Gifts from palms
Children always look forward to the holidays: February 23, March 8, New Year, Birthdays. They also like to give gifts on these important days.
According to tradition, the children make surprises for their loved ones together with the teacher. Examples of handicrafts made from palms in kindergarten for mom and dad:
- Bouquet of flowers. Cut out 3-4 green strips. Glue them to the bottom of the paper on top of each other. Multi-colored blanks are fixed to the upper ends of the stems, spreading glue on the wrist and thumb.
- Heart made of palms. Two blanks with slightly bent thumbs are joined together on a colored base. In this case, the thumbs and index fingers should touch.
- Postcard with a surprise. Cardboard or a sheet of colored paper is folded in half. Draw the outline of a child's hand, placing the wrist on the fold line. Cut out, unfold the workpiece and decorate the inside with applique. For mom they stick on flowers, ornaments and hearts, and for dad: tanks, planes, stars.
- Tree with hearts. Cut out multi-colored hearts of different sizes, after folding pieces of paper in half. Apply glue to the fold line and glue the brown piece onto the fingers.
Preschoolers 4–5 years old will be able to make a “real” bouquet of flowers. Wide green strips are rolled up into a tube and the edge is fixed with glue. Painted blanks are glued to the ends of the stems.
Each flower is decorated with leaves, put into a bouquet and tied with a ribbon. A gift for mom, grandmother or sister is ready.
Making crafts from palms with your own hands for children is a useful creative process. Such work fosters accuracy and diligence, and develops thinking. The main task of adults is to show the value of the child’s efforts in their eyes.
For example, they are offered to decorate the interior of their room with appliques and pictures or make a decorative wreath for the door for the New Year. If you wish, you can come up with many original ideas.
Animals made from palms
For the zoo, children's crafts are prepared: colored cardboard, scissors, glue, pencils, colored paper for small parts, cotton wool and threads:
- Hedgehog made from 4 pieces. Additional details for crafts: body with muzzle, paws, eyes. The “spines” are glued like a fan to the base and decorated with mushrooms, autumn leaves, and fruits.
- Bunny with carrots. Cut out the outline of the palm with fingers spread out. The middle finger on the workpiece is bent back, and the little finger and thumb are bent forward. They draw a face, decorate the ears, glue a carrot and fix the hare’s paws on it.
- Lambs and lambs. The thumb is the neck with the head, the other 4 fingers are the legs. Draw eyes, noses, hooves, and mouths with a black felt-tip pen. Roll cotton balls and glue them instead of wool.
- Black cat. The thumb is the tail (when making a workpiece, it is moved away from the other fingers). Additional elements: head - a large circle, ears - two triangles. For the muzzle, small details are cut out: white eyes, green pupils, a nose made of pink corrugated paper, a red mouth. For the mustache, cut threads and fasten them under the nose.
Flat applications from palms
At a toddler age, starting from the age of two, children can already make simple crafts from cut out palms. A child's hand is placed on paper or cardboard, traced with a pencil, and then adults cut out the blank themselves.
Topics for classes: birds, insects, animals, flowers. For creativity, small details or pencils with felt-tip pens will also be useful.
On the applications of the youngest children from 2 to 3 years old, it is better to complete the missing elements. And an older child will be able to independently glue an eye to a fish, and New Year’s decorations to a Christmas tree.
Crafts from one palm
Palms with fingers spread out like a shape similar to tree branches or flower petals. Younger preschoolers are asked to “plant a tree or a flower.”
Birds, insects, and animals are obtained in a similar way to plants. Application from blanks is combined with drawing techniques. Craft ideas:
- Beautiful tree. The palms are the crown, the trunk and leaves are completed.
- Flower in a pot. Adults cut out blanks, and children glue: a pot, green palms, flowers on each finger.
- White Swan. The thumb is like a neck with a head, and the remaining fingers are like wings and a tail. All that remains to be completed is the eye, beak and waves under the bird.
- Gold fish. Blanks for crafts: red palm and aquarium. The plot is complemented by algae, stones at the bottom, and air bubbles.
Children themselves also come up with ideas for crafts. When asked what the palm resembles, they answer - an elephant, an octopus, a hedgehog, a Christmas tree. The response will come if children are actively introduced to the world around them from an early age.
Crafts from two palms
Two palms folded together resemble butterflies and birds in flight, the tail of a peacock, the wings of a dove. For crafts, two types of blanks are cut out: with closed and spread fingers, similar to elongated or wide wings and tails.
Using your imagination, you can come up with the following pictures:
- A butterfly sits on a flower or flies over a clearing. The palms are glued to the body on one or both sides. You receive two crafts that are not similar to each other.
- Peacock with a multi-colored tail. Two multi-colored palms are glued to each other with a ladder and fingers up. The applique is supplemented with prepared parts (this is the body with the head, paws, beak-triangle, eyes-dots).
- Green frog. Two palms are paws; a circle for a muzzle is glued onto them. Two smaller circles for the eyes are placed on the top of the head, and the mouth is completed.
For the wings of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock, instead of two palms, you can cut out several blanks. Or use them for other original crafts: cloud, sun, Christmas tree, chicken.
