To your inquisitive and restless two year old baby Are you tired of drawing and modeling with plasticine or dough? I offer an alternative option for children's creativity: appliqué is a fascinating and varied activity that will appeal not only to a two-year-old child, but also to you, dear parents! As a result, your home will be decorated with exclusive paintings and crafts self made.
What is an application?
Translated from Latin, appliqué means “application”, i.e. cutting and attaching various materials to a chosen base (paper, cardboard, wood and fabric) for the purpose of decorating it. Used as material for applications colored paper, fabric of various colors and textures, cardboard, pieces of fabric, natural materials: cereals, leaves and tree branches, buttons, beads... By the way, applique is a very ancient form of creativity. According to historians, back in ancient cave times, when people made clothes from animal skins, some women managed to decorate things with various natural materials. They sewed on animal fangs, bird feathers, pieces of other skin that were visually different from the main one, etc. Over time, applique began to be applied to shoes, hats, home furnishings, kitchen utensils, etc. People liked the appliqué so much that it was identified as a separate art form with many varieties of execution techniques and materials used.
Why is the application so good?
Nowadays, applique is especially popular in children's creativity. It is believed that for schoolchildren and preschool age the application contributes to:
- development of imagination
- strengthening his fingers
- formation of a sensory opinion about the texture, density, color of the material
- formation of logical and spatial thinking
- development fine motor skills fingers
- discovering hidden creative talent
- the beginning of the formation of a talented artist, designer, sculptor or decorator.
- close and friendly communication between the child and family.
How the application is performed:
So, if I have convinced you to take up this useful and exciting activity, then you need to visit any office supply outlet and purchase everything necessary tools and materials. For the first classes, it is enough to stock up:
- colored and white paper,
- cardboard of different colors,
- ruler,
- with a simple pencil,
- scissors
- and glue.
Over time, you will begin to make complex appliqués, for which you will need scissors for curly cutting, sequins, beads, pieces of fabric, ribbons, etc. I recommend going shopping with your child to give him the opportunity to choose the colors of paper or cardboard, as well as other materials for making appliques.
How to interest a two-year-old child in making appliqués?
To begin with, I suggest introducing him to colored paper and glue. To do this, invite your child to tear the paper into small pieces, and then dip them in glue and apply them to a cardboard sheet. Show an example of how to complete this simple task. Usually the little one copes with the task with ease and great pleasure. Then use scissors to cut out colorful flowers, various geometric shapes, as well as butterflies, insects, animals, etc. Give them to your child to glue them to thick paper. Try to interest your little one by coming up with various stories about the cut out figures, then he will not be bored and will be interested! In subsequent lessons, teach your little one to use scissors:
- hold correctly
- Explain that when cutting, you rotate the paper, not the tool.
- show how to give the scissors correctly: close it and, holding the blade, give it to another person.
Please note that for children 2 years old, scissors should only have blunt - rounded ends. The glue must also be safe; it is better to use a paste. Be sure to make sure that the little one does not put all the tools and materials for applique into his mouth, trying to taste them.
Prepare your work area.
It can be a desk, children's or coffee table. Be sure to provide good lighting and cover the work surface with oilcloth or scrap paper.
Now I will give examples of applications for children 2 years old.
Aquarium. To create such an applique, cut out three small and three large fish from colored paper, take blue or dark blue cardboard and glue. Explain to your child that now you will make a house for the cut out fish. Draw algae and pebbles on cardboard, explaining to the little one why they are needed. Then ask him to put small fish in the “aquarium”, gluing them onto cardboard, then larger ones. The application is ready! Be sure to praise your baby and hang the product on the wall of the children's room or place it on the table.
Advice!
- Do not correct poorly cut or incorrectly glued materials for your child unless he asks you to do so. Otherwise, the little one may get upset or think that he did everything wrong. Perhaps he really likes the applique in this design! It doesn’t matter that through the eyes of an adult she looks funny and clumsy. Just praise your child for the work he has done and inspire him to the next creative deeds.
Herringbone applique. For this applique you will need multi-colored paper (required colors are green and brown), scissors, glue and cardboard. From green paper with scissors, cut out a small rectangle from brown paper - this will be the trunk of a tree and three triangles of different sizes from green paper - this will be the crown of the tree.
Then glue the cut out parts to the base of the picture with glue. By the way, some mothers advise using dry glue for this - a pencil, because it does not spread and does not leave stains, unlike liquid glue. When gluing applique elements, smooth them to the base using a clean, soft cloth. This way, the baby's hands won't get dirty from excess glue. When the Christmas tree is glued, invite your child to decorate it by cutting out and gluing colorful circles.
Animals.
A chic theme for applications can be your favorite characters from cartoons or fairy tales, pets, as well as forest animals. Print it out or find a character you like in a magazine and cut out its outline. On a sheet of cardboard, draw a house, nature, or another plot that the child decides, and glue the pictures there - the main ones characters. Write together a story related to the image on the applique. I am sure that anyone, even a very restless child, will like this idea.
Stained glass.
In order to make this type of application, first explain to your child what stained glass is, what it should look like, and then prepare black cardboard, multi-colored paper, scissors and glue. Help your child cut the colored paper into triangular shapes and then glue them together onto the cardboard, leaving a gap between each piece. That's it, the stained glass applique is ready! Write the date of manufacture on it and place it in a frame. The child will be proud of his work!
After applique practice, involve your child in cleaning the workplace, thereby teaching him to be neat and tidy. Ask your child to throw the paper scraps into the trash bin and put all the tools and remaining materials in a drawer or box.
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Crafts for children 2 years old
Spotted animals
Materials and tools
■ Cardboard
■ Plasticine
■ Picture from a magazine
■ Scissors
1. Prepare in advance a drawing, a picture from a magazine, a coloring book or an applique where animals with dots or spots are drawn. It could be ladybug, snake, Dalmatian or giraffe. Or perhaps it will be a fly agaric, headlights on a car, apples on a tree or cherries on a bush, balls on a Christmas tree.
2. If the picture is thin paper, then help your child stick it on the cardboard. Then you can cut it out along the outline or leave it as a postcard.
3. Show your child how to pinch off small pieces of plasticine and glue them to the spots in the picture. The plasticine needs to be pressed down a little and smeared with your finger.
4. Repeat the names of the colors and count the glued spots.
What to talk about with your child
➙ Choose a topic of conversation depending on the subject of the picture. If it depicts spotted animals, then think about why they have this color. Do their spots help them to be invisible, or, conversely, is their coloring a warning?
➙ Show your child clothes made of fabric with polka dots, look for objects in the house that have spots and dots.
Materials and tools
■ Paper plate
■ Thick colored paper or cardboard
■ Paints, glitter glue, three-dimensional paints
■ Scissors
Step-by-step work process
1. Invite your child to paint a paper plate with green paint, glitter glue, or 3D paints.
2. Cut out the frog's eyes and tongue from colored paper.
3. Bend the dried plate in half - this is the frog's mouth. Help your baby glue on his eyes and tongue. The frog can open and close its mouth by bending and unbending the plate.
How about talking to a child?
➙ The frog is a contemporary of both man and dinosaur. She has been living on Earth for millions of years. A frog begins its life in water. A tadpole develops from eggs laid in water. At first it differs little from fish fry. But then a series of transformations begins, consisting of about thirty transitional stages, which helps the frog adapt to life on land. The tadpole transforms from a fish into a land animal. Frogs are unpretentious and indiscriminate in their food; they can go hungry for a day or a week. They eat butterflies, bees, wasps and other moving insects. The lake frog also eats fish fry.
➙ Remember the fairy tales “The Frog Princess” and “The Frog Traveler”.
Application. Curly fish
Materials and tools
■ Cardboard
■ Colored paper
■ Markers
■ Scissors
Step-by-step work process
1. Cut out shapes in pairs from colored paper: 2 triangles, 2 hearts and 2 diamonds. The second figures should be smaller and of a different color.
2. Cut out from colored paper round eyes fish.
3. For larger shapes, cut a slit as shown in the picture (see picture).
4. Invite your child to place smaller figures into these slots in two ways, from above and from below. The result was fish.
5. Let the child glue their eyes.
6. Place a little glue on each fish and glue them onto the cardboard base. Now the child can draw an aquarium: water, plants, shells, pebbles.
What to talk about with your child
➙ Continue the conversation about fish. Fish can be bred in an aquarium. They need to be looked after: fed, changed water, cleaned the aquarium. Think about your crafts when you watch the fish in the aquarium.
➙ Read N. N. Nosov’s story “Karasik” to your child.
➙ Name the geometric shapes that you used to make the craft. How many angles and how many sides do they have? A rhombus is a quadrilateral (has 4 corners). Ask your child to remember other quadrilaterals (rectangle, square).
In the article DIY finger paints. You already know that many materials for children's creativity can be made at home. Moon sand. How to do soap bubbles and blowers. Create with children this is very interesting, the magical process of joint creativity not only brings mother and child closer together, you can also plunge into fairy world childhood... And today we will do crafts for children 2 - 3 years old. Interior bottles with colored salt. Do-it-yourself volumetric paints. Drawings with salt.
Crafts for children
Interior salt bottles for the kitchen
Little children love games with pouring and pouring. Games on sensory development very easy to arrange at home. Today we will “kill two birds with one stone”, make a craft as a gift for grandma - an interior bottle for the kitchen and get our kids interested in over-sleeping. Today we invited my son’s little friend Katenka to visit, it’s more fun to play together! By playing with bulk materials, children develop hand motor skills, tactile sensations, imagination and thinking.
Preparation
I prepared a small bottle of cognac in advance, washed it from the label and rubbed it until it was shiny. Salt (it’s better to take fine salt, but this time I only had coarse salt in the house) colored with food coloring (you can use paints) in different colors, brown- coffee. I dried the salt (you can use it in the microwave) and crushed it, as it had hardened a little. If you want to get pastel shades, you can color the salt in another way: crush colored crayons for drawing or grind them in a blender into fine chalk powder and mix with fine salt. I scattered the salt into different containers by color. We will also need spoons and watering cans (you can make a funnel out of paper).
The children were given a bottle, watering cans were inserted into the bottles, and the kids poured salt into the bottle with spoons, in multi-colored layers. The bottle needs to be shaken slightly so that the layers do not mix and the salt is well compacted. The children got carried away and created their masterpieces without our help, they chose the colors for the layers themselves, they really liked the pouring process :)
How to make volumetric paints
A wonderful idea for children's creativity - volumetric paints. Colors that increase in volume grow by leaps and bounds, kids will definitely love it :)
To make paints you will need:
Pancake flour – 1 tbsp.
Water – 3 tbsp.
Salt (fine) – 1 tbsp.
Dyes
Preparation
If you don’t have pancake flour, you can take 1 tbsp. plain flour, add 0.5 tsp. dry yeast.
Mix all dry ingredients and pour into jars or bowls. Add food coloring and water to each container and stir well. If the paints turn out to be thick, add a little water to the desired consistency.
The paints should not be liquid, but not too thick.
You won’t be able to paint with a brush, the paints are a bit thick, but cotton swabs just right. You can also draw with plastic pastry bags, syringes (without a needle), and bottles. And it’s better to draw on cardboard.
You can create now. The outline of the drawing is made with a pencil or felt-tip pens, and we design it and decorate it with paints. You can draw a rainbow, a cake and pastry, a butterfly, a sun... whatever you want :)
Place the finished drawing in the microwave on a dish (check that the dish with the design rotates easily), turn on the microwave at 600 W and leave for 25 - 30 minutes. The paints should “grow” in volume. Let it cool for a couple of minutes until the paints dry and harden.
Salt drawings
Another great idea for children's creativity is drawings made from salt. Today we will create relief drawings from salt, it will be especially interesting for children aged 2–3 summer age. More ideas for painting: finger paints, 3D paints, painting with colored sand, painting with colored water in salt patterns and various craft materials develop a child's imagination and creative thinking.
So let's get started! To create drawings from salt you will need:
Paints
Water
Salt (fine)
PVA glue
Paper (it’s beautiful if it’s colored cardboard, the colors look very contrasting)
Large brush or pipettes (regular glass pipettes are available at the pharmacy).
Take a few plastic cups, pour some water into them and add paint.
On a sheet of cardboard with glue, draw some kind of drawing or just an abstraction. Next, sprinkle the glue thickly with fine salt, and shake off the excess salt from the sheet.
The baby’s mind is at his fingertips - all teachers and mothers know this. Working with children is extremely important, but also interesting, because it always takes the form of an exciting game. Even the most busy parents usually find time for such activities. Applications with a 2 year old child – one of the best ways keep your son or daughter busy. Experts believe that such classes should be conducted at least twice a week so that new neural connections are formed in the baby’s brain, imagination develops, as well as such an important quality as perseverance.
Fun applications for children
For such activities, as a rule, colored paper is used, from which, with a certain amount of imagination, you can create any funny plot. This could be a scene from a fairy tale, a cartoon, or even from the life of a baby. All mom or dad needs is scissors, glue (preferably the so-called “dry” one) and a base for the figures made of colored paper. It is very good to use textured material ( corrugated paper, embossed cardboard).
Many toddlers love to play with plasticine. Plasticine can also be applied to the base, creating various three-dimensional scenes. Details should be made as small as possible. Plasticine can be distributed over paper and then given texture using special or improvised tools.
Paper can also be used to create three-dimensional plots. To do this, it can be crushed, bent, twisted, cut or torn into small pieces. It is very useful to use ordinary paper napkins, which the baby can crumple into a ball and then stick to paper. It’s even better if the napkins are colored or with patterns or designs.
Two-year-olds are already quite capable of working with small parts, such as buckwheat, rice, acacia seeds, melons, and watermelon. Such material can be attached not only to a paper base using glue, but also to a layer of plasticine previously applied to the base. Pictures made from beads or even pasta of various shapes look very original.
Here are some ideas for what you can make with your 2-year-old baby and his mother:
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When working with the smallest children, parents will certainly have to do most of the work themselves, because for appliqué, children at 2-3 years old cannot yet cut out figures with scissors or handle liquid glue. But this is not necessary. The main thing is that it is useful to spend time with your son or daughter, allow them, to the best of their ability and ability, to do this or that work, encouraging any endeavor. As a rule, everything related to attaching individual parts to the base is willingly done by the kids themselves.
You can make amazing applications with children at an early age. Invite your little one to tear off pieces of paper and glue them onto a sheet - an elegant tablecloth for Masha doll is ready! What else can you offer a 2-3 year old to make, mom thinks?
We offer you a small applique lesson plan for kids, starting with the simplest tasks and gradually complicating them. Let the applique for the child be not just “gluing circles”, but interesting game. Come up with a fairy tale plot for each task. We glue not just flowers, but a magical clearing, along which the little ones’ fingers will then run, stepping from flower to flower. Prepare all the details for work in advance.
Balls
Cut out several circles: large and small. Tell your child that these are koloboks that are rolling along the road. Invite your child to glue all the big ones, next to all the small ones. You can glue them on different sheets: the bun mothers live on one house sheet, and all the babies live on the other. Circles can be not only koloboks. Imagine - these are apples (and different colors) that the toy hedgehog will come to collect, these are also the balls that Mishka will play with. Already closer to three years, the game can be complicated: the koloboks want to play leapfrog - they jump over each other. We glue big-small-big-small circles. We draw two plates - for a small doll and a large one. We glue small apples into one plate for a small doll, and large ones into another. While playing this way, tell the baby colors, sizes, shapes.
Cubes
As in the previous game, we play with cubes. Cut out large and small squares. Take 2 cars of different sizes. Load the “loads” into the cars (small ones into the small one, large ones into the big one). We take them to the construction site and glue them onto sheets of paper. Now we make paths from tiles, hummocks for the frog.
Path for a doll
When the child has mastered the circle and square well, they can be alternated. Doll Masha wanted to visit Mishka? Let's make a path for her. Take a piece of paper. Lipstick the doll on one end and the Teddy Bear on the other. To get a visit, we make a fun path, alternating a square and a circle.
Apples and berries on a plate
The doll Masha came to visit Mishka. What will Mishka treat her with? He picked a lot of apples and berries in the forest. Let's help Mishka put them on a plate to treat his guest. Glue circles of small berries and large apples onto a plate (cut out circle of paper). What types of apples are there? Sweet, juicy, tasty, aromatic. What do they grow on? Who likes to eat them?
Multi-colored balls
Introduce your baby to another geometric shape - an oval. Cut out ovals and circles - these will be your balls. Let one of your toys go to a birthday party and give the birthday boy balloons. Glue colorful balls. Older children can be asked to draw strings for balls of the same color.
Mushrooms
When talking with your child about autumn, don’t forget to mention mushrooms: where they grow, what they are, who likes to eat them, who stores mushrooms for the winter. Read it. Invite your child to help the squirrel and make her some mushrooms.
Bookmark for a book
Make a bookmark from ready-made forms. Cut a long strip of rectangular shape. The baby will glue your blanks onto it: flowers and leaves. Alternating them, you will get a wonderful bookmark that you can give to grandma or dad.
Cheerful snowman
To make it you will need circles of different sizes. Glue three circles on top of each other, the smallest ones being the handles. Mom can finish drawing the eyes, carrot nose, mouth, buttons, and bucket. Tell the baby the dimensions: “This is the largest circle, we will place it down so that our snowman is stable and does not fall. Where is our smaller circle? Where else is there less? Which ones are the smallest? How many are there? That's right, two." It is advisable to do winter crafts in the winter so that the child understands how to sculpt them and from what.
Christmas tree decorated with toys
On the eve of the New Year, decorate the Christmas tree with your child. Invite your little one to stick multi-colored toy circles onto the Christmas tree template. Oh, what a beautiful Christmas tree it turned out to be! Sing a song about a Christmas tree and let the hedgehog and squirrel dance around it. Tell your child riddles about the Christmas tree, winter, snow, Santa Claus, or read poems.
Napkin
Does your child love cooking and feeding dolls? Great. Invite him to make napkins for them to wipe their mouths after lunch. Decorate a napkin with various geometric shapes. For example, circles and squares.
Airplane
Which boy doesn't like to fly airplanes? Make one of these with a little one. For this frame you will need three strips different lengths. We talk about where the longest, middle and shortest stripes are. After building an airplane, place the bunny pilot on it. Fly around the room. Let the child, on behalf of the pilot, tell what he sees around him: “I’m flying near the table, over the sofa, flying into the bedroom, etc.” Tell your child the poem “We’ll build the plane ourselves...” by A. Barto.
Drawing on a circle
Haven't bought your child some toy dishes yet? It's no problem. Invite your little one to make the plates for the guests themselves. Cut out circles from cardboard - these will be plates. They can be decorated. Let your child dream up his own imagination: these could be chaotically glued circles or placed along the edges of a plate. Show that you can alternate large circles with small ones. Are the plates ready? You can add lunch too!
Checkbox
We glue the flag from two elements. You can make the handle and the flag itself different colors. To learn colors, invite your child to match each flag with a pen of the same color. Tell a poem about a flag.
Flower
It’s easy to lift your spring mood by making a flower like this. Let the baby's finger turn into a bee. Raise it higher - the bee flies and buzzes, lower your finger on the flower - the bee sits down to eat nectar.
Caravan
Kids build trailers from various materials: from cubes, chairs, pillows, construction sets. And they go in these trailers to the sea, to their grandmother. On the way, you can sing a song: “We are going, going, going to distant lands...”. As you continue your journey, invite your child to glue the trailers. When they are ready, you can put the animals on top and take them to the zoo.
Birdhouse
When do people hang birdhouses and why? Who lives in them? Talk to your baby about. Invite your little ones to make houses for starlings. They can be glued in different sizes. Separately, cut out large and small birds from an unnecessary magazine. Place residents according to size in their houses.
Chickens in the meadow
Firework
Pyramid
– one of the favorite toys of kids. In a similar way, come up with various games with it, connect your toys.
Beautiful handkerchief
Plate
House
