Handcrafts on a theme of spring (spring crafts) from improvised materials: a master class with photo examples of design

The awakening of nature in the spring, when the snow has descended and the first grasses and flowers begin to appear, has a positive effect on people. At this time we want to create, create and enjoy it.

This article will talk about how to make crafts on a spring theme. Such products will be useful for an exhibition in the garden or at school. They can decorate the classroom and private room. They can be presented as a holiday gift to family and friends.

Spring-themed crafts for children

To create crafts you can take a variety of materials, it can be

• colored paper;
• plasticine;
• yarn;
• salt dough;
• corrugated paper
• cardboard
• plastic bottles;
• natural material.

Theme for a spring craft can be any. You can make:

• bouquets of flowers;
• baskets for Easter;
• figurines of birds and animals made of salt dough;
• Cards for holidays;
• still life.

This is only a part of those crafts that can be made, and if you dig into your imagination and look at the awakening nature, you can come up with many ideas for creating different compositions.

Handmade crafts from colored paper

Colored paper is easy to work with. Even a small child can cope with making crafts from it without the help of adults. The only thing is to make it safe to use scissors and glue. Therefore, it is better to cut out shapes and glue them in the presence of adults.

Applique

To make a collage with children, you need to stock up:

• colored paper;
• white sheets;
• cardboard;
• paints;
• a brush and glue;
• scissors.

The appliqué is glued to white cardboard, which can then be colored with paint if the composition does not need white spaces. If there is no colored paper, you can make it yourself by painting white sheets of paper with watercolors and crayons and letting them dry. This will produce an unusual texture on the sheet.

Bird in the nest

• We cut out parts of the bird from paper that we made ourselves. Then the bird will have different plumage and look natural.
• Glue the birds body and the wings on top of the sheet.
• The tail, which will consist of several parts, playing the role of feathers, glue only at the base. The ends of the tail feathers are slightly twisted and bent.
• Cut cardboard from the packing crates into thin strips. These will be the sprigs for the nest.
• Grease the cardboard and pour sprigs chaotically on it, but do not glue tightly to it, so that you get an imitation of a nest.
• You can insert the application into a photo frame.

Hummingbird and a flower

When you do this applique, do not forget that hummingbirds are very small birds, which should turn out less than the flower:

• Cut out of blue paper using a template that can be found on the Internet, the body of the bird together with the tail.
• From multicolored paper we cut out feathers, which should be glued on the body and on the wing.
• From brown paper cut out the beak, which is long in a hummingbird to get nectar from the flowers. Glue it to the head.
• From different colors of paper cut out two parts of the flower.
• Curl the edges of the flower to the top.
• Glue a flower on a sheet of colored cardboard, and in the middle you can attach a piece of plasticine and pour groats on it, or cut out the middle from yellow paper and also sprinkle it with groats, thus creating stamens in a flower.
• Green paper cut out leaves for the flower. Draw the veins on them with a felt-tip pen in dark green and glue them to the base of the cardboard near the flower.

Application is ready and you can hang it on the wall or put on a table.

Swan .

To create a marine background, you need to make strokes on a white sheet of paper with a sponge and gouache or acrylic paint. Allow the sheet to dry and you can start to create a swan:

• He will be three-dimensional and make his body, head and neck will be made of white plasticine.
• Now we have to glue the details on the background.
• Use red clay to make a beak, and black - the eye.
• Use a clay knife to make hollows on the neck, giving the shape of feathers.
• Cut out ovals of white paper and insert them into the plasticine body of the swan to make feathers.
• Make waves out of one-sided blue paper. Tear the paper so that the edges were white rips. Glue it to the background around the swan. It will be waves with white scallops.

Volumetric applique is ready.

Origami

Look original flowers, made in the technique of origami. There are many courses on the Internet, where you can see how to make parts for origami. When the technique is mastered, then you can proceed to create a simple pattern of crafts:

• To make a tulip, you need to cut a square of red cardboard and fold it in the middle diagonally. The base of the triangle is placed towards you and the two corners lift up a short distance from the top corner. We get the crown. Shape the bud, bending backwards on both sides of the corners.
• To make a sheet of tulip, take the green paper cut out a square and fold the airplane. The resulting figure again add up the airplane, but on the opposite side. We get a narrow rhombus.
• Fold it in half along the long diagonal. Do the same and the second sheet.
• The lower parts of the leaves connect them, putting them one into another.
• Between the leaves put green straws for drinks and it is attached to the tulip.

Easter egg in the technique of quilling

In the store you can buy wooden or Styrofoam blanks in the shape of an egg, and you can cut the shape yourself from Styrofoam:

• From colored paper, cut centimeter strips. They should be tightly rolled on a pencil and the tip glued, so that the spiral does not unroll.
• Such spirals should be of different colors. They can be used to create a pattern on the egg piece, gluing each spiral in the right place.
• Such a handicraft looks original and unusual.

Modelling with clay

Every child loves to take a material that is easy to mold. Children especially like making different figures out of plasticine, which comes in different colors and even smells. The material is safe for children, the main thing is to wash their hands after work.

Postcard for March 8

You can make a vase or a mug filled with flowers from plasticine on a white sheet. To do this:

• on a white sheet of cardboard draw in a vase or mug;
• roll thin plastique bundles of the color you like and press them onto the outline of the container;
• fill all the space on the sheet with pieces of plasticine;
• roll stems for flowers from green clay and attach them to the neck of the vase or mug;
• use red clay to make petals for the rose and join them to form a bud;
• glue the green base to the bottom of the bud;
• glue the rose to the twig;
• make small leaves from green plasticine and glue to the stem;
• the vase or mug can be decorated with ornaments.

Postcard for March 8 is ready.

Wreath of flowers

• Cut out a square from white cardboard and draw a circle on it with a pencil.
• Use green plasticine to make wreath strings and place them in a circle on the sheet.
• Make petals of different sizes from colored plasticine and assemble flowers.
• Attach large-sized flowers in the center of the wreath, and small flowers along the edges together with leaves.
• In the middle of flowers you can insert decorative beads.

Tulip .

The flower can be attached to a piece of cardboard or a sour cream lid. Making a tulip is very simple. To make it you need:

• make a stem of green plasticine;
• Make petals like a real tulip, and assemble the bud;
• make elongated leaves from green plasticine, like those of a real flower;
• glue the background on the sour cream lid or make it out of blue plasticine;
• attach the assembled tulip.

Butterfly

• Make a torso in the form of an elongated sausage, where on one edge will be attached a round head with tendrils.
• Let's start modeling the wings. They should be made of white plasticine, but it is decorated with colorful specks.
• Attach the wings to the body.
• The butterfly can be fixed on a piece of cardboard or make a podium for it.

Spring crafts for children from cardboard

This paper material is versatile. It makes compositions in applications and can be used to make a variety of figures and objects.

It is much stronger than colored paper and also comes in different colors.

Parts are cut from cardboard according to a template placed on the sheet with scissors for paper. Glued items with PVA glue.

Bouquet of flowers

• From colored double-sided cardboard cut flower petals on templates.
• From the green cardboard glue a tube in the form of a stem.
• Glue the leaves to the stem, which are cut from green double-sided cardboard. Leaves are bent in the middle and at the base after the glue dries.
• The collected flowers are glued to the stem. They can be multi-colored, then the bouquet will be colorful and bright.

You can glue a vase for cardboard flowers from cardboard.

Easter basket

The bright holiday of Easter gives not only a good mood, but also many ideas for crafts. From cardboard you can make an Easter basket:

• To do this, you need to cut out on a template reamer box, if the basket will be rectangular, and if round, you need to cut out a square and roll it up with a tube, gluing the edges.
• The bottom is made from a circle, which is cut out 1 cm larger than the bottom of the cylinder for the bends.
• Bends are glued inside the form.
• It is necessary to cut out a handle for the basket and glue it to the opposite sides of the basket.
• Decorate the finished basket with cut out of colored cardboard eggs and flowers.
• Glue lace around the edge of the basket.

Spring figures of salt dough

Not only plasticine, but also salt dough is suitable for molding figures and compositions. It can be used to make a variety of animals and birds that arrive in the spring to bring nature to life.

If the composition of plasticine includes chemical elements, salt dough is completely safe for children's hands. When the figures are molded from dough, you need to give it to dry out, and then dissolve it with felt-tip pens or paints. Ideas for modeling a lot. You can mold:

• penguin;
• seagull;
• swan;
• starling;
• A hedgehog waking up after hibernation;
• a bear or a squirrel.

Flowers are molded out of salt dough and make entire meadows of colorful flowers. The main thing to show imagination, and then the handicraft will not only decorate the room or wall, but also to remind of the time spent with a child in a creative exercise.

Important! Let children show their imagination when creating crafts, because little dreamers see the world in their own way, and sometimes it is much more colorful and fabulous than the world of adults. And parents or caregivers must make sure that the child is not hurt when working with scissors.

Photos of themed spring crafts