The article tells what kind of crafts you can do with your children. From the article you will also learn about how to make decorations for Easter with kids. It is good if parents accustom their beloved children to needlework from an early age. Then children will grow up to be creative people, able to see in volume, create interesting things from any material.
Crafts with children for Easter
Start preparing for this bright holiday in advance. These colored thread eggs can be taken as crafts to kindergarten, elementary school, or placed on a festive table.
You will make such openwork translucent decorations for Easter from ordinary threads. Here is a complete list of the essentials for needlework:
- a small oval-shaped balloon;
- colored yarn;
- PVA glue or water with sugar;
- brush;
- thread;
- needle.
Inflate the balloon, tie it with a thread. Start wrapping with yarn.
The yarn tends to slide over such a surface. Therefore, first make a few vertical, then horizontal, and only then diagonal. After you are satisfied with the work done - the weave density becomes sufficient, remove the end of the thread, twist it with the other and cut it off.
Make a syrup. To do this, mix 2 parts of sugar with one - hot water, cool. When the crystals dissolve, brush generously with sweet syrup. If the sugar begins to crystallize, heat the solution, let it cool, and grease the Easter eggs further. If you don't have a brush, use a sponge. And sugar syrup can be replaced with PVA glue.
Now put the resulting workpiece on a glass, which you place on a flat plate, let the excess liquid drain. After that, leave the eggs, made for Easter, dry well for 2-3 days. During this time, the sugar syrup will harden them. With PVA glue, workpieces dry faster.
Now slightly spread the threads in one section, burst the ball here with a needle, take it out through the hole.
You can get such light, airy-looking eggs for Easter. If you wish, decorate them with beads, artificial flowers. If you know how to crochet, then you can braid the blanks from balls using this technique.
The same principle is used to make such eggs for Easter. The child will be happy to create with you and will be happy with this result.
To make such decorations for Easter, you will need the following materials:
- a piece of styrofoam;
- cloves or toothpicks;
- threads;
- cling film;
- scissors;
- PVA glue.
Instead of foam, you can use an egg made from wood. If you have one, take it. If not, then cut out a workpiece of the desired shape from the foam. Wrap it in cellophane or cling film. Drive the pins into the workpiece in a circle, this will be their first row, the second, closer to you, should follow the contours of the cutout of the hole in the egg.
Wrap the workpiece with threads, intertwining them between the pins. You should get such an openwork drawing.
Lubricate the threads generously with PVA glue, let it dry completely. Then carefully remove them from the base. You can put a toy chicken, flowers inside, tie threads on top and hang such decorations for Easter in the house.
Crafts for this holiday from yarn can be like this.
For them you will need:
- boiled eggs;
- PVA glue;
- scissors;
- colored yarn;
- brush.
Grease the blunt tip of the egg with glue, attach the tip of the thread here. Start rolling it further, remembering to apply glue to the shell.
So that the turns of yarn lie flat, there are no gaps between them, help yourself to adjust their location with a small stick, toothpick or pencil. When you finish wrapping, cut the thread and lay out such decorations for Easter on a platter, after decorating it with artificial grass.
Use natural dyes to give your eggs a beautiful hue. Then these products can be rewound with thread only in the center. Such hand-made crafts also look amazing.
A cake that does not spoil
It can also be created by children under the guidance of adults. To do this, you need to prepare:
- a round cardboard box, for example, popcorn;
- foam sheet;
- shaving foam;
- small bowls;
- pencil;
- glue gun;
- food or other dyes;
- PVA glue.
If you want to decorate the cake with a candle, then turn over the cardboard container, make a small hole in the center of the bottom to place it. Coat the edges of the box with gun glue, and place it in this position, turned upside down, on a sheet of styrofoam. While the structure is drying, you need to prepare the cake cream. Of course, it will also be inedible, but it looks like a real one.
Depending on how many paint colors you will use, you will need as many bowls as you need. Squeeze into each foam, then add glue, a small amount of dye. Stir.
First coat the surface and sides of the cake with light cream, in this case yellow is used. It is convenient to do this using a spatula. Draw the pink cream into a syringe, squeeze it onto the top and bottom of the product, edging them with a pattern. For further decoration, you can use beads, sparkles. Place one or more candles. Leave the colorful cardboard cake for 1-2 days for the glue to dry.
This is how bright and colorful it will turn out for you.
A cardboard cake can be different. From a distance, this cannot be distinguished from the present. But he will not add a single extra gram, since he can be contemplated, not eaten. It will not be difficult for them to create such crafts for children, if they make them together with their parents.
Here's what will help you create this masterpiece using the scrapbooking technique:
- cardboard;
- scissors and a stationery knife;
- glue gun or Moment glue and brush;
- ruler, pencil;
- elements for decoration: gold lace, satin ribbon, openwork napkin, artificial flowers, buds, beads.
Enlarge the diagram below.
Start making your cardboard cake from the first slice. Trace the diagram onto a sheet of thick paper, cut it out. Also, relying on the drawing, make a slit. Bend the sides gently along the lines using a ruler and the back of a utility knife.
Fold the blank in the form of a triangular piece of cake, greasing 2 sides with glue. Connect them, press this place for a few seconds with your fingers.
When the glue is dry, you can put a note with wishes, a candy in this box.
Make other cardboard cake slices in the same way. To decorate the first blank, put it on an openwork napkin and decorate with a ribbon.
To keep the braid firmly attached and not slip, put some glue on the sharp corner of the cake slice. Attach the braid to it, and from the back, tie it with a bow.
Glue a flower bud to the top of the slice, decorate with gold cord, beads with ribbons.
Arrange the remaining 11 pieces in the same way (there are 12 in total). The cardboard cake is ready. It can be presented as a gift or left to decorate the living room, table.
Volumetric paper flowers: we make crafts with children
It will not be difficult to create such paper crafts for children. The bouquet can be presented to your grandmother, mother on March 8 or for a birthday. For creativity, you need only 3 items:
- colored paper;
- scissors;
- glue.
First we make the stem. To do this, cut a corner from the green paper. Twist most of the sheet into a tube, glue the end. The stem is ready. Roll the corner that you cut off with an accordion, you get a leaf.
We make beautiful flowers out of paper further. Its color must be different from the shade of the stem. Cut a square out of paper. Have the child notch the sheet into many strips, not reaching the top of 1 cm. Roll them on a pencil, as shown in the figure.
Now glue a leaf to the stem, and a flower to the top and you can admire the results of creativity.
Making unfading tulips on March 8
They are also made of paper, any mother will gladly accept such a gift from a child for the women's holiday. This craft is perfect for kindergarten. After reviewing the master class, educators will be able to explain to the wards the subtleties of such creativity.
Take a rectangular sheet of colored paper, bend its smaller edge by 1 cm, then, again by the same amount, and so on - to the end of the sheet. You will get an "accordion". Bend it in half to make it look like a fan.
Take paper in yellow and orange, you can use other colors. Fold each leaf in half, draw open tulip buds on them.
Here's how to create do-it-yourself paper crafts for children next. Stick on top of a green fan, which immediately replaces leaves, stems and grass, flowers. Now you can explain to kids how to make such flowers out of paper.
This fertile material will give many more ideas for creativity, including for children.
How to make animals with your own hands?
You can house a whole zoo if you make animals out of paper. Below are the diagrams of these animals, these are:
- Tiger;
- elephant;
- hippo;
- bear.
Set up a petting zoo at home. Do-it-yourself animals will not bring trouble, since you do not need to feed and care for such animals. Such a neighborhood will be very useful for children. Kids will learn the name of the animals, learn a lot about these animals. After all, you can play with such figures with your parents, act out fairy tales, and the elders will talk about the habits and habits of these representatives of the fauna.
Redraw the outline of the tiger on a piece of paper, placing it on the monitor.
Cut along the contours, draw uneven strips of various shapes on this blank.
To make a tiger, first fold the cut out paper blank in half, then unfold the blank. Make 2 more folds - for the paws located on the right and left.
Fold the animal's head back from the paper, focusing on the dotted line on the neck, and then forward.
Fold the back of the animal in half again and do not unbend it. And bend his neck diagonally to one side, and then to the other side, relying on the lines on the diagram, which are located closer to the head.
Now we will focus on the diagonal lines that are a little further than the head. Make folds along them in one direction and the other.
Unfold the figure and see how such animals are made from paper further.
Bend the tiger's head back while holding the triangular section of the neck. Press the tiger's torso inward in the middle, while its head should rise slightly.
Bend your head inward, and the tail down or up.
How other animals are made of paper using the same origami technique, the following animal schemes will tell you.
And here are some other crafts you can create with your children.
How to make a rose from maple leaves?
You will get such a picturesque autumn bouquet.
First, collect beautifully colored maple leaves. Too small, dry, torn, sick will not fit. For one flower, use leaves of a similar color. Take the first one, put it back to you. Fold this sheet in half so that the front side is outside.
Starting at the top edge, roll it into a fairly tight roll - this is the core of the rose.
Place it on the front of a maple leaf, close to its petiole.
Fold this leaf back almost in half, and then this protruding edge also outward. And don't flatten it.
Now wrap this folded outer leaf around the bud as shown in the photo.
Next, we wrap the resulting workpiece with another sheet, also bent in half.
Tie the rose with a thread, make the rest using this technique.
Put a few leaves in a fan, and inside - flowers, tie the autumn bouquet with a thread from the bottom, put it in a low vase.
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