Kids love to make applications. For them, this is a fun game during which a beautiful picture is created from colorful geometric shapes. On the eve of the winter holidays, they are happy to join in the work, decorate paper trees, glue a cotton beard to Santa Claus. New Year's applications for children are a great way to usefully spend time at home or in kindergarten.
Easy crafts for the younger group
At 2-3 years old, children still do not know how to cut parts from colored paper. For them, the teacher does it. The task of the kids is to stick the geometric shapes onto the base, creating their own pattern. Evenly apply glue, remove its excess is not an easy task for such crumbs. An adult can complicate the task by proposing to alternate parts by color or shape.
The simplest New Year's applications from paper will be multi-colored balls or a decorated Christmas tree. In the first case, you will need a blank in the form of a large circle, in the second - a green triangle. Kids themselves will stick the details on a cardboard base. You can decorate the craft with small geometric figures, also cut out of paper. A more interesting option is flattened balls of plasticine. Together, you can make a garland of New Year's flags and hang it in a group.
Cotton snowman
Children 3-4 years old will cope with this simple New Year's application. On cardboard, the teacher draws the contours of a snowman. Alternatively, you can simply stick two circles of different sizes under each other. Have the little ones roll up cotton balls. PVA glue is applied with a brush around the entire contour. Then the children paste the snowman with cotton wool, trying not to leave large gaps.
A bucket on the head and a carrot nose are made from paper blanks. It’s easier for kids to draw a snowman’s face with ordinary gouache. If the work is done at home, you can lay out the eyes and mouth with buttons, beads, add other decorative elements (hands, flying snowflakes, snowdrift under your feet).
Paper Christmas background
Pupils of the middle group are actively learning to use scissors. Cutting parts in a straight line is the first skill they need to master. Christmas applique "Fir-tree" is assembled from many strips of different lengths. Children will be able to cut them out of color paper on their own. For the trunk you will need a green square. An asterisk on top of the Christmas tree is prepared in advance by the educator.
During the execution of the work, the concept of "length" is well fixed. To make it easier for children to navigate, a vertical line is drawn on the sheet-based pencil with a pencil. This is the designation of a tree trunk. Guided by it, the children create an application in the center. Cut strips stick horizontally. First, the longest of them is attached at the very bottom, then the parts are arranged in decreasing order to the top. The finished Christmas tree is decorated with a star, a square trunk is attached.
Circle Appliques
The most difficult thing for children is the carving of round shapes. However, according to the program for the middle group, they must master this skill. The circle can become the basis for many New Year's applications. The templates prepared by the teachers, the children are first drawn around with a pencil, and then carefully cut out. Depending on the intended composition, the size and color of the circles is selected.
The simplest crafts can be Christmas balls decorated with patterns. From three parts of different sizes, an excellent snowman is obtained. However, in the middle group, the children can handle more complex compositions. They already know how to put together a few details. Therefore, you can offer them to make Santa Claus.
For the application you will need two large circles. We’ll make a face out of one, a hat on the other. To do this, bend it in half and cut along the fold line. First, glue the face onto the base, a red hat directly on it. With a white stripe we mark its edge. From the smaller white circles, put the beard for Santa Claus, mark the pompom on the hat. Small dots of black will become eyes. For the nose you need a small circle of red. On average, 12-16 parts are required to complete the job.
Palm tree
New Year's applications in the senior group are more complicated both in the form of details and in composition. Children improve their scissor skills by cutting out most of the pieces themselves. They like to create various subject pictures, they use a large number of details, achieving credibility in their works.
With the kids, you can make a herringbone from handprints. First they circle their hands on the back of a green sheet of paper. Such details need 8-10. Still need a brown rectangular barrel. It is cut out and glued first. Palm branches are first laid out on a base from the bottom up to understand what the future tree should look like. They are glued in the same order, with glue applied only to the upper part of the part. As a result, the tree will turn out magnificent.
You can decorate the tree with paper balls and stars, as well as other improvised materials. In the photo you see New Year's toys from multi-colored pompons. Sparkles, snowflakes, beads, etc. will be appropriate.
Volume New Year's applications
Children of the senior and preparatory groups will perfectly cope with the application "Santa Claus". A round head, a triangular hat with a pompom, a fur coat in the form of a rectangle, stripes instead of hands, legs-felt boots. Craft will look more interesting if the beard is made voluminous.
There are several ways to achieve this:
- Strips of paper stick to the chin. Glue is applied to the top of the part. The lower end of the strip is wound on a pencil, curled. Father Frost’s beard turns curly.
- The strips are folded in half and fastened. Then a magnificent beard and mustache are formed from them.
- Cotton balls rolled up by children can also add volume to applications. They will make a wonderful edge for a hat, pompom, beard.
New Year's applications not only develop children's fine motor skills, introduce them to forms, colors, but also create a magical holiday atmosphere. Finished crafts will be a wonderful decoration for a group or a children's room, and they can also be enclosed in an envelope with a letter to Santa Claus. After all, he also likes to receive unexpected gifts.