Applications of colored circles with beads - production techniques, useful tips and beautiful photo ideas

Circle applique and choice of materials

Each craft and the process of making it requires some preparation from the child and his parents. Adults are recommended to choose a template in advance and decide on the main idea of the future applique, in addition, the choice of consumables will be required:

• colored paper (for flat applications you can use one-sided paper) and cardboard or paper base for gluing the craft;
• glue and scissors needed to cut out circular templates and glue them to the base according to the pattern on the workpiece;
• A compass or a shaped ruler with circles of different diameters, they will help pre-produce circular elements of different colors.

In addition to paper for children's creativity and creating applications from circles, you can use fabric and soft felt, cotton cosmetic disks.

Variants of combining figures in applique

Using colored cardboard or paper it is possible to prepare circles in advance, it is easy to involve a child in such work. The circle is a simple enough figure, but a preschool child may have problems with cutting even figures from a very dense material.

A variety of photos of finished crafts will help to evaluate the possibilities of making applications from circles using paper or felt. Replace individual elements can be halves of circles, in a more complex composition of articles use different parts of the circle, cut by hand.

Circle appliqué techniques

Using a pre-selected template, you can create a variety of appliqués using circles and semicircles:

• flat applique. Such compositions can depict any objects, while the elements themselves remain flat by fully gluing them to a cardboard or paper base;
• Volumetric applications. More complicated handicrafts are made by partially gluing individual elements to the base and bending, folding or filling the interior space of the parts.

Separately, you should highlight applications in the technique of mosaics, when circles of a certain color are filled with selected segments of the overall composition.

Ideas of crafts for the youngest children

Expand children's horizons, develop creativity and imagination, consolidate knowledge of shapes and sizes will help simple and easy applique from circles. Using simple geometric shapes of circles and semicircles it is easy to create beautiful crafts, which are used to decorate the nursery or given to participate in exhibitions in the garden:

• ladybug. Applique can be flat and volumetric, such an idea will help a child to master the composition and contrasting colors;
• funny caterpillar. Multicolored caterpillar can be any length and through such a craft, a child can consolidate the knowledge of colors;
• flower on a hill. Flower from circles and leaf from semicircles, planted on a semicircle hillock used to study the scale.

If it is difficult for the kid to go through all the stages of making a handicraft on their own, parents can make a blank circle for him. This kind of creativity as a circle applique is interesting for preschool children and elementary schoolchildren, helps to develop imagination and consolidate the material learned in the learning process.

Beautiful holiday crafts

For the upcoming holiday of any theme, the kid together with his parents can make beautiful and original greeting cards:

• For the New Year. The snowmen and Father Frost, presented in the catalog, made of cotton disks will perfectly complement the handmade cards for the New Year holidays;
• For Mother's Day. A vase with flowers, daisies and calla lilies, tulips from half circles or lush peonies can be used as an idea for creating a gift for your favorite mother or grandmother;
• For March 8. An original card featuring a blossoming sakura branch, a mimosa made of yellow circles with a figure eight of circles would make a great gift for loved ones or kindergarten teachers.

Round geometric shapes or small circles are used to fill in different shapes and with their help it is easy to make any applique. Not holding back the flight of fancy of a child can provide him with a fun activity, which in many educational institutions is part of the learning process.

Decorative decorations for greeting cards

The simple technique of applique from circles helps to implement a huge variety of ideas and make a large number of handicrafts:

• berries and fruits with recognizable shapes as flat applique or volumetric crafts;
• Christmas balls, they can be used for painting or forming garlands;
• gradient of circles to create beautiful and original paintings or installations.

After the child has mastered the skills of creating flat applications, it is possible to make a volumetric handicraft with several elements.

The colored paper circles, familiar to many, open up new opportunities for creativity and the creation of original and beautiful compositions. A master class with a step-by-step description of the creative procedure will help to diversify home lessons and leisure time spent with a preschool child.

Photo ideas of homemade applications from circles