How children reveal themselves through applications. Development of the creative abilities of preschoolers with the help of the application. Abstract applique or simple paintings

A popular type of needlework is colored paper crafts, which have retained their relevance for many years and are constantly being improved.

New and original approaches and options are gradually appearing to them. So basic and pretty simple thing like paper can captivate both an adult and a kid.

Favorably develops imagination, dedication and at the same time forms the perception of colors, the development of child's motor skills.

How much joy will be brought in the future by playing the kid with crafts that he made himself.

Postcards, appliques, toys and a lot of other interesting things can be created from simple multi-colored paper.

Paper goldfish

Before starting work, you need to stock the necessary materials:

• ruler;
• thick piece of paper one sheet;
• plate, round;
• small scissors;
• colored sheets;
• paper glue;
• simple accessories (sequins, rhinestones, beads);
• mechanical pencil.

Turning the plate over on a thick paper sheet, outline its edges with a pencil, then cut out the resulting contour with scissors.

From the center of the circle, draw a triangle with a ruler (with an angle to the inside of the circle), cut it - this is the mouth of a fish. Glue it as a tail on the parallel side of the mouth.

Then make an eye, paint it with a felt-tip pen, or cut it out of black paper and glue it in the required place. To decorate a goldfish, you need to overlay it with scales made of paper or other improvised means, sprinkle with beads, before coating the base with glue.

Paper flower

Interesting flowers will come out of paper in different colors. A simple set of things will come in handy:

• scissors;
• PVA glue (you can use a pencil);
• thick cardboard, it will serve as the basis for the toy;

Cut elongated strips out of light paper, having previously drawn them with a ruler, then cut out circles from a yellow sheet (middle of a chamomile). Cut green strips will serve as leaflets for it.

From white paper strips, flower petals are glued on both sides, in the form of a loop. You can decorate a cardboard postcard with a finished chamomile.

Funny butterfly

A rather interesting version of the craft is obtained using the outline of the child's hands, which is outlined on colored paper. This is a great opportunity to please and captivate your child with a useful activity.

The following set of materials at hand will come in handy:

• several sheets of colored paper;
• White paper;
• small scissors;
• glue stick;
• accessories for decorating toys (colored pencils, sequins, paints).

Putting both palms of the child on a sheet of colored paper, carefully trace the outline with a regular pencil.

As a result, you will get a drawing of four palms of different colors, they will serve as the wings of a future butterfly. Glue the resulting palms (brought together) on a sheet of white paper.

Next, you should cut an oval out of paper of any other color, which will be the body of the butterfly, glue it between your palms. You will get a little body with wings, on it, using pencils or felt-tip pens, apply a drawing of eyes, a smile and antennae.

It is reasonable to coat the finished butterfly with glue, apply various decorations, rhinestones on it and sprinkle with multi-colored sparkles. Such an exciting activity will appeal to the kid and will help in the development of perseverance and consideration.

Colored curtains or Christmas garlands

This craft is the most popular and easy to make product. First you need to prepare:

• small scissors;
• paper glue;
• regular pencil;
• small ruler.

Cut a large number of strips of multi-colored paper, which should be the same size.

Glue the ring, thread the next one through it, also gluing its ends together. Perform such actions until the desired length is obtained. According to this principle, make a certain number of "strings" from colored rings.

To diversify the craft, the garland rings can be replaced with small butterflies, hearts or flowers.

It is possible to come up with a lot of different handicrafts that provide a fun pastime and contribute to the development of the baby.

It is also always a pleasure to receive a surprise for any holiday made by yourself, especially with children's hands!

Photo paper applique

No matter how your baby grows up - calm quiet or nimble fidget - there is an activity that can work wonders. This is an applique. During a lesson that any mother can do, the child's eyes light up: he sees how a real masterpiece is obtained from under his fingers. Believe me, children really like this pastime.

Application is ..?

Applique is a type of creative activity during which various shapes are cut and pasted onto a base (usually paper or cardboard).

The most common material for applique work is colored paper, cardboard and fabric. Nevertheless, for this purpose, you can successfully use tree bark, dried leaves, needles, straw, twigs, feathers, grass, moss, eggshells, yarn, cotton wool, shells and pebbles, beads, plastic bottle caps and many different materials.

The application gives children ...

Application is one of the types of visual activity that children love. Applique work will keep your little one busy. The process itself and its result will bring a lot of pleasure to the child. Children are pleased with the bright color of the paper, the successful rhythmic arrangement of the figures, the technique of cutting and gluing is of great interest to them. Such activities bring parents and children closer together.

Paper applique for children can be a very interesting and developing activity. The baby develops and improves fine motor skills, which in the best way affects the mental development of the child. During the lesson, the child develops artistic imagination and aesthetic taste, as well as design thinking. Sixth, application classes develop abstract and object thinking, and even speech.

Application is closely related to sensory perception and cognitive activities, which also has a huge impact on the development of mental and creativity children. The development of sensory perception is facilitated by paper processing operations: folding, cutting, tearing and tearing, gluing.

Begin…

Application is one of the most accessible and understandable types of children's creativity. In reality, making the application is not difficult; you can prepare in a few minutes or in the process of teaching your child. We recommend that you pick up colored cardboard or paper, scissors, paste or PVA glue. Cut out various shapes and images: circles, ovals, leaves of different shapes, apples, pears, cars, animals, etc.

As soon as the material is ready, you can start classes. But an indispensable condition - you and your child must be in good mood... To begin with, invite the child to knead his palms, fingers. Finger games or the following exercises can help you here.

• "Cheerful splashes" - shaking and relaxing the hands in a different rhythm, simulating the splashing of water droplets.
• "Fingers are knocking" - tapping with all fingers at the same time or alternately on any hard surface.
• "Learn the subject" - the child is invited to "guess" objects, toys with pronounced details with the help of his fingers.
• "Fingers greet" - tip thumb right hand alternately touches the tips of the index, middle, nameless, little fingers.
• "Hasty bug" - fingers move quickly on the table surface. These exercises develop small muscles of the fingers, create a good mood.

If your desire is not shared by your baby, do not be upset. And, each time, consider the mood and desire of the child. At first, application sessions should not be longer than 15 minutes.

Caution!

Probably, every mother intuitively understands what can and cannot be allowed during applique classes with children. Nevertheless, it is useful to remind the following:

• prepare a workplace for the child: it should be clean, comfortable;
• during work, do not let the child take glue in his mouth or spread it anywhere;
• make sure that the kid does not play with the scissors, but uses them for their intended purpose (he must understand that this is not a toy, because if this time he does not get hurt, he may do it in your absence).

Try to make an applique at home with your child:

There are so many types of applications for children that it is difficult to tell about all of them, within the framework of one article. However, we list

main:

☺ From napkins: draw the outline of the picture on a piece of paper or cardboard; Tear the napkin finely; roll lumps out of napkins together; pour the paste or PVA glue into a shallow container. Let the child take a ball from a napkin and dunk it in glue and stick it on the image, trying to stick the ball to the ball. The result is a voluminous and beautiful picture.

☺ Tear-off applique: in this case, we tear the paper into pieces and make an image from them.

☺ Applique Applique: This technique produces a multi-color image. Conceiving an image and sequentially creating it and overlaying and gluing parts in layers so that each next part is smaller than the previous one in size.

☺ Volumetric colored paper applique is a type of crafts with children that does not require training, special tools or possession of any special skills. In order to make a beautiful volumetric applique, you need scissors, glue, colored paper and a desire to make beautiful craft... Children engaged in volumetric applique work increase the level of attention, patience and perseverance, and also develop hand motor skills.

☺ Application from seeds and cereals: in this case, you need seeds (watermelon or pumpkin), cereals, pencil, cardboard, PVA glue. We draw a drawing on cardboard with a pencil, then coat the drawing with PVA glue and sprinkle with cereals or seeds. The croup applique gives your child a lot of pleasant tactile sensations.

☺ The applique can be done using other materials:

bark, needles, straw, feathers, twigs, grass, moss, matches, yarn, cotton wool, plasticine, shells, pebbles, dry berries, beads and rhinestones, eggshells, foil.

Unleash your imagination and you will have many ideas for applications, wonderful crafts and a lot of positive emotions for you and your

Spend your leisure time with your child.

Imagine and create!

I wish you creative success!

Consultation on the topic:

"Application,

as a means of developing the creative abilities of children preschool age»

Visual activity is of great importance in solving the problems of aesthetic education, since by its nature it is an artistic activity. The specifics of art classes provide ample opportunities for the cognition of the beautiful, for the development of an emotional and aesthetic attitude towards reality in children.

Each type of visual activity, in addition to the general aesthetic influence, has its own specific effect on the child. The application is of great importance for the teaching and education of preschool children. It contributes to the formation and development of many personal qualities of an individual, her mental and aesthetic capabilities.

Application (from Lat. Applicatio - attachment) - the creation of artistic images by pasting, sewing on fabric or paper colored pieces of any material; an image, a pattern created in this way.
For applique work, you can use a variety of materials: paper, fabric, threads, shells and pebbles, and even the most ordinary cereals.
Application is one of the favorite activities of children. Kids like to cut something out of paper or fabric, glue, paint and, as a result, get a handmade creation.
Previously, it was believed that the application was not available for children in the second or third year of life. This activity involves working with small planar images and shapes, mastering the ability to compose a whole image from parts, mastering the skills of smearing, gluing, etc. The activity, in general, is really not easy. But difficult does not mean useless. Scientists have investigated the optimal capabilities of children in the first years of life. The results of observations and experiments convincingly prove that exercises with ready-made planar shapes and images provide a qualitative leap in diversified development child. Found that children given age have unique capabilities. By means of specially directed influences, it is possible to achieve a very high level of development and earlier formation of one or another brain function.
Any creative activity, in particular application, is of great importance for the mental development of children, the stock of knowledge is expanding on the basis of ideas about the various forms and spatial position of objects of the surrounding world, various sizes, and a variety of shades of colors.
When making an applique product, it is important to draw the attention of children to the variability of shapes, colors (ripe - not ripe berry, plants in different time years), different spatial position of objects and parts (the bird sits, flies, pecks grains; the fish swims in different directions, etc.).
While doing applique work, children learn about different materials (paper, cereal, clay, shells, etc.), get acquainted with their properties, expressive capabilities, and acquire skills to work with them. Children also learn the experience of working with some instruments of human activity (pencil, glue, brush, paints, scissors). All these actions contribute to mental development children.
To create an applique, it is necessary to apply efforts, carry out labor actions, master the skills to sculpt, cut, draw an object of this or that shape and structure, as well as master the skills of handling scissors, with a pencil and a brush, with glue and plasticine. Correct possession of these materials and tools requires a certain expenditure of physical strength and labor skills. The assimilation of skills and abilities is associated with the development of such volitional qualities of a person as attention, perseverance, endurance. Children are taught the ability to work, to achieve the desired result.

So, applique:

Develops artistic imagination and aesthetic taste.

Develops constructive thinking - often, during work, a child needs to assemble a whole from parts.

Develops fine motor skills and tactile sensations, especially if other materials are used in addition to paper: cloth, cereals, dried flowers, straw.

Helps to learn colors and shapes.

Introduces children to the concept of technology: in order to get the result, it is necessary to perform a sequence of different actions: cut out parts, grease paper with glue, sprinkle cereals, smear plasticine, and the like.

According to the subject of the image, the application is divided into subject, subject, landscape and decorative. (The application can be subject, consisting of separate images (leaf, branch, tree, mushroom, flower, bird, house, person, etc.); subject, displaying a set of actions, events ("Victory Salute", "Flight into space", "Birds have flown", etc.); decorative, including ornaments, patterns that can be used to decorate various objects.)

In shape, the applique is voluminous and flat.
By color - one-color and multi-colored.
For its manufacture, the most various materials: paper; fabrics of various textures (cotton, silk, velvet, cords); leather, fur, foam rubber, natural and waste materials etc.

In training the application, the following general tasks are solved:

Make a decorative pattern from various geometric shapes and plant (leaf, flower) details, placing them in a certain rhythm on a cardboard or fabric base of various shapes.

To compose an image of an object from separate parts; portray the plot.

Master various techniques obtaining parts for applique from different materials: cutting by different techniques, tearing, weaving; as well as the technique of attaching them to the base: gluing, sewing.

To form a sense of color, to know the basic colors and their shades, to master the ability to make harmonious color combinations.

To form a sense of form, proportions, composition.

The introduction to the application begins with the first junior group. The teacher is guided by a well-known feature of children: at the age of 2-3 years, healthy babies have a pronounced emotional response to the proposal to do something, to participate in something, the child shows a willingness to act. And the main task of an adult is to support this activity, not to let it fade away, to give it a creative character. This favorable period of childhood for the development of children's activity and independence should not be missed. The tasks solved at this age are elementary:

To teach actions with paper (tear off, crumple, roll, cut), help children see in paper a material that lends itself to transformation and has its own properties and qualities: soft, dense, smooth, rough,
shiny, matte, paper of different colors, crumpled, torn, cut, rustles in different ways.

Give kids an idea of necessary tools and equipment for application: scissors, brush, glue, oilcloth, etc.

Develop emotional responsiveness to an adult's offer to do something, a willingness to participate with him in the creation of elementary art crafts.

Develop interest, an emotionally positive attitude towards elementary actions with paper, the desire to independently perform them.

Develop aesthetic perception and feelings: recognize the resulting image, admire, rejoice "following" adults.

The content of works at this age is peculiar: a semi-volume (made of paper lumps, balls) and "mosaic" (from pieces) object application, which depicts the simplest objects: colored balls, a sprig with rowan berries, cherries, a sprig of mimosa, lilacs, various vegetables , fruits, figurines of animals, etc. These works, made on a colored background and decorated in a frame, delight children with their brightness and can find practical use for decorating the interior of a doll corner, a group, preschool, children's room in the family, etc.

Performing individual actions together with the teacher making the applique, children get the first idea of ​​it as a way of image using paper, transformed by hand or using a tool - scissors.

Mastering specific actions with material, tools, objects at an early age occurs through communication with an adult. Only he can convey to the child information about the functions of objects, tools, show the methods of using the material, etc. in joint activities with him.

The teacher includes a separate action of children to transform the material into a holistic process of creating crafts. This action (creasing the paper into a ball, rolling into a ball, etc.), which gives an intermediate result, acquires a practical meaning for the child.

The actions of children with paper are gradually becoming more complicated.

The first joint manual productive actions with an adult, included in the context of creating a certain “product”, emotionally prepare the child for a systematic and more meaningful participation in the application. The first attempts at transforming the material do not require children to have a clear perception of form, color; they are not yet involved in conceiving the image, but already in the fourth year of life, more complex tasks can be set in the application:

Teach children to make patterns from geometric shapes on a strip, square, rectangle, isosceles triangle.

To teach preschoolers to compose simple objects from ready-made forms (a Christmas tree, a house, a snowman, etc.), and elementary plots from familiar objects (a train with a trailer, a house with a Christmas tree, etc.).

Teach the children to hold the scissors correctly, cut narrow strips along the fold (bent in half), and then wider ones (several strokes of the scissors).

To learn the technique of smearing paper parts with glue: along the contour, "outlining" with a brush with glue its edges.

To form in children a conscious attitude to the order of performing work: first, lay out the pattern (object, plot) on a sheet, and then take and stick each detail one by one.

To foster artistic taste in preschoolers.

IN middle group more complex tasks are being solved:

Learn to cut parts for applique from different materials (paper, fabric) in simple ways- cut, cut, cut along the contour.

Introduce children to the creation of an applique from dry leaves, adjust the ways of gluing the leaves to the base.

To enrich the content of the applications, providing a wider acquaintance of children with the natural world, objects of folk art, etc., as well as the variety of details used (not only geometric shapes, but also plant ones).

Teach children to place details on rounded shapes: an oval, a circle, a rosette.

In the middle preschool age, the child's hand is firmer and more confident, therefore more complex methods of cutting appear; children themselves can make details such as an oval, a circle, rounding the corners of rectangles; cutting corners in a straight line, making a trapezoid; cut the squares diagonally to make triangles. Children of this age can be given stencils to cut out details of the subject content (fungus, flower, etc.). Experience shows that children, who worked with a stencil and cut out details along the contour, later more easily master symmetrical and silhouette cutting and cutting "by eye".

If children learn to use scissors early, then by the end of middle age they can cut out parts from fabric in all the above ways, and as a result, applique from fabric is possible. For the base, burlap, drape, cotton one-colored fabric is used. You can make patterns on it both by alternating parts of different colors and shapes, and by creating compositions from elements of national ornaments of different peoples, you can create a subject or elementary plot application. But unlike similar paper products, the application on the fabric is more durable and varied in use (napkin, towel, carpet, tablecloth).

Children of four to five years old can learn applications from dry leaves of plants: make a pattern, alternating leaves in shape, size, color and placing them symmetrically on a cardboard base of different geometric shapes: strip, square, etc. made of paper or fabric, moving the brush along the contour - the sheet will begin to crumble. It is smeared with a brush movement from the index finger of the left hand to the edges of the sheet.

To convey the image to children, other materials are provided: pencils, thin twigs, seeds. For example, when making a butterfly applique, you can make the abdomen not only from a leaf, but also draw, glue a thin twig; use small seeds for the eyes or draw too.

At the senior preschool age, children master a more complex cutting technique - symmetrical, silhouette, multi-layered, as well as the cutting, weaving technique. They can combine techniques.

Preschoolers learn new ways of attaching parts: sewing them to fabric. In this case, children receive two versions of the image: planar and semi-volume (when cotton wool is placed between the base and the part). In the second case, the image is more expressive.

Here are a few unconventional techniques applications that you can use when working with children.

Unconventional application techniques:

Break applique

This method is good for conveying the texture of the image (fluffy chicken, curly cloud). In this case, we tear the paper into pieces and compose them into an image. Children 5-7 years old can complicate the technique: not just tear pieces of paper, how it goes, but pluck or break off the contour drawing. The breakaway applique is very useful for the development of fine motor skills of hands and creative thinking.

Overhead applique

This technique produces a multi-colored image. We conceive an image and consistently create it, overlaying and gluing parts in layers so that each next part is smaller than the previous one in size.

Modular application (mosaic)

With this technique, the image is obtained by gluing many of the same shapes. Cutted circles, squares, triangles, or just torn pieces of paper can be used as a basis for modular application.

Symmetrical applique

For symmetrical images, fold the blank - a square or rectangle made of paper of the required size - in half, hold it by the fold, cut out half of the image.

Tape applique

This method allows you to get not one or two, but many identical images, scattered or related to each other. To make a ribbon applique, you need to take a wide sheet of paper, fold it like an accordion and cut out the image.

Silhouette applique

This method is available to children who are good at using scissors. They will be able to cut intricate silhouettes along a drawn or imagined path.

Quilling

Quilling (English quilling - from the word quill (bird feather), also paper-rolling, is the art of making flat or voluminous compositions from long and narrow strips of paper twisted into spirals.

Collage

Collage (from French collage - gluing) is a technique in the visual arts, which consists in creating paintings or graphic works by gluing objects and materials that differ from the base in color and texture to any base. Collage is also called a work entirely done in this technique. Collage is used mainly to get the effect of surprise from the combination of dissimilar materials, as well as for the emotional richness and poignancy of the work.

Origami

Origami (from Japanese folded paper) - a type of arts and crafts; the ancient art of folding paper figures. Classic origami is folded from a square sheet of paper and prescribes the use of one sheet of paper without the use of glue and scissors.

Napkin applique

Napkins are a very interesting material for children's creativity. You can make different crafts from them. This type of creativity has a number of advantages:

the ability to create masterpieces without scissors;

development of fine motor skills of small hands;

development of tactile perception, using paper of various textures;

ample opportunities for creativity.

Corrugated paper

Corrugated paper is a type of so-called craft paper. Compared to ordinary paper, it appeared relatively recently. It is very soft, delicate and pleasant to the touch. Children love gorgeous colors, and they are happy to work with her in their creative classes. This is an excellent decorative and ornamental material that allows you to create decorations, colorful toys, original garlands and magnificent bouquets, costumes, which can be an excellent gift for the holiday.

Fabric applique

Fabric applique is a type of stitching. Applique embroidery consists in reinforcing pieces of another fabric against a certain fabric background. Fabric appliqués are reinforced either by sewing or gluing. Fabric applique can be subject, subject and decorative; one-color, two-color and multi-color. Applique fabrics require certain skills. First, you need to be able to cut fabric (fabric is more difficult to cut than paper); secondly, the edges of the fabric can crumble and complicate the work.

Applique from cereals

For the youngest children, it is helpful to develop fine motor skills. Of course, it is important to touch objects with your fingers, to learn how to perform plucking movements. But to children, aged over a year old, it is interesting to see the result of your work right away. The applique made from cereals becomes the most attractive for them in this regard. With cereals, you can create different crafts with babies. To do this, semolina, rice, millet are painted in different colors using gouache and water.

Straw applique

The straw appliqués are extraordinarily attractive: they are cast in gold. This is due to the fact that the straw has a glossy surface and longitudinally arranged fibers. These fibers reflect light as much as possible only in a certain position. Composed of shapes at different angles to the light. The applique conveys a unique game: it glitters like gold. These can be paintings, ornamental stripes, bookmarks for books, caskets, frames.

Applique from dried plants

At the present time, the application of flowers, grass, leaves - the so-called floristry - has gained wide popularity. Working with natural materials is quite accessible to students and preschool children. Communication with nature is fascinating, interesting and useful. It develops creativity, thinking, observation, hard work. Classes with natural materials contribute to the education of children in love for their native nature, a careful attitude towards it. They are also useful because the collection and procurement natural material takes place in the air.

Creating beautiful applications with their own hands, seeing the result of their work, children experience positive emotions. Working with paper and other materials gives them the opportunity to show patience, perseverance, imagination and taste. It is pleasant for children to decorate the group room with their works, to give them to their parents and friends.

Fantasy fails and you already do not know what to do with your child? In this article, you will find several unusual and interesting ideas for applications that are suitable for both toddlers and older children.

Application is a long-time fun not only for many children, but even for adults. After all, sticking something on the base or sewing on is very interesting. And now many different materials have appeared that can be successfully used in applications and make wonderful and unusual works.

Often, all kinds of elements are used in works that are easy to find in any home or even on the street: pebbles, shells, beads, beads, pieces of ordinary or lace fabric, buttons and many other various things.

Plots for creating applications can be very diverse:

• these can be heroes of your favorite cartoons
• favorite animals or toys
• nature
• different holidays

Paper applique

Most often, when it comes to applications with children, it is the paper application that is meant. And it's not just that, because paper can be found in any stationery store, and the variety of its types is quite large.

• The paper is bright, multi-colored, this is very attractive to the child to work with it
• It can be of different textures and shapes.
• It is easy to roll, fold, cut any shape out of it and glue it to the paper base.
• Well, the most important thing is that paper is an environmentally friendly and, accordingly, safe material, therefore it is great for doing creative work even with the smallest children.

Impact of applique classes on child development

Thanks to the application, children acquire the following skills:

• master the coordination of movements
• develop fine motor skills of hands
• learn the basics of composition
• teach colors and how they can be combined
• study various textures
• develop observation and imagination
• learning to fantasize

Applique practice promotes development thought processes from a child, he learns to analyze and compare real objects and animals with crafts made with you. The child, working with the applique, makes a whole from several parts and learns to divide the whole into its components.

• Like any other type of creativity, the application helps the development of speech, when adults discuss with the child the crafts they create, explain what they are doing and why, what is the result. Working together, children engage in dialogue and increase their erudition
• And of course it is a good option spending time with your child to help you build and strengthen emotional contact
• Below we offer you ideas for crafts using the applique technique. The proposed examples are of varying complexity and require different amounts of time to create. Therefore, choose works according to the age of the child and help him create them.
• It will be good if you offer the kid to change the composition, come up with something of his own - this will help him in the development of imagination and creativity.

Materials for paper applique

To make the work look beautiful, you need to carefully cut required elements and also carefully glue them to the base, but the beauty also depends on the materials chosen.

The assortment of paper in stores is very large, but not all of it is suitable for applique work, and you can make a mistake in choosing an adhesive. Please note the material guidelines below.

Applique paper and cardboard

It is better to choose paper that is not very thin, but very thick paper will not work either. You can take both matte paper and glossy, it can be textured or smooth.

Choose paper that suits your idea. But please note that glue marks and fingerprints will be visible on glossy paper, so it is better to give preference to matte paper, then the work will look neater.

• First, try working with colored paper, which is produced specifically for the printer. It is in every store and comes in different colors. It is quite good in density and matte.
• More experienced creators can use coated paper, it is also available in sets of different colors. This paper is glossy and thick enough
• Textured paper will help to focus on any details of the craft. Choose paper that is suitable for the weight and texture you want, for example, with some kind of embossing or with a velvet effect
• It also happens foil paper, with its help you can make very believable windows in your craft, or water. This type of paper is usually of medium weight, which is just right for appliqué work. Sometimes there is also a holographic effect on such paper.

• A very convenient type of paper for applique is self-adhesive paper, however, it still needs to be looked for, and the color palette is very poor. Such paper is convenient because no glue is needed to glue it, thanks to which it is perfectly evenly glued to the base.
• Sketching paper well suited for creating templates, because it is tight and its edges are not jammed
• Cardboard good to use as a basis of work, it can be either white or colored. Due to its density, it will not wrinkle when gluing parts to it. Also choose the most suitable cardboard for your idea, it can be either matte or glossy.

Glue and other applique tools

To create an applique, the necessary parts are cut out of paper and glued to the cardboard base. You can cut parts along the outer edge with scissors, and in order to cut holes inside, it is better to use a clerical knife.

The glue must also be selected correctly so that it does not deform the paper and the craft does not lose its appearance.

• Scissors choose good ones, they should cut the paper well and be sharp. They should be comfortable for the child to hold. It is better if you have scissors with straight blades for cutting parts in a straight line, and the second with rounded blades, which are easy to cut along a curved path.
• In order to cut anything inside the part, you will need stationery knife... It is also easy for them to cut along the contour of the template.
• Metal ruler useful for cutting straight lines with a knife
• You will need cutting underlay with a stationery knife, it will protect your furniture from scratches
• In stores you can find curly hole punches, with their help from colored or white paper, you can make various figures with one click on it. The variety of types of hole punches is quite large, they differ in size and shape. With their help, you can make a bunch of butterflies and flowers for a forest glade in a matter of minutes, and not cut them out for half a day with scissors.

• they will make the edge of the paper in an interesting shape, observing a certain pattern. There are also many different types of them, so to speak, for every taste.

• Rubber glue very convenient for application, because if the part is not glued correctly, before the glue has dried, you can carefully remove it and glue it in another place. Also, traces of glue can be easily removed with a regular eraser. The only drawback of this glue is its smell, so it is better not to use it with babies.
• For small children can be purchased glue stick... It practically does not deform the paper, but traces of it still remain
• Glue with a brush it will be very convenient for kids to use, because it will be very interesting for them to dip the brush into a jar and apply glue to the part

Additional materials and techniques for application

Other materials can be used to make the appliqué special and interesting.

• Zest will be given, for example, by such a detail as artificial plastic eyes on the animal, which will move when the position of the picture changes.
• Small details in the work do not have to be cut out, they can be drawn with a felt-tip pen or pencil
• The acrylic outline will help you highlight the necessary elements of the craft
• In the applique, you can use paper beads and lace, these materials will make the work interesting and unusual
• You can insert the craft into a frame if it turns out to be very beautiful, it is dear to you as a memory or made as a gift

Circles applique ideas

An unusual idea for the applique is to use only cut paper circles. If you do all the details from the circles, you will get a very interesting and unusual work.

The child will really like this activity, especially if he sees how simple circles of different sizes turn into a cute cat or bird.

Napkin applique ideas

Even the most common napkins can be used for appliqués. They come in different colors, although their choice is not great, as a rule, these are primary colors and several additional shades. This technique is very simple and can be done even with 3 year olds.

Application using napkin balls is a very exciting activity for children. This technique stimulates the development of fine motor skills well, because rolling balls is a very painstaking job.

Making such a craft is quite simple:

• prepare the drawing, apply it to the base
• the details of the drawing should not be small, you need to have enough space for gluing the balls
• you will need PVA glue and scissors
• prepare colorful napkins
• fit the frame to fit the finished work

The napkins can still be replaced with corrugated paper, but this is not needed, because you can find such napkins in any store. The only thing better than corrugated paper is a wide variety of colors.

The drawing can not be applied to cardboard, but printed on a printer and glued to the base. While it dries, you need to prepare colorful balls.

To do this, cut napkins or corrugated paper into squares of the same size and roll them into balls. You will need a lot of balls for such work, and their number will also depend on the size of the picture and on the size of the balls themselves.

Using PVA glue, napkins need to be glued to the picture, some details can be drawn with a marker or felt-tip pen, it all depends on your imagination and the desire of the young master.

The background of the work can also be made from balls of a suitable color.

Frame your work and you can decorate a room or other room in the house or in the garden with it. Such a picture will also good gift for relatives and close people, for example, on a holiday on February 23 or March 8.

Button Applique Ideas

All kids love buttons. Probably, every child more than once found mother's box with them and put things in order in it, chose the ones they liked most. Therefore, the appliqué with buttons will be of interest to any child.

From two years old, the baby can already make a simple picture by gluing buttons in the form of a flower or a butterfly to the base.

With older children, you can make a hot stand by sticking buttons on the skin or a piece of felt.

With older children, buttons can be glued to the glue, but when working with small children, it is better to glue double-sided tape on the buttons. If there are a lot of them and there is no opportunity to stick on each tape, you can stick plasticine on the cardboard, and press the buttons onto it. It is better to use glossy cardboard, because plasticine stains may appear on matte.

Cereal application ideas

Cereals can be successfully used not only in the kitchen, but also in creativity. From cereals, wonderful and unusual paintings and crafts are obtained.

As with the napkins, you will need a base picture. It can be any image drawn, printed, or cut from a coloring book. The main thing is that there are no small details in the picture, then its elements can easily be covered with different cereals.

• Use a brush to apply glue to the picture. If you will be using different cereals, do not apply glue all over the drawing at once.
• First glue one part with glue and let the child sprinkle cereals on it. With your fingers, you can press it down a little to the base. All that is not stuck, shake it back into the plate
• If there are several elements, apply glue to them and sprinkle with cereals one by one - this will help to make the work neat

You can use a wide variety of groats, and you can even paint it in different colors with gouache. And it is very simple to do this:

• dilute the gouache with a little water
• paint the rump with a brush
• put on a bag or stationery file in one layer
• let dry

The second method is suitable if you need to color a lot of cereals, and it is good because the colored grains do not get your hands dirty during further work with them:

• put cereals in a container, rice is good
• fill it with water and add enough gouache to get a bright saturated color
• leave to stand for 12 hours
• drain and dry in one layer

Natural applications

Autumn gives us a lot of natural material that can be used in various crafts... You can make a lot of interesting things from simple leaves that are lying on the streets, including applications. They make funny little people, different animals, landscapes and even plot pictures.

Collecting material for applications is also very fun and easy, because you can find the leaves while walking in the park.

You can make a hedgehog from maple leaves, fish from birch, and oak leaves resemble a tree.

Some details of the work can be completed with felt-tip pens or paints.

You can cut out the necessary details from the leaves, i.e. use not a whole leaf, but a cut out element. Use different colored leaves.

You can pre-dry the leaves or put them in a book for a while so that they are aligned. You can also dry them by ironing them through a sheet of paper.

Dry leaves can be crumbled and sprinkled on the base on which the glue is applied. Then shake off the remaining crumb. This activity will really appeal to younger children.

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