Unique crafts
Children of primary school and senior preschool age are already able to show their imagination and manual dexterity and create individual, unique crafts. In this case, you can use the following traffic light design techniques:
- quilling or twisting. This type of technique involves rolling up colorful strips of paper, in this case creating an original look for traffic signals. For many, this will seem difficult at first, but with the care and experience of a teacher or educator, any child can handle this technique.
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- trimming. Twisting also takes place here, but the work is more painstaking. Thin strips of colored paper are wound onto a pen shaft and then glued onto the template. You will need as many rolled paper strips as possible so that when gluing there are no gaps between them.
Traffic light from packages
The option is a little more complicated, but quite interesting.
Required:
- Bags (can be trash or cellophane)
- Scissors
- Plastic cover
- A thread
Progress:
- You need to fold the bags into an even stack, carefully cut off the bottom and top from them to get even rectangles. Cut them into even strips.
- Next, take a plastic lid and cut out two rings from it. We put them next to each other and wrap the polo with nets. Then we cut everything along the outer edge, push the rings apart and tie the pom-poms with thread. Trim the edges to make the pompoms even.
- We should end up with three pompoms of different colors. You need to connect them together with a thread. And our traffic light is ready.
- Very funny crafts can also be made from disks; you can crochet a traffic light, or you can simply make one from balls of thread. Much depends on your imagination, and there will always be enough available means.
Traffic light from a plastic bottle
This fabulous option is very easy. Let's turn on our imagination. We will need:
- Plastic bottle
- Brushes and paints (preferably gouache)
- Colored paper
- PVA glue
- Scissors
Work progress:
- We choose a plastic bottle, it is better to take the one with a longer neck.
- We paint it a neutral color (meaning not red, not yellow, not green). Let it dry.
- Next, we cut out circles from colored paper for the traffic light itself and details for our fairy-tale character. These are eyes, mouth, nose, ears, hands.
- The bottle is dry. Carefully glue the finished parts and, of course, the circles, making sure that the distance between them is the same.
- But our hero cannot be without hair! We also make hair from paper. Cut into thin strips and twist with scissors.
- We also make the cap out of paper. And look what happened. To fully complete our hero, we will add a rod or a road sign to the handles.
