves.

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Applications for children made from hearts

Even the youngest children can make heart appliqué. Check out the most interesting and simple ideas on how to create animals, birds, insects, and plants from hearts.

For Mom

The applique for mom consists of voluminous balloons in the shape of hearts and flags tied to them with the inscription “mom.” The work can be timed to coincide with Mother’s Day, March 8, or mother’s birthday.

Bouquet in the palm

Applications made from children's palms are very popular. You can make a lot of interesting things, characters, and crafts from them. The work represents a child's hand presenting a bouquet of flowers to its mother. The idea is not new, but still interesting and original. After all, every time in the paper likeness of a child’s hand there can be different flowers, varying in type and color.

Chicks in a nest made of plastic plate

A very simple application “Chicks in the Nest” combines a variety of materials: cardboard, plastic dishes, toothpicks. Make it with your children; the work will not take much time, but will bring a lot of smiles and fun.

Volumetric fish in an aquarium

Bright and nimble waterfowl attract all children, so they will definitely love the voluminous applique “Fish in the Aquarium”. But the fish themselves in this work are quite complex. Therefore, if children are small, it is better to make simple multi-colored fish in a flat form. You also don’t need to make a very small aquarium, since making small fish using this technique is quite problematic, especially for children.

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Applications from cotton pads

A selection of simple ideas for an applique made from cotton pads created by children. List and links to master classes.

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Volumetric hearts

There are many ways you can do something nice for your loved one. The simplest of them is to say about it or give a card. This master class includes a card with hearts, bright and simple.

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Cactus with hearts

This master class presents a voluminous card for February 14 with a cactus and hearts, which you can give to your loved ones in honor of Valentine's Day.

Lion made of maple leaves and paper

The lion leaf applique consists of several dried maple leaves, as well as a paper face, which is easy to draw and cut out of colored paper. This creative work can be done by children of senior preschool and school age. And for the little ones, you can prepare the lion’s head in advance. After that, all they have to do is arrange the leaves in a circle and glue the paper blank on top.

Birds made from maple leaves

Dry leaves can be an ideal material for creating all kinds of applications. Sometimes their shape already resembles a character, you just need to be able to see it and add a couple of touches. For example, these funny birds are either owls or jackdaws. Simple to create, but capable of bringing a smile to everyone who sees them.

Snowdrops

An excellent option for creative work with children at the end of winter and beginning of spring is the application of snowdrops. I offer you two easy ideas that are interesting and useful for developing children’s fine motor skills.

Snowdrop applique

Another option for snowdrops, which can be decorated in the form of a panel. The work consists of three-dimensional snowdrop flowers, paper leaves and cotton wool imitating snow.

Loop by loop

This technique is good for making hanging decorations, for example, for the New Year, Women's Day, Harvest Festival. These could be snowflakes, flowers, leaves or shapes of vegetables and fruits.

Simple and beautiful three-dimensional crafts from strips of paper are made by connecting modules of different sizes. To do this, sheets of colored or white paper are cut into strips of the same width but different lengths. The ends of each strip are glued together to form loops of various sizes.

If smaller loops need to be placed inside larger ones, then the longer strips are glued with their ends to the place where the shorter ones are glued, forming larger loops on top of the smaller ones, and the finished model is assembled from the resulting complex parts.

The loops of more complex crafts can be connected either sequentially or by alternating the upper position of the arc with the lower one. In order not to lose the original geometric basis, during assembly you can use a contour drawn on paper or a cut out template.

Winter applications for children

Bear on an ice floe

This master class presents a simple three-dimensional applique “Bear on an Ice Floe”, made of blue and white paper and cardboard.

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Trees in winter

A simple winter applique made of cotton wool “Trees in the Snow” for children's creativity. A child-friendly plot, easy actions, and a combination of textured materials. How to interest a child in creative activities? This is a question many parents ask. Try offering your child to work not with colored paper or plasticine, but with cotton wool. Using this material, you will get an interesting winter-themed applique.

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Applique with a voluminous bullfinch

You can start working on this craft with a riddle. Let the child try to guess the bird whose breast is brighter than the dawn. It is by their bright red breast that we recognize bullfinches. In today's master class we have the application “Bullfinch on a branch”.

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Winter bird feeder

Winter applique “Bird Feeder” is made of paper and cotton wool. This is a simple winter themed creative activity idea for kids.

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Colored rings

One of the simplest ways to create crafts from paper strips is to model products from ring modules. For many decades, kids have been enthusiastically cutting sheets of colored paper into strips and, alternately gluing their ends, assembling New Year's garlands-chains.

Now the imagination of the creators has stepped much further. From such rings, glued to a base with a pre-applied contour and flat elements, tree crowns, grape bunches, lush inflorescences, bird and butterfly wings, goldfish scales, animal fur, and people's hairstyles are formed.

Such crafts made from strips of paper for children are both educational and a fun game.

New Year's applications for children

Christmas tree applications

The winter beauty of the Christmas tree can come in a variety of designs. In addition to crafts, children will also love the “Paper Christmas Tree” applique, especially since you can choose any desired option from the ten presented below. This is some kind of collection of all the works together, with links to detailed reviews with photos and instructions.

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Funny deer

The New Year's applique "Deer" is suitable for children of all ages. It is very easy to make, and then show your creative talents and decorate it festively and brightly.

Volumetric snowman

A postcard with a snowman is a wonderful three-dimensional applique that a child can make for his loved ones on the eve of the New Year holidays.

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Toy on a branch

A New Year's card with a three-dimensional branch and a toy is an excellent holiday applique, a gift to loved ones that a child can make with his own hands.

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This is not all applications for children; the selection will be supplemented with new and interesting ideas, voluminous, using different materials and techniques.

To be continued…

Thread after needle

Beautiful and easy-to-make bookmarks for books and notebooks are obtained if a wide strip is folded twice lengthwise so that the width of the outer sectors, glued along the edge, matches the width of the central one. A column of slots of the same length is made in it, located at the same distance from each other.

A narrow strip of paper of a contrasting color is pulled through these slits in a manner reminiscent of a running stitch. Its ends are decorated, giving them the shape of an arrow or a flag.

If you want to complicate the product, make it more elegant, you can pull not one, but three stripes through the base, arranging the slots in a checkerboard pattern. The ends of these “strings” can be hidden under the base, decorated with flowers or stars separately or connected to each other.

The latter method is also good for more detailed plot crafts. For example, several rows of strips drawn through a template base can imitate fish scales, bird plumage and wings, a patchwork rug, etc.

Dog

To make a dog, several strips should be glued to a circle to create a body. The head, tail and paws are cut out separately. The peculiarity of the design is that, if desired, the head can be replaced using different breeds of dogs.

Volume of applique crafts

Creating a pattern by gluing multi-colored pieces of fabric or paper - applique. Making a three-dimensional applique craft is not an easy task. However, having the initial simple skills to create such images, you can engage in such creativity.

If you devote a little time to activities with your baby every day, then little by little, without much difficulty, he will master this technique and independently “create” to the delight of himself and those around him. For such crafts, you need to stock up on colorful paper, glue, scissors, cardboard and a stencil. Good luck.

Rooster

To create a cockerel, several strips are glued to thick paper. The body is given an elongated shape. The craft is completed with feathers, a comb and a beak. All parts of the corresponding colors are attached to the base. The final result is bright and colorful, thanks to the selection of shades.

Features of corrugated paper

Corrugation is an excellent material for creating unique crafts. This paper has a number of characteristic features that distinguish it from similar materials.

These properties include:

A peculiar density of the structure.
Practicality.
Low cost.
Lightness and softness.
The ability to simply and quickly change shape.
Possibility of production from unnecessary waste paper and recyclable materials.
Environmental safety.
Admissibility of drawing and inscription.
Light weight.

All the advantages of corrugated paper allow you to create a large number of crafts and compositions using a minimum of tools.

Paper weaving

A technique that has long been mastered, but is not losing popularity, is various types of paper weaving. They differ from each other in materials and degrees of complexity. For some, you need color, and for others, newspaper.

In both cases, if the work is done carefully and correctly, the craft will look impressive and will be a wonderful home decoration or gift to a friend.

Basket

To make it, you need to take the same (even) number of strips of two different colors and weave them together in a checkerboard pattern, forming the bottom. The number of strips depends on their thickness and the planned size of the basket.

Having finished working on the bottom part, bend the free part of the strips up. Cut strips whose length slightly exceeds the length of the bottom perimeter. Weave them in, alternating colors, until the walls are of the desired height.

The ends of the woven strips are fixed with paper clips or glued together. When finishing the work, bend the edges of the strips inward and glue them. The handle of the basket can be made in the shape of a pigtail.

Snail

Another option for simple crafts that can be made from lines. From purple paper you need to cut one long line, the other much shorter. Roll them into rings. The large ring should have a twist inside.

Also don't forget to cut out the horns and glue them to the head. Using a marker, draw eyes and a mouth.

Funny owl

The main color is light brown. Several tapes are glued to the circle, they form a circle. The body should be exactly round, without oblongs. The craft is decorated with paws and wings made of yellow paper. White circles are used for the eyes, the pupils are drawn in with a black felt-tip pen.

Lesson for adults

Have you ever seen intricate panels, postcards and photo frames made of intricately curved curls? What about openwork boxes, napkin holders and decorative vases and tea sets made of tightly twisted spirals?

All of these are crafts made from thin strips of paper, or quilling. A technique that involves twisting paper using a thin base - an awl, needle, knitting needle, rod and creating modules of various shapes from them by pulling and pinching individual loops.

Traditional modules are “spiral”, “oval”, “square”, “rhombus”, “semicircle”, “drop”, “eye”, “leaf”, “month”, “wing”, “foot”, “arrow” and "tulip". These modules are called closed forms. Most often, their ends are fixed with glue. Open and combined spirals do not require fixation.

Having prepared the required number of modules, they are glued to the base or to each other, creating the desired shape or image corresponding to the sketch. This work requires increased attention and cannot be rushed.

However, the result can delight even experienced craftsmen. It’s not for nothing that in ancient times this art was considered the art of kings!

If your imagination requires something unknown, feel free to arm yourself with scissors, paper and glue and experiment. Perhaps, thanks to you, a new technique will be born that allows you to create something beautiful from ordinary paper strips.

Weaving from newspaper tubes

Complex, beautiful, surprisingly naturalistic and very practical products are made from materials that are sometimes considered useless, called recycled materials.
Old newspapers are actually flexible, malleable and easy to use. To work, it needs to be cut lengthwise into strips about 9 cm thick. Each strip is wound onto a knitting needle located to the paper fabric at an angle of 45 - 60°. Secure the end with glue.

The number of tubes depends on the size of the product. You can weave them into a basket, box, decorative shoe or bast shoe. Products made in this way are painted with acrylic or tempera in several layers.

Weaving tubes can also be made from old magazines, cash register tapes or office paper. They will differ in density and rigidity. This technique cannot be called simple, because in order to make such crafts from strips of paper with your own hands, you will need not only a certain skill, but also a lot of patience and perseverance.