Creativity is in every child. Unrestrained children's imagination requires a way out, and the favorite thing for many children is to craft very interesting crafts with their own hands. Parents only need to send the baby and provide the necessary materials, teach them how to work. Joint creativity brings the child and parents together, teaches attentiveness, accuracy, perseverance, develops fine motor skills, logic, thinking, imagination. An interesting craft, made with your own hands, can become a favorite toy or an expensive gift for relatives. And the materials for its manufacture can be very diverse.
From paper
It is with paper that a child becomes acquainted first of all. Already at the age of one year, children begin to try to draw with pencils and paints, examine colors and their properties. Drawing is one of the most common creative activities of a child. To diversify this process, you can use various unusual techniques.
An interesting do-it-yourself craft can be obtained using stamps. You can make them from polystyrene or plasticine, interesting prints will be obtained if you use plastic bottles, bank rubber bands or thick threads glued to cardboard, cups of different diameters, cut straws, lego details, leaves and flowers, your own palms and much more.
For drawing, you can use the scratching technique - scratching the picture with a pen, toothpick or other sharp object on paper covered in black ink or gouache. The technique of frotting - shading paper located on a flat embossed object.
You can think of a lot - use shaving foam, salt the finished watercolor drawing, paint with glue or soap solution instead of paints, take a sponge or cloth instead of a brush, etc.
The application will also allow you to make interesting light crafts with your own hands. Pictures are bright, colorful and voluminous. You can use not only colored paper, but also cardboard, fabric, leather, cereals, pasta, dried leaves, flowers and much more.
Origami is suitable for children of all ages. For the smallest, there are simple schemes of animal figures, and older children can do more beautiful and complex things. Origami can be decorated with paints, beads, buttons, sparkles.
Out of the boxes
An ordinary cardboard box is already a finished form, it remains only to slightly modify it. Adding a nose, eyes, ears, paws and a tail can make any animal. Cut the box, add furniture, cut the windows - and you get a dollhouse. You can make an entire city.
You can make interesting children's crafts with your own hands from a large box - it will become a baby house, a car, a steam locomotive, a ship, a TV, a stove, an aquarium. Thick cardboard is suitable for making a small chest of drawers for storing trifles.
From fruits and vegetables
In the fall, the time for fairs in schools and kindergartens begins, a lot of new materials appear from which you can make beautiful interesting crafts with your own hands. From vegetables and fruits, it’s fun to come up with original things, and then you can eat them.
Have you noticed that many vegetables and fruits are like animals? Cauliflower, for example, an almost finished sheep, a banana looks like a dolphin, and eggplant is a spilled penguin. It is very easy to make a frog from pepper, and a giraffe from carrots. You can cut a funny face on any fruit and make a whole company.
Using apples, cucumbers or zucchini with the help of toothpicks you can make real racing cars and arrange competitions. Experiment with the materials - which wheels is the best for an apple slice car to ride on? On carrot or grape? The main thing is not to eat spare parts before the start of the competition! You can put passengers in such a vegetable car.
From leaves, cones, acorns
From the autumn forest I just want to bring along a beautiful cone, several acorns, chestnuts or a bright maple leaf. From them you can make an original little thing, which will become a cute decoration of the house. These are not only standard pigs from acorns and hedgehogs from cones.
From autumn herbs and leaves you can weave a wreath on the door. Ordinary cones can be painted in bright colors and make an excellent winter bouquet or Christmas toys. Small acorns and cones can decorate the photo frame. A tree made of branches looks very unusual, decorated with acorns painted with acrylics.
From clay, dough, clay
Plasticine is a wonderful material for creativity, from which beautiful interesting hand-made articles are made. Traditionally, figures of animals, cartoon characters, and little men are molded from plasticine. But this is not its only application. Using this material, you can make paintings by the application method on thick cardboard or old disks. There is also a plasticine drawing technique that allows you to create three-dimensional images.
Salty dough allows not only to make original figures and panels, but also to save them for a long time. After drying, the product can be painted and varnished. Mothers of the smallest children should pay attention to salt dough, because soft dough is much better for children's fingers than thick plasticine.
Another use of salt dough is to make fridge magnets out of it. Blind the figure and stick an unnecessary magnet to it. The original fridge decoration will be a wonderful gift.
Another modeling material is clay. Today in stores you can buy a children's pottery wheel and everything you need to make bowls, mugs, vases and plates. Using various materials, you will get an interesting DIY craft, which can then be painted with paints.
Of stones and shells
Many children like to collect beautiful pebbles and shells on the street. And these collections can be great material for creativity. With the help of paints, round pebbles turn into ladybugs, bright bugs, flowers, houses, bright tropical fish, birds, animals. Take a thin brush, paint, glue, and cool pebbles will come to life under skillful hands. Using these natural materials, you can decorate the frame or make a real sculpture.
From fabric
Fabric, leather, fur and satin ribbons - from this you can literally make anything you want, armed with a needle and thread. Now there is just a huge number of workshops and all kinds of recipes. Interesting DIY craft ideas can be found in numerous needlework magazines.
From the fabric you can sew as small crafts and cute pillows, as well as original animals and cute dolls. For example, tilda-style jewelry and dolls are now very popular. With fabric, you can decorate the frame or make a new cover for your favorite diary.
Satin ribbons today are again a hot commodity in fabric stores, because the kanzashi technique - making flowers from satin ribbons - gained wide popularity. Most often, these flowers are used to decorate hair bands and elastic bands.
Crafts made of leather and fur require special work skills and great industriousness, but the results of this work can be fantastically beautiful, moreover, such a hobby is quite rare. You can try your hand with the help of materials left over from old clothes and shoes.
Postcards
Children love to give cards. An interesting do-it-yourself craft can be obtained by applying various techniques and materials. In addition to paints and pencils, you can use volumetric applications, wrapping paper, multi-colored buttons, fabrics, lace, feathers, ribbons.
For the yard
You can revive the infield by applying DIY crafts. The most interesting thing is that you can use any materials at hand. A flower bed can be decorated with stones. Of course, the natural color looks good, but any baby will be happy if a bright bug or frog settles under the flowers, which he made with his mother.
A common material for decorating a site is ordinary car tires. They will not only become part of the flower bed or flower pot, but also easily turn into funny animals. A little color and imagination, and swans, turtles, horses, giraffes and exotic birds will appear on the lawn.