All children like this type of needlework as applique. Animals are in great demand in any technique. Volumetric paper models are used in games, a flat image increases a child’s self-confidence, and fabric models not only decorate clothes, but are also used as didactic material.
Classic applique type
First, children get acquainted with a paper application. It can be flat as well as voluminous. Little children paste the details of the animal to the cardboard. For example, print out a template for coloring, cut parts, translate onto colored paper. Animals can be constructed using geometric shapes, which develops children's imagination.
Voluminous application looks unusual . Animals made of paper balls, stripes, wrinkled paper are of great interest to children. For example, to make an elephant, you draw an oval torso on the cardboard. Glue strips-legs. Take the paper two centimeters larger than the body, cut it off with a wide tail.
Mint, twist the tail, straighten the body, stick. Just crumple, glue round ears, head with trunk. Decorate with weed on top (a piece of green paper cut into thin strips). If you make an image with balls or stripes, then just stick the pattern with colorful elements.
Application from leaves: animals
Leaves are fertile material for crafts. Gather in summer, autumn, a variety of natural material (seeds, leaves, ears, acorns, seeds, flowers), dry (like a herbarium or in sand), soak in glycerin. Leaves in the first way are very brittle, and glycerin gives softness, flexibility, but changes color.
Any application of leaves (animals, landscape, people, fish, birds) develops imagination, thinking, logic. The child will learn more about the plant world, the properties of natural material, ways of interacting with it.
Here are a few options for making rodents. For the mouse you will need birch leaves, clover, elm, dill or flax seeds, blade of grass. Glue the birch leaf tail down (this will be the body). A small leaf of elm without a tail is placed on the body. Glue clover ears, and then head from elm. Seeds are used in the formation of the eyes, nose, and grass is useful for a mustache. It turns out the mouse in full view.
If the head sheet is placed perpendicular to the body, then the mouse will be in profile. Accordingly, stick the paws, tail, ears, eyes, nose. If necessary, adjust the shape of the sheet with scissors.
Fabric application: animals
Fabric applications are more often used as decor for clothes, bedspreads, bags, elastic bands. The principle of work as with paper crafts:
- print a coloring template (for example, a dog);
- cut the details;
- transfer all the details to the fabric;
- overcast the edges of the body;
- with soap, outline the location of the head, bone;
- Sew a bone to the torso with an overcast seam;
- then sew on the eyes, eyebrows, nose;
- then overcast the edges of the head, bones;
- connect all the details.
The volume application turned out. Pets collected on a bedspread, rug, rug, not only decorate the nursery, but also allow you to expand knowledge about the animal world. The process can be simplified.
Choose the most elementary patterns, transfer to one fabric as a whole. Then sew the animal to the flap, and then with the same seaming seam select lines, parts of the muzzle, changing the colors of the threads. Then sew these squares with applique with the main fabric. Please note that the color of matter may not coincide with the color of the real animal.
Custom application
Try different techniques with your child. For example, an elephant made of felt in a geometric style (round head, oval eyes, rectangular tail and trunk, square two-tone ears, diamond-shaped legs, trapezoid two-tone body).
Or draw an image of a duckling on cardboard. Glue the eye, beak, paws from seeds, and cover the head with the body with millet. You can also make polar bears from dough, hares from semolina, hedgehogs from buckwheat or sunflower seeds. Even babies are attracted to the "cereal" applique "Animals".
How to make crafts from scraps?
Lay out all the shreds, determine the image of the animal by the color scheme. Make a piece of paper and fabric, connect the parts on cardboard, glue the lower layers, then the upper parts. Decorate the background, frame.
For this technique, you can use a special imported fabric that does not crumble and adheres to the material with a hot iron. It is expensive, so you can train on plain cotton.
Knitted applique
Knitted applique is attractive for needlewomen. Animals turn out bright, unusual, multi-colored. The image can be crocheted and knitted. The fastest option is to transfer the whole pattern to a knitted fabric, sheathe it with a seaming seam, cut off the excess.
A good option is to find the animal’s pattern and tie it up. But you can crochet on a pattern. For example, you tie the body, collar, ear, tail, spot, nose of the dog. Sew parts, embroider the eye, mouth, tie the edges.
Or here is the option of phasing the mouse. Tie the circle for the torso. Place the junction of the head and tail with pins. Tie the last edge with a single crochet, tying the tail in parallel, reaching the head. Now knit a circle on the marked loops, reducing the number of loops to the muzzle. Tie a round ear of two colors, sew to the head. Embroider the eye, nose. Thus, tying the circle in one place or another, you can get an owl, chicken, sparrow, snail, tortoise, animal faces, etc.
conclusions
Any applique on the theme "Animals" will decorate the interior of the house, clothes, pillows, bedspreads, educational books and manuals. Just consider the age, interest and abilities of the child, as well as pre-prepare the necessary material.