The most enjoyable time is communicating with your child. Cognitive games or creative activities develop visual imagination, spatial orientation and hand motor skills. Making a toy with your own hands is very simple and interesting for both adults and children.
What types of crafts are there?
Any materials can be used for the work. Based on the age and gender of the child, you can choose the right product.
Children up to 3-5 years old love to ride in the car, feeling protected from all sides. At the age of 5-7 years, it is interesting to play with crafts, inventing the course of events and various adventures. Older children want to create something bright and unusual for decoration or a gift.
Crafts can be divided into three types:
- Volumetric;
- Flat;
- Edible.
Volume cars
Volumetric designs are suitable for girls and boys of different ages. Cars can be large for riding or small for playing and decorating. They are made from: cardboard box, toy box, toilet paper roll, notebook sheet, stationery cardboard, pasta, beads and other accessories, fabric, foam rubber, plastic bottle, plasticine, matches, wooden blocks, pine cones.
Flat
Most often, flat machines are made in the form of a painting or applique. Very little children work with colored paper, older children can use: cereals, beads, plasticine, leaves of various trees and bushes.
Edible
The most exciting process is to prepare a delicious craft. Children enjoy playing cook and look forward to the results. For such crafts, everything that is in the refrigerator is used, you just need to give free rein to your imagination. A car baked in the oven with banana wheels looks not only beautiful, but also appetizing. A cucumber convertible or a pear bus, to accustom your child to vegetables and fruits.
Types of waste that can be used
Crafts made from household waste are the best, especially if made with children. Often in kindergartens and schools, instilling concern for the environment, educators assign tasks to make crafts from recycled materials.
Think about what goes into your trash bin every day, including non-degradable solid waste? This does not mean from garbage, but from unnecessary things that will subsequently end up in a landfill.
You don’t even realize how many “unnecessary things” can be given a second life. It can be:
- egg containers;
- tubes left over from using paper towels and toilet paper;
- chocolate packaging, candy wrappers;
- tins and beverage cans;
- disposable plastic tableware;
- bottles of used shampoo, perfumes, detergents, canisters of conditioners;
- paper bags left over from a trip to the store;
- old pencils, felt-tip pens, wax crayons, pens;
- plastic bottles and caps;
- plastic bags;
- Tetrapacks for juices and dairy products;
- boxes of candy, shoes, equipment, matchboxes;
- used disks;
- Kinder Surprise containers;
- packaging for pastries and pies;
- straws for drinks;
- used light bulbs;
- old clothes, magazines, newspapers.
These are just a few of the items that are great materials for creating DIY eco-friendly crafts with your kids.
And if you combine several materials, you can create so many things! It may happen that a child does not want to create toys, he will go beyond these limits and begin to design jewelry, eco-design accessories, clothing items, decor for the interior or summer cottage.
Convertible from a roll
Quickly and easily, turn a cardboard toilet paper roll into a convertible for a toy man. This craft can be fun to play with or put up as a figurine.
To do this you need: an empty roll, scissors, markers or paints, glue. In the middle part, cut an oval with scissors, leaving a few centimeters short on one side. Bend the resulting part inward, in the shape of a seat. On a white sheet of cardboard, draw five circles, 2-3 centimeters in diameter, these are the wheels and steering wheel, decorate and cut them out.
To make the wheels and steering wheel rotate, you can use toothpicks as a connection; be sure to break off the sharp ends and cover them with plasticine. Before assembly, decorate the frame and glue small parts, for example: headlights, door handles, exhaust pipe. All these little things are pre-cut from plain or colored paper.
Rules for working with waste
- When choosing a material for creativity with children, it is important to take into account such criteria as safety and ease of use. The smaller the child, the more supervision he needs.
- Before giving this or that material to a child, you need to make sure that it is clean, dry, and does not have sharp edges or jagged edges.
- When gluing parts, use hot glue or an iron in the presence of adults or be done by adults themselves.
- You need to be very careful when making crafts from used light bulbs so as not to crush them in your hand or break them.
- Use paint in aerosol cans only outdoors.
Application made of cereals and colored paper
This picture will decorate any room, not just a children's room. Making a car out of paper and cereals will appeal to children of any age.
For this we need: a rectangle made of cardboard, any color will do. Colored paper or typewriter printed. Silicate or PVA glue, brush and various cereals.
We begin work by forming a machine out of paper. After drawing the body, wheels, steering wheel, bumper and other additional parts on colored paper, cut them out and glue them to the base. Gradually applying glue to the right places, we fill it generously with grains, for example: wheels with buckwheat, glass with semolina, body with peas or lentils, be guided by the main color of each part.
The background can be decorated with multi-colored pasta. Leave it in a horizontal position for several hours to allow the glue to dry. One hour later and the craft is ready.
Material for fakes
Online stores with goods for handicrafts and creativity are gaining momentum.
This option is an expanded assortment, the ability to purchase goods to order and get what you need without any problems:
- beads, paper;
- molds, clay;
- epoxy resin;
- decoupage kits and more.
There are a lot of products for creativity, looking at them is a pleasure, use them for pleasure.
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Paints
Creating cute animals with acrylic paints, artistic style of self-realization. The process is fascinating and entertaining, even an adult will be interested in how original creations are created.
This is not a monotonous picture, this is the art of drawing in which you can highlight and emphasize every single detail, highlight the fur, draw eyes and paws. Fluffy animals usually evoke tenderness and all sorts of tender feelings in us; they look real.
Fascinating process
Synthetic winterizer placed inside while the product is still in production allows you to minimize material consumption. A small piece will be enough; giving it the shape of a ball, we will fasten it with threads for reliability. We pierce it through and tighten it, it becomes dense and elastic.
- Take white wool for deboning
- We tear off small pieces and roll them onto the base - the ball.
- As soon as the ball is completely covered with fur, the process of forming a muzzle begins.
- Select the desired size and tear off a piece of wool, felt it using a silicone sponge
- To connect the parts now and in the future, for the visual integrity of the dog, use small pieces of the original material, masking the joints with it.
How to fold a car correctly according to the diagram
Most products do not require additional gluing of parts. It is suggested to simply transfer the diagram onto paper or cardboard, and then cut out the base. You can fold it so that there are only 3-4 seams left, which can be sealed with double-sided tape. The main difficulty is that the paper is fragile and can tear if folded incorrectly.
It is better to use a ruler for folding. Additionally, you need to explain to the child and show how it is done correctly. After several attempts, he will have the desire to assemble a whole fleet of vehicles on his own.
Almost done
When the muzzle is laid down, we begin processing and highlighting the details. We use a needle, just as at the initial stage, when we formed the padding polyester roller. We made indentations for the eyes and highlighted the muzzle.
- The lower lip of the dog is made separately and pressed onto the overall structure using the same methods, using pieces of wool
- For the nose we use black wool
- The last stage - paws and tail
Too difficult? Of course not, you just have to create a miracle once and your hobby will swallow you whole.
Flowers for kindergarten
Flowers always bring joy. They are the best gift for women, they are pleasant to contemplate. The beauty and grace of each petal evokes tenderness.
Therefore, DIY flowers for kindergarten are an inexhaustible source of ideas. What kind of flowers are not made for kindergarten? Children of younger groups make the simplest flowers: chamomile, sunflower, tulip. They do not require special skills; they can easily even create a composition on a floral theme.
Children of older groups and schoolchildren create more serious flowers: roses, peonies, chrysanthemums. And they use a variety of materials in crafts.
