Sun with rays made of accordion-folded paper.
A child of 4-5 years of age can easily cope with such a craft - the sun he makes will be an excellent gift for March 8th or a birthday for a mother, grandmother or sister. To work you will need:
- Colored paper in two bright colors (yellow, pink, orange, red are suitable);
- Sheets of cardboard of different colors;
- Glue;
- Scissors;
- Marker.
Progress:
- The rays of the future sun are collected from colored paper by folding its sheets like an accordion and cutting their edges at a forty-five degree angle.
- The resulting parts are glued together, alternating colors, resulting in a multi-colored circle.
- Make 2 circles of different colors from cardboard and glue them together. At the same time, one of them should be slightly larger than the other.
- On the resulting blank, draw eyes, a nose and a smile and glue the resulting face into the center of the circle of the previously assembled multi-colored circle.
- Additionally, you can also glue a skewer to the craft so that the finished sun can be installed, for example, in a flower pot.
Templates
Before creating any crafts, you should think about templates. These blanks will make the job easier and also allow young children to make more complex crafts. This will inspire them to creativity and future success.
Options for templates or pictures:
- Circles for the face of the sun;
- Sun with direct rays;
- A figure in the form of a semicircle with straight rays;
- Sun with triangular rays;
- Sunflower with petals;
- Sun with stripes of different lengths;
- The sun with rays in the form of flames. This is a complex figure that is best cut out in advance and the children will decorate it.
Pre-prepared blanks in the form of circles can diversify any craft and simplify the work.
Various craft options
In children's creativity there cannot be two identical works, but making a sun still requires a certain set of elements that can be made from any materials. The main detail of the craft is always the central disk of the celestial body.
Then you need to make and attach to it many stylized rays diverging in different directions from the center of the circle. At the same time, it is important to decide how the product will be attached - glued to paper or cardboard, hung on a string or placed on a stick for festive events.
If desired, on the disc itself you can depict a human face with a playful smile and freckles.
Necessary materials
Before you start making crafts, you need to acquire the following tools and materials:
- Colored paper.
- Thick cardboard as a base to give rigidity to the structure.
- You can also use foil.
- Glue.
- Cotton wool.
- Bugles or beads.
- Lace fabric or ribbons.
- Buttons.
- With threads.
- Pencils or felt-tip pens.
- Acrylic paints.
- Tassels.
- Ruler and scissors.
Prepare additional materials at hand - plastic plates, fallen autumn or spring green leaves, CDs or old records, corrugated paper, clothespins, material such as nylon and much more that comes to mind.
Sun made of corrugated paper or organza
Making this craft requires perseverance and attention from the child. The craft is suitable for pre-kindergarten and primary school students.
To work you will need:
- Yellow cardboard;
- White corrugated paper (or organza);
- Glue;
- Scissors;
- Threads;
- Marker;
- Compass.
Progress:
- Using a compass, mark two circles of the same diameter on cardboard and cut them out.
- Rectangles measuring approximately 3 x 8 centimeters are cut out of corrugated paper (or organza), which are subsequently collected from one edge with an accordion, and fixed using a thread - these will be rays.
- The finished beam blanks are placed on one of the cardboard circles, after which they are glued, carefully flattening the assembled part.
- The second circle is glued on top. After the glue has dried, you can draw eyes, a nose and a smile on the sun.
Sun made using origami technique
Its rays are assembled from modules of three colors. The face is made of cardboard, from which a circle is cut out and covered with colored paper. After this, eyes, nose and mouth are drawn on the blank.
To work on this craft you will need:
- Paper of suitable colors;
- Felt pens or pencils;
- Cardboard;
- Scissors;
- Glue;
- Compass;
- Rope.
Progress:
- First, you need to make 24 modules (the rays of the future sun) of different colors - they are made up of 10 x 10 centimeter squares. The finished elements, alternating colors, are assembled into a chain and closed in a circle.
- Using a compass, a circle is drawn on cardboard, the size of which will allow it to be placed inside the hole formed by a closed chain of modules, and then it is cut out.
- Now you need to make a couple more yellow circles of equal diameter, each of which is 2 centimeters larger than the cardboard element. One of them depicts a face with open eyes (day), the other with closed eyes (night). To completely match the design on both drawn emoticons, it can be copied by overlaying the detail on the window glass.
- A rope is threaded through the beam blank, from which a loop of the required length is formed.
- Inside the blank there is a circle of cardboard, onto which parts with drawn eyes are glued on both sides. Due to their larger diameter, they firmly fasten between the base located in the center of the craft and the workpiece with rays.
- After the craft has dried well, it can be supplemented with various elements in the form of bangs or small braids, voluminous eyelashes, freckles, etc.
- After this, the finished sun can be hung by a rope loop on a chandelier, door handle or window and turned to the desired side depending on the coming time of day.
Crafts for a country house
An image of the sun made from plastic bottles, wheels from an old children's bicycle, or a picture of the sun cut out of plywood can be used to decorate your home area. A sun craft for a dacha looks original, woven from wicker and installed in the middle of a flower bed or decorating the wall of a veranda.
You can knit an original rug in the shape of a smiling sun to decorate your home or bathhouse. In the kitchen you can place a panel in the form of a stylized celestial body made from salted dough or pasta of various shapes.
In this case, the spaghetti will perfectly represent the rays, and the middle will be round pasta. Natural products are treated with a primer and coated with paint. You can finally seal the work with water-based varnish.
Sunshine from CDs
In order to make such a craft, old CDs, preferably with a yellowish tint, are suitable. In addition to them, you need to prepare:
- Beads.
- Glue.
- Lace or a piece of beautiful material.
- Yellow cardboard or foil of any color.
Progress:
- The disc is thoroughly wiped with a cotton pad pre-moistened in water.
- A circle is cut out of cardboard or foil, having a diameter smaller than that of the disk, but suitable to cover its central hole and glued to it.
- Around the glued circle there is decor made of beads and lace or fabric.
- It is better to choose transparent glue for fixing the decor, so it will be less noticeable on the finished craft. After completing the pasting of the perimeter of the circle, it is necessary to similarly paste over the outer perimeter of the disk.
