Handy squirrel
Photos crafts I have very little left of these two ages. They were made at different times.
I myself feel very comfortable preparing for an illustration class. crafts and a brief commentary describing the manufacturing technique (key move). Therefore, I supplemented this photo summary with such brief comments.
Craft on a paper plate.
All the details are glued on by the children themselves. The sequins fit well on the glue stick.
I helped glue on the eyes, and the children did the rest themselves. Star sequins were then “set” on white plasticine. Now I already know that a glue stick will cope with this task.
Snow on a postcard - plasticine. All the parts are glued on by the children; the children make the drawn parts themselves or with the help of an adult. It depends on their level of development.
Very simple craft. But it looks great! Colors and selection of details play a big role here. A red Christmas tree is a great incentive for developing the flexibility of a child’s thinking.
This snowman can be made by any three year old child. We "planted" the buttons on plasticine.
The penguins were made according to the instructions of Roni Oren, a famous author of books on sculpting. The penguins look complicated, and the execution process is very fast.
A more complex "plate" level. You can help with small details.
A very stylish card. The outline for gluing the rice is first outlined with glue, and then sprinkled thickly with rice. Simply pour the excess grain into a plate.
The stencil is cut out by the teacher, the children place it on a sheet of paper and draw on it with a foam sponge.
Two similar bears, the number of parts to be glued depends on the child’s abilities.
Here's a small selection.
We bring to your attention crafts for the New Year or New Year's crafts for children 1.5, 2, 3, 4 years old.
DIY glass ball with snow
(jar with snow, craft)
Materials:
- A jar, for example, of baby food or any other.
- Glitter or fake snow.
- Small toys (for example from Kinder Surprise)
- Distilled water.
- Glycerin solution.
- Glue that will not allow water to pass through.
1. Glue the toys to the lid.
2. Take a clean jar, fill it with water, then add glycerin. There should be a little less glycerin than water. It is needed so that sparkles or snow fall more slowly.
3. Glue the lid to the jar with glue.
The snow globe is ready.
These balloons can be made on any theme.
New Year's toys for the Christmas tree made of salt dough.
These are the toys we made with our son when he was 2 years old.
Materials:
Acrylic pearlescent paints. I bought it from Children's World.
Molds or special ones for plasticine or for making cookies.
We roll out the salt dough, the child uses special molds to cut out the desired shapes. Don't forget to make holes for the string so you can hang your Christmas tree decoration.
Let the dough harden, then paint it with paints.
Wall panel Christmas tree made of salt dough
My child and I made this panel when he was 1.6 years old. He got so carried away that he stuck needles into the salt dough for half an hour. The idea came spontaneously, the child was sculpting, I was cleaning up and throwing out an old pine branch, the needles fell off and the child decided to stick one into his craft. Then cones from the same branch were added there...
Material:
Green salt dough (we just painted it when the craft was dry)
Pine needles and cones.
Disposable plate.
Place the green salted dough on a plate, kneading it with your fingers. Then we make a hole with the pen cap so that in the future we can hang the craft on the wall. We stick the needles into the salt dough, preferably at an angle, so that the needles do not stick out in different directions. Add cones to the center. Let the craft dry. The tips of the cones can be coated with shiny paints. to make it look more festive. Let the craft harden.
Now you have a wonderful home decoration made by your favorite child.
Craft "Snow is Falling"
This kind of work can be done very easily by a child aged 1 year or older.
Material:
Blue cardboard
White plasticine
Manufacturing:
We roll small balls out of plasticine and attach them to cardboard. Children 1 year old can easily cope with this craft.
Good afternoon, we are making New Year's crafts again. And this time I want to show new selections of children's works, arranged by age. I want to collect crafts here for babies 1-2 years old, classes for children 3-4 years old(junior kindergarten group) and New Year's ideas for older ones kindergarten children 5-6 years old, and crafts for junior schoolchildren 7-10 years old. We will work with a variety of materials and using various techniques. I will try to describe in as much detail as possible all the nuances of the work on creating each craft, I will give recommendations on materials and on organizing the process as part of a lesson in kindergarten or school. In short, I will try to provide useful assistance to everyone who is planning to decorate this New Year with their children with their own hands.
You will also find affordable crafts for children on the same topic in the article.
NEW YEAR'S CRAFTS
For the little ones
(from 1 year to 2 years).
In this chapter I want to show what simple crafts you can do with young children. For example, bright Christmas lights. Take a white sheet of paper and draw the outlines of light bulbs on it. Let's cut them out. Glue a rope (or knitting thread) onto a red sheet of cardboard and place the cut out light bulbs on it with glue. Next, pour colored gouache into different bowls (lids from jars). The child pokes his finger at the paint and then at the light bulbs. It turns out to be a beautiful New Year's craft made by children's hands.
Here's another simple craft for the little ones. We cut out round templates of Christmas balls from cardboard and cut out stars separately (you can use glitter paper). A small child still has difficulty wielding a brush, so let him take the glue with his fingers and poke this glue anywhere on the template. And in this place you put a star together, and it sticks.
Crafts made from cotton wool for the little ones
But this game is very popular with the youngest children. We roll cotton wool into balls using dry methods (like nurses do in hospitals). Take a piece of cotton wool and roll it into a ball (not tight, but plump). And again we take a new piece of cotton wool and roll another ball. And so we make a whole bowl of balls. Next, pour glue into the lid of the jar.
The child’s task is to take a cotton ball with his hand - dip it into the puddle of glue poured in the lid and place it on the finished craft template. On the body of a snowman, or in the area of Santa Claus's beard. The smallest child will be happy to place the balls on the craft, generously dipping them into glue. Therefore, stock up on PVA glue (in a hardware store, a liter bucket of PVA glue costs only $2, which is 10 times cheaper than if you buy PVA glue in small bottles at office supplies).
New Year's tree for children 1-2 years old.
Children also love to decorate the Christmas tree. A 1-2 year old child is not yet ready to make a full-fledged paper applique himself. He can only DECORATE, complement the applique already made by an adult. Therefore, let mom make a Christmas tree out of anything, paper or a plastic plate (as in the left photo). And the baby will already be decorate the Christmas tree decor. At first make a puddle of glue anywhere Christmas trees (with your fingers or a cotton swab), and then put any decoration prepared in advance by your mother into this puddle of glue.
Craft with FALLING SNOW for kids.
Even small children 1-2 years old understand what snow is in the picture and love to make it themselves. Poke your finger into the white paint and decorate the New Year's craft with a cheerful snowball. You can design this children's work in the form of a Snow Globe. Place a snowman or a photo of a baby in it and decorate everything with falling snow and a snowdrift below.
ICE NEW YEAR WREATH a simple craft for kids .
You can also do this with small children a beautiful winter experiment with water turning into ice. Take a bowl and pour water into it. Place a glass in the center (preferably plastic, not glass). Now the child is putting different objects into the water. It can be anything, a mosaic, pieces of colored paper, smooth glass, or pebbles. And also natural material, leaves from my mother’s geranium from the window, rowan or hawthorn berries, cones, twigs, pieces of pine needles from the Christmas tree. And then we take this structure out into the cold - on a shelf in the refrigerator or outside, if you have a village yard where strangers do not walk, or an unglazed balcony.
We free the frozen New Year's wreath from the bowl and glass (as you understand, it is from the glass that the hole remains in the middle). To free the wreath from the bowl, you need to put it in warm water for a few seconds. And in order to get a frozen glass out, you need to pour warm water into it too.
New Year's crafts
For the younger group of kindergarten
3-4 years.
A very simple and doable craft for children of the second junior group is Santa Claus from a disposable plastic plate. Bend the plate (or cut it) in half. We make a Santa Claus hat out of paper. Glue the face, nose and hat onto half of the plate. Using a black marker, draw eyes and a smile.
And here is a craft for the New Year in the form of a sprig of holly . Cut out round cells from egg cartons. We paint them in red gouache (spray them with hairspray to make them shine). From green paper we make a holly leaf. First glue the leaves with the corners towards the center in different directions. And then we apply the red details of the berries onto glue (or plasticine). A simple and beautiful craft for children.
Christmas candle craft for 3-4 years.
The candle looks best against a dark background of black cardboard. It’s beautiful when the body of the candle has a border (this is achieved due to the fact that the candle is created from two rectangles of paper of different colors - one lower one is made larger so that it peeks out along the edges from under the top layer of the rectangle.
The candle flame is also two-layered with two colors. And at the base of the candle we tear up pieces of paper in two shades of green (this will be New Year's greens) and put circles of red berries.
You can make Christmas wreaths. Such crafts are made on the basis of a cardboard ring - it requires a large piece of cardboard (a pizza box is suitable) or a large sheet of thick paper for drawing. Place green paper holly sprigs on a cardboard ring. And round red berries. They will look better if you put a white dot on them on the side using gouache or office corrector (because gouache does not stick to slippery glossy cardboard).
And advice– make the holly leaves from two different shades of green paper - this way they will not merge with each other and the craft will sparkle with shapes.
Your children's Christmas wreath can be complicated by different elements - bows, appliqué with a sandman, Santa Claus hats, and a variety of figures-symbols of the New Year.
And a good wreath for children 3-4 years old is made from crumpled crepe paper. And also make red berries from lumps of red paper. The basis for such a wreath can be a plastic plate with the bottom cut off.
New Year's crafts
(middle group kindergarten)
for children 4-5 years old.
In the middle group of kindergarten, children are already able to make appliqués from paper. They are good at using a brush and glue. And they are already figuring out exactly how and where exactly this or that part needs to be glued - right side up, and not upside down. The ideas I posted in the article are suitable for this age.
And here I’ll just add a few photo works. I like the idea of decorating a New Year’s applique in a round frame from a paper plate. It turns out to be an interesting and original craft.
Here are some beautiful ideas for New Year's paddle crafts. Children love to glue the blades together. How this is done is clear from the photo. Circles are cut. Bend in half. The halves are placed side by side and glued together.
Here is a paper Christmas tree craft that is also interesting for children. Christmas tree templates are cut out of thick drawing paper - the frames are empty inside. And this void is filled with colored strips (they are glued to the back wall of the frame).
In the middle group of kindergarten, the child is given scissors and taught simple actions with them. The very first lessons look like cutting grass - that is, make a fringe cut along the edge of a sheet of paper. Using this technique you can make a three-dimensional herringbone applique. First, cut triangles of green paper - different sizes. And on each triangle you need to draw fringe lines with a pencil. This is an important guideline for a child without a line; he will confuse the side on which the fringe is needed and set the fringe parameters (width and height).
Crafts for children using openwork paper napkins for confectionery also look beautiful (see photo below).
And here are some more beautiful winter crafts with a snowball and a bird near the house.
New Year's crafts
In the older group
(children 6-7 years old).
At this age, children are already good at using scissors and working with paper. They can fold paper into complex shapes and this skill can be used in New Year's crafts.
For example, after the children learn how to make fans, you can create Christmas angels.
Also, a fan made of green paper can become the basis for a Christmas tree craft. We bend the fan in half and glue the opposing blades together. We cut the toilet paper roll at the top and insert a fan Christmas tree into this cut. All that remains is to decorate it with paper balls or pompoms.
The fan fold of paper may not be straight, but triangular. Cut out a semicircular shape from paper. And we bend the edge of this semicircle - we get a triangular bend, which we then repeat in a mirror like a fan - several times. We get a triangular accordion (photo below) - this is the basis for a three-dimensional Christmas tree applique.
Children also love to make appliqués from half-discs. We cut circles of different sizes out of paper, bend them in half and form a Christmas tree from these halves. It is convenient to start gluing from the upper tiers.
And here is a Christmas tree made from waste material (left photo). Take a straight, strong branch. And we cut out round pieces of different sizes from packaging cardboard. We make a hole in the center of each cardboard disk and string the disks like a pyramid onto a branch. We paint it green. We decorate with colored paper.
And another idea for a Christmas tree (right photo) - where the top is made of a cone of green cardboard, which is put on a cylinder of brown cardboard (the leg of the Christmas tree). Plus decor, stars, toys, garland.
And here are some more crafts based on cardboard toilet paper rolls. We glue the sleeves with colored paper and add elements to them - beards, eyes, hats (to make Santa Claus), muzzles, ears and horns (to make a deer).
New Year's crafts
For children 7-10 years old.
At school, a lesson in creativity (art or labor) no longer lasts 15-25 minutes as in kindergarten - but a whole lesson lasts 45 minutes. And so you can aim for a good big craft for the New Year.
The school also often holds competitions for New Year's work. Therefore, here I want to provide some ideas for exhibition volumetric works.
Here's a fun idea with a wreath and candles made from toilet paper rolls.
But the Christmas tree is voluminous (photo below). She hangs on a thread hanging from the roof of the box. Tiers of “paper needles” are put on a thread, and between them are pieces of cocktail tubes. The tiers of needles are glued together in advance from strips folded crosswise like a snowflake. Snowflakes are pierced with a needle and thread, then a tube is strung, again a green splay snowflake, again a tube. And when all the tiers are assembled, the top lid of the box is pierced and the Christmas tree is hung on a knot or bead on the roof of the box.
You can do it without a thread - string the entire tree onto a thin pin (made of wood or metal) - then the tree can stand without a box.
Here are some interesting crafts from cardboard, bottle cap, plasticine, battery and LED. We cut out the circles of the snowman from cardboard, make a hole in the lid, insert an LED, a battery into it, cover everything with plasticine and attach the lid to the cardboard base of the snowman using the plasticine.
Here's another idea for a beautiful New Year's applique. It can be made voluminous and convex - if under each layer you make spacers from pieces of thick cardboard - so that there is a distance between the layers.
Interesting works can also be done using the technique of embroidery on cardboard. We make puncture holes and thread thick woolen threads or fluffy wire through them. This is how a Christmas tree was made on a round piece of cardboard, which was then inserted into a round frame from a plastic plate.
You can make patterns in the form of snowflakes. First, we draw a snowflake with a pencil and make punctures with an awl at the key nodes of the drawing. Then we pull a thread and a needle through them and get a pattern in the form of a drawing.
And here is a New Year's applique made from pasta, which is attached to plasticine or hot thermal glue.
You can make a tall cone out of plasticine and stick pasta into it. It is better to paint it green in advance.
You can also make beautiful crafts with your own hands from salt dough. Roll out the dough. Let's make a big ring out of it. And stars with cookie cutters or just a knife. We dry all the elements separately - paint them with gouache, spray them with hairspray or cover them with acrylic varnish. We assemble the craft using dough glue or other glue.
Salt dough is made from salt, flour and water. Salt and flour in half - add water until the dough becomes like tight plasticine. You can add 1 spoon of vegetable oil to the dough - then it will not stick to your hands or to the table.
You will find a lot of DIY salt dough crafts in our special article
Here's another beautiful craft Santa Claus made from salt dough. Or it can be made from ordinary plasticine.
Like these ones The houses are made by craftsman Kay Miller. Roll out the plasticine with a rolling pin (not a wooden one, but a deodorant can). From a flat piece we cut out the silhouette of houses and other flat details. Then we put everything in the house. We make the decor of the house from flat and round parts. We decorate everything with long sausages - we twist two sausages with each other to make a striped two-color twisted sausage. We make small balls, give them a drop-shaped shape, place them in the right place in the house and press them with a round stick (we make a notch-hole). Take a closer look at the photo below and you will understand what I'm talking about.
Here's an idea for this New Year. Now you know even more about how fun it is to celebrate this holiday with your children. Let happiness enter your homes with children's crafts. After all, children's hands are the hands of a wizard, and when they create a fairy tale, it truly comes to life.
Let a warm fairy tale come to life in your family.
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Is it worth writing once again about how much children love the New Year holidays? How do they wait impatiently for Santa Claus, write entire letters with a wish list and look forward to gifts under the tree? Of course, kids just love New Year's holidays. And so that the child is interested and not bored, parents should involve the child in preparing for the holiday. In today's article we will share ideas for four master classes on creating New Year's crafts with children.
Idea No. 1. Paper ballerina
You will need:
- paper
scissors
template for cutting out a ballerina.
thread or rain
Easy to make, but very original, this paper craft can become an indispensable part of the festive New Year's interior. 
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Step 1
First of all, you should cut out the simplest snowflake from paper. For our ballerina, such a snowflake will serve as a ballet tutu. It is better to prepare the paper and fold it correctly with help, but you can trust your child to cut out the snowflake with safe children's scissors. 
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Step 2
Next, download and print the template for cutting out the ballerina. Using this template we cut out the ballerina. 
Step 3
After all the details are ready, the only thing left is to combine them by putting a “tutu” on our ballerina. If several such figures are cut out, then they will look very original in the form of a garland. 
Idea No. 2. Snowflakes - toys
You will need:
- cardboard
tassel
paints
buttons
threads
These voluminous snowflakes can be used to decorate your Christmas tree in an original way. And the most important thing is spending time together with your baby. 
Step 1
We make a cylinder of small diameter (5 cm) from cardboard, you can also take a regular roller from toilet paper, and cut it into rings, as in the picture below.
After this, we fold the rings like a snowflake, fixing the middle with our hands so that the structure does not fall apart. Glue the rings together. 
Step 2
Take paint and brushes and paint the snowflake. If you decide to use several colors, it is better to wait until the first color dries and only then apply the rest. 
Step 3
We fasten the center of the snowflake with a button, tie it with a thread or fishing line, and voila! The New Year's toy is ready.
Idea No. 3. Christmas tree decoration made from nuts
You will need:
- nuts
paints
fabric (felt or any other dense fabric)
paper clips
tassels
A great idea for developing a child’s fine motor skills and artistic skills, because to make these “apples” you need to learn how to cut out (leaves) and paint (nuts). 
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Step 1
We cut out a leaf from green fabric, which must first be strung on a paper clip and then fixed in the nut. 
Step 2
We paint the nut red, hold it by the ear (from a paper clip), hang the nut by the loop and wait until it dries. 
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There is very little time left until the New Year, and it’s time to think about holiday decorations for the home. You can buy ready-made options in the store, but it’s much better to make original things with your own hands.
Snowman made from a sock
You can make these funny snowmen from unnecessary socks. You will need socks, rice for filling, some scraps and buttons. Cut off the toe of the sock and tie it with thread on the other side. Pour the rice into a round shape, tie it again with a thread and add more rice to form a smaller ball. Sew on the eyes and nose, make a scarf from a scrap, sew on buttons. And the cut off part will make an excellent hat.
Christmas tree pendants
A cinnamon stick is used as a base; several artificial spruce branches and multi-colored buttons are attached to it using glue. Such Christmas trees will not only decorate your home, but also fill it with the warming aroma of cinnamon.
Deer from traffic jams
Bottle caps are an excellent craft material. For example, you can make such a cute deer. You will need some corks, glue and various beads for decoration. It’s not a shame to hang something like this on a Christmas tree.
Crafts from sticks
From ordinary ice cream sticks you can make cute Christmas trees, snowmen and snowflakes. All you need is paint, glitter, buttons and a little imagination. Even the smallest children can handle these.
Christmas trees made of colored paper
You can make such wonderful Christmas trees by making a cone out of green paper or cardboard and decorating it with different things. Buttons, pebbles, beads and various paper figures are suitable.
Potato drawings
This cute print is made by dipping half a potato in regular gouache. And adults will need to paint on the rest when the paint dries. This option is ideal for very young children.
Snowflakes made from pasta
Attach pasta of different shapes with glue and cover with silver paint, secure with ribbon - an unusual New Year's snowflake is ready.
Snowmen made from lids
Cover metal bottle caps with white paint (preferably acrylic) and glue them together as shown in the picture. Draw a face on the snowman and decorate it with a scarf made of bright ribbon. If you glue a loop on top of it, such a snowman can be hung on the Christmas tree.
Crafts from pine cones
You can make different animals and any other characters from the cones. You need paints, scraps, buttons and, of course, imagination and inspiration.
Christmas tree made of buttons
Select green buttons of different diameters and a few brown ones for the top and secure them with thick thread. Decorate the crown with a star.
Painted balls
Place pieces of wax crayons in a transparent Christmas ball, heat it with a hair dryer, constantly twisting it. When the pencils melt, they will leave beautiful colored streaks inside the ball.
Garland of fingerprints
Draw the cord of the garland and the base of the light bulbs, then give the child multi-colored paints and let him draw bright light bulbs with his fingers. You can decorate a New Year's card or gift bag with this design.
