Children's crafts: inspiring ideas for hobbies and hobbies for all ages + 56 photos
Quite often, parents wonder how to organize their child’s leisure time so that it is not only interesting, but also educational. Moreover, experts note that this is much simpler than many fathers and mothers imagine.
And with this you will be helped by handmade children's crafts, which will teach your child some basic techniques for creating various products, as well as perseverance.
However, at the same time, you should remember that every child should be able to cope with the creation of these structures. This means that such crafts should be simple.
- But, as you know, genius lies precisely in simplicity.
If your child shows a genuine interest in creativity, he himself will give you some interesting ideas. But what to do if the baby was not interested in anything like this before, and you don’t know where to start?
- In this case, you should start with the simplest and most understandable tasks that will not cause difficulties when completed.
- In this article we will look at the simplest and most entertaining crafts, the process of creating which will undoubtedly attract the child’s attention and force them to use their imagination.
Let's start by creating a tree
The most popular children's paper craft is a tree. It is with the creation of such a simple applique that a long path to unusual and more complex homemade products begins. To create it you will need a fairly simple set of materials.
We recommend that you start by creating a flowering tree from multi-colored paper. To do this, you should purchase several sheets of colored paper, glue, a pencil and scissors. From dark paper you need to cut out the base of the tree - the trunk.
- Depending on what kind of tree you are trying to depict, you should select the thickness of the trunk.
- Of course, your child can use his imagination and create an absolutely amazing tree.
However, since in this case the child’s education is also important, care should be taken to ensure that the craft he creates is as similar to the original as possible.
After you finish cutting out the trunk, you should move on to the leaves. They can be of different shades.
- After you and your child have finished cutting out the necessary parts, all that remains is to assemble the design and glue it onto the sheet of paper that you have chosen as the background.
- It is worth noting that children's crafts made of wood are just as popular as those made of paper.
However, to create them you will need to be patient and start looking for suitable material. After all, you have to find a snag, which in shape will resemble either one of the animals or some object.
- By adding some decorative elements, you will create a unique and beautiful product that can even be used for interior decoration.
Additional elements can be parts cut from various materials. For example, from plastic cups, scraps of fabric, plasticine.
Flowers for decorating classrooms in kindergarten
Often, educators instruct parents, together with their child, to create some interesting craft in order to contribute to the improvement of the interior of the office. And in this regard, many problems arise, because mom and dad cannot always determine which craft is suitable in a given case.
Therefore, if you also cannot decide on a choice, we recommend that you make the most popular and simplest craft for kindergarten with your own hands - flowers from egg trays.
- After all, you probably have a tray in your house in which you previously stored or continue to store eggs purchased in the store.
- To create the composition you will need: scissors, egg trays, colored paper, paints and a piece of wire.
Each cell of your tray represents a bud. On them you should carefully cut out the petals along the pre-drawn contour. Once you're done cutting, you can start coloring.
However, before you start coloring the product, you need to place a carefully cut core of colored paper into each flower. A twisted strand of wire should be used as a stem. It should be threaded through the center of the core.
To make the stem look more aesthetically pleasing, you can use paper as a wrapping. Pay attention to the photo of children's crafts, which shows a bouquet of flowers made from egg trays. This is what the finished product should look like.
Clown for April 1st made of paper
Another great craft for April 1st will be a paper clown. Fold the red strip of paper into an accordion shape. We glue one end of it.
Paper accordion
Using plasticine, threads, beads and toy eyes, we create the face of a clown.
Clown face
We make an accordion suit out of paper. Glue the bead buttons.
Clown costume
Glue the handles from accordion-folded paper.
Paper pens
We make a cap out of paper. Our clown craft is ready! Let him remind us of how important it is to smile and be happy more often!
Clown for April 1st made of paper
Smiling sun on a stick for April 1
A very cute spring craft for April 1st - a sun made of paper and thread on a stick. To make it, cut out a circle from yellow cardboard. We make holes along the edges of the circle.
Holes in a circle
Cut the floss threads. We insert them into the holes and bandage them. The more threads we insert, the larger the craft will be.
Tying the strings
Using plasticine, we make a face on a cardboard base.
Plasticine face
Cut out a yellow circle from cardboard and fix the craft on a stick, gluing it between the circles. We made a very fun April Fool's craft!
Smiling sun on a stick
Paper pendant for kindergarten “Laughing Children”
You can use ordinary colored paper to make a funny “laughing children” pendant for April 1st. To do this, cut out pairs of people from colored paper.
Cut out people in pairs
Cut out a head from white paper. Draw eyes, nose and mouth. We make several such preparations.
Cut out the head and draw a face
From green paper or cardboard we cut out the base of the craft - a circle. We glue figures of people with faces around the circumference. We decorate the craft with flowers and greenery.
Cheerful fireworks on a foil stick
What could be more fun than bright holiday fireworks? To make it, take colored foil and cut it into fringes.
Cutting colored foil
Take a plastic cocktail stick and wrap it in cut foil.
Wrap the stick with fringe
We fix the foil on the stick with glue and tape.
Fix the foil on a stick
Straighten the foil.
Hooray! Happy April, 1! This toy craft will amuse both adults and children on April 1st!
Fireworks on April 1
