Crafts do it yourself from paper for children

DIY help children to develop imagination and train abdiability. In addition, it has been scientifically proven that small motility stimulates and intellectual development. Usually, children teach make a variety of interesting crafts in kindergarten or in primary school classes. However, this can be done with the child and at home.

Make the craft together - this is a great reason for fun to spend time with the child and teach it to something useful. In this article, we will consider several step-by-step instructions for creating unusual crafts.

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Applique for children from paper

Applique is perhaps the most simple thing to be made of paper. However, if you get the paper on a flat surface in a child, it turns out well, you can take up the crafts more complicated - for example, to make a volumetric multi-layer applique. To each figure be at some distance from another, between them you can pave paper folded by the harmonica.

This method can create many unusual crafts. Consider step by step instructions, how to create a city with a volumetric application. Prepare scissors, glue, colored paper and proceed.

First you need to cut the first house for your city. If you want to give an image volume, you first need to make the back wall. It can be from any color paper - just cut the rectangle, which will later become a tower or house.
Now you need to cut the second exact same rectangle, but already out of paper of the color you want to make the facade of the house. Slim in this rectangle one or more squares for the window. It is easy to make a knife or scissors, folding the image twice.
From brightly colored paper you need to cut the window frame and partitions. Thoroughly measure your window, but only then proceed. If everything happens, the frame and partition should be pasted on the window.
Now take two small identical cuts off paper and fold them with harmonica. Gently glue them to the facade of the house on top and bottom from the window. Then glue them with the other side to the back of the house. If you do everything right, you will get a house, in the window of which you can look. If desired, on the back wall you can draw people or objects, making the craft even more realistic.
Now make the roof - just cut the triangle to the size of your home and stick it to the facade.
Cut from green paper to a crown of an arbitrary shape tree. Stick to it from behind folded by the harmonic paper, and the second end take it from the bottom of your home. So you will have a house standing behind a tree.
You can continue to cut buildings and trees according to a similar principle. You will have a whole city, as in the picture.

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Simple paper crafts

Many children feel insecure themselves if the bulk thing needs to be made of paper. However, crafts can be very simple. If you decide to do needlework with a girl, you can make a beautiful fan from paper together. Just follow the step-by-step instructions:

Take two identical sheet paper sheet A4 format. Paper color must match the fan turned out beautiful.
Start together with the child gently fold the sheets of the harmonica across. It is important to fold both sheets equally smoothly.
Now you need to glue two accordions together in the middle. There will be several drops of glue.
Finally, glue the harmonica with one edge to get a full fan.
There is a simpler way to make a miniature fan - just take one sheet, fold it with the harmonica along, and then bend it in the middle and glue.
After that, the fan can be decorated - for example, cut out the flower paper and glue them around the perimeter.

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Volumetric crafts from paper

With more adult children, you can try to make full-fledged volumetric crafts from colored paper. They can be very diverse - it all depends on your imagination. Even a complex handicraft may turn out from the child from the first time - most importantly, gently glue the details and clearly follow the instructions. Consider how to create bulk elephant paper:

Take five sheets of paper A4. Make from each cylinder, folding the sheet across and securing the design with glue. In the result, you should have five identical cylinders.
Put four of them side by side in pairs. It will be the elephant legs. To glue them together, you need to make the body of an elephant. To do this, simply take the same sheet of paper, cover their legs and bend the edges of the sheet on each side. Glue the edges of the cylinder.
Now take the fifth cylinder horizontally and place it on the body of an elephant - it will be a headache. Carefully glue the cylinder.
Cut out two large circles of paper - it's for your ears elephant. Glue them on the head with the inner surface of the cylinder.
Now make the trunk of an elephant. Just cut a narrow strip of colored paper and glue it in the middle lying cylinder. After that should roll it into a tube and let go across to the trunk twisted and become as realistic as possible.
Were the final touches - the eyes and claws. They can be cut from paper and glued on top or draw directly on the hand-made article.

Articles made of paper are very diverse. Even if your child has some of them seem very complicated at first glance, in fact, they consist of simple steps. The main thing - accuracy and consistent enforcement of clear instructions. When a child will understand the basic principles, he can independently come up with new crafts based on the already well-known to him - so the process will be even more creative. Creating crafts out of paper - this is not the only way to develop the child's ability, but an excuse to spend time together.