Application is a creative process during which the child develops not only hand motor skills, but also develops the child's creative side. Oddly enough, this type of creativity has an age qualification.
Applications are made both at the age of 3 and at the age of 15. Applique is not just gluing to paper. The applique can be supplemented with fabric, beads, rhinestones, foil, leaves, natural colors.
One of the first types of applique work is considered to be the creation of animals from geometric shapes. These are the first lessons taught in kindergarten.
What does the application teach children
Everything that a child does on his own has a positive effect on him. The applique from the figures also carries many useful things for the child.
The list of advantages in the lesson of the application:
- The child becomes more patient, more accurate and diligent,
- Get acquainted with the appearance of the figures and their correct name,
- Expands the child's horizons and vocabulary,
- Fine motor skills develop,
- Intelligence and ingenuity develops,
- Disciplines the child
- Training in working with different materials and tools.
Application greatly affects the neatness of the child. He learns to neatly cut objects, then glue them neatly. It is necessary to start working with a child from an early age and it is always necessary to start with a simple one and move on to more and more complex ones.
Have patience, if something does not work out for your child, do not swear, but once again show how to cut or glue correctly. Having made the first applications together, you will also teach your child to work in a team, share tasks.
Before starting the application, it is worth preparing the place. The most important is the lighting of the workplace and a comfortable chair for the child. Then you should introduce your child to simple geometric shapes. They should be drawn in advance on paper and stipulate which figure looks like which part of the body or object.
Step-by-step preparation of the workplace:
- The surface on which you are going to create must be covered with a monochromatic oilcloth, so that the child will see all the figures and accessories.
- Remove all unnecessary and unnecessary, so as not to be distracted in the process,
- Prepare scissors, brushes and templates and sketches themselves,
- Choosing the basis of our application - it may not necessarily be paper, but also cardboard, plywood or wood,
- Choosing glue (liquid or pencil),
- Let's prepare the paper in bright colors.
Make sure your child learns all the actions correctly. Then entrust him to make the applique on his own. Even if it doesn't work out perfectly, do not forget to praise the young creator.
Applications are divided into several types depending on the image: cars, people, animals, insects, houses. Try to change focus. By trying several options, you can highlight what your child likes to do best.
Parents need to prepare for a creative lesson in advance, and most importantly, approach it responsibly. The application can be performed in several ways:
- An already drawn picture is cut into pieces and, according to the principle of a puzzle, is transferred to another sheet,
- Or, already on the drawn picture, fill in the voids with geometric shapes. The first option is suitable for kids, but the second is for older children, because there is already a creative approach to filling, creating your own combination of colors.
The most important goal of creating an application is to develop logical thinking in a child.
After your child has mastered the applique with both shapes and drawings and everything else, you can proceed to more complex experiments - volumetric appliqués. Prepare geometric shapes from different materials, from different types of paper - all this will achieve a 3D effect. When gluing shapes, keep in mind that not all materials adhere well to the glue.
And finally, you can move on to the stage of making volumetric crafts from geometric shapes. This is not only interesting, but also helps the child to imagine the projections of these figures in his head and to embody them in reality.
A drawing or project of a volumetric figure can be viewed in a photo on the Internet. You can also see photos of handicrafts from figures on the Internet. Parents are not always creative and can independently come up with a picture with geometric shapes, and even three-dimensional ones.
Craft from volumetric figures - such an assignment can be brought home by a primary school student. Parents who have never done this, can immediately go to the Internet and drive into the line "how to make a craft from geometric shapes."
- Moms and dads, who were excellent in geometry at school, will be good helpers in drawing the template. But, and if everything is forgotten, you just need to download and print the desired template. Printed, cut, glued and now you can create masterpieces.
- The very creation of volumetric figures is a very painstaking work, here not only knowledge of geometry is needed, but also the basics of drawing. Being engaged in the creation of such crafts at a young age will lead to the fact that your child will not be intimidated when meeting a new object. He will already have his own idea of the figures.
A volumetric craft of geometric shapes - this can be said to model an object on an approximate scale. As not strange, the early development of a child affects not only further education, but also the realization of a person in society. Such children do not think in a standard way and this helps them study well and find ways out of different situations.
Crafts from geometric shapes for kids may seem daunting, but it's just worth trying. After all, you can independently make a cube and play a board game. Self-crafted items look very special.
After you and your child have learned how to draw models on their own, cut them and glue them, you can start creating something bigger. For example, you can make fake animals from simple geometric shapes.
In this case, it is worth considering the proportion. So that you do not get the nose (cone) of the snowman ball the same as the size of the head (ball). If you do not observe the dimensions, then this is no longer an animal, but some kind of monster.
Photo of crafts from figures
