Children develop incredibly quickly, they study the world around them, so it is important to find a pastime for a child that will attract all his attention and help him acquire some useful skills. Needlework is great for the role of such an occupation.
In this article, you will find out what interesting crafts for children can be made, and photos of such crafts for grade 2 children will help you understand better.
What does a child need to work?
To work with your own hands, a high-quality selection of material and tools is extremely necessary. It will be much easier for a second grader to do crafts if the tools are convenient and the material is available.
When holding the instrument in hand, your child should feel comfortable and confident. We suggest you rely on this list:
- Scissors. This is a very important tool for work, and in order for your child to avoid injury, buy scissors for him with rounded edges.If your child is left-handed, be sure to purchase special scissors for a left-handed person: then the child can work on the craft with comfort.
- Ruler. We advise you to purchase wooden rulers, because they do not slip and are safe for a child, and also wooden rulers do not break, like plastic ones, into many small fragments.
- Pencils, markers, paints. Any paints that have a quality certificate are suitable for coloring your work.
- Plasticine. Do not skimp on this material! Buy your child a large pack containing several colors, because from this material a child can create beautiful crafts with his own hands, even to school!
- Cardboard and paper. It will be more pleasant for a child to make paper crafts if he has a large selection of colors.
- Glue. PVA or glue sticks will do.
Paper crafts
In general, waste paper is an excellent material, the technologies of crafts from which are very diverse. Now you will find out what paper crafts can be made with templates.
Applications
Children from an early age are taught to do two-dimensional applications, and older children can already try to do voluminous work.
Balloon
From double-sided colored paper, you can make bright and beautiful balloons that will soar between snow-white clouds. This is a paper craft with a template, so you need to cut out:
- Five ball-shaped blanks;
- One blank in the form of a basket;
- Six blanks in the form of clouds (they must be completely symmetrical).
Work progress:
- The blanks for the ball itself must be folded in half;
- Glue one side to the cardboard, on which the whole craft will hold, and leave the other side free;
- Do the same with the second half of the ball.
- Attach a new part to the free half of your workpiece, and with all the rest.
Clouds should be made using the same technique. After you are done with them, you can glue the basket to the ball and paint in small details.
Hare-palm
If your child wants to make a craft very quickly, then we are in a hurry to share the steps for creating such a simple craft. And to create it you will need:
- White paper;
- Pencil;
- Scissors;
- Glue.
Stages of work for creating crafts:
- Draw a pencil around the palm.
- Carefully cut along the contour.
- Cut off the middle finger, bend the little finger and thumb.
- Here you will get a bunny, which only needs to draw a muzzle
Origami
Crafts from colored paper can be made using the origami technique.Such crafts are not only beautiful and voluminous, but they help to concentrate on the process, learn perseverance, and help to distract from unpleasant thoughts.
Even origami, due to its complexity, will help the child develop fine motor skills, and she, in turn, develops the child's intelligence.
We advise you to start with something simple, such as a crane. Be sure to tell your child that there was a Japanese woman named Sasaki, who believed that by making 1000 cranes her illness would go away.
Unfortunately, the girl and her entire family did not have enough strength; little Sasaki died. Now such cranes are made all over the world, believing that they bring good luck.
Here are some more origami craft ideas:
- Butterfly;
- Ship;
- Hare;
- Dog;
- Heart-shaped bookmark;
Molding
Working with his hands, kneading plasticine in his hands, the child develops motor skills. Allow your child to express their imagination on the workflow, so the child can create very beautiful works.
Give the child some colors and suggest the following to be sculpted:
- A family of snails;
- Aquarium with fish;
- Flowers;
- A frog in a swamp;
- Butterfly;
- Characters from your favorite cartoons or games;
- Your family.
- Yarn
Thread crafts are easy to make even for children who go to elementary school. Many children's works are created from ordinary yarn.
Yarn sheep
For her you need:
- Cardboard;
- Pencil or felt-tip pen;
- White yarn;
- Black yarn;
- 2 dark beads;
- PVA glue;
- Scissors.
The sequence of actions for creating a sheep:
- Sketch the outline of the sheep on the cardboard. It is better to draw a larger lamb, so it will be easier to make it.
- Cut the yarn into pieces of 3-7 cm.
- Glue the lamb to the contour with threads twisted into a horizontal spiral.
- Make the nose, ears and hooves from black yarn.
- Glue the beads in place of the eyes.
Balls of thread
A child can make a very beautiful craft from a balloon and thick threads, and such a craft can decorate a room. And from such balls you can make adorable snowmen, Christmas decorations and everything that you can think of.
To create such a wonderful craft, you will need:
- Balloon;
- Thick threads of any color;
- A lot of PVA glue.
Sequencing:
- Inflate the balloon to the required size. We advise you to inflate not very large for a start.
- Soak the threads in the glue.
- Wrap the ball with sticky threads without leaving a lot of empty space.
- Wait more than a day.
- Carefully separate the threads from the ball, deflate the base.
- Now you can decorate the ball the way you want.
Photo crafts for grade 2 school
