Sunshine from CDs
In order to make such a craft, old CDs, preferably with a yellowish tint, are suitable. In addition to them, you need to prepare:
- Beads.
- Glue.
- Lace or a piece of beautiful material.
- Yellow cardboard or foil of any color.
Progress:
- The disc is thoroughly wiped with a cotton pad pre-moistened in water.
- A circle is cut out of cardboard or foil, having a diameter smaller than that of the disk, but suitable to cover its central hole and glued to it.
- Around the glued circle there is decor made of beads and lace or fabric.
- It is better to choose transparent glue for fixing the decor, so it will be less noticeable on the finished craft. After completing the pasting of the perimeter of the circle, it is necessary to similarly paste over the outer perimeter of the disk.
Sun made of corrugated paper or organza
Making this craft requires perseverance and attention from the child. The craft is suitable for pre-kindergarten and primary school students.
To work you will need:
- Yellow cardboard;
- White corrugated paper (or organza);
- Glue;
- Scissors;
- Threads;
- Marker;
- Compass.
Progress:
- Using a compass, mark two circles of the same diameter on cardboard and cut them out.
- Rectangles measuring approximately 3 x 8 centimeters are cut out of corrugated paper (or organza), which are subsequently collected from one edge with an accordion, and fixed using a thread - these will be rays.
- The finished beam blanks are placed on one of the cardboard circles, after which they are glued, carefully flattening the assembled part.
- The second circle is glued on top. After the glue has dried, you can draw eyes, a nose and a smile on the sun.
Sun made using origami technique
Its rays are assembled from modules of three colors. The face is made of cardboard, from which a circle is cut out and covered with colored paper. After this, eyes, nose and mouth are drawn on the blank.
To work on this craft you will need:
- Paper of suitable colors;
- Felt pens or pencils;
- Cardboard;
- Scissors;
- Glue;
- Compass;
- Rope.
Progress:
- First, you need to make 24 modules (the rays of the future sun) of different colors - they are made up of 10 x 10 centimeter squares. The finished elements, alternating colors, are assembled into a chain and closed in a circle.
- Using a compass, a circle is drawn on cardboard, the size of which will allow it to be placed inside the hole formed by a closed chain of modules, and then it is cut out.
- Now you need to make a couple more yellow circles of equal diameter, each of which is 2 centimeters larger than the cardboard element. One of them depicts a face with open eyes (day), the other with closed eyes (night). To completely match the design on both drawn emoticons, it can be copied by overlaying the detail on the window glass.
- A rope is threaded through the beam blank, from which a loop of the required length is formed.
- Inside the blank there is a circle of cardboard, onto which parts with drawn eyes are glued on both sides. Due to their larger diameter, they firmly fasten between the base located in the center of the craft and the workpiece with rays.
- After the craft has dried well, it can be supplemented with various elements in the form of bangs or small braids, voluminous eyelashes, freckles, etc.
- After this, the finished sun can be hung by a rope loop on a chandelier, door handle or window and turned to the desired side depending on the coming time of day.
Handy household items for crafts
As a basis for making sun crafts, you can use ready-made round plastic products, such as lids from various containers or disposable plates. To paint such products in the desired colors, you can use acrylic paints and a type of glue suitable for plastic, one of which is silicone.
The face of the luminary can be drawn using paints and markers, both on the inside of the plate and on the outside. Rays in the form of palms drawn and cut out of cardboard are attached along the edge of the plate with a strip of glue.
When gluing the application to a wall or cardboard, you can use rubber gloves of appropriate bright colors instead of cardboard palms. It can be interesting to work with the use of multi-colored cocktail tubes.
Craft for the little ones
The simplest and most understandable craft for preschool children may be a paper sun craft.
To work you will need the most common set of materials:
- colored or corrugated paper in yellow, orange or red;
- glue in convenient packaging so that it is safe for the child to use it;
- special scissors for child labor;
- cardboard or a piece of thick paper to give a rigid shape to a craft or a base for applique.
To create a solar disk, you need to draw it on colored paper using any round object of the required size, which can be a saucer or plate. To draw the border of the rays, you will need to draw a circle of larger diameter.
The rays can be made from bent strips of paper, braid, fingers circled on paper of a different color and pasted in a circle, or bright corrugated paper.
Sun with rays made of accordion-folded paper.
A child of 4-5 years of age can easily cope with such a craft - the sun he makes will be an excellent gift for March 8th or a birthday for a mother, grandmother or sister. To work you will need:
- Colored paper in two bright colors (yellow, pink, orange, red are suitable);
- Sheets of cardboard of different colors;
- Glue;
- Scissors;
- Marker.
Progress:
- The rays of the future sun are collected from colored paper by folding its sheets like an accordion and cutting their edges at a forty-five degree angle.
- The resulting parts are glued together, alternating colors, resulting in a multi-colored circle.
- Make 2 circles of different colors from cardboard and glue them together. At the same time, one of them should be slightly larger than the other.
- On the resulting blank, draw eyes, a nose and a smile and glue the resulting face into the center of the circle of the previously assembled multi-colored circle.
- Additionally, you can also glue a skewer to the craft so that the finished sun can be installed, for example, in a flower pot.
