Mushrooms occupy a special place among the representatives of wildlife. The variety of their species can be observed in various shapes and colors. Children need to be introduced to them in the process of making crafts, not only for general and aesthetic development, but also to teach them to distinguish edible from poisonous.
To do this, it is enough to choose one of the many attractive photos of the mushroom craft and start making the same product with your own hands.
The simplest paper craft
It will be interesting for young children to make a simple and cute paper fungus in the kindergarten. Such a product can be tied both to the summer season and to the autumn, if this condition is part of the homework.
In this case, you can use leaves of different colors, making out the composition. Bright, vibrant colors and green grass can be applied to a summer theme. For work, you will need the following materials:
- Scissors, pencil, paper glue (PVA) and a ruler.
- A piece of cardboard for the leg. If it does not match in color, then it can be painted or pasted over in the desired tone.
- Set of colored paper.
- The characteristic, beautiful leaf of an oak, maple or other tree can be harvested from nature and dried.
- If there is no prepared herbarium, then it can also be cut out of colored paper by reshooting a template from a book or from a monitor screen.
Progress:
- Using a ruler and a pencil, draw a rectangle for the leg on cardboard, and then cut it out and glue the short sides with PVA.
- Cut a circle out of brown, red or orange paper, and then draw a small segment on it, bounded by two radii.
- This is useful for creating a mushroom-themed convex hat that is glued to the stem.
- The distance between the sides of the segment should be small, no more than 1-2 cm, depending on the size of the product, so that a triangular cap does not turn out.
- A red paper hat can be pasted over with pieces of white paper, imitating a fly agaric.
- For a strip of grass, you need to measure out a smaller rectangle that will be lower in height than the leg and cut it out of green paper.
- The individual stems are obtained by cutting the strip from the top side.
- The bottom edge of the weed is glued to the base of the mushroom, and the entire composition is set on a sheet of wood that can be glued to an oval piece of cardboard base.
- A small leaf can also be attached to the mushroom cap.
Plasticine product
Plasticine for making DIY mushrooms is a convenient and plastic material.
- It is enough to roll the sausage from white or brown plasticine and give it the shape of a narrowing upward, as the leg can be considered ready.
- For the cap, a blank is made from a ball of purple, orange, brown or red, which then turns into a round cap of the type of mushroom that was conceived.
- From a thin strip of green plasticine, with the upper edge cut into a fringe, you can make grass attached to the bottom of the leg.
- An irregular cake is made from a piece of plasticine, to which one or more fungi are attached.
- Also, the whole composition is decorated with green or yellow leaves.
- On the inside of the hat, you can depict plates by making grooves with a toothpick.
Plasticine products using natural materials such as nut shells, acorns and chestnuts look interesting.
Mushrooms from scrap materials
Quickly and fun, you can make crafts for the garden mushrooms from small household items.
- You can use a cardboard roller left over from a roll of paper and a disposable plate.
- On a round plate, you need to cut a small segment to make the hat a little convex, and then glue it on the leg.
- The bottom can be painted brown and the hat red.
- Then circles of white cotton are glued to it and the fly agaric is ready. It can be attached to a wider stand for stability.
- For a decorative garland rope, on which drawings are hung in kindergarten for drying, you can make fungi from clothespins.
- To do this, small pieces of thick red fabric must be glued to those parts of the clothespins, which are taken in order to open them.
- White dots are made using sewn beads or buttons.
Applications made of products and other materials
In order to make a mushroom craft for children, you can use various materials from those that are in every home.
- You can paint a sheet of cardboard green and make a frame out of pasta.
- In the middle, place the mushrooms, the caps of which are made of buckwheat glued along the contour of the picture, and the legs are made of rice groats.
- After the glue has dried, the cereals can be left in their natural colors or painted in other colors.
- You can make interesting fishnet mushrooms from napkins or corrugated paper by gluing them to a thick sheet of base.
- Salted dough products may be quite strong and durable.
- There are several ways to make mushrooms from this attractive material.
- One of them is the manufacture of mushrooms on the basis, which can be used as a coil or a light bulb, since bulky products crack when dry.
- The light bulb should be covered with a layer of salted dough, and a cardboard hat should be put on its narrow part.
- In the lower part of the leg, you can press in strips of grass until it is dry. When the dough becomes dry, the craft should be colored.
Mushrooms from plaster solution
Older children can successfully make an amanita mushroom craft from plaster. A common technique for working with this material is casting into prepared molds.
- For the leg, you can cut the desired fragment from the middle of the plastic bottle, twist it into a cylinder and secure the shape with tape.
- The shape for the hat can be any suitable bowl or half of the ball.
- First, you need to pour the solution into the mold for the leg, and when it is ready, you can fill in the shape of the cap and immediately install the molded part into it.
- Thus, they will immediately be securely fastened.
- If you cover the mold for a hat with cling film, then on the surface you will get the original texture of a living mushroom.
- When the whole product hardens, it must be cleaned with fine sandpaper, and then painted in different colors.
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