How children are revealed through applications. Application with children

Advice on the topic:

"Application,

as a means of developing the creative abilities of children preschool age»

Visual activity is of great importance in solving the problems of aesthetic education, since by its nature it is an artistic activity. The specificity of fine arts classes provides ample opportunities for the knowledge of beauty, for the development of an emotional and aesthetic attitude to reality in children.

Each type of visual activity, in addition to the general aesthetic influence, has its own specific impact on the child. The application is of great importance for the education and upbringing of preschool children. It contributes to the formation and development of many personal qualities of the individual, his mental and aesthetic capabilities.

Application (from Latin applicatio - application) - the creation of artistic images by gluing, sewing multi-colored pieces of any material onto fabric or paper; image, pattern created in this way.
For the application, you can use a variety of materials: paper, fabric, thread, shells and pebbles, and even the most ordinary cereals.
Application is one of the most favorite activities for children. Toddlers like to cut something out of paper or fabric, glue, paint, and eventually get a hand-made creation.
Previously, it was believed that the application is not available for children of the second or third year of life. This activity involves working with small planar images and forms, mastering the ability to compose a whole image from parts, mastering the skills of smearing, gluing, etc. The activity, in general, is really not easy. But difficult does not mean useless. Scientists have investigated the optimal opportunities for children in the first years of life. The results of observations and experiments convincingly prove that exercises with ready planar forms and images provide a qualitative leap in the versatile development of the child. It has been established that children of this age have unique abilities. Through specially directed influences, it is possible to achieve a very high level of development and earlier formation of one or another brain function.
Any creative activity, in particular application, is of great importance for the mental development of children, the stock of knowledge is expanding based on ideas about the various forms and spatial position of objects in the world around them, various sizes, and a variety of shades of colors.
When making an appliqué product, it is important to draw the attention of children to the variability of shapes, colors (ripe - not ripe berries, plants at different times of the year), different spatial positions of objects and parts (a bird sits, flies, pecks grains; a fish swims in different directions, etc.). P.).
Being engaged in the application, children learn different materials (paper, cereals, clay, shells, etc.), get acquainted with their properties, expressive possibilities, acquire skills in working with them. Children also learn the experience of working with some tools of human activity (pencil, glue, brush, paint, scissors). All these activities contribute to the mental development of children.
To create an application, it is necessary to apply efforts, carry out labor actions, master the skills of sculpting, cutting, drawing an object of one shape or another or another structure, as well as mastering the skills of handling scissors, a pencil and a brush, glue and plasticine. Proper possession of these materials and tools requires a certain expenditure of physical strength and labor skills. The assimilation of skills and abilities is associated with the development of such volitional qualities of a person as attention, perseverance, endurance. Children are taught the ability to work, to achieve the desired result.

So, applique:

Develops artistic imagination and aesthetic taste.

Develops constructive thinking - often, during work, the child needs to assemble the whole from parts.

Develops fine motor skills and tactile sensations, especially if other materials are used in addition to paper: fabric, cereals, dried flowers, straws.

Helps to learn colors and shapes.

Introduces children to the concept of technology: in order to get a result, it is necessary to perform a sequence of various actions: cut out details, grease paper with glue, sprinkle cereals, smear plasticine, and the like.

According to the theme of the image, the application is divided into subject, plot, landscape and decorative. (The application can be subject, consisting of individual images (leaf, branch, tree, mushroom, flower, bird, house, person, etc.); a set of actions, events (“Salute of Victory”, “Flight into space”, “Birds have arrived”, etc.); decorative, including ornaments, patterns that can be used to decorate various objects.)

The shape of the application is voluminous and flat.
By color - single-color and multi-color.
A variety of materials are used for its manufacture: paper; fabrics of various textures (cotton, silk, velvet, cords); leather, fur, foam rubber, natural and waste materials etc.

The following general tasks are solved in application training:

Compose a decorative pattern from various geometric shapes and plant (leaf, flower) details, placing them in a certain rhythm on a cardboard or fabric base of various shapes.

Compose an image of an object from separate parts; portray the story.

Master various techniques for obtaining details for appliqué from different materials: cutting with different techniques, cutting, weaving; as well as the technique of attaching them to the base: gluing, sewing.

To form a sense of color, to know the primary colors and their shades, to master the ability to make harmonious color combinations.

To form a sense of form, proportion, composition.

Joining the application starts from the first junior group. The teacher is guided by a well-known feature of children: at the age of 2-3 years, healthy kids have a pronounced emotional response to the offer to do something, to participate in something, the child shows a willingness to act. And the main task of an adult is to support this activity, not to let it die out, to give it a creative character. This favorable period of childhood for the development of children's activity and independence should not be missed. The tasks solved at this age are elementary:

To teach actions with paper (tear off, crumple, roll up, cut off), help children see in paper a material that can be transformed and has its own properties and qualities: soft, dense, smooth, rough,
shiny, matte, paper of different colors, wrinkled, torn, cut, rustling in different ways.

To give the kids an idea of ​​the necessary tools and equipment for the application: scissors, brush, glue, oilcloth, etc.

To develop emotional responsiveness to an adult's offer to do something, a willingness to participate with him in the creation of elementary art crafts.

Develop interest, emotional positive attitude to elementary actions with paper, the desire to independently perform them.

Develop aesthetic perception and feelings: recognize the resulting image, admire, rejoice "following" adults.

The content of works at this age is peculiar: semi-volume (made of paper lumps, balls) and “mosaic” (made of pieces) subject application, which depicts the simplest objects: colored balls, a branch with rowan berries, cherries, a branch of mimosa, lilac, various vegetables , fruits, animal figurines, etc. These works, made on a colored background and framed, delight children with their brightness and can find practical application for decorating the interior of a doll's corner, a group, a preschool institution, a children's room in a family, etc.

Performing separate actions together with the teacher making the application, the children get the first idea about it as a way of depicting it with the help of paper, transformed by hand or using a tool - scissors.

Mastering specific actions with material, tools, objects at an early age occurs through communication with an adult. Only he can convey to the child information about the functions of objects, tools, show the methods of using material, etc. in joint activities with him.

The teacher includes a separate action of children to transform the material into a holistic process of creating crafts. This action (crumpling paper into a ball, rolling into a ball, etc.), which gives an intermediate result, acquires practical meaning for the child.

The actions of children with paper are gradually becoming more complicated.

The first manual productive actions jointly with an adult, included in the context of creating a certain “product”, emotionally prepare the child for systematic and more meaningful participation in the application. The first attempts to transform the material do not require children to clearly perceive the shape, color; they do not yet participate in the conception of the image, but already in the fourth year of life, more complex tasks can be set in the application:

To teach children to make patterns from geometric shapes on a strip, square, rectangle, isosceles triangle.

To teach preschoolers to make simple objects from ready-made forms (herringbone, house, snowman, etc.), and elementary plots from familiar objects (a train with a trailer, a house with a Christmas tree, etc.).

Teach the children to hold the scissors correctly, cut narrow strips along the fold (bent in half), and then wider ones (a few strokes of the scissors).

To teach the technique of spreading paper parts with glue: “outlining” its edges with a brush with glue along the contour.

To form in children a conscious attitude to the order in which the work is done: first lay out the pattern (object, plot) on a sheet, and then take and paste each detail in turn.

To nurture artistic taste in preschoolers.

In the middle group, more complex tasks are solved:

Learn to cut out details for appliqué from different materials (paper, fabric) simple ways- cut, cut, cut along the contour.

Involve children in creating applications from dry leaves, adjust the methods of gluing leaves to the base.

Enrich the content of applications by providing children with a wider acquaintance with the natural world, folk art, etc., as well as a variety of details used (not only geometric shapes, but also plant).

To teach children to place parts on rounded shapes: oval, circle, rosette.

In the middle preschool age, the child's hand acts more firmly and more confidently, therefore more complex methods of cutting appear; children themselves can make such details as an oval, a circle, rounding the corners of rectangles; cutting corners in a straight line, make a trapezoid; cut the squares diagonally to get triangles. Children of this age can be given stencils to cut out the details of the subject content (fungus, flower, etc.). Experience shows that children who have worked with a stencil and cut out details along the contour, later master symmetrical and silhouette cutting and cutting “by eye” more easily.

If children master scissors early, then by the end of middle age they can cut out details in all the above ways from fabric, and as a result, applique from fabric is possible. For the base, burlap, drape, cotton dyed fabric are used. You can make patterns on it both by alternating parts of different colors and shapes, and by creating compositions from elements of national ornaments of different peoples, you can create a subject or elementary plot application. But unlike similar paper products, the application on fabric is more durable and versatile in use (napkin, towel, carpet, tablecloth).

Children of four or five years old can be taught applications from dry plant leaves: make a pattern, alternating leaves in shape, size, color and arranging them symmetrically on a cardboard base of different geometric shapes: a strip, a square, etc. You can’t smear the sheet with glue, like a detail from paper or fabric, moving the brush along the contour - the sheet will begin to crumble. It is smeared with a movement of the brush from the index finger of the left hand to the edges of the sheet.

To convey the image, children are provided with other materials: pencils, thin twigs, seeds. For example, when making a butterfly appliqué, the abdomen can be made not only from a leaf, but also drawn, glued on a thin twig; for eyes, use small seeds or draw too.

At older preschool age, children master a more complex cutting technique - symmetrical, silhouette, multilayer, as well as the technique of cutting, weaving. They can combine techniques.

Preschoolers are learning new ways to attach parts: sewing them to fabric. In this case, children receive two options for the image: planar and semi-volumetric (when cotton wool is placed between the base and the part). In the second case, the image is more expressive.

Here are a few non-traditional techniques applications that you can use with children.

Non-traditional application techniques:

Breakaway application

This method is good for conveying the texture of the image (fluffy chicken, curly cloud). In this case, we tear the paper into pieces and make an image out of them. Children 5-7 years old can complicate the technique: not just tear pieces of paper, as it turns out, but pluck or cut off the outline drawing. Breakaway applique is very useful for developing fine motor skills and creative thinking.

overhead application

This technique allows you to get a multi-color image. We conceive the image and consistently create it, overlaying and gluing the details in layers so that each next detail is smaller than the previous one in size.

Modular application (mosaic)

With this technique, the image is obtained by gluing many identical shapes. As a basis for a modular application, cut out circles, squares, triangles, or simply torn pieces of paper can be used.

Symmetrical appliqué

For symmetrical images, we fold the blank - a square or rectangle of paper of the desired size - in half, hold it by the fold, cut out half of the image.

Tape applique

This method allows you to get not one or two, but many identical images, separate or interconnected. To make a ribbon applique, you need to take a wide sheet of paper, fold it like an accordion and cut out the image.

Silhouette application

This method is available to children who are good with scissors. They will be able to cut complex silhouettes along a drawn or imaginary outline.

quilling

Quilling (English quilling - from the word quill (bird feather), also paper rolling), is the art of making flat or voluminous compositions from long and narrow strips of paper twisted into spirals.

Collage

Collage (from French collage - gluing) is a technical technique in the visual arts, which consists in creating paintings or graphic works by gluing objects and materials that differ from the base in color and texture onto a base. A collage is also called a work entirely made in this technique. Collage is used mainly to obtain the effect of surprise from the combination of dissimilar materials, as well as for the emotional richness and sharpness of the work.

Origami

Origami (from Japanese folded paper) - a type of arts and crafts; the ancient art of paper folding. Classical origami is folded from a square sheet of paper and prescribes the use of one sheet of paper without the use of glue and scissors.

Napkin application

Napkins are a very interesting material for children's creativity. Of these, you can make different crafts. This type of creativity has a number of advantages:

the ability to create masterpieces without scissors;

development of fine motor skills of small hands;

development of tactile perception, using paper of various textures;

wide opportunities for creativity.

corrugated paper

Corrugated paper is one type of so-called ornamental paper. Compared to ordinary paper, it appeared relatively recently. It is very soft, delicate and pleasant to the touch. The children love the gorgeous colors and enjoy working with it in their art classes. This is an excellent decorative and ornamental material that allows you to create decorations, colorful toys, original garlands and magnificent bouquets, costumes that can be a great gift for the holiday.

Fabric appliqué

Fabric appliqué is a type of embroidery. Appliqué embroidery consists in reinforcing pieces of another fabric on a certain background of fabric. Fabric applications are reinforced either by sewing or gluing. Fabric appliqué can be subject, plot and decorative; one-color, two-color and multi-color. Making appliqué from fabric requires certain skills. Firstly, one must be able to cut fabric (fabric is more difficult to cut than paper); secondly, the edges of the fabric can crumble and complicate the work.

Application from cereals

For young children it is useful to develop fine motor skills. Touching objects with your fingers, learning to make plucked movements, of course, is important. But children over the age of one year are interested in seeing the result of their work immediately. The application of cereals becomes the most attractive for them in this regard. With cereals, you can create different crafts with kids. To do this, semolina, rice, millet are painted in various colors using gouache and water.

Straw appliqué

Straw appliqués are extraordinarily attractive: they shimmer with gold. This happens because the straw has a glossy surface and longitudinally arranged fibers. These fibers reflect light as much as possible only in a certain position. Composed of shapes at different angles in relation to the light. The application conveys a unique game: it shines like gold. These can be paintings, ornamental stripes, bookmarks for books, caskets, frames.

Application of dried plants

At present, the application of flowers, grass, leaves - the so-called floristry - has gained wide popularity. Working with natural material is quite accessible to students and preschool children. Fascinating, interesting and useful communication with nature. It develops creativity, thinking, observation, diligence. Classes with natural material contribute to the education in children of love for their native nature, respect for it. They are also useful because the collection and preparation natural material takes place in the air.

Creating beautiful applications with their own hands, seeing the result of their work, children experience positive emotions. Working with paper and other materials gives them the opportunity to show patience, perseverance, imagination and taste. It is pleasant for children to decorate a group room with their works, to give them to their parents and friends.

Good day, dear moms, dads and all visitors to our blog about creative development child!

A little earlier, I wrote about what an application is, and what applications are. Also, what are the benefits?

And today I will tell you how to start applique with your baby.

So that applique classes do not upset your baby, but bring a lot of joy, creative satisfaction and a desire to create applications more and more, you need to carefully prepare for the creative process.

1. Scissors. They should have blunt ends, but sharp blades so that the child can easily cut the paper, and not tear it. And yet he couldn't get hurt.

2. Glue. It is better to stop your choice on a glue stick, and when the baby grow a little, you can buy PVA glue and glue with a brush.

3. Colored paper of beautiful bright colors. For the background, you can take cardboard (colored or white). To begin with, use thicker paper, as when spreading Adhesive thin paper will wrinkle and tear easily.

4. In order to interest the child, so that the lessons will be remembered by him and bring a lot of positive emotions, turn the creation of the application into a fairy tale or a game.

To do this, think over the topic of the lesson in advance, come up with magical characters, a plot. Begin the lesson with a preface, a short story. And during the lesson, do not be silent - comment on what you are doing, talk about the shape of objects, their colors and size. Thus, along the way, you will contribute to the development of the baby and his speech.

5. The most important thing is the desire and well-being of the baby.

Start the lesson when the child is in a good mood and well-being, when he has a desire. If you see that baby tired or unwilling to exercise, stop. Let the child finish his work later.

6. With kids early age(1-3 years old) start creating appliqués with simple tricks. You can do the application of torn paper. Together with the baby, tear small pieces of paper and stick them on a pre-drawn drawing. If the kid can, let him grease the pieces of paper with a glue stick. If not, apply glue to the drawing, and then glue the torn pieces onto it.

Also, babies can crumple double-sided colored paper and stick it on a drawing smeared with glue, or dip it in PVA glue, and then stick it.

In this way, you can stick cotton wool, pieces of yarn, candy wrappers.

7. The next, more difficult stage in appliqué classes is the gluing by the kid of the parts previously cut out by the adult. Let it be simple plots, simple geometric applications. Let the kid himself try to grease the parts with a glue stick.

8. At the age of 3-4 years (the age is individual for each child), invite the child to cut out the details himself. Let them be simple, pre-drawn on paper. Teach him how to use scissors first.

9. Further, when the child masters gluing simple parts, you can add more complex ones, and instead of glue stick, use PVA glue with a brush.

Let the child first place the cut out details on the background in the right place, and only then smear it with glue and stick it, smoothing it with a soft cotton cloth or napkin.

10. Choose the time of classes with the baby individually. Start with 10 minutes, increasing as you age.

11. For a variety of appliqué activities, offer your child not only paper. Try to create with cotton wool, threads, cereals, dry leaves, branches, flowers and much more.

Well, following this simple rules, you can easily start doing appliqué with your child.

Sincerely.
Elena Medvedeva.

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As a rule, at the age of about a year, children have their first interest in creativity. They begin to scribble with a pencil with pleasure, it becomes interesting for them to pinch off pieces of plasticine, and if you introduce the baby to glue, then he will generally be completely delighted. Any undertakings and talents in a child need to be developed, so now is the time to offer the baby the first classes in, and applications.

The basic rule for creative activities with a child at this age is give only those tasks that are feasible for the baby . Your task is to instill interest in creativity, and not to discourage it. If you offer your baby too difficult crafts that are not appropriate for his age, this will most likely lead to the fact that the child will not succeed, and he will just watch how you do everything for him. Classes should be held in such a way that the main part of the work is done by the child, and not by the mother.

It is important to remember that creative activities with a child of this age should not be more than 5-10 minutes. Always be guided by the mood of the child. If a child loses interest in work, then this most likely means that it is too simple or, conversely, too difficult for him. Or you delayed the lesson, and the baby is already just tired.

I divided all applications and crafts with children 1-2 years old into several groups in order of increasing difficulty:

Stage 1. Chaotic gluing pieces of paper on a piece of paper, gluing geometric shapes

Before making any crafts and compositions, first you just need to introduce the baby to the glue. The child must catch the very essence of the application and remember the basic scheme of actions: first we smear a piece of paper with glue, then turn it over, apply it to another piece of paper and smooth everything well with the palm of our hand to hold it tighter.

At first, you can simply glue pieces of colored paper onto the base sheet. Most likely, your kid will really like this activity. At this age, children are more attracted to the process itself than the result. We will work on art pictures later.

Now all your attention should be focused on teaching the child correct application technique . And it is very important to do it right now so that you do not have to retrain later. What is the correct technique?

Firstly, show your baby how to hold the glue stick. As a rule, children tilt the glue stick, which only complicates the spreading process for themselves. Teach your baby to place the glue strictly perpendicular to the leaf!

Secondly, explain to the child that when he smears a piece of paper with glue, it must be held with the palm of his left hand (if the child is right-handed). Most likely, at first, the paper will jump out from under the baby’s finger, so lightly fix his palm with your hand. Just do not do everything completely for the child, he must participate!

My daughter Taisiya met glue at about 1 year 3 months. In the beginning, we were just busy sticking small pieces of paper randomly into the album. Daughter absolutely loved this activity. A little later, the idea dawned on me that it is possible to combine business with pleasure and glue geometric shapes, voicing their names during gluing. At that time, Taya already knew all the flat geometric shapes, even such as a trapezoid and a parallelogram (we studied them with the help), therefore, while doing the appliqué, we simply fixed them in memory.

Stage 2. Simple crafts with a chaotic arrangement of elements

After the baby gets a little comfortable with the application technique itself, you can begin to create the first crafts. I want to bring to your attention a few simple ideas for crafts, applications. All of them imply a free arrangement of parts on a sheet. Those. the child will not need to get to any specific place, but simply glue it wherever your heart desires.

Important! Give the child the opportunity to decide for himself where exactly on your Christmas tree the ball will hang or where the fish will swim in the aquarium. I noticed by myself that all the time I want to correct my daughter's creativity, to make everything beautiful and smooth. And if you think about it, why do it? Our work is not to be exhibited. It’s better to let the child be sure that he glued it as he wanted, and no one interfered. Sometimes you can just give a hint and explain why the way you propose will turn out more beautiful.

I think, based on the ideas presented, you can easily come up with many of your own options. Also in the article there is an opportunity to download the simplest b / w templates for the presented crafts. You can pre-color them if you wish.

All necessary elements for the application, mom will need to prepare in advance.

• Christmas tree with balls . First, together with the baby, we glue the Christmas tree itself onto the base sheet, then balls, stars and other decorations you have prepared. Or you can glue the decorations on the finished Christmas tree template - DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE.

• tree with apples — DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE

• Hedgehog with apples and mushrooms — DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE

Vitamins in a jar for a girl — DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE

Berries in a basket — DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE

• Fish in the aquarium. The idea of ​​​​the application from the manual "". The child sticks only fish.

Stage 3. Crafts with gluing elements to specific places

Now the baby will have a more difficult task, he needs not only to glue the application element, but also to get to a specific place. In my experience, such crafts should be switched to no earlier than 1.5 years. But, of course, everything is individual.

At first, on the base sheet, draw the outlines of the objects that you will glue. So it will be easier for the child to understand what should happen. Then you can gradually move on to gluing without contours.

So, here are some slightly more complex crafts with children 1-2 years old:

• Caterpillar . We glue the caterpillar from the circles. When all the details are glued, mom finishes the face of the caterpillar. To make the task easier, you can stick circles on the template - DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE.

• Snowman from cotton pads . We cut out a bucket hat in advance from colored paper. When all the details are glued, mom finishes the face.

Cotton pad dandelions — DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE.

• Air balloons . The kid sticks only balloons to the finished drawing. DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE.

block house

Christmas tree made of triangles . Glue the triangles one on top of the other.

• House with windows. We glue square windows to the house. You can also make a door. DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE

• Car . We glue windows, wheels, and, if desired, headlights to the silhouette of the car.

Cut pictures from magazines . You can cut out pictures from magazines, cut them into large, baby-friendly pieces, and then glue them together with your child. For example, you can cut out a car, a face or a human figure completely.

• We put the toys on the shelf. Application idea from the manual " It could be your baby. Stick a picture»

• Snow tree from napkins . Application idea from the manual " My first masterpieces»

• Traffic light. Application idea from the manual " My first masterpieces» — DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE

By the way, ideas for crafts for New Year and winter themes can be found.

In your creative pursuits, you can also use various tools. They have a lot of ready-made ideas, before class you will only need to cut out all the necessary details or use ready-made stickers. For example, we used the following publications:

• (Ozone, My shop, KoroBoom)

• (Ozone, My shop, KoroBoom)

• Application. Mishutka and his friends (Ozone, labyrinth, My shop)

• Educational stickers for kids. The form (Ozone, My shop, KoroBoom)

And in conclusion, I would like to say one more very important point. One of the main principles of the world-famous is to provide the child with as much freedom and independence as possible. And this does not mean at all that you need to leave the child to himself "Go, play as you want!". This means that the baby needs to be taught to play so that he can subsequently do it on his own. So that he could prepare himself for the game, he himself knew how to handle the materials, he himself was able to clean up after himself. That's why, when you are doing creative work with your baby, be sure to immediately accustom him to certain rules .

For example, we have this order: first we go together to lay a special tablecloth on the table (it can be a modeling board), then we take out all the necessary accessories from our “creative” locker (glue, album, colored paper). After work in the reverse order, we put everything in its place. We apply such rules from 1 year 3 months. Now, a year later, I can say that my daughter knows all the rules well (although she already learned them a month later) and performs without any resistance. There are times when she cleans up after herself without a reminder, but mostly with a reminder, of course.

I wish you and your baby creative success! I hope you enjoy our craft ideas. I will be glad to make friends with you in social networks, come

Fantasy fails and you no longer know what to do with your child? In this article, you will find some unusual and interesting appliqué ideas that are suitable for both toddlers and older children.

Application is a long-standing fun not only for many children, but even for adults. After all, gluing something to the base or sewing it on is very interesting. And now there are many different materials that can be successfully used in applications and make wonderful and unusual works.

Often all kinds of elements are used in the works that are easy to find in any home or even on the street: pebbles, shells, beads, beads, pieces of ordinary or lace fabric, buttons and many other various things.

Plots for creating applications can be very diverse:

• it can be the characters of your favorite cartoons
• favorite animals or toys
• Live nature
• different holidays

paper application

Most often, when it comes to applications with children, it is a paper application that is meant. And this is not just because paper can be found in any stationery store, and the variety of its types is quite large.

• The paper is bright, multi-colored, it is very attractive to the child to work with it.
• It can be of different textures and shapes.
• It is easy to fold, fold, cut out any shape from it and stick it to the paper base.
• Well, the most important thing is that paper is an environmentally friendly and, accordingly, safe material, so it is great for creative work even with the smallest children.

The impact of applique classes on child development

Thanks to the application, children receive the following skills:

• master the coordination of movements
• develop fine motor skills
• learn the basics of composition
• learn colors and how they can be combined
• study various textures
• develop observation and imagination
• learn to fantasize

The application activity contributes to the development of the child's thought processes, he learns to analyze and compare real objects and animals with crafts made with you. The child, working with the application, makes a whole out of several parts and learns to divide the whole into components.

• Like classes in any other type of creativity, the application helps the development of speech, when adults discuss with the child the crafts they create, explain what they do and why, what happens in the end. Working together, children engage in dialogue and increase their erudition
• And of course, this is a good option for spending time together with a child, which will help you establish and strengthen emotional contact.
• Below we offer you ideas for crafts using the applique technique. The proposed examples are of varying complexity and require a different amount of time to create. Therefore, choose works according to the age of the child and help him in their creation.
• It will be good if you offer the kid to change the composition, come up with something of his own - this will help him in the development of imagination and creative abilities

Materials for paper application

To make the work look beautiful, you need to carefully cut out the necessary elements and also carefully glue them to the base, but beauty also depends on the materials chosen.

The assortment of paper in stores is very large, but not all of it is suitable for appliqué work, and you can make a mistake in choosing glue. Please note the material selection guidelines below.

Paper and cardboard for application

It is better to choose paper that is not very thin, but very thick will not work either. You can take both matte paper and glossy, it can be textured or smooth.

Choose the paper that suits your idea. But pay attention to the fact that traces of glue and fingerprints will be visible on glossy paper, so it is better to give preference to matte paper, then the work will look neater.

• To get started, try working with colored paper, which is produced specifically for the printer. It is in every store and comes in different colors. It is quite good in density and matte
• More experienced creators can use coated paper It is also available in different color sets. This paper is glossy and quite thick.
• textured paper will help to focus on any details of the craft. Choose paper of a suitable weight and desired texture, for example, with some kind of embossing or with a velvet effect
• It still happens foil paper, with its help you can make very believable windows in your craft, or water. Such paper is usually produced in medium density, which is just right for the application. Sometimes there is also a holographic effect on such paper.

• A very convenient type of paper for application is self-adhesive paper, but it still needs to be looked for, and the color palette is very poor. Such paper is convenient in that it does not need glue for gluing, thanks to which it is ideally evenly glued to the base.
• Drawing paper well suited for creating templates, tk. it is dense and its edges do not wrinkle
• Cardboard it is good to use as a basis for work, it can be both white and colored. Due to its density, it will not wrinkle when parts are glued to it. Cardboard also choose the most suitable for your idea, it can be either matte or glossy

Glue and other application tools

To create an applique, the necessary details are cut out of paper and glued to the base cardboard. You can cut out the details along the outer edge with scissors, and in order to cut holes inside it is better to use a clerical knife.

Glue also needs to be selected correctly so that it does not cause deformation of the paper and the craft does not lose its appearance.

• Scissors choose good ones, they should cut the paper well and be sharp. They should be comfortable for the child to hold. It is better if you have scissors with straight blades for cutting parts in a straight line, and the second with rounded blades, which are easy to cut along a curved path.
• In order to cut something inside the part, you will need stationery knife. They are also easy to cut along the contour of the template.
• metal ruler useful for cutting straight lines with a knife
• You will need substrate for cutting clerical knife, it will protect your furniture from scratches
• In stores you can find curly hole punchers, with their help, you can make various figures from colored or white paper with one click on it. The variety of types of hole punchers is quite large, they differ in size and shape. With their help, you can make a bunch of butterflies and flowers for a forest glade in a matter of minutes, and not cut them out with scissors for half a day.

• make the edge of the paper of an interesting shape, observing a certain pattern. There are also many different types, so to speak, for every taste.

• rubber adhesive very convenient for application, because if the part is not glued correctly, before the glue has dried, you can carefully remove it and stick it in another place. Also, traces of glue can be easily removed with a regular eraser. The only drawback of this glue is its smell, so it is better not to use it with babies.
• Available for small children glue stick. It practically does not deform the paper, but traces of it still remain.
• Glue with a brush it will be very convenient to use for kids, because it will be very interesting for them to dip the brush into a jar and apply glue to the part

Additional materials and techniques for application

To make the application special and interesting, you can use other materials.

• Raisins will give, for example, such a detail as the artificial plastic eyes of the little animal, which will move when the position of the picture changes
• Small details in the work do not have to be cut out, they can be drawn with a felt-tip pen or pencil
• Acrylic outline will help highlight the necessary elements of crafts
• In the application, you can use paper beads and lace, these materials will make the work interesting and unusual.
• You can insert the craft into a frame if it turned out to be very beautiful, it is dear to you as a memory or made for a gift.

Application ideas from circles

An unusual applique idea is to use only cut-out paper circles. If you make all the details from the circles, you will get a very interesting and unusual work.

The child will really like this activity, especially if he sees how simple circles of different sizes turn into a cute cat or bird.

Napkin Applique Ideas

For applications, you can use even the most ordinary napkins. They come in different colors, although their choice is not great, as a rule, these are the main colors and a few additional shades. This technique is very simple and can be done even with three-year-old children.

Application using napkin balls is a very exciting activity for children. This technique well stimulates the development of fine motor skills, because. rolling balls is a very painstaking work.

Making this craft is pretty easy:

• prepare the drawing, apply it to the base
• the details of the picture should not be small, it is necessary that there is enough space for gluing the balls
• you will need PVA glue and scissors
• prepare colorful napkins
• choose the size of the frame to arrange the finished work

Napkins can still be replaced with corrugated paper, but this is not needed, because. You can find these wipes in any store. The only thing better than corrugated paper is a wide variety of colors.

The drawing can not be applied to cardboard, but printed on a printer and glued to the base. While it dries, you need to prepare multi-colored balls.

To do this, cut napkins or corrugated paper into squares of the same size and roll balls out of them. You will need a lot of balls for such work, and their number will also depend on the size of the picture and on the size of the balls themselves.

Using PVA glue, napkins need to be glued to the picture, some details can be drawn with a marker or felt-tip pen, it all depends on your imagination and the desire of the young master.

The background of the work can also be made from balls of a suitable color.

Frame your work and you can decorate it with a room or other room in the house or in the garden. Such a picture will also be a good gift for relatives and close people, for example, on a holiday on February 23 or March 8.

Button Applique Ideas

All children love buttons. Probably, each child more than once found his mother's box with them and put things in order in it, choosing the ones he liked the most. Therefore, the application with buttons will be of interest to any child.

From the age of two, the baby can already make a simple picture by gluing buttons in the form of a flower or a butterfly onto the base.

With older children, you can make a hot stand by sticking buttons on the skin or a piece of felt.

With older children, buttons can be glued on with glue, but when working with small ones, it is better to stick double-sided tape on the buttons. If there are a lot of them and there is no possibility to stick on each adhesive tape, you can stick plasticine on the cardboard, and press the buttons on it. Cardboard is better to use glossy, because. plasticine stains may appear on the matte finish.

Cereal Applique Ideas

Cereals can be successfully used not only in the kitchen, but also in creativity. From cereals, wonderful and unusual paintings and crafts are obtained.

As with napkins, you will need a base image. It can be any image drawn, printed or cut from a coloring book. The main thing is that there are no small details in the picture, then its elements can easily be covered with different cereals.

• Apply glue to the picture with a brush. If you will be using different cereals, do not apply glue to the entire pattern at once.
• Glue first one part with glue and let the child pour grits on it. With your fingers, you can press it a little to the base. Anything that doesn't stick, shake it back into the bowl.
• If there are several elements, apply glue on them and sprinkle with grits one by one - this will help to make the work neat

Groats can be used in a variety of ways, and you can even paint it in various colors with gouache. And it's very easy to do it:

• dilute the gouache with a little water
• paint the grits with a brush
• put on a bag or stationery file in one layer
• let dry

The second method is suitable if you need to color a lot of grains, and it is good because the colored grains do not get your hands dirty when you work with them further:

• place the cereal in a container, rice is well suited
• fill it with water and add so much gouache to get a bright saturated color
• let stand for 12 hours
• drain and dry in one layer

Applications from natural material

Autumn gives us a lot of natural material that can be used in various crafts. From simple leaves that are lying on the streets, you can make a lot of interesting things, including applications. They make funny little men, different animals, landscapes and even plot pictures.

Collecting material for applications is also very fun and easy, because you can find leaves while walking in the park.

You can make a hedgehog from maple leaves, fish from birch, and oak leaves resemble a tree.

Some details of the work can be finished with felt-tip pens or paints.

You can cut out the necessary details from the leaves, i.e. use not a whole leaf, but a cut out element. Use leaves of different colors.

You can pre-dry the leaves or put them in a book for a while so that they align. You can also dry them by ironing them through a sheet of paper.

Dry leaves can be crumbled into crumbs and sprinkled with them on the base on which the glue is applied. After that, shake off the remaining crumb. This activity will be great for younger kids.

VIDEO: Educators and parents - applications for children

No matter how your baby grows up - calm quiet or nimble fidget - there is an activity that can work wonders. This is an application. During a lesson that any mother can do, the child's eyes light up: he sees how a real masterpiece is obtained from under his fingers. Believe me, children really like this pastime.

Application is...

Application is a type of creative activity during which various shapes are cut out and glued onto a base (usually paper or cardboard).

The most common material for application is colored paper, cardboard and fabric. However, for this purpose, you can successfully use tree bark, dried leaves, needles, straw, twigs, feathers, grass, moss, eggshell, yarn, cotton wool, shells and pebbles, beads, plastic bottle caps and many different materials.

The application gives children ...

Application is one of the favorite types of visual activity for children. Being engaged in application, your kid will be busy with business. The process itself and its result will bring a lot of pleasure to the child. Children are pleased with the bright color of the paper, the successful rhythmic arrangement of the figures, and the technique of cutting and gluing is of great interest to them. Such activities bring the parents closer to the child.

Paper applique for children can be a very interesting and educational activity. The baby develops and improves fine motor skills, which is the most in the best way affects the mental development of the child. During the lesson, the child develops artistic imagination and aesthetic taste, as well as design thinking. Sixthly, application classes develop abstract and object thinking, and even speech.

Application is closely related to sensory perception and cognitive activity which also has a huge impact on the development of mental and creative abilities of children. The development of sensory perception is facilitated by paper processing operations: bending, cutting, tearing and tearing, gluing.

Begin…

Application is one of the most accessible and understandable types of children's creativity. In fact, it is not difficult to make an application, you can prepare in a few minutes or in the process of working with a child. We recommend that you pick up colored cardboard or paper, scissors, paste or PVA glue. Cut out various shapes and images: circles, ovals, leaves of various shapes, apples, pears, cars, animals, etc.

Once the material is ready, you can begin to study. But an indispensable condition - you and your child must be in a good mood. First, invite the child to stretch their palms and fingers. Here you can help finger games or the following exercises.

• "Fun Splashes" - shaking and relaxing the hands in a different rhythm, imitating the spraying of water drops.
• "Fingers tap" - percussion with fingers all at the same time or alternately on any hard surface.
• "Recognize the subject" - the child is invited to "guess" objects, toys with pronounced details with the help of fingers.
• "Fingers say hello" - tip thumb right hand alternately touches the tips of the index, middle, ring, little fingers.
• "Hurry Bug" - fingers move quickly on the surface of the table. These exercises develop the small muscles of the fingers, create a good mood.

If your desire is not shared by your baby, do not worry. And, each time, consider the mood and desire of the child. At first, application lessons should not be longer than 15 minutes.

Carefully!

Probably, every mother intuitively understands what is possible and what should not be allowed during applique classes with children. However, it is useful to recall the following:

• prepare a workplace for the child: it should be clean, comfortable;
• during work, do not let the child take glue into his mouth or spread it anywhere;
• make sure that the baby does not play with scissors, but uses them for their intended purpose (he must understand that this is not a toy, because if this time he does not get hurt, he may do it in your absence).

Try to make an application at home with your child:

There are so many types of applications for children that it is difficult to tell about all of them in one article. However, let's list

basic:

☺ From napkins: draw the outline of the picture on a piece of paper or cardboard; finely tear the napkin; roll up lumps of napkins together; pour the paste or PVA glue into a shallow container. Let the child take a ball from a napkin and dip it in glue and stick it on the image, trying to stick the ball to the ball. The result is a voluminous and beautiful picture.

☺ Tear application: in this case, we tear the paper into pieces and make an image out of them.

☺ Overlay application: this technique allows you to get a multi-color image. Conceiving the image and consistently creating it and overlaying and gluing the details in layers so that each next detail is smaller than the previous one in size.

☺ Colored paper voluminous applique is a kind of crafts with children that does not require training, special tools or any special skills. In order to make a beautiful three-dimensional appliqué, you will need scissors, glue, colored paper and a desire to make a beautiful craft. In children involved in volumetric application, the level of attention, patience and perseverance increases, and hand motor skills develop.

☺ Application from seeds and cereals: in this case, you will need seeds (watermelon or pumpkin), cereals, pencil, cardboard, PVA glue. We make a drawing on cardboard with a pencil, then coat the drawing with PVA glue and sprinkle with cereals or seeds. Application of cereals give your child a lot of pleasant tactile sensations.

☺ Application can be made using other materials:

bark, needles, straw, feathers, twigs, grass, moss, matches, yarn, cotton wool, plasticine, shells, pebbles, dry berries, beads and rhinestones, eggshells, foil.

Let your imagination run wild and you will have a lot of ideas for applications, wonderful crafts and a lot of positive emotions for you and yours.

Spend your leisure time with your child.

Imagine and create!

Creative success to you!