Handmade applications of fruits and vegetables - a selection of step-by-step master classes for children

Development of creative skills with the help of applique

To implement different ideas, you can use paper and other materials and it is better to start introducing children to applique with simple ideas. Easy and not complicated crafts help to solve several problems at once, ensuring a variety in the process of home learning and preparation for school:

• Developing fine motor skills in the basic process of working with selected materials to make fruit or vegetable figures;
• Strengthening of memory and stimulation of the process of memorization with the possibility to consolidate the knowledge of shapes and sizes, colors and new names;
• Strengthening the skills of working with a variety of materials, textures and tools necessary to make beautiful handicrafts.

Any child would love to spend time with their parents learning new techniques to help them express themselves. Starting with simple products and not complicated designs, you can gradually teach him to create volumetric and harmonious compositions, collected in one installation.

Applique techniques with children

Whatever group or class a child goes to, he will always be interested in creating a beautiful masterpiece with his own hands. For applications of fruits and berries or vegetables, you can use different techniques, the choice of which depends on the use of a certain set of materials and tools:

• simple paper applique on a cardboard base. Such handicrafts are made from plain colored paper and blanks should fully mimic the shape and even size of the manufactured fruit. It is best to start with simple and recognizable shapes, such as apples and pears, grapes and plums, apricots and cherries, growing in gardens and often encountered by the baby;
• three-dimensional applications of fruits and vegetables. By creating three-dimensional forms a child develops his perspective vision of objects, learns to remember and recognize the objects of the outside world around him. It is possible to make with a child three-dimensional vegetables, such as beets and carrots, and exotic fruits (pineapple and banana), a basket with strawberries or bunches of grapes;
• artistic composition of individual applications. A more difficult task for a child will be to create a harmonious and unified composition, which is easy to do with the help of parents. If you cut out in advance with children berries, vegetables and fruits, prepare baskets glued to cardboard, then the baby himself can divide the figures on the blanks of the vase.

Thanks to the gradual complication of the design of the crafts will be able to simplify the learning process and develop the creative abilities of the child. With this simple approach, the child will not make an ordinary picture, but will create a composition featuring a plate or a beautiful vase of fruit.

Simple fruit applique with toddlers

For the youngest kids, it is better to choose simple ways to make applications and it will be better if it will depict fruits and vegetables familiar to the child. Parents are advised to choose the simplest templates for kids, while helping them with cutting out the figures:

• templates of colored paper. Parents can cut out templates themselves, repeating the shapes and colors familiar to the child, and the baby will finish drawing tails and leaves on the finished applique with pencils;
• blanks of cotton disks. This material already has a round shape and can be used to make round fruits or vegetables with the possibility of coloring with paints;
• colored plasticine. At the request of parents, three-dimensional applications are easy to create not only from paper, but also with the use of classical or airy plasticine, easy to handle.

Such crafts will be a real decoration of the children's room and the price of the necessary materials is minimal. If you use textured and colored materials, it will be easier for the child to remember shapes, names and strengthen their tactile senses, which contributes to the development of memory.

Fruit vases for older children

When preparing for school, parents will benefit from a simple outline, where they can list the topics of tasks and passed material. All preparatory tasks passed in theory can easily be completed with a practical lesson, in which children will make applications of different sizes and shapes:

• volumetric fruits of colored paper, consisting of several elements;
• application from pieces of paper or multicolored napkins glued to the base;
• Using fabric or felt to make textured and beautiful crafts.

Any berry or fruit that a child is introduced to is sure to be memorable if you learn a poem about it and reinforce the lesson by creating an applique. Even if such fruits do not grow in the region and they can't be bought in the store, the available photos and pictures will provide preparation for a cognitive lesson, interesting for children.

Original applications of fruits and vegetables

If the older child has already mastered the simple and accessible techniques of application, you can gradually put before him more difficult tasks. Any activity should begin with the theory, with parents can prompt and show how to make a handicraft, and then together with children to make handicrafts with a complex design:

• applique from crumpled paper balls or multicolored napkins (single-layer);
• contour applique from natural materials, seeds and leaves, sand and pebbles;
• the use of woolen threads for applique, laid on a thin layer of glue.

It is best if the materials used for the crafts are of appropriate colors, most often found in nature. So the child will form stable associative links and it will improve the process of memorizing the figures, it is useful for learning to count and compare objects.

Every parent is able to organize a child's leisure time and reinforce the new knowledge gained in kindergarten or school. No matter what grade a child goes to, he will always be interested in doing creative work, if parents give him enough attention and spend their free time with him. Simple and easy applications will be the key to the development of creative and creative skills that are sure to be useful to children and help them express themselves.

Photo ideas of children's applications on the theme of fruits and vegetables