Materials for children's activities
For classes in a kindergarten group, materials must be prepared in advance. For the application you will need:
- colored paper;
- glue;
- templates;
- scissors.
Templates depicting animal figures must be prepared in advance. For kids you need to choose simpler figures, for older groups - more complex ones.
Paper animal applications
A colored picture of a domestic or wild animal should be cut into several parts and the kids should be asked to assemble it like a puzzle and stick it on a sheet of white paper.
An older child can be given a black and white drawing of an animal so that he can color it himself, cut it into pieces, and then assemble and paste it. The applique turns out even more interesting if the children are given cut out parts of the animal - the body, head, paws and tail. The child himself shows creativity and assembles his own unique applique.
Cat
Cut out the details of the cat: round head, oval body and legs, long tail, ears from ¼ circle. Invite children to assemble a picture from a set of parts, and then color the cat.
Piglet
The body, legs, head, tail, ears and details of the face are cut out of colored paper: nose, snout, eyes. The children themselves must collect the pig and stick it on a piece of paper. In the older group, you can complicate the task, for example, make the tail voluminous.
Cow
Young children are given animal parts to stick on. Older children can cut out a few cows themselves and stick them on a green piece of paper to create a grazing herd. You can draw part of the craft.
Chanterelle
It is interesting to assemble appliques of foxes and other wild animals from geometric shapes. The head and ears can be triangular, the tail, body and paws can be oval. The face can be drawn with a felt-tip pen.
Applications with pets
Before starting MK, it is necessary to talk with preschool children about what animals live in their home and are considered pets. Kids attending the younger group will most likely remember only their pets, but children studying in the older group will tell you that in addition to cats, dogs and rabbits, domestic animals also include cows, goats, sheep and horses.
Having collectively remembered all the inhabitants of houses and garden plots, you can begin to create step-by-step figures:
Kitten applique
Kids can create a kitten figurine using printed drawings:
The blanks from the second picture will need to be carefully cut out. They are quite large, so it will be easy for kids to attach them to the base.
Children studying in the middle group can make a kitten from geometric shapes. To form a figure, teachers will have to print out the necessary parts on a printer: Preschoolers will have to first cut them and then put them together, as shown in the photo:
Puppy applique
Making a puppy is as easy as making a kitten. First you need to prepare the blanks.
So, for example, eyes, a body, and a front leg will be formed from ovals. We will make the head from a whole circle, and the back leg and ears from halves.
Cow applique
Children studying in the preparatory group can use a special template to create an application with cows grazing in a meadow:
It will be difficult for novice craftsmen 3-4 years old to cope with such a task as cutting out small parts. But preschoolers aged 6-7 years will certainly enjoy this activity!
The finished blanks need to be glued to a suitable background. To visually make the picture more voluminous, the background can be made from colored paper in dark green, light green, or grassy green.
Cotton wool applications
Cotton wool is a very convenient material for application. First you need to give the children the base - the outline of the animal drawn on a piece of paper. Pieces of cotton wool need to be glued to the “shaggy” parts of the animal: the body, the head. And cut out the remaining parts from paper and glue them. The results are very cute and life-like animals.
The cotton wool can be glued simply in pieces, or in rolled balls. For example, a lamb looks natural when the wool is glued on it with balls. The picture looks three-dimensional. You can even paint the cotton wool with paints, and then you will get a real children's masterpiece.
Applique pets
This mk is intended for beginners, although it can be complicated and used when conducting classes in an intermediate group.
For the application you will need:
- sheets of colored paper;
- templates, need to be printed in advance;
- children's cardboard;
- glue;
- scissors.
Step-by-step instructions with a detailed description of the actions are not needed here, since it is enough to simply cut out all the parts along the contour and glue them onto cardboard. You can use ready-made paper stencils and step by step “assemble” the animal in parts, as in the photo.
Using templates, you can make a real postcard by gluing the details of the picture onto the applique.
In the older group, the design of the drawing becomes more complicated by cutting out the main parts from ovals, and finishing the rest in the form of three-dimensional parts - for example, the tail of a pig.
Or create a dog out of cotton wool.
But in general, a “tasty” option - why not use your imagination and make wool for a sheep from pasta? The use of cotton balls would also be appropriate - it is useful for preschoolers to do such a craft for developing their imagination: how to create a 3D effect using available tools.
Cotton wool is generally a win-win option when creating an applique: it perfectly imitates the fur that almost all domestic animals have. The instructions are simple: you need to gradually stick cotton balls or a monolithic layer of cotton wool onto a workpiece that is pre-cut according to the diagram.
Video: Making paper pets
Napkin applications
This application is very useful for children, as it strengthens fine motor skills. The napkins are first torn into small pieces by hand, and then balls are rolled out of these pieces. The balls are glued to the base of the animal image. Today, napkins are available in a variety of colors and designs. Therefore, children's animal applications can turn out to be very interesting and colorful.
Applications from other available materials
Sometimes the most unexpected materials are suitable for applique animals. For example, to imitate the wool of a lamb, you can stick pasta “horns” on paper, and it will look like it’s alive. Rabbit skin can be made from white or gray threads. You just need to choose thicker threads, for example wool.
To make an applique of a hedgehog, it is appropriate to make its body from buckwheat glued to paper. And the body of a chicken or a bear is made of millet.
A very convenient material for applique animals is plasticine. It is easy to process, painted in different colors, and it is also a favorite material for children for various crafts. Small pieces of plasticine are simply kneaded in your hands and applied to the base drawing for applique until the entire picture of the animal is painted in the desired color. This results in a 3D effect.
Penguin applique master class
Children love not only animals from hot countries or pets, but also residents of the north. Children in the middle groups of kindergartens will enjoy the master class on making a paper penguin. Here are the step-by-step instructions:
- cut out a black oval for the body;
- cut out a smaller white oval for the tummy;
- cut out black triangular wings, brown triangular flippers and a yellow triangular beak;
- Glue all the parts onto the base.
The cheerful little penguin is ready.
Animal appliqué develops children's creative abilities and perseverance. There are a lot of photos and templates on the Internet on the topic of children's applications with animals.
Applications with sea animals
We have already talked about which animals of hot countries most appeal to children. Now let's talk a little about the mysterious sea inhabitants!
Photo MK
Dolphins are considered the most popular marine inhabitants. They attract people with their kindness and responsiveness. And it is their figures that we suggest you use for applique on a marine theme: Using stencils, dolphins can be formed from colored sheets, napkins or cereals:
