Sometimes an applique helps to make a good holiday gift or to decorate a room and clothes. A snowman made of paper and cotton, on fabric and cardboard - a great option for handmade art!
Applique on fabric
Each needlewoman likes when an exclusive item comes out from under her hands. To create a masterpiece, it is not necessary to do everything from scratch. For example, you can easily decorate a child’s outfit or pillow if the master uses an application on the theme “Snowman”.
It is enough to choose a successful template and a fabric suitable in color and texture. First, the application “Snowman” is made of paper - this is a template or pattern. Then the contours are transferred to the matter, the details are cut out and taken to the chosen place. Sew on the appliqué with the sewing seams manually or on a typewriter.
You can use the hot method and stick the picture on the fabric using polyethylene and iron.
Application "Snowman" from paper for the smallest
Using ready-made cut circles from white paper, a colored isosceles trapezoid and an orange triangle, even a kid can make a story picture. On a blue background, just stick the details, and the application is ready. The broom and scarf are added at the discretion, and the buttons and the face are drawn last.
The application “Snowman” made of paper develops not only creative thinking, it instills the skills of manual labor. It is very important during work to convey to the consciousness of young children the difference in the concepts of "small" - "large", "more" - "less." After all, they need to stick circles using the rule of the pyramid. That is, the largest detail of the snow woman is attached below, then the medium size, and above the smallest.
You also need to pay attention to the fact that all circles should be in contact with each other, otherwise the snowman will simply crumble!
It should also be explained to the children that the figure should be placed vertically, not displaced to the left or right, and below it is necessary to make a "floor" or "ground".
The plot composition "Holiday for Snowmen"
For children 4-5 years old, it is possible to complicate the lesson on applications. A snowman (circles for him) should be cut independently by the child in the same way as fir trees, a hat or a “bowler hat” on the head of a cute fairy-tale character. It can have original parts, such as headphones or a shirt, a sundress or an apron, a cap of Santa Claus or a shovel, sledges, skates.
Adults should give children an opportunity to fantasize. And when performing the plot composition “Holiday for Snowmen”, children can use their full creative potential. Let the snowman, whose head fell to the ground, dashingly dance without it! A smiling snow woman carefully helps to put in place a lush little head absolutely not to the extent of a merry comrade.
Bulk cardboard applications for postcards
Children love to create objects that can then be used for anything. Therefore, you can offer tomboys to make a winter card for someone as a gift. Only let it be special, voluminous.
Such an unconventional applique “Snowman” in the middle group may well be made. Details for postcards are cut out of thick paper or cardboard, you can even take velvet. First, stick the paper rings onto the background surface in a dotted manner. Then, already on the free side of the ring, the application part is attached. As a result, the snowman or Christmas tree will become three-dimensional.
You can stick narrow and short paper strips of green color on the tree, which will imitate the needles. And it is recommended that the snowman himself be made using cotton ball applique technique.
Volume applications from different materials
Not only paper parts can be glued to the background cardboard. For example, the application “Snowman” in the middle group may well be made of cotton swabs to wipe the face, pieces of cotton wool or fleece. Then the picture takes some volume, which is extremely popular with children.
You should not use for the plot an exclusively trivial version of a snowman standing with a broom. Let the fairy-tale characters take a little nap today, because they are alive according to children's concepts. Or you can invite them to sing in chorus - well, their mood is just so cheerful!
And for students who are familiar with knitting, you can offer to complete the application, using this skill. Crocheted details will look original in the composition.
The most creative applications are performed using twigs that are previously held in a strong solution of sodium chloride. As a result, they are covered with a white sparkling plaque, just as the trees turn dark in the morning. As if snow caps on branches, ordinary cotton wool would look beautiful. And on the picket fence of a fence made of cardboard and attached using the technique of volumetric application using ring gaskets, you can impose bright bows from satin ribbons.
The main rule when performing any craft consists of three “whales”:
- accuracy;
- patience;
- fantasy.