Soon there will be a merry Maslenitsa holiday, on which it is customary to treat with pancakes and burn a scarecrow of Winter. On the eve of the arrival of spring, schools and kindergartens organize contests for the best homemade products, noisy fairs are held where they offer all kinds of treats and sell handmade souvenirs. Crafts for Shrovetide can be a pleasant gif.webpt for relatives, friends and colleagues, as well as decorate the house, serve as a good talisman for a long time, bringing good luck.
In 2020, Maslenitsa will be celebrated from February 24 to March 1 (Forgiveness Sunday).
What is this holiday and what kind of crafts can you do?
The old Russian Maslenitsa holiday is a whole week of fun, hearty treats, contests, dances and fairs. Heralds the end of winter and the arrival of the long-awaited spring. A traditional dish for seven Shrovetide days is pancakes, which are baked by all the hostesses, they are treated to guests and relatives. Maslenitsa week precedes Lent, so the Russian people have long tried from the heart to have fun and enjoy delicious treats before prolonged abstinence from temptations.
On Shrovetide days, Orthodox Christians do not consume meat products, but on their tables there are pancakes with various fillings (except for meat).
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The most favorite event is the burning of the effigy of Winter. The straw figure was dressed up in old clothes, and they tried to throw unnecessary things into the fire, thereby getting rid of the negativity.
It is impossible to imagine Shrovetide without pancakes, which resemble the sun in color and shape. Each housewife has baked pancakes for a long time according to a unique recipe that has been passed down by women from generation to generation. Pancakes are generously treated to guests, because it is believed that kindness and care will definitely return to the owners of the house.
Each day of Shrovetide week has its own name. Those who honor Russian traditions do everything that needs to be done on a certain day: a mother-in-law to call her son-in-law for pancakes, relatives to visit each other with gif.webpts, children to run in a merry crowd down the street with clay whistles, as if calling for spring. The last day of Shrovetide is Forgiveness Sunday. People ask for forgiveness for all the wrongs they have caused without even wanting to.
Mass festivities, fairs, and folk amusements take place throughout the week. According to legend, those who do not have fun on Shrovetide will face disappointment and tears all next year.
What crafts can be prepared for the holiday:
- application "Sun" (suitable for preschool children);
- decorated broom;
- a picture of salt dough or plasticine;
- amulets souvenirs;
- felt figures;
- flowers made of paper or fabric;
- postcards;
- collage depicting pancakes, sun, Shrovetide dolls;
- candy bowl in the form of a sun;
- sun of wheat spikelets.
Crafts for kindergarten
Children are looking forward to a merry holiday, when they can have their fill of delicious pancakes, walk around the fair and make original crafts with their own hands. Often in kindergarten, together with the teacher, kids make crafts from various materials: plasticine, salt dough, paper, cardboard, fabric. Creative work gives you the opportunity to show your talents and enjoy the exciting process, develops creativity.
Paper doll
Children in the kindergarten are usually offered to make simple paper crafts. The Shrovetide doll made of colored paper looks bright, colorful.The product will become a worthy exhibit at an exhibition of crafts, and it can also be presented to parents or friends as a home amulet.
Materials required for work:
- green cardboard;
- white and red paper;
- patterned paper;
- glue;
- Scotch;
- ready-made paper flowers;
- curly scissors.
Let's start making a doll:
- Cut a circle out of green cardboard. Cut the edges with curly scissors.
- Make a snowflake from a square of white paper.
- From squares of red paper and paper with a print, fold the accordions so that the blank with the pattern is in the middle, and the red ones are at the edges.
- Glue the accordions, fix them with tape on top.
- Glue the snowflake on the green circle, the accordions in the center.
- Cut out the face of the doll from white paper, draw the eyes, nose, smile.
- Glue the face to the accordions on top, decorate the doll with a colored paper handkerchief.
- Next, decorate Shrovetide with spring flowers.
Salted dough sun
Children of preschool and primary school age will happily sculpt a pretty sun out of dough as a symbol of the coming of spring.
What you need:
- salty yellow dough;
- multi-colored gouache;
- brushes;
- foil;
- sun pattern.
Stages of work:
- Knead a piece of dough, roll it out.
- Place the sun template on the ground, cut out the shape along the edges.
- Roll a tight ball out of foil, cover with yellow dough.
- Moisten the ball with water, attach to the center of the cutout template.
- Blind the eyes and nose from a colorless mass, paint them with gouache and glue them to the sun.
- Form a mouth with a steak, insert a tongue of pink dough inside.
- Sculpt the eyebrows from the yellow mass, attach over the eyes.
- When the dough is dry, the product can be coated with a colorless varnish.
You can make a hole in the sun pattern, then the craft will turn into a cute keychain.
Plasticine sun
A child of any age will be able, under the guidance of adults, to make the sun on Shrovetide with their own hands.
What you need:
- culinary wooden skewer;
- plasticine;
- cardboard;
- toothpicks;
- beads.
We start making the sun from plasticine:
- Cut out a cardboard circle, mold yellow plasticine on it so that there is no free space.
- The eyes are made of blue beads or plasticine, the mouth is made of pink plasticine.
- We insert toothpicks in a circle (for small children it is better to use lollipop or ice cream sticks).
- We attach a culinary skewer below. The craft can be stuck into a flowerpot or placed in a small vase.
In order for the toothpicks-rays to hold firmly, the layer of plasticine on the cardboard must be thick enough.
If desired, the rays can also be made from plasticine
Paper sun
The simplest craft that little kids can handle is the sun made of colored paper. Toddlers can be instructed to thread "rays" through the holes, and older children can make the sun without the help of adults.
To make it, prepare the following materials:
- colored paper;
- yellow cardboard;
- glue;
- felt-tip pens;
- scissors;
- stapler.
Stages of work:
- Cut a circle out of the yellow cardboard.
- Cut thin stripes from colored paper.
- Punch holes around the perimeter.
- Take a colored strip, thread it through the hole, glue the edges.
- When all the "rays" are in place, draw the sun's face with felt-tip pens.
You can make a paper sun using the origami technique like this:
Crafts for Shrovetide with their own hands to school
Shrovetide is a long-awaited holiday for children of all ages. Schoolchildren happily see off the winter and meet the warm spring, and also make crafts for exhibitions, competitions or as gif.webpts for loved ones. Usually, children make souvenirs from paper, cardboard, plasticine, and fabric. There is no need to offer the child a complex technique for making crafts, because even in simple souvenirs you can put a piece of your soul and please your family and friends with your creativity.
Quilling sun
At first glance, it may seem that this is a complex technique that requires a certain skill. In fact, the sun from paper modules is made quite simply and quickly.
What materials will be needed:
- colored paper;
- thick cardboard;
- special knife for quilling;
- marker;
- glue;
- plastic eyes.
How the sun is made:
- Roll curls, diamonds and petals from paper strips.
- Cut out two cloud templates from blue and light blue cardboard, glue them together.
- Glue a yellow circle in the center, and curly rays to it.
- Attach the eyes, draw a mouth and eyebrows with a marker.
Felt sun
A fun craft for school will cheer up and become a worthy exhibit for a Maslenitsa exhibition among students.
What you need to prepare for work:
- yellow felt;
- peephole fittings;
- satin bows;
- cardboard circle.
How to make a felt sun:
- Transfer the cardboard template to the material, cut out a circle with rays - the basis for the sun.
- Glue the eyes to the workpiece, cut out the nose, mouth and ruddy cheeks from the fabric, which also need to be glued to the sun.
- Decorate the craft with satin bows.
Together with mom or grandmother, you can sew a felt pancake. Cut two circles out of the yellow fabric, sew them from the back of the fabric, leaving a small hole. Turn out the workpiece, fill it with padding polyester, sew on a loop on which the pancake can be hung. Instruct the child to draw eyes, nose, mouth, blush.
Pancake doll
Farewell to winter is a fun holiday for which the hostesses bake pancakes and treat their family and guests. But pancakes can also become material for an original craft, which is easy to make with your own hands for a school exhibition.
What you need:
- pancakes of different shapes;
- a 0.5 liter plastic bottle filled with water or cereals;
- thin elastic bands;
- knife;
- toothpicks.
Master class on how to make pancake crafts:
- Place the bottle filled with water or cereals on a flat surface. Cut pancakes (3-4 pieces) in the center, after which they can be applied in the center of the bottle in the form of a fluffy skirt. Secure the skirt with an elastic band.
- Wrap the top of the bottle with two pancakes, secure with an elastic band - this will be a scarf or shawl for our Shrovetide doll.
- Close the elastic bands with the edges of the pancakes, fix with toothpicks so that they are not visible.
- Wrap the bottle cap with plastic, wrap it in a pancake.
- Roll two pancakes into tubes, attach on the side - you get handles.
- “Put on” a handkerchief made of pancake on your head. Glue it with honey and secure it underneath with a toothpick.
For a scarf, use a beautiful lace pancake to make the craft look elegant.
Pancake house
From the blanks twisted into a tube, you can make a house. To do this, the pancakes are folded in several rows, like logs. The roof is made of two pancakes, which are laid out on top. Even a small child can cope with such a craft, and the parents' task is to bake delicious, thin pancakes. By the way, children can also be involved in cooking: they will be happy to help their mother knead the dough.
Variants of complex and unusual crafts for Shrovetide
The main symbols of the holiday are Shrovetide dolls, all kinds of amulets and, of course, pancakes. Our ancestors made crafts from straw, fabric, spikelets. Nowadays, in order to make interesting amulets, you can use a wide variety of materials:
- felt;
- disposable tableware;
- paper;
- threads;
- beads, beads;
- salty dough.
If you spend a little free time before the holiday, apply imagination and creativity, you will get amazing crafts that will become a talisman at home or a nice gif.webpt for loved ones.
Shrovetide doll
A homemade doll will guard the house and bring good luck to the family. To make a fabric doll, prepare the following:
- squares of white fabric: one measuring 20x20 cm, two - 10x10 cm;
- square of red fabric 10x10 cm;
- square of variegated fabric 10x10 cm;
- cotton wool;
- threads are red.
Master class on how to make a doll-amulet:
- In order to get the head of Shrovetide, take a square of white fabric 20x20 cm, straighten it, put cotton wool rolled into a ball in the middle, wrap it with red thread.
- Form the arms from the two white squares. To do this, fold each square into a triangular shape, rewind with a thread so that you get brushes.
- Attach your arms to the body, securely fix with red thread.
- Form two triangles from variegated fabric, lay one on top of the other. Wrap the multi-colored "sundress" around the body, rewind with a thread to fix it.
- Tie a scarf over your head. The symbol of good luck and prosperity is ready.
Look for even more master classes on creating a carnival doll in this article.
Salted dough panel
Shrovetide is associated, first of all, with the set table, guests, fun, because this is the last week before Lent. In the holiday week, you want to walk up to your heart's content. Panels "Pancake week tea" will be an original gif.webpt for friends and relatives. To make it, you will need the following materials:
- salty dough;
- frame;
- the cloth;
- glue;
- sesame / poppy seeds;
- braid.
Master class on making an unusual painting:
- Knead a salty dough with 300 g of fine table salt, the same amount of flour and a glass of ice water.
- Sculpt cups with a samovar, decorate with voluminous dough patterns.
- Form bagels, pancakes, gingerbread, fruit plate. You can sculpt a small amulet doll as a decoration for a festive table.
- Color the sculpted products with gouache, cover the bakery "crafts" with transparent glue and sprinkle with sesame seeds or poppy seeds.
- Pull the fabric onto the frame, glue a piece of braid from below - this will imitate a festive table.
- It remains to attach the molded parts and leave for a while to dry thoroughly.
Prepare for Shrovetide together with your children: bake pancakes, invite guests and make crafts with your own hands. This is one of the kindest, funniest holidays, so you need to spend it loudly and loudly in order to be remembered for a long time.
