Preschoolers and schoolchildren are often given a homework assignment - to do something with their own hands. Crafting a traffic light is a very original idea. There are many ways to create this masterpiece.
Children are given this job for a reason. Indeed, in the process of creating a traffic light, the child understands that one of the main components of the traffic rules.
Parents who will help make a traffic light with their own hands will find it very easy to explain to the kids the importance of these three colors during their work.
Paper applique
Everyone in the house has such material as paper. Therefore, making our Traffic Light will not be difficult.
What we need:
- Cardboard sheet
- Colored paper
- PVA glue
- Scissors
- Stationery knife
- Scotch
- Gouache
- Brushes
- Sippy glass and water
And so, let's get started:
- First, we need to take a sheet of cardboard, it should be rectangular.
- Let's dip a brush in water, and then in black paint and paint our cardboard.
- While the sheet dries, let's get down to colored paper. We need certain colors: red, yellow and green. It is these flowers that our craft consists of.
- We take scissors and cut out circles. In order for them to turn out even, you can use a compass or use improvised items.
- It can be a glass or a mug.
- You can give originality to our traffic light and make different shapes of cuts, so that you can then glue them onto our signal circles.
- They can be in the shape of hearts, or small strips with which you will decorate everything.
- So you can use glitter or eggshells. It all depends on your imagination and the imagination of your child. As shown below in the picture.
- In the meantime, the cardboard has dried and all our parts can be connected.
- You need to make marks on the cardboard in order to stick the circles with the same distance from each other.
- Then we glue the colored circles with glue and carefully glue them each in their place.
- At the very milestone is red, yellow in the middle, and green below. We wait. Let it dry. And now look what we got.
Plasticine traffic light
What child does not like to knead his hands with plasticine. But do not just knead, create something. In this case, we will make a traffic light. For this we need:
- Plasticine
- Chupa-chups stick
- Rod from the handle
Progress:
- First, we need to make the body of our assistant for road traffic.
- Take a piece of black plasticine and knead it well, give it the shape of a rectangle.
- Next, you will need to use plasticine in red, yellow and green. From these pieces you need to roll small circles.
- Then, taking them gently with your fingers, flatten them a little.
- And at the end we collect the traffic light craft. We glue the circles to our body.
- A traffic light, as everyone knows, is attached to a pole; as a pole, you can use a stick from caramel or a rod from a handle.
- The fake is ready.
Edible traffic light
Well, everything is very simple here. All children love sweets. And here, when making crafts, he not only can feast on, but will forever remember what role a traffic light plays in traffic.
- For the base, we need a waffle, or a cookie. Make a rectangular shape and fill it with chocolate.
- Then put red, yellow and green caramels. M & Ms can be used.
That's all! Looks very appetizing.
Traffic light from a plastic bottle
This fabulous option is very easy. We turn on the imagination. We will need:
- Plastic bottle
- Brushes and paints (preferably gouache)
- Colored paper
- PVA glue
- Scissors
Work progress:
- We choose a plastic bottle, it is better to take the one with a longer neck.
- We paint it in a neutral color (meaning not red, not yellow, not green). Let it dry.
- Next, we cut out mugs from colored paper for the traffic light itself and details for our fairy-tale character. These are eyes, mouth, nose, ears, hands.
- The bottle is dry. Gently glue the finished parts and, of course, the circles, make sure that the distance between them is the same.
- But our hero cannot be without hair! We also make hair out of paper. Cut into thin strips and wind with scissors.
- We also make a cap out of paper. And now look what happened. To complete our hero, add a wand or a road sign to the handles.
Fabric craft
This traffic light option is more suitable for girls and real needlewomen. A sewn fake can also serve as an educational toy if the mugs are made with Velcro.
So, let's begin:
- You need to take rectangular pieces of black fabric and put a small layer of foam rubber between them. We sew.
- Next, cut out circles from felt (red, yellow, green). We sew them along the edges. To the body of the traffic light itself, you need to sew one part of the Velcro, and the second part directly to the circles.
- For a more interesting design, a fabric cover can be made on top. Having previously divided it into three parts. Thus, each color will open separately, or all at once. The tkni craft is ready.
Thematic traffic light
We all love balloons, but kids in particular. Our traffic light is exactly one of them and use as an educational game.
Any child will love the Road Rules Party.
For manufacturing we need:
- Air small black balloons
- Bigger balls of signal colors
- A thread
- Rack
Work progress:
- The stand can be made from long balloons.
- First, we inflate black balloons and tie them to our finished rack. We try to give the shape of a rectangle. In the middle we tie balls of red, yellow and green in the correct order.
- The airy structure can also be decorated with balloons in the form of cars or road signs that correspond to our theme party.
Traffic light from packages
The option is a little more complicated, but quite interesting.
Required:
- Packages (can be trash or cellophane)
- Scissors
- Plastic cover
- A thread
Progress:
- You need to fold the bags in an even pile, carefully cut off the bottom and top from them to get even rectangles. We cut them into even strips.
- Next, take a plastic cover and cut two rings out of it. We attach them to each other and wrap the strips with nets. Then we cut everything along the outer edge, push the rings apart and tie the pom-poms with a thread. Cut off the edges making the pompons even.
- We should have three pompoms of different colors. You need to connect them together with a thread. And our traffic light is ready.
- Very funny crafts can also be obtained from disks, you can crochet a traffic light, or you can simply make it from balls of thread. Much depends on your imagination, and there will always be enough available tools.
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