Good afternoon, today I decided to collect in one article all ways make paper crafts that kids can do. For the DIY season of 2017 - it turned out to be a decent photo piggy bank of ideas that a child can make out of paper with their own hands. These paper crafts can be used for kindergarten or school (grades 1-5). There will be easy crafts for preschool children(from 3 to 7 years old) - for the younger, middle and older groups. And there will also be crafts and more complicated ones that require more long school hours(for 45 minutes) - suitable for labor lessons for children in grades 1, 2, 3, 4. As well as heads of creative circles "Skillful hands" kindergarten or school will find many useful paper craft ideas for themselves.
- We will do flat crafts-applications.
- Volumetric crafts from colored paper and corrugated cardboard.
- craft toys from cardboard or thick paper.
- crafts using various techniques(half disks, fan, symmetrical fold, postcard).
At the moment, we already have thematic articles on the site with paper crafts,
And also a lot of ideas for paper NEW YEAR crafts in the article:
And in this article - we will look at different techniques that can be used for paper crafts for children of different ages.
So let's see what paper crafts I have collected in this piggy bank.
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In the technique of HALF DISK.
Colored paper crafts that we meet in kindergarten and at school most often look like applications. I myself really like effect applications 3D. There are quite a few ways to create bulges on the application.
In this article, I want to highlight a technology that is interesting in its graphics - these are crafts from round paper discs. When all the work is laid out in the form of whole or folded in half paper rounds.
Such a mosaic applique of round pieces is suitable for children 3-4 years old. It is just right for them in terms of pedagogical tasks of this age, when children still do not know how to work with scissors, but are already happy to glue ready-made template modules from colored paper.
Such crafts-appliqués look bright and unusual due to PARTIAL GLUE of modules - we put only half of the disk on the glue, and its second part sticks out in a fold.
And from circles or ovals bent in half, you can make not only flat applications, but also paper crafts-toys. Here's one for inspiration caterpillar of ovals bent in half- children from 3 years old cope with this task, if you help them fold the ovals in half. Children 4 years old will fold the ovals themselves, and even cut out a few of them. And for children 5 years old, you need to distribute colored rectangles, they themselves will cut the corners of the rectangles, thereby turning them into ovals, they themselves will bend them in half and fold them into a caterpillar.
Be smart and think WHAT ELSE can be constructed from paper semi-circles or semi-ovals. Surely you can make a frog, a panda, a giraffe, a hippopotamus, a penguin from such half-discs of a round or oval shape.
VOLUME application
From paper blades.
And here is another technology for convex paper applications. When the parts are glued in advance into the BLADES, and then such a bladed paper craft is glued with its blades onto the application cardboard.
Blades are obtained if Bend 3-4 identical parts in half, and then the bent walls of adjacent parts are glued to each other.
For example, the ladybug in the photo below consists from three paper circles. Cut out three circles, bent them in half. First, glue the halves bent in half on the left and right. And then the third kruglyash lays down like a book on the protruding halves of the glued kruglyash.
Craft "Ladybug" is suitable for children 3 years old. And the craft "Balloon" with a large number of blades is suitable for children 4-5 years old.
Any form of paper can be turned into a paddle part, the number of blades and the splendor of the part depends on how many parts you use in your bulk gluing.
In the same way, you can do paper crafts in three-dimensional form (in the form of objects) with your own hands - like these paper fruits in the photo below. Watermelon is suitable for crafts in the older group of kindergarten.
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ON SPRINGS.
And here's another paper craft with a bulging effect. Here, the volume of the application is transmitted by embossing a strip of colored paper bent into three folds. This autumn application is easy to do with your own hands - suitable for children of the middle and older groups (5, 6 years old).
In the center of the upper fold, we cut a hollow and place the silhouette of an owl inside. To make the owl hover at a distance from the back wall of the hollow, you need to stick a paper spring on the back of the owl. How to make a spring you will now understand, using the example of the following paper craft with a three-dimensional effect.
Here below we see a BEAR paper craft. The bear's paws are also glued at a distance from the body. And this distance between the paws and the body is achieved by sticking paper springs. Everyone in childhood made such spring worms. Below we see a master class that shows the process of creating such a paper spring and the whole craft as a whole.
The BEAR craft is suitable for children 3-4 years old (if all the details are already cut out and the springs are folded). Children 4 - 5 years old you can slowly cut out the silhouettes yourself. Children 5-6 years old already able to fold the springs themselves (and the lesson can be divided into 2 parts- in the first lesson we make springs and cut out part of the silhouettes - in the second lesson we cut and assemble everything together.
In the same way, you can do any craft. Below we see that the crown of the tree is made according to this principle. But with the same success, you can do bunch of balloons on a greeting card. Or bouquet of flowers from paper, where each flower will be at its convex level.
You can highlight with a bulk spring any details of paper crafts - bird wings, tiers of thorns on a hedgehog (photo below).
Or hares in thick grass (spring crafts in the photo below).
You can also make this paper craft using springs inside. It turns out a beautiful effect. And also legs-stands for multi-layer applications can be made not from paper springs, but from purchased thick double-sided tape. Such a plump adhesive tape is for sale - it has a thick, as it were, foam tape and it is sticky on both sides. It can be cut into stumps and glued between layers of crafts.
From such springs, you can make not only applications, but also independent paper crafts. Make a spring and beat it with other paper parts. For example, attach an oval muzzle, round ears, paws at the bottom and a long stripe-tail - and now it all starts to look like
But paper penguins crafts based on the same spring. Or crafts-bugs. There is always unused black paper in the kindergarten in a set of colored paper - you always don’t know what to make of it - but here you are, black bugs, penguins and little crows.
Origami
WITH FAN.
A paper fan is often used in children's crafts as a way to quickly create the desired shape of a part. Most often, a gluing fan is used as a tail for paper birds (or as wings).
The spreading fan blades may remind you of bat wings. Children's crafts for middle age (4-5 years).
The fan is similar to the lampshade of a table lamp - which means it will make an excellent do-it-yourself lamp craft (craft for children from 3 years old)
The fan can become the basis for children's crafts in the form of fairy-tale characters - friends of penguins or northern bears (crafts for children 5-7 years old).
If we fold the fan in half - and unbend its blades into 2 semicircles - and glue the semicircles that meet with glue, then we will get a ROUND FAN.
From such a blank, you can make a lot of paper children's crafts. The simplest and fastest are apples (add a stalk and a leaf) or birds (add a wing, an eye and a beak).
Ready-made blanks of round fans are used in classes with children 3-4 years. And aged 5 years the child is already given the task of creating such a round fan out of colored paper.
By adding various details to the paper fan, we can get the image of any paper animal (a black cat, or a red, white bunny (as in the photo with children's crafts below).
You just have to teach children how to make a fan with their own hands, practice several times. Then teach them to bend the fan in half and unfold both halves into two semicircles - and glue these semicircles with a glue stick. And then the children themselves will surprise you, they will throw up more and more new ideas for crafts, turn a round paper fan into a snowman, then into a mermaid bra, into a round red nose of a clown.
And if you make several round fans of slightly different diameters at once and string them on a wire, then we can get a voluminous spherical paper craft. The fan ball can become an apple, a pumpkin, a snowman, a sheep, a white rabbit and any other children's character.
Children's crafts
on an accordion stand.
There is another original way to make paper crafts for children. Below we see the principle of creating such crafts. From cardboard, we fold an ordinary accordion. And we use it as TIERS for sticking paper parts.
In the photo of the children's crafts below, we see how the accordion turned into a cake craft. Each row of an accordion is a tier of a cake with candles.
Note, the side high part of the craft in the photo below (where the balloons are) is not necessary.
In the same way, according to this principle, we can use the rows of an accordion like rows of Christmas trees in a forest. And between them put a deer or a snowman, or hide a bunny.
Rows of pots can be used as streets on which to place houses.
Or the rows of such a stand can be folded from blue paper and designed as SEA WAVES, and then it remains to stick dolphins or rows of boats on them. Or peeping sharks.
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on a flat cardboard template.
And now we will see crafts for children, where all the elements are pasted on a silhouette cut out of thick cardboard.
For example, we take cardboard and draw a silhouette of a shark on it. Any child from 4 years old is already learning to cut with scissors - he cuts out the silhouette himself with his own hands, slowly crooked, but he should already myself cut along the line holding the scissors in a stationary hand, and rotate the sheet of cardboard as the cut line rotates along the silhouette ..
When the silhouette of a shark is cut out of blue cardboard, we give the child a round blank of white paper - the task of the child is to cut it into teeth (just stuff the triangles obliquely with scissors, and then bend every tooth so that it protrudes inside the general circle. And this paper mouth remains to be glued onto the silhouette of a shark. And we'll get awesome crafts for children 4-7 years old. Sharks are great crafts for boys. Little brave men will be happy to tame a dangerous sea predator.
Application details do not have to be from colored paper. For example, a scarf on a polar bear below is cut out of a cover from colored paper (the cover was in a box). And the carrot on the craft with the hare is white cardboard, which was previously painted with gouache (they painted yellow-orange-red stripes).
You can peep ideas for the same applications on a cardboard silhouette in children's cartoons, or see them on a children's coloring book.
Such paper crafts for children 5 years old can become the basis for a children's theater. If you stick on the back of each craft long handle made of thin wooden lath(you can buy it in the building department of the store) - or the pen can be rolled up from a sheet of paper and wrapped tightly with tape for tightness.
Children, hiding behind a screen and holding their characters on sticks, can put on performances entertaining parents, grandparents with homemade reprises of famous fairy tales.
And you can also cut round holes for children's fingers in such a craft - then you can already play the scenes of the TABLE THEATER. Here in the photo below we see a sheep and a hare made of paper with such slots for fingers.
Also, your paper characters can have a special PAW GRIP, and you can insert a candy or a pencil and a small gift for someone into this grip.
By the way, here's a good idea - such a character can be pasted on a postcard and give him a paw rolled up 100 dollar bill- you get a gift card with money for a friend's birthday.
Such flat cardboard crafts can be supplemented with FOLD elements (as in the bunny in the photo below), or TWIST elements (as in the snail below). Or additional ENTOURAGE elements (as with the cat below).
Children's crafts
with paper stripes.
Also, the application can be made voluminous if you use LOOP FROM PAPER STRIPS. Colored paper is cut into strips, and each strip is smoothly folded and glued at its ends. Such curved stripes can be the petals of a lush aster or a modest chamomile.
Or such paper loops can serve feathered swan- left photo below. This craft is suitable for children ages 4 and up. They themselves glue the already cut strips into loops and stick them in rows on the tail of the swan.
But the peacock (in the right photo above) is already craft for older kids. For grades 1-2 - because in a lesson in kindergarten, children in 25 minutes will not have time to make a peacock from start to finish. But in 45 minutes of a school lesson, children will just cope with this task.
Please note that the peacock is made of paper from strips of different lengths. The yellow strip is the shortest - it is the first to bend into a loop. Then the green strip is glued to the loop with one edge and also bent to the place where the yellow loop-strip is glued. Then we do the same with a slightly longer blue stripe.
Thus we get EIGHT THREE-COLOR LOOP for the peacock tail. They all stick together ribs to each other- in one bunch-bouquet. And at the junctions of their gluing, we attach peacock spots. Then we attach to the back cardboard silhouette of a peacock. Great creative piece.
Below we see how flower crafts are created according to the same principle. In the same way, we make a tail for our peacock from the photo above.
Or a paper craft for girls - SHOES-SANDALS - here the strips serve as straps to create a woven toe of paper flip flops.
And if you cut strips of the SAME LENGTH, then it is convenient to make a spherical braid out of them. Such a braid in the form of stripes crossed in a circle can serve as a shell for a turtle, a balloon, or the middle of a lush flower or a snowball from a snowman.
Or it can be a delicious apple bitten off the side (left photo below). And inside such an apple, you can put a worm from a paper spring (see above for the method with a spring).
If you glue the strips crosswise in the center ... and pierce holes from the ends with a hole punch ... and lift these ends with holes up ... and collect them on a thread, then we will get a paper pear craft (look at the right photo above).
And if take NOT SEPARATE strips - but cut a sheet of paper into strips NOT CUT TO THE EDGE - like a long fringe. And then arrange this long striped fringe in the form of a paper craft-hat.
By a similar principle, beautiful paper crafts are made in the form bird cages. Such a craft only at first glance seems complicated. But in fact, everything is available for children from 4 years old. And even a child of 3 years old can cope with the help of an adult who will show, then smear with glue and where to stick it.
Below we see this cage in the blank (photo-master class). First, these are paper strips on a wide strip of the base. Then we wrap the base in a ring. And we bend the strips sticking up into an arch, each relative to each other. Quick and easy craft. It remains only to make a paper bird and hang it on a string under this paper roof.
That is, such a craft is easy to do with your own hands for children even 3-4 years old.
And you can also make paper children's crafts based on a BALL from strips. A ball of stripes is collected on a needle and thread. Since you can’t give a needle to children, you can go the other way and make holes in three places of each strip in advance with a hole punch - along the center and along two edges.
The strips are folded crosswise onto the central hole - a thread is threaded into it from a suspended bead from below. A large bead at the bottom prevents the strips from slipping off the thread. Next, a few more beads are strung on the thread (see carefully inside the lamb, they are visible in the photo). And then the same thread is threaded into all the holes at the ends of all the strips - THIS IS THE BALL. If anyone does not understand, there is a photo-master class in
You can attach any details to such paper balls, turning them either into frogs or hares (as in the photo of children's crafts below). With your hands and your imagination, you can make a variety of animals.
These are the chickens and the hen made by craftswoman Tatyana. What characters will you invent? Such crafts from stripes can be done in the 1st, 2nd, 4th grade of the school. And it is also suitable for diligent children of 5-6 years old.
Origami
in the quilling technique.
And paper strips can be wrapped in a tight roll-twist. Then give this twist the shape of a petal or a leaf and make paper applications of flowers with such twists. The technique is quite well-known, called quilling. The technique is suitable for children from 5 years old, when the fingers are already dexterous enough to hold the twist on the holder rod.
Below we see how the usual round twist is given different shapes (they pinch it with a finger from the right sides) and the twist becomes tear-shaped or cup-shaped, or triangular. And from such twisted modules we add a quilling application.
Below we see children's crafts made of colored paper using this technique. You see, paper consumption does not have to be large - the craft itself looks miniature and can decorate a handmade postcard. The child will be pleased to give his mother a handmade card.
Within the framework of a school or kindergarten, the time for doing such crafts is limited - and we can only make a few of these modules. The process is laborious for children's fingers and takes time. You can break the craft into 2 classes - on the first we make modules, on the second we form crafts.
Children's crafts in the form of a cupcake are very popular with girls.
A cupcake and a bird is a very quick craft because it does not require many twists. Such crafts can be done by children in grades 1 and 2 - slowly, gently twisting and gluing the twist tails.
But a bear or a bunny is already a paper craft for children who have gotten their hands on simple quilling tasks. For grades 3, 4, 5 - this level of complexity of do-it-yourself crafts is just right.
By the same principle, you can make larger twisted crafts - if you take not a thin cut strip, but a folded sheet of paper. The thick folding of the sheet will allow you to get large twisted parts and you can make a large appliqué out of them - for example, such a penguin or an owl made of paper.
And also large twisting crafts are obtained from corrugated cardboard. Due to the ribbed relief, such a corton forms wide volumetric parts and can be used to make 3D paper toys. Craft for the older group of kindergarten or for school (grade 1,2,3,4).
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based on the CONUS.
A paper cone is also a good base for children's craft ideas. We all made a Christmas tree from a cone in kindergarten with our own hands. And now we can already make any character out of paper in the form of a cone craft.
So that the cone is not too wide and not too narrow - its razmerka (flat pattern) should be an angle of more than 90 degrees - usually 120 degrees (as in the photo below) - that is, a third of a full circle.
For a giraffe, you can make the cone thinner and sharper. Then we need a quarter of a circle (that is, not 120 degrees, but 90 degrees is enough).
Origami
folded in half.
But children's crafts that are made from a sheet of paper that was bent in half and cut out the silhouette - as a result, we got a double-sided craft with the same symmetrical sides.
And paper birds can also be made using the same technique. In the bird (pictured below), we see that the wings are a fan made of paper or napkins. And in the fold of the upper part of the bird, we make a slot and insert the fan there.
For animal crafts, elephant ears can be inserted into such a slot. And also, for example, a lion's mane made of cardboard or thick paper.
To such BENDING CRAFTS, you can attach not only wings, but also a head - which will be perpendicular to the body. See the photo below with an example of a children's craft "Black Cat" made of paper.
The head of this cat is attached according to the same principle as the wings-fan of the bird above - ALSO IN THE SLOT. If you look closely, you will see that the head has fold too, which divides the head into 2 planes (posterior and anterior).
THE BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD continues with the ears, AND THE FRONT PLANE OF THE HEAD contains the glued eyes and whiskers of the cat.
A slot is made in the back of the cat (as in the bird above for wings) - and the BACK PLANE OF THE HEAD is inserted into this slot. And the front plane simply hangs in front and is not inserted into the slot.
A very simple paper craft for older children (age 5-6 years). And for children in grades 1-2, it’s also great do-it-yourself work.
It is possible to provide for such a craft scheme addition in the form of a tummy- like these hares below. To do this, you just need to draw additional processes of paper in the abdomen area, which then, after the silhouette is folded, WRAPPED WITH A ROLL and fastened with a stapler or glue.
You can slightly modify this principle of crafts - leaving between the two halves-bochins the UPPER BACK PLATFORM. That is, at the top of the part, make not one fold, but two folds at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other - this is how we get the back.
These bears made of cardboard (or thick paper) have just such a back.
And these paper birds (pictured below) also have a back. And thanks to this site, we were able to provide for the tail part (it became a natural continuation of the dorsal part of the bird).
I specially drew a diagram of the birds - so that it becomes clear for you how to add a back-platform to your craft. Here in the diagram below - the back area is highlighted with a purple dotted line. Along these lines is the fold of our craft.
Both birds and bears according to this scheme can be drawn in advance on a template made of paper, then circle this template on a sheet of cardboard by drawing in advance the internal fold lines (those that go along the back). And the task of the child is to cut the silhouette of the template and bend it along the internal lines. That is, the craft is available to children from 5 years old, and is suitable for middle and older groups of kindergarten and for school lessons of creativity and labor.
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SIMPLE ORIGAMI.
For young children, it is difficult to make multi-step origami crafts. Therefore, it is better to start with simple schemes, which are then supplemented with cut out elements, giving them a resemblance to the intended character. So we get easy crafts.
You yourself, with your own hands, you can experiment with a sheet of paper - fold it this way and that, and then think about what this folding sheet might look like ... but what if ears are here, eyes are here, and nose is here .... wow, this looks like a great MOUSE.
Here's another simple folding of paper along diagonal lines that makes it possible to get a fold for the Ladybug craft. Spots and a muzzle can be drawn with a marker or cut out of colored paper.
The simplest thing a small child can do is fold a sheet of paper into two folds and get base-blank for a character made of paper, whose mouth opens, and therefore you can make him not only a muzzle, but also a mouth with teeth and tongue.
This children's craft is suitable for classes in paper design in kindergarten. She needs double-sided colored cardboard or the same thick paper. It is good to buy office colored paper for such crafts - it has a higher density than standard children's colored paper.
Or children can make their own hands like these easy folding bed crafts. To do this, a sheet of paper (A4 format) is cut along a beveled diagonal. And then it folds into 2 folds (to get 3 parts). The wide side of the folded paper is not glued onto a sheet of colored cardboard and then decorated according to the design of the sketch.
Children's paper crafts.
DROP template.
If we roll a wide strip of paper with the ends together, then we get teardrop-shaped twist.
On the basis of such a simple blank, you can also make a variety of craft designs - a blue paper whale, a ladybug (glue wings to a drop).
It is convenient to make mice or a hedgehog from a paper template in the form of a drop.
Can i to such drop-shaped details add on top round paper roll- to make a head. So even more options for simple and easy crafts - bunny, duckling, swallow.
Turn on your imagination and multiply ideas.
And if you connect a whole series of strips together like CHAIN LINKS, then you can get such a green crocodile from paper loops.
And here are some more simple crafts based on a wide strip, bent into a ring or into navicular shape.
In the craft with the boat - we first do holder at the bottom of the boat- it's just a small rectangle of paper, which has small sides bent on both sides. And then we glue the REAL BOARDS OF THE BOAT FROM BLUE PAPER to these bent sides. Rectangle with edges in the center will not let the sides of our boat collapse towards each other.
The craft is suitable for children from 5 years old.
And here is a children's paper craft, where white paper strips also imitate the body of a swan. Here the form holder is a roll of white paper twisted into a long tube. Craft for children 5-6 years old.
Crafts-postcards
from paper.
And of course, if you like to make children's crafts from paper and cardboard, then opener cards are a suitable topic for children from 3 years old. Ideas for opening crafts can be very different. For example, an aquarium with a fish. Or craft-valentine with spring birds.
You can make a simple children's craft in the form of a castle - the gates of which will be opened for boys by knights and soldiers, and for girls by beautiful princesses hidden inside a paper bastion.
Crafts-postcards can be a great gift for March 8, made by hand. For example, here is a cup with tulips. The handle for the cup can be cut out as a separate piece and glued to the side of the mug.
Or you can make an apron craft with carved paper lace (lace can be obtained from ready-made paper napkins, or cut a snowflake out of paper, cut off its lace edge and we will get a border for the apron.
You can cut out the silhouette of the can on the craft - seal it with a thin layer of the file (on double-sided tape). And also stick a paper pocket (the back wall of the craft) and put hearts in this transparent front pocket.
Here is another technique VOLUME POSTCARDS. She is simple. Fold a piece of paper in a fold. And on the edge of the bend we do 2 notches scissors (any length and width). And then we simply push the place between these incisions with a FINGER into the postcard - and it BUGS out in the form of such a rectangular stand.
And now we stick any element on this stand. For example a cupcake.
If you make three pairs of such cuts - push them with your finger inside the postcard, then you can stick a cupcake on each of them. And checkboxes on top. Here is a simple children's craft and ready. Interesting and non-standard.
To get started, practice on a piece of a regular sheet - bend in half, cut it twice and push the incised part inward. You will see that it is simple.
And you can show your kids the same way. And then on such a stand (already pushed inside the postcard) you will stick any craft (butterfly, dinosaur, rocket).
Any original ideas can be realized in this technique of voluminous postcards. That is, this is another field for children's fantasy paper crafts.
The longer you make paired cuts, the further the strip-stand will be curved inside your postcard. You can see this in the example with the postcard craft in the photo below.
Crafts openers can have a surprise in the form of a folding fan. Under such a folding bed, you can arrange a peacock with a magnificent tail.
Of course, such a complex carving (as in the photo below) is difficult for a child. But for children, you can simplify any idea - let the fan be not carved, but simply cut out the peacock spots separately and stick them on the fan blades.
Or a cot inside the postcard can be in the form folding chain of symmetrical elements- butterflies, flowers (that is, the main thing is that there is a symmetry of the folds).
We cut out any identical details - butterflies, flowers, hearts. The main thing is that the left half and the right one should be like a mirror image of each other. And then these parts can be glued in halves to each other (not all the halves should be smeared with glue, but only the outer edges). And then we get a multi-colored accordion of parts. And paste this accordion into a postcard. Also a beautiful craft - night butterflies, bright but against the background of a dark sky.
These are the ideas I collected and systematized - for your future paper crafts. I am sure that now you will not only be able to repeat the crafts presented here with the children, but also CREATE YOUR OWN AUTHOR'S WORKS for each of the proposed METHODS.
After all, when you understand the method, and when you see that it allows itself to be widely interpreted - multiplying the same technical idea in the form of a variety of crafts - then you just have to CONTINUE THE CHAIN OF IDEAS.
And I wish you the most original creative finds. And the children will be very happy to implement them in the most diligent and inspired way.
Good luck with your children's crafts.
Olga Klishevskaya, specially for the site
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As you know, light paper crafts are very useful for children of any age. The first interest arises in the baby as early as the age of 1 year, it is during this period that you can begin to teach him how to make simple crafts from various materials.
Important! It is worth noting that such creativity develops fine motor skills in a baby, it positively affects the perception of the world around us 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 the period of development, only those tasks should be given to the child that will be within his power. For example, easy DIY paper crafts will be very interesting and simple for a child. In this case, it must 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 workshops that talk about how to make easy paper crafts with your own hands and at the same time spend a minimum of time on this activity.
Christmas trees made of paper
Some of them will be given below, and it will also 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, kids 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 turned out to be either too difficult for him or, on the contrary, very simple.
Easy paper crafts are suitable not only for older children, but also for the little ones.
If we talk about tasks for children of this age, then they can be divided into several groups:
- Easy paper crafts, the essence of which is that you need to cut out certain figures and stick them on a blank sheet of paper. In other words, the chaotic fastening of individual pieces of paper to each other.
- Crafts that are based on the fact that the pieces must be attached in a chaotic manner.
- The type of crafts is when individual figures must be attached to a pre-designated place.
Easy craft for little ones
For example, if we are talking about the first option, then here the task has a simple essence. Some figures or pieces are cut out of colored paper, and then they are glued onto 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 application to another, and so on. In other words, this is a variant of getting to know the crumbs with paper and glue.
Important! The task of an adult is to teach the baby to properly hold the glue in his hands, show how to spread it on paper, and do not forget to show that when the glue is smeared 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, when getting acquainted with stationery, you do not explain to the child all the basics of the creative process, then it will be very difficult to retrain him later. And, accordingly, he will perform all subsequent tasks incorrectly.
Dandelions from paper and napkins
Of course, you need to give the crumbs the opportunity to independently complete the entire task from start to finish. Some parents, fearing that the baby will do something wrong, perform the task themselves. But this is absolutely wrong.
The second stage of acquaintance with paper and glue
After the child has learned to perform elementary 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 insanely interesting for the baby. Of course, if adults make every effort to do so.
The second stage of creating simple crafts is that the child must learn how to properly arrange the various details on a piece of paper. Of course, at this stage he will not need to create any specific drawings or lines. He just has to learn how to glue various figures wherever he wants. Now it is very important that he himself learns to decide how his future work will look better. Adults can only say what figure to get as a result, and the baby decides for himself where exactly 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 would be better, and where exactly you need to stick this piece of paper. But you can’t put pressure on the child, at this stage he is only learning to create his future masterpieces.
During such crafts, you can create figures in the form of a sun, a cloud, a house, a flower and other very simple objects.
Easy craft options
The last stage in creating beautiful and original crafts is that the baby begins to realize for 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 a creative idea. Most often, such creative masterpieces are made from two or three types of colored paper, as well as a white sheet. 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 make really light and beautiful paper crafts, you should use at least 3 or even more colors.
Christmas tree decorations made of paper
For example, if you make a Christmas tree with balls, then you should initially 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 jewelry blanks for the forest beauty in advance.
Paper crocodile
Below is a list of basic crafts that will be of interest to children:
- a tree on which apples grow;
- a hedgehog with apples and mushrooms on its thorns;
- a basket with many berries;
- jar with vitamins;
- a tree from which leaves fall;
- fish that swim in the aquarium.
Application - fish
By the way, to make the process of creating an application faster, you can print ready-made blanks of such figures as a Christmas tree, a hedgehog, a tree, a jar, a basket. As a result, the baby will need to glue only small figures.
paper tree
You can also watch tutorial videos, which are very numerous on the Internet, they talk about how to create easy paper crafts.
What is of particular interest to the child?
After the child learns how to create very easy paper crafts, they can be shown videos that show 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 already 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 how to carefully glue the figures along the contours, you can proceed to creating crafts without drawing these same contours.
Multicolored paper caterpillar
In this way, you can create:
- caterpillar;
- snowman
- dandelion;
- a bunch of balloons;
- a house that is built from blocks;
- building with windows
- machine and much more.
paper grapes
Of course, these are the main figures, it all depends on the skills of the baby 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 lasts 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 kids. For example, 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 kids are a great way to teach your child independence and develop the ability to think abstractly.
It is very important in this process to trust him, to give him as much freedom as possible. You should not limit him in his movements and constantly suggest what and how to do. Let him initially understand everything himself 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 method. The only thing to take care of in advance is to show the child that there are certain rules. For example, to tell that you can only glue at this table, the paper lies here, and you need to put it back here, and so on. Then the baby will grow up independent, but at the same time he will understand what can and cannot be done.
One of the most popular materials for children's crafts is colored paper. Children's crafts made of colored paper perfectly develop imagination, perseverance and fine motor skills of the hands, besides, this activity allows you to have fun.
The advantages of colored paper as a material for crafts can be listed and listed, but we will not waste time on this, but will immediately offer you the best ideas for colored paper crafts that can be implemented with a child.
Crafts from children's palms
The child may really like to make various crafts from the palms cut out of colored paper. Here there is really a fantasy where to roam! After all, very interesting works can turn out from the palms!
Crafts from circles
Another way to develop children's imagination. Invite the child to fold some shape from circles of colored paper. Circles can be glued whole or divided into halves.
As for ideas, the simplest thing is to make a snowman out of circles, you can also make animals, fish and birds. You will find photos of colored paper crafts both on our website and on the Internet.
Mosaic from colored paper
Very beautiful do-it-yourself crafts are made from mosaics. You can download ready-made templates for laying out a mosaic or draw it by hand.
The smallest children can be offered to tear off pieces of colored paper and stick them on a paper base with a template, while older children can cut neat squares with scissors.
Crafts from accordions of colored paper
Everything is simple here, you need to fold a sheet of colored paper with an accordion, and then straighten it a little and make a fish, a bird, a butterfly out of it.
These crafts can be independent, for example, glued to skewers, or can be used for original applications. Simple and interesting workshops on colored paper crafts can be found without difficulty.
Crafts from lumps of colored paper
A great way to develop fine motor skills of the baby's hands. For crafts, it is better to use thin colored paper, napkins or corrugated paper.
Just tear off pieces of paper and roll them into balls, and then stick them on the template with PVA glue. The works are beautiful and voluminous.
quilling
Older children can be offered to master the quilling technique, this is when a spring is rolled from thin strips of colored paper, using a knitting needle, pencil or thin stick, and then various compositions for postcards are made from these fragments. Trains fine motor skills and perseverance.
Volumetric crafts from colored paper
Despite the fact that the paper is flat, you can make various volumetric crafts from it. For garlands and postcards, as a rule, several identical parts are cut out, folded in half, and then glued together in halves.
From the strips, you can make three-dimensional figures glued together according to the ring principle.
And another type of voluminous paper crafts is to print ready-made templates of 3D shapes, cut and glue them according to the instructions. Now they even sell entire albums with templates for voluminous paper figures, there are also detailed instructions on how to make crafts.
Colored paper garlands
Since we have touched on the topic of garlands, colored paper is ideal for these purposes. From it, you can most quickly make various figures, and at a price such a garland will come out much cheaper than if you use, say, felt, or corrugated paper.
Crafts from paper rings
Remember how we made long New Year's garlands from rings as children? It turns out that from these rings you can make not only a chick, but also very interesting crafts: fruits, crowns of trees, hair for dolls drawn on a piece of paper, make voluminous snakes, lambs and other animals.
Colored paper postcards
For the holidays, you can easily make various postcards from colored paper. Children 2-3 years old can make simple postcards in the form of an application, with older children you can already do complex work with volumetric elements. Here, for example, is how to make a three-dimensional postcard with daisies from colored paper.
Volumetric paper card with daisies
For crafts you will need:
- Colored paper, a sheet of cardboard, as well as a plain white sheet of office paper;
- Glue stick;
- Children's safety scissors.
First of all, you need to cut strips of white paper. To make the strips even, mark the same width, and then draw the cut lines with a ruler and a simple pencil.
Now, cut out circles from yellow paper - these will be the middle of our daisies. We return to the white stripes, we will make chamomile petals from them. We glue each strip with two ends in the form of a loop, and then glue it to the middle, which we made yellow.
When the chamomile is ready, you can cut out several leaves from green paper. For a postcard you will need 3-5 daisies. We make the card itself from any sheet of colored paper, fold it in half, and paste our daisies on it.
You can add a postcard with a butterfly. Butterfly cut out of bright paper. Butterfly templates are easy to find on the Internet. To make the butterfly also acquire volume, bend it in half and stick it on a postcard.
Postcard-application with a rabbit
The next postcard will be with a bunny, it can be made as a gift for Easter. From the materials you will need all the same, as well as doll eyes. By the way, I’ll tell you a little lower how you can make puppet eyes yourself.
According to the template, we cut out all the necessary elements of the postcard from paper: a muzzle of a bunny, two ears made of white paper. From pink paper, cut out a nose and a smaller silhouette of the ears. Cut out grass from green paper.
We collect the figure of a bunny on a sheet of brightly colored paper. We glue puppet eyes on the bunny and draw antennae with a felt-tip pen or a black ballpoint pen.
And now let's digress a little, I'll tell you how you can make puppet eyes for children's crafts on your own. They are made from an ordinary tablet plate, two cells are cut out, and beads, small beads or peppercorns can be used as pupils.
Origami
And the last type of colored paper crafts is origami. For beginners and small children, there are simple schemes for folding various shapes; for older children, you can offer to do something more complicated.
For origami, it is best to use double-sided colored paper so that the pale side of the sheet does not “shine”. If your kid is seriously interested in this art, then you can purchase special paper for origami.
Photo of colored paper crafts
You can make a lot of interesting and beautiful things out of paper. Among such interesting crafts are even paper houses with which you can decorate the Christmas tree or simply use them as interesting toys. And most importantly, you can make them with your own hands for any adult and child, of course, for those who are older.
How to make a paper clapperboard
It is not necessary for the festive fireworks to shoot firecrackers loaded with confetti and fill the entire apartment with small pieces of paper. A paper clapperboard that does not contain any explosives can also clap loudly enough. She will add fun to the atmosphere of a common holiday: someone will jump in surprise, and the rest will laugh merrily.
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It is not at all as difficult as it might seem at first - to make a butterfly out of paper with your own hands. This task is within the power of an adult and a child, there is not quite a baby. A butterfly can be hung on a string, it will float in the air in your room, it can be hung from a branch of a Christmas tree, it is also very beautiful.
From a simple sheet of paper, after a short work, a cute paper frog is obtained, which also knows how to jump. It can decorate your desktop, or it can become a funny children's toy. Children can even start fun competitions for the distance of the jump or the speed of the jumping frog.
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Send a letter - today's youth associate this action only with e-mail. But sometimes you have to send paper letters, but they need an envelope. In the era of electronics, you will not find such a trifle in every home, so you have to think about how to make an envelope out of paper with your own hands. It seems that wisdom is not great, but without skill it is impossible to cope with such a task.
Paper airplanes are easy to make and most importantly, they actually fly. This process is so interesting that any adult will be happy to make light paper structures and, to the delight of children, send them flying. Well, older children themselves will be able to do aircraft design.
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Many beautiful things can be made from paper, but the simplest and at the same time surprisingly beautiful are snowflakes. You don't even need to paint them: they must be white. It is enough to fold a sheet of paper in a special way and work a little with scissors to get a real patterned miracle.
It is easy to make a toy boat out of a simple sheet of paper and set it sailing along the stream and along the water expanses of the bath. You just need to remember a simple instruction on how to make a boat out of paper, how to fold it in order to get a water-resistant structure. This is a simple, but very exciting thing.
For many years, paper crafts have been considered one of the most popular types of needlework. With an enviable frequency, new approaches to it and the most diverse branches of this direction appear - here are kirigami, and modern papercrafting and much more. Below we will talk about how to make paper crafts with your own hands using simple schemes.
With a little time for learning, even any child can handle the listed instructions without any problems.
The first thing to do is to prepare colored paper, any glue and small scissors. In addition, rhinestones and other materials can be useful for work in order to give the creation a complete look.
Simple paper crafts
Most often, all children from early childhood show a special interest in precisely such material as paper, and this must be used for their own good. To instill a love for this kind of creativity, mom and dad can go to the trick and captivate the child by creating toys by showing photos of hand-made paper crafts that they themselves liked the most.
You can literally cut out a cute bunny or, for example, a bird in just thirty minutes or even less, with which the child can later play or use them as a decor for a child's room.
How to make a cardboard bird
- Using the template, cut out the bird in shape, draw feathers, a key and a tail for it;
- Fold a sheet into an accordion in the shape of a square of any color;
- Make a hole and finally fix the wings of the bird in it.
If the child likes to make a bird, then you should not be limited to just one. By hanging a few paper birds on a simple wooden stick, you can turn them into an interesting craft to decorate the entrance, for example, to a children's room or a corridor.
Please note that absolutely all complex work in which something is required to be cut must necessarily be carried out either personally by adults at first, or under their control.
In order for the child to develop accuracy, it is necessary to ask him, after completing the work, to put all the tools in the prepared box.
How to make a three-dimensional picture using paper and cardboard?
The easiest paper crafts are applications that are taught to do in the elementary grades of the school.
Of course, a beautiful and at the same time still voluminous picture made by hand from bright colors can be an excellent gift for a sister or grandmother from a child. At the same time, it is not at all necessary to spend money on expensive colored paper, since today, according to the instructions, flowers can be made, in principle, from any napkins or even toilet paper.
If you decide to choose the second option and make your own crafts from the toilet paper at hand, then it is better to give preference to more expensive paper, on which there will be perforation. It can be painted over a little in the future.
With napkins, as practice shows, it is even easier to work and it is only important to ensure that you do not accidentally tear it during the work.
The sequence of actions should be as follows.
- First, you need to fold the napkin four times, securing it in the very middle with a stapler.
- Secondly, a circle is carefully cut out of the napkin and lifting each of its layers in turn, a rather lush flower is obtained.
- Thirdly, about 10 leaves must be cut out of the prepared dark green paper using a template.
- Fourthly, a basket should be cut out of brown paper and pasted on a thick cardboard sheet of any color.
It remains only to place flowers with leaves in the basket. If you want something original, then you can try to make a basket, for example, from corrugated paper or foil, which is used for baking.
Paper crafts for the new year
Classic snowflakes can be an excellent paper decoration for the new year. There are a huge number of different options for how to make beautiful paper snowflakes, most of which a child can easily do by repeating simple steps after their parents.
No less popular crafts are paper balls or a garland. To make them look more interesting and unusual, you can sprinkle the product a little with bright iridescent sparkles.
Balls will look interesting if you make them openwork. The easiest way to make such a ball with your own hands is to find its diagram, then carefully cut out the figure and glue it.
In conclusion, it is worth noting that any paper craft will look good if it was made with a soul.
DIY paper craft photo
