Application is one of the simplest and most interesting types of creativity. Cut out figures, images or patterns are glued to the base-background. The elements to be glued can be made of any material: colored paper, leaves, seeds, grass, fabric.
Using this technique, both a child and an adult can create a beautiful and interesting craft. The finished work can become a worthy exhibit of a school exhibition, a gif.webpt to a loved one, or a memorable decoration at home.
It is very easy to create such crafts, but if you put in a little more effort, you will get a small work of art. This article provides step-by-step instructions on how to make a mushroom applique in two ways. The first one is very fast and simple. The second will take a little more time and resources.
The first way
- You will need:
- thick cardboard (A4 format is suitable, although you can choose any size)
- colored paper (brown, white, green, orange or yellow)
- scissors
- glue
- simple pencil
- old newspaper
- an apron or clothes that you don't mind getting dirty (optional)
Workplace preparation
To make the craft even and neat, you need enough free space to comfortably sit and place everything you need. A writing or dining table works best.
Further:
- cover it with old newspaper so that drops of glue do not spoil the surface
- lay out materials for work
- adjust lighting. Turn on overhead light or desk lamp
- put on an apron
- sit comfortably
Background preparation
The next step is to prepare the background. To do this, you should:
- take cardboard
- take orange or yellow paper and cut it to fit a cardboard sheet (This color will remind you of the bright colors of an autumn day, when all nature blazes with red-yellow leaves and grass.)
- stick her cardboard
- smooth the surface gently to eliminate air bubbles under the paper
Manufacturing of parts
While the background of the future application is drying, the components of the future mushrooms should be prepared:
- on a sheet of white paper, on the reverse side, draw with a simple pencil mushroom legs: an elongated oval and an "egg" (if you take the A4 format, then the approximate height of the oval is 14-15 cm, eggs 8-9 cm or make as desired) on a sheet of brown paper , on the back side, draw 2 semicircles - hats: one larger for the oval leg, the other smaller. (Approximate dimensions:
- a) length 10 cm, height 4.5-5 cm;
- b) length - 7 cm, height - 3.5 cm)
If the background is yellow, then the mushroom caps can be made multi-colored: brown and orange on a sheet of yellow paper, draw 3-4 small woody leaves.
They can all be made in a classical form, or 1-2 leaves can be made maple (Depending on the background, the color of the leaves should be changed. If it is orange, then the leaves will be yellow, if yellow - orange)
on green paper, outline a strip about 17 cm long and about 3-4 cm high.
Cut a strip of green paper along the contour of the workpiece with scissors on top, imitating blades of grass. But do not completely cut out of white paper, cut out 2 small ovals - glare of light on the hats (approximately 2 and 1 cm in length)
Step-by-step instructions for creating a mushroom applique
Take the cut out parts and without greasing with glue, put them in the middle of the cardboard background sheet:
- initially we place the “legs”: a large oval and “egg” to the right;
- put two semicircles on them, so that each one covers the upper quarter of the leg: a large semicircle on an oval, a small one on an "egg";
- put cut-out white oval-highlights on the upper right part of each hat;
- on the lower part of the legs, place the “grass” so that the impression is created that the mushrooms are in it;
- Place 2-3 “woody leaves” at the top, in the free space of the background in different places, so that the impression is created that they are circling in the air;
- put the last “leaf” on the top of the cap of one of the mushrooms, so that it looks like the leaf of the tree is lying on the mushroom. In order not to forget the location of the parts on the sheet before gluing, you can make small marks with a pencil.
- Place cut-out parts aside. Lubricating one by one with a small amount of glue, in the same order in which the composition was laid out, stick them on the background.
- Let the glue dry
The application is ready!
Such a master class is good for beginners and small children. If a person already has experience and an idea of this type of creativity, if desired, you can spend a little more time and effort, but make a volumetric application, in fact, a 3D picture.
Such work will stand out for its uniqueness against the background of the rest and will attract the eye.
Method two
Attention! Perhaps this instruction will be somewhat complicated for children and will require the help of adults.
Preparing the workplace, preparing the background - all these actions are similar to the previous instructions. No further action is required. We repeat the steps from the first method. You just need to choose a background color.
Manufacturing of parts
As such, there will be no new parts. However, their number will change.
- On the back of sheets of colored paper, outline with a simple pencil and cut out:
- white: mushroom legs. "Oval" - 5 pcs. "Egg" - 5 pcs.
- brown or orange: mushroom caps. Two semicircles. Large - 5 pcs., Smaller - 5 pcs.
- If the background is yellow, then the mushroom caps can be made multi-colored: brown and orange
green color: grass yellow or orange color (depending on the background): woody leaves of various shapes 3-4 pcs.- white color: 2 small ovals - glare of light on the hats
- Further, the components of the mushrooms need to be given volume.
Legs: Take 1 piece of "Oval" and "Egg". Without cutting, divide these elements from top to bottom into two equal halves and easily outline the center line with a pencil. Set aside. The remaining 4 "ovals and" eggs ", mark also and bend along the center line. - Take one of the bent ovals, carefully run the glue along the fold from the back side (fold edge) and insert into the fold line, into the other bent oval. These elements should be glued, only along the fold line. The third "oval" is also smeared with glue along the fold edge and inserted into the second, already connected to the first. Further, the fourth is inserted into it.
- All 4 bent ovals are connected to each other only along the fold line and resemble the open pages of a book.
- Connected and bent ovals, with a fold angle, stick to the center line of the very first, not bent oval.
- Keep the fold angle of the 4 ovals glued exactly to the center line of the first element.
- After, unbend the halves of the bent elements so as to create volume. The finished part will resemble a lying book, the central pages of which are at different distances from the table and create a semicircle when viewed in profile.
- Perform all the same operations with the “egg” element.
With mushroom caps (large and small semicircles), do the same manipulations (5 identical elements for each cap.)
- The first will always be even. Do not bend it.
- Only on it, mark the vertical center with a pencil.
- The rest are bent, glued together along the center line of the fold, glued with the edge of the fold to the center line of the first non-bent element.
- The layers of the top 4 elements are opened in a semicircle.
Cut off the upper quarter of the mushroom legs along with all layers.
Creating a composition
As in the previous version, without smearing with glue, lay out the elements on the background-base in order to estimate the location and general view:
- Take into account that this time, the hats are not superimposed on the legs from above, but are fitted with the edges one to the other.
- If the preliminary composition is satisfactory, put the cut out elements aside.
- Before you start gluing, do not wrap the grass “bristle” tightly around the pencil, and hold it for 20-40 seconds so that it acquires a slight bend.
- Do the same with woody leaves.
- Proceed with gluing. Start by forming mushrooms. (do not forget! Hats do not stick ON the legs)
- The grass is glued only with a solid, not cut base. The blades of grass are not smeared with glue. Due to the bending, they will imitate real grass and go beyond the general canvas.
Put 1-2 dots with glue on woody leaves and place on a free background, and a mushroom cap. Due to the bending and small area of the glue surface, the leaves will rise above the base background and create volume.
Having learned how to make the application "mushrooms" in this way, a person significantly increases his level of skill not only in this technique. The ability to make volumetric figures out of paper or cardboard will always be relevant and will come in handy in the manufacture of Christmas tree decorations, souvenirs, models, interior decorations and much more.
This article will be useful for both toddlers and adults, including teachers. With its help, you can conduct a needlework lesson for children in a kindergarten or school, teach a child to create beautiful works, along the way developing fine motor skills, independently master this technique or recall previous skills.
Photo applique mushrooms
