Handcrafts for children 10 years old by hand - simple and clear ideas, photo examples, tips

Ten-year-old children confidently use scissors and are familiar with the features of different materials, so they are able to implement their own rather complex creative projects. It is very good if the child by this age has already had some favorite activity in which he achieves good results and strives to improve his skills.

If there is not yet a permanent hobby, then making crafts in various techniques can help to find it.

Paper crafts for children 10 years old

Paper is very malleable material with which adults like to work. There are many different techniques for working with paper, allowing to make interesting products.

Weaving out of newspaper tubes

This unusual activity can be fun for both boys and girls. Using this technique, you can create beautiful baskets of different shapes and sizes, vases, decorative plates, containers for storing various items.

The most laborious part of the work, requiring patience, is the preparation of the tubes themselves. For this, newspapers are cut into long strips. They are twisted into long tubes with a needle or pencil. Edge fix glue, so the paper is not untwisted. After the tubes are dry, they are ready to work.

Weaving from newspaper tubes is similar to weaving from willow. Tubes are quite flexible and durable material, allowing you to give the product any shape.

Work begins with the design of the bottom of the product. Of the tubes laid out "snowflake", fix the intersection of all the tubes (press a finger) and pass around the first "rod". After that, the work continues, weaving together the basis for the tubes.

To work you need a form. You can use a bottle or jar. It is placed on the resulting braided bottom and begin to braid. The process is simple, the work moves quickly.

Upon reaching the desired height, braiding is completed, the tubes of the base neatly bend down and fix in the braided sides of the product. After that, the braiding is painted with acrylic paint. The paint can be tinted to any color. Usually you need several layers of paint, because it is quickly absorbed into the newspaper. After the paint dries, the product can be varnished.

The end result is the original wicker product, which can serve as a decorative element of the room. Look crafts of newspaper tubes very colorful. From this material you can make themed crafts. Very good look houses, wells, wattle and daub. Such a composition will certainly decorate any school exhibition.

A similar principle underlies the production of children's jewelry made of paper. This, for example, beads, pendants, bracelets. "Beads" are made from paper by twisting and gluing it together. They can be any shape and any size. Workpieces are dyed and strung on a string.

Having mastered making such items, a child will feel like a true designer.

Three-dimensional applique "Pigeon"

Before you begin work, you must stock up:

  • colored cardboard,
  • white paper,
  • paper tissues,
  • scissors,
  • a glue stick,
  • pencil.

The detailed master class

  1. On colored cardboard, you need to draw the outline of a pigeon (body, head and wing).
  2. Paper tissues should be crumpled, then glued to the drawing. This is needed to give volume to the applique.
  3. Cut out the feathers of the bird from white paper. Then cut a fine fringe around the edge of the "feathers". For the tail, you need 5 long pieces. For the body of the bird we need about 25 large feathers, for the chest and neck - about 15 medium pieces. To decorate the head we need to prepare 20 small pieces without fringes.
  4. "Feathers" are glued to napkins. The work begins with the tail of the dove.
  5. In the last turn glue the eye and beak. Application ready.
  6. Such a handicraft will require patience and perseverance, but the result of the work is worth it.

Beading

Traditionally, women are engaged in needlework. A passion for girls beading will lay a good foundation for practical skills that will be useful in adulthood.

Handicrafts made of beads will delight the little craftswoman and serve as a great and stylish decoration of her closet.

For work as a base, it is better to use fishing line. Today you can easily find online master classes with detailed descriptions of the work on the manufacture of this or that thing.

Perhaps a children's hobby over time will turn into a grown-up hobby. Original things made of beads are a good option for a gift for a friend, friend or mother.

Summer ideas for children 10 years old

Summer is primarily a time of active recreation. But to make a variety in summer leisure time, you can offer children to make bright fruits from ordinary cardboard plates.

For work you need to pripasti:

  • cardboard disposable plates,
  • cardboard in bright colors,
  • gouache or acrylic paint,
  • markers or felt-tip pens,
  • glue,
  • scissors.

 

  1. First you have to paint the plates in bright "fruit" colors. Most likely, you will have to paint twice, the paint will be absorbed into the material.
  2. Then cut out a circle with a diameter of a couple of centimeters smaller than the plate from colored cardboard.

Work individually with each "fruit".

  • For an apple, you need a white circle, drawing grains on it.
  • For the orange, cut segmented hole-shaped slices out of orange cardboard.
  • Watermelon needs a pink core on a green background. Seeds are drawn with a marker.

Such entertaining and attractive "fruits" will help to make a creative variety in the summer vacation of children, make it brighter and more interesting. Bright crafts are not bad to decorate the gazebo in the garden at the cottage.

Handicrafts for ten-year-old boys

The theme of the crafts should appeal to the child. Boys can be offered to make a simple ship, which can be sent on a real voyage on the river.

Ship from a milk carton

To make it, you need to prepare:

  • a milk carton,
  • colored paper,
  • scotch tape,
  • a matchbox,
  • a cocktail straw or a stick,
  • wire,
  • scissors,
  • glue.

Children can do all the work to make this simple handicraft on their own.

  1. The milk carton is glued with paper, additionally drawing round portholes.
  2. At the top of the box make a hole for the mast stick, on it you can immediately attach a paper sail.
  3. The matchbox is covered with paper and taped to the stern of the ship. This is the above-deck room.
  4. A helm is made of wire and mounted on the deck.

The ship can go sailing.

Such crafts are suitable for children's games, it will help make the summer vacation more diverse.

Handicrafts in the technique of "quilling"

The essence of the technique is to use narrow, spiraled paper strips to create interesting paintings.

Such work requires certain skills, patience, but does not need additional tools.

You can twist strips of paper into a spiral using scissors or pencils.

You can start mastering this unusual technique of making crafts with the creation of simple flowers on a paper base. Ideas for more complex works can be picked up from pictures in magazines and on the web. Or you can come up with your own.

As a basis for crafts suitable paper, fabric. You can use cardboard or leather.

Such a hobby helps develop diligence, patience, perseverance, imagination, and logical thinking.

Since ten-year-old children already know how to do a lot with their own hands, they are able to implement quite complex creative ideas. Making crafts at school age helps instill in children a love of work. They have a desire to make something with their own hands, learn to work with different tools, try their hand at different interesting handicraft techniques. It happens that over time, children's hobby into adulthood and allows a person to realize their creative potential.

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