Among various kinds of crafts, the most popular is applique. Little children are happy to do this, developing imagination, motor skills and dexterity of hands, learning to handle fragile or cutting objects. Those for whom children's activity has become a hobby for life, perfect mastery, creating whole amazing paintings.
Features of terminology and variety
Let's take a closer look at what an application is. If you look into the explanatory dictionaries, we will find out that this is the name of the image of something made or obtained in a certain way or technique (more on this below). The second value is the technique itself, relating to decorative and applied forms of art. In other words, what is an application: this is a picture (or a small picture) on some surface, only not drawn with brushes and paints, but glued on. Depending on the type of material used, it can be paper, fabric, fur, as well as from natural objects.
Types of Applications
Let's consider each type in more detail.
- What is a paper application? For its manufacture, cardboard or a sheet from an album is taken as a basis. The surface is covered with a color background or left in its natural form. From colored paper, figures, patterns, details of the picture are cut out and then attached to the base with glue or other means.
- What is applique on fabric: colored pieces of fabrics of different textures are glued or sewn onto the material, from which this or that pattern is obtained. Combinations with felt, leather, fur, that is, embossed fabrics and smooth ones like chintz, silk, etc. are obtained as interesting ones. Cords and braid are often used as decorative elements. By the way, different embroideries are also one of the types of fabric applications.
- What is a natural material applique? In many ways, it looks like a herbarium. Dried or fresh plants - blades of grass, leaves, twigs, small inflorescences are attached to cardboard. The resulting compositions retain the natural beauty of natural materials.
- Wood application - since ancient times, one of the most popular forms of furniture decoration. It is an insert made of artificial (plastic, metal) and natural inclusions (the same wood, stone, etc.) elements.
Practical lesson
How to teach a child to make applications with his own hands? Teach him a few lessons. To start, come up with a plot together. For example, make a forest clearing. Help me choose the foundation. Using a simple pencil, draw on the back of colored paper sheets the details of the composition: brown trunks, various shades of green - the crowns of trees. Toothed stripe may represent grass. Small yellow and red circles are flowers. The sun and clouds will end the landscape. However, the first practical experience should not be cluttered with many details. However, the more the child learns, the more accurate his movements are, the more subtle types of work he can be entrusted with.
When all the elements have been prepared, you can stick them. For this, either hard glue in a tube is better, or if you use a regular stationery, smear it with a
brush for drawing. Then the work will look neater. Teach your child to use cloths to dab excess glue. When the picture is finished, cover it with cellophane and put it on the bookshelf - as a keepsake.
Good luck, Samodelkiny!