Applications of a cat from fabric, felt and paper: simple master-classes for children and beginners
Applique is a kind of creativity that allows children to develop fine motor skills, teaches the use of stationery, such as scissors and glue, teaches children applied creativity, which has a positive effect on the imagination.
Animals are of special interest to children, they like to stroke them and play with them, animal applique is very easy to do, and most importantly, together with parents they are fun to do them.
Applications of cats for children
Cats for sure everyone in the house, the baby will gladly want to make this beautiful creature with their own hands. From paper it will be easy for children to make a variety of crafts, and hand applique like everyone without exception for their simplicity.
This article discusses how to create a simple cat, as well as options more complicated.
Kitten out of the palm
Creating a cat from the palm, a very easy option for the smallest. To create this work does not need a large amount of materials, it is enough to have glue and scissors, cardboard and colored paper.
The process of creation:
- outline the child's palm, which he puts on the back of colored paper.
- Cut out the body of the animal (the thumb is the tail, the rest of the fingers are feet).
- Draw a silhouette of the head, so that it was proportional to the body, for this it is preferable to cut out a circle and ears - triangles.
- Connect the parts, for this purpose, glue the torso to the cardboard, so that the paws are at the bottom and the head is at the top.
- Make a muzzle felt-tip pens, you can also use colored paper, making them eyes and mustache.
- At the end of the tail and paws glued paper, the opposite color of the body, for example, if the cat is black, then use white paper.
SEAL of geometric shapes
Geometric shapes can be used to create animals, for these purposes, paper is well suited.
To make a funny kitty, draw a stencil on any paper, it can be plain white or multicolored, and cut it out. Also for easier work, they take a preprinted template, and it is divided into parts, a child will correctly add them up and get a kitty!
To get a cat out of shapes, also use the following method:
- prepare colored paper, glue and scissors;
- First make the parts - these are 4 different triangles and one circle (two triangles - ears, one - the tail, the fourth - the torso);
- cardboard of any desired color will be the background;
- glue the prepared parts to the background and your cat is ready!
A cat in boots
To make the well-known cartoon character, on any colored cardboard glue the pre-cut parts according to the template. Use a different technique: a picture of the cat, which is colored cut into parts to make a puzzle, and the finished pieces are glued to the background.
Another no less interesting option is to create a cat according to the following principle:
- first cut out the head and glue it to the cardboard;
- Cut out an oval - the body - from colored paper and glue it on;
- To make the work look non-standard, the body and head should be glued on top of the cardboard, with the paws protruding from the background;
- At the end of the work, the tail, paws and boots are fixed;
- To create a muzzle, use felt-tip pens to draw the eyes, mouth and nose;
- for a more complete look of the cat, details cut out of magazines are used as his decorations, cut out a hat, belt, gloves and the cat in boots looks more interesting!
Kitten Woof made of plasticine
Surely all children know and love this character and will definitely want to make him in their home. Offer them plasticine to create it, which is the easiest material to create all kinds of crafts.
To make such a cat, prepare plasticine of suitable colors, a template, as well as the use of such necessary material: colored paper, pasta, thread and absorbent cotton.
Once the choice of material is determined, the ready-made template applies glue and fasten the material, in our variant it is plasticine, all materials are well attached to the use of quality glue.
Tear-off applique
For tear-off applique, colored paper and cardboard also come in handy.
To make such a work does not require much effort, it is enough to have imagination and use it in creativity, this kind of applique helps to develop it and develop the fingers, they contribute to the good development of motor skills of the hands.
To create a tear-off applique, the necessary parts of the cat are not cut out, as usual, and in an arbitrary form are torn off, the kid will like to do such work, as it is an easy way to create different appliqués, when the necessary parts of the cat are ready, they are glued on the chosen background and the work is ready!
As a material use more absorbent cotton, fabric, seeds, cereals.
A cat on a window
To create it, you will need gouache, or paints, black beads, white cardboard, black paper and colored paper.
The process of creation consists of steps:
- A ready-made template of a cat for applique is cut out according to the details;
- Green paper is chosen for the background, it is glued to the cardboard;
- A muzzle is drawn with white paint;
- Eyes are made of beads, other details of the muzzle are drawn with a pen;
- The whiskers are made from strips of paper, and a bow is used to decorate the neck;
- For the window sill, strips are cut out and overlapped;
- The cat, if desired, can be framed.
To make the cat sit not just on the windowsill, but in the whole house, make a house of white cardboard, which is divided into 4 parts, red paper will serve as the roof of the future house, to make it look more expressive, it is traced with a pen, doors are also made of colored paper.
The cat must be made a little smaller, so that it will fit in the house.
Volumetric applique of cats
The cat can be not only flat, but also look more volumetric due to the chosen method of creation.
The first option involves creating a cat out of cardboard:
- cut out a cat template from two different sheets of cardboard;
- For a three-dimensional effect, cut out the front of the cat on one piece of cardboard and the back on another color of cardboard;
- Glue the finished parts together and fix them on the background.
Also interesting is this option:
- the necessary parts of the figure are cut out and folded into a three-dimensional image;
- the finished work is placed on the surface on which the cardboard was fixed;
- you can create several cats and get a composition.
Layered applique
Layered applique is also easy to do and does not take much time or effort. Follow the steps below to create it:
- first draw and cut out of colored paper the necessary parts of the cat: the body and ears should be white, the other parts should be red or orange, the nose remains black;
- glue the body to the background, then the head on top;
- the decorated wool of orange paper glued to the body, glue the tail;
- glue the ears, ears that look in different directions will look interesting, attach the nose;
- Draw a muzzle with felt-tip pens.
Use this option:
- cut from colored paper strips of 1 cm, glue them on the cardboard in a horizontal position, you can leave gaps, the cardboard will be colored;
- draw a cat on a white sheet of paper or print out a template, cut out the inside so that a silhouette appears on the paper, the figure must fit the size of the strips;
- Glued to the background of the work, draw a muzzle.
Applique cat in the technique of quilling
To create an application in the technique of quilling need materials: strips for quilling, scissors, glue, cardboard base, tweezers, ruler and pencil, marker.
The technique of quilling also uses a toothpick and pieces of paper, it involves creating a tight spiral, of which a roll is made, when squeezed, the desired shape is created.
The process of creation:
- When the base is prepared, the rolls are squeezed from the chosen side, and the ends are glued - this is the torso of the cat;
- make a tail from the curls and glue it to the body of the cat;
- to decorate the cat's neck with a light spiral, if it is beige in color;
- to receive arrows for a cat - a strip of paper is twisted on a pencil and fixed, carefully remove a roll and make a triangle by compressing the sides at a spiral;
- From such a triangle comes out an arrow: the corners of the triangle are compressed so that the side is bent inward, fix the part on the base;
- the head of the cat is a half-moon, clamp the roll on both sides, one side is bent, make the ears;
- parts of the cat glued to cardboard, the card is decorated with white and red arrows.
Cat out of fabric
Cloth applique will serve as a decoration of any thing, such as a backpack.
To make an applique of a cat from fabric, follow the steps:
- Draw the outline of the cat first on paper, then transfer it to the fabric and cut it out;
- The protruding edges are trimmed, and a muzzle is drawn;
- the finished cat is sewn on the chosen base.
Another variant of creating a cat out of fabric involves first cutting out parts from fabric, then stitching them and stuffing them with any of the following materials: wool, sintepon, sawdust. You can sew such a toy as on a machine, that was an even seam, and neatly by hand.
Applications of felt
Works of felt are quite natural, as well as pleasant to the touch. Older kids can do such work on their own, younger children are better to do them under adult supervision.
This kind of creativity will not leave anyone indifferent, will want to do more and more any crafts from this material.
The process of creation:
- First, draw the outline of the felt cat on the material or use a ready-made template and encircle it
- The head is joined together with the torso and sewed together, then the feet in the lower part of the torso are sewn together
- stuff the inside of the cat with cotton or synthetic fibers and stitch it together.
Handicrafts can be made with ease, if they are made with love and desire, the task of adults to always help with the difficulties of children or inspire themselves to perform new creative ideas.