Crafts on a theme of children's fairy tales: preparation and choice of material, original ideas and step-by-step master classes

Fairy tales - boundless material for work. To arouse in young children an interest in creativity, it is better to make crafts on the theme of children's tales.

This will keep a child's interest for a long time, and besides, while working, you can read fairy tales together with your baby.

The child's imagination will play out, and it will be easier for him to make figures of certain characters.

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Materials for work

A set of materials depends on what kind of crafts will be made, because they have their own characteristics. The basic materials will be plasticine, glue, colored paper, paints and brushes. Materials for crafts can be and natural materials: acorns, dried flowers and leaves.

Ideas for crafts on the theme of children's fairy tales

Ideas for creating fairy tale-themed crafts a lot, you can portray individual characters, as well as whole scenes. Handicrafts can be as flat as a picture, and volumetric with small sculptures.

Plasticine Alyonushka and brother goat

Based on the fairy tale "Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka", where the main characters were the girl Alyonushka and her brother, who turned into a goat, you can make a composition from plasticine.

To create a picture, you need to take colored cardboard blue or blue, indicating the sky:

Prepare in advance an image of Alyonushka and Ivanushka turned into a goat, so that you can visually see the picture.
To make a panel, take plasticine of different colors or salt dough. If you take the dough, prepare beforehand paints and brushes.
Looking at the picture, mold figures of characters.

If you are doing a model from colored clay, the colors are chosen in accordance with the picture.

If you decide to mold figures of salt dough, you need to make the material. For this, flour, salt and cold water are taken. You need 200 ml of water, 300 ml of flour and 300 g of salt.

If you plan to make a very small product, you can take less ingredients, the main thing is to observe the proportions, the same amount of flour and salt, and less water. The dough should have the consistency of plasticine.

A beaker with buckets of ice cream sticks

Based on the well-known fairy tale "Emelya and the Plowman," you can create an interesting composition with wooden ice cream sticks, depicting a beam and buckets:

You need to make two small tubes, thick cardboard glued together so that you get a small roll. On top, glue them in a circle with popsicle sticks.
Cut from pieces of leather or dense brown fabric narrow strips and bandage them around the bucket in two places above and below.
Next, from a piece of leather, cut in a semi-circle, you need to make a rocker.
Wrap the leather with wire, and fasten the edges of the wire to the edges of the buckets to make the composition look whole.
At the bottom under the buckets you can make "legs" - attach a tightly wrapped spiral wire, the top of it you can wrap the rope for greater aesthetics. And at the bottom to mold feet from brown plasticine or painted salt dough.

Paper Collage Kolobok

You can make a simple applique with colored paper, even with the youngest children. To do this, you need to stock up on paper glue, colored paper, cardboard, brushes and scissors with rounded edges, if you do it with a child:

You can take for help a picture from the fairy tale kolobok and try to reproduce this picture of colored paper.
Kolobok itself cut out a circle of yellow paper and create surrounding objects - a Christmas tree or a tree, a green background, which will denote grass and a house, from which kolobok and escaped.
Initially, you can take the blue cardboard so as not to cut out the background of the sky separately.
All glue with paper glue. It is better to smear glue with a brush so that there was no unevenness in the application. Your child will be interested in this work, because he or she will see how ordinary pieces of paper make a whole picture come to life.

A goat out of macaroni

A three-dimensional figure of Kolobok can be made from a food product - macaroni. As unusual as it may sound, but macaroni can be used to make a variety of products and not only edible:

To make a Kolobok, you need to inflate a medium-sized balloon to create the shape of the balloon more easily.
Then it is a matter of technique, you need to take macaroni, preferably in the form of stars or flowers, and a good quality glue that can glue such products - PVA glue or superglue.
Then pasta is glued to the shape of the ball, until it is a hemisphere.
When the work Kolobok is almost ready, it will be necessary to burst the ball and pull it out until the entire space is glued.
Next, you need to finish gluing the shape of the ball. To the finished kolobok you can glue eyes, nose and mouth cut out of colored paper.
Such a work can decorate your kitchen or child's room.

Model "Princess Frog" made of salt dough and colored paper

The next work, on the basis of which will be made crafts - "Princess Frog". The composition will be three-dimensional from salt dough, the recipe for which is described at the beginning of the article. Here will be used colored paper.

Before making this composition, it is better to read with your child this fairy tale, so he could imagine who the Frog Princess is and what she is famous for.

To create a three-dimensional figure, it is better to take an image of the frog tsarevna, so it was easier to recreate the shape:

The backing for the composition should be made of blue cardboard - it will be water.
The leaf of the lily under the frog is better to cut out of a thick green sheet of paper.
Before sculpting you need to prepare acrylic paints, with their help the main character will be painted.
From salt dough are molded separately details of the frog, from them the figure of the sitting frog is molded.
The frog's body is painted green, and the belly is painted a light yellow shade.
An arrow, shot by the famous Ivan the Tsarevich, is placed in the legs of the frog.
A crown is attached to the head of the "tsarevna". Around the island with the figure around the edges is glued reeds of colored green paper.
Toothpicks and plasticine are used to make characteristic reed inflorescences.

You and your child will love the resulting scene, it will bring an element of fairy tale into the children's room.

Three-dimensional model on the theme of the fairy tale "Repka" made of cardboard

You can practically make a whole "theatrical" sketch for the Russian folk tale "Repka". Based on the well-known work, the whole family was trying to pull a turnip out of the ground, and only a mouse was able to make the maximum impact, and thanks to her turnip succumbed.

To make the work you need to take thick cardboard, better from an old box. On this substrate make an improvised vegetable garden - cut out from green paper grass and glue brown paper denoting the earth.

The turnip itself and the characters can be cut out of cardboard, make cardboard stands for them in the form of cones and place them in the sequence in which they are described in the work. Or mold them out of plasticine.

Next to the characters, you can create an environment - mold a house and attach trees cut out of cardboard. It turns out a whole "live" scene.

A winter hut made out of cotton balls

A very interesting and beautiful product, especially for New Year's holidays will be a winter hut out of cotton balls.

For the manufacture will need sanitary cotton swabs, glue and cardboard.

Is made such a house on the principle of making a house of matches. Sticks are placed in parallel to each other:

On the place where the cotton begins to end, a small drop of glue is applied.
Next, the sticks are placed on top, positioned perpendicularly to the first sticks. Due to the glue they are fastened together, so the whole house is made up.
After the frame is created, the roof is made.
You can make it by stacking the sticks together and gluing the hull together. But it is very difficult and you need a lot of glue to hold the sticks together. You can simplify the situation and fold a thick sheet of paper in half, it will mark the roof.
On top of it glued tightly to each other cotton sticks. Beautiful snow-white house ready!

On top you can decorate it with rhinestones, rain, beads, snowflakes or stars, and the atmosphere of the holiday will enter your home with this beautiful craft.

A miracle tree of buttons

The most beautiful picture, decorating any, even the most modern and fashionable apartment, can become a Magic Tree of buttons. In many fairy tales there are good helpers - magic trees. You can recreate the same helper and mascot for your family from ordinary buttons.

You can depict it on a homogeneous background, or you can create an all-season with colored cardboard or colored paper. To do this, take a large A3 sheet, divide it visually with a pencil into four parts. Then cut out four different backgrounds from colored paper for winter, spring, summer and fall.

Glue the colored rectangular pieces to the surface, it will divide into several parts. Then in the middle you can cut out a tree trunk from brown colored paper, or you can paint it with acrylic or any other dense paints.

Then select buttons for the color of the season: for winter - blue, white and light lilac, for spring - light pink, light green, light yellow. For summer - bright and dark green and for fall - orange, red and bright yellow. They will represent the leaves of the tree.

Then the buttons are glued evenly according to the time of year on the background. It turns out a very bright and unusual picture, reflecting the changing seasons.

Pushkin's goldfish out of beads.

And as without fairy tales of the great Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. A wonderful and unusual character of his tales is a goldfish. You can try to create it together with your child.

If you own the skill of beading, you can weave it, but with children it is better to use a simpler version, making the craft by gluing on a flat surface. For making it you will need: blue or blue cardboard, beads of yellow, orange and gold colors, PVA glue:

On the cardboard with a pencil to draw the silhouette of a fish.
Next, using orange beads to lay out the main body of the fish, then the tail can be depicted by yellow beads and the tip of the tail highlighted in gold.
The upper fin should be larger in size, it can also be made by combining the two colors - yellow and gold.
On the head of the fish to indicate the black or dark blue beads, or better button her eyes. It should be larger than the main beads from which the picture is made.
Cut out seaweed from colored cardboard on the sides of the fish and place it on the sides.

The finished picture can be framed, it will be a very beautiful "fairy tale" work.

Handicrafts made of natural materials

Volumetric compositions and applications can be made from natural components: dried leaves, cones, grass. From cones and dry twigs can be made old man-forester:

Take two cones, one authentic, it will denote the body of the character, the other small, more rounded - the head.
Cones are glued to each other, the small one on top, stretched out under it with the narrow side down.
Glued to the bottom of a long cone with PVA glue two small twigs - legs forester. On them "boots" made of brown clay. And the top round cone glued eyes, they can buy in a clothing store or molded from plasticine.
The next step will be the hat of a forester, it can be made from a dry tree leaf or birch bark, it should be folded into a cone and attached to the cone on top.
The old man's mouth is molded from a thin loop of plasticine.
The forester's hands are sprigs of wood, proportionally appropriate in size. In one of the "hands" to glue another twig taller than the character. This is a magical staff of the inhabitant of the forest.

The unusual character is ready.

Of dried leaves and twigs can continue the composition and create a surrounding forest. Such a handicraft can be taken to kindergarten for a contest dedicated to fairy tales, it will lead children and teachers to delight.

Applications "Fox and Kolobok".

The famous cunning Fox and Kolobok, who left his grandfather and grandmother, can be embodied on a flat surface. Classes with a child such creativity very well develop imagination.

You need cardboard, paper, paints, brushes, glue. To make it easier to draw, you can take a ready-made picture of the fox and the colubok and translate the outlines through a transfer on cardboard.

And you can paint the background on a picture beforehand, too, so as not to smear the characters with paint later. After drying the background can be glued wheat grit silhouettes of characters. Around the Lisa and Kolobok also can make three-dimensional, such as trees and grass glue groats.

Once everything is ready and well dried, you can begin painting. Do it carefully so as not to touch unnecessary elements. After the paint dries, the work is ready! You can frame it and hang it on the wall.

Thus, we can conclude that, using different materials, imagination and ready-made pictures, you can create a favorite character from any fairy tale.

The child will be satisfied, the children's room will be full of cozy and unusual compositions that will surprise your guests. It is very useful for children to do this kind of activity, as it develops imagination, logic and motor skills of the hands.

You can experiment with different materials, by the logic of creating certain compositions to complement them, to bring something new and unusual, perhaps the child himself or herself will suggest new ways.

You need to listen to the child, because children's eyes are not washed out, like adults, and they can quickly find new approaches to this or that task.

Russian fairy tales are distinguished by the uniqueness of the characters, teach a good attitude, to help each other, not to be greedy, not afraid to go on adventures, and, of course, that good triumphs over evil.

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