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Creative workshop for young children
Applique classes with directed guidance and using age-appropriate methods and techniques have a great educational and developmental effect.
Children successfully master the technical skills of appliqué operations: laying out, composing a whole from individual parts, practicing evenly placing elements across the sheet area; successfully master sensory standards; acquire initial search skills; learn basic teamwork skills; actively communicate with each other and the teacher.
The experience children gain at an early age in composing subject or plot images using ready-made forms ensures the development of imaginative vision, as well as the formation of the prerequisites for a plot drawing and the development of coherent speech at later age stages.
Skills and abilities developed at an early age in comparing and contrasting, finding what is the same and what is different, and identifying what is important contribute to the accelerated development of analytical and synthetic processes, the ability to combine and transform, which is one of the components of a child’s successful education at school.
Purpose of the program:
Develop creativity, fantasy, imagination. Help your child demonstrate their artistic abilities in various types of visual activities.
Program objectives:
Educational:
to develop children’s visual skills using appliqué methods
Educational:
develop an aesthetic perception of the world, nature, artistic creativity of adults and children;
develop coordination of both hands
develop the imagination of children, supporting the manifestations of their imagination, courage in presenting their own ideas;
involve children in working with a variety of materials;
Educational:
develop the ability to create teamwork.
Cultivate emotional responsiveness in children
Expected result:
Children will become familiar with various materials and their properties; master skills of working with scissors and glue; learn some techniques for transforming materials; learn to see the unusual in an ordinary object; will develop fine motor skills of the hands.
Forms of joint activities:
Joint activities of children and adults, children in pairs and groups
Working with paper and form
Admiring
Interaction with personnel:
Thematic consultations: “Applique and development of fine motor skills”, “Folk traditions through application”
Master class “Applique from various materials”
Interaction with parents:
Consultation for parents “Application for young children”
Photo booth “We are the artists”
Lesson Topic Information Sheets
Examples
Below are several options for educational crafts for children of different ages. They can be performed both at home and in a kindergarten group.
Master class on robotics
A master class in robotics is perfect for children 10 years and older. During the lesson, children will learn the basics of design, algorithms and visual programming. As a result, they will be able to assemble a moving robot. The event will be especially interesting for those who are interested in Lego constructors, computers and programming.
Where to order
UFRC School
This school not only teaches children robotics, but also organizes real competitions: robot battles, robot races, quests with the participation of created robots. Children aged 6 years and older are invited to attend classes. There are also courses in video game creation and computer literacy for teenagers.
- Opening hours: from 11.00 to 21.00
- 7 training centers in Moscow
- Telephone
Tools and materials
Purchasing the necessary paraphernalia for a master class is a very complex issue. If this is your first time organizing such an event and you are going to buy everything at the nearest supermarket, be prepared to shell out a decent amount of money.
For a large-scale event (at least 10 people), we recommend placing an order in an online store, where the product will most likely be significantly lower, plus you may receive a discount from a wholesale purchase.
For those who are planning a master class in advance, the ideal solution would be to place an order on the website of a Chinese store. Their only drawback is long delivery, and you can choose quite high-quality products if you carefully study the comments and reviews of customers.
Mouse from a sleeve
Required tools and materials:
- sleeve;
- cardboard;
- colored paper;
- paints;
- glue;
- scissors.
Progress:
- Paint the bushing gray and let dry. This will be the body of the little mouse.
- Cut out ears and paws from gray cardboard.
- Make cuts in the sleeve to fix the cardboard elements in them.
- Cut an oval out of pink paper and glue it to the base. This will be the tummy.
- All that remains is to draw the eyes with eyelashes, a nose and two teeth.
Educational crafts for kids can be good helpers in studying many topics. For example, when studying shapes, you can make a chest of drawers from matchboxes and label each one with a certain meaning: circle, triangle, square. Then cut out these shapes from colored cardboard. This way the child will learn not only to cut out the simplest shapes, but also to sort them correctly.
Crafts for March 8th for school competition
Elementary school students will be happy to make cute souvenirs for mom on March 8th. If you make a craft carefully, using maximum originality and skill, your child can take part in a school craft competition with his masterpiece.
For children 7-8 years old, choose ideas more easily, and from 9-11 years old you can make complex compositions in the quilling style with children, take up knitting and embroidery.
For children 1-2 grades
Children in grades 1-2 need to be given freedom for creativity and imagination. Especially if they want to bring all their most original ideas to life. Show them a selection of ideas for crafts for your beloved mothers using a presentation, and they themselves will choose the appropriate option.
From salt dough
Making crafts from salt dough is a long but very exciting process. You need to prepare for it in advance so that the souvenir will be ready on the eve of the holiday and dry well.
- Colorful basket.
- Candlesticks.
- Panel.
- Original refrigerator magnets.
- Hearts.
- Souvenirs in pots.
- Jewelry for the box.
Salt dough is a favorite material for creative children. You can make anything out of it. Such souvenirs delight teachers, adults and children.
From felt
Not only toys are made from soft and pliable felt, but also original crafts as gifts for adults. To make them, it is not necessary to use threads or a needle. Felt easily sticks to cardboard and is fastened with buttons and snaps. But for the craft lesson you will need patterns or drawings.
- Bouquets of soft flowers.
- Potholder.
- Pincushion.
- Collection of flowers.
- Toys.
- Baskets.
You can put sweets, cookies, paper flowers in them.
- Handbags.
- Butterflies.
To cut out small parts, choose felt with a thickness of 1 mm, then the toys will turn out more neat.
For children 3-5 grades
It is best to make crafts for March 8 from scrap materials. Take colored paper, for example, corrugated material is good for voluminous cards. Or introduce your children to quilling techniques.
Corrugated paper
This is a thin and bright material. Corrugated paper is easy to glue in several layers. From such pliable material, children in grades 3-5 can make lush flowers, chic cards or paintings.
- Hyacinth.
- Tulips.
- Basket with roses.
- Postcards.
- Gladioli.
To ensure that flower petals made from corrugated paper are correct and neat, draw your own stencil for each plant, only then start cutting.
Quilling
Filigree paper gifts are perfect for International Women's Day. There are many options for crafts. These are simple flowers or huge compositions in pots, baskets; postcards or framed paintings.
- The original eight.
- Postcard with openwork flowers.
- Firebird.
- Bouquet of irises in a basket.
- Bright roses.
To create beautiful compositions, use this tip.
Shark made of clothespins and paper
Necessary materials:
- pin;
- colored paper;
- glue gun;
- toothpick;
- felt-tip pen.
Progress:
- Cut out two parts from blue paper: the upper part of the shark and the lower part. Draw an eye on the top.
- Cut out a small fish from orange paper. One that fits in a shark's mouth.
- Cut a small stick from a toothpick and glue an orange fish to its top. And glue the free part of the stick to the edge of the inside of the lower part of the shark.
- Take a clothespin and glue blue parts to its ends to make a shark. It turns out that when the clothespin is opened, the shark will begin to open its mouth, and the fish will try to escape. But when closed, it will again be eaten by predatory fish.
Cave
You will need:
- thick cardboard from a box;
- large sheet of paper;
- glue gun
Step-by-step instruction:
- Cut out three elements from cardboard: a free-form base and two curved arcs of different sizes.
- Place the arcs perpendicular to the base and secure with hot glue.
- Crumple the paper and cover the resulting structure with it, leaving an entrance on one side.
- The voluminous, spectacular craft is ready. You can place animal figures inside, placing them on a pile of straw or on pebbles.
