One of the most interesting activities for children is applique. With a child of 5 years, you can perform many different crafts, because at this age he has already developed well-developed motor skills, and the baby is quite assiduous. This article will give examples of the most interesting options for applications.
Greeting card for March 8
No child will refuse to give a gift to his grandmother, mother or sister by March 8th. Let it be a card with tulips and crepe paper mimosa. For her you will need:
- Colored cardboard of any color.
- Colored paper is ordinary green, white, yellow, red and any other color.
- Crepe paper yellow.
- Scissors.
- A simple pencil.
- PVA glue.
- Felt-tip pens.
At the very beginning of the work, it is necessary to bend the cardboard in half - this will be the basis for the postcard.
Now you need to prepare the details of the application.
- To begin with, draw a vase on a color paper of the selected color with a simple pencil, after which it must be carefully cut out and put aside for a while.
- Next, on green paper, you need to draw leaves and stalks of flowers. If the child does not know what these parts of the plant look like, then he needs help. After that, the details are cut out. In total, three stems for tulips and 3 branches of mimosa are needed. Leaves are made in any quantity.
- Now, on white, yellow and red paper, you need to draw tulip flowers, and then cut them out (it is better if there is one tulip of each color in the picture).
- From yellow crepe paper, you need to cut many circles with a diameter of about 1 cm. Then you need to crush each circle into a small ball.
- After all preparations, the application is collected on a cardboard basis with glue. When the glue dries, then inside the postcard you can write a congratulation with felt-tip pens.
Such an application for children 5-6 years old will be an excellent occupation. And parents will love the fact that the kids are busy with useful and interesting things. Yes, and every mom will like the gift.
Materials for children's creativity
Application for children 5-6 years old requires a variety of materials. Here will be a list of what a child can glue an excellent craft from.
- The most common materials are colored paper and cardboard. You can draw and glue on them. A variety of shapes are cut out and stacked from them. Colored paper can be crepe, corrugated, glossy, double-sided and self-adhesive. Paper application for children 5 years old is a common activity. And to make the child more interesting, it is worth adding other materials to the paper. Cardboard can also be glossy or velvet.
- Another interesting material is fabric. Shreds from old clothes can be an excellent basis for crafts. Voluminous applications can be made of them, in which each detail will differ by touch. It is easy to carry out various draperies on fabric bases, and their figures look more realistic. Many parents say that it is very interesting to carry out appliqués for children of 5 years old with fabric made together.
- The guys especially like to create work from improvised materials and all kinds of “garbage”. This includes nutshells, twigs, cones, candy wrappers, cotton pads, etc.
Application "Autumn-Winter" from improvised materials
Application with a child of 5 years from improvised materials allows the child to show imagination and imaginative thinking.
You will need:
- Cotton or cotton pads.
- Cardboard.
- Colored paper.
- Little twigs.
- Small dry leaves.
- Scissors.
- PVA glue.
- Clay "Moment".
First you need to prepare the basis for the application. To do this, glue blue paper on the upper half of the cardboard, and brown on the lower half. Then it is worth dividing the base line along.
On the left half of the base will be an autumn applique. Half of the branches should be glued to the cardboard with “Moment” glue, and one branch should be attached directly to the line. Then dry leaves are glued with the same glue on a brown background. Then the leaves are attached on top of the branches. It should be an autumn forest. On the branch, which is in the middle, the leaves are glued only on the left side.
Winter will be on the right half. The remaining branches are glued to the right side of the cardboard, then snow from the cotton wool is attached to the “ground” and “trees”. The picture is ready.
Application with children of 5 years from improvised materials can be very interesting, especially if all the kids will perform one picture on a huge cardboard and collect materials together.
Where to look for improvised materials for application?
To search for materials the child is best taken to the park or the nearest forest. There are many leaves, twigs, cones and acorns, from which you can make unusual crafts and applications.
An application with a child of 5 years old can be made of materials that are in every house. The kid should be offered to find for himself what he would like to glue the work from. It can be cotton wool, cereals or pasta.
Pasta applique
For this craft, you need to prepare:
- Thick cardboard.
- Clay "Moment".
- A simple pencil.
- Watercolor paints.
- Pasta.
Application with children of 5 years from pasta is very simple. Kids can do it on their own. To do this, draw any drawing on the cardboard and invite the child to fill it with pasta, and then paint it with paints.
Moms say that this craft would be ideal if the baby needs to be occupied with something for a long time.
How to help a child with a lot of crafts at once?
The best help would be templates. The child will be able to circle them, cut out the figures from which the application will be glued. For children 5 years old patterns are geometric shapes. Of these, you can perform many different jobs. Patterns should be of different sizes and shapes to give scope to the child’s imagination. Judging by the reviews of parents, the most multifunctional figures will be:
- Circles of different sizes.
- Equilateral and isosceles triangles.
- Large and small squares.
- A variety of rectangles.
- Stars.
- Ovals.
Less universal templates can be added to them:
- All kinds of polygons.
- Eights.
- Rhombs.
- Trapezoid.
- Semicircles.
- Half-overs.
Applique of geometric shapes.
For such an application you will need:
- Templates.
- Cardboard.
- Colored paper.
- Glue.
- Scissors.
- A simple pencil.
Application with a 5-year-old child using templates is done with minimal adult participation. The child can decide for himself which picture he wants to make, then select the necessary shapes, cut them out of colored paper and stick them on cardboard. You can also offer your baby your option.
If the child is doing such work for the first time, he should be offered a simple picture. For example, a house or a mushroom. Then you can choose more difficult compositions and make whole portraits, landscapes and still lifes from them. Do-it-yourself application for children of 5 years old is an excellent entertainment during which the child will not only be engaged in creativity, but will also be able to get closer to his parents.