Handmade crafts for kids 9 years old - step by step interesting master classes of colored paper, clay, improvised materials
Nine-year-old children already have their own taste and opinion. They can create their own greeting cards for any holiday, even design some items.
Only adults still need help to give advice, to help in the creation of complex crafts. At this age, children love to work with paper and different additional elements.
Handmade crafts for kids 9 years old
Although children like to work more with paper, there are many different crafts from other materials. They will also be interesting to a nine-year-old child.
Paper can be used to create anything: it can be flowers, applique, three-dimensional lanterns, animals, houses, and more.
Clay art is also diverse. From it they create whole paintings, different figures of animals, dolls, make whole compositions.
Hand-made materials can also go for creativity. Use plastic cups, bottles, egg cartons and other items.
Woolen yarn is not only used for knitting. They create whole three-dimensional paintings.
There are many options for crafts, the main thing is to choose one that will be made with soul and interest.
Tools for work
Materials for creativity are chosen those that are necessary to create a handicraft. The main thing is that they should be safe and of high quality:
- Scissors, glue, pencil, crayon, paints, brushes are mandatory. If the work is to be done with wire, you can prepare wire cutters.
- Threads and fabrics should be chosen without a pungent smell, durable, so they do not shed.
- Plasticine without toxic impurities with a quality label. In some cases it can be replaced with salt dough.
- Filling stuffed toys is better suited holofiber. It does not cause allergic reactions from children's bodies, does not fall off over time and it can be washed.
- Dense and colored paper, cardboard.
You may also need crochet hooks, beads, buttons for decoration.
Simple crafts from paper
Paper crafts come in all kinds of complexity. For simple options from children do not require any training. The child should first be shown a photo of the future craft, so he understands - it is not difficult.
Applique
Schoolchildren love to create applications. The easiest option for a child of 9 will be a paper applique for March 8. This is a great gift for mothers and grandmothers.
You need a thick sheet of paper in any color:
- Then cut out of colored paper a template of a vase for flowers: in the form of an elongated trapezoid or similar to a pitcher.
- Glued blanks on a piece of paper. Next cut out a few flowers of different sizes from the five petals. Choose any color, but not to merge with the background and the vase.
- Then distribute them, creating an image of a bouquet and glue. Add two green leaves between the petals.
- If it is a gift for March 8, the red figure eight is attached to the top of the application. The yellow core is glued in each flower. All crafts are ready.
Flowers in the technique of quilling
With this technique should first become acquainted with, and then proceed to work. Children can be encouraged to make a simple craft. Making a simple flower:
- Choose a sheet of red or pink paper, its dimensions should be 10 by 10 centimeters.
- Inside draw a spiral shape. Thickness of about 1 cm.
- With scissors along the line cut out the spiral.
- On a toothpick or awl wind the resulting billet.
It turns out the volume of the rose, these flowers can make several pieces.
You can take a few twigs of the tree and put roses on their tips, you get a beautiful bouquet, which is placed in a vase.
Figurines of animals
Animals made of paper are made in different versions. Simple and original are accordion paper animals. Folding paper in this technique is fun for children of all ages.
A little material will go to create a bear cub. You will need:
- brown cardboard;
- orange paper;
- Scissors, glue and a marker.
Then the work is done step by step:
- For a medium-sized bear cub, cut out two strips of cardboard of the same size and a width of 2 centimeters. At right angles with their ends glued to each other.
- Make an accordion: then fold in turn the strips, until they run out. The ends are glued, so that the accordion is not gone.
- Next draw back legs together, make the top wider, so the bear seemed kosolapomym. Cut out on a template for two parts.
- Both parts are glued to both sides of an accordion.
- Make a head: a large circle, two small brown cardboard and a small orange for the muzzle.
- Glue the head to the top of the body, attach ears and muzzle, pre-drawn on her mouth and nose.
- Eyes are made of black paper in the form of circles.
Modelling with clay for a child of 9 years.
Modeling is considered a fun activity, children are happy to do it. Not only imagination develops, but also fine motor skills of the hands, which is beneficial for the development of the child's body. At the age of nine, children can already create more complex plasticine crafts.
Snail
A funny plasticine snail can be made in just a few minutes. First you need to prepare colorful plasticine, a stack and a paper clip. Then begin to do the work:
- from yellow plasticine roll a sausage: one side of it is rounded, from it form the head, and the other is made thinner;
- purple sausage will be a house: it is wider on one side and narrower on the other;
- twist the purple blanks into a spiral, with the thin end inside;
- attach the house to the base of the snail's torso;
- from a paper clip make the shape of the antennae: the ends are bent, the bottom is a loop (it is better to work with pliers);
- insert the antennae into the top of the head;
- roll small balls of purple plasticine and hang them on the ends of the paper clip.
Eyes molded on the muzzle, first a white circle, then a smaller black pupil on it. Mouth is cut out with a stencil. You can make a flat green leaf and put the snail on it.
Flower
A sprig of orchid made of plasticine will be a wonderful gift from a child. White flowers always look beautiful. To work you will need plasticine of three colors: white, brown and green. Also a wire, which does not bend, and a thin stick. Orchid is modeled as follows:
- Plasticine is kneaded so that you can work with it more easily.
- Making blanks stems of brown plasticine. Cut the wire into four pieces and apply a thin layer of plasticine mass. The ends of the wire should be loose. It turns out the smooth tubes.
- For the three colors make six white petals (3 large and 3 small) and three pink circles.
- Pink circles are put on a wire with one end and removed. From the white parts form petals in the form of droplets.
- Assemble the flowers: three small petals on the bottom, as many large petals on top. And the petals do not cover each other. In the center attach pink blanks.
- Green leaves are made elongated shape and white buds.
- It remains to assemble the bouquet. First, a frame is attached to each other, then the buds are put on top of the stems. Flowers and leaves are distributed over a frame, pressing a hand.
All that is left for the handicraft to solidify. Beautiful spring bouquet ready.
House
You can think of a fairy-tale house and make it, using plasticine:
- First, a stencil of the house is made of cardboard, cut out and folded. Windows are cut through or left drawn.
- The roof is made separately: cut to size a rectangle and folded in the middle, you get a skeleton roof.
- Texture of the house is made by smearing brown or red plasticine over the surface. Also, windows of any shape and color are formed and glued to the base.
- Layout of the house is bent, in the corners you can glue plasticine flagella. The roof is set on top of the house.
- The tiles can be made in the form of green leaves. Decorate around the bottom with additional elements.
Animals
Plasticine animals are probably the most popular crafts with children. They begin to model them at an early age. At first, they get simple elements, and older children create more complicated figures. For example, a raccoon is easy to make:
- form three balls of white (small), gray (large) and dark gray (medium) colors of plasticine;
- The gray one is divided into parts: 4 small and 3 larger;
- On one gray ball glue a piece of white plasticine, giving the shape of an elongated muzzle, top attach two black flat strips;
- then triangular ears on top of the head and eyes on the black spots;
- The tip of the nose is a small black circle;
- The gray piece is shaped into a sausage, on which the white and black strips are glued in a circle;
- Make a gray body, paws, attach a striped tail and head.
If everything is done in stages, you get a funny and funny raccoon from the cartoon.
Ideas for crafts from improvised materials
With your own hands you can make handicrafts and from those materials that turn out to be on hand. Often there are plastic bottles, boxes from under different products and many other things lying idle in the house. The ideas for crafts from such items there are a large number.
The stand of a tin can
Children are constantly throwing pencils, pens, markers, so make a beautiful coaster would be a great idea. You can take the jar from under the peas or baby food:
- Measure the height and width of the jar with a small allowance for tucking.
- Then a rectangle is drawn on self-adhesive paper and cut out.
- Make blanks of flowers and leaves, glue them beautifully on paper.
- Remove the protective layer and carefully wrap the jar.
- From the top of the excess part of the bend inside the jar. To turn out beautifully, it is necessary to make vertical incisions in it.
If you glue additional petals to the flowers, the application will turn out volumetric.
The snowman from a plastic bottle
A small snowman can be created from a single milk, yogurt bottle. Remove the label from the surface. If the bottle is transparent, you can put white absorbent cotton inside.
Cap and scarf made of paper. Eyes, mouth, nose are glued to the top of the bottle. But such a snowman will stand at home.
If he is planned to be constantly in the street, then the paper should be replaced by plastic bags, and the hat is made of plastic.
Figurines from cones
Autumn crafts in school can not be imagined without the use of cones, as they are constantly collected by children under the trees in the parks. Often they make original animal figurines. You can make a hedgehog with children. Cones are chosen well opened. Step-by-step performance of the handicraft:
- from white or gray plasticine roll an oval;
- Pull out one part of the oval a little to make a muzzle;
- form a nose and eyes of black clay and attach them to the muzzle;
- attach the snout to the cone.
Ears and feet will be parts of the cone, which can be painted or clayed with a thin layer of plasticine.
The robot from a box
Boys do not like to make flowers, but to make a robot for themselves will be glad. To work, you need to assemble:
- 3 cardboard boxes of different sizes;
- shaped packaging from electrical goods or spare parts;
- two rolls of food film;
- two leftover clappers after opening;
- two rolls of duct tape;
- CDs a couple, too.
First, prepare the boxes: they must be turned out or covered with colored paper. Next, the largest one is fastened to the smallest one using a bobbin of duct tape. It will act as a neck. The middle box is glued to the bottom of the large. These will be pants.
Hands will be the tubes from the foil, and feet will be the base of the clappers. They can be tied to the box with string. A shaped box is glued to the chest and disks are attached to the pants.
Eyes are cut through and inserted into the holes of the cupcake molds. Antennae, mouth made from twisted wire. One bobbin should be cut in half and attached to the sides of the head instead of the ears.
Application of absorbent cotton disks
You can depict the water world, children like it. For example, a pool or part of a pond. For the fishes, you need to prepare two disks each. One will be whole, and the other will be cut in half. One part is again divided into two parts. On a blue sheet of paper glued fishes.
The disk will be the torso, a semicircle instead of a tail, and quarters of the fins. Mouth cut also from the disk in the shape of a heart. Eyes are made of plastic and also glued. The tips of the tail are slightly cut through to give volume to the picture.
Algae are made from lettuce-cut strips on one side of the pointed. Folded into an accordion and glued to the sheet. White small balls show bubbles coming from the mouth of the fish. They can be drawn with regular corrector.
Any handicraft will not take much time to create. But be able to interest the child. Regular creative activities will help schoolchildren develop creativity.