Required materials and tools
Even the smallest kids can make an applique out of paper, but with the help of adults. To implement such a craft, you need to show your personal imagination, or use ready-made instructions for children. You will also need some materials and tools:
- Cardboard (white or colored depending on the child’s wishes);
- Simple pencil (for sketching);
- Colored paper (single-sided, double-sided, velvet or corrugated is suitable);
- Glue for paper (for younger children, a glue stick is more suitable, but with PVA glue you should be careful not to spread it too much and thereby ruin the entire craft);
- Scissors (necessarily with rounded ends due to safety precautions);
- Felt-tip pens and markers (for additional decoration of the created work, since with the help of a little drawing of details, the application can sparkle with new colors and become more attractive).
Preparatory stage
Preliminary preparation includes an explanation of the obligatory observance of safety precautions and careful handling of cutting tools.
An important component is accuracy during work and listening carefully to the teacher when he names tasks for a future lesson. The materials are:
- Disposable plates.
- Templates for drawing.
- Pencil.
- Scissors.
- PVA glue.
- Paper of different colors or images.
First, the teacher demonstrates how to trace the templates, place them on a plate and glue them. You will need blanks of whole vegetables or parts that subsequently need to be combined. The specifics of age are taken into account.
In the preparatory group, the topic is not of such great interest and may seem very easy. Children aged 3-4 years should not be trusted with scissors to cut out elements of crafts for safety reasons. In this case, ready-made drawings are distributed.
Examples for the younger group
The leading place among handicraft lessons for children 2-3 years old on the topic of vegetables is canning.
At the preparatory stage, it is worth discussing with the children what vegetables they would like to see in their future creations.
After that, they can independently choose what they have voiced among pre-prepared templates and glue it to the base. A jar cut out of cardboard is suitable for it.
Doing it at home
Most often, crafts are made from paper or cardboard. Children are also fascinated by modeling. These items can be completely replaced with fabric or felt.
The price for all items is affordable. At home, the child makes the “Vegetables” applique under the supervision of his parents. He will attach the items to the pre-sewn basket.
For the little ones, Velcro is glued to the vegetables. This game is educational, interesting and completely safe. To captivate the baby more, eyes, nose and mouth are painted on vegetables.
Thus, they turn into real characters from a fairy tale. Musical accompaniment only increases interest.
Working in a team brings more pleasure, because after the lesson you can compare the results and mark the best work. Children learn to enjoy their work and appreciate the efforts of their peers.
The “Vegetables” application is the most common, since it is a close topic for every child, which he becomes acquainted with in the first years of his life. As a rule, there are no difficulties when performing such crafts!
Gallery of ready-made drawings and templates for cutting
Examples for the middle group
From the age of three, children develop basic skills in using scissors. In this regard, you can complicate the tasks a little. A variety of themes using vegetables will work. This is both canning and a basket with the harvest.
For the second theme, you will need pre-prepared cardboard bases in the shape of baskets. If they are cut out of white cardboard, then it would be appropriate to invite the children to draw a pattern on them themselves. At the second stage, it is worth having a conversation on the topic of vegetables. A short description of each would be appropriate: its shape, color. It would also be useful to discuss their taste and beneficial properties.
For demonstration, you can show real vegetables brought from home. If you let babies touch them, they will also be able to feel and feel their texture.
After the introductory conversation, you can start cutting. It is worth once again focusing on shapes and sizes. To make the task easier, you can draw a sketch with a pencil.
It is worth understanding that few children at this age will be able to cut clearly along the contour. But despite this, a children's applique with figurative images can be assembled. In the next step, all that remains is to arrange all the blanks the way the child wants. And stick them with glue. Still life according to the master class for beginners is ready.
Examples for the older group
For older children, the application becomes more complicated due to the additional use of mosaics or adding volume. The following will demonstrate step-by-step instructions on how to make a vegetable applique in the tear-off style.
This craft looks unusual and provides the child with the opportunity to break out of the strict boundaries of cutting.
- A sheet of cardboard is used as a basis. On it, using a simple pencil, you can draw the silhouettes of any vegetables that you would like to see in your work.
- Take paper of the colors that are characteristic of the selected vegetables. For carrots - orange, for potatoes - brown, for tops - green, and so on. Each leaf is manually torn into small squares.
- The resulting pieces fill the space in the sketches. And they are glued on with glue.
- Ready!
Such work will look no less beautiful, but more accurately, if the parts for the mosaic are not torn by hand, but cut with scissors.
A voluminous craft is a little more difficult to make, but children can easily cope with it if they put in a little effort. Thus, a voluminous carrot can be created by folding a long orange strip of paper in half. Form a sharp corner on one side and leave the joint rounded on the opposite side. To which the green tail will remain glued.
You can also use another method. To do this, you need thick paper or cardboard rolled into a cone. Then cover the top with orange crepe paper.
And cover the round hole with green paper, in the center of which several short strips of green crepe paper will remain glued.
Potato pig
This is perhaps one of the simplest crafts that can be made from vegetables.
To do this, we will need one large potato for the mother pig and several small ones for the piglets. Their number is at your discretion. You will also need pink and black plasticine.
- Unpeeled potatoes should be thoroughly washed in water to remove all dirt from them. Dry thoroughly;
- We start creating the pig from the tail. To do this, roll a pink sausage out of plasticine, twist it at one end and attach it to the potato;
- For the heel we make a pink cake of medium thickness;
- Next, we make triangular ears, again from pink plasticine;
- We make beady eyes from black plasticine;
- We glue the resulting plasticine parts onto the potatoes one by one;
- We do this with each pig.
So, with a minimum of financial and time costs, we get a whole family of pigs!
Recommendations for Improving Collaboration
- When learning how to applique vegetables, it is important to follow each step consistently.
- It’s worth preparing all the required materials and templates in time so that you don’t have to be distracted by collecting what you need later.
- At the time of preparatory work, it is of considerable importance to familiarize children with works of art, as well as demonstrate drawings and photos of vegetable appliqués.
- With children, conducting classes in the form of a game is more suitable, since this way the children’s attention is drawn to what is happening and thereby develops emotional responsiveness.
- Adults should create a small plan so as not to lose track of the sequence of actions. Older children can follow the steps themselves.
- It is worth giving young creators more independent work so that they can express their imagination and learn how to realize it.
- During independent work, an adult is obliged to help the children, especially those who are not doing well.
- Upon completion of all the work, it is advisable to hold a collective exhibition, when everyone can look at someone else’s work and thus learn to enjoy the results of their own and other people’s work.
- In addition to individual work, the proposed ideas can also be implemented in group work, when everyone cuts out their own vegetable and glues it onto a large common base in the form of a plate, pan or cup.
- This approach is suitable for many applications. Especially on the topic of fruits.
Target
To implement the idea, the following tasks are first determined:
- Familiarization with geometric shapes.
- Training in the correct handling of objects - glue, brush and others.
- The concept of “less” and “more” meanings.
- Reinforcing previously learned colors.
It all depends on the chosen topic. Before voicing it, the teacher prepares a summary for himself in advance. It will be different in schools for different grades.
In it, a game situation is invented to attract the attention of young pupils and evoke appropriate emotions in them.
It is useful to get acquainted with works of art related to this topic, look at drawings, photos and compare the characteristic features of objects.
The benefits of practicing applique on the theme “Vegetables” with children
All lessons related to applications help children of all ages develop. Working with colored paper and scissors helps children develop attentiveness - ripe vegetables are depicted on paper in bright, juicy colors and large geometric shapes, while unripe vegetables are represented by small green and brown fruits. The younger generation develops their views on the world around them, they learn to work with materials and auxiliary tools.
In order for children to develop their qualities that will help them in life: hand motor skills, memory, vision, schools include appliqué lessons in the curriculum. Children, thus, begin from childhood to develop their talents, master new technologies and demonstrate the hidden capabilities of their thinking.
