Spring is coming into its own everywhere. The sun is shining brighter, the first flowers are blooming, and in some places the first grass has already grown. Project participants "Weekend with your favorite book" We also felt the warm breath of spring and created spring crafts with our children: flowers and a rainbow. I hope that this wave of inspiration will penetrate every home and your creative activities with children will become bright and warm in spring.
Rainbow-arc
We made a rainbow out of paper. We needed double-sided colored paper, glue, pencils and markers, and scissors. Jaromir cut colored double-sided paper in rainbow colors into strips of equal width but different lengths. The purple stripe is the longest, the red stripe is the shortest. Then I glued the strips together at both ends. Red with orange, then with yellow, etc. The result was a three-dimensional rainbow. The son drew a lake on a piece of paper and threw a rainbow across the lake (glued it to the drawing). We signed the craft “Rainbow-arc”.
Jaromir 4.5 years old and mother Anastasia Kalinkova, St. Petersburg.
Hydrangea and gerbera
We made flower crafts from the lids of bags of fruit puree. We have a lot of colorful caps. So I decided to invite my son to make a flower from them. He himself selected the lids with holes. I took out a string, my son deftly strung the lids onto the string and got so carried away that he began stringing the juice straw as well. At first she gave in quite easily, but somewhere in the middle things stalled. The child became nervous, I had to help. At the end of the rope we tied something like a knot. So we got a stem, but it couldn’t support such a massive inflorescence.
Mom suggested we think about the vase. This is how a glass with a handle appeared. The son made the leaves from green paper, simply tearing it, crumpling it a little and putting it in a glass vase. And then the son proudly ran around the apartment and showed everyone his flower. Most likely we got hydrangea!
The youngest daughter made her flower a little earlier. The result is a graphic flower made from a pyramid. Most of all it reminded me of gerbera.
Oksana Demidova, son Fedya, 4 years old, and daughter Anya, 1 year and 5 months old, St. Petersburg.
My son's choice fell on voluminous flowers made from multi-layered petals. Taking double-sided colored paper, Misha traced circles and cut them out. Folded in half and in half again, then I drew the outline of the cutting and now the first petals are ready. He found the sequential gluing very interesting, when the flower immediately becomes alive and voluminous.
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For the cores, we used the remains of rhinestones that I once used to embroider a picture, and a glue gun. The stems are made from cocktail tubes and complemented with leaves of colored paper. We decorated the jar with material from flower packaging and our little bouquet is ready.
Svetlana Radionova and son Mikhail, 7 years old. Saint Petersburg.
For this bouquet you will need double-sided colored paper, scissors and glue. Take a green sheet of paper, fold it in half and cut the “noodles” with scissors, leaving about 2 cm at the bottom edge. Then we roll up the sheet, glue it together and straighten the resulting “grass”.
Then we cut out flowers from multi-colored double-sided colored paper, draw hearts with them and glue them onto our grass in any order. That's all. The bouquet is ready, you can give it to your mother!
Jaromir 4.5 years old and mother Anastasia Kalinkova, St. Petersburg.
Carnations
We made a bouquet of carnations. To make flowers we needed:
- napkins (white and green);
- markers;
- wire.
We take several white napkins, fasten them with a clothespin so that they don’t move apart, draw a circle and cut them out. Next, use a felt-tip pen to carefully color the edges. We insert a wire into the center of the flower and secure it. For flowers, my husband gave us braided copper wire. You need to clean the tip so that it is sharper, pierce the napkins and bend it with pliers. It is enough to make a small hook. Since the napkins are folded in several layers, they seem to hold this hook themselves, and you don’t have to be particularly sophisticated.
Spring has made itself felt: the days are becoming longer, brighter, more rosy, and thanks to all this, the mood is improving. At least the days are becoming “rosier”, i.e. They delight you with different bright and sunny colors; the opportunity to see the rainbow itself, which usually happens after rain, most likely has not yet presented itself.
But for children, a rainbow is something incredible, something that evokes an insane amount of bright emotions! In addition, this is a reason to gain new knowledge and have a great time.
Here are some interesting ideas on how to make your own rainbow, real and not so real.
Real rainbow
(the simplest option)Will need:
glass prism;
paper;
Sun.
You need to find a sunny place (near a window in sunny weather or outside). Then position the prism so that the light hits it and passes through the sheet of paper. We look at the rainbow, rotate the prism, move the rainbow closer and further away from the sheet of paper.
A real rainbow. Option No. 2
(not such a simple option, but also not at all difficult)
Required:
a glass of water, three-quarters full;
paper;
Sun.
As in the previous experiment, we need to find a sunny place and do the same thing, but here a glass of water will serve as a prism for us. Light rays will be refracted in it in the same way as in a prism.
Rainbow on CD
It is very simple and probably familiar to everyone - to see a rainbow on a CD. You just need to expose the disk to the sun's rays. A rainbow will appear on the disc itself.You can make many different “rainbows” yourself: draw, cut, glue, sew!
Rainbow collage
(for children from 4-5 years old)Will need:
paints;
a piece of cardboard;
a large number of multi-colored (at least roughly rainbow-colored) pieces of fabric and paper;
buttons;
ribbons;
pieces of foam;
foil;
beads.
Cut out a semicircle from cardboard. Let's color it like a rainbow.
Thickly coat the painted surface with glue.
Carefully lay out or pour small pieces onto stripes of the rainbow of the corresponding color: red buttons and pieces of paper - on red, yellow - on yellow, etc.
Advice: It’s more convenient to apply glue to a strip of one color, decorate it, wait until the glue dries, and only then apply glue to the next strip. This way, if your child throws out the decorations sloppily, they won’t stick to the “wrong” color.
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