DIY paper crafts. Crafts from colored paper (106 photos): instructions and patterns for creating amazing toys and decorations

In schools and kindergartens, a lot of time is devoted to making paper products. Children of all ages love to create with this material.

When creating crafts, imagination is involved, creativity also develops fine motor skills of the fingers. Photo of paper crafts

Unusual paper crafts

DIY paper crafts in the form of souvenir boxes and numbers can be created using the drawn diagram. A lot of paperwork cannot be done without the help of diagrams.

Templates help in creating voluminous products; you can use cardboard and multi-colored paper. Original toys, models, furniture models and so on - it is really possible to fulfill a creative personality.

Handicraft departments and Internet sites are ready to offer ready-made schemes. It is enough to choose the option you like. And follow the instructions to download, print, cut and fold along the dotted lines. At the end of the work, glue the product.

A variety of toys, animals - it is possible to make thanks to ready-made templates.

Simple crafts for the little ones

Toddlers from early childhood find paper crafts for children interesting. It is necessary to skillfully draw into creativity in order to instill in them a love of creation. Thanks to a variety of crafts, you can decorate a children's room or replenish a collection of toys.

Bird made of cardboard

• Cut out the shape of a bird along the contour. Draw the beak, feathers and tail.
• Cut a square out of colored paper and fold in the shape of an accordion.
• Make holes and attach wings to it.

If you do not limit yourself to one bird and make several at once, then, by fixing them on a stick, you can decorate the threshold of the child's room. It will be a feng shui breeze.

It is important not to forget that all work with scissors should take place under parental attention.

Upon completion of the manufacturing process, the child should clean up all the inventory after him. This will develop a sense of order in him.

Crafts from paper and cardboard. Volumetric paintings

Flowers can be cut from white napkins. For work from napkins, white perforations are recommended, they can be easily painted.

Napkins are a simple material to work with, but care should be taken not to rip them.

Stages of work:

• Bend the napkin four times. And fix in the center with a coupler. Create a circle shape with scissors.
• Raise each layer in turn, making out a volumetric flower.
• Take green paper and cut about seven leaves in accordance with the template.
• Cut out the basket using a brown sheet of paper. Stick on red cardboard. It is nice to place flowers in the basket.

You can arrange the basket using corrugated paper. The color can be any and it is recommended to do it in two layers. Possibly using baking foil.

Fancy Paper Crafts: Weaving

There are many ways to weave paper crafts, they are distinguished by their originality.

Note!

The most popular option is to bind strips of paper in a checkerboard pattern. A slightly more complicated method is a weave of paper twisted into tubes.

The choice of paper from which it is created gives certain properties to the product.

Some options:

• Newspaper.
• Check tape.
• Magazine.
• Plain paper.

It is quite logical that the denser the material, the more it is not whimsical in work, and the product will come out more durable. Working with a glossy magazine will give a peculiar drawing.

For work, one type of paper should be knocked out. Because strong paper does not intertwine with thin paper and can injure it.

Note!

Get creative and decorate the craft with ribbons and beads.

Master class - paper crafts: paper tubes

An entertaining creative process is making straws. When using a glossy magazine, unusual patterns will be obtained, and the dense texture will make the product stronger.

To work you need:

• Paper.
• Scissors.
• Ruler.
• A simple pencil.
• Knitting needles.
• Glue.

Harvesting tubes. We wrap ribbons of any length and width 0.9 cm around the knitting needle. We glue the edge and take out the knitting needle. We leave two centimeters inside the tube and glue the second edge.

Take your time, take out the knitting needles and wind paper tapes on them, create the required length. For a basket, the length of the tube should be of a comfortable size for weaving.

Note!

Original Wicker Basket: Steps to Create

The blanks are prepared and now you need a piece of cardboard, scissors and glue. Cardboard is required to create the bottom of the product. For manufacturing, you should cut out a couple of cardboard circles.

Weaving:

• On a circle made of cardboard, glue the created tubes in a circle. The next circle is glued to the tubes.
• We lift up the parts and fix them with an elastic band.
• Glue the end of one tube to the base. Grasping the standing tube from the outside, insert it inside and intercept the second tube inside.
• Step by step "inside-outside", weave until the tube ends.
• To add length, you need to put a new vine at the end of the previous one.
• To create the shape, you can position the jar of the desired size inside.
• We carry out weaving to the required height.
• The remaining pieces of the vine should not be cut; you can fix them inside the product or glue them to a convenient tube.
• Frame tapes can be fixed with glue to the walls of the product.
• We paint the finished basket with acrylic paint, after drying we apply the second layer.

The wicker basket is complete. Now you can adapt it to small accessories or place an artificial flower in it.

Angel on the Christmas tree

In anticipation of the New Year holidays, I want to decorate my home with unusual elements.

Having made paper napkins with your own hands, you can easily solve this issue. And under the control of the elders, even a five-year-old baby will cope with the creation of an angel.

Instructions on how to make a paper craft:

• Cut two squares 10 by 10 cm from two different colors. And bend them into an accordion.
• Bend the accordion, counting 3 cm from the end. We bend one part to the right side, the other in the opposite direction.
• Glue the bent bend to the bottom of the fan.
• To create the head, about 5 strips should be cut, the width is determined based on the size of the fan's rib.
• Direct the rest of the paper down.
• Glue the halves and the angel is finished.

It turned out to be an excellent decoration for the tree, to fix it on the top, you can use a regular clothespin.

Volumetric snowflake

Volumetric snowflakes look very elegant, you can decorate an apartment for the new year. To create you need glue, scissors and paper.

Step-by-step method of creation:

• Cut out six squares.
• Bend the square in half, you should get a triangle. Use scissors to cut from the bottom fold to the top corner. The cuts should not intersect; a distance should be left between them. Make three cuts in the shape of a triangle.
• Expand the sheet and arrange it like a diamond.
• Glue the first row of strips.

• Turn over and do the same with subsequent strips.
• Fasten all the strips.
• Make six pieces of the snowflake as described.
• Fasten three parts with a coupler.
• Glue the finished halves together.

If, in the process of work, you place a loop in the middle, then upon completion the snowflake can be hung.

You can use both white and multi-colored paper, you can combine it.

Kids crafts

A cute craft for the little ones "The universe through the eyes of a child." Decorate the starry sky, the moon, and whatever your fantasy allows. No scissors required.

Required inventory: glue stick, pieces of colored paper (confetti), dark blue cardboard.

Stages of work:

• Use ready-made confetti or use a hole punch to cut many colored circles.
• Using a stencil, apply the month and stars to the cardboard.
• Apply an adhesive base to the finished figures and sprinkle with ready-made circles.

The finished product can be framed. To do this, glue the New Year's rain along the edge of the picture.
Applique creation is suitable for kindergarten kids.

Movable toys

Toys of this kind are of great interest to children. By simply pulling on the thread, you can create movement of the arms or legs.

And figurines are created very simply, for this you will need: cardboard, buttons, thin wire, strong thread and scissors.

Stages of creation:

• Draw legs and a tail on cardboard - moving parts. We put down points at the base.
• In place of the points, we make fastening, threading a thread or wire into them. Buttons are suitable as a retainer.
• Glue the body and head on a bamboo stick. You can use scotch tape.
• We put fasteners in the holes made on the legs and combine with the body. Using an elastic band, we tie the paws, making two holes in each paw, so that they are placed very close to each other, and the thread is not visible.
• By analogy, we fasten the tail with the hind paw.
• Tie another thread to the thread located between the paws. It is she who will launch the mechanism.
• We decorate with paints to your liking.

According to these instructions, you can make bunnies, chanterelles, bears. And it will be a whole puppet theater that will impress any kid.

Photo of paper crafts

Hello everyone, catch the bouquet. Yes, today we will make bouquets with flowers with our own hands. I will show you different ways to make FLOWERS crafts that you can do in kindergarten or at home with children. Such craft bouquets can be done as a gift for mom in kindergarten classes... On our site there is an article "", in which we professionally teach several techniques for creating paper flowers. And in this article we will not dwell on the techniques, but rather give GENERAL IDEAS of how to make craft for kindergarten in the form of a bouquet of flowers... In the kindergarten, they often spend craft contests- including spring, so it will be appropriate to bring a bouquet of flowers to the spring exhibition - a craft that will always look advantageous against the background of all the works. A bouquet is always beautiful.

Let's see what kind of crafts Flowers you can make with your own hands.

Crafts-applications.

From paper flowers.

Such work in the form of a bouquet of lush flowers is simply and quickly done from ordinary colored paper. Aster flowers are long, flat paper cut into a fringe and rolled into a tube. Then fluffed up with his hands.

You can make a basket out of two plastic plates. One plate serves as a background. On it we glue flowers from several layers of colored paper. And we cut the second basket so that a long process remains in the center (this will be the handle of the basket).

Flowers that consist of from several layers of cardboard- each of its own color. And the green leaves look beautiful too in two-layer design- dark outlines of the lower layer and upper smaller outlines of light paper.

If you do not have colored paper, you can draw flowers on a white sheet of paper, then cut out with scissors. We bend each silhouette of a flower with our hands, and glue the middle of the flowers. You can cut the petals of each flower and bend them in a convex way - so that the bouquet is voluminous.

Instead of a vase, you can make a bouquet corrugated packaging. As if the bouquet was wrapped in a corrugated bag, as is done in a store. We make an imitation of a bag for a bouquet from an ordinary fan - we fold the ubmagi sheet into an accordion, drag it in the middle with a ribbon and stick it on the bumake sheet - on top we make out a lush composition of a bouquet with flowers. A simple and beautiful craft flowers for kindergarten or school.

Craft FLOWERS

with wicker baskets.

The vase for your bouquet can be replaced with corinka. Cut a trapezoid out of cardboard. Cut the strips out of brown paper, glue the strips on the trapezoid in vertical rows, then horizontal. Trim the ends of the strips protruding beyond the edge of the trapezoid with scissors.

Paper roses fold easily. Watch the master class below.

ANOTHER WAY to make a wicker basket for a bouquet, we see in the photo below. A step-by-step master class shows everything. We cut the paper piece into a long fringe. Next, insert the colored stripes - pulling the fringes through the strips.

Next, we give this braid the desired shape - a trapezoid, cutting off both side edges of the braided fabric obliquely. If desired, cut a hole (separating the handle from the basket part). Or fill this upper space with flowers, leaves. It is good to do such crafts with flowers at school in grade 1-2 - just simple and understandable for children of 7-8 years old, and they can do the whole process themselves, without the help of a teacher.

The baskets in the photo below are made using a similar technique. Here we first cut out the silhouette of a cardboard basket. Then in the body of the basket we make cuts with scissors, and we pass paper ribbons through them. Also a very quick way to make an elegant basket for a craft with flowers.

You can make a three-dimensional basket of flowers. Wrap a long sheet of cardboard in a ring (we fasten several strips of cardboard with a stapler and close them in an oval-shaped ring). Next, close this cardboard ring and glue it with green paper grass. And then on top of the grass we glue the elements of the fence on the glue. We attach figures of paper flowers to the grass. We glue the handle to the inner sides. The center of the basket can be left empty, put paper dolls or chickens there, or filled with small air balloons.

Craft flowers

in ORIGAMI technique.

So I want to give you simple DIY origami diagrams for flowers. Here is a step-by-step origami master class for a simple flower. Such work can be organized at school in an art lesson. It turns out a delicate craft forget-me-not flowers for mom.

You can find many simple schemes for assembling paper flowers on the Internet yourself.

DIY flowers

from egg cassettes

We usually throw away the cardboard packaging of eggs - or you can make beautiful flowers out of it with your own hands. An excellent craft for mom on March 8th. Paint with gouache and you're done. Put a plasticine roll or pompom for crafts and decoration inside the flower cup.

You can refine such a cardboard flower cup - glue it on the outside with colored paper petals. It also turns out very elegantly. An excellent craft bouquet for mom.

DIY flowers

from the CIRCULAR HARMONY.

Fold a strip of paper into an accordion fold. Then we unfold it in a circle - to form a round fan fold. We fasten the middle with a drop of glue. We attach the paper flower to the leg.

The green paper accordion can be folded in the shape of a cactus flower. You yourself can come up with your own model of a cactus. In the middle we insert any paper flower made using the origami technique or in another simple way.

DIY flowers

CACTUSES made of paper.

Also, with your own hands, you can make crafts Cactus flowers - also with beautiful blooming buds. Here are some ideas on this topic.

Craft FLOWERS

Crepe paper.

Crafts with flowers made of crumpled crepe paper look very beautiful. Below we see a panel-picture of lilac, where crepe paper is crumpled into spools and then the blue areas of the Lilac applique are covered with this relief.

Green leaves are also made from crepe paper, the edge of the leaf is folded into a flagellum to give the leaf a three-dimensional shape. Beautiful and fast craft FLOWERS for the garden.

Leaves of crepe paper can be rolled up into a narrow tube and then wrapped with a loop and glued to a round made of cardboard in the form of a petal. With such twisted petal loops, we glue the entire center-round made of cardboard and close it on top with a snail flag made of the same twisted tube of crepe paper.

Wooden skewer - will be the leg of a flower (it can be covered with green paint or wrapped with paper tape). We attach a large piece of plasticine (or flour and salt dough) to the bottom of the plastic cup and stick the legs of flowers into this lump. We get a beautiful hand-made article of flowers in a bouquet in a vase. Great job for a kindergarten exhibition.

Even from an ordinary WHITE PAPER NAPKIN, we can make a bouquet using this technique - roll up into a tube and bend it in half. And then paint everything with gouache on a napkin already on the finished assembled application.

DIY FLOWERS

Corrugated cardboard.

At the stationery store, you can buy kits with colored embossed cardboard. Very elegant flower crafts are made from it.

You can simply cut out the silhouettes of the petals and stick them in tiers around the center of the middle. Place a bee on top. A bee is made of thin yellow strips, twisted into a twist (as we fold a measuring tape) and then pull this twist (squeeze out with your finger from the inside) to push the cylinder out, and the bee becomes oval in shape. It remains to secure this oval shape with glue and decorate the body of the bee with stripes and wings.

The pot is easy to do. We take ordinary gray cardboard from old boxes. We roll it up into a tight twist tube, wrap it with tape. Glue the top with strips of colored corrugated cardboard.

You can make crafts out of corrugated cardboard using a technique similar to quilling. Also roll flat into round twists, give them an oval shape of petals. Collect flowers. Then make a bouquet.

Craft FLOWERS

In pots.

Craft indoor flowers in pots = also looks good as an exhibition work in a kindergarten. Here you need to buy a plastic pot in the store, fill it with dough (flour, salt, water) equal amounts of flour and salt, until the water becomes like plasticine. We fill the pot with this mass.

We cut out flowers from paper, attach them to skewers ( so that the flower does not slide down the slippery skewer, under the flower cup we make a stopper from a lump of green plasticine). From above, where the skewer sticks out of the flower, we also close it with a piece of plasticine (you can stick it with sparkles or beads) or glue the middle of the flower with a circle made of cardboard.

We stick our ready-made flowers into the dough inside the pot.

You can use cocktail straws as stems. And make the middle of the flowers out of plastic corks (as in crafts, a bouquet of daffodil flowers). Here you need to make a hole in the lid with a nail (or drill) and stick in a tube so that the tube does not jump out, make cuts at its tip and push the slices apart in different directions.

Craft FLOWERS

From yogurt cans.

You can make a beautiful DIY flower craft from empty yogurt cans. The jars are cut in a circle (as seen in the photo) in the form of rounded petals. A jar is red, then a yellow one, then an orange jar fit into each other. It turns out an elegant tricolor flower bud.

Any flower vase from yogurt cans will do. But you can do it yourself from an ordinary half-liter glass jar and balloons.

The balloons are cut off at the top to form a pouch. We make such bags a few taller, the other shorter and alternately put on the jar. First, we put the longest ball bag on the jar, then shorter, then even shorter and at the end the shortest. We get a striped rubber jar.

Here's another way to make pretty flowers out of plastic yogurt cans. Each jar is cut into petals - we make a cut on the side of the jar before reaching the bottom. We push the cut parts to the bottom. On the bottom we glue a colored center out of paper. We fix the legs from the cocktail tubes. We put the bouquet in a vase. At the bottom of the vase is a lump of salted dough, we stick the tubes into it to fix the bouquet.

And you can make a vase in the form of a cat yourself. We cut off the bottle, leaving outgrowths in the shape of ears, paint it white (pour the paint inside, roll it on the sides of the vase, dry it). Draw the cat's face with a marker.

Craft FLOWERS

From paper rolls.

You can also make a beautiful flower arrangement from toilet paper rolls. I kiss the flowerbed with my own hands. Here you just need to make cuts in the rolls from above with scissors and insert the silhouette of a flower of their cardboard into this slot. A simple children's craft for the kindergarten.

Likewise, the roll can become the centerpiece of a daffodil flower. Simple beautiful craft. We make three such daffodils and compose them into a bouquet with our own hands.

And here are the scraps of the rolls, which were painted with gouache and incised- at the top on the teeth, and at the bottom they made a rounded cut. The lower cut of the bud is flattened and clamped with a stapler clip, do not forget to insert a cocktail tube inside under the bracket. The painted buds were covered with white spots of gouache using a cotton swab.

And if you paint the roll with gouache and then cut it on both sides INTO LONG STRIPES. Bend these strips into a spread. And we will get a shaggy ASTRU flower - an excellent craft flower for children in kindergarten.

We stick a wooden skewer into the side of the middle tubular part of such a flower. And on top of it we put a round plasticine roll - this is how we fix the flower on the leg. As you can see, a simple craft of a flower with your own hands and from cheap material.

Craft FLOWERS

From modular origami.

Beautiful flowers can be assembled as a constructor from paper modules. Cacti also bloom magnificently and beautifully. Here is an idea for making flowers on prickly cacti from their modular origami. I have already described how to assemble the paper rectangle module by myself in a special article.

Cacti assembled from modules of two shades of green look beautiful and bright. And flowers are also beautiful if they have two shades of pink.

Tulip buds are harvested very quickly. In one evening we create such a bouquet with our own hands. Modules can be made by the whole family - it's easy. The three sat down and did everything at once, and then collected the flowers, put wooden skewers on the rods and inserted a bouquet into the craft (a piece of salt dough was put on the bottom of the vase to fix the flowers in the right position).

An elegant vase can also be assembled from paper modules as in the photo below. A beautiful craft in the form of one flower in an elegant vase.

A wide variety of crafts FLOWERS can be assembled from modular origami. Even the classic petal assembly will give a different pattern if you insert modules of different colors, along the edges, or in rows or in the center.

You found such interesting and original ideas with hand-made flowers in our article today. Now you have an idea for your future work. And you feel like you can handle it and even look forward to pleasure. Because it is very pleasant to create beauty with your own hands. Crafts FLOWERS decorate our life. Let everything work out.

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As you know, light paper crafts are very useful for children of any age. The first interest arises in the baby at the age of 1 year, it is during this period that you can begin to teach him how to correctly make simple crafts from various materials.

Important! It is worth noting that such creativity develops fine motor skills in the baby, it has a positive effect on the perception of the surrounding world and the ability to think creatively.

Of course, in order for the baby's talents to develop successfully, parents should understand how to properly teach their child to perform a particular task.

Paper butterfly

The first rule that every parent should remember is that during development, the child should be given only those tasks that will be within his power. For example, do-it-yourself light paper crafts will turn out to be very interesting and simple for a child. In this case, it should be borne in mind that the baby himself must do the bulk of the work, otherwise there will be no benefit from such an activity.

There are many interesting master classes that talk about how to make an easy paper craft with your own hands and, at the same time, spend a minimum of time on this lesson.

Christmas trees made of paper

Some of them will be given below, as well as it will be told about which craft is best for what age.

As mentioned above, light paper crafts are suitable not only for older children, but also for the smallest. So, for example, babies under the age of 2 years willingly participate in this process. True, in this case, it is important to remember that such an activity should not take more than 10 minutes, otherwise the baby will get tired of everything, and he will abandon this business. You need to monitor the behavior of the crumbs during this task. For example, if he begins to lose all interest, then it is clear that such a task for him turned out to be either too difficult or, on the contrary, very simple.

Light paper crafts are suitable not only for older children, but also for the smallest

If we talk about tasks for children of this age, then they can be divided into several groups:

1. Easy paper crafts, the essence of which is that you need to cut out certain figures and glue them on a blank sheet of paper. In other words - chaotic fastening of individual pieces of paper to each other.
2. Crafts, which are based on the fact that the pieces should be attached in a chaotic manner.
3. A type of craft is when individual figures must be attached to a predetermined location.

Easy craft for the little ones

For example, if we are talking about the first option, then the task here has a simple essence. Some figures or pieces are cut out of colored paper, and then glued to another sheet. In this task, it is very important to initially teach the baby how to use glue. He must understand how the leaves are glued together, how to attach them correctly, whether it is necessary to press one part of the applique to another, and so on. In other words, this is a variant of acquaintance of the crumbs with paper and glue.

Important! The adult's task is to teach the kid how to properly hold the glue in his hands, to show how to spread it on paper, also do not forget to show that when the glue is spread on the base, the sheet itself must be held with the left hand.

In this case, the pencil should be strictly perpendicular to the sheet. This is very important, because if you do not explain to the child all the basics of the creative process when getting to know the stationery, then it will be very difficult to retrain him later. And, accordingly, he will perform all subsequent tasks incorrectly.

Dandelions made of paper and napkins

Of course, you need to give the baby the opportunity to independently complete the entire task from start to finish. Some parents, fearing that the baby will do something wrong, carry out the task themselves. But this is absolutely wrong.

The second stage of acquaintance with paper and glue

After the child has learned how to perform basic operations with paper and glue, you should show him the very technique of creating various pictures and postcards. Of course, even the lightest paper crafts will be incredibly interesting to the kid. Of course, if on the part of adults every effort is made for this.

The second stage in creating simple crafts is that the child must learn how to correctly place various parts on a piece of paper. Of course, at this stage, he will not need to create any specific drawings or lines. He just needs to learn how to glue various figures wherever he pleases. Now it is very important that he himself learns to make a decision on how his future work will look better. Adults can only say what kind of figure you need to get as a result, and the baby decides for himself exactly where to glue the different parts of the craft.

Paper craft - chamomile

If you really want to intervene in this process, then you can simply suggest why it will be better this way, and where exactly you need to glue this piece of paper. But you cannot put pressure on the child, at this stage he is just learning to create his future masterpieces.

During such crafts, you can create figurines in the form of a sun, a cloud, a house, a flower and other very simple objects.

Options for simple crafts

The last stage in creating beautiful and original crafts is that the baby begins to realize himself where to glue the various parts of the figure correctly. To do this, you should prepare in advance all the necessary tools for the implementation of the creative idea. Most often, such creative masterpieces are made from two or three types of colored paper, as well as a sheet of white. Do not forget that you will need glue and scissors. If the parent does not want the child to pick up scissors, you can first make a blank and cut out the necessary figures from colored paper yourself. To get really light and beautiful paper crafts, you should use at least 3 or even more colors.

Christmas decorations made of paper

For example, if you make a Christmas tree with balls, then initially you should glue the Christmas tree itself, then the balls, and at the end an asterisk. To make the final picture brighter, you can use more flowers and make many different blanks of jewelry for the forest beauty in advance.

Crocodile made of paper

Below is a list of basic crafts that will be of interest to children:

• the tree on which apples grow;
• a hedgehog with apples and mushrooms on its thorns;
• basket with many berries;
• a jar of vitamins;
• the tree from which the foliage falls;
• fish that swim in the aquarium.

Application - fish

By the way, to make the applique creation process faster, you can print ready-made blanks of such figures as a Christmas tree, hedgehog, tree, jar, basket. As a result, the baby will only need to glue small figures.

Paper tree

You can also watch training videos, of which there are a lot on the Internet, they talk about how to create easy paper crafts.

What is especially interesting for a child?

After the child learns to create very light paper crafts, you can show him videos that tell you how to make a more complex application. Thus, it will turn out to develop the baby's imagination and skills. Of course, most often this happens when the baby is at least 1.5 years old.

To begin with, an adult should draw on the base sheet the outlines of the figures that the child will glue. This will help him visually understand what kind of application should be the result. After he learns to carefully glue the figures along the contours, you can proceed to creating crafts without drawing these very contours.

Multicolored paper caterpillar

In this way, you can create:

• caterpillar;
• snowman;
• dandelion;
• an armful of balloons;
• a house that is built from blocks;
• building with windows;
• a typewriter and much more.

Paper grape bunch

Of course, these are the main figures, it all depends on the skills of the kid and his patience. If he has perseverance, and he likes to create simple postcards and pictures, then you can choose more complicated figures. And if it is enough for a maximum of 10 minutes, then it is better to choose something simpler.

Craft - paper hedgehog

Some parents also experiment with different magazines and newspapers. They simply cut them into pieces and then glue them back together with the babies. Let's say, if a traffic light is drawn in the picture, it can be cut out and then glued back.

Paper snowman

Important! Easy paper crafts for children are a great way to teach your child independence and develop the ability to think abstractly in him.

It is very important in this process to trust him, to give as much freedom as possible. You should not restrict him in movements and constantly suggest what and how to do. Let him initially figure it out on his own and learn how to create paper crafts easily and quickly, and after that you can start giving him more complex tasks. This is exactly what is described in the well-known Montessori technique. The only thing that should be taken care of in advance is to show the child that there are certain rules. For example, tell that you can only glue at this table, the paper is here, and you need to put it back here, and so on. Then the baby will grow up independent, but at the same time it will understand what can and cannot be done.

Paper crafts are perhaps the most interesting hobby for children and adults. The manufacturing process is quite exciting, moreover, at the same time, children develop imagination and motor skills. Below we have selected several master classes that, in our opinion, will be of interest to you.

Paper butterfly

The butterfly is a bright summer companion, a symbol of beauty and lightness. Each butterfly is unique and inimitable in its own way. Nature has tried to mark each winged beauty with bright colors and patterns. These beautiful insects are a decoration of flower lawns, and in today's lesson we will try to decorate the room with a butterfly, which we will make with our own hands from paper. Making paper crafts favors the development of attentiveness, accuracy, perseverance and the manifestation of imagination in children. And what a surprise the kid will experience, watching how an ordinary leaf turns into an amazing creature before his eyes!

In order to make a paper butterfly, we need:

• Paper;
• Scissors;
• Paints;
• Fantasy and great mood.

For crafts, an ordinary album sheet will work, but first you need to make it square. To do this, bend the upper left corner diagonally, cut off the section of paper remaining during the fold with scissors. We have a square with one diagonal fold. You need to make another diagonal fold on the other side. To do this, bend the upper right and lower left corners.

In the resulting triangle, bend the lower ends up. Then we turn the figure over with its wide side up and bend the top of the triangle, so that its tip extends slightly beyond the edges.

We wrap the protruding tip. Fold the future butterfly in half.

The butterfly figurine is ready, but for now it is white and inconspicuous. Therefore, the turn has come for children - to show imagination and decorate the butterfly to their taste, using watercolors or felt-tip pens. The drawing can be the most unimaginable: from flowers, as in our example, to complex geometric patterns, the main thing is that the child enjoys the creative process. If you wish, you can make a few more butterflies, allowing the kid to make crafts without your help.

A boat made of colored paper

Of course, each of us loves when he succeeds in something. And especially, it is done by hand. And you do it just for yourself, for the soul, without even thinking about specific benefits. Although she will still be. Crafts are a great way to show yourself that the craft is fun and rewarding. Especially when there are no costs and it turns out to make something beautiful from scrap materials. And for children it is a great joy to do it on their own, even if it is not an interesting trinket for an adult, but to do it. And the task of each parent is to support his child, to praise for what he himself was able to create. And also to help, prompt and in no case scold if the conceived does not work out. Making a craft, the child tries to learn the world himself, with the help of his imagination. He remembers everything he has ever seen and tries to display it in his products. For lovers of the marine theme, we have prepared a lesson on making a simple boat. Feel like a real captain of the most beautiful ship, and even made with soul and love. All we need is:

• empty matchboxes;
• colored cardboard and colored paper;
• scissors;
• glue;
• tubule.

Take the matchboxes and fold them so that two are next to each other, and the third is on top of them. In order to give the boat the desired appearance and the advertising inscriptions of the boxes did not spoil the future product for us, glue the craft with plain paper, as shown in the picture.

After that, we will make the stern of our ship. Cut out the base for the craft out of cardboard, and build the bow of our ship from two strips. Then, we will use the tube to build the sails. Take a rectangular piece of cardboard and attach it to the straw as shown below. Finish the look with small red flags at the end of the tube.

It remains to decorate the craft from the side so that the matchboxes are not visible. If you have small Lego toys, then they can take a place with dignity on our beautiful deck.

Our boat is ready, it's time to hit the road!

Russian oven made of paper

The stove was the main attribute in the house: it heated the house, cooked food in it, and assigned it a special place. Therefore, the stove is always associated with satiety, warmth and comfort. In many Russian fairy tales, we come across a Russian stove. Let's remember Emelya, the fairy tale "Geese-Swans", Baba Yaga. The stove is also found in old proverbs and sayings. And if the child was asked to make a craft - a Russian stove, then this is not a problem at all. They build a real brick stove, and we propose to create it from cardboard. With such a child can easily cope. A small Russian oven made of paper turns out to be very realistic.

To make it work, you need to take:

• a small package left over from toothpaste;
• colored paper (white, orange and black);
• some cotton wool;
• black marker;
• scissors;
• glue.

1. First, cut the toothpaste package into two halves, make one larger and the other smaller.

2. The larger one will stand vertically, the smaller half will be applied to the larger one horizontally.

3. We fasten the structure of the craft with glue.

4. After it dries a little, glue it over with white paper, imitating whitewash.

5. We prepare a pipe for the stove, for this we cut a strip out of the cardboard, bend it to make a small pipe, glue it to the base.

6. Cut a small rectangular sheet of white paper. Prepare the firebox from black paper, the orange stripe will frame the firebox.

7. Carefully glue it all onto a white sheet. We are waiting for the glue to dry.

8. We glue it to the oven in the appropriate place. Now we have a stove with a firebox!

9. The pipe must be pasted over with orange paper.

10. For naturalness, draw small bricks on the pipe with a black marker and insert a small piece of cotton wool into the pipe, straighten it out, depicting smoke. For strength, so that it does not fall out, it is better to glue the cotton wool on the inside of the pipe.

Here is such a Russian oven made of paper! I already want to warm my sides on it and remember my childhood, the village, my grandmother. Plus a paper stove - it is small, light and does not take half a house, but it gives a touch of comfort and warmth.

Chicken from disc and paper

How nice it is to receive gifts made by our close and dear people. Moreover, do them yourself, including imagination and creativity. With our own hands, from improvised means, we can prepare a wide variety of crafts and toys. This is a very exciting experience. And if you make crafts with your family members or friends, then you will definitely get a lot of pleasure from communication and the result of teamwork. Today we will try to make a chicken out of a disc and colored cardboard. It will not be voluminous, and therefore it will be possible to hang it over the table or even on the Christmas tree in the New Year. Let's start!

For our toy, we will need:

1. Old music or video disc,

• colored cardboard, we will need four colors - blue, white, yellow, red;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• glue;
• a small ball of yellow or beige woolen thread.

2. The first thing to start with is to cut finely the threads, but more. They will replace the feathers of the chick for us.

3. Then, coat the disc well with glue and sprinkle it with thick threads. After the disc is dry, shake it to remove the remaining hair.

4. Cut out oval eyes from cardboard paper - they will be white and blue. Beak and legs - let them be red. And we will make the wings yellow. Oh, and don't forget the scallop. Our chicken is small, but he already has a scallop. You can see each step in the photo.

The job is done, our chicken is ready. You can hang it on a string, as we said earlier. Ask your dad to make a hole in the disk, pull the thread and that's it. The craft turned out to be unusual, joyful. The chick seems to take off, wants to see what is happening there! Or maybe he wants to see - where are his friends?

Similar to this craft, we can make a chicken mom or rooster dad. And if you dream up, then a bunny, and a pig, and a hedgehog, and a bear cub, and other cartoon characters, for example. Moreover, we did not spend a lot of time and money on this lesson. It remains only to find a place for her. Or maybe we will give our chick to someone?

Paper ball

The creative process of creating various crafts, paper designs will captivate both adults and children. After reading the following instructions, anyone can assemble a shape in the form of a beautiful paper multi-colored ball.

Colored paper (two colors that can contrast with each other without breaking the harmonious combination, such as cyan and purple).

Quantity: for each of the eight modules (circles) that make up the final figure of the craft, you need five parts (if you plan to make the ball small, you can cut 2-3 such parts from one sheet of colored paper of about A4 size).

• 24 parts in blue and 16 parts - violet or equally - twenty parts of each color;
• Pencil;
• Ruler (in order to draw the sides of the cardboard template);
• A piece of cardboard (its size will depend on how large the shape of a wonderful paper ball is needed;
• A beautiful rope (not thick - with its help a ready-made volumetric figure can be attached to almost any place in the interior to decorate it);
• Scissors (preferably with sharp tips, especially if the figure is small, otherwise it will be difficult to cut).

At the first stage of the creative process, you need to draw a sketch on cardboard with a pencil, according to which all the details for the shape of the ball will soon be cut out. It should be noted that the side parts of the depicted figure should be straight (for accuracy, use a ruler), and the top and bottom should also be completely the same.

Both parts of the patterned figure are similar to a chef's hat or a cake with cream, but the main thing is that the edges of the upper and lower parts, respectively, should form convenient “ears” for subsequent coupling into a three-dimensional figure. After completing the sketch, the pencil must be set aside, now it is time to carefully cut the template figure out of cardboard along the contour.

You need to take colored paper and draw the required number of figures and cut them out.

Next, you need to interlock the cut-out figures so that they alternate in color, with each subsequent figure turning about ninety degrees from the previous one, so that its narrow side can be inserted into the grooves of the long side of the previous part. Thus, you need to link five such parts in one circle.

If two purple and three blue parts were used to construct the circle, now you need to link two purple parts together (provided that the sequence rule was followed).

All modules are connected so that in each recess there are five "roundings", that is, the joints of the parts.

Card for mom

The most memorable and expensive gift is a handmade gift. The original postcard will be an excellent gift for mom, grandmother or sister, because in addition to a postcard made with your own hands, you give a part of your soul, according to the belief of many nations, in every thing created by us, we put a part of our soul. And this is the most valuable thing!

And so let's start, for the craft we need the following materials:

• Glue, preferably paper;
• Colored paper;
• Scissors;
• Marker;
• Unnecessary magazines with pretty pictures.

We make a blank card out of cardboard, draw a pattern in the form of semicircles around the edges of our card. You can come up with another ornament, show your imagination.

Carefully cut out our workpiece along the lines.

On our blank, we glue a sheet of colored paper, distribute the glue carefully so that the colored paper adheres well to the cardboard.

It is necessary to make blanks of daisies. We cut out two small circles from white cardboard - these will be the petals of our future chamomile, and from yellow cardboard we need to cut two circles of a smaller diameter for the middle of our flower.

We collect our chamomile, glue the yellow center of the chamomile to our white petals. Thus, we collect four flowers.

Now for our daisies, we need to make the stems. We will make them as follows: on a green cardboard sheet, draw lines at a distance of 2-4 centimeters, we have three daisies, therefore we need to draw three lines.

We cut out our stripes exactly along the contour. The stalks for our daisies are ready.

Next, the fun begins, the assembly and design of the postcard. To our cardboard blank, we glue the daisies and stalks we made earlier, we place the flowers slightly at an angle so that they fit onto our postcard.

We cut out beautiful pictures from old magazines for decoration of crafts. On the corners of the postcard we glue the ornament found in the magazine. And in the right edge we will plant a beautiful butterfly.

Now the most crucial moment, we make an inscription with wishes for a loved one. Cut out a blank in the shape of a "cloud" from colored pink paper. We make the inscription "Mommy" on it and glue it onto our postcard.

The original postcard is ready, all that remains is to present it.

Origami paper pencil

Origami is a fun technique that can interest all family members. It's amazing how a familiar object suddenly appears from one flat sheet of paper at the next fold, without glue, scissors, or something else.

You will need a little perseverance and accuracy, and you will definitely be able to create a voluminous paper craft, for example, a pencil.

Necessary materials:

• Color double sided square sheet

We used yellow and green to make it clearly visible that it is a pencil. And you, too, can make the first option so as not to get confused in the description, and then, when you learn how to do it, you can use any colors. Or use one-sided colored paper, then the shirt of the pencil and the lead will be colored, and the rod will be in a contrasting white color.

Put the sheet on the table with the yellow side up. We apply the right corners of the sheet to the left ones, and making sure that the line is straight, we make a fold. Without changing the position of the sheet, we unbend it again with the yellow side up.

In the same way, we carefully apply the two upper corners to the lower corners and bend the sheet in half, carefully forming a fold line.

Expand the sheet with the yellow side up again. Now our square is divided into four equal squares by perpendicular fold lines.

Again, take the square by the upper corners and bend our upper small squares in half. Drag the top corners to the center fold on the square. Straighten the full square again with the yellow side up. And again bend the upper corners so that the green color does not even reach the very top fold strip. We get a yellow square with a thin green stripe on top, as in the picture below.

Let's pay attention to one fold, which runs vertically in the center of the leaf. We take the sheet by the squares on the left and bend it towards this center. We repeat these actions with the right corners. Now we have a green rectangle in front of us with two horizontal fold lines.

We take the upper inner corners (which are at the vertical fold) and bend them to the edges. Pieces of yellow should appear with green stripes around the edges. As shown in the image below, we will bend these stripes out to the sides as far as the paper will allow.

Now bend the right and left upper squares alternately diagonally back. The pencil is ready.

You can find many different uses for such pencils: use as a bookmark, as a decorative element in the design of a school office, as a children's toy, etc.

Christmas tree made of paper

The main attribute of the New Year is the tree. Everyone decides for himself to dress up an artificial or live forest beauty. But in addition to the main tree, you can make several small paper trees with your own hands. With the help of such a craft, we can decorate rooms or present it as a small souvenir that will surely raise the festive mood.

Required inventory:

• colored paper;
• glue;
• wire;
• stand;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• scissors;
• compass;
• beads for decoration.

Twist one end of the wire into a spiral and glue it to a small, stable block.

Using a compass, draw circles on the back of the colored paper. The diameter of the largest should be 20 cm, and the smallest - 6 cm.Reducing the size of the circles in 2 cm increments.Total, you should get 16 circles, plus one circle, the diameter of which will be 5 cm.It will be needed in order to make the top in the form of a cone ...

Each of the blanks must be divided into segments. And inside, draw a circle, the diameter of which will, on average, be equal to the radius of the workpiece. The centers of the circles must match. Use scissors to cut to the beginning of the inner circle.

Grasp the edges of the segment and roll it up, securing the ends with glue. Hold each sector with your fingers until the glue sets. We do the same with each section. In the center of each workpiece, make a hole for threading onto a metal frame. Assemble the tree, starting from the largest diameter to the smallest.

Cut a segment from the remaining circle and fold it into a cone, securing the edges with glue. Place the cone on top of the tree. Now it's time for the most creative part of the process - decorating the Christmas tree. Children like this procedure very much, so you can safely involve children in this activity.

Use bright beads, beads, tinsel, rhinestones and other variegated elements as decor. You can fix them with glue, silicone glue is very suitable for this procedure, it sets as quickly as possible and has a transparent texture, which makes it completely invisible.

Christmas garland made of paper

New Year is a bright and long-awaited holiday for all children and for many adults. The smell of pine needles hovering in the room, gifts under the spruce and a decorated house. A large number of people buy Christmas decorations, because it is faster and easier, but you can get creative and decorate the house with your own hands. For example, make a New Year's garland out of paper. Many people remember garlands and flags from childhood, they are light, comfortable, it is not difficult to make them ourselves and are convenient to store after the holidays. A fun, colorful garland will help decorate a simple gloomy wall, a long curtain, and a regular chandelier.

1. What is useful for us for making paper garlands:

• colored paper;
• scissors;
• compass;
• glue;
• rope.

2. Draw neat circles of different sizes on the back of the colored paper with a compass. Some circles will be larger, others will be smaller.

3. Using scissors, cut out the resulting multi-colored circles.

4. Combine several circles of the same shape, but different colors. They need to be laid out on top of each other and bent in the middle. It turns out one big and dense circle.

5. Now let's prepare the circle of the largest shape.

6. Carefully make three small holes in it with scissors. We make sure that the round pieces do not move.

7. We pass the rope through the resulting holes.

8. We have the base of the garland ready.

10. String circles on the rope in descending order from larger to smaller.

11. Let's fluff up the garland so that you can see all the colors of the paper and make it seem more voluminous.

12. Stretch the balls along the rope evenly, at the same distance from each other.

13. You can also decorate the garland with paints - put bright dots in the form of multicolored scattered confetti. It is better to do this on large circles, since it may not be noticeable on small ones.

14. We ended up with a fun, fluffy and colorful garland. Now you can hang it on the wall at home and admire it all the New Year's holidays!

Volumetric paper snowflake

Outside the window - the wizard-winter, New Year is approaching, the most favorite holiday of children. Everyone, especially children, lives in anticipation of a miracle, and it is in your power to give it to them. It's simple - you need to pay more attention to them, spend time together, and do your pre-holiday chores together. Children will love to do festive New Year's decor with their parents, one of the integral elements of which is snowflakes. Everyone knows how to cut them, but for children who will definitely want to participate, it will be more interesting to make voluminous snowflakes, which are appropriate to decorate a Christmas tree, or to make a mobile out of them by adding different figures (Christmas trees, balls, angels, etc.) or to combine them into a garland. The craft is simple to perform, a child of 4-5 years old can easily make it.

For work you will need: a sheet of double-sided blue paper (any shade can be), a ruler, scissors, glue. Colored paper should be cut in half. Then each half must be folded like an accordion: we put a ruler on the edge of the sheet and make a fold - this is the first strip, the rest are equal along it (you should get an accordion of 7 strips 3 cm wide). We cut the accordions and get 14 strips. From each strip we form a "needle": as shown in the photo.

Cut off the protruding ends of the strips. You will get a cone with a sharp ledge. For the base, cut out a circle of paper with a diameter of 3 cm.

We glue the "needles" to the base with a cone to the center, as shown in the photo. First, on the one hand, then, when the glue dries, on the other, making sure that the "needles" are staggered. You should get a snowflake with a diameter of about fourteen centimeters.

Give free rein to your imagination: use white paper or paper of two different shades, additionally decorating the snowflake with sparkles, sequins, etc. If you want a bigger snowflake, take two landscape sheets, and double the width of the stripes.

Do New Year's crafts with the children, give them and yourself the joy of communication, and then for you and for them this New Year will become truly unforgettable.

Paper crown

A carnival costume of a little prince or a capricious princess is unthinkable without an elegant shiny crown. A headdress suitable for a young crowned person can be bought in a toy store, but if it is evening outside and the crown is needed for tomorrow's matinee, then there is no choice but to build it yourself.

To make such a homemade attribute of royal power, you will need:

• a roll of thick food foil;
• a sheet of thin and dense white cardboard;
• glue heat gun;
• scissors;
• several packages of glue rhinestones of different colors;
• half a meter of narrow metallized silver braid;
• half a meter of white linen or a hat elastic;
• ruler and pencil.

Making a crown

1. On a piece of cardboard, draw a 25x12 cm rectangle and, with a line parallel to the long edges, divide it into two strips measuring 25x7 and 25x5 cm.

2. Divide the narrow strip into five squares with 5 centimeter sides and write in these squares isosceles triangles with a height and base equal to 5 centimeters. These will be the teeth of the crown.

3. Attach a 1.5 cm wide fastening tab to one of the side short sides of the larger strip.

4. Cut out a cardboard blank for the crown and wrap it in foil.

5. To do this, first, with allowances of 1-1.5 cm, cut out the "metal" facing of the outer part of the royal headdress, attach it to the cardboard and fold the excess foil onto the seamy part of the crown.

6. Then cut out the lining of the inner side (its dimensions should be slightly smaller than the dimensions of the cardboard base).

7. Place the purl foil lining on the glue and snap the crown into the ring.

8. Having stepped back 1 cm from the bottom edge of the crown, glue the edging of silver braid on it and decorate it with crystal rhinestones.

9. Decorate each prong of our craft with a flower made from multi-colored rhinestones and pearl half beads.

10. From the elastic band make (glue, or even better - sew) a ring of such a size that it is quite tight, but not tight, put on the child's head (in the position over the crown of the head and under the chin).

11. Glue the crown to the rubber ring and try the finished piece on the head of "Their Highness".

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Good afternoon, today I decided to collect in one article all ways make paper crafts that are feasible for children. For the craft season of 2017 - it turned out decent photo-piggy bank of ideas, which 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 light crafts for preschool children(from 3 to 7 years old) - for the junior, middle and senior group. And there will also be more difficult crafts that require more long school hours(for 45 minutes) - suitable for labor lessons for children of grades 1, 2, 3, 4. As well as heads of creative circles "Skillful hands" in kindergarten or school, they will find many useful paper craft ideas for themselves.

• We will do flat crafts-applications.
• Volumetric crafts from colored paper and corrugated cardboard.
• Crafts toys made of cardboard or thick paper.
• Crafts using different techniques(half-discs, fan, symmetrical fold, postcard).

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

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.

Origami

In the HALF DISC technique.

Colored paper crafts that we meet in kindergarten and at school most often look like appliques. I like myself very much appliques with effect 3D... There are many ways to create bumps on appliqués.

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

This round mosaic applique works well for children 3-4 years old. She just suits them for the pedagogical tasks of this age, when children still do not know how to work with scissors, but they are already happy to glue ready-made template modules from colored paper.

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

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

Be smart and think about WHAT ELSE can be constructed from paper semicircles or half ovals. Surely you can make a frog, panda, giraffe, hippo, penguin from such round or oval half-discs.

VOLUME application

Made of paper blades.

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

The 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 of from three paper circles. Cut out three circles, bent them in half. First, on the left and right, we glue the halves bent in half. And then the third round lays down in a booklet on the protruding halves of the glued round ones.

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

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

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

Origami

ON SPRINGS.

And here is another paper craft with a convex effect. Here, the volume of the applique is conveyed by embossed gluing of a strip of colored paper folded into three folds. It is easy to make such an autumn applique with your own hands - it is suitable for children of the middle and senior group (5, 6 years old).

In the center of the upper fold, we cut a hollow and place the silhouette of an owl inside. So that the owl hangs 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 by the example of the following paper craft with a volumetric effect.

Here below we see a paper craft BEAR. Bear's paws are also glued at a distance from the body. And this distance between the legs and the body is achieved by gluing 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 entire craft as a whole.

The craft BEAR is suitable for children 3 - 4 years old (if all the details have already been 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 ourselves (and the lesson can be divided into 2 parts- in the first lesson we make springs and cut out some of the silhouettes - in the second we cut and put everything together.

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

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

Or hares in dense grass (spring craft in the photo below).

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

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

And here are the paper penguins' crafts based on the same spring. Or craft bugs. Always in kindergarten there is unused black paper 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.

Origami

WITH A FAN.

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

The fan's spread blades can remind you of the wings of a bat. Children's craft for the middle age (4-5 years old).

The fan is similar to the lampshade of a table lamp, which means it will make an excellent DIY 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 polar bears (craft for children 5-7 years old).

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

You can make a lot of paper crafts for children from such a blank. 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 at the age 5 years the child is already given the task of creating such a round fan from colored paper himself.

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

You just need 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 in two semicircles - and glue these semicircles with a glue stick. And then the children themselves will surprise you, they will throw more and more ideas for crafts, I turn a round paper fan into a snowman, then into a mermaid's bra, into a round red clown nose.

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

Kids crafts

on an accordion stand.

There is one more original way to arrange a craft for children from paper material. Below we see the principle of creating such a craft. We fold the usual accordion out of cardboard. And we use it as TIERS for sticking paper parts.
In the photo of the children's craft below, we see how the accordion turned into a craft cake. Each row of the accordion is a tier of cake with candles.

Note, the side high part of the craft in the photo below (where the balloons are) is optional.

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

Origami

on a flat cardboard template.

And now we will look at crafts for children, where all the elements are glued on a silhouette cut from 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 the silhouette himself with his own hands, slowly crookedly, 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 child's task is to cut it into teeth (just scissors obliquely into triangles with scissors, and then bend each tooth so that it protrudes into the common circle. And this paper mouth remains to stick on the silhouette of the shark. And we'll get awesome craft for children 4-7 years old. Sharks are great crafts for boys. Little brave men will be happy to tame a dangerous sea predator.

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

Ideas for the same applications on a cardboard silhouette, you can spy on children's cartoons, or see on children's coloring.

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

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

Also, your paper characters can have a special FOOT 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 it to his paws rolled into a roll 100 dollar bill- you will get a gift card with money for a friend's birthday.

Such crafts made of flat cardboard can be supplemented with BEND elements (as in the bunny with the photo below), or with TWIRL elements (as on the snail below). Or additional ANTURAL elements (as with the cat below).

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with paper STRIPES.

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

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

But the peacock (on the right photo above) is already craft for older children. For grades 1-2 - because in a kindergarten lesson, 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 is also bent to the place where the yellow loop-strip is glued. Then we do the same with a slightly longer blue strip.

This gives us EIGHT THREE-COLORED HINGES for the peacock's tail. They all stick together ribs to each other- in one bunch-bouquet. And at the joints of their gluing, we attach peacock spots. Then this tail part of paper we fasten to the back of a cardboard peacock silhouette. Great creative craft.

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

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

And if you cut strips of the SAME LENGTH, then it is convenient to make a spherical braid from 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 could be a delicious apple nibbled on the side (left photo below). And inside such an apple, you can shove a worm from a paper spring (see the method with a spring above).

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

What if take NOT SEPARATE strips - and cut a sheet of paper into strips WITHOUT CUT TO THE EDGE - like a long fringe. And then arrange this long striped fringe in the form of a paper craft-hat.

According to a similar principle, beautiful crafts are made of paper in the form cells with birds. 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 at 3 years old can cope with the help of an adult who will show, then spread it with glue and where to stick it.

Below we see this cell 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 the arch each relative to each other. Fast and easy craft. It remains only to make a bird out of paper 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 crafts for children from the strips ON THE BASIS OF THE BALL. A ball of stripes is collected on a needle and thread. Since you won't give the children a needle, 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 on the central hole - a thread is threaded into it from a suspended bead from below. A large bead at the bottom prevents the stripes from slipping off the thread. Next, a few more beads are strung on a thread (see carefully inside the lamb, they are visible in the photo). And then the same thread is threaded through all the holes at the ends of all the strips - THIS IS A BALL. If anyone does not understand there is a photo master class in

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

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

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in the QUILLING technique.

You can also wrap paper strips in a tight twist roll. Then give this twist the shape of a petal or leaf and make paper applications of flowers with such twists. The technique is quite famous, 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 a usual round twist is given different shapes (clamp it with a finger on the right sides) and the twist becomes a teardrop-shaped or bowl-shaped or triangular twist. And from such twisted modules we put together a quilling applique.

Below we see children's crafts from 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. It will be pleasant for the child to give his mother a hand-made postcard.

Within the framework of a school or kindergarten, the time for such a craft 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 divide the craft into 2 lessons - on the first we make modules, on the second we form the craft.

Girls like this children's craft in the form of a cupcake.

Cupcake and poultry is a very quick craft as it does not require a lot of twists. Such a craft can be done by children in grades 1 and 2 - slowly, gently curling 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 difficulty 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. Thick folding of the sheet will allow you to get large twisted parts and from them you can make a large applique - for example, such a penguin or an owl made of paper.

And also large twisted crafts are obtained from corrugated cardboard. Due to the ribbed relief, such a corton forms wide volumetric parts and it is possible to make 3D paper toys from them. Craft for the senior group of kindergarten or for school (grades 1,2,3,4).

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based on the CONE.

The paper cone is also a good base for kids 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 conical craft.

So that the cone is not too wide and not too narrow, its spreading (flat pattern) should be at 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 a 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 napkin. And in the fold of the upper part of the bird, we make a slit and insert a fan there.

In animal crafts, you can insert the ears of an elephant into such a slot. And also, for example, a lion's mane made of cardboard or thick paper.

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

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

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 slit is made in the back of the cat (like a bird's wings are higher) - and the BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD is inserted into this slit. And the front plane just 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 grade 1-2, it's also great do-it-yourself work.

You can provide for such a scheme of crafts tummy addition- like these hares below. To do this, you just need to draw additional branches of paper in the abdomen area, which then, after the silhouette is folded, WILL BE ROLLED and fastened with a stapler or glue.

You can slightly modify this principle of crafts - leaving the TOP SQUARE BACK between the two halves-barrels. That is, on 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 platform, we were able to foresee 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 paper template, then this template can be circled on a sheet of cardboard by drawing the inner fold lines in advance (those that go along the back). And the child's task is to embed the silhouette of the template and bend it along the inner lines. That is, the craft is available for children from 5 years old, and is suitable for middle and senior kindergarten groups and for school lessons in creativity and work.

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SIMPLE ORIGAMI.

It is difficult for young children 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 folded sheet might look like ... but what if there are ears, here are eyes, and here is a nose .... wow, it looks like it could be a great MOUSE.

Here is another simple folding of paper along diagonal lines makes it possible to get a fold for the "ladybug" craft. The spots and 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 in 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.

Such a children's craft is suitable for training in designing from paper in kindergarten... It requires 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 with their hands such light clamshell crafts. To do this, a sheet of paper (A4 format) is cut along a beveled diagonal. And then folds into 2 folds (to make 3 parts). The wide side of the folded paper is glued onto a sheet of colored cardboard and then decorated according to the concept of the sketch.

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DROP pattern.

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

Based on such a simple blank, you can also make a variety of craft designs - a whale made of blue paper, a ladybug (stick the 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 from above round paper roll- to get a head. So much more options for simple and easy crafts - bunny, duck, swallow.

Turn on your imagination and multiply ideas.

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

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

In the craft with the boat - we first do boat bottom holder- it's just a small rectangle of paper with small sides bent on both sides. And then to these curved sides we glue the REAL BOAT BOATS FROM BLUE PAPER. Rectangle with center bumpers will not let the sides of our boat collapse to each other.

The craft is suitable for children from 5 years old.

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

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from paper.

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

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

Crafts cards can be a great DIY gift for March 8th. For example, here's a cup with tulips. The cup handle can be cut as a separate piece and glued to the barrel of the mug.

Or you can make an apron craft with carved lace from paper (lace can be obtained from ready-made paper napkins, or you can 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 a can on the craft - glue it with a thin layer of a file (on double-sided tape). And also glue a pocket made of paper (the back wall of the craft) and put hearts in this transparent front pocket.

Here's another technique VOLUME CARDS. It's simple. We fold a sheet of paper into a float. And on the edge of the fold we do 2 notches scissors (any length and width). And then the place between these cuts is simply pushed inside the postcard with a FINGER - and it HOLES 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 card, then you can glue a cupcake on each of them. And on top there are flags. 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 it in half, notch twice and push the notched part inward. You will see that it is simple.

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

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

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

Crafts openers can have a surprise in the form of a clamshell fan. You can arrange a peacock with a lush tail under such a folding bed.

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

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

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

These are the ideas I have 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 AUTHOR'S WORKS by each of the proposed METHODS.

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

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

Successful children's crafts.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site

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