With the onset of autumn, the children gather at school and themed exhibitions of crafts made from natural material are held in all educational institutions. This is a great way for children and their parents to prove themselves and work a miracle together. To create crafts, fruits and berries, vegetables and leaves, tree bark and acorns are used. As additional materials, paper and paints, toothpicks and beads are used.
Crafts made from vegetables and fruits are not only separate pictures, but also whole compositions. Sometimes the guys in the whole class collect one large craft, for which everyone makes a small detail. There can be many options. Today we will consider the general principles of making crafts, as well as several workshops that can help you in your creative impulse.
Developing a sense of beauty
Why do school teachers and kindergarten teachers devote so much attention to crafts made from fruits and vegetables? This is a natural material, which at this time of the year is relatively cheap. It is a pleasure to work with him, he is soft and supple, pleasant to the touch and completely safe. Similar works develop a sense of beauty and creativity in children. It is very useful in life.
What can be made from fruits and vegetables
Anyone at all. But they can be divided into several categories and offer children one of them to choose from:
- Fairy-tale heroes. This topic is close to preschool children and primary school students. All of them with great pleasure read fairy tales. With the help of cabbage, zucchini and potatoes, you can make a crocodile Gena, Cheburashka, Golden Fish and many other characters.
- Transport. Boys will certainly be interested in the opportunity to make a tank or a bus using a cucumber or an elongated pumpkin for this.
- Animals. Autumn vegetables easily turn into lambs and dogs, butterflies and turtles.
Table decoration
The main idea is creativity. But who prevents to use the best practices tomorrow for organizing a festive feast or in order to diversify the diet of a child? Edible craft of vegetables and fruits will always be received with a bang.
- You can cut the cucumber into pieces and lay it in the form of a snake, decorating your head with a tongue of carrots.
- Cut boiled carrots and olives in circles and lay out one after another in the shape of a bee. And the cucumber plate will serve as wings. It remains only to add the antennae.
- Halve the melon and take long skewers. Peel the second half and cut into pieces. Now string them on skewers, alternating with slices of kiwi, and decorate the tops with strawberries. Stick the skewers into the melon and serve.
- Using a knife, you can easily create a small Christmas tree from cucumbers, with which you will decorate the dish in an original way.
As you can see, crafts made from vegetables and fruits can come in handy every day. The most capricious kid will gladly eat lunch if he is served with imagination.
Child's Success - Parents' Problem
Themed exhibitions are not just a way to prove oneself. The child will certainly want to take one of the first places so that his craft is noticed. Of course, for this you have to try. In order to be able to realize everything you’ve planned, you need to come up with a topic in advance, as well as make a shopping list, from vegetables to toothpicks and color cardboard.
In addition to all this, glue and scissors, a variety of paper, from cardboard to corrugated plasticine, can come in handy. To save the craft from drying out, you need to prepare a varnish. Slices of cucumbers, and even more so greens, without such a coating by the morning will look far from the best way.
Cute hedgehog
Every child knows this forest animal, as well as its ability to carry forest gifts on thorns. Therefore, the tape of crafts from vegetables and fruits with their own hands usually opens precisely from the prickly family. It can be a single animal, or a whole brood. Or maybe in the background will be their house.
- What is noteworthy, such crafts can be done even with a fairly young child. You will need large potatoes and toothpicks. Even a one-year-old baby can help you make such a beast. And on the needles you can string pieces of plasticine berries or autumn leaves.
- For an exhibition of do-it-yourself crafts from vegetables and fruits, it is desirable to make larger ones so that they look good among dozens of others. Therefore, as a basis, it is best to take an oblong pumpkin, and put medium-sized apples on skewers. The muzzle can be made from a piece of peeled carrots and fixed to a toothpick. Eyes - Aronia berries. And as the legs fit potatoes. To do this, they need to be cut in half, narrowed to the place of attachment, and in the wide part to make notches - fingers.
- You can make an original hedgehog for dessert. To do this, take a pear and cut one edge with a cone to make the face of a hedgehog. On skewers - thorns you need to put on grapes, and stick them in a soft fruit.
Funny faces
What could be more interesting than building a smiling face from a pumpkin or zucchini? The skill of making such crafts is very useful for you on Halloween, so do not miss the chance to work out. Not sure where to start? Then carefully review the photo. Crafts made from fruits and vegetables are a simple and fun entertainment in which the whole family can take part.
To make a face you will need a pumpkin or a watermelon. You can take a melon, it will not get worse.
- For the manufacture you will need to take the fruit of the correct, round shape, uniform color. The pumpkin looks best, because the watermelon is too dark.
- Now draw a pencil with your eyes, smile, and nose.
- Now it remains to cut them with an ordinary knife. You can decorate the craft with attributes such as glasses or a crown.
Cauliflower lamb
It is done very easily, but it turns out original and interesting. To understand the sequence of actions, look at the photo. Crafts made from fruits and vegetables can be very different from each other, so if you have your own version of the assembly, be sure to bring it to life. Originality in this matter is only welcome.
- You will need eggplant and large forks of cauliflower.
- Cut the strip from the eggplant, reduce its thickness. It will be a muzzle with a long nose.
- Disassemble the cabbage head into inflorescences, which will imitate curls of wool.
- Fix the cabbage on the eggplant with toothpicks.
- The place of transition of the dark muzzle into a body dressed in wool can be distinguished by white yarn.
- Cut the remaining eggplant strip into two and fix in the shape of ears.
- It remains to draw up the lawn on which it grazes, to make eyes.
An additional plus will be that this craft does not spoil for a long time.
Options for the smallest
This is very true for parents, if you need crafts in the kindergarten. It is not a problem to buy vegetables and fruits, but the child still does not know how to handle them. However, he certainly wants to do something himself, without the help of his parents. At this time, an abundance of apples, and they are relatively inexpensive. Invite him to make a funny caterpillar.
- You will need five apples and one carrot.
- Carrots need to be cut into circles.
- Use toothpicks to assemble the track body. You will need to attach a mug of carrots to each apple from below that protrude on both sides. It will be paws.
- After that, fasten the four apples together horizontally, and the fifth vertically. It turns out that the caterpillar raised its head.
- Berries can be used as eyes. And even easier to make them out of colored paper.
- Now prepare the decoration. This can be a flirty skirt made of corrugated paper, a cloak and bowler hat, bow or hat.
Do not forget to take a photo at the end. Children's crafts made from vegetables and fruits are not only a victory at the exhibition, but also a sea of pleasure and pleasant memories.
Racing cars
Of course, you need to offer an option for boys. Future defenders of the fatherland with great pleasure make tanks and vehicles. There is nothing complicated about it. Just playing with a child, you can make such a toy from an apple. To do this, you can simply cut a half of an apple into equal, large strips and fix four grapes as wheels. Having produced a sufficient number of such cars, you can arrange a rally.
But today we are considering options for how to make a handicraft of vegetables and fruits at the exhibition. Therefore, let's take as an example a more complicated option. To do this, you need to take cucumbers or zucchini. With the help of a knife, it is necessary to give them the appropriate shape, outline the cabin and doors. Now it's up to the small. Cut the carrots into circles and fasten them with toothpicks to the car body. It remains to draw a race track from the bark of trees. And you can make a couple of rivals.
Zucchini pig
Crafts from vegetables and fruits to kindergarten should be simple and inexpensive. In the country this year, a crop of zucchini? That's great. We will make a pig. To do this, you need a small light-colored vegetable. Best if it is flat.
Make a background on which to place the pig. It can be a blue puddle of plasticine or a green lawn. Colored cardboard or paper is perfect for this. Now we take our zucchini and put it in the center. It remains to arrange it so that it becomes recognizable. To do this, cut a large piece of cucumber and attach it in the form of a patch. Cut the second circle in half and fasten to the crown. As an eye, rowan or plasticine is suitable. The work is almost ready, it remains only to make a funny tail crochet.
Bouquet of flowers
This is an original craft in the garden. You can take different vegetables and fruits, the result will still be wonderful. But we will consider the option of making crafts from carrots and corn. You need to take plastic cups, plasticine as a filler, skewers or toothpicks, carrots and an ear of corn. The manufacture itself is quite simple:
- It is required to decorate a plastic cup with paper and fill it with plasticine half.
- Now prepare the carrots. To do this, clean and wash it, and then make shallow cuts along the entire diameter. After that, the chopped rings will look like a flower with petals.
- Ears of corn need to be cut into rings.
Now you have everything you need. For each skewer you need to put on one piece of carrot or corn, after which, having shortened it to the desired dyne, stick it in plasticine. A dozen are enough to get an original bouquet. This is an interesting and uncomplicated autumn craft. Vegetables and fruits can be combined with each other, then the picture will be even more interesting.
Heroes of the present
Times are changing, and today the guys are watching completely different cartoons. Why not portray familiar and beloved heroes, especially since it is so easy to do. Children's crafts made from vegetables and fruits are also a way to train memory and attention, perseverance and imagination.
Today, all children know and love the cartoon about Smesharikov. Bright, funny and so similar to a balloon, they become the idols of millions. And to make them completely simple. You can make a large figurine of a Krosh rabbit. To do this, you need a head of cabbage and a little time.
- From the head you need to separate two sheets for the ears. From the thick part we cut two ovals for the eyes.
- Attach the ears to the top of the head.
- Cut the potato in half and fasten in place of the legs.
- We attach cabbage ovals to the place of the eyes and put a dot in the paint.
- Paint the eyebrows and mouth.
- Instead of a nose, a tomato is good.
Funny figure is ready. But something is missing. That's right, Krosh has many more friends.
Family Smesharikov
Funny crafts made from fruits and vegetables will help develop your child’s imagination. Therefore, do not spare time for these classes. Beloved Smeshariki will bring great joy and take their rightful place at the exhibition. And making them is very simple.
- For the Sovunya, you need round beets.
- Let's make nyusha from a tomato.
- Among them, the orange Losyash will find a place.
- Kopatych is best made from potatoes.
- Hedgehog will be from red onion.
- Krosh - from an apple.
In order to prepare the necessary paraphernalia (Losyas horns, hedgehog spikes) it is best to take polymer clay. It is very pleasant to work with her and the result is simply wonderful. And then only your imagination will tell you. You can make the characters as close as possible to the cartoon ones, or give them new features.
Funny minions
These amazing little men today practically do not leave the notebooks of students and T-shirts produced for children. Therefore, if you offer your child to make a minion with his own hands, he will only be happy. To prepare it, you will need a pre-picked and dried pumpkin. Let's look at the steps to make a funny little man:
- The pumpkin must be installed in a suitable bowl, tail down.
- Take yellow gouache and cover the vegetable. Let it dry.
- Now cover the top of the pumpkin with a second layer of yellow paint, and the bottom - blue.
- Using a toothpick, draw the outline of the minion costume, paint over with blue paint.
- Use a thin brush to apply white lines that imitate a line in a denim suit.
But the main work is yet to come. Now you need to draw the contours of the eyes and mouth. Now we make points. To do this, take a cardboard from toilet paper and cut out two mugs, paint them white. With glue we fix them in place. Almost ready. It remains to make hair. To do this, take plasticine and roll black sausages out of it. Use round-headed pins to secure them to the crown. Now your craft is ready to go to the contest and take a prize place there.
Instead of a conclusion
Children's creativity contests are not just a tick in the list of events, but the ability of each child to prove himself. Autumn crafts from vegetables and fruits are traditionally made by children of all ages in schools and kindergartens. For parents, this is a chance to spend time with their child, help and suggest. But try not to do everything for him, no matter how great the temptation. Indeed, the competition should evaluate his talents and abilities. Be prepared for the fact that the next day the child will require a new portion of vegetables to make gifts to family and friends. This is an excellent opportunity for the development of imagination and fine motor skills.