Older Person's Day crafts with their own hands: easy step by step instructions for children in kindergarten and school (80 photos)

Senior Citizens Day is a very touching and at the same time solemn holiday. On this day we honor wisdom and kindness. We show care and attention to people of the older generation.

And so that grandparents will have a memory of this day, of your attention, give them a postcard or a craft. In this article, we will help you create uncomplicated, but very touching themed gifts with your own hands. And with pleasure you will help children - the favorites of grandparents.

History of the holiday

The International Day of the Elderly is celebrated on October 1. This date was not chosen by chance: old age is considered a golden time, as well as autumn is a golden time. In Russia the holiday is celebrated since 1991. It is celebrated by people who have reached retirement age.

Postcards for the Day of Older Persons

A postcard is the simplest but informative gift.

If you give a postcard an unusual shape, such as a part of a shirt with a collar and a pocket in the shape of a heart or a car, and enclose greetings from each family member, grandma or grandpa will keep them for a long time and will often reread them.

Take a few tips for creating simple cards.

In the form of a book.

Volumetric postcard with a colorful umbrella, which will shelter loved ones from heartache can be made with the help of:

• Sheets of colored paper;
• White cardboard;
• Glue;
• Scissors;
• Crayons.

The technology of production is quite simple:

1. Shallow (about 10 centimeters) sheets of colored paper are added to the usual accordion.
2. The resulting colorful accordion staple, glue or string with a needle fasten to each other with one edge. The second edge is opened in a fan.
3. The edges of the resulting semicircle glued to the center of the cardboard.
4. Dorisovyvayut leg umbrella.
5. Postcard fold in half
6. Above the umbrella they draw raindrops
7. Under the umbrella they write good wishes to their loved ones
8. The front side is decorated with felt-tip pens "Happy Older People's Day!"

With volumetric flowers from napkins

Soft paper doilies create nice soft flower bunches that can easily decorate any holiday card.

You can make a greeting card with the help of:

• colored paper,
• scissors,
• glue,
• stapler,
• colored napkins,
• decorative napkin.

Step by step process of creating a postcard:

• Smear a decorative napkin with glue and glue it onto an A-4 sheet of paper. Then fold the red, yellow and burgundy napkins in quarters (in half and again in half).
• In the middle of each square staple staple. Cut corners to make circles.
• Then lift all the layers of the napkin one by one and gently squeeze with your fingers at the base. Slightly spread the resulting petals of the napkin. We obtained a delicate volumetric florets.
• Now make the leaves. Cut them out of green paper. The edges of leaflets cut in a wave-like manner. Fold them in half.
• Then "accordion" obliquely a few times. The more "accordion", the more beautiful. Assemble our card.
• A pair of leaves obtained glue in the middle. At their base glue our flowers to form a bouquet.
• Then cut strips of green paper 0.5x10 cm. Using a pencil or scissors, twist one edge of each strip to make a curl. Glue them by the straight edge above and below the flowers. We have a very smart card.

With clay

Everyone has old CDs at home. They will serve as a great base for the crafts. Place on them from plasticine sticks a plot of flowers, butterflies, grass, birds and grandma and grandpa will be very happy with such a surprise.

There is another simple variant of a postcard with plasticine. It can be made with the help of:

• cardboard with the outline of a vase,
• clay of different colors,
• a board for rolling out clay,
• sticks.

First, let's decorate the vase:

• We take a small piece of plasticine and with a finger stretch it on the cardboard in the area of the outline of the vase pattern. Take the next piece of plasticine, do the same. So until the entire contour will be "painted" with plasticine.
• Then roll out the flagellum of plasticine by hand. At first, you can roll between the palms of your hands, then with your fingers on a board until the desired thickness of the flagellum. Shape the florets into spirals.
• Glue the florets on the cardboard over the pot in the form of a bouquet. Then glue green flagella to them in the form of stems and leaves.

That's it, hurry up and congratulate your relatives!

Using satin ribbons

Very effectively look as a gift cards with the use of satin ribbons.

It can be made with:

• colored cardboard,
• A rectangle of beautiful light fabric,
• Multicolored satin ribbons,
• glue.

To make the card, follow these steps:

• Fold the colored cardboard in half. On the front side glue a rectangle of solid color fabric decorate the front of the card. Take a smaller fabric, it will be the base of the composition.
• Cut the satin ribbons into strips of 10 cm. Let's gather the ribbons by one edge on a needle with a thread, pull it off, we will have a bud. Secure it with a knot.
• Open the petals of the flower, glue it to the fabric base of our card. In the middle of the flower glue a bead.
• You can make three-dimensional flowers from ribbon, consisting of two blanks or from ribbons of different widths. From a thin green satin ribbon we make petals: we fold the ends of the ribbons cut in strips face side by side and glue them around the flowers.

With fabric hearts

Postcards with volumetric decoration always look very effective.

Such a card with fabric hearts can be made with:

• scissors,
• Heart and leaf flower templates,
• felt fabric for red and green flowers,
• glue,
• green felt-tip pen,
• 1 sheet of colored cardboard, size A - 4,
• small photos of grandma and grandpa.

Step by step instructions:

• Let's cut out for the beginning twenty hearts from felt of the same color. Fold them in half.
• Glue the right half of the heart, glue it to the cardboard in a circle overlapping. We get a flower of hearts.
• Place an identical flower next to it. Glue small pictures of grandma and grandpa in the middle of the flowers.
• Cut leaves out of green felt and use a green felt-tip pen to draw stems.
• Sign the card and quickly hand it out!

With Grandma and Grandpa Paper

Using ready-made templates of grandma and grandpa's heads, you can make amazing three-dimensional appliques.

Dress up both of them with airy cotton hair, add a beard to the grandfather, dress up the grandmother in beads and earrings made of lumps of paper.

Doris the missing elements with felt-tip pens. The cutest card is ready!

Cone dolls - a very simple craft for the day of the elderly in kindergarten. These cute paper dolls can be made with:

• colored paper,
• sewing paper,
• felt-tip pens,
• scissors,
• glue,
• cardboard blanks of heads, hands and feet,
• circle templates,
• absorbent cotton,
• thick woolen threads of beige or white color.

To make these dolls you need:

• Cut out a circle of colored paper using the template. Cut it anywhere along the radius
• Make a cone of the workpiece and glue it together.
• Poke holes with an awl for hands, put a thread through them, cut off the necessary length.
• Inside the cone to the thread - arms attach a string - legs of such length that they were not too short or long.
• Pieces of arms and legs attached to the thread. On top of the cone glue the head.
• Dolly - grandmother adorn hair from absorbent cotton, a grandfather to make a mustache, eyebrows and hair and beard.
• Paint the cone with felt-tip pens.

Gift ideas for the elderly

To make a pleasant surprise for a grandfather or grandmother through an original craft for the day of the elderly is very simple. The main thing is to come up with an idea and do it with soul. There are many options with which you can surprise and please people close to your heart.

A casket with their own hands

Grab a shoe or phone box and prepare a surprise for Grandma or Grandpa's Senior Day - an exclusive jewelry box. Elderly people will be happy to use it to store threads and needles, clippings with useful tips from magazines or as a first aid kit.

The box should be pasted over with adhesive tape. Decorate it on all sides with beads, butterflies, colorful decorative stones. Cover it all with lacquer. Here it is - a great masterpiece! Such a box can be made even by elementary school kids. It will decorate the exhibition of handicrafts at school.

A case for glasses

To stop grandma or grandpa losing their glasses, give them a handmade glasses case. You just need a box of tea bags to make one.

Paint it in Grandma's (or Grandpa's) favorite color. Decorate it in a quilling style. Coat the whole thing with varnish. You can put a piece of felt on the bottom. A wonderful case for glasses! Of course your relatives will put their glasses there all the time and stop losing them.

Paper bouquet of flowers

The exhibition of children's crafts for Older People's Day can not do without flowers - a traditional gift. Beautiful and more durable than living flowers can be made with:

• wooden skewers
• coffee filters at the rate of 4 pieces for one flower
• watercolor
• green corrugated paper.

Workflow:

1. 2 filters folded together are folded in half.
2. Edges of the cut in waves.
3. The other two filters are cut in the same way, but smaller.
4. Then they unroll, put the smaller filters on top of large filters. Pierce them with a skewer in the center.
5. Fingers squeeze the paper, lifting it up and twisting it slightly. Doing so with each filter.
6. Wrap the base of the bud and the skewer with green corrugated paper.
7. If you like, you can paint the filters in the colors you like using watercolor.

So make a few flowers, decorate them with leaves from the same corrugated paper and assemble them in a bouquet.

Bouquet of candy

For a gift to grandmothers and grandfathers will suit unusual edible compositions. Most often, they become charming bouquets of candy.

Such a bouquet can be made with:

• candy;
• corrugated paper of bright colors;
• wooden skewers;
• duct tape;
• thread.

From light corrugated paper, cut many rose petals.

1. Wrap the petals around all the candies to make them look like buds. At the base of the bud, fasten it with string.
2. Scotch tape it to a skewer. You can paint the skewer green.
3. Use green corrugated paper to cut leaves to decorate the stems.
4. Wrap the improvised bouquet in wrapping paper.

Rug

A cozy and soft rug can easily be made from old terry towels or robes.

To do this:

1. Cut the towels or robe into long, narrow strips.
2. Intertwine them with each other in a pigtail.
3. The finished braid is laid spirally or as a rectangle.
4. Neighboring braids are sewn to each other.

You can create a variety of children's handicrafts for the day of the elderly, but be sure to write sensitive words and wishes for goodness on them. And, of course, present them with love.

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