Cereal applications - basic types of materials, techniques and types, useful tips and photo ideas

Features of children's creativity and applique

Creative activities with children contribute to their all-round development and stimulate knowledge of the world around them. It is very useful for preschool children to make handmade applications from cereals, a fascinating and interesting process provides:

• the development of fine motor skills of the hands, a high level of tactility stimulates brain activity;
• developing perseverance and imagination, memorizing shapes and developing practical skills;
• joint pastime, and after the child has mastered the techniques he/she can engage in creative work on his/her own.

After mastering the techniques of working with paper, your child is sure to enjoy creating three-dimensional and beautiful applications. Any theme chosen to create a composition, should be combined with the interests and hobbies of the child, but it is better to start with simple crafts.

Techniques for creating a cereal and seed applique

Inspiring and beautiful photos of finished crafts will help to choose the most interesting ideas for later implementation. At home, parents can use different techniques for creating applique, with each of them not particularly difficult:

• pouring and gluing. To create such pictures, the kid will use glue, not it is poured grits or seeds, filling a certain area;
• Punching in plasticine. Implementing this technique requires the preparation of a template filled with plasticine, after which the child presses the supplies into it.

The first templates should be chosen those that do not contain many small details and elements, which will help to quickly master the technique of applique. Simple pictures of fruits and berries and familiar objects (a ball and a bear, a flower and a fish) are best.

What kinds of materials can be used

The basis for the handicraft is cardboard or thick paper, it is applied to the silhouette of the picture with clearly marked borders of individual parts. To fill them, you can use any cereals and seeds that are in the house, and it is not always necessary to color them, focusing on the natural color:

• white or dark rice, brown buckwheat and multicolored beans;
• green and orange peas, yellow millet and brown coffee beans;
• white semolina and dried greens, black poppy seeds and even pasta;
• black watermelon seeds, sunflower or pumpkin seeds, cucumbers, and melons.

Do not limit children's imagination, any cereals and seeds are sure to be useful to your baby when creating his masterpieces. If you want to use natural material in brighter and more saturated colors, you can apply different techniques for dyeing seeds and light grits.

How to color consumables in different colors

The lack of bright colors is made up for by coloring the finished picture with gouache and finger paints. At home you can paint groats with your own hands, the best for this purpose is semolina and powder dyes, and the technology itself is not complicated:

• Powder dyes of different colors and shades are poured into small bags with clasps, it is best to use pastry paints;
• Cereals of neutral colors (cucumber or melon seeds, pumpkin seeds and rice or semolina) are poured into separate bags with dyes;
• the process of mixing and coloring is completed by actively shaking the bags, from which the materials can be immediately poured onto the picture.

Parents can prepare groats and seeds in advance, coloring them in the right colors, which will help you quickly and easily make a handicraft. To do this, it is necessary to decide on the idea of a picture, which can depict an autumn landscape, the seashore or a child's favorite fairy tale character.

Small and useful secrets for creativity

With the help of bulk or pressed croup applique, you can realize any idea, for this it is enough to choose the right template. Its individual elements are covered with a layer of PVA glue and covered with groats of a certain color, so that the handicraft turned out beautiful, you can use a few tips:

• For the basis, it is better to choose a strong and dense cardboard that is not soaked by glue;
• glue can not be spared, after drying PVA it becomes transparent;
• It is better to pour the colored cereals directly from the bag without smearing your hands.

A child will love making such original and beautiful handicrafts, which will retain their appeal for a long time. In this technique you can create full-fledged paintings with different motifs, decorations for the house and children's room, exclusive postcards for a holiday.

To use the technology of cereal applique, you do not even need a master class so it is simple. If the traditional colors of cereals used to be used only for crafts with autumn motifs, then using the technology of coloring, you can make bright and interesting crafts for any taste.

Photo ideas of homemade applications from croup