Master class “Santa Claus's mitten. We make winter crafts and decorations with our own hands. We develop, communicate, educate.

14.10.2019

Zaichenko Natalya

New Year is such a mysterious and magical holiday! In anticipation of the holiday, creating and creating comfort is much more pleasant together with the whole family! Almost every one of us makes various New Year's paper crafts with our children on New Year's Eve, decorates the house or Christmas tree with craft toys, gives our works to family or friends, and some take part in various competitions. So we decided to take part in the city regional competition! Our work - " Santa's mitten"Took 2nd prize! The craft is made using the quilling technique. The quilling technique will allow you to realize almost any of your fantasies!

Material and tools:

stencil mittens

strips 0.5 cm, cut from red, white, pale pink and white paper

quilling awl or homemade quilling tool

ruler-template for quilling glue

ribbon, thread

Move work:

1. Prepared your preparation mittens(size mittens"you ask" yourself)

2. Prepare the entire instrument:

3. We draw colored paper and cut it into even strips (I drew on

computer)

4. We roll basic rolls from a strip of paper (you need a lot of them)

using a special tool. From the base roll we make

“drop” from which we will glue flowers for decoration

mittens(the pattern may be different and the number of “flowers” -

snowflakes "free"!

5. All blank parts are ready! Now along the contour lay out the mittens

"rolls" and glue them together, decorate with "flowers" - snowflakes!

6. This is such a beauty!

A simple but interesting craft with good developmental potential is the “Mitten” paper applique. Children from 3 to 5 years old will be happy to take part in its making, and for older children you can come up with more advanced versions of this bright picture postcard.

Craft mitten for children

As materials and tools, you will need a sheet of plain white printer paper, scissors, colored paper of several colors and a glue stick (or PVA glue, if the child is better at handling it). It is better to take double-sided colored paper; in the photo, tinted paper is bright and moderately thick).

Step 1. You need to fold a sheet of paper in half and draw a mitten on one half. The figure must be cut out as in the photo.

Step 2. Cut the colored paper into squares approximately 2x2 cm in size. In fact, the shape is not important: it can be circles, triangles or any other shapes.

Step 3: Have your child glue the squares to the inside of the card. If your artist is too young, help him handle the glue. By the way, you can apply glue to the card itself, or you can apply glue to each square, as you wish. The little one in the photo decided to paint the squares, but your little one may have a different opinion. Do not tell your child exactly how to glue the elements. It is important. Let it be his personal work, based on his own imagination.

As soon as the required half of the sheet is filled, the mitten is ready. You can leave it in the form of a postcard or glue the sheets together - you get a bright picture.

Craft Mitten: benefits for the child

The benefits for fine motor skills of the hands when working on any application are obvious, but how can the making of this craft be enriched with other developmental and educational moments?

First, use this time to reinforce your child's knowledge of colors. If your child has difficulty remembering a color or needs to learn a new shade (purple, light green), feel free to include it in your work.

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Has a kindergarten or school announced an exhibition of winter-themed crafts? Or do you just want to keep your little one busy with creativity on these cold days? In one material, we have collected for you 6 ideas for winter crafts from natural and scrap materials with step-by-step master classes, a selection of 60 photos and videos.

Idea 1. Tabletop diorama with a winter theme

A tabletop diorama will allow you and your baby to show off all your talents - from modeling to design. Moreover, using a variety of materials and objects: branches, cones, toys (for example, from Kinder Surprise eggs), plasticine, salt dough, cardboard, cotton wool and much more.

First of all, you need to come up with a plot for your diorama and plan the composition. You can recreate any of your fantasies or be inspired by our selection of topics with photos and small tips on making crafts.

Topic 1. “Winter in the forest”

The craft is made of polystyrene foam and plasticine. You can also make a bear from polymer clay or salt dough

If in kindergarten or school you were given the task of making a winter craft from natural materials, then you can use pine cones. They make excellent Christmas trees, owls, deer, squirrels and hedgehogs for the winter forest. By the way, we just have several master classes on making them

Want to make a simple craft more effective? Just light it up with an LED garland! To embed light bulbs in cardboard, you need to make cross-shaped cuts in it.

This winter forest is made entirely of felt. Animal figurines can be placed on fingers

Topic 2. “Winter House”

A favorite theme at winter craft exhibitions. The house can be surrounded by a forest or a courtyard with paths, a gate, a rowan tree, a skating rink and a snowman. And the hut itself can be beautiful not only outside, but also inside.

This video tutorial shows a simple and quick way to make winter crafts from natural materials, namely twigs and pine cones.

Topic 3. “Christmas in a village/town”

If you build a couple of houses and connect them with beautiful streets, you will have a whole village or town.

The easiest way to make houses is from paper, or rather from printed templates that you just need to cut out, paint and glue. The following video presents a step-by-step master class on making such a craft.

Topic 4. “The North Pole and its inhabitants”

Want to make a more original craft? We suggest making a diorama on the theme of the North Pole.

To make such a craft, download and print the templates (click on the picture to download), transfer them to cardboard, then cut, connect and paint the parts

Topic 5. “Winter fun”

A craft on the theme of winter fun illustrates all the joys of winter. For example, sledding, making snowmen or playing snowballs. Lego men (pictured below), Kinder Surprise egg figurines and any small toys are well suited for recreating winter scenes. You can also make little people with your own hands from plasticine or polymer clay.

Topic 6. Winter sports

Another very original craft idea is a diorama on the theme of skiing, figure skating, hockey, bobsleigh, and snowboarding. By the way, the Olympics in Sochi can serve as inspiration and a model for modeling.

To make these ski figures, download, print, color and cut out the templates (click on the picture to download the templates), then glue a toothpick to the hands of the men, and a popsicle stick to the legs.

Topic 7. Scenes from fairy tales

Choose your favorite fairy tale and recreate one of its episodes. For example, this could be the fairy tale “12 Months”, “The Snow Queen”, “Morozko”, “The Nutcracker”, “At the Command of the Pike”.

Everything in this craft on the theme of the fairy tale “At the Command of the Pike” is molded from plasticine and only the mill is assembled from matches

To make such a craft, you need to cut several holes in a piece of plywood and insert tree branches into them

This composition is dedicated to the theme of the ballet “The Nutcracker”. The figures in it are made of... clothespins. Unfortunately, clothespins with a round top are not sold in Russia, but you can order them on the Aliexpress website or use regular ones

From this video you will learn how to make a winter craft with your own hands based on the fairy tale “At the Order of the Pike.”

Idea 2. Skating rink with a controlled figure

The originality of this winter craft is that the skater can be smoothly “rolled on the ice” by moving a magnet along the back of the box.

What you need:

A shallow tin can for cookies, tea, etc.
Paper;
Paints and brushes, pencils or markers;
Paperclip or coin;
Glue;
Magnet.

How to do it:

Step 1. Decorate the tin box so that it resembles an ice skating rink: paint the bottom with blue and white paint and cover with clear varnish (glitter nail polish works well), you can place garlands and flags on top of the box, and snow-covered trees on the sides.

Step 2. Draw a figure of a girl or boy skating on thick paper or cardboard, then cut it out and glue it to a coin or paperclip.

Step 3. Attach a magnet to the back of the box. Voila, the skating rink is ready!

Idea 3. Painting made with prints

Drawing pictures with fingerprints, handprints, and even toes is a lot of fun, especially for preschoolers. All you need is imagination, gouache and a sheet of paper! In the following selection of photos you can see examples of such drawings.

Idea 4. Mini Christmas tree made of paper

Another winter craft idea for little ones is paper Christmas trees. They are made very easily and quickly, and you can use them in any way you like: as decoration for the same diorama, applique for a New Year's card or panel, for decorating a garland or Christmas tree.

What you need:

A sheet of green paper and some brown paper for the trunk;
Glue stick;
Scissors;
Sequins, rhinestones, beads and other decorations for the Christmas tree.

Step 1. Make a square from a sheet of green paper by folding one corner of the sheet as shown in the photo and cutting out the excess.

Step 2. Cut one of the short sides of the triangle into equal narrow strips, not reaching the fold about 1 cm (see photo above).

Step 3. Now straighten your workpiece and begin gluing the ends of the strips to the center fold line one by one, moving from bottom to top.

Step 4. Once you have secured all the stripes, fold and glue the bottom corner of the tree to the top. Next, in the same place, but on the reverse side, glue a small rectangle (tree trunk) cut out of brown paper.

Step 5. Decorate the tree with colorful beads, sparkles, buttons and other decor. If you wish, you can make several of these trees, glue loops to them, and then assemble a garland or decorate a real tree with crafts.

Idea 5. Snow globe... or rather a jar

Now we propose to make a real souvenir with your own hands - a variation of a snow globe. True, it will be made from an ordinary glass jar. The child can give the craft to a loved one, present it at a winter crafts competition, or simply leave it on the shelf for beauty.

What you need:

Glass jar with lid;
A piece of foam;
Glue (hot or “Moment”);
Acrylic paint for decorating the lid (optional);
Artificial snow or just sea salt, sugar, finely grated white soap or polyethylene foam;
Figurines that will be placed in a jar;
Foam balls or any white beads;
Fishing line;
Needle.

How to do it:

Step 1: Repaint the lid the desired color and leave to dry. In this project, spray paint was used to remake the lid.

Step 2. While the paint is drying, let's make a “snowfall”. To do this, you need to string several foam balls onto a fishing line threaded into a needle. Use tape to attach the snowflakes to the jar.

Step 3. Trace the bottom of the jar directly onto the foam, then use a knife to cut the resulting circle out of it. This circle will become the basis for the figures.

Step 4. Glue your figures to the foam circle, then glue the resulting composition to the bottom of the jar.

Step 5. Pour artificial or homemade snow into the jar, close it with a lid with snowflakes and enjoy the view of a winter fairy tale.

Idea 6. New Year card

There are never enough New Year cards, so we suggest making a few together with your child.

What you need:

A sheet of white paper;
A sheet of colored paper;
Scissors;
Glue stick;
Markers.

How to do it:

Step 1. Fold a sheet of white accordion paper three times so that each top accordion layer is smaller in width than the previous one.

Step 2. Straighten your accordion, cut the sheet diagonally and slightly in waves as shown in the photo above, then assemble the accordion again. You have the slope of a snow-covered mountain.

Step 3. Now take a sheet of colored paper, glue the blank onto it and cut off the excess. Hooray! The postcard is almost ready.