Do-it-yourself winter crafts for the garden. Origami. Panel "Snowman from cotton pads"

Winter in our strip lasts a long time. How can you keep your child busy on long winter evenings? Why not start making winter crafts with him ?! In this article, you will find a large number of a wide variety of winter crafts for children. Winter-themed crafts vary in difficulty. There are very simple winter crafts with their own hands, which even preschoolers can handle. There are more complex winter crafts designed for school children and adults. Many make winter crafts for a competition in a kindergarten or school. But even if you are not faced with the task of winning the competition of winter crafts, we still recommend that you make at least one winter crafts for children from our wonderful selection.

1. Winter crafts. DIY winter crafts

We'll start with some simpler winter crafts for kids. With a preschool child, you can mold a penguin from plasticine, and to make it more interesting to play with the resulting toy, make ice floes for the penguins from pieces of foam plastic. In the process of such games, you can tell a lot of interesting things to your kid about animals living at the North and South Poles of our planet.

With older children, craft a penguin from plastic bottles. For this DIY winter craft, you will need two 2 liter plastic bottles, a stationery knife, a glue gun, and acrylic paints. How to make a penguin from plastic bottles is shown in detail in the photo below.


2. Winter crafts for children. Crafts on the winter theme


3. Winter crafts photo. DIY winter crafts for children

Be sure to make a snowman with socks with your child. This is a completely simple children's winter craft with their own hands, meanwhile such a snowman looks very beautiful, almost like a purchased toy. Such a snowman can be put under the Christmas tree together with Santa Claus and Snegurochka. You will not be ashamed to present it for the New Year as a present.


To make a do-it-yourself winter snowman craft, you will need:

Two socks (one of them is white)
- rice (round)
- buttons
- beautiful rope
- orange paper or orange pencil

For a detailed master class on how to make a snowman out of socks, see the link.

The adorable doll in the photo below is made from an ordinary mitten. Her head is a foam ball, the filler for this children's winter craft is rice. You can read the detailed instructions and see a photo of how this winter craft was made.

For such a doll, it is appropriate to make a cute bright hat. We made this children's winter craft from a cardboard roll made of toilet paper and yarn. Read the detailed instructions


It will also be interesting to make a toy sled for a girl-mittens or any other small toy. This DIY winter craft is made of wooden ice cream sticks or medical spatulas. It is most convenient to fasten the parts of the sled together with a glue gun.

4. Craft a winter fairy tale. Winter paper crafts

Do you like children's stories? We are sure that yes. And what about winter (New Year's) children's fairy tales? Without a doubt! Agree, how nice it is, covered with a warm blanket and slowly sipping hot chocolate or lime tea with honey, to read some fascinating winter story with your child. Do you want the fairy tale to become a little closer, or rather even settle in your home? Then do the next winter craft with your baby. Print and cut a mouse in a mink... Have your child color it with colored pencils. Now glue the mouse to the wall at the level of the baseboard in some secluded corner of your house. So, on the eve of the New Year's holiday, a little fabulous mouse settled in your house. "What a cute winter fairy tale", you will say without a doubt.

5. DIY winter crafts for kindergarten

The most favorite and popular winter sports among children are skiing and skating. The theme of winter sports is reflected in children's winter crafts. Interesting winter crafts for kindergarten can be made using magnets.

In the photo below, a paper clip was attached to a paper girl on skates. A magnet was attached to the bottom of the tin box. It turned out to be a wonderful winter craft, or rather a fun toy. The child drives a magnet along the bottom of the box - the young figure skater repeats all the movements of his hand.

We would like to present you another do-it-yourself winter craft for kindergarten. "Ski Track" . This winter-themed craft is also made using a magnet. We make a track for a skier out of a piece of cardboard, place flags (we stick toothpicks with self-adhesive flags into plasticine), stretch the start and finish, plant Christmas trees along the edge (mosaic in plasticine). The skier is obtained from a Lego figure, to which we glue cardboard skis with clips at the bottom. We attach a magnet to a long ruler to control the descent of the skier. Ready! Learning to control a skier, the child will perfectly develop fine motor skills of the hands.


The skier can be done in another way. Draw it on thick paper, paint and cut with scissors. Skis will replace wooden ice cream sticks (or medical spatulas), great ski poles will come from toothpicks or bamboo skewers. Between themselves, the skis are fixed with a piece of plastic tubing, to which they are glued on both sides. Thus, it turns out not only an original children's winter craft, but also an exciting fun toy.

If you want to make with your child a simple, but at the same time, original winter craft with your own hands for kindergarten, then we advise you to pay attention to the photo below. In the photo you see a roller made of paper. Plain high-density white paper was painted with blue watercolor paint and sprinkled with salt on top until the paint was dry. This made it possible to create an ice-covered effect on paper, just like on a real ice rink. The girl and the Christmas trees are also made of paper. The snowdrifts around the skating rink are made of cotton wool.


6. DIY winter crafts for school

Scampered all over the Internet in search of a winter DIY craft for school? We have some interesting ideas for you. For example, you can make such a winter bouquet with your child. To do this, find beautiful tree branches while walking in the forest or park. Bring them home. At home, crush a piece of Styrofoam with your hands. Pre-moisten the styrofoam with water to prevent it from sticking to your hands. Lubricate the twigs with glue, then sprinkle them with styrofoam. The winter bouquet is ready!

You can also make just such a winter craft with your own hands for school - a pompom bird. It is made in the same way as a regular round pompom made of yarn, the only difference is that not two rings of cardboard are taken as the basis, but the silhouette of a bird with a round hole inside. It will be interesting to decorate a bouquet of tree branches with such birds.



7. Winter crafts in the kindergarten. How to make a winter craft

It will not be a shame to bring such a creation to the winter crafts competition in kindergarten. This winter window is made of plain and corrugated paper. A kind of envelope is made of two sheets of thick colored paper, inside which a child's drawing is inserted. Window curtains are made of accordion-folded corrugated paper. With the help of a punch, holes were made in them and put on a thin lace. Here's what happened as a result. By the way, the drawings can be changed depending on the season or the mood of the child.


8. Winter crafts. DIY winter crafts

In our article on winter crafts for children, we also paid attention to children's plasticine crafts. See what a cute Christmas tree you can mold from plasticine using ordinary nail scissors. We will not describe in detail here how to make this winter craft with our own hands, because everything is clear and without further ado.


9. Winter crafts for children. Crafts on the winter theme

So our article on winter crafts for children has come to an end. In parting, I would like to tell readers about such winter children's crafts that give us warmth, a fairy tale and coziness on cold winter days and evenings. Of course, we will talk about homemade flashlights. Lanterns can be made from paper. The easiest way to do this is to use ready-made templates (

Long winter evenings, a quiet family atmosphere, New Year's holidays - and now your desire wakes up in us

Winter crafts for children and for children

12:26 27 November 2017

Long winter evenings, a quiet family atmosphere, New Year's holidays - and now a desire wakes up in us to create unprecedented beauty with our own hands. And if you also connect to your own imagination that huge mass of ideas that the Internet is simply overflowing with, then you can specifically get hooked on homemade products. Moreover, you will not need any unusual materials for this. Quite the opposite: on winter crafts everything in the house will do.

Such funny snowmen made of felt, socks and even salt dough.

A funny penguin made of colored paper will amuse your child and teach you the basics of geometry.

Snow-white winter is a favorite season for many of us, and New Year is one of the best holidays. Just imagine: it's frosty outside, the roads are covered with snow, everything is covered with huge snowdrifts, and the whole family gathered in a warm cozy house on a weekend. And when the kids start fiddling with colored paper and scissors, then normal parents will not be able to stand aside and will definitely join handicrafts, which will delight both themselves and the kids. The desire to create wakes up even more with the appearance of a fluffy Christmas tree. That's when children with mom and dad open a real workshop of Santa Claus, so many toys for the Christmas tree, garlands, snowflakes and decorations for gifts appear from under their hands. It is not only beautiful, but also gives great joy to those who are engaged in homemade products, and those who see them.

If you remember, we wrote in detail how to make a solution for crystals.

Our inventive mothers, if they wish or need, can adapt any item for decoration. So New Year's crafts FROM FIGURED PASTA PRODUCTS have become very popular. You can dream up with your child and make unusual toys and funny garlands. Even if you just paint them in gold or white, sprinkle them with piece frost, then the tree will sparkle from them, and the baby will simply be delighted. For the smallest, simple toys made from cardboard templates are suitable. The child will be able to cut figures out of paper, felt or foil on them. You can also adapt unnecessary beads and buttons, different in shape and color, found at home. Their child can sew according to his own taste to the figures made earlier. Then they must be hung on the tree at the most honorable place.

Winter pasta crafts

For crafts, you will need pasta of different shapes, glue and glitter.

Kids winter crafts

For older guys, you can offer more serious kids winter crafts requiring certain skills. So younger schoolchildren can easily cope with a New Year's craft - SLIPPERS WITH FATHER FROST. Of course, they can be made "in an adult way" - from thick felt, insoles, padding polyester. But in our case, a simpler one is suitable - a souvenir version of slippers that can be hung, for example, for combs in the hallway. They are made either from thick fabric or from cardboard. In this case, the child traces his foot on the cardboard and cuts out the base. Then, from another piece of cardboard, he cuts out the top of the sneaker, and you can offer him to cut its shape according to the template you made in advance. Before joining both blanks, the upper part is decorated to match the face of Santa Claus. To do this, you can take a braid of a suitable tone, thick fabric, colored paper, two white buttons and two black beads from which eyes are made, multi-colored yarn, a synthetic winterizer for a mustache, beard and cap hem. You can decorate everything with white gouache and sparkles. If your child gives such a souvenir to his beloved grandparents, then their happiness will have no boundaries.

Winter theater made of felt.

Beautiful New Year card.

And here is another card with a snowman.

A funny version of New Year's crafts - decorations for the Christmas tree FROM EGG SHELL. At the beginning, white and yolk are carefully blown out of a whole egg (fresh) through punctures at its ends. Then the most creative stage begins - the decoration of the shell. The easiest way is to glue the entire surface of the eggshell with small pieces of colored paper. You can glue different applications from the same colored paper. If you add wadded hair, a mustache, a beard and a paper cap to the drawn mouth, nose and eyes, you can get a cute gnome, clown, Santa Claus or someone else. You can also glue over the egg with sparkles, decorate with finely chopped "rain", different ribbons, as well as absolutely everything that comes to hand. And you can simply paint the shell, but not with watercolors and gouache. They do not adhere well to the surface of the egg, so oil or acrylic paint is more suitable. A thread for hanging a toy, pre-threaded through both holes, is fixed at the lower end of the egg, for example, with a thread brush or bead.

Sugar snowmen.

Don't you know how to use plastic bottles correctly?

But for the PARADISE APPLE, everything in the kitchen will do. This will crumple up the foil and shape it into a small apple. On top of it, you need to wrap it with a finishing layer of the same foil. A pea of ​​pepper is glued into the recess at the bottom of the apple, and two holes are pierced in the upper recess, into which a stalk, a leaf and a fastening thread will be inserted. For the cutting, you can use a knot, a real tail from an apple or a piece of twine, and the leaf can be successfully replaced with a bay leaf, which is better tinted for greater naturalness. Now all that remains is to sprinkle the apple with snow. It can be replaced with scraps of paper, small balls of styrofoam, or ordinary sugar. In order for the snow not to crumble, the apple should be greased with glue or transparent varnish (for nails) and rolled in a material prepared for the snow ahead of time. Moreover, you do not need to roll the whole apple, but only one side or top of it. When the apple is dry, it is ready to hang on the tree.

Cork ball

Joint creativity with the child allows him to discover talents, love handicrafts, or even improve relations with parents if they have deteriorated. The winter season contributes to this: you can create many interesting crafts, collages, drawings. Often, children are instructed by the teacher to bring something made with their own hands. This article is a cheat sheet for parents and children, what kind of winter craft to make, how to implement it with your own hands and at the same time arouse the child's interest.

One of the most popular themes that are chosen to create a thematic craft is "Winter's Tale". She is close to both children and adults, because on the eve of the New Year, I sincerely want to believe in miracles.

A winter fairy tale is associated with a decorated Christmas tree, snow-covered landscapes, gifts and lanterns - garlands. All this can be brought to life within the framework of winter crafts.

winter's tale in the bank

Everyone is familiar with a New Year's souvenir - a ball with a Christmas tree or other themed attribute in the middle. When shaken, snowflakes or sparkles begin to swirl. You can recreate a winter fairy tale in such a craft.

The process will not take much time, and the necessary material will not result in a lump sum. Therefore, such a craft can be considered budgetary and effective.

What will the young creator and his parents need:

  • transparent glass jar (it is possible from under the baby food) with a tightly screwed lid;
  • small souvenir trees, snowman, etc .;
  • sequins or artificial snow;
  • glycerin, water;
  • hot glue.

The jar must be sized so that the tree, for example, can easily fit there.

Detailed description of the process:

  1. First you need to make a fitting: put the tree in a jar, screw the lid on, make sure that the craft looks beautiful.
  2. Now pour a little glue on the bottom of the lid and glue a Christmas tree or some kind of winter character. You can use the symbol of the coming new year. Let grab.
  3. Pour water and glycerin into a jar in a 1: 1 ratio and mix.
  4. Add sequins or artificial snow.
  5. Put some glue on the thread of the neck of the can.
  6. Screw on the lid (the tree looks upside down).

Let the craft stand for a while so that the glue adheres well to the surface of the lid and the jar. Now you can shake the container and enjoy the winter wonderland.

A similar craft can be done without liquid. If you use a beautiful container for storing bulk products, then you will also get a good option.

For this, in addition to the container, you will need sugar and decor. The algorithm of actions is very simple:

  • pour a little sugar into the container;
  • lay out the figures neatly;
  • close the lid.

The creative process will take no more than 15 minutes, and the result will surely please others.

winter's tale on cardboard

You can make a beautiful craft using simple improvised means: cardboard, glue and cotton wool. The advantage of this option is that it gives a wide scope for creativity. The child can build a composition himself, choose the main characters, etc.

What is useful for work:

  • PVA glue for plastic;
  • cotton wool;
  • any decor to your liking;
  • New Year's rain;
  • scissors;
  • a brush for applying glue.

First you need to find a suitable cardboard base. To do this, you can use the bottom of the cardboard box.

Compare roughly where the decor will be located.

Grease the surface well with glue and spread the cotton wool evenly. It will snow. You do not need to glue it only where you plan to place the figures.

Apply stronger glue to the bottom surface of the figures (Christmas tree, snowman, penguin and others) and stick to the cardboard.

Break the rain into small pieces and sprinkle on the craft. Lay out bead tracks.

You can also use special effects - candles. You need to place a few pieces around the perimeter of the craft and light them. Isn't it a winter fairy tale?

winter's tale and bumps

Cones are often found in winter crafts. They are easy to handle and will fit well with any idea.

You can convey a winter fairy tale if you make snow-covered Christmas trees from cones.

To do this, you need to prepare:

  • corks from open bottles;
  • cones;
  • white paint and brush;
  • foam or cardboard;
  • glue.

The craft is very simple:

  1. A little glue is poured onto the cork and a bump is glued.
  2. Take white paint and paint the bump so that it looks like snow. You can sprinkle with sparkles.
  3. A star is cut out of foam or cardboard and glued to the "crown".

You can make several of these trees and stick them on a board. Such a composition will be a wonderful decor in the interior.

Children's crafts winter fairy tale, pictures

The theme "Winter's Tale" gives a great opportunity to choose a creative direction. The choice of the required option should be based on the skills of the child. After all, it is the child who should do most of the work. The task of the parents is to help him and remove the shortcomings.

Several options for interesting crafts "Winter's Tale":

cardboard craft is suitable for older children

craft - an applique made from materials of different textures looks very impressive

pasta can also be part of the composition

Ice skating rink and fun, what is not a winter fairy tale for many children?

Crafts from cotton pads are in every direction of creativity.

A winter's tale can also be embodied with the help of plasticine.

To develop your child's creative talents, you should try a few techniques and do a few different crafts.

Application winter fun, detail with photo

The application "Winter Fun" is especially popular with children. This is because they can depict what they especially like to do in winter: play snowballs, make a snowman, skate or ski.

There are many ideas for this kind of creative work. Let's highlight two of them.

The advantage of this application is that several techniques are used, and this option also involves cutting out small details. That is why it is suitable for the middle and senior group in kindergarten.

For work you will need:

And also cotton wool to make the snow realistically.

The process will be time consuming because there are many small parts to be cut out and glued. First you need to cut out all the elements that will be on the canvas. In this case, trees, children, birds and a snowman.

Then you should, without using glue, attach everything to the sheet in order to understand how to make a beautiful composition.

After that, you need to pour some glue into some container and take a brush. This is necessary so that there is no excess of glue, because the elements are all small.

Glue all characters to paper. Where there will be snow, also spread with glue. Pinch off the cotton wool and lay it out evenly.

The craft is ready. The most difficult thing is the preparatory stage, when you need to cut out the decor. And then the creative process will go faster.

Another version of the application on a given topic:

Here the base should first be painted with paints. To do this, take a blue watercolor and draw a background. Above you can draw the sun and clouds.

Then comes the turn of the application. As usual, you can't do without colored paper, glue and scissors.

You will also need several pieces of cotton pads and dry leaves, which need to be broken into small pieces.

The hardest part of this app is to make the boy ski. To simplify the task, it can be cut from the magazine or printed first, and then cut and simply glued.

Then you need to tackle the trees. For this, the surface is greased with glue and dry leaves are poured out.

Finely chop the cotton pads and lay out the mountain on which the skier is riding.

The composition is positioned at an angle. It is important to observe this in order to obtain a descent effect.

Applique winter landscape, step by step

Application is impossible without the child's personal vision of the object of work. The theme "Winter landscape" makes you appreciate the beauty of this time, highlight the important for yourself, and then transfer it to paper.

The child must choose for himself what he wants to portray: an urban winter landscape, a rural, snow-covered grove or mountains.

Below is a variant in the style of "Urban winter landscape":

This applique is based on cotton pads and colored paper. It is also suitable for children of the younger group of kindergarten, because it does not have too small details and all the shapes are correct.

For the creative process you will need:

First, preparatory work precedes: you need to cut out larger multi-colored rectangles from colored paper - these are at home. And also smaller - these are windows and doors.

You also need to cut out snowflakes and cut cotton pads in half (but not all).

Now comes the crucial moment - you need to glue everything. It is better to take cardboard as a basis, so the craft will last longer in an integral form.

Then dip the brush into the glue and smear each element one by one and glue it in place.

You can see the process in more detail in the following video:

Winter sports application, step by step

For many, winter sports are associated with figure skating. The applique in the shape of skates will be an excellent souvenir for the New Year's holiday, and can also turn into a Christmas tree decoration.

The wizard's set is small:

  • glue;
  • colored paper;
  • scissors;
  • paper clips.

Beads, sequins, etc. can also be used for decoration.

First you need to make a blank: draw a sketch of skates on paper. Then - cut them out.

The paper must be folded in half so that later you can attach paper clips.

Now you can do the decor and decorate the skates as you see them. After that, a paper clip is taken and one edge is threaded between two layers of paper.

Such an application can arouse interest in the winter sport of figure skating.

Winter applique senior group, step by step

In the senior group of the kindergarten, children are already good at using scissors, they understand how to correctly compose a composition, what technique to apply in a particular case.

Educators should teach children:

  • correctly place objects of different shapes on the sheet;
  • in parallel, select synonyms for the subjects with which the child will work;
  • new terms in the field of drawing;
  • the process of socialization must go through, so the heroes of the application should not be alone.

Considering that children in the older group can independently decide what to take as the basis of their application, the older ones can only remotely correct.

This option combines several techniques for creating an applique, so it will be useful for children to make it.

To implement the plan, you need to prepare:

  • peas;
  • glue;
  • cotton pads;
  • colored paper;
  • white paint for painting;
  • brush.

First you need to cut out the elements of a snowman and a tree from colored paper. Then take a blue sheet of paper and glue the barrel. Lay out the pea herringbone on top. To do this, each pea must be dipped in glue. The Christmas tree should be decorated with a star.

Then the cotton pads should be cut in half. Lay out the snowman from whole and cut discs. Supplement it with colored paper elements.

You need to make snow around from cotton pads. Use paint and a brush to create a snowfall effect.

The hardest part in this applique is to make a herringbone, because the peas do not stick to the paper the first time.

Winter application preparatory group, step by step with a photo

Children in the preparatory group also have high creative skills, they can choose their own technique and application theme.

It is important to improve your skills, because light applications should be postponed and a complex complex option should be chosen.

This option is multi-level. Elements are angled to create a realistic effect.

If you place items incorrectly, chaos will result. This is exactly the task for children from the kindergarten.

You will need a little materials: only glue and colored paper.

It is important to cut trees beautifully, because they set the tone for the work. To do this, you need to use the technique of cutting out a snowflake: fold the paper in half and make cuts on one side.

If the child cannot do this, then you can use ready-made templates. One has only to cut them out and attach them to colored paper, circle them and also cut them out.

When the trees are ready, you need to cut out the elements of the house, fence, clouds. The main canvas will consist of two colors - blue at the top and blue at the bottom. This will also visually delimit the appliqué.

Lay out the elements in the correct order at the desired angle and glue.

Winter applique middle group, step by step with photo

Creating a winter applique in the middle group is a must. This develops the child's aesthetic perception, teaches how to correctly combine colors and shapes, and observe the measure.

You can take this option as a basis:

It combines regular shapes and carved, different textures. But at the same time, the application has one level, which makes it easier for the child.

Also, on this option, it is easy to get acquainted with the process of gluing not only paper, but also cotton pads, which is a more difficult task.

To create an applique you need to buy:

  • colored paper;
  • cotton pads (2 - 3 pcs);
  • glue and scissors;
  • eyes with a bead in the middle or can be pasted out of paper.

The algorithm of actions will be as follows:

Step-by-step execution will avoid mistakes.

Winter applique younger group, step by step with a photo

Winter application in the younger group is impossible without the help of educators. Often it is based on a blank (for example, a tree trunk), and children only need to supplement it.

At the age of 3-4 years, it is preferable for children to deal with plasticine than with scissors. Therefore, the option presented below will be the most optimal for this age category.

Necessary materials:

  • colored cardboard:
  • plasticine of different colors;
  • cotton wool.

Step-by-step course of action:

  1. Use colored cardboard as a base.
  2. Make details for the applique (man, tree, slide) from plasticine.
  3. Decorate the tree with "snow" (cotton wool).
  4. Also, don't forget about the snowfall. White plasticine will help to realize this idea.

Such work also develops hand motor skills, which is very beneficial for the development of the brain.

Winter tree applique, step by step with photo

The child's understanding of a winter tree can be different: with an armful of snow on the branches, or, conversely, standing sadly without foliage. It is difficult to imagine a more "winter" tree than spruce or pine. In festive attire, these trees are a symbol of winter, holiday, fun.

The work algorithm will be as follows:

  • cut out their colored paper two Christmas trees (larger and smaller) of different colors;
  • first glue a large template on the base, and a small one on it;
  • cut a star and glue it to the top of the tree;
  • take buttons, apply glue to them and glue them on a small Christmas tree;
  • rhinestones can be glued around the perimeter of a large Christmas tree.

When a child is working with buttons and other small objects, an adult must be nearby so that the child does not swallow these elements.

The process of creating such an application is presented in the video:

Volumetric craft winter forest, step by step with a photo

The volumetric craft "Winter Forest" will take a lot of time. But this is a good opportunity to develop a child's vision of volumetric details, teach them how to properly position them in space, and measure them in size.

For example, you can take the following work:

There are two options for creating it:

  • simplified (if there are ready-made figures of Santa Claus and Snow Maiden, souvenir Christmas trees and a house);
  • more complex (all elements must be done manually).

To implement the first option, you need to take a cardboard base. Prepare all the elements that will be located on it and glue it one by one. Large objects such as a house will require more glue.

All the space that remains free, also spread with glue and lay out cotton wool - this will imitate snow.

The fence can be made of cardboard, ice cream sticks or candles. The last option is very interesting because they can be lit and the craft will look spectacular. But at the same time, do not forget that it is dangerous. Vata can quickly catch fire, so you need to do this only in the presence of adults.

How do I attach candles to the base? You can make small slots in the cardboard and carefully place the candles there.

If there is no ready-made decor at hand, then Christmas trees can be made from plasticine.

And the house is made of matchboxes, as in this video:

Winter applications from cotton pads, in detail with a photo

Cotton pads are frequent guests of winter applications. They are very reminiscent of snow drifts, they are easy to shape, and can also be easily painted with paints in the desired color.

A large selection of possible crafts is sure to inspire your unique creation.

Example # 1:

All elements on this applique (except for snowflakes) are made of cotton pads:

  • the sun and clouds are carved from them;
  • to create a snowman, you need to take a full-fledged cotton pad, and also cut out smaller circles;
  • to make a herringbone, you need to twist the disks.
  • This applique combines cotton pads and colored paper:

    • the face of Santa Claus, his hat, eyes and nose are cut out of colored paper;
    • the beard and pompom are made from cotton pads.

    Everything is held together with glue.

    A similar technique is used in such an application:

    In more detail, the creative process can be viewed in the video:

    Creative work develops the child's potential, helps him see the beautiful. Whichever type of creativity is chosen, the child should like it, bring pleasure and reveal his talents. It is also important to show that the child can do beautiful things with their own hands.

Winter is a time of miracles. That is why children love her so much. On the eve of New Year's holidays, it becomes relevant to make New Year's crafts with their own hands, in which each child invests a piece of himself. In fact, making crafts for the garden is interesting, because every child can discover a talent in himself, and parents are obliged to help with this.

Winter crafts for the garden do not have to be complex and intricate, sometimes simplicity is much more attractive, and we will now see this.

Well, what a winter without a snowman, besides, he is the main character in many New Year's performances, cartoons. So, why not make such a craft, besides, it's as easy as shelling pears. This will require paper, cotton wool, glue, scissors, a simple pencil and napkins.

  1. First you need to make a base for a snowman out of paper, so draw a snowman on paper with a pencil and cut it out.
  2. To make the craft textured, you need to prepare cotton balls (roll cotton wool into small lumps).
  3. The cotton wool is ready and you can liberally grease one side of the paper snowman with glue, on which you can then attach the existing lumps of cotton wool.
  4. Let the snowman rest a little, and at this time we start making eyes, nose, mouth, buttons and a cap from colored paper - all this is also smeared with glue and attached to a cotton snowman.
  5. You can decorate it with a napkin, from which it is easy to make a pretty scarf.

Snowman from a plastic bottle for a garden

This Christmas-themed craft is also an original solution. Offer your child this idea and he will be delighted. To make a craft, you will need a small plastic bottle, cotton wool, cloth or napkin, buttons, and glue.

  1. You should start by filling the snowman. For this, cotton wool is formed into small lumps, which fill the bottle one by one.
  2. The filled bottle is closed with a lid that acts as a snowman's headgear, which can be decorated with cloth or paper as desired.
  3. With the help of glue, buttons are attached to the bottle, which act as eyes, mouth and other complementary elements.
  4. Finally, a scarf and nose for the winter guest is made with a cloth or napkin and fixed with glue.

That's all, in a matter of minutes a fabulous winter craft for the garden with your own hands is ready.

Christmas tree from a pine cone in a garden

This craft is a clear example that beauty lies in simplicity. With just one bump and imagination, you can create a festive mood and an original craft. To do this, you will need a beautiful pine cone, plasticine, paints, a brush, beads for decoration and glue.

  1. Let's start by making a plasticine pot for the cone and place it there.
  2. A star is also made of plasticine, which will take pride of place at the top of the future Christmas tree.
  3. Using a brush and paints, paint the cone green, and after it dries, you can use white paint to imitate snow on the branches of a future Christmas tree.

The craft can be left as it is, or it can be supplemented with beads fixed to the cone with glue. Beads are Christmas balls on our tree.

DIY paper Christmas tree

A cone-shaped Christmas tree made of paper will be a wonderful decoration for the New Year holidays and will not be left unattended, and its production is very simple. It is necessary to prepare materials such as paper of the color and texture you like, scissors, glue, decorations for the Christmas tree in the form of beads, rhinestones, sequins, ribbons.

  1. To make such a craft, you need to take a flat sheet of paper and roll it up, so that you get a cone.
  2. We coat one edge of the paper with glue and fix the tree.
  3. While the tree is drying, you can prepare decorations for it. For example, beautiful bows will come out of ribbons, beads will come off as Christmas balls, and multi-colored rhinestones will play the role of lights.
  4. Decorations are attached to the tree with glue.

In the above examples, it becomes obvious that DIY winter crafts for the garden can be made from the most common materials.

All you need is the materials at home, a little imagination and, of course, a good mood, then you can only get pleasure from the process of making the craft.


Winter has come merry
With skates and sleds
With a sprinkled track,
With a magical old tale.
On a decorated Christmas tree
Lanterns swing.
Let the winter be merry
It doesn't end any longer!

Winter crafts

Winter has come! Snow, frost, sledges, skates - WHERE? Our Latvian weather again unpredictably canceled winter. Well, let's make the winter ourselves, with our own hands. And create a festive New Year's atmosphere! And to help you I offer a small selection of ideas.

There has already been a lot about postcards, so I won't go deep into this topic, I'll just post a few new ideas. Yarn, buttons, threads, ribbons, paper, pencil shavings and some magic!

Last year there were Christmas trees made of stripes, this year we will make the Christmas trees a little more voluminous - we will twist the tubes from colored paper.

Unusual candlesticks are obtained by simply cutting out a black and white picture of a city or castle and wrapping it around a jar. You can make a whole fabulous city. And candlesticks made of tin cans, on which an openwork pattern is pierced, will support the fabulous atmosphere.

The pine cone is already a tree in itself. And a lot of cones is a big tree.

Since we are talking about Christmas trees, here is such an option. Elegant and original. And by the size and number of Christmas trees, it will be possible to understand how big a wine lover you are.

And finally, I propose to remember about our smaller brothers and make such unusual feeders. Gelatin dissolves in water, then the food is poured, laid out in molds and cooled in the refrigerator.

I hope some of the ideas will come in handy and your winter evenings will be filled with creativity!


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