Applique is one of the most interesting and fascinating types of creativity, because using figures cut out of any material, you can create any image with your own hands. All you need to create an applique is the right materials and creativity.
Application is a relatively inexpensive and at the same time useful form of creativity for children, since the necessary materials are not expensive, and the field for creative implementation and development of creativity is extremely wide!
The benefits of creating applications for schoolchildren
Starting from preschool, children are offered classes in this type of creativity. The application is of great interest to children and quickly captivates even the most restless children into the world of creativity and creativity!
What are the advantages of creating applications for schoolchildren?
- Development of hand motor skills
The process of creating an applique consists of a whole complex of different actions: cutting out various shapes with scissors, determining their location, attaching the shapes to paper with glue and finalizing the resulting applique using colored pencils, felt-tip pens or pens.
- Understanding the world around us
In addition to the fact that you can create any image you want, you can also use a whole range of materials: paper, scraps of fabric and natural ingredients.
The paper can be colored, corrugated or craft. When choosing fabric, the choice becomes even greater: cotton, wool, velor, felt, silk and so on.
Among the natural ingredients, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, various cereals, pre-dried flowers, leaves and branches are most often used.
The use of all of the above materials broadens the child’s horizons. Children get acquainted with various types of materials of natural and non-natural origin and with all kinds of geometric shapes. With the help of them they embody their images in reality.
- Development of creative thinking and imagination
Creating applications is possible on any topic. Within a certain topic, be it fruits, vegetables, animals, landscapes or people, schoolchildren are given the opportunity to fully realize their vision of a particular topic on paper.
If a child has a talent for creating visual images, then appliqué is an excellent opportunity to reveal and increase their abilities.
Even if one of the children is not always able to create something interesting, the more the application is practiced, the faster the ability to create develops, and the imagination is enriched with new ideas and solutions.
The development of creative thinking is extremely important from an early age, since in adulthood it is much more effective to solve many issues using a creative approach.
- Aesthetic education
In the process of creating an image, you need to make a lot of effort: choose the shape of the material, choose colors that harmoniously combine with each other, and combine all the blanks into a complete work of art.
Each action in this creative process is aimed at developing aesthetic taste and the ability to correctly combine colors and shapes.
- Developing concentration and accuracy
Applique practice requires care. Working with scissors, glue and other materials, the child makes an effort to turn neat blanks into an equally neat image.
Extreme concentration on the creative process is also important. Only by completely immersing yourself in the process and concentrating all your attention on the moment “here and now” can you create something truly interesting and extraordinary.
At different stages of primary school education, applique classes always take place. But depending on the class, the process is somewhat modified, corresponding to the age and level of development of primary school students.
How to make a bookmark for books quickly and easily Unicorn
The next master class will also be devoted to origami techniques, and we will make a bookmark in the shape of a unicorn. What you need for a fantasy story or fairy tale.
Cut out a rectangle of approximately 5x15 cm from paper. Fold it in half along the long side.
And then in half again.
Open and bend the left and right edges towards the middle.
We turn the resulting workpiece over. We bend the left and right stripes approximately in half (towards the base of the triangle). Unfold, glue and fold again.
At the bottom of the workpiece, cut off all sharp corners.
Turn it over again and glue a strip under the base of the triangle.
Cut off the protruding part. Don't forget to cut the triangle.
Now let's make the mane. On a rectangle of white paper, we draw stripes one by one with multi-colored felt-tip pens.
Coat the edge of the leaf with glue.
Glue it to the workpiece and cut off all excess.
We make small cuts along the edge of the colored strip.
Cut out an ear from a piece of paper. Use a black felt-tip pen to complete the details.
Don't forget about the horn. We will cut it out of shiny gray paper and also glue it to the craft.
Ready!
Application for 1st grade
For children who have just come to school from kindergarten, it is necessary to organize exciting and interesting activities.
The main goal is to attract children to creativity as much as possible, to capture their attention and accustom them to active mental activity, initiative, flexibility and the desire for creative discoveries.
If children are interested in these activities at an early stage, then interest and involvement will grow in the future.
The most optimal method of conducting a lesson is a lesson in the form of a game with the addition of educational moments.
For example, when studying the topic “animals” or “plants” in the subject “Man and the World”, in a creative lesson you can be given the task of creating an image of an animal of your choice, while giving an additional task of memorizing some information on the topic.
Then it is worth organizing a presentation of the work, where each of the children will present the image they created with their own hands in public, accompanied by a short story.
Children 6-7 years old love fairy-tale and cartoon characters, because they actively watch cartoons, and their parents often tell them fairy tales. It is worth taking this feature into account and organizing classes on relevant topics.
Application for 2nd grade
Having become one year older, the children feel an even greater need to understand the world around them and creative self-realization. Applique lessons need to be made more challenging.
For example, by adding even more creative materials and increasing the choice of topics. After studying for a whole year at school, children begin to realize that with effort, it is possible to achieve something: both a good grade and praise from the teacher.
During this period, it is worth paying attention to technology and practical skills. Children should remember key points, if necessary, take notes on the course of actions and practice them.
Application for 3rd grade
As you grow older, your creativity grows. By the third grade, children had already mastered the skill of working with scissors, colored paper and glue. My horizons have expanded significantly and I have an idea of the world. At this point, it is necessary to give children freedom of expression and creative flight.
Lessons should be conducted using methods to develop imagination, and also introduce children to various techniques for cutting and folding materials. Some of the most interesting techniques are: cutting off shapes, accordion folding, cutting out complex shapes and decoupage.
How to make a bookmark for a book out of paper for children with a template
Let's start with a very simple bookmark made of colored paper, which is called a “tie”. It’s not at all difficult to make, so absolutely every child can cope with it. This is what the result will look like. Children in grades 1-4 especially like these crafts.
In total we will need four long strips of colored paper. It is important that they are the same width. The author of the master class uses white and orange colors. So, step one. Glue white and orange perpendicularly to a strip of white paper using double-sided tape.
Then glue another orange one on top of them, as shown in the photo.
Let's start weaving. Carefully fold the strips one after another.
We continue until we reach the end.
After that, trim off the excess. Use a hole punch to make a hole in the upper part of the bookmark and thread a thread into it. The “tie” for the book is ready!
You can make many different bookmarks from paper. For example, these are the Christmas trees (we’ll look at how they are created below).
This cute snake is also very easy to make.
Felt is also suitable as a material.
You might like paperclip bookmarks.
You can come up with more options than you think.
Applications for 4th grade
At the last stage of primary education, children finally develop the skills necessary for creativity. All that remains is to focus on further developing skills in working with materials and revealing the abilities of each student.
Classes must be conducted with the aim of maximizing creative potential, so that each student creates a completely unique and extraordinary work.
At this stage, applique classes should be partially transferred to home in the form of homework. Parents can help their child in the creative process by bringing in their ideas and showing other techniques for creating an image.
Plus, working on an applique together is a great way to spend time together!
Regular applique practice can significantly enrich your imagination and even develop accuracy. This is a rather painstaking process, and, moreover, when the work is finished, it is necessary to clean the workplace.
Creative development when practicing applique in childhood helps people of all kinds of professions in adulthood, for example, designers, architects, engineers and constructors, since this type of creativity develops creative thinking.
Striped furniture
Applique:
Striped furniture.
To consolidate children’s knowledge on the topic “Furniture”, to activate the vocabulary on this topic;
Develop children's creativity and imagination;
Foster independence and activity;
Reinforce techniques for careful use of glue;
Learn to compose an image from strips of different lengths, following a certain sequence; place it correctly on the sheet;
Materials:
strips (10 cm and 5 cm * 11.5 cm), flannelgraph, strips of velvet paper, glue, napkins, maples, brushes.
1h
. Creating a game situation.
Reading the fairy tale “The Three Bears.” Remember the fairy tale “The Three Bears” with your children. Find out what Mashenka broke.
Show the children the stripes (one long, one short, for each child) and say that such stripes remain after the application and should be thrown away. But one day the stripes “revolted” and said that they could also be useful: “We can make different furniture,” they said.
Conversation with children about furniture. Find out what kind of furniture can be made from such strips.
You can sleep on the bed,
Chairs, table - rearrange.
I will put books in the closet,
I will cover the chairs.
Invite the children to draw an image of a table or bed on a flannelgraph. The teacher accompanies the drawing of the image with a comment, while naming the parts of the furniture: table top, legs, back, etc.
When laying out an image on a flannelgraph, the teacher asks the children to lay out the same image on sheets of paper.
We slept on the bed
Things have already been put away in the closet.
We sat on a chair
And we ate at the table.
3h
. Independent work.
After the children have posted all the images, offer to stick on the piece of furniture they like and give it to the three bears in the hut. When doing the work, the teacher reminds you of the sequence of laying out: first you need to lay out the long strip, and then the short ones; about the correct location on the sheet - in the middle, about accuracy. When gluing, learn about the rules for working with glue.
Ask the children what they did? What is this or that furniture for? Name the parts.
