Every child, along with physiological development, must develop creatively. Making educational crafts for children can help him in this.
These cute souvenirs created by the hands of a child can not only broaden his horizons and enrich his imagination and thinking, but also instill in him perseverance, hard work and dedication.
Why does a child need crafts?
For children 4 years old, the process of creating crafts with their own hands is always interesting and informative. It helps to strengthen the baby's self-confidence, develops fine motor skills of the fingers, and is an excellent way of learning.
By diversifying the creative activities carried out with a four-year-old child and gradually adding new elements to them, with him you can study the properties of natural materials, paper, fabric and understand the differences between them. In addition, in this kind of activity, the baby will learn how to handle glue, scissors and some other stationery.
What materials can be used for crafts?
Finding the materials necessary for making children's crafts will not be difficult. They can easily be purchased at any office supply store, or found at home or on the street.
The most commonly used ones are:
- Stationery - plasticine, colored paper, felt, cardboard, etc.;
- Natural materials - flowers, leaves, cones, pebbles, tree twigs;
- Some types of products - cereals, pasta, nuts, coffee beans, vegetables, fruits;
- Household items - plastic bottles, toothpicks, buttons, cotton pads and sticks, etc.
From all of the above, you can come up with an unlimited number of easy crafts for children that they can handle on their own.
Molding
Children like this type of creativity very much. Plasticine is a plastic, easily shape-changing material that will not only allow you to create a wide variety of crafts, but will also help:
- Develop attention to small details;
- Instill patience and hard work;
- Form reverse thinking;
- Develop fine motor skills.
To master the technique of making crafts from plasticine with a child of 4 years old, you should start with the simplest elements - a ball, sausage, pancake, etc. and only then proceed to create more complex parts - vegetables, the sun, simple animals, etc.
Origami
They are as loved by children as plasticine ones. At the same time, this type of creativity additionally requires the child to be able to handle scissors and glue.
The main varieties of paper crafts for children 4 years old, which they can do with their own hands, include applications, origami and voluminous crafts.
Applications
Execute using one paper or combining it with other auxiliary materials. Standard colored paper, which is easy to bend and cut with scissors, and cardboard, which is more difficult to handle, are suitable for applique work.
You can also try working with decorative paper napkins. Unusual appliqués are made from small pieces of paper made by hand, without the use of scissors.
Bulk crafts
They are obtained by pasting a base roller, which is perfect for a toilet paper sleeve. Such a roller, by the way, can be glued on your own using a sheet of ordinary cardboard.
Gluing the resulting base the missing elements:
- Paws,
- Heads,
- Pens,
- Legs, etc., the child will be able to make many interesting figures of animals and fairy-tale characters.
Another option for voluminous crafts are accordion toys.
- To create them, the baby will need to learn how to bend a sheet of paper, thereby developing fine motor skills of the hands.
- To the resulting accordion, for example, you can glue the muzzles, paws and tails, thereby obtaining funny figures of various animals.
Origami
It is believed that making crafts by folding paper contributes to the development of the child's mathematical abilities, since this technique is based solely on the creation of geometric shapes. In addition, this kind of activity can develop a child's spatial thinking and ingenuity.
It is recommended to start the study of this technique with paper from the basics - making a boat, an airplane, an envelope-muzzle, a frog, etc. Schemes and photos of ready-made crafts for children of 4 years old, made using the origami technique, can always be found on the Internet or developed independently.
Products from natural materials
They require preliminary collection and procurement of material - leaves of trees, flowers and their petals, twigs, beautiful pebbles, etc. Anything from which will do, subsequently, together with the children, it will be possible to create interesting and very original crafts of various subjects.
You can make something original from vegetables. A child of four is already able to cope with the manufacture of a duck or a hedgehog from potatoes or a boat from cabbage leaves, and if his parents come to help him, he may well be able to implement more complex ideas.
Using:
- Acorns,
- Cones
- Or nuts
With the addition of other natural materials, plasticine or paper to them, it will make it possible to make unusual figurines of birds and animals, which, among other things, can be painted.
Crafts from bulk food
Millet, peas, buckwheat, rice and pasta are suitable as material for them - they are most often used to create thematic paintings.
These materials are easily glued to paper and painted in various colors, which makes the painting even more realistic.
Crafts from other materials
- Plastic and cardboard containers. A plastic bottle is likely to be found in almost every home. It may well be used as a starting material for making crafts. Depending on the size, shape, and color of the bottle, there are many ways to use it, and by adding other materials, such as cardboard picnic plates or plastic cups, you can get a very unusual result. From this kind of material you can make: animals, birds, cars, boats and many other equally interesting crafts.
- Buttons of various shapes and sizes, yarn, braid and other accessories are used as an independent material for panels and appliques, or in combination with paper or plasticine for making various kinds of souvenirs.
Photo of crafts for children 4 years old
