Crafts in the preparatory group of a kindergarten are a very important component of creative work in this age period. The skills that will be necessary for successful schooling are being mastered. The already existing knowledge and skills are also being worked out.
Children learn to choose the materials they need for work, to select and combine colors, and to plan their work. Many unusual and original ideas for DIY crafts in the preparatory group are collected in this article.
Paper crafts
Paper is a very convenient material, working with which allows you to practice many important skills and gives a lot of room for the imagination of the child.
In order for the children to become more assiduous, as well as neater and more attentive, pay attention to paper crafts for work in the preparatory group.
Paper horse
In the photo of crafts in the preparatory group, you can see an interesting product - a horse made from a paper template.
For work, you will need double-sided brown cardboard, a black felt-tip pen, black double-sided paper, the presence of scissors, pencil glue and a simple pencil are also important for work.
Also, find a horse template online that you will use for your work.
Work process
- First of all, you will need a printed template, or simply sketch it on white paper. When you cut it out, you need to trace the details on the brown cardboard.
- Cut out the torso and a couple of halves that will act as the horse's head. Take a felt-tip pen and draw small details of the craft - ears, hooves, muzzle. Make folds along the dotted lines.
- Now glue the fragments of the torso part in the neck area, and then attach the head by gluing it to the torso. There is not enough ponytail and mane like a real horse - time to cut them out of paper.
- Draw three elements on colored paper - a tufted mane and a ponytail. Cut into narrow strips on them.
- Attach these details to your craft - place the mane on the back, the tuft twisted in a tube, place the horses on the head, and there will be a tail behind, which must first be folded in half.
Airplane on February 23
An interesting craft idea for February 23 for work in the preparatory group. Children can create this masterpiece from a matchbox, and for work you will need scissors, glue, a stationery button and double-sided colored cardboard.
Aircraft creation technique
- The first thing to start with is drawing and cutting out templates to work with.
- Airplane parts - the body, the size of which is twenty-nine by two centimeters.
- The two wings of the plane are twenty-two by four centimeters. The tail measures eight by two centimeters.
- The steering wheel directing the movement is eight by one and a half centimeters.
- Also five-centimeter wheels and four stars.
- You can pre-paint or wrap the matchbox with paper.
- To create a body, bend the part and glue it on both sides to the box. Glue future wings perpendicularly.
- In the area of the tail of the aircraft, pass the steering wheel and glue it.
- Take the steering wheel part and fold it into a triangle.
- Now you can glue it to the tail. Cut out a part for an airplane propeller (one blade or two) and attach it with a button to the airplane.
- It remains to glue the stars - at least on the wings, at least on the tail of the aircraft.
- The wheels can be pre-glued to cardboard strips with a curved end, with which the parts will be attached to the aircraft body.
Crafts for March 8
Tulips are very delicate and graceful flowers. And such crafts for March 8, made in the preparatory group, will be an ideal gif.webpt for mothers.
Such flowers can be folded into a bouquet or given one at a time - in any case, they will look very beautiful. Materials to prepare:
- Disposable plastic spoons,
- One flower will need four pieces,
- Scotch tape and colored corrugated paper,
- Shades should be green and red.
One flower needs up to one meter of each type of paper. Wrap the spoons with red paper, and wrap the handle of the spoon with green paper and, using tape, fasten. Attach the pieces of green paper cut out.
Beautiful flowers are ready, you can arrange them in the form of a bouquet in a basket.
Original flowers
A very original material for work is cotton swabs.
The process of making such children's crafts for the preparatory group develops fine motor skills and imagination.
The child learns to select materials for crafts that can be found in every home.
- Take two or three packs of cotton swabs.
- The base of the bud will be a foam ball; for decoration, prepare a gouache of delicate shades that are combined with each other.
- Dilute the paints in containers. A wood skewer will act as a stem.
- Sharpen the sticks by cutting them diagonally. Stick the sticks into the styrofoam ball with the sharp ends.
- After you have got a hedgehog from cotton swabs, prepare a solution with gouache in a container.
- Dip the workpiece into the solution, wait until the paint soaks the cotton part of each stick, holding it in the paint for about a second.
- Paint the skewer with green gouache - this will be the stem. Attach the stem to the bud.
- The beautiful flower is ready! You can arrange a whole bouquet in a vase or basket.
All these crafts will help children get ready for school, create many original and beautiful products that can be presented as a gif.webpt to parents or used as a decor item.
And most importantly, this is the development of skills, such as the selection of materials and shades for work, design, the ability to complete the work, accuracy and patience. As well as developing perseverance and training a good memory.
A variety of crafts of your children will delight you, and the children themselves will look at them with interest when they grow up, this will give great memories of creativity and small victories.
Photos of crafts in the preparatory group of the kindergarten
