Unique crafts
Children of primary school and senior preschool age are already able to show their imagination and manual dexterity and create individual, unique crafts. In this case, you can use the following traffic light design techniques:
- quilling or twisting. This type of technique involves rolling up colorful strips of paper, in this case creating an original look for traffic signals. For many, this will seem difficult at first, but with the care and experience of a teacher or educator, any child can handle this technique.
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- trimming. Twisting also takes place here, but the work is more painstaking. Thin strips of colored paper are wound onto a pen shaft and then glued onto the template. You will need as many rolled paper strips as possible so that when gluing there are no gaps between them.
Traffic light from packages
The option is a little more complicated, but quite interesting.
Required:
- Bags (can be trash or cellophane)
- Scissors
- Plastic cover
- A thread
Progress:
- You need to fold the bags into an even stack, carefully cut off the bottom and top from them to get even rectangles. Cut them into even strips.
- Next, take a plastic lid and cut out two rings from it. We put them next to each other and wrap the polo with nets. Then we cut everything along the outer edge, push the rings apart and tie the pom-poms with thread. Trim the edges to make the pompoms even.
- We should end up with three pompoms of different colors. You need to connect them together with a thread. And our traffic light is ready.
- Very funny crafts can also be made from disks; you can crochet a traffic light, or you can simply make one from balls of thread. Much depends on your imagination, and there will always be enough available means.
For the little ones
The materials for such a traffic light will be the simplest, depending on what you plan to make the traffic light from. It could be simple paper, yellow, red and green leaves of trees from the park, pieces of colored fabrics. Tools can also be thread and a needle, glue, cardboard, leather, etc.
We will be making paper appliqué for children in junior kindergarten groups, therefore, we will need the following items:
- a piece of cardboard;
- colored paper - green, yellow, red and black;
- glue.
For kids, it’s better to prepare in advance a template for the shape of the traffic light itself and the circles for its lights, so that it won’t be difficult for the children in the process of making the craft and the result will be exactly the option we had in mind.
The technique for performing such a craft is as simple as it sounds. You can simply stick the colored circles in the desired sequence onto the prepared cardboard. You can complicate the task slightly and cover a cardboard rectangle with black paper and attach circles on top of it to make the craft more realistic.
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Original traffic light ideas
To make an original traffic light, it can be made from threads:
- The threads are wound around a balloon coated with glue.
- When the threads dry on the ball, it is deflated and a ball of threads is obtained.
- Three balls are glued together to make a snowman.
- In place of the buttons, multi-colored circles made of paper or bottle caps are glued. The top ball is the head of a snowman, acting as a traffic light. You can put a cap made of paper on it and glue on eyes, a nose and a mouth.
- Ping-pong balls can also be turned into traffic lights if you paint them in different colors and glue them together. A cap is put on the top ball.
- Glue eyes and a mouth on each ball.
- The expression on the face changes depending on the color of the ball.
Colors in the shape of a dog or cat's face
- Cut out the base for the traffic light from black cardboard.
- We cut out circles from white paper in order to stick the faces of a cat or dog on them.
- We glue the circles onto a black blank.
- We make animal faces from a square sheet of colored paper. To do this, bend the sheet in the middle twice to get a triangle. The edges are folded to form ears.
- We bend the bottom of the workpiece into the middle to form a muzzle. Glue eyes from white paper and draw pupils. Using a marker, draw a mouth and nose, mustache and eyebrows. But you need to draw different facial expressions in animals. If the dog or cat is red, then they must be angry. The yellow animal has a neutral facial expression. And green is fun.
- Glue the faces onto the white circles.
Important! For the dog, the front side obtained by bending the triangle is used, and for the cat, the wrong side is used.
Using quilling technique
The quilling technique itself is simple, but you need to tell and show children how curls are made.
To do this, you need to cut colored paper into strips 1 cm wide and wrap them as tightly as possible around a pencil, and glue the edge to the spiral.
When the required number of curls is ready, you can glue them to the created template.
The shape of the windows for light in traffic lights can be different. But it needs to be completely filled with glued parts.
Important! The main criterion in creating a traffic light craft is that the colors on it should be in the same order as on a real traffic light. While the children are doing the craft, they must remember the exact location of the colors of the traffic lights and know which color they can cross the road with.
