Making crafts with a small child is a pleasure. There are many options and materials, you just need to choose the right ones and use your imagination. In addition, crafts develop finger motor skills and the baby’s imagination. On the Internet you can find many ideas and recommendations for choosing crafts, as well as step-by-step master classes. They will certainly help you decide on an application that both the child and the parent will like.
Children's applications from colored paper and cereals are fun and enjoyable to make with a child: a truck and a passenger car, a powerful KAMAZ, a horse and a goldfish, a traveling frog - the motives for creativity are simply inexhaustible. The applique turns out voluminous and looks cute and funny. If the child is very young, perhaps it is worth simplifying the process - download and print the stencil for such an application from the Internet, and an older child can draw it himself.
Children who do not yet know how to cut out complex parts and cannot choose a craft on their own, can use the following ideas:
- fish in an aquarium;
- autumn/spring/summer/winter landscape;
- fruits and vegetables;
- butterfly;
- flower meadow;
- house;
- car.
Applications for children consist of geometric shapes. Can be used colored paper, cardboard, self-adhesive paper, foil, cereal and others interesting materials. To make your child have fun, it is best to turn the work process into a game. After the fake is ready, you can use it to decorate one of the walls or your child’s desk.
Application "Car" made of colored paper
For this simple but beautiful machine for little ones you will need:
To make your car look colorful, it is best to choose bright colors paper: yellow, red, blue, green. For this application we will take blue and yellow colors for the body and black for the wheels. To make one like this simple craft You won't need to print the template.
- On a sheet of blue paper, draw a square (3.5x3.5 cm) and a rectangle (4x6 cm).
- On a sheet of yellow paper, draw a small rectangle for the window (1.5x2 cm) and a large rectangle (4.5x10 cm).
- Cut out round wheels (two parts) from black paper. Junior child school age will cope with the drawings on his own, but it is better for a preschool child to prepare all the details, and then hand him the finished components of the application.
- Coat a large yellow rectangle with glue and place it horizontally on a white base sheet.
- Place the blue rectangle vertically next to the yellow one.
- Glue a yellow window onto the blue rectangle.
- Glue the blue square to the blue rectangle.
- Add wheels under the structure. The car is ready!
Gallery: applications made of colored paper and cereals (25 photos)
How to make a “Mushroom” applique from cereals
One of the most common materials that kids like is cereal. It could be buckwheat, semolina, rice, etc. For this craft we will need:
- buckwheat grain;
- semolina;
- glue stick;
- white base sheet;
- simple pencil.
To get a beautiful applique, you just need to prepare a template. The child himself can glue the sheet and sprinkle it with cereal.
DIY “Horse” applique
This craft is interesting to make from different materials: felt, corrugated paper, foil, etc. You can use several materials at once to get a beautiful texture. The “Horse” application does not require ready-made templates.
Materials:
- blue, green, pink, black and yellow corrugated paper(velvet paper will also work);
- white cardboard;
- White paper;
- plastic eyes;
- scissors;
- glue stick;
- sequins or beads.
To make an amazingly beautiful applique, you need:
There is no shame in putting such an application in a frame and decorating your desktop with it.
Application "Aquarium" for the little ones
This craft consists of geometric shapes: circles and triangles. Creating an application does not require much effort and time.
The craving for creativity in boys is often much less pronounced than in girls. To awaken their interest in work, you need to be able to find interesting option. So, paper applique for boys it will be attractive if it depicts interesting subject– for example, a cargo (construction) vehicle.
The “construction machine” is quite simple to make. And this is another advantage: boys are less persevering, and it is easier for them to make crafts that do not require special patience and concentration.
We make the main background of this application from a yellow or beige cardboard sheet.
To make a cabin, take a square piece of orange colored paper.
By rounding the top corner and cutting out a small indentation at the bottom, we give this square the desired shape.
We cut out the body from the same orange sheet of paper, and cut out a rectangle from black paper.
From this rectangle we cut out three circles - these will be the wheels.
We bring the shape of the cabin to full resemblance to the cabin of a real truck by cutting off its upper corner. We assemble ours: we glue the cabin, body and wheels.
Cut out a small window from a piece of foil or silver foil cardboard (in the absence of both, you can use blue colored paper).
Cut a rectangular piece from a brown paper sheet.
From this rectangle we cut out several diagonal strips. We glue them to the body.
Take buckwheat. You can take any other grain or sand - anything that can play the role of cargo transported by road.
Here is a continuation of the series of colorful colorful applications for the youngest children. You can download application templates for kids on our website immediately in an archive, the download link is at the end of the publication.
How you can work with your child using this educational material
With the help of a series of such applications, it is very easy to teach a child how to glue and make applications. In addition, you can not only do appliqué, but also play the game “Guess what’s missing” with your baby. Download and unzip the archive with the application files, print the pictures, cut out the application details and you can practice with your baby.
Lay out the drawings in front of your child and ask: What is missing from the pictures? If your child finds it difficult to answer, help him, using an example of one of the applications, tell him how to combine the missing parts. The baby will quickly understand what is required of him and will be happy to join in the activities. Once you have all the applique pieces together, you can glue them on.
Such activities are good for developing attention, observation skills, and training visual memory, speech , fine motor skills. Applications can be done with kids both at home and in kindergarten, in the centers early development children.
Good luck and have fun!
Templates for applique for children 2-3 years old
Templates for applique for children 2-3 years old
Templates for applique for children 2-3 years old
Templates for applique for children 2-3 years old
Templates for applique for children 2-3 years old
Templates for applique for children 2-3 years old
Template for applique for kids 2-3 years old - boat
Template for applique for babies 2-3 years old - rocket
Application templates for babies 2-3 years old - car
Application templates for kids 2-3 years old - train
Applique templates for babies 2-3 years old - cutting sheet
Boys of all ages love transport. This love can be used so that the son puts on this or that thing, fills in the gaps in mathematics, falls asleep during the day without whims, eats all the porridge... The main thing is that the child has a “car” appliqué in one form or another in his field of vision. It can be sewn, embroidered, knitted, or made from paper. Let's talk about this in more detail.
Paper transport
Paper appliqués are good for postcards and panels. At the same time, boys are happy to make cars, not saying that “handicrafts” are a girl’s activity, and dads are pleased to receive gifts from their sons on their birthdays, professional holiday or February 23.
An unusual postcard in the shape of a car. Find any template and transfer it onto folded thick paper. It is better to take a car that has a wide side, trunk, body where the fold of the postcard will be located. Cut out the card on three sides. It turns out a car that can be opened. Now you decorate the external and inner side postcards, write congratulations.
You can make a classic one greeting card With gift box, and when opened it will decompose 3D applique"car". Just when bending the sheet, cut the strip, bend it in the opposite direction, and glue the car. Now, when you open the postcard, the car will “rush” forward. Next, draw the landscape (sky, road, hills).
Police car, fire truck, ambulance
From felt, drape, corduroy and other non-falling material, you can build any vehicle, be it a police vehicle, ambulance or a fire truck. To do this, print out a car template from coloring books for kids, since the image in them is simple, large, and simplified in detail. Cut all the parts.
To make it you need a white body, a black hood with a trunk, wheels, blue wheels, red flashing lights, yellow headlights. There is no need to make glass; their color will depend on the base of the product. Cut out a solid police car template from white felt. On this base you pin the remaining parts, stitch them on a sewing machine or by hand.
According to this plan, another applique is made (fire department). You need several of them. Sew adhesive tape on the back side. Sew a regular rectangular mat with road markings. Sew Velcro on the “road.” Now official vehicles can drive in any direction.
Applique "truck"
Small pillows with cargo transport look original. Pillowcases are made as follows.
- Cut two squares of cotton to the size of the pillow (consider volume, allowances, space for a zipper).
- Make an applique using self-adhesive fabric, ironing the parts with a hot iron.
- Next to front side Glue the machine onto one piece and sew the edges with an overcast stitch.
- Sew three sides of the pillowcase from the wrong side and turn it inside out.
- Sew a zipper on the bottom.
- Place a pillowcase over your pillow.
Knitted or sewn elements perfectly hide a stain or a hole on children's things. For example, a T-shirt can be decorated with a bright applique “The machine is carrying the harvest.” You don't have to buy it, you can sew it.
To do this, cut out a complete pickup template from cotton. Sew wheels, rims, bumper, window onto it. Sew all the lines using satin stitch or zigzag. Separately sew a box with a pumpkin (take thick material). Pin the pieces onto the T-shirt and sew them on with an overcast stitch.
Application "passenger car"
Anyone who knows how to crochet can knit any pattern. A knitted applique will decorate a scarf, hat, blanket, rug. To knit a passenger car, cast on a chain of thirteen stitches. In the first row, starting from the third loop, knit eleven double crochets.
The next row increases by three columns (increase from the hood side). The third one is saved unchanged. If, when knitting, the thread ends up on the trunk side, pass the product connecting posts, and then move on to the fourth row.
In the fourth row, knit a hood (five stitches), for the window, cast on five stitches, step back three stitches, knit two stitches with two crochets, for the second window, cast on the same chain and in the last two stitches of the third row, knit two stitches with two crochets and one top .
The last row is tying the entire applique with single crochets. Next, knit round wheels. First, shape the car (if necessary, iron the edges through gauze), then sew on the wheels.
Knitted appliques
Please note that thick yarn will make a voluminous applique. Car from fine yarn will keep its shape if you knit simple stitches with slip-on loops, that is, the thread is knitted with the column and a relief is created.
If you are making a blanket or bedspread, then use soft yarn for appliqués; for rugs you need thick yarn. First you make cars, then you knit colored squares. Distribute the blanks (take pictures of all options, then choose the best one).
Then sew appliqués onto the squares according to the pattern of the product. Next, tie all the elements with the main color and connect them to each other. Tie the resulting rug with multi-colored posts or sew on braid.
Such applications can be used in an educational book or on a rug, supplemented with other elements. Then the cars will be removable. And they are attached to the base using adhesive tape, buttons, ropes, snaps, and zippers. They can be made convex by adding filler.
Brief summary
The "machine" applique performs a number of functions: develops children's motor skills when working with paper, felt or textile cards; decorates clothes, pillows, blankets, bedspreads; hides flaws on children's things; enriches the child’s cognitive sphere with the active participation of an adult.
