For the great holiday, Victory Day, kindergartens and schools prepare matinees, thematic classes dedicated to the Great Patriotic War, and also do various crafts with children. Usually exhibitions are arranged where the best creation is selected. Also, preschoolers and pupils present homemade cards and gif.webpts to veterans. There are many different options for what crafts can be done by May 9, using different materials and technologies.
Crafts for May 9 in kindergarten
Pupils of the kindergarten do not yet understand the full importance of the Victory Day. Every year they see fireworks, go to a solemn parade, parents explain to them what the festive events are held in honor of. A kindergarten teacher in the process of making crafts can also tell that 74 years ago a great holiday came - Victory Day. A good example will help children learn new information. For example, you can make a tank out of empty matchboxes and plasticine, and then show pictures of what real military equipment looks like.
A simple craft for the May 9 holiday - a picture or an applique depicting a fireworks display. Bright colors always evoke positive emotions in children, so they make such crafts with joy. Fireworks can be painted with paints (watercolors, gouache), colored wax crayons, bright splashes of plasticine can be dazzled, and multi-colored cereals can be glued onto a dark background.
Another simple version of crafts for kindergarten on May 9 is a three-dimensional image on a sheet of cardboard. Small balls are twisted from colored napkins, which are laid out in any pictures: flowers, the number "9", an eternal flame, a tank, an airplane, etc.
What else can you suggest to do for kids in kindergarten:
- Postcards made of paper;
- White dove made of cardboard;
- Pictures with palms;
- Corrugated colored paper carnations;
- Plasticine airplane;
- A postcard colored with felt-tip pens according to a template, and much more.
Dove of peace
We offer to make a dove of peace from children's hands together with the children. For crafts, prepare white cardboard, scissors, a pencil, a figured hole punch, wooden long sticks (skewers), glue.
How to make a dove of peace out of cardboard:
- Circle the baby's palm on white cardboard or thick paper. Draw a beak to the thumb, cut the image along the contour.
- Using a curly hole punch, make a twig out of green paper, glue it to the beak of the pigeon. Draw an eye for the bird.
- Glue a wooden stick on the back.
Idea! All the pigeons that were made by the pupils of the group in kindergarten can be gathered together, tied with a satin ribbon and put in a vase.
Crafts to school
In elementary grades, schoolchildren prepare simple crafts for the holiday. High school students and high school students can make quite complex crafts with their own hands by May 9.
Craft options for schoolchildren:
- Festive wall newspaper;
- Painting by template;
- Foamiran flowers tied with a ribbon;
- Brooch from an artificial carnation on a St. George's ribbon;
- Crafts using the quilling technique;
- Brooch made of beads and beads;
- Scrapbooking postcards;
- Three-dimensional painting depicting the Eternal Flame;
- Military equipment made of papier-mâché, etc.
It is interesting! Children are often given the task of bringing holiday-themed crafts to school. Get the whole family together to make a beautiful craft. The child will feel the importance of the moment, especially if in the course of work you will tell him about the war and the Great Victory.
Crafts for Victory Day for the competition
Usually, for the holiday, exhibitions of student crafts are held in schools. At the competition, the most original options are chosen and prizes are awarded to the winners.
What do-it-yourself crafts for the contest on May 9 can you make? We suggest making an Eternal Flame with a memorial plate. This option will surely please the jury and attract the attention of the audience.
Craft "Eternal flame with a memorial plate"
What materials will be needed:
- Colored paper;
- Crepe paper;
- Corrugated cardboard boxes;
- Plastic bottle;
- Templates of numbers and pictures (they can be printed from the Internet).
Also prepare paints, glue and brushes. So, let's get to work:
- From a cardboard box, glue two rectangular slabs - one larger, the other smaller. Cover each slab with silver crepe paper.
- Cut off the top of the plastic bottle, trim the edges, paint with yellow gouache.
- Use crepe yellow paper to make a 3D star (you can find step-by-step instructions on the Internet). Cut a hole inside for the top of the bottle.
- On a larger slab, glue the St. George ribbon on one side and the laurel branch with the order on the other side. The branch and the order can be made in the form of an applique made of colored paper.
- The numbers for the inscription "1941-1945" are cut out of paper and pasted onto cardboard. Paint each number with gold paint.
- Cut out the flames out of red and yellow corrugated paper. Assemble the blanks, glue them to the center of the star (first insert the "bouquet" into the plastic neck).
- Paste the numbers onto the large rectangle. It remains to collect the entire composition: put the large plate vertically, put a small plate down, in the middle of which there will be a star with fire.
What materials and techniques to use?
The simplest and most affordable material from which you can make a craft for the holiday is colored paper and cardboard. From corrugated cardboard and colored paper, beautiful volumetric tulips are obtained. Making paper flowers is very simple. You need to cut squares out of colored paper, fold them in half with a corner. Fold the two lower corners up, and the tulip bud is ready. Cut a rectangle out of colored corrugated cardboard, glue a colored paper base on it, and a few tulips on top. All that remains is to stick the ribbon and the congratulatory inscription.
Together with small children, you can make a simple picture with voluminous paper flowers for Victory Day. Cut out patterns of buds and twigs with leaves, stick them so that you get a volumetric applique. Decorate the picture with a St. George ribbon and the inscription: "May 9".
Children will be happy to master the method of trimming, for which they will need ordinary colored napkins. Small squares are cut from napkins, which are wound around a pencil. After the sketch of the future painting is ready, each module from the napkin is glued to the middle. Thus, you can make a three-dimensional image of a star, eternal flame, flowers, a dove, military equipment, the sun, clouds and much more.
On a note! The picture on which the date is laid out looks solemn: "1941-1945". Here you can add a star and a bouquet of carnations, which are made from colored corrugated paper.
Crafts from dough and plasticine
Kids in kindergarten are happy to sculpt all kinds of crafts from salt dough. This plastic material is made very simply: you need to mix a glass of wheat flour, a glass of table salt and half a glass of cold water. If you want to work with color dough right away, add food coloring while mixing.
What can be done from the test:
- Flowers;
- Eternal flame;
- Star and St. George's ribbon;
- Military equipment;
- A soldier.
If you mold a figurine from dough and make a hole, then after the craft has completely dried, you can thread a string with a ring, and you will get an unusual keychain.
On May 9, beautiful crafts are also made from plasticine.Plasticine is a popular material in kindergarten, from which various crafts are often sculpted for the holiday. In addition, working with plasticine develops fine motor skills, which is important for the intellectual and physical development of children.
Colored plasticine can be used to mold tanks, airplanes, ships, military vehicles. Also, with the help of plasticine on thick cardboard, amazing pictures are obtained. You need to pinch off a small amount of plasticine of the desired color and smear it according to the template using a stack. It will be more convenient for small children to roll balls and sculpt them into a drawing.
Idea! You can attach paper flowers to a picture with plasticine - this combination looks very unusual and beautiful.
Original crafts
Quilling technique makes amazing souvenirs. From paper modules, you can assemble a tank or lay out a picture of flowers. Use a paper-curling technique to create an interesting card. What materials will be needed:
- Colored cardboard;
- White and yellow modules (for daisies);
- Greeting lettering template;
- Glue;
- Ribbons.
How to make a postcard:
- Cut a flower wrapper template out of colored cardboard, fold so that there is room for flowers inside.
- Glue the white modules together to make daisies. Glue a yellow module inside each flower.
- Attach the flowers to the inside of the "wrapper". Glue a sign with congratulations, decorate the card with bows of multi-colored ribbons.
Primary school students will be happy to make an unusual souvenir from unnecessary discs. If you glue the disc on a cardboard blank in the shape of a star and decorate it with appliqué flowers and the number "9", a very interesting craft will come out.
Matches can also make an original souvenir. Stick the matches on a dense cardboard base so that the "checkerboard" pattern comes out. Then glue the satin ribbon bows and a bunch of artificial flowers. Such a panel can be hung as a decor on the wall in the room.
What other materials can I use?
Kindergarten kids can make crafts using pasta and cereals. Previously, pasta of various shapes and cereals (semolina, rice, buckwheat) are painted in different colors. The teacher gives the children drawing templates. Glue must be applied to each element (usually children work with glue in the form of a pencil), and then put pasta or pour cereals. When all the details are filled in, the picture needs to be turned over and shaken off the excess. Thus, you can lay out a tank, a warship, a bouquet of flowers, a peaceful sky with the sun, etc.
An interesting craft-tank will turn out from newspaper tubes (a master class can be found on the Internet) or toilet paper rolls. The sleeves are pre-painted black or green, then tied up with masking tape. Caterpillars are made from a strip of corrugated tape, the cabin can be made from matchboxes covered with colored paper, and the barrel is made from a cocktail tube and plasticine.
Craft from felt "Star"
Together with your child, try to make a felt craft - a festive bright star. How it's done:
- Cut two star patterns out of paper - one larger and one smaller.
- Transfer the large template to red felt, the smaller one to yellow felt. Cut out the blanks (two red stars and one yellow).
- We embroider the inscription "May 9" on the yellow blank. You can make an inscription not only with threads, but also with beads. Such an inscription will look very bright and festive.
- Sew the yellow star onto the red blank.
- Then we sew two red stars, but leave a small hole so that cotton wool or synthetic winterizer can be placed inside.
- We sew five multi-colored ribbons together, insert them into the hole, and then sew the star completely.
- We process the edges of the ribbons to make the craft more accurate.
Holiday attributes
Usually by May 9 they try to make crafts related to the holiday with the children.What topics are used most often:
- Military equipment. Kids in kindergarten are happy to make such crafts from plasticine, empty matchboxes, colored paper and cardboard, and masses for modeling. Even a simple household sponge can make a military tank.
- Plane. It can be made from colored cardboard, plasticine, homemade soap mass, or even from sweets and chocolates.
- Star. It can be voluminous or in the form of an applique, laid out from various materials or cut from fabric. The star can be combined with flowers, the image of the Eternal Flame, an order, St. George's ribbon and other items of crafts.
- Flowers. On May 9, veterans are often given carnations and tulips, but in crafts you can combine different flowers: forget-me-nots, daisies, roses, gladioli, etc.
- Dove. The bird of peace can be cut out of white paper or cardboard, make an image from plasticine, adding a branch of blooming lilac to the dove.
- Soldier. A picture-photo frame will look beautiful. Print out the soldier image, laminate the picture and paste into a cardboard frame. Roll small balls of salt dough with the children and glue them onto the frame so that there is no free space. Decorate the frame with carnations made of dough and a St. George ribbon.
- Firework. A picture of a festive fireworks can be made using ordinary paints, felt-tip pens, plasticine, colored cotton balls and other materials.
- Katyusha. A wartime combat unit is made of cubes, pencils, bottle caps and paints.
Album for military photographs
Craft materials:
- White and colored paper;
- Green corrugated paper;
- George Ribbon;
- Printed military photographs;
- Strong wire;
- Hemp thread;
- Instant coffee;
- Napkins;
- Cling film;
- A piece of beige fabric;
- Military decor: buttons, buckles, metal stars, badges.
Stages of work:
- Draw the petals of a carnation on white paper, and put plastic wrap on top.
- Use the quilling technique to make "eyes" out of red paper.
- Coat each petal with glue and place on a layer of cling film along the contour of the petal.
- When the glue is completely dry, carefully remove the petals from the film.
- Wrap the wire with a strip of green corrugated paper, bend on one side.
- Attach small cardboard cones to the wire hooks, and glue them with green paper. Glue two petals into the resulting cups.
- Make leaves, attach them to the stems.
- Tie the flowers with a St.George ribbon bow.
- To artificially age photos, apply instant coffee powder to them, blend with a wet brush. Light the edges a little.
- It remains to collect the craft. Stick a few photos on a sheet of cardboard, the resulting bouquet of carnations, inscriptions cut from newspapers or printed from the Internet. Decorate the craft with decor to your liking.
How to make an Eternal Flame for Victory Day?
The layout of the Eternal Flame should consist of a flame and a star. You can also add a pedestal to make the craft more monumental. The pedestal is decorated with numbers that indicate the date of the beginning and end of the war, as well as flowers, St. George's ribbon, orders. Usually, such crafts are sent to exhibitions and competitions (above we described how to make such a craft).
Preschoolers can make the "Eternal Flame" craft in the form of an applique made of colored paper and cardboard. Older children will be happy to make a volumetric star from cardboard. First, the template is cut with the dotted fold lines. Bend the rays of the star along the contours to end up with a volumetric star. Place strips of corrugated red and yellow paper in the middle - this will imitate a flame.
Before adults begin the creative process with children, they need to explain what feats were performed by our compatriots more than 70 years ago.The new generation should not forget about the valor and courage of people who gave their lives for a peaceful sky above our heads.
