Creative activities play a significant role in the upbringing and development of the child. Any conscious parent understands this simple truth and offers his baby to study not only in kindergarten or circles, but also at home. An interesting idea for co-creation is a handicraft. We bring to your attention a selection of the best ideas and workshops on this topic.
Drawing for the little ones
Surely you have already seen the sale of "finger" paints intended for children aged one and a half years. Be sure to purchase such a set and invite the baby to draw his first picture. The youngest artists can simply leave the prints of their pens on a piece of paper. Such a hand-made article will look spectacular in a frame, or it can be placed in a
child’s children's album . An interesting idea is to make cards for grandmothers, decorating them with multi-colored prints of pens. It is possible to make a family “portrait” in this technique. Let not only the baby leave his handprints, but also his parents. Handles can be placed on top of each other or in a row. Such a simple craft will certainly become a real relic.
Hand turns into ...
Look at the penprint left by the paint - what does it look like? Perhaps this is the tail of an exotic bird, its wings or the body with the legs of an animal? Offer to express your imagination directly to the child. Take a handprint as a basis and draw all the necessary elements. A similar creative work can be done in the application technique. Cut several pens from paper of different colors and combine them, and then glue or draw details. Original hand-made article - an owl. This wise bird can have wings, a head or a body. Try also to make a peacock or a fabulous firebird, you only need to collect the tail from several multi-colored hands.
New Year's miracles
Many children especially like to do some thematic crafts dedicated to a certain time of the year or even a holiday. Be sure to devote some creative activities to the main winter events. What is the easiest and most interesting handiwork for the New Year? Try to collect a real Christmas tree from the prints of pens. You can make a Christmas tree using the technique of drawing and application. In order for your craft to look more interesting - take a few shades of green. With the prints of the children's handles in the form of a large cone, move from bottom to top. If you paint, try to arrange the prints so that the fingers stick out in all directions. The application will turn out to be the most effective if only the palm itself is glued, and the fingertips are slightly twisted. Another magical hand-made
winter craft is a snowman. You will need a lot of sheets of white paper (suitable for printer printing) and a large background sheet. If you take a paper or a piece of unnecessary wallpaper as a basis, do not be too lazy to paint it in advance, for example, you can arbitrarily paint a
winter landscape in blue and blue. Cut a lot of children's palms from white paper. Connect them with the bases in such a way that you get a circle - you have the topmost ball, the head. Make two of the same balls, gluing the fingerprints of the pens in several layers. The final stage is the assembly, glue three circles on the base, observing the correct order in size, make the eyes and nose. You can add pens, a scarf and any other details to your snowman.
Crafts from children's pens for the holidays
Creative work with handprints can safely be called the most original and individual. So why not use this wonderful technique for making craft gifts? The simplest version of a postcard is a bouquet of pens. Let the handprints become petals (we draw or cut them out of colored paper), and make the middle of a circle of contrasting color or a large button / bead. You can also add leaves and stems cut from green paper. Another interesting hand-made article for March 8 is voluminous flowers. Cut some pens from colored paper. Bend and glue your fingers so that you get voluminous “loops”. Align several pens together so that the petals are directed in different directions and you get an original flower.
"Hand" trees and other interesting ideas
A simple and very beautiful hand-made article is a tree. Draw a trunk on a large sheet of paper, and then form its crown from the prints of the pens. This is a great idea for seasonal room decor - when changing seasons, you can depict a tree with leaves that change color. Such an article is also suitable for decorating a kindergarten group - let each kid leave his own prints on the collective drawing, or cut out a pen for general application. Try creating in mixed media. Handprints when turning into complex pictures can be glued with cotton wool, sprinkled with spangles, previously applied glue to the base, stuck with plasticine or decorate using mosaic technique in small pieces of colored cardboard / paper. Such creativity perfectly develops thinking and allows the child to show all his imagination, and the finished hand-made article will be a wonderful decoration of the interior or a memorable gift for relatives.