Children's applications - tips on choosing materials, interesting ideas, photo examples

The positive sides of applique

When creating applications, a child well develops fine motor skills of the hands, mastering and improving coordination of movements. When working in this technique, a child actively fantasizes, develops observation, logical thinking, and finds it easier to learn new colors and combine them with each other. With this kind of activity, a child learns to divide one whole into several parts, and vice versa - from several parts to create one whole.

Materials for applique

The most popular material for applique is considered - paper. For the basis, you can take a simple color, wrapping, corrugated, foil, self-adhesive, Kraft paper, as well as use a variety of clippings from magazines, notebook covers.

Often the basis for such crafts are used:

• Cereals and dried plant seeds (rice, sunflower seeds, peas, beans);
• Dried leaves of trees and bushes, flower petals;
• Small shells, small stones;
• sand;
• plasticine;
• felt;
• buttons;
• absorbent cotton, cotton disks.

Naturally, to create an applique will need scissors, you can use simple stationery or shaped which will make the edges of the paper in a certain pattern. You can use hole punches to create small, neat shapes (butterfly, tree leaf, heart, star). Good for gluing is PVA glue, pencil glue, silicone glue.

Simple paper applique ideas for the little ones

Not a bad idea for the first work of the baby - cutting out different geometric shapes from colored paper, their chaotic gluing on a sheet of cardboard. This is how a child can begin his or her acquaintance with this creativity. During the work he will slowly learn how to hold scissors, wield them, understand how to handle glue. After that, the kid will be easier and easier to do these crafts, each time to improve them.

Quite easy application - Christmas tree with toys.

To begin with, it is worth drawing a Christmas tree on a colored piece of paper or use a template. Cut it out and glue it to a piece of cardboard. To decorate the Christmas tree, cut out circles of different colors of paper and glue them in random order to the forest beauty. Cut out a star from red paper and glue it to the top of the tree. Here is such a simple applique can be a decoration for the Christmas holidays.

Instead of a Christmas tree, you can create other trees, such as fruit trees with fruit: apple, cherry, pear.

An interesting variant of application - a caterpillar.

To create it, you need to cut out a circle about 6-8 cm in diameter - it will be the head of the caterpillar. Cut circles smaller, but you can different colors and quite a lot - it will be the body of the caterpillar. First glue the head to the cardboard, and then the body parts, circle by circle. Using felt-tip pens to draw: horns, eyes, nose, mouth.

Applications of absorbent cotton and cotton disks

On the Internet you can find a variety of photos of crafts from these materials, quite often there are applications. These can be works on different subjects, of varying complexity, and of varying volume. Children's hands work with such materials with pleasure, for them it is unusual and interesting at the same time. With the help of absorbent cotton, cotton disks it is interesting to create a bunny, a lamb, a dandelion, trees in the snow, a snowman, snowflakes, clouds...

Interesting applique on winter themes - a snowman.

To create it, you need to prepare: a sheet of cardboard, cotton disks, felt-tip pen, colored paper, glue, scissors, pencil. It is necessary to glue 3 cotton disks on a sheet of cardboard, in the form of a snowman. On colored paper, draw a bucket, cut it out and glue it just above the top ball of the snowman. Draw eyes, nose, mouth and buttons for the snowman with a felt-tip pen. Background fake can be supplemented with small pieces of absorbent cotton, so to speak to depict the snowball.

Applications of cereals, seeds of plants, pasta

Such materials can be found in every home, and no additional monetary expenditures are required. A child will only be happy to work with a variety of cereals, seeds, and dipped products. Often for applications use: semolina, rice, sunflower seeds, peas, beans, buckwheat, small pasta... With the help of these materials you can create a variety of crafts in this technique: animals, trees, a vase of flowers, an aquarium with fish, transport ...

It is easy and simple to depict a bunny with the help of rice.

To do this, you need to draw the bunny on cardboard, you can print out a template from the Internet and use it. Then glue grains of rice around the edges, and then fill the entire basis of the animal with rice. Instead of eyes glue a small black bean or you can take a bead. Instead of a nose, glue halves of peas or buckwheat.

Applique with plasticine

Almost every little master likes to work with such a soft, flexible material as plasticine. With his help, you can create such a type of crafts as applique. The basic principle of work is to smear plasticine on the base of the applique with your finger. For the first works, it is better to choose such images that it is necessary to use only one color of clay, and then you can take blanks for several colors. Almost any subject can be depicted, the main thing is to choose what you like.

For acquaintance with this technique, a not bad version of application - a chicken.

You need to draw a chicken on cardboard. Take yellow plasticine, nibble off a small piece, roll it into a ball and place it in the center of the chicken. And gently with your finger smudge it into a thin layer. And in this way, gradually fill the entire base of the chick. The eyes are made of small grains of black clay, and the beak is also made of clay. Using marker pen finish drawing paws.

Baby applique - a kind of crafts that captivates children of all ages. There are a lot of materials, techniques, online tutorials and diagrams for this work. You only need to allocate time, stock up on materials and can create masterpieces on various topics.

Photo ideas for children's applique