It is almost impossible to understand exactly how crafts are made with your own hands, if you do not illustrate the process with good photographs. Having looked at the photo of even complex crafts and carefully reading the instructions, you can make a beautiful and unique thing.
As they say, it is not the gods who burn the pots. You need to stock up on hard work and patience, and, most importantly, a strong desire, and it will become clear that in the manufacture of non-standard, and sometimes even complex crafts with your own hands, nothing is impossible. And, of course, we need the appropriate tools and materials.
Often, even for complex crafts, the simplest materials are used. For example, paper. If you fold the colored paper like an accordion, fasten the lower part with a thread and spread the upper part, you get an interesting fan. You can make tulips from newspaper by folding the newspaper in a certain way.
To make paper crafts, in addition to the paper itself, you need to have:
- Glue;
- Sharp scissors;
- Ruler;
- A simple pencil.
In addition to the pleasure obtained from creativity, children develop fine motor skills, their imagination is enriched, and the habit of work develops. Paper crafts can be done by both preschool and school children and adults. Joint creativity of parents and children brings hearts closer.
Origami
There is a huge, almost endless, number of options for simple and complex paper crafts.
For example, you can easily make a beautiful colorful garland out of colored paper for a birthday or a party.
You will need several sheets of different colors to taste, who makes the decoration (tissue paper can also be used), glue (if you have a glue gun, even better) and scissors.
Need to:
- Fold the sheet with an accordion lengthwise;
- Expand it and cut the paper into strips (each should be about two centimeters wide);
- Make a ring out of the strip and fix it with a drop of glue along the edge;
- Insert the next paper strip into the ring and also fasten it like a ring;
- Continue to the desired length, alternating colors to your liking;
- At the two ends of the garland, make a loop of thread or wire so that it can be attached in the right place;
- Wait for the glue to dry. The product is ready!
Plasticine products
As a rule, children love to sculpt something from plasticine. Somewhat more complex crafts made from airy plasticine. But if you help your child to start, and teach him how to properly store this plasticine, then everything should work out.
Air plasticine, if you work with it with dry hands and do not moisten the surface, does not stick anywhere and does not stain anything.
It is advisable to store it in a clean jar with a ground-in lid. Below is an instruction for a beautiful craft from air plasticine. It is a popular stress reliever toy.
They call her a slime. What you need:
- Air plasticine;
- Cosmetic sequins;
- Gelatin.
Better to work together. One crushes and kneads a mass of airy plasticine, slightly moistening the plasticine with water, while the other prepares gelatin at this time, in accordance with the instructions on the package.
- Cool gelatin to room temperature;
- Pour the prepared plasticine into the gelatin and mix with a wooden stick, and then with your hands;
- Make grooves in the resulting mass and add sparkles.
The result is a beautiful mass that you can knead in your hands for relaxation. This slime will last about two weeks.
Complex crafts for children
Crafts for children, including complex ones, are best done with the child.Creativity and joint activities create good family relationships.
- You can, for example, make pasta appliques.
- You can buy colored pasta, you can paint them yourself with food dyes or gouache.
- It is good to make pasta, for example a snowflake. To do this, you must first draw a diagram of the future product on paper.
- If the child has already reached school age, you can talk with him about what symmetry is, what types of symmetry are, and give an example of a snowflake.
- On a plastic plate, you need to arrange the pasta according to the drawn pattern and fasten them together, starting from the middle, with PVA glue.
- Then you can paint them with a brush or spray, decorate with sparkles and tinsel.
- Then thread a string or a short ribbon into the gaps between the pasta and the cute toy is ready.
Origami
Origami is, in simple terms, paper crafts. Origami originated in Japan many hundreds of years ago. By folding paper in a special way, you can make many interesting crafts and toys.
All you need is paper, including colored paper, scissors, glue, a ruler and a pencil. It is better not to do complex origami crafts at the beginning of training. Here is a diagram of a relatively simple paper craft. Children like this flower very much.
How can this be done?
- Fold a square sheet diagonally so that you get two triangles;
- Each of the corners must be bent to the middle and up;
- First, the right corner is bent, then the left;
- The tulip is ready.
Master class of complex crafts
When you already have some skill in making crafts, you can move on to more complex ones. Many master classes for complex crafts are located on sites on the Internet. For example, here's how to make a small animal out of old socks that are torn or become small, but it's a pity to throw it away:
- The lower part of the toe is cut off (slightly above the heel) and filled with cotton wool or, even better, fluff;
- Sew up the top and get a pear;
- Tighten with a thread approximately in the middle. But. So that the bottom is slightly larger than the top;
- Now there is room for imagination. You can use buttons, beads, threads and create an animal, toy or cartoon character.
The main thing is to come up with in advance who exactly you want to create and pick up the disparate elements so that they make up the composition needed to create the image.
There are many craft ideas that can be made from a wide variety of materials at hand. Just let your imagination run wild!
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