Applications for kids 2, 3, 4 years of age with simple and accessible materials: the choice of themes and design options for crafts
Children at a young age are beginning to explore the world around them, begin to make crafts and show their acquired skills in practice. In kindergartens begin to show an early desire and craving for creativity in children, so that in 2-3 years they are already developing imagination and fantasy.
Such an activity as applique is very simple and easy in its execution, the kids will easily cope with it.
Pieces for Kids
What are the benefits of applications? Firstly, it is of course the development of motor hand, kids begin to cut out figures with scissors, thus they develop spatial thinking, learning to use glue, compass and scissors.
Secondly, it is the development of imagination, because applications allow kids to show creative thinking, they develop an urge for self-knowledge, and they come up with many ideas for applications on their own. Parents should definitely help children, if there are any difficulties.
Materials for making collages
The advantage of this activity is that it does not require a lot of materials. It is enough to have scissors at home to cut out different figures and characters, glue-pencil for gluing parts, cardboard, colored paper, ruler, compass, and felt-tip pens or markers can also be useful.
Using a ruler to create more straight lines, if the applique will need to make a house or any figures.
The compasses are very helpful in creating circles, an adult can help the child when working with the compass.
Applications of insects for kids
Insects are very easy to make, you will see for yourself. It is enough to have the materials listed above and get to work.
Making a ladybug
For a ladybug, you will need black, red and white paper.
To make the ladybug, follow the steps below:
- Cut out circles from the black paper: one large one for the body, one smaller one for the head, and five small circles for the wing points;
- From red paper cut out two circles, the same as the body;
- from the white two circles, exactly like the dots;
- glue the torso to the cardboard;
- Glue the head from the side you like;
- fold the circles of red in two, glue to the body so that one part was free;
- decorate the wings with black dots;
- glue white circles on the head, and make dots with a marker;
- Draw a mustache.
Making a bee
To create a bee, you need to follow the steps below:
- from yellow paper cut out the body, from black paper cut out strips and glue them to the body;
- glue wings from white paper to the figure, wings look like a heart;
- Glue the eyes, tendrils twist with scissors and glue to the head, glue the sting.
Making a dragonfly
Dragonfly will like all the kids, to make it, you need to do the following steps:
- cut out the body, eyes and wings. They can be any color you want;
- Glue the wings crosswise to the base, glue the body of the dragonfly on top, glue the eyes;
- At the end of all the work is left to draw all the details, so they look more expressive;
- Glue the tendrils, cut two strips, twisting them with scissors;
- To create a background, use any bright color.
Animal applique for kids
All children love animals, why not create cute and funny animals with their own hands at home.
Making a doggie
To create a doggie, you will need brown or black paper. Have scissors to cut geometric shapes. Animals are quite easy to create from shapes such as an oval or triangle.
Follow the steps below:
- Prepare a background on which to place the doggie, it can be blue or yellow background;
- Cut out an oval from brown paper which will be the body;
- Cut out ears, paws of arbitrary geometric shape, for example, ears will be triangular and feet also oval;
- glue all the parts in the right order onto the base, and the doggy is ready!
Making the Kolobok
To make a collage of kolobok, the most beloved character from the well-known fairy tale, does not require much time. All the kids are probably familiar with this fairy tale and they will make such a character quickly and easily, to create it you will need yellow colored paper and scissors.
To make such a bright character, you need to draw a circle with a compass and cut it out, glue it to the background, then draw the eyes and mouth, you can use a black marker for this.
Making Moonshine
If your child is crazy about cartoons, offer him to make his favorite character. Here we have described Luntik, the character of one of the most popular cartoons. To create it, you will need lilac or purple colored paper.
For the luntik, follow the steps below:
- Cut out a circle for the head, the ears are rectangular in shape, the paws can also be from an oval;
- Glue the details correctly onto the chosen colored background;
- Draw Luntik's face with colored felt-tip pens, let the child show his imagination and draw a funny or amusing face!
Fruit and vegetable applications
All children love to eat fruits, they are very useful and delicious, suggest that he make a work with the creation of not only fruits, but also vegetables
Make an applique in the form of a plate of fruit, to create it you will need a plate, three apples of different colors.
To make this appliqué, follow these steps:
- Make four templates, three of which, the same size as the apples, one circle, is the plate. With such a task, children learn how to correctly determine the size;
- glue colorful circles onto a white circle, and the fruit plate is ready!
Making a basket of vegetables
For the youngest children, to make vegetables, you will need to cut out the desired shape of vegetables and glue them to the background. For older children, vegetables can be made in a basket; to create it, you will need glue and scissors, colored paper and colorful cardboard.
To make such a work, cut out a template of the basket and place it on the background. To make the basket look more realistic, draw patterns on it. Next, cut out vegetables of the right size to make them look like real vegetables.
At the end of the work, arrange the vegetables together with your baby as you like and glue them.
Applique vehicles
Boys love different cars, so the proposal to do applique cars they certainly will not give up. To make them, we will need all the same geometric shapes, which are universal in any craft.
Let's make a truck.
To create a truck, you will need any colored paper, scissors and glue, and cardboard for a general background.
Follow the steps below:
- Cut out a rectangle of blue paper - the base of the future truck, four black circles - the wheels, a rectangle of blue paper - the window, also 1 square of your favorite color - the cabin transport
- Place all of the parts correctly on the work surface and glue them down
- at the end of the work, draw all the details, so they are clearly visible
- to make the rudder, cut out a circle from black paper
For any transport, use the above method, let your child choose his favorite transport and make it himself, it can be a helicopter, a bus or a steamboat.
Paper collage for kids
Paper can do many different things, most importantly this material is very pliable and in case of an error you can always start over by taking a clean sheet of paper.
In kindergartens, teachers often give children the task of doing or paint anything on paper, and this is absolutely the right approach, because using paper to create bright and memorable handicrafts, and most importantly the baby is developing creativity.
Let's make a house
To make a house, cut out a triangle, square, rectangles. The triangle - the roof, the square - the base of the house, and the rectangle - the doors and windows. House creation advantage is that the child remembers the geometric shapes and learns to relate them to certain subjects.
Applications of cotton disks
Cotton disks are quite frequent items in applications, there are many options for what to make from them, be sure to make a snowman, making it very simple and fast.
To create it, glue disks on the background of blue, cut a square out of them to make the base of the house or use colored paper, glue snowflakes to create a snowy atmosphere.
Clay applications
Plasticine - a favorite subject of creativity of all children, it is soft and malleable, which means you can mold everything interesting out of it.
The main thing is that you do not need a lot of time and effort, to work with it is enough to warm it up and start creating.
Let's make a caterpillar
To make the caterpillar, you will need green, black and yellow plasticine
Make freeform balls of green, and you'll need yellow to create leaves or make patterns for the insect. Glue all the resulting balls to the main background, to make the background more interesting, rasterize the blue color plasticine with your fingers on the cardboard.
Cereal applications
Seeds, a good material for creating applications, you will need pumpkin seeds, which are most often used for crafts. Let's make a basket with flowers - to create it, you need to draw a basket or outline a ready-made template and glue the seeds around the base.
To make florets, make the middle with beads, make the petals with watermelon seeds.
To create crafts from cereals, buy millet, you need to make a drawing, which will serve as a base, it can be a template.
To create a chicken, draw it on a working background, apply glue and the child must fill the figure with millet. Beans will be needed to create the eyes, beak and paws, our chicken is ready!
Creativity is always fun and enjoyable pastime for all ages, at a young preschool age it is very important to start small, doing simple uncomplicated tasks, then passing to the complex.
In kindergartens teach and develop children from year and a half, the task of parents also support them in all and help in this creative development.