Origami. How to make paper crafts for children of different ages with your own hands

Unlike adults, children cannot sit still. They do not like boredom and longing. Every minute they try to keep themselves busy with something. Making children's crafts is a useful way to keep your little one busy.

With the help of adults, the child creates whole works of art that in adulthood will remind him of his childhood.

Paper- the most popular material for creative activities with young children. When creating crafts, the child learns to handle scissors. Working with glue for the first time will seem difficult for a child, but over time this skill will improve.

At the same time, fine motor skills of the fingers develop. The process of making crafts forms patience, diligence, perseverance. Children 3-4 years old perform all paper work under the supervision of an adult.

Craft "Hares"

You need to start with the manufacture of light crafts. Most children 3-4 years old already know how to cut simple shapes out of paper with scissors.

For creating crafts, the child should cut out several strips of the same width. If it will be difficult for him, then first draw the contours of the strips using a ruler.

The hare's head is a strip of paper glued into a ring. Ears - glued two strips to the head. For the paws, take a wide strip and make small cuts at both ends. Slightly bend and glue the head on the body. We draw eyes. To complete the composition, the rabbits can be placed on the grass - green paper.

Gallery: crafts for children 3-4 years old (25 photos)

Crafts "Caterpillar" and "Bird"

Many different animals can be made from strips of paper. Here, for example, is a caterpillar. Caterpillar made from strips of paper of the same width. The color of the paper can be both monophonic and different. The blanks are also glued into a circle (ringlet).

Next, the rings are glued together, and a paper caterpillar is obtained. Eyes, horns are cut out of paper and glued on the head. The insect is placed on a green piece of paper. Using a hole puncher, we make several holes on the leaf, so we get the “eaten” leaf by the caterpillar.

Craft " birdie» is made from strips of the same width, but different lengths. The strips are cut from different colored paper. Again, glue each blank into a ring.

Craft "Lion"

On orange Draw a circle on paper and cut it out. On it, the child draws the eyes, nose and mouth of the future lion. We cut multi-colored strips of different lengths. Glue them along the edge of the circle as often as possible. To get "curls" - a lion's mane, we twist the paper with a pencil. To complete, you can invite the child to cut out a few thin strips - these will be the mustache of a lion.

Paper applications for children 3-4 years old

Crafts with children 3-4 years old can be made in the form of applications.

Starting with simple and single crafts, ending with whole compositions. Consider the easiest applications to make.

Applications on ready-made templates

This application is distinguished by its simplicity in manufacturing. And even the smallest child is able to create it. The help of an adult will consist in drawing the contours of a given object. For example, on cardboard we draw a large house with a roof, a window, a door.

The task of the child is to stick the cut-out blanks of various shapes into the voids. The picture-house can be completed by sticking arbitrary clouds, the sun, grass.

flower with wishes

To make this paper application, you will need the following tools and materials:

• base - a sheet of cardboard;
• regular and glitter glue;
• scissors;
• colored paper.

Progress:

1. From colored paper, cut out the petals, stem and core of the flower.
2. For the leaves of the flower, the palms of the child are used. On the reverse side of the green paper, trace the outline of the child's palms.
3. Next, the child independently sticks the flower petals on the cardboard. Petals are glued only to the base, that is, to the core. Thus, each edge of the petal can be twisted with a pencil or lifted for beauty.
4. Then the baby glues the stem, core and palm leaves.
5. After the craft dries, lift each leaflet and write a wish under it.

Use glitter glue to decorate. Such a children's paper application will remind you of how small the baby's hands were.

Application "Fish"

For work you will need:

• cardboard, colored paper;
• plate;
• ruler, scissors, pencil;
• glue.

Fish making process:

1. Use a plate to draw a circle. Let the kid draw its outline.
2. Next, it should be noted the sector, which will be somewhere around 1/6 of the entire circle.
3. Mark a sector with a ruler and cut it out.
4. Let the child glue the sector as a fish tail. But also let him cut out the eyes and glue them.

Fish can be decorated in different ways. For example, to create scales, we smear the whole fish with glue and sprinkle confetti on top.

Applications using various materials

Making crafts from various materials is even more exciting class. For the manufacture of children's crafts, not only paper can be used, but also fabric, plasticine, threads, yarn, cereals, natural materials and others. From several materials, voluminous applications are obtained, similar to a picture. Consider the following options:

Making children's crafts is useful in any age. At the age of 7–8 years, children already know how to use scissors and glue. Most of the work is done by themselves. Primary school children are well versed in various materials and are able to select them themselves.

Good afternoon, today I decided to collect in one article all ways make paper crafts that kids can do. For the DIY season of 2017 - it turned out to be a decent photo piggy bank of ideas that a child can make out of paper with their own hands. These paper crafts can be used for kindergarten or school (grades 1-5). There will be easy crafts for preschool children(from 3 to 7 years) - for the younger, middle and older groups. And there will also be crafts and more complicated ones that require more long school hours(for 45 minutes) - suitable for labor lessons for children in grades 1, 2, 3, 4. As well as heads of creative circles "Skillful hands" kindergarten or school will find many useful paper craft ideas for themselves.

• We will do flat crafts-applications.
• Volumetric crafts from colored paper and corrugated cardboard.
• craft toys from cardboard or thick paper.
• crafts using various techniques(half disks, fan, symmetrical fold, postcard).

At the moment, we already have thematic articles on the site with paper crafts,

And also a lot of ideas for paper NEW YEAR crafts in the article:

And in this article - we will look at different techniques that can be used for paper crafts for children of different ages.

So let's see what paper crafts I have collected in this piggy bank.

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In the technique of HALF DISK.

Colored paper crafts that we meet in kindergarten and at school most often look like applications. I myself really like effect applications 3D. There are quite a few ways to create bulges on the application.

In this article, I want to highlight a technology that is interesting in its graphics - these are crafts from round paper discs. When all the work is laid out in the form of whole or folded in half paper rounds.

Such a mosaic applique of round pieces is suitable for children 3-4 years old. It is just right for them in terms of pedagogical tasks of this age, when children still do not know how to work with scissors, but are already happy to glue ready-made template modules from colored paper.

Such crafts-appliqués look bright and unusual due to PARTIAL GLUE of modules - we put only half of the disk on the glue, and its second part sticks out in a fold.

And from circles or ovals bent in half, you can make not only flat applications, but also paper crafts-toys. Here's one for inspiration caterpillar of ovals bent in half- children from 3 years old cope with this task, if you help them fold the ovals in half. Children 4 years old will fold the ovals themselves, and even cut out a few of them. And for children 5 years old, you need to distribute colored rectangles, they themselves will cut the corners of the rectangles, thereby turning them into ovals, they themselves will bend them in half and fold them into a caterpillar.

Be smart and think WHAT ELSE can be constructed from paper semi-circles or semi-ovals. Surely you can make a frog, a panda, a giraffe, a hippopotamus, a penguin from such half-discs of a round or oval shape.

VOLUME application

From paper blades.

And here is another technology for convex paper applications. When the parts are glued in advance into the BLADES, and then such a bladed paper craft is glued with its blades onto the application cardboard.

Blades are obtained if Bend 3-4 identical parts in half, and then the bent walls of adjacent parts are glued to each other.

For example, the ladybug in the photo below consists from three paper circles. Cut out three circles, bent them in half. First, glue the halves bent in half on the left and right. And then the third kruglyash lays down like a book on the protruding halves of the glued kruglyash.

Craft "Ladybug" is suitable for children 3 years old. And the craft "Balloon" with a large number of blades is suitable for children 4-5 years old.

Any form of paper can be turned into a paddle part, the number of blades and the splendor of the part depends on how many parts you use in your bulk gluing.

In the same way, you can do paper crafts in three-dimensional form (in the form of objects) with your own hands - like these paper fruits in the photo below. Watermelon is suitable for crafts in the older group of kindergarten.

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ON SPRINGS.

And here's another paper craft with a bulging effect. Here, the volume of the application is transmitted by embossing a strip of colored paper bent into three folds. This autumn application is easy to do with your own hands - suitable for children of the middle and older groups (5, 6 years old).

In the center of the upper fold, we cut a hollow and place the silhouette of an owl inside. To make the owl hover at a distance from the back wall of the hollow, you need to stick a paper spring on the back of the owl. How to make a spring you will now understand, using the example of the following paper craft with a three-dimensional effect.

Here below we see a BEAR paper craft. The bear's paws are also glued at a distance from the body. And this distance between the paws and the body is achieved by sticking paper springs. Everyone in childhood made such spring worms. Below we see a master class that shows the process of creating such a paper spring and the whole craft as a whole.

The BEAR craft is suitable for children 3-4 years old (if all the details are already cut out and the springs are folded). Children 4 - 5 years old you can slowly cut out the silhouettes yourself. Children 5-6 years old already able to fold the springs themselves (and the lesson can be divided into 2 parts- in the first lesson we make springs and cut out part of the silhouettes - in the second lesson we cut and assemble everything together.

In the same way, you can do any craft. Below we see that the crown of the tree is made according to this principle. But with the same success, you can do bunch of balloons on a greeting card. Or bouquet of flowers from paper, where each flower will be at its convex level.

You can highlight with a bulk spring any details of paper crafts - bird wings, tiers of thorns on a hedgehog (photo below).

Or hares in thick grass (spring crafts in the photo below).

You can also make this paper craft using springs inside. It turns out a beautiful effect. And also legs-stands for multi-layer applications can be made not from paper springs, but from purchased thick double-sided tape. Such a plump adhesive tape is for sale - it has a thick, as it were, foam tape and it is sticky on both sides. It can be cut into stumps and glued between layers of crafts.

From such springs, you can make not only applications, but also independent paper crafts. Make a spring and beat it with other paper parts. For example, attach an oval muzzle, round ears, paws at the bottom and a long stripe-tail - and now it all starts to look like a paper mouse.

But paper penguins crafts based on the same spring. Or crafts-bugs. There is always unused black paper in the kindergarten in a set of colored paper - you always don’t know what to make of it - but here you are, black bugs, penguins and little crows.

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WITH FAN.

A paper fan is often used in children's crafts as a way to quickly create the desired shape of a part. Most often, a gluing fan is used as a tail for paper birds (or as wings).

The spreading fan blades may remind you of bat wings. Children's crafts for middle age (4-5 years).

The fan is similar to the lampshade of a table lamp - which means it will make an excellent do-it-yourself lamp craft (craft for children from 3 years old)

The fan can become the basis for children's crafts in the form of fairy-tale characters - friends of penguins or northern bears (crafts for children 5-7 years old).

If we fold the fan in half - and unbend its blades into 2 semicircles - and glue the semicircles that meet with glue, then we will get a ROUND FAN.

From such a blank, you can make a lot of paper children's crafts. The simplest and fastest are apples (add a stalk and a leaf) or birds (add a wing, an eye and a beak).

Ready-made blanks of round fans are used in classes with children 3-4 years. And aged 5 years the child is already given the task of creating such a round fan out of colored paper.

By adding various details to the paper fan, we can get the image of any paper animal (a black cat, or a red, white bunny (as in the photo with children's crafts below).

You just have to teach children how to make a fan with their own hands, practice several times. Then teach them to bend the fan in half and unfold both halves into two semicircles - and glue these semicircles with a glue stick. And then the children themselves will surprise you, they will throw up more and more new ideas for crafts, turn a round paper fan into a snowman, then into a mermaid bra, into a round red nose of a clown.

And if you make several round fans of slightly different diameters at once and string them on a wire, then we can get a voluminous spherical paper craft. The fan ball can become an apple, a pumpkin, a snowman, a sheep, a white rabbit and any other children's character.

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on an accordion stand.

There is another original way to make paper crafts for children. Below we see the principle of creating such crafts. From cardboard, we fold an ordinary accordion. And we use it as TIERS for sticking paper parts.
In the photo of the children's crafts below, we see how the accordion turned into a cake craft. Each row of an accordion is a tier of a cake with candles.

Note, the side high part of the craft in the photo below (where the balloons are) is not necessary.

In the same way, according to this principle, we can use the rows of an accordion like rows of Christmas trees in a forest. And between them put a deer or a snowman, or hide a bunny.
Rows of pots can be used as streets on which to place houses.
Or the rows of such a stand can be folded from blue paper and designed as SEA WAVES, and then it remains to stick dolphins or rows of boats on them. Or peeping sharks.

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on a flat cardboard template.

And now we will see crafts for children, where all the elements are pasted on a silhouette cut out of thick cardboard.

For example, we take cardboard and draw a silhouette of a shark on it. Any child from 4 years old is already learning to cut with scissors - he cuts out the silhouette himself with his own hands, slowly crooked, but he should already myself cut along the line holding the scissors in a stationary hand, and rotate the sheet of cardboard as the cut line rotates along the silhouette ..

When the silhouette of a shark is cut out of blue cardboard, we give the child a round blank of white paper - the task of the child is to cut it into teeth (just stuff the triangles obliquely with scissors, and then bend every tooth so that it protrudes inside the general circle. And this paper mouth remains to be glued onto the silhouette of a shark. And we'll get awesome crafts for children 4-7 years old. Sharks are great crafts for boys. Little brave men will be happy to tame a dangerous sea predator.

Application details do not have to be from colored paper. For example, a scarf on a polar bear below is cut out of a cover from colored paper (the cover was in a box). And the carrot on the craft with the hare is white cardboard, which was previously painted with gouache (they painted yellow-orange-red stripes).

You can peep ideas for the same applications on a cardboard silhouette in children's cartoons, or see them on a children's coloring book.

Such paper crafts for children 5 years old can become the basis for a children's theater. If you stick on the back of each craft long handle made of thin wooden lath(you can buy it in the building department of the store) - or the pen can be rolled up from a sheet of paper and wrapped tightly with tape for tightness.
Children, hiding behind a screen and holding their characters on sticks, can put on performances entertaining parents, grandparents with homemade reprises of famous fairy tales.

And you can also cut round holes for children's fingers in such a craft - then you can already play the scenes of the TABLE THEATER. Here in the photo below we see a sheep and a hare made of paper with such slots for fingers.

Also, your paper characters can have a special PAW GRIP, and you can insert a candy or a pencil and a small gift for someone into this grip.

By the way, here's a good idea - such a character can be pasted on a postcard and give him a paw rolled up 100 dollar bill- you get a gift card with money for a friend's birthday.

Such flat cardboard crafts can be supplemented with FOLD elements (as in the bunny in the photo below), or TWIST elements (as in the snail below). Or additional ENTOURAGE elements (as with the cat below).

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with paper stripes.

Also, the application can be made voluminous if you use LOOP FROM PAPER STRIPS. Colored paper is cut into strips, and each strip is smoothly folded and glued at its ends. Such curved stripes can be the petals of a lush aster or a modest chamomile.

Or such paper loops can serve feathered swan- left photo below. This craft is suitable for children ages 4 and up. They themselves glue the already cut strips into loops and stick them in rows on the tail of the swan.

But the peacock (in the right photo above) is already craft for older kids. For grades 1-2 - because in a lesson in kindergarten, children in 25 minutes will not have time to make a peacock from start to finish. But in 45 minutes of a school lesson, children will just cope with this task.

Please note that the peacock is made of paper from strips of different lengths. The yellow strip is the shortest - it is the first to bend into a loop. Then the green strip is glued to the loop with one edge and also bent to the place where the yellow loop-strip is glued. Then we do the same with a slightly longer blue stripe.

Thus we get EIGHT THREE-COLOR LOOP for the peacock tail. They all stick together ribs to each other- in one bunch-bouquet. And at the junctions of their gluing, we attach peacock spots. Then we attach to the back cardboard silhouette of a peacock. Great creative piece.

Below we see how flower crafts are created according to the same principle. In the same way, we make a tail for our peacock from the photo above.

Or a paper craft for girls - SHOES-SANDALS - here the strips serve as straps to create a woven toe of paper flip flops.

And if you cut strips of the SAME LENGTH, then it is convenient to make a spherical braid out of them. Such a braid in the form of stripes crossed in a circle can serve as a shell for a turtle, a balloon, or the middle of a lush flower or a snowball from a snowman.

Or it can be a delicious apple bitten off the side (left photo below). And inside such an apple, you can put a worm from a paper spring (see above for the method with a spring).

If you glue the strips crosswise in the center ... and pierce holes from the ends with a hole punch ... and lift these ends with holes up ... and collect them on a thread, then we will get a paper pear craft (look at the right photo above).

And if take NOT SEPARATE strips - but cut a sheet of paper into strips NOT CUT TO THE EDGE - like a long fringe. And then arrange this long striped fringe in the form of a paper craft-hat.

By a similar principle, beautiful paper crafts are made in the form bird cages. Such a craft only at first glance seems complicated. But in fact, everything is available for children from 4 years old. And even a child of 3 years old can cope with the help of an adult who will show, then smear with glue and where to stick it.

Below we see this cage in the blank (photo-master class). First, these are paper strips on a wide strip of the base. Then we wrap the base in a ring. And we bend the strips sticking up into an arch, each relative to each other. Quick and easy craft. It remains only to make a paper bird and hang it on a string under this paper roof.

That is, such a craft is easy to do with your own hands for children even 3-4 years old.

And you can also make paper children's crafts based on a BALL from strips. A ball of stripes is collected on a needle and thread. Since you can’t give a needle to children, you can go the other way and make holes in three places of each strip in advance with a hole punch - along the center and along two edges.

The strips are folded crosswise onto the central hole - a thread is threaded into it from a suspended bead from below. A large bead at the bottom prevents the strips from slipping off the thread. Next, a few more beads are strung on the thread (see carefully inside the lamb, they are visible in the photo). And then the same thread is threaded into all the holes at the ends of all the strips - THIS IS THE BALL. If anyone does not understand, there is a photo-master class in

You can attach any details to such paper balls, turning them either into frogs or hares (as in the photo of children's crafts below). With your hands and your imagination, you can make a variety of animals.

These are the chickens and the hen made by craftswoman Tatyana. What characters will you invent? Such crafts from stripes can be done in the 1st, 2nd, 4th grade of the school. And it is also suitable for diligent children of 5-6 years old.

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in the quilling technique.

And paper strips can be wrapped in a tight roll-twist. Then give this twist the shape of a petal or a leaf and make paper applications of flowers with such twists. The technique is quite well-known, called quilling. The technique is suitable for children from 5 years old, when the fingers are already dexterous enough to hold the twist on the holder rod.

Below we see how the usual round twist is given different shapes (they pinch it with a finger from the right sides) and the twist becomes tear-shaped or cup-shaped, or triangular. And from such twisted modules we add a quilling application.

Below we see children's crafts made of colored paper using this technique. You see, paper consumption does not have to be large - the craft itself looks miniature and can decorate a handmade postcard. The child will be pleased to give his mother a handmade card.

Within the framework of a school or kindergarten, the time for doing such crafts is limited - and we can only make a few of these modules. The process is laborious for children's fingers and takes time. You can break the craft into 2 classes - on the first we make modules, on the second we form crafts.

Children's crafts in the form of a cupcake are very popular with girls.

A cupcake and a bird is a very quick craft because it does not require many twists. Such crafts can be done by children in grades 1 and 2 - slowly, gently twisting and gluing the twist tails.

But a bear or a bunny is already a paper craft for children who have gotten their hands on simple quilling tasks. For grades 3, 4, 5 - this level of complexity of do-it-yourself crafts is just right.

By the same principle, you can make larger twisted crafts - if you take not a thin cut strip, but a folded sheet of paper. The thick folding of the sheet will allow you to get large twisted parts and you can make a large appliqué out of them - for example, such a penguin or an owl made of paper.

And also large twisting crafts are obtained from corrugated cardboard. Due to the ribbed relief, such a corton forms wide volumetric parts and can be used to make 3D paper toys. Craft for the older group of kindergarten or for school (grade 1,2,3,4).

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based on the CONUS.

A paper cone is also a good base for children's craft ideas. We all made a Christmas tree from a cone in kindergarten with our own hands. And now we can already make any character out of paper in the form of a cone craft.

So that the cone is not too wide and not too narrow - its razmerka (flat pattern) should be an angle of more than 90 degrees - usually 120 degrees (as in the photo below) - that is, a third of a full circle.

For a giraffe, you can make the cone thinner and sharper. Then we need a quarter of a circle (that is, not 120 degrees, but 90 degrees is enough).

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folded in half.

But children's crafts that are made from a sheet of paper that was bent in half and cut out the silhouette - as a result, we got a double-sided craft with the same symmetrical sides.

And paper birds can also be made using the same technique. In the bird (pictured below), we see that the wings are a fan made of paper or napkins. And in the fold of the upper part of the bird, we make a slot and insert the fan there.

For animal crafts, elephant ears can be inserted into such a slot. And also, for example, a lion's mane made of cardboard or thick paper.

To such BENDING CRAFTS, you can attach not only wings, but also a head - which will be perpendicular to the body. See the photo below with an example of a children's craft "Black Cat" made of paper.

The head of this cat is attached according to the same principle as the wings-fan of the bird above - ALSO IN THE SLOT. If you look closely, you will see that the head has fold too, which divides the head into 2 planes (posterior and anterior).

THE BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD continues with the ears, AND THE FRONT PLANE OF THE HEAD contains the glued eyes and whiskers of the cat.

A slot is made in the back of the cat (as in the bird above for wings) - and the BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD is inserted into this slot. And the front plane simply hangs in front and is not inserted into the slot.

A very simple paper craft for older children (age 5-6 years). And for children in grades 1-2, it’s also great do-it-yourself work.

It is possible to provide for such a craft scheme addition in the form of a tummy- like these hares below. To do this, you just need to draw additional processes of paper in the abdomen area, which then, after the silhouette is folded, WRAPPED WITH A ROLL and fastened with a stapler or glue.

You can slightly modify this principle of crafts - leaving between the two halves-bochins the UPPER BACK PLATFORM. That is, at the top of the part, make not one fold, but two folds at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other - this is how we get the back.

These bears made of cardboard (or thick paper) have just such a back.

And these paper birds (pictured below) also have a back. And thanks to this site, we were able to provide for the tail part (it became a natural continuation of the dorsal part of the bird).

Both birds and bears according to this scheme can be drawn in advance on a template made of paper, then circle this template on a sheet of cardboard by drawing in advance the internal fold lines (those that go along the back). And the task of the child is to cut the silhouette of the template and bend it along the internal lines. That is, the craft is available to children from 5 years old, and is suitable for middle and older groups of kindergarten and for school lessons of creativity and labor.

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SIMPLE ORIGAMI.

For young children, it is difficult to make multi-step origami crafts. Therefore, it is better to start with simple schemes, which are then supplemented with cut out elements, giving them a resemblance to the intended character. So we get easy crafts.

You yourself, with your own hands, you can experiment with a sheet of paper - fold it this way and that, and then think about what this folding sheet might look like ... but what if ears are here, eyes are here, and nose is here .... wow, this looks like a great MOUSE.

Here's another simple folding of paper along diagonal lines that makes it possible to get a fold for the Ladybug craft. Spots and a muzzle can be drawn with a marker or cut out of colored paper.

The simplest thing a small child can do is fold a sheet of paper into two folds and get base-blank for a character made of paper, whose mouth opens, and therefore you can make him not only a muzzle, but also a mouth with teeth and tongue.

This children's craft is suitable for classes in paper design in kindergarten. She needs double-sided colored cardboard or the same thick paper. It is good to buy office colored paper for such crafts - it has a higher density than standard children's colored paper.

Or children can make their own hands like these easy folding bed crafts. To do this, a sheet of paper (A4 format) is cut along a beveled diagonal. And then it folds into 2 folds (to get 3 parts). The wide side of the folded paper is not glued onto a sheet of colored cardboard and then decorated according to the design of the sketch.

Children's paper crafts.

DROP template.

If we roll a wide strip of paper with the ends together, then we get teardrop-shaped twist.

On the basis of such a simple blank, you can also make a variety of craft designs - a blue paper whale, a ladybug (glue wings to a drop).

It is convenient to make mice or a hedgehog from a paper template in the form of a drop.

Can i to such drop-shaped details add on top round paper roll- to make a head. So even more options for simple and easy crafts - bunny, duckling, swallow.

Turn on your imagination and multiply ideas.

And if you connect a whole series of strips together like CHAIN ​​LINKS, then you can get such a green crocodile from paper loops.

And here are some more simple crafts based on a wide strip, bent into a ring or into navicular shape.

In the craft with the boat - we first do holder at the bottom of the boat- it's just a small rectangle of paper, which has small sides bent on both sides. And then we glue the REAL BOARDS OF THE BOAT FROM BLUE PAPER to these bent sides. Rectangle with edges in the center will not let the sides of our boat collapse towards each other.

The craft is suitable for children from 5 years old.

And here is a children's paper craft, where white paper strips also imitate the body of a swan. Here the form holder is a roll of white paper twisted into a long tube. Craft for children 5-6 years old.

Crafts-postcards

from paper.

And of course, if you like to make children's crafts from paper and cardboard, then opener cards are a suitable topic for children from 3 years old. Ideas for opening crafts can be very different. For example, an aquarium with a fish. Or craft-valentine with spring birds.

You can make a simple children's craft in the form of a castle - the gates of which will be opened for boys by knights and soldiers, and for girls by beautiful princesses hidden inside a paper bastion.

Crafts-postcards can be a great gift for March 8, made by hand. For example, here is a cup with tulips. The handle for the cup can be cut out as a separate piece and glued to the side of the mug.

Or you can make an apron craft with carved paper lace (lace can be obtained from ready-made paper napkins, or cut a snowflake out of paper, cut off its lace edge and we will get a border for the apron.

You can cut out the silhouette of the can on the craft - seal it with a thin layer of the file (on double-sided tape). And also stick a paper pocket (the back wall of the craft) and put hearts in this transparent front pocket.

Here is another technique VOLUME POSTCARDS. She is simple. Fold a piece of paper in a fold. And on the edge of the bend we do 2 notches scissors (any length and width). And then we simply push the place between these incisions with a FINGER into the postcard - and it BUGS out in the form of such a rectangular stand.

And now we stick any element on this stand. For example a cupcake.

If you make three pairs of such cuts - push them with your finger inside the postcard, then you can stick a cupcake on each of them. And checkboxes on top. Here is a simple children's craft and ready. Interesting and non-standard.

To get started, practice on a piece of a regular sheet - bend in half, cut it twice and push the incised part inward. You will see that it is simple.

And you can show your kids the same way. And then on such a stand (already pushed inside the postcard) you will stick any craft (butterfly, dinosaur, rocket).

Any original ideas can be realized in this technique of voluminous postcards. That is, this is another field for children's fantasy paper crafts.

The longer you make paired cuts, the further the strip-stand will be curved inside your postcard. You can see this in the example with the postcard craft in the photo below.

Crafts openers can have a surprise in the form of a folding fan. Under such a folding bed, you can arrange a peacock with a magnificent tail.

Of course, such a complex carving (as in the photo below) is difficult for a child. But for children, you can simplify any idea - let the fan be not carved, but simply cut out the peacock spots separately and stick them on the fan blades.

Or a cot inside the postcard can be in the form folding chain of symmetrical elements- butterflies, flowers (that is, the main thing is that there is a symmetry of the folds).

We cut out any identical details - butterflies, flowers, hearts. The main thing is that the left half and the right one should be like a mirror image of each other. And then these parts can be glued in halves to each other (not all the halves should be smeared with glue, but only the outer edges). And then we get a multi-colored accordion of parts. And paste this accordion into a postcard. Also a beautiful craft - night butterflies, bright but against the background of a dark sky.

These are the ideas I collected and systematized - for your future paper crafts. I am sure that now you will not only be able to repeat the crafts presented here with the children, but also CREATE YOUR OWN AUTHOR'S WORKS for each of the proposed METHODS.

After all, when you understand the method, and when you see that it allows itself to be widely interpreted - multiplying the same technical idea in the form of a variety of crafts - then you just have to CONTINUE THE CHAIN ​​OF IDEAS.

And I wish you the most original creative finds. And the children will be very happy to implement them in the most diligent and inspired way.

Good luck with your children's crafts.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site

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Paper crafts designed just for children are so popular mainly because of the availability of this type of material. When doing paper crafts, the child develops patience, accuracy, perseverance, learns to work with scissors and glue. Such crafts are made quite easily, and the child can easily cope with the task on his own, well, or with a little help from adults. To make paper crafts, you need cardboard, colored or plain paper, glue and scissors - all these materials and tools are usually present in every home for crafts for children.

When doing paper crafts with a 3-year-old child, it should be borne in mind that he is unlikely to know how to use scissors, so an adult will have to cut out the details, and he will be able to color and glue the details where needed and on his own. An excellent example of a simple craft for young children is the following animals:

We create interesting paper crafts for children and their parents

In order to make one of your child's favorite animals, you need to cut out the template, let the child color it where necessary and, if necessary, help to connect the parts with glue.

Another simple paper craft for a child of 3-4 years old can be such caterpillars made from paper strips glued together with rings:

For children 4-5 years old, the “City” craft will be very interesting - it is done quite simply, and since at this age children, as a rule, already know how to use scissors, your help will be mainly of a controlling and recommendatory nature.

To make such a craft, you will need a set of colored paper, a set of corrugated cardboard, scissors and glue.

Stages of work.

We take cardboard of light gray or light blue shades as the basis of the application, unfold it in a horizontal position and glue a black strip along the lower cut. Glue a narrow white strip in the center of the black strip - we have a road.

Above the road we glue a strip of green color - a lawn, and on the lawn we place rectangles of brown, beige or orange shades with small squares-windows cut into them - these will be the houses of our city. We will place these high-rise buildings on the lawn and glue them.

We cut out Christmas trees or other trees from corrugated paper and glue them between the houses.

Now we cut out the roofs of houses in the shape of a trapezoid from corrugated paper and glue them to the houses, cut out a traffic light from black paper and glue it next to the road, and glue a pedestrian crossing opposite the traffic light from strips of white paper.

It remains to “revive” our city - we cut out and glue cars from colored paper of different colors that move along the road in different directions, we make small clouds from white paper or napkins, and between the clouds we glue a bright and radiant sun cut out of yellow paper.

Application on the theme "My city" is completed. It remains to hang it on the wall to decorate a room or classroom.

With the help of light pink cardboard, metal wire, a disposable paper plate and glue, you can make such a doctor Aibolit that children 6-7 years old will surely like.

To do this work, you first need to cut out the outline of Dr. Aibolit's head, cut a paper plate in the form of a beard and mustache, make a doctor's cap from an A4 sheet and put all the details together with glue and draw the eyes with a marker. Nose and red cross on cap.

Children 8 - 9 years old can be entrusted with the manufacture of a more complex volumetric application, which is suitable even for decorating the interior of an apartment.

Here is such an application "Blossoming Apple Tree" children at this age will be able to do on their own, of course, under the strict guidance of adults.

Required materials and tools:

• White and colored paper;
• Packaging and ordinary cardboard;
• Scissors and glue.

As a background for the application, a sheet of gray A3 paper, located horizontally, is suitable.

Stages of work.

We cut out about 10 strips of arbitrary shape from thick brown paper, 10 cm long and about 1 cm wide. Randomly arrange the strips on a sheet of paper so that they look like a branch.

Cut strips of 0.5 * 2 cm from the packing cardboard and glue them under the branches, while the branches seem to rise above the background.

From green paper, cut out about 15 stenciled leaves and stick them randomly throughout the branch.

Cut out 20 flowers from ordinary white paper using a stencil, make small pink centers for them and glue them.

Cut strips of yellow paper as thin as possible, fold them into stars and place these stars in the center of the flowers, securing with glue.

Twist the yellow stripes a little inside the flower, and lift the petals and give them a little volume. After that, randomly glue the finished flowers to the branch.

A branch of a flowering apple tree is ready!

Video on the topic of the article

In conclusion, we suggest that you watch a few video stories about what other paper crafts you can do with your child to develop his creativity and imagination. Play and create various interesting crafts with your children, do not spare your free time for them, because they will be small for only a few years.

Summary: DIY paper crafts for kids. How to make paper crafts with your child. Children's paper craft.

Paper is the most accessible material for creative activities with children, which is why paper crafts are so popular. In this article, we will tell you about the most interesting paper crafts for children. When making paper crafts with your own hands, the child learns to work with scissors, develops fine motor skills, accuracy, patience. Working with glue also requires certain skills from the baby. Not always everything turns out the first time as beautifully and neatly as we would like. We tried to select for you only those paper crafts that children can handle on their own or with a little help from adults.

1. Paper crafts. DIY paper crafts

We will start with the simplest paper crafts that even small children can do. By the age of 4, most children already know how to cut simple shapes out of paper with scissors. To make a do-it-yourself bunny paper craft, the kid must cut out several strips of paper of the same width. The hare's head is made of a strip of paper glued with a ring. The ears are glued on top separately. To make paws, it is necessary to make small incisions on both sides on the strip that is intended for the body. The finished paper craft must be glued onto a strip of green paper - "grass".

Curly birds. Also a very simple paper craft for children. The body and head of the bird are made of colored paper strips of the same width but different lengths. Each strip of paper is glued with a ring, after which the rings are inserted into each other and glued together in one place. Even a small child can make such a paper craft for children.

Here is another version of a similar colored paper craft. These birds had their tails twisted around a pencil. For detailed instructions on how to make this paper craft, see the link.

Craft from colored paper "Lion". This cute, multi-colored lion is also made from colored paper strips swirled with a pencil.

Similarly, you can make a paper beard with Santa Claus.

3. How to make paper crafts. Children's paper crafts

Separately, I would like to talk about flowers made from strips of paper. As in the previous crafts, instruct the child to cut strips of paper. A child of 3-4 years old can easily cope with this task. After that, help him cut out the middle of the flowers and stems with leaves. First, separately glue each strip of paper in the form of a "loop" (these will be the petals of the future flower). Then, in the correct sequence, stick all the details of the application on the cardboard base.

4. Paper crafts. paper weaving

Weaving is one of the oldest art forms. With it, you can do a lot of useful things: bookmarks for books, rugs, baskets, etc. In addition, paper weaving brings up perseverance, accuracy, patience, develops attention, eye, coordination of movements. There are several types of paper weaving. In this article we will tell you about the simplest, and therefore the most popular type of weaving - direct paper weaving.

To make paper craft "Rug" you will need:

Two sheets of colored paper in contrasting colors
- ruler, simple pencil, scissors, glue

On the reverse side of the sheet, it is necessary to make markings, which are applied with a pencil using a ruler. To do this, you need to step back from the edge on all sides by 1 cm - this will be a border. Draw horizontal lines every 1-1.5 cm. Fold the width (length) of the base with the front side inward and make cuts along the marking lines to the border, unfold the workpiece.

Cut strips of a different color (the width of the strips is equal to the distance between the cuts).

Start weaving from the wrong side in the 1st strip: the strip, like a duck, emerged, hid, etc. Glue the end of the strip from the wrong side.

In this technique, you can make many unusual paper crafts. Here are examples of just a few of them.

Material prepared: Anna Ponomarenko

One of the most common materials for children's creativity is paper. Paper crafts for kids is one of the fun activities for both kids and parents. Joint creativity unites and develops creative abilities.

Paper handling:

• develops fine motor skills in children;
• promotes concentration;
• develops imagination;
• forms artistic taste;
• develops an eye;
• stimulates the development of memory;
• activates thought processes;
• develops patience;
• contributes to the creation of game situations.

There are various techniques for working with paper:

• Application. It can be broken or cut, flat or voluminous, made of paper or napkins.
• Quilling is one of the types of appliqué. A drawing is applied to the base of thick paper. The image is filled with elements from narrow strips of paper twisted in a special way.
• Mosaic (from French: folded from pieces) - an application made from geometric shapes.
• Paper plastic - artistic modeling from paper.

You will find even more articles with instructions for creating all kinds of crafts with your own hands on the site - myhobby.guru

Paper crafts for preschool children

From an early age, children enjoy doing DIY crafts especially from paper.

butterflies

Butterfly 1

To cope with such a craft and two year old. Of course, we can't do without your help. Fold a sheet of white paper in half and draw half a butterfly. You can choose any shape and size of wings. It is advisable to make a big butterfly.

Then the butterfly needs cut and unfold. Give your child some finger paints and have them color one side of the butterfly. Before the paint is dry, fold the butterfly so that the unpainted part lies on the painted one. Press and unfold the butterfly, let it dry.

Such a paper masterpiece can decorate your baby's room.

Butterfly 2

Can you make a butterfly baby handprints. This craft can be done with a child 3-6 years old. For this you will need the following materials:

• sheets of colored paper;
• a sheet of white cardboard;
• scissors;
• glue;
• marker, felt-tip pens, sequins, stickers and other elements for decorating a butterfly.

On a colored sheet of paper, with a simple pencil, circle the contours of the right and then the left palm of the baby. Cut out the resulting patterns twice. Get four wings palms of different colors.

Glue the cut out wings onto a white sheet of cardboard. On colored paper, draw an oval for the butterfly's body. Let the child carefully cut it out with scissors and glue it to the junction of the wings. Butterfly eyes can be made in a different way: draw with a felt-tip pen or stick two small white circles, in the center of which put dots with a marker. You can also stick ready-made eyes. Draw the mustache and mouth.

Have your child decorate the butterfly wings. Let the kid show his imagination. For decoration, you can use glitter, stickers, or just paint with felt-tip pens.

Mom will definitely save this paper butterfly with the palms of her beloved child.

Butterfly 3

To make this beautiful, paper, airy butterfly with your own hands, you need the following materials:

• paper (thin or napkins, regular color or origami, sheets from a glossy magazine can be);
• wire or thread;
• scissors;
• glitter or other materials for decoration.

Draw on paper two squares 10x10 cm and 8x8 cm. In the future, you can make any sizes of the squares. To make the butterfly look beautiful, make the square for the upper wings 2–3 cm larger than the square for lower wings.

Have your child cut out these squares.

You will fold one square diagonally with an "accordion", and let the child do it with the second. You can choose any width of the folds, the narrower the folds, the more magnificent the butterfly will turn out.

Press the resulting wing blanks with the centers to each other and secure by bandaging them thread or wire.

The abdomen, head and antennae can be made from paper, wire or beads. You can round off the wings with scissors. The resulting butterfly is an elegant craft that can decorate a baby's room. It will look even more impressive if it is decorated with sequins or other decorative materials.

Mosaic Application

This type of craft will be interesting for children of any age, although a three-year-old child will cope with this work. To create a mosaic applique, you will need the following materials:

• a rectangular sheet of white cardboard;
• colored paper;
• scissors;
• simple pencil;

On a white sheet of cardboard, draw with a simple pencil the outlines of a fish, mushroom, sun, or other simple object that would have enough space inside for gluing mosaic elements.

From colored paper, cut strips about 2 cm wide. Then ask your child to cut out small squares, triangles or other geometric shapes from these strips. With the resulting mosaic elements, let the child seal the inner space of the drawn figure. At the same time, it is necessary to glue the elements of the paper mosaic close to each other. This craft can be an original gift for mom or grandmother.

Volume application ladybug

This craft can be done by a child of 4-5 years. The main thing is to correctly tell the baby the sequence of actions. It’s even better if you do this craft with him, showing you how to perform each action correctly.

First, prepare circle templates with diameters of 10 cm, 5 cm and 1 cm, colored paper, a white sheet of cardboard and glue.

Have the child use the template to draw two large circles on a piece of red paper. On a black sheet of paper, circle one large circle, one smaller and 6 small circles.

With your own hands, with the help of scissors, let him cut out all the circles drawn.

Now in the middle of the white cardboard will stick a large black circle - the torso. The circle, which is smaller, needs to be glued so that it goes a little on the big one. This will be the head.

Now let him decorate the wings with black small circles, gluing them with glue.

Having learned how to make such a craft, a child can diversify his work by placing a ladybug on a leaf or flower.

Paper crafts for primary school children

Nosed bookmarks

This craft is very easy to do. A preschooler will also cope with it, but it will be especially pleasant for a first grader to make such a bookmark for his first textbooks.

This will require the following materials:

• colored cardboard;
• scissors;
• ruler;
• chenille (fluffy) wire;
• glue;
• eyes.

Cut out a 6x12 cm rectangle from a sheet of colored cardboard.

Step back from the sides one and a half centimeters and draw two parallel segments 8 cm long. Make a cut with scissors along the marked lines.

The middle stripe will serve as the nose. At the bottom of it with a simple pencil, draw a rounding and cut it out with scissors.

Now glue the eyes (if not ready, you can draw them).

Make one or two holes at the top of the head with a hole punch. Pass the chenille wire through them and give it the shape of horns or antennae.

Having shown imagination, the child will be able to make bookmarks of different shapes and sizes with his own hands, as well as decorate them at his discretion. The main thing should remain unchanged - this is a long nose at the bookmark.

Particular delight among younger students is caused by voluminous toys made of paper. It's easy to make them. You need to print the templates, cut them out and glue them. The kids love it. And then they are happy to play with toys that they made with their own hands.

Here are some diagrams of your favorite papercraft cartoon characters.

Papercraft schemes

Paper crafts for middle school children

For children of middle school age, it will be interesting to make a puppet toy with their own hands. To make one toy you will need:

• toilet paper roll;
• rope or twine;
• two caps from a plastic bottle;
• awl;
• scissors;
• glue;
• wand (control bar);
• acrylic paint;
• fishing line.

To make this craft you need:

1. Paint the lids and toilet paper roll orange.
2. For arms and legs, make four holes on the sides of the roll with an awl.
3. Make a hole in the center of each cap with an awl.

Cut two small ropes of the same length. Tie a knot at the end of each. From the inside of the roll, thread the free ends of the ropes into the hand hole and tie knots at the ends. The handles are ready.

Do the same for the legs. Only the ropes need to be cut longer and the ends threaded into the hole in the lids, fixing them with a knot.

On a sheet of paper you need to draw the head and tail of the fox. If you don’t know how to draw, you can use the template, decorate them with paints and cut them out. After that, glue them to the roll-torso.

Now it remains to tie to the legs and head (roll) along the fishing line and fix them on the control bar.

origami lotus

Children can give this simple and original DIY craft to their mother or grandmother.

To make a lotus, you will need green, white and yellow origami paper. Scissors and strong thread or wire.

Cut out 5 rectangles 7.5x15 cm in green and 10 of the same rectangles in white, as well as 3 rectangles 4x10 cm in yellow.

Let's figure out how to assemble a lotus flower step by step - this wonderful paper craft.

Fold the green rectangle in half along the long side. Unfold the paper and fold the triangles to the center on one side and the other.

Alternately bend both long sides to the center.

Make 5 green blanks in this way.

Now fold the white rectangle in half along the long side. Turn it upside down and fold the triangles as you folded in the green rectangle.

Bend the long sides to the center, then bend in half. Should be a boat.

Repeat all steps with the remaining white leaves.

Fold the yellow rectangle in half lengthwise and again across.

Cut with scissors into narrow strips, but not completely, so that you get a fringe. These will be the stamens. There will be three such blanks.

Now you can collect the flower. The green blank is folded in half and we alternately put two white blanks on it. We attach a yellow stamen on top. Repeat these steps two more times. As a result, you will receive three sets, each of which consists of green, two white blanks and stamens.

Assemble the two remaining sets in the same way, but without stamens. Now assemble the blanks. First take a set with stamens, then without yellow stamens, again with stamens. Place the resulting sets on top of each other, alternating sets with and without stamens. Take the set with yellow stamens first. Tie all these blanks in the middle with threads or wire. Now bend the blanks to the sides.

Start collecting the flower from the stamens. In those petals where there are stamens, we bend them so that the “tails” look up. Now lift up and spread the white petals through one. Get the first row of petals. Assemble the second row. The remaining petals also lift up through one. Perform the third row in the same way as the first and second.

Raise up the last row of petals. And finally, straighten the green leaves. So your original lotus is ready.