Volumetric, interesting and varied applications for children made from paper and other materials. A collection of simple ideas for creative activities.
The development of fine motor skills is of great importance for children. Applique is a great way to develop and train your fingers. Classes give an idea of the structure of the material, color, develop spatial thinking, coordination, precision of movements, and imagination.
This collection includes different themes dedicated to holidays and seasons. All works are presented in a brief summary with links to master classes that are on the website.
Volumetric applications for children: TOP best ideas
Octopus applique
A three-dimensional applique with octopuses is an interesting creative work made from scrap materials. Step-by-step creation of octopuses from a sleeve and threads.
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Volumetric boat
The “Boat” application shown in this master class can become the basis of a greeting card. For example, as a congratulation on February 23rd.
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Application with a sailboat on the waves
This review presents the three-dimensional application “Sailboat”. When creating it, you can introduce children to sailboats that move using the power of the wind.
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Palm tree and island made of circles
The island palm tree applique is a simple craft idea for kids using different sized paper circles.
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Applications for children - girl in the meadow
The applique “Girl in the Meadow” is a voluminous paper creative work for children, bright and interesting for summer.
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Roses in a vase
A simple applique with roses for children with step-by-step photos. Rose flowers are very simple, they are circles of different sizes.
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Flower in a vase
Bright volumetric applique “Flower in a vase”. The flower itself is made of paper strips, and the vase is paper folded into an accordion.
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Palm with flowers made from napkins
Original crafts can be made if you take as a basis a simple palm, outlined and cut out of paper. In our application it will become the basis for flowers made from napkins. You will find details on creating such a craft in the proposed master class.
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Flowers made from viscose napkins
Volumetric appliqués can be made not only from paper. This master class presents an applique with flowers made from viscose napkins.
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Chamomiles from openwork napkins
A postcard with daisies made from openwork napkins and pompons - a simple applique for children made from paper, napkins, and pompons.
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Ladybugs on the grass
A bright applique with ladybugs is an excellent option for children's creativity in spring and summer. The details are all simple, which children will love.
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Ladybug in the clearing
Another voluminous applique with a ladybug - very beautiful, bright and completely simple. The work is based on the long stripes that make up the popular insect. This technique is in demand, it is often used in children's creativity.
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Volumetric cactus
An excellent applique for children is a three-dimensional cactus. For a step-by-step overview of creating this prickly plant from colored paper, follow the link.
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Dandelion
The voluminous applique “Dandelion” is made of colored paper and scrap materials. The use of different materials fuels interest and develops children's imagination and sense of composition.
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Beautiful daffodils
An interesting three-dimensional applique with daffodils for children's creativity. A step-by-step overview of how to make spring flowers in 3D.
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Summer applique for children with a kitten
The children's applique “Kitten” is very bright, reminiscent of a carefree summer, vacations, and entertainment. It’s extremely easy to make, especially since the review includes a template of a kitten and grass.
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simple sunflower
The sunflower applique is made of paper circles. The work itself is easy, especially if you have a figured hole punch.
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Application with rowan
An interesting job for children is a rowan applique using the origami technique. This could be a group activity for fall-themed activities. The work is simple, but it requires perseverance and time to make a certain number of rowan berries and leaves.
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Applications for children made from hearts
Even the youngest children can make heart appliqué. Check out the most interesting and simple ideas on how to create animals, birds, insects, and plants from hearts.
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For Mom
The applique for mom consists of voluminous balloons in the shape of hearts and flags tied to them with the inscription “mom.” The work can be timed to coincide with Mother’s Day, March 8, or mother’s birthday.
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Bouquet in the palm
Applications made from children's palms are very popular. You can make a lot of interesting things, characters, and crafts from them. The work represents a child's hand presenting a bouquet of flowers to its mother. The idea is not new, but still interesting and original. After all, every time in the paper likeness of a child’s hand there can be different flowers, varying in type and color.
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Chicks in a nest made of plastic plate
A very simple application “Chicks in the Nest” combines a variety of materials: cardboard, plastic dishes, toothpicks. Make it with your children; the work will not take much time, but will bring a lot of smiles and fun.
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Volumetric fish in an aquarium
Bright and nimble waterfowl attract all children, so they will definitely love the voluminous applique “Fish in the Aquarium”. But the fish themselves in this work are quite complex. Therefore, if children are small, it is better to make simple multi-colored fish in a flat form. You also don’t need to make a very small aquarium, since making small fish using this technique is quite problematic, especially for children.
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Applications from cotton pads
A selection of simple ideas for an applique made from cotton pads created by children. List and links to master classes.
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Volumetric hearts
There are many ways you can do something nice for your loved one. The simplest of them is to say about it or give a card. This master class includes a card with hearts, bright and simple.
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Cactus with hearts
This master class presents a voluminous card for February 14 with a cactus and hearts, which you can give to your loved ones in honor of Valentine's Day.
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Lion made of maple leaves and paper
The lion leaf applique consists of several dried maple leaves, as well as a paper face, which is easy to draw and cut out of colored paper. This creative work can be done by children of senior preschool and school age. And for the little ones, you can prepare the lion’s head in advance. After that, all they have to do is arrange the leaves in a circle and glue the paper blank on top.
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Birds made from maple leaves
Dry leaves can be an ideal material for creating all kinds of applications. Sometimes their shape already resembles a character, you just need to be able to see it and add a couple of touches. For example, these funny birds are either owls or jackdaws. Simple to create, but capable of bringing a smile to everyone who sees them.
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Snowdrops
An excellent option for creative work with children at the end of winter and beginning of spring is the application of snowdrops. I offer you two easy ideas that are interesting and useful for developing children’s fine motor skills.
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Snowdrop applique
Another option for snowdrops, which can be decorated in the form of a panel. The work consists of three-dimensional snowdrop flowers, paper leaves and cotton wool imitating snow.
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Application using cutting technique
This technique is especially popular among beginners. Because it is very simple, but guarantees a good result. After all, crafts made using this technique look beautiful.
"Airplane"
We will need:
- Colored paper: gray, blue, yellow;
- Blue cardboard;
- Simple pencil;
- Brush;
- PVA glue;
- Black felt-tip pen.
Application stages:
- On blue cardboard with a simple pencil we draw silhouettes of the sun, clouds and airplane. To highlight a brighter outline, they can be outlined with a black felt-tip pen.
- Next, to make a paper appliqué, you need to tear the colored paper into pieces of different sizes. Using a brush, apply glue to the silhouette of the airplane and glue it with pieces of gray paper. When everything is glued, you can make the airplane several windows and a front windshield from blue paper, gluing it on top of the gray paper.
- Using exactly the same steps, we cover the sun and clouds.
"Ship"
To complete this work we will need:
- Colored paper: white, green, red, brown;
- Blue cardboard;
- Black felt-tip pen;
- PVA glue;
- Brush;
- A simple pencil.
Application procedure:
- We take cardboard and draw on it with a pencil a sketch of our future ship with a double sail and a flag, you can also draw waves and seagulls. Next, we outline the outline with a black felt-tip pen to make the picture brighter.
- To decorate, tear colored paper into small pieces; if desired, you can use scissors. When we have several bales, we begin to seal the ship. White and green are used for the sail, red for the flag and brown for the ship. Thus, an applique of torn paper is obtained.
Winter applications for children
Bear on an ice floe
This master class presents a simple three-dimensional applique “Bear on an Ice Floe”, made of blue and white paper and cardboard.
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Trees in winter
A simple winter applique made of cotton wool “Trees in the Snow” for children's creativity. A child-friendly plot, easy actions, and a combination of textured materials. How to interest a child in creative activities? This is a question many parents ask. Try offering your child to work not with colored paper or plasticine, but with cotton wool. Using this material, you will get an interesting winter-themed applique.
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Applique with a voluminous bullfinch
You can start working on this craft with a riddle. Let the child try to guess the bird whose breast is brighter than the dawn. It is by their bright red breast that we recognize bullfinches. In today's master class we have the application “Bullfinch on a branch”.
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Winter bird feeder
Winter applique “Bird Feeder” is made of paper and cotton wool. This is a simple winter themed creative activity idea for kids.
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Types of creativity
Before work, you should choose the type of creativity. There are different types of applications, which are divided into three main groups:
- Object products are a simple type of applique for kids. Figures are created from paper, fabric or natural materials and placed on the base. The image can be anything: a leaf, an animal, a bird, a house, a spikelet, etc.
- In plot images, the image is made from different elements interconnected. The finished painting can demonstrate an event or manipulation.
- Decorative ones are used to decorate albums, frames, and so on. Most often they consist of various patterns or ornaments.
In addition, applications are divided according to the following criteria:
- color scheme (colored products, black and white, plain);
- volume (flat, convex);
- material (paper, fabric, natural components, pebbles, etc.).
To understand how unique this type of creativity is, it is enough to get acquainted with the most popular, as well as the most unusual types of creativity for kids.
New Year's applications for children
Christmas tree applications
The winter beauty of the Christmas tree can come in a variety of designs. In addition to crafts, children will also love the “Paper Christmas Tree” applique, especially since you can choose any desired option from the ten presented below. This is some kind of collection of all the works together, with links to detailed reviews with photos and instructions.
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Funny deer
The New Year's applique "Deer" is suitable for children of all ages. It is very easy to make, and then show your creative talents and decorate it festively and brightly.
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Volumetric snowman
A postcard with a snowman is a wonderful three-dimensional applique that a child can make for his loved ones on the eve of the New Year holidays.
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Toy on a branch
A New Year's card with a three-dimensional branch and a toy is an excellent holiday applique, a gift to loved ones that a child can make with his own hands.
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This is not all applications for children; the selection will be supplemented with new and interesting ideas, voluminous, using different materials and techniques.
To be continued…
Development Tool
A task such as the “Pets” applique in the preparatory group helps the child acquire the skill of figure cutting. For example, kids have to cut out a piece of paper correctly and beautifully, learn how to bend it, and fold elements of different shapes.
Another application in the senior group on the theme of autumn helps to improve skills such as drawing according to a created template.
The main goal of the classes is to teach the child the art of making elements that are similar to real scenes. The program followed by all children in kindergartens includes various topics that have deep meaning.
Such manipulations contribute to the development of fantasy.
Pumpkin
Autumn is associated with the harvest and Halloween. You can make a bright applique on this topic for the middle group of kindergarten.
For work, prepare:
- template – outline image of a pumpkin with leaves;
- pumpkin seeds;
- gouache paints;
- office glue.
Instructions for creating the “Pumpkin” applique:
- Glue the pumpkin template onto the cardboard base.
- Place the seeds on the table, after covering it with film or newspapers.
- Color most of the seeds orange, the smaller part green. Leave to dry.
- Carefully glue the dried seeds to the template image: orange ones to the pumpkin itself, green ones to its leaves.
Cheerful lion
In the middle age group, preschoolers learn about the world around them, get acquainted with different types of animals and their characteristics. An applique using maple leaves can help with this.
For the lesson, prepare:
- press-dried maple leaves of yellow and red shades;
- cardboard for the base;
- yellow or light orange colored paper;
- office glue;
- pink and black markers;
- plastic toy eyes.
Step-by-step instructions:
- Glue the leaves onto the cardboard radially so that their sharp ends stick out in different directions. It is advisable to glue them in 2-3 layers to make the applique voluminous. The glued leaves will become the lion's mane. Explain to the children that these African animals have thick manes.
- Draw the kennels of a lion's face on yellow paper. Use a black felt-tip pen to draw on the nose, mustache, and mouth. Color the inside of the mouth with a pink felt-tip pen. Cut out the outline.
- Separately cut out the ears, and paint their central part pink too.
- Glue a lion's face into the center of the foliage ring. Glue the ears a little higher between the leaves.
- To finish the job, glue on the toy eyes. If there are none, you can cut out eyes from white paper and draw on the irises and pupils.
