Winter is a great time of the year. Creativity makes it possible to convey all its charm. Together with children, you can make many different applications on the theme of winter, which will allow children to get involved in interesting work, develop motor skills and thinking.
What material can I make applications
In order to create a beautiful applique with your child, you can use the simplest materials - colored paper, cardboard, cotton pads, groats, cotton wool, twigs, threads, napkins, ribbons and any other waste material. Based on the age groups of children, you can choose smaller or, conversely, large material. The ability to use such things as glue, scissors and other tools that help to translate the idea into a beautiful children's applique on the theme of winter also depends on the age of the kids.
What are lessons for children with various applications useful for
Creating crafts with children of different ages is of significant benefit for their development, let's analyze this point in more detail.
Thanks to classes with applications:
- develops aesthetic taste and artistic imagination;
- the shapes of objects and the color palette are better mastered;
- hand motility develops;
- tactile sensations intensify;
- design thinking develops;
- broadens his horizons, knowledge of the world, the study of objects;
- qualities such as accuracy, perseverance and hard work are formed.
Application is not a simple placement of different material on paper, it is a reflection of the child’s worldview.
Types of Applications
Applications can be divided according to several criteria. For example, the following are distinguished by subject:
- decorative - usually consists of ornaments and patterns, used to decorate frames, albums and other household items;
- storyline - is a picture of several elements that are interconnected. The plot usually displays some action or event;
- subject - the easiest application to work with, because the main material is paper or fabric, from which certain details are cut out and fixed on paper, for example, with glue. You can depict anything you like, not only an application on the theme of "Winter", but also a house, animals, leaves, trees, insects, etc.
In addition, applications can be divided by the following characteristics:
- volume (flat or volumetric);
- material (cereals, leaves, fabric, paper, napkins, seeds);
- color (black and white, monophonic, gradient, etc.).
Including applications are divided into:
The simplest view. It consists in the fact that it is necessary to draw an outline of the object on paper or print a finished sketch, cut out from colored paper the details that need to be glued to the background. Great for kids two to three years old.
The main difference between this application and the simple one is that the elements that will be glued to the background are voluminous. It can be balls rolled up from paper, or folded pieces of paper into an accordion or spring. Such details will add volume to the drawing. Suitable for children of different ages, even for the smallest, if the parents will help to prepare the elements.
Applications on the theme of winter in different groups of kindergarten
Different types of applications are suitable for each age category, because babies will not be able to cut out complex elements from cardboard, and children of the older group will not be interested in simply gluing elements on paper. Let's see what types of applications are acceptable for children of different age groups.
Junior group
Applications on the theme of winter in the younger group may be different. Children are very fond of sticking cotton pads - you can make a beautiful snowman out of them. In addition, kids love voluminous crafts, for which you can use the same cotton wool or paper balls. You can draw a house and use the prepared elements to make a snowy roof. The same can be done with a single tree or a whole forest. Young children are very fond of tearing paper and cotton wool into pieces, which makes it possible to create a beautiful picture with snowfall on a sheet of paper.
Middle group
Children of the middle group will be interested in using smaller parts, such as cereals or seeds, tissue. Applications on the topic of winter in the middle group can have a broader meaning. Children 4-5 years old are interested in getting tasks where they can realize their flight of fantasy. Such crafts allow you to combine drawing, modeling, carving and other important skills for the child. Children of the middle group are happy to create plot applications, where several objects, animals and other elements are involved. For example, a bullfinch on a branch, a snowy tree with forest residents, Santa Claus with a bag of gifts.
Senior group
For children of this group, it is worth including elements such as creating a plot, decorating simple decorative elements. Applications on the theme of winter in the older group can be done by cutting out quite complex details: silhouettes of trees, houses, animals.
Children of this age group can use small elements - cereals and seeds, which allow their fantasies to develop. Children 5-6 years old are interested in using several materials at once, for example, a house can be made of colored paper, snowflakes made of cotton, snow on the road with rice or semolina. The child receives multilateral development: the game of imagination is activated, the tactile sensations and motor skills of the hands are intensified, individual thinking is manifested.
Preparatory group
Children 6-7 years old already know how to work with different tools, simple and curly scissors, hole punch, glue, staples. Children of the preparatory group in most cases already know how to count, write and read in syllables. That is why the creation of an application on the theme of winter in the preparatory group can be turned into a lesson that combines multilateral development. For a child of 6-7 years old it will be interesting to get a certain task, for example, to draw three Christmas trees, under which there are two bunnies and one fox, snow falls from the sky, stars are lit, waiting for a wonderful holiday. After that, each child is invited to supplement each item or animal in the figure with various elements. So, you can glue the bunny with cotton, the chanterelle with cereals of a suitable color, such as millet or lentils, the Christmas trees with pieces of colored paper, and roll snowflakes from napkins.
So, we can summarize: applications are perfect for different age groups in kindergartens. The older the child, the more you can add complexity, small details and other actions (counting, cutting, etc.). Preparation for the creation of paper applications on the theme “Winter” will not take much time, but not only the teachers, but also the children themselves will be happy with the result. Develop children, create unique crafts, fantasize.