Children's creativity not only contributes to the development of artistic taste and fine motor skills, but also broadens the child's horizons. Creating landscapes using the appliqué technique will help kids learn the concepts of perspective and horizon. The theme of the autumn forest will help kids learn the signs of this time of year.
Tell your children about autumn and let them make crafts according to their taste, without being limited by rules. Even if the first works do not really meet the requirements, they are still beautiful, because the child filled them with his imagination and sincere love for this world.
Application “Autumn tree” made of colored paper
To work, prepare a set of colored paper and decorative cardboard, office glue, a ruler, scissors, and a simple pencil for marking. Do the job like this:
- Take brown paper. Draw the outline of a tree trunk. Or you can draw a trunk on a white landscape paper using paint or pencils in different shades of brown to create a beautiful woody texture.
- Cut out the resulting trunk. Its approximate height should be 18-20 cm, considering that the background will be in landscape format.
- To make leaves, cut out squares with a side of 3 cm; they should be of different autumn colors: red, red, burgundy, yellow, green. Also cut out the grass-covered ground from green paper into a long, narrow rectangle.
- Fold the grass like an accordion along the short side. Turn multi-colored squares into “accordions” too, but fold them from one corner to the opposite.
- Fold the folded squares in half and glue them in the middle to make cute ribbed leaves.
- Use a light blue cardboard sheet as a background. Glue a tree trunk on it.
- Glue the grass parallel to the bottom edge of the background, stretch the accordion so that it takes up the entire distance between the right and left edges of the cardboard.
- Glue leaves on the branches. The distribution of colors should be arbitrary so that the crown looks variegated. You can glue several leaves to the grass, as if they had fallen.
- Cut out clouds from white or pale blue paper and glue them above the tree.
Lesson: applique “Autumn”
The very first creative activity “Autumn Application”
awaits children in the junior group of kindergarten, where they are just getting acquainted with the simplest techniques of working with paper.
First, children need to be prepared for the creative process: while walking with children on the playground, it is necessary to draw their attention not to what changes in nature occur with the arrival of the first autumn months. The kids can talk about what the color of the leaves was in the summer and what it is now. Draw their attention to the fact that every day the leaves fall to the ground and soon the trees will remain completely bare, until, with the arrival of spring, small green leaves begin to appear on them again. The teacher must explain that such changes occur in nature every year, and each season has its own “unusualities”, which are reflected in fairy tales and stories of writers, in children's songs, riddles and paintings.
When you and the children return to the group, before the actual creative activity begins, you need to show them famous paintings that depict the autumn theme, turn on children's songs, and be sure to solve a few simple riddles together with the children.
In the younger group, creative activities should take place in a playful way, because kids don’t like to sit in one place for a long time, they want to be constantly on the move. And only after the educational game can the teacher invite the children to take their place at the table and start making applications on the theme of autumn for kindergarten
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During the lesson, kids will acquire the first skills of composing a composition, because they will have to independently (and if necessary, with the teacher’s prompts) lay out leaves of different shapes on a paper base, and then carefully glue them. Perhaps this will be the child’s first experience working with glue, so first the teacher should show which side the paper form should be coated with glue, how to apply it to the base and how long to wait for it to stick.
During the lesson, the child will have an idea of what colors represent October - work will be done with yellow, red, orange.
Since the children of the younger group do the most, the teacher must independently prepare all the necessary material for them, make paper blanks, so that during the lesson the child only has to arrange and glue them correctly.
Autumn tree made of leaves
For this lesson you will need leaves collected in the fall and dried; they must be neat, without holes or signs of rotting. You also need decorative cardboard for the background and office glue.
Instructions for creating an application:
- Cut the leaves into thin strips and triangles.
- Draw a tree trunk on a background cardboard sheet.
- Carefully coat the branches of the tree shown with glue.
- Immediately, before the glue dries, sprinkle the chopped leaves on it.
- Leave the application to dry.
Family tree making technology
If you want to try something new in your work, I suggest you work on a shared tree application. In this case, it is advisable to make the crown of the tree solid; voluminous leaves are not suitable here. In this photo they look very sloppy.
What will be on the crown depends on your imagination. You can stick apples on which children will write members of their family (suitable for a preparatory group) or flowers. You can also ask parents in advance to bring photographs of family members in the form of small circles. Such a craft can even take pride of place in the living room and become a family heirloom. There are many options, choose according to the age of your students.
Autumn tree in the younger group
For the activity, prepare a cardboard background sheet, strong glue, clean pumpkin seeds, a tree trunk template, and gouache paints.
Do the job like this:
- Place the seeds on oilcloth or newspapers, paint them with gouache in autumn colors: red, burgundy, red, yellow.
- On a sky-colored background cardboard, draw a tree trunk according to the template.
- Carefully glue the dried seeds to the branches.
DIY “Autumn Tree” craft
The activity is suitable for younger preschoolers. The purpose of creating an autumn applique is to teach children 3-4 years old the skill of working with available materials, developing imagination and fine motor skills. For the lesson, take gouache in 3 autumn colors: red, yellow, orange. It is not advisable to use watercolor paint, otherwise the application will turn out faded. You also need cotton pads, 12-15 pieces.
Making the craft is as easy as shelling pears:
- Lay out the discs on oilcloth.
- Dilute gouache paint with water in 3 separate containers.
- Use a brush to pick up the diluted paint and drip it onto the discs. You can drip a certain color onto each disc, or you can mix colors to create beautiful stains.
- On the background sheet, draw a tree trunk with brown gouache.
- When the discs are dry, glue them onto the top of the trunk so that they partially overlap each other. Leave the craft to dry.
Where to start?
So, no matter what group you teach, you should first introduce children to the varieties of trees and shrubs.
After all, only some of them will be able to tell you more than 2 types of trees, not to mention bushes. How can you do something you don't know? Therefore, the teacher’s task is not only to tell, but also to show what a particular tree looks like. You may have teaching materials on this topic, either hand-drawn or printed from the Internet. But I recommend that you buy demo images of trees and shrubs that you can use later in other activities. They cost pennies, and you'll love the thick cardstock and large cards.
The thematic dictionary with pictures “Flowers, Trees” will also be useful in classes where it is necessary to learn about all the diversity of the plant world and depict it in the form of an application or drawing. These two manuals will provide invaluable assistance to the teacher both in the initial stages of preparation for creative work, and in the case of in-depth study of the subject.
And, of course, you need templates to work. For the little ones, you will need to cut them out yourself, leaving only small elements for cutting - you need to teach them to use scissors from an early age. Students will only have to glue the necessary elements. Older children will benefit from “patterns” to surround them on colored paper and then cut them out themselves.
Application “Autumn tree” in the middle group
The applique is made using an interesting technique, when the elements of the composition are made from paper scraps. For work, prepare a set of colored paper, pencil glue, colored pencils, and a tree template.
To make an application:
- On the background sheet, color the tree according to the template using colored pencils in different shades of brown.
- Take colored paper in red, yellow, and light green colors. Tear it into small pieces of arbitrary shape.
- Glue paper pieces in random order onto the tree branches to form a crown, and onto the bottom of the background to create the ground covered with fallen leaves.
Autumn trees
The next application is more complex. It can be done with elementary school children (2nd grade, 4th grade).
To make it you will need:
- Cardboard;
- Leg-split;
- Corrugated cardboard;
- Colored napkins in yellow and red colors;
- Scissors;
- PVA glue;
- Tree crowns of reduced shape.
Cut out several trunks from corrugated cardboard. Wrap one of them with twine.
Glue the trunks onto paper. Decorate them with spiral-twisted napkins and pieces of twine. Cut out a frame for the applique from cardboard. Glue decorated trees onto it. Let the application dry.
Job completed!
For more liveliness, you can use real dried leaves collected during a walk in the autumn forest for decoration. Then such a craft can be made for kindergarten, on the theme of applique from natural materials.
Application “Autumn Tree” in the senior group
To make a three-dimensional applique, take a set of colored paper, white or blue background cardboard, PVA glue, scissors, and a cut out template of a small maple leaf. The optimal template length is 3 cm.
To make an autumn applique:
- Cut out maple leaves according to the template: 10-12 pieces each in red, yellow, burgundy, light green, orange.
- From brown paper, cut out 6-8 strips 28-30 cm long and 1 cm wide.
- Having outlined with a pencil, cut out the tree trunk, only its lower part, without branches. It should be about 10 cm in height.
- Glue the trunk to the background cardboard sheet.
- Glue the strips to the top of the trunk, but not completely, but only one of their edges.
- Twist the strips into a spiral. Then glue their second free edge onto the background. You will get “curly” tree branches.
- Glue maple leaves on the branches in random order. Leave the application to dry.
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Paper is one of the most accessible materials; I really like working with it. What can't you make from paper?! It is used in various techniques: applique, paper-plastic, silhouette and symmetrical cutting, protruding, quilling, origami and others. Today we will focus on symmetrical paper cutting .
Silhouette and symmetrical cutting, like many other paper crafts, originated in China. There was a tradition there of decorating houses with carved silhouettes on New Year's Eve.
Chinese women tried to decorate the windows of their houses with beautiful paper cut-outs of the Year of the Snake pattern.
This tradition is now relevant in Russia too, with more and more families now decorating their windows with intricate cutouts.
Recently I talked about vytynanka, the art of paper cutting. Silhouette cutting has something in common with vytynanka, both are cut out of paper. Silhouette cutting differs in that the image is cut out by the continuous movement of scissors along the mentally created silhouette of the object.
Symmetrical cutting means that one part of the depicted object is symmetrical to the other, an imaginary plane divides the object in half, into two identical mirror halves (a leaf of a tree, the tree itself, a tulip or cornflower flower, a vase, a glass, a person, etc.).
Application “Autumn Tree” in the preparatory group
Completing this application is simple, but painstaking and will require perseverance and patience from the preschooler. The lesson develops imagination, introduces the possibilities of using scrap materials, and teaches how to sew buttons to fabric.
To make an applique, collect unnecessary buttons of different sizes, but be sure to be flat and painted in autumn colors: yellow, beige, ocher, red, red, brown, burgundy. Also for the background you need a piece of canvas, preferably a light shade.
Instructions for creating crafts:
- Cut out a tree from thick dark brown colored paper.
- Paste it onto the background. You can also draw the trunk and branches directly on the fabric with a brown felt-tip pen, but if you don’t have artistic skills, it’s better to do it using a template.
- Sew the buttons with matching threads to the top of the trunk, forming a lush crown.
The finished application turns out to be extremely beautiful and interesting, worthy of hanging on the wall in a prominent place in a frame.
Bright cockerel
Another applique on an autumn theme is the “Rooster” craft made from autumn leaves.
A bright applique using leaves of different trees will definitely please your child and is suitable for display in a kindergarten. To create it you will need:
- White sheet of cardboard;
- Colored paper;
- PVA glue;
- Scissors;
- Leaves;
- Ashberry.
- On the background (sheet of cardboard) draw a rooster (or glue a prepared clipping). Older guys can lay out the bird right away with leaves.
- Methodically glue leaves of different shapes, colors and shades to create the rooster's plumage.
- Cut out the eye and eyebrow from colored paper. The pupil will be a rowan berry.
- When all the parts are glued, place the finished applique under the press for several hours.
