Handmade sunshine crafts - easy step by step instructions from simple materials on templates for children

Have you noticed that even the most inept image of the sun makes you smile and evokes pleasant emotions? So why not make a simple craft with children on a gloomy day, imitating the sun?

In addition to developing fine motor skills, kids will learn about the world around them and familiarize themselves with geometric shapes, and older kids will be interested in experimenting with different materials and will be able to realize their own creative ideas.

Especially since for the realization of fantasies, a variety of materials are suitable: paper, sushi sticks, cords, beads, candy. In general, the sun is a handicraft that can be made from whatever is "on hand".

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Tools and materials for work

The choice of tools depends on the source material. To make a paper craft will need a pencil, glue, paper clips, felt-tip pens, scissors and compasses.

If there is no compass, then do not worry - the role of a template will perform any round object, such as a disk, plate, cover.

If you want to create an ornament for the homestead, stationery is unlikely to be needed, tools and fasteners will have to look in the container with supplies for construction and repair.

Handmade sunshine from different materials

The main condition to meet when selecting material is its color. It's easier for kids to make a monochrome handicraft - yellow, orange, gold, coral. Kids of older preschool and primary school age will gladly assemble the sun from parts of different shades.

From colored paper

There are so many paper options that their description would take a whole book, but they all have some common points:

First, for them you need to cut out a circle of colored paper, and if a suitable color was not in the set, then paint with paint an ordinary office sheet or cardboard.
Secondly, glue rays of straight or wavy paper strips to the circle. You can make the strips of different lengths or fold "droplets. Look great rays of a triangular shape or resembling tongues of flame.
The last step is decoration. Children like to "animate" inanimate objects, the sun is no exception. Eyes, mouth, nose can be painted, glued. Girls decorate the rays and "bangs" with bows and beads.
Colored paper - a very plastic material, so it is used to create three-dimensional shapes. For the easiest shapes to print out a template or independently draw two circles of different diameters from one point.
Space between the circles cut into rays. One ray to leave the flat, the other folded and do so around the perimeter. It remains to paint a "face" and attach it to a blue sheet or white paper with drawn clouds.

From fabric

The choice of technique is associated with the type of fabric:

Organza makes a voluminous, fluffy sun. For the handicraft you will need an embroidery frame, on which in a circle are tied strips of organza of one or three harmonious colors.
"Face" is made from cardboard or a disposable plate. The diameter of the central part of the craft should be slightly larger than the diameter of the hoop, so that it will cover the fabric knots. By the way, an alternative to organza would be ribbons or plastic bags.

More difficult in the performance of a soft sun. For it you need to take:

fabric, preferably elastic or cellulose cleaning cloths;
thread for sewing and embroidery;
filler for pillows.

Making Process:

Cut out two identical circles and several triangles, the future rays. The number of triangles depends on the width of their base. It is desirable that between the rays did not leave a blank space.
Rays can be one-layer or soft. Single-layered look prettier if, before sewing the base of a triangle slightly collect. For volumetric, sew two sides of two parts, stuff them with synthetic material, then sew them to one circle.
The second circle superimposed on the first with the rays tucked inside, stitch or hand stitch, leaving a hole for turning out and stuffing.
When the desired volume is achieved, sew up the hole, decorate with bows, flowers or sew on the legs.

Tissue applique

The technique of applique is loved by children, it is accessible to children of primary school age, and also allows you to create collective masterpieces:

For individual applique it is necessary to cut a round base with a diameter of 15-20 cm, for collective - two or three times more.
Pre-cut napkins into small squares, and then offer children to crumple each square with their fingers and glue in any empty space on the prepared circle. Rays can be anything - from the same napkins, from threads, from a clothesline.

Another variation of this handicraft - on a sheet of paper, the sun is drawn with rays. First, the lumps are glued on the contour, and then the inner space is filled.

Cereal applique

Such applications develop fine motor skills, soothe the nervous system and are very helpful for parents when a late night child remembers that he has to bring a craft to school or kindergarten in the morning.

For collage with grains need:

cardboard;
PVA glue;
brush;
Any grains that are at home: buckwheat, rice, millet.

Algorithm of making:

On a sheet of cardboard to depict the outline of the future craft, paint those elements on which there will be no grains.
Thickly smear the remaining space with glue, sprinkle it with grits and lightly press with your hands.
After drying, shake off the excess. If you want to use several kinds of grits, each new kind is poured on the template only after the previous one dries.
To work in the technique of indentation, you will need plasticine. It is kneaded, distributed on a cardboard template, and then large grains (coffee, wheat, seeds) are pressed into the plasticine in turn.

Made of plasticine

Plasticine crafts perfectly develop children's imagination. Here, too, the plasticine sun can be different - monochrome and multicolored, flat and have a pronounced relief.

For convenience, you can use an unnecessary disc. Scotch tape the hole, and then distribute an even layer of blue clay over the entire surface of the disk - that is the sky. Add clouds of varying sizes of white clay cakes.

Roll a sausage from yellow clay, snail-shape it and place it in the center of the sky. Place balls of orange clay around in two or three rows, then surround them with yellow sausages. Arrange rays of yellow and orange sausages, give them a wave-like shape.

Made of cardboard

Such a handicraft holds its shape, so it can be used as a topper for a bouquet or as a headband mask. It is desirable to find a suitable template and have it cut out the future product.

On the base glued applications - eyes, sponges, colored with felt-tip pens or paints, adding beads, cardboard, fabric or thread handles and feet.

A wreath of paper flowers can be put on the handicraft designed for a spring holiday. To get a fun topper, the back side of the handicraft is attached stick, straw for a cocktail, a holder for the balloon.

Origami

Folding paper and turning a simple sheet into a figure of animals, flowers akin to magic. Maybe that's why the technique of origami is so interested in children. However, kids she is not available, only to five years of muscle motor skills reach the required level:

For a craft in the art of origami is suitable as double-sided or single-sided paper. The first thing is to turn the sheet into a square and fold it on two diagonals.
Now open the sheet and bend the corners to the intersection of the diagonals (the center of the square).
Turn the resulting square wrong side facing you and bend the tops of the square to get an octagon.
The next step - to fold the tops so that the corners of "peek out" the front side of the toy.
It remains to increase the number of rays. To do this, turn the handicraft back side facing you, bend away from the middle of the square of large angles. Should get an octagon with eight triangles on the perimeter.
The last step - decoration of the middle. For him, both the technique of applique, and drawing will do.

Original ideas

Look at familiar objects carefully: they themselves will tell you how to use them not for their intended purpose.

The yellow foam sponges are begging to be shaped differently.

Why not carve a sun? Even if all the sponges in the set are a different color, they can easily be repainted with gouache, watercolor or acrylic paints.

From cardboard and clothespins

It is not necessary to turn new things into crafts. Are there a few old wooden clothespins lying around the house? Let the child turn them into bright sunbeams, and at the same time repeat the numbers and counting.

Adults need to cut out a cardboard circle, along the edge at the same distance apply digital labels, such as 1 to 10. The same numbers to write on clothespins.

The child will be delighted to match identical numbers and be amazed to find that magic has happened - now he or she has a sun in his or her hands! The clothespins can be replaced with popsicle sticks or sushi sticks.

From paper and strings with braids

Children associate sunbeams with different objects, for example, with hair. Since it is hair, it should be used to make different hairstyles. The sun with pigtails, ribbons and pins looks very perky, and if it also winks its eyes, it is sure to bring a smile.

For the craft we will need a hole punch, cardboard, threads for knitting or mouliné, scissors, accessories to decorate the hair, paper to cut out the eyes, nose and mouth:

First, a circle of arbitrary diameter is cut out of cardboard, and holes are made along the edge with a hole punch.
Yarn is cut into strips of length twice as long as the finished rays.
One or more yarns are folded in half, a loop is slipped through the hole in the cardboard, then in this loop threaded free tail. Should get fringe.
It remains to turn the fringe into braids and enliven the middle - to attach or draw eyes, make sponges.

From a tire and plastic bottles

Giving a second life to unnecessary things is very simple: old car tires and empty plastic bottles make an elegant park composition. However, children will not be able to make it by themselves, since dangerous objects are used during assembly: self-tapping screwdrivers, screwdrivers, and knives.

You will also need paints that are not afraid of the weather:

So, it is necessary to cut out of plywood, plastic paneling or linoleum the future "face" of the craft.
Its radius should be larger than the radius of the inside of the tire, so that it was convenient to glue or screw with self-tapping screws.
Bottles do not have to be of the same size and shape: they can be different, but be sure to have lids.
Screw the caps to the rubber, and then screw the bottles into them.
If the sun is going to be hung, then the rays should be all around the circle, if you want to put it on the ground or a stump, then one of the segments of the circle bottles should not be placed.
It remains to paint the resulting base and decorate at your discretion.

Autumn leaf applique

It is not for nothing that autumn is called "golden". Leaves on trees really do take on the color of gold.

For the handicraft will be useful not only yellow leaves, and work out the red, brown, ochre.

With a simple application of natural materials can handle even three-year-old children:

It is necessary to glue a circle on cardboard, and glue leaves around the perimeter.
Leaves can be just picked or dried.
Older children are able to implement more complex ideas: make the rays multi-layered, or "plant" the craft on a skewer for a kebab.

From disposable spoons

A fascinating activity - to master something unusual from non-standard materials. Non-standard materials for crafts can include plastic cutlery.

If you put plastic spoons in a circle, and attach a hot glue to the orange center - you get an unusual sun. For this version, you will need two packs of the same spoons, 12 of each.

Much more spoons will be needed for the sun, whose rays will resemble pineapple scales. In this case, the spoons can be of different sizes. For example, the inner circle will be formed from teaspoons, and the outer circle - from dessert spoons:

Beforehand, it is necessary to separate the handle from the head of the spoon.
On the prepared circle, the diameter of which is a centimeter less than the diameter of the finished product, draw several more circles.
Along these circles will lay the heads of spoons.
Each head to glue with a glue gun, also suitable glue "Moment".
When only the center is empty, you can proceed to decorate the face.
It is important that the diameter of the face was slightly larger than the diameter of the empty circle to hide the uneven edges left by the removed plastic handles.
Faces can be made from cardboard, disposable plate, foamirin, foam rubber.

From palms and a disposable plate

Disposable plate - the perfect medium for a future craft. First, it is dense, and secondly, it is round. Paint the plate in the appropriate shades, bring it to life, and begin to form rays.

Children like to trace their own palms, so these palms will act as rays. Several palms should be attached to the edge of the plate or with PVA glue, or stapler. The more palms, the more colorful and unusual product.

Any creativity is a way to develop the imagination, and even more so these days, it successfully competes with gadgets. Sunshine crafts are a good way to spend time with your child, unobtrusively mastering elementary math and spatial concepts.