Preparation
For crafts made from paper circles and semicircles you will need:
- Scissors;
- Glue;
- Pencil or felt-tip pen;
- Compass.
When working with children, you will need to look at pictures on the Internet. If necessary, you can print the images and cut out the templates.
Let's make a ladybug!
To make the bug adored by children, you will need the following circles:
- 2 red or yellow, 8 cm in diameter;
- black with a diameter of 7 cm;
- black – 6 cm;
For the background you need double-sided colored cardboard. It is advisable to choose green, but you can choose based on your taste. To convey details in your work, you will need a black marker/felt-tip pen.
Various options
Looking at photographs of crafts made from circles of paper, we see that with the help of such geometric shapes it is possible to make animals, insects, and various fairy-tale and cartoon characters.
Let's look at a few of the simplest options that the youngest children can do.
Let's complete the look!
Using a black marker, draw antennae and a sting. Small white and black circles have already been prepared for the eyes. First, white figures are glued one opposite the other, then black ones are glued on top of them.
Making a bee's mouth is easy using a red marker.
Teddy Bear
The most popular theme for paper crafts is the production of animals beloved by children such as bear cubs, elephant calves, various insects (butterflies, caterpillars) or bright flowers.
To make a cute teddy bear, you will need to carry out the following procedures:
- A large circle (the body of the animal) is outlined with a compass and then cut out of dark brown paper;
- A smaller circle (head) and five of even smaller diameter are cut out of a lighter brown;
- Four small circles will become the bear's paws;
- The fifth circle is cut into two parts, each of which will serve as an ear;
- Two small circles are cut out from white paper, and one larger one is orange;
- Black dots are applied to the white blanks and we get eyes;
- Several strokes are applied to the orange circle (muzzle) - the mouth and nose of the animal.
All that remains is to glue all the parts of the teddy bear onto a sheet of paper.
Bee for preschoolers
You will need:
- 2 yellow/orange circles with a diameter of 7 cm;
- black/brown circle – 7 cm;
- 2 white circles 6 cm each;
- 2 pieces of white circles – 2 – 2.5 cm;
- 2 black circles – 1.5 – 2 cm;
- colored double-sided cardboard for the background.
Elephant
The stages of work will be practically no different from the previous version when making a baby of the largest land mammal on the planet.
- For this work you will need the same materials and tools as in the case of the teddy bear. The only difference will be in the color of the paper - you must use either bluish or gray material.
- It will take seven laps.
- The largest one is for the body of a baby elephant, two smaller ones are for the head and ear. The two smallest ones will become the legs. The remaining two circles are cut into four semicircles. Two of them will be used to make the trunk, and another pair will be used for the feet.
- Gluing should begin with the body (the largest circle), then the head is glued. Stepping back a centimeter from the head, the ear is glued. The trunk is formed from two semicircles. Two small circles and two semicircles will become the baby elephant's legs and feet.
All that remains is to draw the eye (the baby elephant is drawn in profile), a small tail and the cute animal is ready.
We work with the base of the product
Take a large brown circle and visually divide it into 3 parts. We bend 1/3 of the total figure. At a distance of 1-1.5 cm, a second bend is made, but in the other direction.
A torso was formed with a clear demarcation of the back and abdomen. The workpiece is glued on the side where the first bend was made. The smaller part of the circle does not stick.
To form the legs, you need to bend 4 yellow circles in half 2 times. Stripes should form. 2 legs are placed behind the donkey's belly (the part that is free from glue). And the second two are on the front side.
We fold one of the three brown circles into 2 equal parts - this is the donkey’s neck. We fasten it in the direction in which the head is planned. The workpiece is placed so that the convex side of the semicircle faces up and the straight side faces down.
To make the head, you need to take the remaining yellow circle and fold it into 4 parts. It is attached to the neck with the widened side, the pointed corner at the bottom.
Owl - wise head
Another applique made from circles of colored paper for children will be making a bird, a symbol of wisdom.
- It will be necessary to prepare one large brown circle. He will fulfill the role of both the body and the head. Two semicircles (gray or brown) will go on the owl’s wings. One small circle should be divided into four parts. Attach one to the head (beak), painted yellow, and use the other two quarters (black) as paws.
- All that remains is to make two semicircles for the ears, draw the eyes, glue all the blanks and the owl is ready. To complete the picture, you can glue some thin branch on which the owl will sit, preparing for the night hunt.
Volume applique Fish
Options:
- Purple circle 5 cm for the muzzle.
- Multi-colored 2 cm for scales – 14 pcs.
- Purple 3 cm for the tail – 2 pcs.
- White 1 cm for the eye.
- Black for the pupil.
- Red for the mouth.
- We form a fish muzzle from a semicircle.
- Circles of different colors act as volumetric scales. Bend the spheres in half and apply glue to one half. Create the body by lightly layering circles on top of each other in the following order:
- First, second, third row of 3 elements in one row.
- Fourth, fifth row of 2 elements in 1 row.
- Sixth row – 1 element.
- The tail will be made from two halves of a circle.
We place the eyes on the head: the white and the pupil, and also install a mouth from half a round piece.
Insect
One of the circle crafts that can be given as an assignment in kindergarten is making a caterpillar.
- This is a very simple task that kids can complete on their own.
- Here the child can give free rein to his imagination and cut out (under the supervision of his parents) six to seven circles of either one color, or make a caterpillar in all the colors of the rainbow.
- It won’t be difficult either to glue the circles onto cardboard or to decorate the eyes, mouth and small horns on the insect’s head.
Children's creativity
The work of creating crafts is the same game for children, only requiring perseverance and a certain skill. During games, children better assimilate the knowledge that adults teach them.
Involving children in decorating their own room is not only possible, but also should. Seeing that their work is in demand, approved by their parents and put on public display, children try with renewed vigor.
The correct position for parents is to go together with their children to exhibitions of children's creativity.
The children, clearly seeing what creations their peers are creating, get excited about the idea of mastering the skill themselves. This instills taste, develops hand motor skills, and teaches perseverance.
Flowers
The applique in the form of a vase with flowers is very bright and impressive.
- First you will need to cut out circles from multi-colored paper, and then cut them into halves.
- The robot can also be made from white paper and then painted in the required colors.
- The number of semicircular blanks depends on how many petals the child is going to use to decorate the flowers with leaves.
- One, the largest semicircle, will become a vase. Five to six small semicircles will become flower petals.
- It is completely up to the child what color to paint them.
- You should explain to the baby that for greater naturalness and beauty it is necessary to glue a couple of green petals to each flower.
How many flowers to place in a vase also depends on the child’s wishes.
Cheburashka
Crafts made from paper circles can also become a school assignment in primary school. Typically, such tasks are given to children when they begin to introduce them to various geometric shapes.
The teacher’s task is to do this in the simplest possible way, and what could be easier than making your favorite cartoon character?
At the very beginning of work, the child will have to prepare several circles of different diameters:
- One is the largest for the torso;
- The second one is smaller for the head;
- Two more circles will need to become ears;
- Two semicircles will become Cheburashka’s arms, and two more (slightly larger in diameter) will become his legs.
All that remains is to stick all the blanks onto a sheet of thick paper, and the school assignment is completed.
Crocodile Gena
Well, how can Cheburashka do without his best friend? Moreover, it is no more difficult to make than a former nameless toy that no one approached in the store.
All the work will consist of preparing semicircles from green paper:
- The two largest semicircles will go on the body and head of the crocodile.
- Four more blanks of smaller diameter will become the paws of Cheburashka’s friend.
- Six to eight small semicircles should be placed like a ridge along the entire back of the crocodile.
All that remains is to draw the eyes and, if desired, an accordion. Here are the inseparable friends together again, now at a children's applique!
