The level of speech development is directly related to the improvement of fine motor skills. Creative activities using various cereals, seeds and nuts can serve well in this area.
This section presents master classes of various paintings, panels, applications made up of simple or tinted cereals and other loose natural material... Working with this safe, environmentally friendly raw material for creativity, children have great pleasure and feel very comfortable. We draw with semolina; we compose original applications from buckwheat, rice and millet; we lay out wonderful compositions and panels of beans, seeds, nuts ... All crafts presented here are supplied with photographs and instructions for making.
Working with natural materials - cereals, seeds, nuts - is a pleasure!
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Today, all children's doctors and psychologists are talking about the importance of developing fine motor skills of the child's hands. It directly depends on how much the baby's speech, thinking, motor and visual memory, coordination and attention. There are many activities and games for training fine ...
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Today it is a well-known fact that the development of a child's brain is directly related to how developed the fine motor skills of his hands are. From how often his fingers touch small items, draw, sculpt, tie shoelaces, finally, the development of speech, readiness for school and even the strength of the nervous system depend.
Some of these natural exercises that develop, entertain and soothe a child are, for example, children playing with sand. No wonder they love them so much. But sand in a city apartment is not always available. And here such popular do-it-yourself cereal crafts for children with templates already prepared by specialists with a view to a certain age come to the aid of parents.
What is the reason for the popularity of such DIY crafts? At least three pluses.
- Availability of materials. Cereals, sunflower or watermelon seeds, pasta - all this is in every home.
- The usefulness of this activity for the development of children's imagination and fine motor skills of hands. Parents appreciate it, and children appreciate the fun of the process.
- Ready-made drawing templates help children, even those who are completely unable to draw, to get a completely worthy craft, which can be presented to loved ones or hung in a frame on the wall.
So, you firmly decided to make with your child with your own hands some kind of craft from cereals. In addition to the actual bulk materials of various cereals, grains, seeds (which we will talk about in more detail below), what else may be needed for this? It depends on what type of activity you have chosen with them.
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Drawing with cereals
This is an activity that will captivate both toddlers who have not even gone to the kindergarten, and children who left the first grade in the distant past. It requires a minimum of materials: cereals, the finer, the better, and an even surface. Although you can take from cereals, for example, chopped, semolina is usually used.
A smooth surface for creating a masterpiece can even be a piece of the table that the mother will allocate to the little master, but a dark plain tray or baking sheet is still better. For more skillful artists, luminous surfaces are very popular today, on which they pour their drawings. If an older child is seriously engaged in such drawing, then the semolina can be pre-painted in several colors, dried and sieved so that there are no lumps.
The smallest ones draw with their fingers directly on sprinkled semolina or buckwheat. All others pour the drawing onto the work surface. Usually, at the end of the work, the drawing is removed. To preserve the memory of such a fleeting drawing, you will have to take a photo of it. If the children want to save the drawing itself, then we will already talk about the application. And here a little more is needed.
Appliques from cereals
- Firstly, since many children are not yet good enough at drawing, in order to facilitate their work and ensure a sufficiently spectacular look of the made craft, it is necessary to prepare a drawing template in advance. It is he who will become the basis of the application. Parents can download and print the necessary pictures, or use children's coloring books as a template. When choosing a template, take a drawing with large details.
- But the template only helps to apply the drawing. You need to prepare the basis for the craft. It can be thick cardboard, or glass, a photo frame, a bank or a flower pot. Depending on the intended result and the chosen base, the method of securing the grain is also determined. If this is an ordinary pasted applique, then PVA building glue and a brush will be needed.
- In addition to glued appliqués, depressed crafts made from cereals and seeds are very popular today. In this case, plasticine becomes the main fastening material for such an application. Here, children will need plasticine and a stack.
- Since the color range of seeds and cereals is rather modest, they are often painted in the colors necessary for the pattern. To color the cereals, you can use gouache at your choice; brilliant green, iodine or food coloring. You can paint both already glued grains, and in advance. Although it is not difficult, it is better to watch a separate master class about it.
- If a child wants to save a small masterpiece made with their own hands not only in the photo, then you need a colorless varnish or aerosol enamel that covers the craft.
Master class application with cereals: making a monkey
To better imagine how a child can make an applique from cereals with his own hands, we will consider step by step the process of making a postcard with a monkey. Let's go through a short master class. 
- Let's select and print a monkey template. We will prepare the cereals necessary for work - rice, buckwheat and semolina.
- We transfer the template to a solid base - white or colored cardboard.
- With a brush, gradually apply glue to the parts of the monkey's body and carefully place the grains. If the child can, then it is best to do it with tweezers. For a dark body, we take buckwheat. For the face of the monkey, the inside of the ears and tummy - rice. We make the nose from semolina.
- After the monkey is almost ready, proceed to the rest of the details of the selected drawing. It can be a palm tree, or a coconut, or sea sand. These minor details are made from decoys. It is poured onto the surface previously coated with glue and pressed a little into the glue. Then the excess is blown away.
- Now that the applique has dried, it is necessary to paint the details made of semolina in the desired colors and draw the eyes, nose, mouth. For this we use acrylic paints.
Crafts from cereals and tea
As a bulk material, you can use not only semolina, but also drunk tea. They can also be poured into a drawing, but it is better to use them for application together with cereals. This will create an interesting play of textures. Tea is best used to depict some shaggy creatures - cats, monkeys, bears. And you can make a portrait from which the Cheburashka will look.
A master class on making a monkey from cereals is given above, and now we will consider how to make a cheburashka from cereals and tea with our own hands. Cheburashka is suitable for young children, not only because he is a well-known and beloved character, but also because of the simplicity of the image. Cheburashka consists of large parts that are easy to draw and make.
- We draw a cheburashka or, taking the desired template, we glue it on a dense base.
- Then we glue those parts of the body with glue where a dark shaggy surface is needed. Cheburashka is brown ears, paws, body, and only the muzzle and chest will be of a different color, so now we do not coat them with glue.
- Then we pour the tea on the leaf, after the glue has dried, we turn the drawing over and the extra tea leaves fall off by themselves.
- Then, using buckwheat and rice, we fill in the surfaces that need to be selected - a brown breast, a white muzzle.
- Round peas can be used to make eyes. The long rice peas and mouth need to be dyed for more expression. Even a child who goes to kindergarten can make such an application with his own hands.
Crafts from cereals and pasta
In addition to the applique, you can make other crafts from cereals, grains, seeds and pasta. Craftsmen and kindergarten teachers have already developed many master classes on this topic. In a photo or video, they show in detail and step by step how you can make a variety of crafts. For example, string beads, bracelets or funny mobiles.
You can very effectively decorate various containers with pasta of various shapes and cereals - jars, bottles, turning them into original vases for flowers. To do this, first thoroughly wash the selected vessel, clean it of labels, degrease it with a detergent. Then we apply glue and, in accordance with the artistic concept, glue cereals and pasta.
You can also take flat pumpkin or watermelon seeds. From them you can lay out flowers, or just geometric shapes, ornaments. If cereals, grains easily stick to construction PVA, then perhaps a glue gun is needed for pasta.
Similarly, you can decorate a photo frame or a flower pot, interesting craft to a kindergarten. In order for such pasta crafts to look especially impressive, they should be painted and varnished. It remains only to take a photo of the master with the craft in his hands.
Craft cat from pasta Crafts for children
Making crafts from cereals with your own hands is much easier than it seems at first glance, it is interesting for both children and adults. The main advantage of cereal crafts is originality, because even adults will consider the finished work, peering into the details. Not everyone will be able to guess what material was used, especially when looking from afar. If the picture made with cereals hangs alongside the standard pictures, it will look brighter and more memorable.
Idea advantages
Originality is not the only reason to teach a child to do such crafts. Today, many parents from childhood teach children to use gadgets, so that they quickly master the technique, while suffering mental development, which directly depends on the fine motor skills of the hands. Simply put, children are not accustomed to working with small details, because of this, their ability to learn and develop is rapidly falling.
Especially often such problems arise for families living in apartments, in such conditions children may not even have the opportunity to play in the sand. Caring parents understand how important it is to take care of the development of the child, so the idea of \u200b\u200bmaking crafts from cereals attracts them. A pleasant plus of this activity is that the finished work - great option for a gift to grandmothers, grandfathers and other relatives, so that the child learns from childhood to please others.
Psychologists say that children with whom parents do needlework with early years, in the future they tend to learn new things faster, to perceive information, to develop. Even in adulthood perseverance, hard work and diligence acquired from childhood will help them.
Where to begin?
First you need to make sure that the child is at the age when such an activity will not only be useful to him, but also interesting. Forcing children into completely small age doing something together is dangerous, as it can hunt down the hunt in the future to spend time with your parents.
There is no specific age limit. Every kid has a moment when he begins to be actively interested in drawing: a pack of blank paper can be enough for a day, while the young "artist" marks on the wallpaper and other furniture in the house. This is the time to channel the child's energy into creative development.
At the same time, in children who go to kindergarten and primary school, there is also a need for the development of fine motor skills and perseverance. It happens that a child seems to be an uncreative person - nothing connected with drawing arouses his interest. Then the parents have to invent something, original idea and there will be crafts from cereals.
The first thing to start with is to choose the right cereal. It is better not to be guided by the principle of "what is not a pity", but to think how it will be more convenient for the child to work.
The main rule for choosing a material is that the smaller the better.
Using one cereal will be boring, so after coming up with an idea for a drawing, you need to choose different options. You can paint the selected material in different colors, some people like to paint semolina. You also need to prepare a flat surface, it can be a part of the table or a tray, a dish, another flat vessel.
Templates
Preparing a template is a parent's task, because a child cannot cope with it. Finite appearance the finished work will depend on the chosen and drawn template. It is important that the drawing consists of large parts, it is necessary to calculate that there are no more of them than the available variations of different croup.
Advice
The easiest way is to pick up a drawing from coloring pages or children's books than to come up with one yourself. Most coloring pages designed for children under 3 years old contain just simple pictures with large details, they can simply be redrawn.
Together with the choice of a template, you need to prepare a base, it can be anything:
Of course, the more complex the base, the more difficult it is to apply the pattern, so if you are practicing the craft for the first time, it is best to use thick cardboard. Such a base will need PVA glue and a brush to apply it.
An alternative to gluing the cereal is to press it into the clay. This technique also looks bright and original, but still, for the first time, it is better to do with gluing, and then experiment.
How to do it?
Let's look at an example of how to embody the ideas of the applique pattern. The whole process of making crafts consists of several stages:
Choosing and printing a template... This method of preparing a template is the simplest, on the Internet you can find many simple drawings with large details and print them. You can use other methods - redraw, and if you have artistic inclinations, even draw by hand, but it is important to try to keep the contours and lines as even as possible.
Blow off the remnants of cereals that accidentally fell on the drawing, leave it to dry... This may take about 10 minutes, if a lot of glue was applied, then more.
After that, you can use paints, this should be done if the cereal was not initially painted over, but there is such a need. It is also convenient to paint small details with paints.:
- eyes;
- buttons.
It is best to use acrylic paints.
After the work is completely dry, it can be hung in a frame or used as a decor in a children's room.
Advice
The most simple cereal to use is semolina. It is easy to paint, it is easy to apply, it adheres well to the little fingers of the child.
From cereals and pasta
Pasta is a great craft tool. Many people use them for various decorative purposes, for example, decorating a Christmas tree, making candlesticks, and many other crafts. And all because the variety of forms of pasta allows you to do this.
Such crafts are performed according to the same principle as just from cereals. To begin with, a template is selected, then the parent determines which parts of the drawing will be made with cereals and which with pasta. Then, with the help of glue and a brush, first large, then small parts are painted one by one, the prepared material is glued.
However, some types of pasta are difficult to glue due to their weight, so the material chosen for the basis of such an applique must be durable, plain paper will definitely not work, and if you choose cardboard, it is hard. If you cannot glue the product, you can sew it on. Pasta shaped like wheels, spirals look beautiful, you can simply grab them with a few stitches of a needle and thread.
Of course, parents do this part of the process, especially if the children are very young. If the child is already entering school, then doing such a craft may be a suitable excuse to teach the child how to use a needle. Usually pasta is attached to the finished drawing at the very end of the work.
The advantage of pasta is that it is easy to paint it in the desired color. Therefore, when doing a cereal craft, think about what you can decorate in it and try using pasta for this.
If you've chosen a puppy template, why not add a leash with a "badge" wheel-shaped macaroni leash, or why not use them to button the snowman.
Advice
Many stores sell colorful pasta - they look great for crafts.
Crafts-ornaments for hair from pasta
Pasta can be used not only with cereals, but also as the main material for work. Pasta manufacturers seem to be specially developing a beautiful design so that craftsmen can use them not only for cooking.
Hair ornaments with pasta look especially original. Few people will guess how they were made, but no child will definitely have the same accessory. There are several options for using pasta to make jewelry:
1 Hoop... All you need is to buy a solid color headband, it should not be too thin so that the pattern can fit on it. Pasta in the form of spikelets glued along the entire length looks beautiful, especially if they are pre-painted in silver or gold.
2 Crown... Using the same solid color bezel, you can make a crown for a little princess. To do this, you need to pick up several types of pasta, it is convenient to use wheels of different sizes. You need to design the shape in advance, and then glue them in rows.
3 Small hairpins. Suitable form pasta for this - bows, they can be decorated in any colors, even with patterns. After that, the bow is attached to the invisibility or a small hairpin with glue so that it cannot be seen.
You can prepare several hairpins for different outfits. Under blue dress with white peas, make a bow of this color, a striped one under a striped one, and so on. The young fashionista will be delighted with such an abundance of jewelry.
Pasta accessories
Not only hair jewelry can be made from pasta. Everything that girls love to wear, beads, bracelets, earrings, can be made of this material. How much joy the child will have if the parents do not just buy jewelry in the store, but take the time to make it on their own with the children.
The easiest way to make beads is from pasta of such a shape, which is strung on a string. You can use different types by painting them in different colors. It is important that the thread is strong, if it is thick and looks ugly from under the "beads", you need to match it in color or just dye it.
Beads with pasta in the form of bows look beautiful. It is impossible to string them on a string, therefore such work is more painstaking and takes more time.
Advice
Each bow must be tied in the middle with a thread, fastened to a knot, then move on to the next.
You can make beads and bracelets by combining pasta with regular beads. You can arrange not only one thing, but a whole set, complementing it with a hairpin in the same style. Such sets " jewelry"Look stylish and original.
Christmas crafts
The easiest way to use cereals for christmas crafts - make New Year's cards together with the child, which he can give on his own behalf to relatives and friends. To do this, you need to choose a simple pattern for a picture on the New Year's theme, print, transfer to cardboard, and arrange with cereals.
A common idea is christmas tree... You can draw it yourself without using a template. Selected small cereals must be dyed in advance green color, let dry and use for drawing, in this case it consists of one large part. You can decorate the tree with pasta beautiful shape, for example, bows.
Small crafts that can be hung on a wall, window, Christmas tree look original. To do this, you need to cut out New Year's figures from cardboard. You can make many different designs and hang them together like a solid garland. Good options would be:
- mitten;
- skates;
- felt boots;
- christmas decorations.
It is easy to draw and cut along the contour of all these figures, and you can decorate with cereals in different ways, because each of them is one continuous detail. For example, a mitten can be made "fur" from rice, and the rest - from any other cereal. If there are many children in the family, this idea will be especially good options, because every child will be able to show creativity, sometimes parents themselves are surprised how much little dreamers can come up with.
Christmas decorations from cereals
Typical glass Christmas tree decorations are a thing of the past, there are many creative ideasthat you can use. One of the most popular is the use of cereals... For many, it is surprising that it is possible not only to decorate a finished ball with it, but to make it from scratch.
Such a craft will not take much time, if at first glance the idea seems complicated, just try it. Manufacturing takes place in several stages:
- We take a newspaper, we roll it into a ball. How much material to take depends on the size of the expected toy. If you are doing it for the first time, you should not immediately make a large one, but you do not need a very small one either - it will be inconvenient to hold it in your hands.
- We give the ball the correct round shape using threads. To do this, you just need to start winding them in a circle, periodically changing direction, as if rolling into a ball. When the shape is even, we fix the ends of the thread, making a small knot.
- We prepare the cereal, which we will use for decor, pour it into a plate. Buckwheat toys look smart.
- Spread PVA glue on top of the threads with a brush, wrap it in a plate. If there are empty places to which grains have not attached, grease them with dotted glue and add them with tweezers.
- We take a spray paint, preferably golden in color, spray the toy, leave it to dry. It is desirable to match the color of the spray to the color of the cereal used, gold looks good on buckwheat, silver on rice and semolina.
You can choose any animal, imagine what kind of cereal or pasta of a certain shape will be able to make it. All you need is to turn on your imagination, consider a picture of an animal, think about what its fur, body shape, and other features look like. Consider, for example, a hedgehog based on puff pastry, but using this idea, you can come up with your own options:
- Cooking salted dough: 1 glass of salt and 250 water at room temperature are taken for 2 cups of flour. We knead the dough, give it the desired shape. This is easy to do, since softened salty dough looks like plasticine.
- For needles, oblong-shaped pasta is best suited - let's take spiral ones. Let's paint them silver with a spray paint. When they dry, needles can be made.
- Visually draw a line that separates the muzzle from the body, grease the edges of the pasta with glue, put a "needle", slightly press down. We begin to move from the muzzle, since if the last row turns out to be uneven, it should not be visible.
- We paint over the rest of the test with silver spray paint, make eyes, nose, mouth. To do this, you can also take pasta - small stars, if you do not paint them, they will stand out so well. You can also take beads by placing them on glue.
You can decorate such a hedgehog as you like: make him a pasta bow, put some small craft on needles, or just make it multi-colored.
Applique Owl. Master Class
Application "Owl" from cereals and seeds. Master Class
Master - class is calculated for students in grades 3-4.
Appointment: can be used to decorate the interior of a children's room, as a gift to friends and acquaintances.
Purpose: teach children to make crafts from natural materials
Tasks:
· To educate children to create beautiful compositions from cereals and seeds of various plants, combining a variety of materials.
· Develop creative imagination and aesthetic perception of the surrounding world.
· Develop the accuracy of working with glue.
Nature is a real storehouse of ideas for creativity, where every person who is not indifferent to beauty will find something to do for himself. What could be nicer and nobler than natural material. By touching nature, we become kinder. And this kindness helps us to create, giving room for imagination and creativity.
She sleeps all day, but flies at night.
It sparkles with its big eyes.
Her keen hearing and attentive gaze.
They will find frogs and mice in the grass.
Her head is spinning
And he will say: "Uh-huh" to us the forest ... (Owl).
I'm sitting in a tree
I follow the production.
And if I see, I will fly.
I will definitely grab it.
There is a big head.
Do you recognize? I am an owl).
To make the work, we need:
sheet corrugated cardboardcut from the packaging container; colored cardboard, ready-made drawing with the image of an owl, Moment glue, stack, scissors; eyes from a set for children's creativity; cereals: millet and semolina; dill and sunflower seeds, small tea (from bags), beans, rose hips, a piece of birch bark.
Step-by-step workflow
1. Let's make a frame for our craft.
On a sheet of corrugated cardboard A-4 we glue colored cardboard. Lay out the frame from the beans.
2. Cut a birch trunk out of birch bark, an image of an owl and glue it onto cardboard.
3. The contours of the owl drawing, after having greased it with glue, "draw" with tea. Let it dry for 2-3 minutes, shake off the excess.
4. We glue the eyes and make beads from the halves of the rosehip.
5. We fill in separate fragments of the applique: the hat - with millet; the floors of the hat from the inside and a twig of birch - semolina; wings, tail and head on the sides - tea; the front of the head and body - with dill seeds. Glue is applied to small areas of the pattern. Then it is sprinkled with cereals (tea) so that no voids remain between the grains. With the help of the stack, we remove the excess.
6. Glue the flower to the hat, and make the nose out of beans.
7. Add leaves to the tree and our work is ready!
It is very interesting to work with cereals and seeds, to come up with plots, to collect compositions! Attracted by the availability and ease of processing.
Here are some examples of what we did with the children:
