Needlework and creativity lessons for children begin to be held in kindergarten. This promotes the development of fine motor skills, fosters a sense of taste in children, makes imagination work.
But not only creativity lessons in kindergarten are important, but also homework with parents. You can start by making an applique, for example, trying to make fruit.
In addition, you will need very few tools and materials to make an applique: just colored paper, scissors and glue in most cases.
fruit plate
Step-by-step instructions on how to make an applique from fruits will become a reliable guide in work for parents who have not sat down to work for a long time.
Moreover, such a craft does not take much time and is quite simple, so you can do it even with small children.
So, for a fruit plate you will need:
- Colored paper of those shades, which fruits will lie on the plate;
- Cardboard base or disposable plate;
- Glue;
- Scissors.
Operating instructions:
- Fruits are cut out of the cardboard base according to the pattern. The easiest to make are pear, plum, apple and a bunch of grapes;
- For each fruit, you need to cut 4 identical parts;
- Each piece is folded in half, it turns out that each fruit consists of 4 parts;
- You need to glue the parts together so that every second half of the part remains free;
- It turned out four voluminous fruits that need to be put on a plate, fixing them with glue;
- This is not the case in the master class for beginners, but you can additionally cut out leaves for fruits from green cardboard and also glue them on a plate.
Fruit in a box
Instructions for children on how to make an applique from fruits may vary depending on the desires of those who are engaged in the craft.
For example, when creating this craft, you can try to make two options - with or without a cheerful fruit face.
The following materials will be required:
- Glue;
- Scissors;
- Colored paper;
- A small piece of regular craft paper, if not available, corrugated cardboard or plain colored paper will do.
Operating instructions:
- Two silhouettes of a fruit, for example, an apple and an orange, are cut out by stencil or immediately drawn by hand;
- Three long strips are cut out of gray paper to glue the box out of them;
- In the first version with funny faces, you need to add arms and legs, as well as eyes, a mouth and a nose. You can also draw them;
- Further, strips for the box are glued down onto the cardboard base;
- A little behind from the box, you need to glue future fruits;
- If this is a "lively" option, then you need to glue the face and handles with legs. You can just draw them;
- The first option looks more interesting and more fun than just fruit in a box.
Bulky apple
With the help of this craft, we will learn how to make an applique of fruits, not only in the form of an apple, but also of another fruit, because an apple can be replaced here with any other fruit.
The following materials will be required:
- Colored paper;
- Cardboard sheet;
- Scissors;
- Glue.
Operating instructions:
- Draw a stencil of an apple so that you get its half;
- Cut out two parts of such a product on a stencil;
- Now each part needs to be glued to one side of the cardboard. It turns out that the apple consists of four parts, just like in the first craft instructions;
- You can add a twig with leaves at the top;
- In the photo of the fruit applique, you can see that you can diversify such a craft by sticking a core with seeds.The core should be cut out of white paper, and the bones can be drawn with a regular black marker.
Branch of grapes
The creation of such a craft will be interesting for a child, because each berry on a bunch of grapes must be cut and glued separately.
This is a rather painstaking process, but the result will be a beautiful volumetric craft.
The following materials will be required:
- Green double-sided colored paper;
- White sheet of cardboard;
- Paints with a brush or colored pencils.
Operating instructions:
- Many small strips need to be cut out of green paper;
- Each needs to be rolled into a ring and the end is glued;
- Draw a vine on a piece of paper, draw on leaves;
- Now all that remains is to "collect" a bunch of grapes by gluing paper rings. You need to start from the top, gradually narrowing the bunch, like a real fruit.
A pineapple
A pineapple craft can be created in the same way as a grape branch.
- You can slightly change the appearance of the craft by cutting out the cardboard base in the shape of a fruit, and not just sticking rings on the sheet.
- In this case, a yellow oval is cut out of thick paper, and many stripes are cut out of an ordinary colored double-sided one and rings are glued from them as well.
- You need to fill all the free space on the form.
- Then a green tail is glued on top, like a real fruit.
Fruit vase
The technique for creating this craft is already familiar from previous master classes.
The following materials will be required:
- A sheet of cardboard for the base of the craft;
- Colored paper;
- Glue;
- Scissors;
- Paints or colored pencils.
Operating instructions:
- First you need to cut out the basket itself. It can be made from half an oval;
- Now you need to cut fruit out of colored paper. For each, 2 parts are also made, gluing them so that you get 4 parts of each;
- You can glue an apple, pear, plum, strawberry and grapes;
- Now you need to put the fruits in the basket so that they look out of it;
- You can draw a beautiful pattern on the basket, decorate it with some elements.
Strawberry berry
The technique for creating this sweet berry is similar to the previous ones. The following materials will be required:
- A sheet of cardboard for the base;
- Glue;
- Scissors;
- Black felt-tip pen;
- Red paper.
Operating instructions:
- Two identical parts need to be cut out of red paper. You can take an elongated heart as a basis;
- Each part must be folded and one of the halves must be glued onto a sheet of cardboard;
- It should turn out that the berry consists of 4 parts;
- Now you need to cut a leaf with a stem for a berry out of green cardboard and stick it on the top;
- It remains only to draw the seeds with a dark marker on the pulp of the berry. The craft is finished.
Photo applique fruits
