Educators often ask to bring something to the kindergarten craft exhibition. Not all parents love this. In fact, it’s in vain, because it’s definitely not worth being afraid of.
For crafts, you can choose a lot of interesting materials, and joint work will take the child and parent, developing fine motor skills in the baby at the same time.
What is suitable for crafts
DIY kindergarten crafts can be made even from those materials that any family has. It is not at all necessary to go and buy something extra, if you can show imagination and make it out of scrap materials.
So, in work you can use:
- Groats or pasta - some of this will definitely be found in the hostess's closet. Maybe there are even some expired products that you will definitely not mind putting into work;
- Vegetables and fruits - which are usually a lot in the season, especially if you have your own plot;
- Paper and cardboard are office supplies that are in almost any home or that you can buy because they will come in handy more than once;
- Cotton pads, paper napkins - which are not needed so much, but they are definitely in every family in small quantities;
- Remains of thread, fabric, yarn. If this is not the case, you can use some old things and cut or dissolve them;
- Natural materials that can be collected in the warm season even in the city park;
- Stationery for drawing - pencils, felt-tip pens or paints, which should be in every home where there are children.
Of course, auxiliary items, such as glue, tape and scissors, can also be useful for creating crafts.
Paper crafts
If you are thinking how to make a craft for kindergarten, but at the same time you need to spend a minimum of time and materials on it, you can stop at paper products.
There are several options for using this material:
- A simple postcard with an applique, where figures cut out of paper are glued. It can be either a single sheet with front and back sides, or a postcard that folds in half.
- You can glue the applique, and draw some of the elements. You just need to choose the right plot. For example, if this is a winter craft for a kindergarten, then Santa Claus can be chosen as the main character;
- If the house has colored cardboard, you can take it as a basis, if not, an ordinary unnecessary box will do. The idea of the craft is to cut out a three-dimensional figure, for example, an animal. It remains only to glue or paint on the necessary details of the face, features of the coat. If a cardboard box was taken as a basis, then it needs to be painted;
- You can also use what is usually thrown away as paper material. These are paper trays for candy or cupcakes. They make wonderful volumetric applications of animals.
Crafts from cotton swabs
In the photo of crafts in kindergarten, you can see how imagination works in the manufacture of such products. They are very good for winter crafts. They will make a great house and a tree under the snow.
Whole sticks are needed to form a house, and for a tree you can cut them to form branches. You can use extra paper to cut the door and window out of it.
Toilet rolls
From this seemingly junk material, you can make very simple and interesting crafts on different topics.
The sleeve can serve as both a body for an animal and a base for a rocket, for example.It is also well suited for a tree trunk, you can even build a whole forest out of them.
Bunny from the sleeve:
- You need to take two sleeves, one will be the body, and from the second cut the ears;
- The body sleeve needs to be painted in any color you want;
- Ears are cut from the second sleeve, two small stripes-circles;
- Now you need to glue the ears to the body, and then draw the muzzle.
Seeds applique
From simple materials, such as cereals or seeds, you can make an interesting goose applique:
- Thick cardboard is taken as a basis. It can be either white or colored;
- Then on the cardboard you need to draw the outline of the future craft. You can draw it yourself or take a ready-made template;
- The feet and wrench will be made from cornflakes. To do this, you need to pre-spread them with glue on the base, and then pour the cereals. Wait until the glue dries, and then remove the excess;
- The torso and chest will be made from seeds. The principle of gluing is the same: lubricate the entire surface within the contour and pour in the material, leaving as few gaps as possible between the seeds;
- The head and neck can be made of cotton wool, so the craft will turn out more interesting. If there is no cotton, you can replace it with cotton pads. If you don't feel like it, you can also use seeds;
- The eyes are drawn or glued.
Vase of flowers made of thread
It is quite simple to do and at the same time, a vase made of threads looks unusual.
- You need to take cuttings of threads of different colors and cardboard.
- On a cardboard basis, you can not draw a silhouette, sticking threads immediately without preparation, because the craft is quite simple.
- So, the base of the vase should be wider than the neck.
- You can glue the thread in a spiral until you get a fairly large oval.
- Then you should start forming the neck. Here you can also stick the threads in a spiral or just a snake. The neck should be smaller than the base.
- Now you need to take green threads - these will be the stems of flowers.
- And already at the end of the stem, form flower buds, in the same way gluing the thread in a spiral, only now in the form of a circle.
Pine cones
Buds are also one of the most readily available materials. They can be found in a park, forest, or even in a summer cottage. The main thing is to be smart and come up with what you can build from them.
For example, cones can make a cute teddy bear. The buds should be intact, and their petals should not be broken off. The body of several cones is glued in stages, then the head is assembled in the same way, arms and legs are glued.
You can simply make a paper base for the torso and head, and only then glue them over with natural material. It remains only to attach the eyes, nose and mouth, finishing the craft with the design of the muzzle.
Photo of crafts for kindergarten
