Craft paper mitten. Master class on making paper applique "Mitten" (preparatory group)
For the successful versatile development of the child, activities for the development of fine motor skills of the hands are of great importance. One of the types of such activities are colored paper applications, the templates for which were developed by methodologists, taking into account the characteristics of the age groups of preschoolers.
It is important that the complexity of the task corresponds to the age of the child, that the classes are carried out systematically, gradually becoming more difficult, and take place under the supervision and with the help of adults.
What is the use of template applications for development
Paper applications- the creative process through which children learn the world and acquire many skills. In addition to the development of fine motor skills of the hands, this is coordination of movements, the study of colors and their combinations, the concept of composition, acquaintance with various materials and textures, the development of observation, imagination and fantasy.
Working on the application in a team contributes to organization, endurance, accuracy. It is also necessary to note the development of spatial imagination: while doing applique, children create a whole from several components and, conversely, learn to divide the whole into parts.
Scientists have proven that in the cerebral cortex, the center responsible for fine motor skills, located next to the speech center and promotes the development of speech skills.
Types of applications according to the template
There are three main types of applications:
- subject - the cut parts have a simple, clear shape and proportions, an image is created that is not associated with any plot;
- plot-thematic - correspondence to a certain plot (taken from a fairy tale or invented independently);
- decorative - decoration of postcards, photo frames with patterns of geometric shapes.
Simple applications for children 2-3 years old
Simple applications from colored paper using templates, you can practice from 2 years old. However, some experts believe that children from 1 year old can also perform feasible tasks.
The initial lessons are gluing pieces of paper on a sheet in any form. At this stage, the child must understand and remember the basic actions: spread, turn over, attach, smooth. The process itself attracts kids so far, they will strive for the result later.
At the second level of complexity, templates are used. The child must also place the elements randomly, but within the contour, and a certain image appears.
Application template from colored paper "Hedgehog" A template is a schematic image of a future picture, drawn or printed on a printer. Simple patterns for colored paper applications can be, for example, a Christmas tree with balls, a tree with apples and others.
For such work, you need to prepare elements: balls, apples, etc. The child must determine for himself how to place them on the templates.
Application template "Palm tree" 
Application template "Flower" For young children, it will be interesting to perform a simple breakaway application. The kid watches how the adult tears the paper into long strips, then he tears them into pieces. These pieces need to fill the contour. 
If the child wants to tear the paper himself, then these uneven, awkward strips can also be used to make an application, for example, grass. Ants are drawn with finger paints.
Further, the task becomes more complicated: you need to hit the element on specific place template or drawn outline. So, with the help of cut out circles, an image of a caterpillar is made. At this stage, children are interested not only in the process, but also in the result. 
When making applications from colored paper using patterns and contours with children under 3 years old, prepared cut-out elements are used.
A three-year-old child can already be taught how to work with scissors with rounded ends.
At the same time, it is necessary to explain how to properly hold scissors and paper so as not to get hurt. You need to start with straight cuts, then work out the bends and roundings.
At this age, children are already able to create simple plot pictures. The elements glued onto the template allow you to create a specific image.
The background for the application can be a drawn contour with partially drawn elements. For example, children can populate a template aquarium with algae and stones at the bottom with inhabitants: fish, jellyfish, etc.
An interesting activity can be the connection and gluing of the cut picture. If the child copes with such a task easily, it is recommended to complicate it: add raindrops to the umbrella, glue windows to the house with an attached roof. Such activities develop fantasy, observation, a sense of proportion.
Applications for children 4-5 years old
At this age, colored paper applications and patterns for them become more difficult. Preparing, together with an adult, elements for a future picture, the child shows more independence: he cuts out, selects colors and, thus, gets an idea about the composition.
This activity develops logical thinking, allows you to show creative inclinations.
For children 4-5 years old, making postcards is an exciting activity, which they then give to their parents and friends.
The base is folded in half and elements are glued inside the card, forming a plot picture.
The templates developed by experts are only examples to indicate the direction of work.
Parents and educators can contribute their ideas. For example, the use of a cut-out contour of a baby’s palm in an application - such pictures cause amazement and delight in children.
Applications with a palm The application technique from one circles reveals for the child the relationship of parts and the whole.
Developing the creative imagination of the child, you should show him various methods of working with paper: for example, fold it in the form of an accordion. For such a picture, you need to prepare the base, apply the contours. The gluing process is also complicated. 
Complex applications for children 6-7 years old
Children of senior preschool and primary school age already have certain skills.
Applications from colored paper using templates during this period help to further develop fine motor skills, thinking, memory and concentration, and the ability to plan one's activities is developed.
An important circumstance is that the child foresees the final result of his work. 
At this age, children consolidate the skill of cutting out individual details and solid silhouettes, symmetrical elements from paper folded in half, as well as the ability to create compositions and correctly arrange their individual parts on the basis.
At this stage, children learn color combinations, analyze and compare details. The texture of the material also becomes diverse: in addition to ordinary colored paper, crepe (“crumpled”), highlighted (glossy), textured (embossed or imitating velvet), and foil are used.
During this period, you can move on to voluminous symmetrical compositions. 
To perform such a task, templates (clouds, Balloons) are cut out in the usual way. Next, two identical templates are folded in the center and fastened together (can be sewn). Prepared elements are glued to the base.
To make a three-dimensional bird, the template is folded in half and glued together, except for the wings, which are folded along the dotted line. 
The result obtained can be glued with one side and a wing on the base (in the form of an appliqué) or turned into a craft by tying it to a thread and hanging it on a twig. 
Having learned the basics of composition at the previous stages, children of 6-7 years old are able to create whole pictures - landscapes, still lifes, using ready-made templates for applications from colored paper or making them with the help of a teacher or parents.
Applications using a disposable plate
Disposable plates are a convenient material with which you can create original and beautiful compositions. Made of polystyrene or cardboard, in different colors, with different embossed patterns, they can be both the basis for the application and the elements for it. 
Children can be involved in making applications from colored paper on a disposable plate using templates. younger age. On a prepared colored background, children arrange simple elements in the form of a pattern.
A more complicated option is to use two or more colors for the background and more complex elements. Children 6-7 years old already make thematic compositions on plates or use them as material for individual elements.
Examples of gradually becoming more complex applications on plates: 
Combined applications
When making applications from colored paper, patterns can be diversified by combining various materials.
Grain applications
This type of application can be done even with small children. The algorithm of work is as follows: an adult applies glue to the prepared drawing, the child pours grits on it and presses it lightly with his finger. 
The remaining non-glued grains must be shaken off. Such an activity brings up attentiveness and accuracy in a child.
Older children can use different types croup. In this case, the glue is applied alternately to individual sections. For the colorfulness of the picture, it is recommended to pre-tint the grits with gouache in different colors. As a template, you can take your own drawing of the child, this stimulates him, inspires him.
Button applications
To run this application, you need preliminary preparation. Having studied the drawing and choosing colors, the child, with the help of adults, selects buttons that are suitable in color and size. Then you should lay them out in a drawing to represent the desired result, and proceed with gluing. 
For younger children who do not yet possess the necessary skills, you can apply a pattern according to the template on a layer of plasticine - the child will attach the buttons by pressing. This technique is applicable when working with cereals.
For combined applications, cotton wool, napkins, eggshell, natural materials - leaves, petals, seeds and much more.
Multi-layer applications
Multi-layer (overhead) applications of colored paper or other materials are made using templates designed or made independently.
This work develops spatial imagination, brings up aesthetic taste. They are made of paper, fabric, leather, felt - the main thing is that the edges of the material do not crumble. 
Multilayer applications, like other varieties, come in varying degrees of complexity. For little ones, this is a simple gluing of parts on top of each other. By pinning elements from only one edge, you can create a three-dimensional effect.
More complex appliqués are characterized by more detail and require good scissor skills, a sense of proportion and color.
Older children, with well-developed fine motor skills of their hands, who have the skills to make complex details, create real works of art - unusual compositions and even portraits. Light and shade effects give them a special brilliance.
Multilayer application is already a truly creative process in which the imagination and artistic abilities of the child are manifested. It is necessary to think over the image, color scheme, sequence of actions, so such work implies a certain level of intelligence.
Applications from pieces
Applications from cut or torn pieces of colored paper using templates are a fairly simple look, even small children can do them. A drawing must be applied to the base sheet. In addition to ready-made templates, you can use children's coloring pages or come up with a sketch yourself.
The production of appliqué elements is carried out together with the child - small children are happy to tear the paper into pieces. If you already have scissor skills, you can allow these elements to be cut out.
An important detail: the younger the child, the larger the fragments should be.
After choosing the right colors, you can start gluing. Glue is applied not to small parts, but to the template, in sections.
When working with kids, this process is carried out by an adult, older children themselves apply glue with a brush. When gluing pieces of paper, the child must exactly fall into the contour.
A kind of appliqué from pieces is trimming. This technique is quite complicated, but for children 6-7 years old it is quite capable, especially when teamwork.
To master the technique of facing, teachers and parents are offered master classes on this topic.
Autumn themed applications
The bright colors of autumn make it possible to create colorful pictures of autumn nature. For applications on this topic, both colored paper and natural materials are used: multi-colored leaves, petals of late flowers, seeds, spikelets, twigs and other objects. 
When making applications on the autumn theme from colored paper according to templates and in a free composition, the main attributes are preserved - flowers, mushrooms, fruits, acorns, tree silhouettes are cut and painted. Mandatory component - autumn leaves.
When working with natural material, you need to prepare it. The collected leaves must first be leveled and dried under pressure. If the leaf needs to be given any shape, then a fresh leaf is used for this, which is then dried.
For collages and mosaic paintings, you can prepare cardboard templates on which elements are glued. 
Autumn nature is fertile ground for the flight of children's imagination. Leaves appliqués, placed in a photo frame, will decorate any interior.
Autumn lanterns will also be a spectacular decoration. To do this, a glass vessel is glued on the outside with multi-colored leaves (paper or natural), a small candle is placed inside.
Winter themed applications
To create winter and, in particular, New Year's applications, any of the described techniques is used, depending on the age of the children.
The most common type of winter applications are snowflakes - this is a subspecies of silhouette-type applications. It is recommended to fold the sheet correctly, cut off the edge and sharp corner, it is recommended to make cuts first on plain paper - this is how the skill is developed.
In addition, pendants made of such snowflakes decorate the room. Thin, airy snowflakes can be stuck on windows and other surfaces. 
For young children, it is better to prepare templates (circles with an outline) and make a broken snowflake from pieces. For flat, voluminous, multi-layered snowflakes, it is required to prepare patterns for cutting.
To make a traditional Christmas tree, kids use green paper triangles, a snowman is made from white circles, a teacher or parent helps to complete the application with details. 
Older children can be invited to make a Christmas tree from strips of paper or create a picture of a winter forest using templates using small pieces of paper or cotton wool. 
A Christmas tree made of paper balls looks bright and voluminous. For this, a template and elements are made of crepe paper. The main color is dark green, multi-colored balls are made for the garland.
An interesting application with the image of winter accessories allows children to show their creative imagination.
Hats and mittens can be decorated with any ornament, animal figurines, winter pictures, beads or rhinestones.
Cotton wool is used to imitate fur. 
Using a disposable plate, you can make a polar bear mask craft. Holes are cut out in the plate - eyes, the surface is pasted over with pieces of paper, a disposable cup is used for the nose. 
Senior preschoolers and elementary school students are able, under the guidance of adults, to create complex winter landscapes using mixed media. 
Spring themed applications
Snowdrops and lilies of the valley, starlings and flowering trees - these signs of spring are traditionally used in children's colored paper applications using templates. The smallest perform simple tasks, placing prepared elements on the contours. The same images can be complicated by adding pictures of spring nature. 
More complex compositions - voluminous, multi-layered, with a large number of elements - are created by children who have the skills to work with glue, scissors, a brush and use different techniques. 
Lilacs in a vase of cereals, a spring picture in the technique of drawing and application - these and many other ideas are offered by specialists to parents and educators for developing activities with children. 
The application is visual activity. Having achieved desired result, the child experiences aesthetic pleasure, thereby joining the world of beauty, the world of art. A simple and accessible way for children to create artwork makes applique one of the favorite types of educational activities with children.
You can create a New Year's atmosphere with products self made cut out of paper. They are called vytynanki, which means "cuttings". Here you can find silhouettes of New Year's heroes: Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, snowmen, gnomes, various Christmas trees, balls and bells, snowflakes, snow-covered houses, figures of deer and cute animals.
Today we offer you stencils of New Year's vytynanok of various subjects. Let's be inspired by the actions of the masters and ready-made works to decorate windows, Christmas trees, postcards, New Year's scenes. These templates are easy to print on a sheet of white paper, cut out and stick on the window with soapy water, or fixed in other corners of the New Year's interior.
Small bulges can decorate a window or create a composition on a windowsill or table, larger cutouts can decorate walls in a room or on a stage.
These are the images you can get:
Stencils for vytynanok silhouette clipping Snow Maiden and Santa Claus:
Choose your favorite stencil with the image of Santa Claus and his granddaughter. As a tool, you can use thin scissors, stationery knives, you will definitely need a lining board so as not to scratch the table.
Vytynanka tree
You can cut a Christmas tree using a stencil as a silhouette, or you can make a symmetrical cutout by folding a sheet of paper in half. We make a standing Christmas tree in one of the ways: we glue two symmetrical Christmas trees on an oval paper stand, or we fold each Christmas tree in half and glue it together.
Snowflakes and ballerinas
Snowflakes are very different. Especially if the master will apply all his imagination. So, you can cut out a symmetrical snowflake by folding the paper several times. See what pattern was applied in the form of a stencil and what an unusual tip the snowflakes have.
Inside the snowflake there can be a completely independent composition. For example, a New Year's snowman or a snowy forest.
Snowflakes can take the form of light snow ballerinas. To do this, we cut out the silhouette of a ballerina separately, put an openwork snowflake on it and hang it by a thread. It turns out a very delicate air decoration.
Christmas balls
Christmas decorations can be cut out both in a symmetrical pattern and in an individual stencil. These decorations can be added to the composition on the window, dressed up for the Christmas tree, attached with threads to a chandelier or curtain.
bells
We make carved bells on a stencil. If translucent paper, such as tracing paper, is glued on the inside of the cutout, then such a bell can be used with a backlight effect.
Reindeer, sleigh, wagon
Another fabulous New Year's hero is a deer. The delivery of the wizard Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden is connected with him. We offer stencils for carving deer, carts and sleighs.
snowmen
Charming good-natured snowmen must decorate the New Year's house. Their figures are simply cut out symmetrically, or you can make a “family photo of Snowmen” or a composition with a Christmas tree and children.
Numbers of the New Year
you can cut beautiful numbers New Year's Eve using these templates:
Animals, signs and symbols
You can make a custom Christmas decoration. To do this, cut out paper silhouettes of your favorite pets, heroes of fairy tales and cartoons, birds and animals in a fabulous winter forest.
Cut out the figures of the sun and moon using stencils, complete your composition.
snow covered houses
It will be very cozy if there is a snow-covered house in the New Year's picture on the window. It can be a small hut or a whole palace.
Children
Who is waiting for the New Year and Santa Claus the most? Well, of course, children! With the help of silhouette paper cutting, we make figurines of kids near the Christmas tree, with gifts, singing and dancing, in a word, we bring the true atmosphere of the holiday!
Candle
We offer options for vytynanok - candles. They can be independent or combined with balls, bells, branches and bows.
Nativity
By Christmas, you can cut out thematic vytynanki dedicated to the events and circumstances of this event. It can be the silhouettes of Jerusalem, images of angels, shepherds and magicians. And don't forget the Star of Bethlehem!
You can separately cut out the silhouette of the Star of Bethlehem:
The central place among the Christmas vytynanok should certainly be given to the Nativity crib - the cave in which the Savior was born. The nursery of the Divine Child is comfortably surrounded by hay and domestic animals.
Illuminated composition
Openwork paper cutouts can decorate not only the window, but also create a three-dimensional panorama on the windowsill. It will be especially effective if you put a garland or a small backlight inside the box.
Take care of the design Christmas decorations- vytynanok out of paper with the children. This is not only useful for developing imagination, training fine motor skills of the hands, but will also give you a lot of pleasure from joint creativity, and then from contemplating the resulting beauty!
There are still three weeks before everyone’s favorite holiday, but it’s worth starting preparing for it now: think over the menu, entertainment program and, of course, decorate everything around! Why did our choice today fall on mittens? Abroad, the symbol of Christmas is socks hanging by the fireplace, in which Santa Claus leaves gifts - well, our Santa Claus is more like mittens. It is easy to sew them yourself from felt or an old sweater, and unnecessary gloves themselves can be turned into Stuffed Toys. And we will also make postcards, applications and other interesting things. Join now!
DIY postcards
Nowadays, you will not surprise anyone even the most beautiful New Year's card from the store. To make a really memorable greeting, you need to put a little creativity into an ordinary piece of cardboard and turn it into an interesting holiday card.
There are many options: you can cut out mittens from colored paper or colorful flannel using a stencil, and then decorate a cardboard card with them. You can fold a sheet of cardboard in half and give it the shape of a mitten - so that new year greetings they will appear, as it were, in two “palms” (and if the fold is made on the other side, the thumbs form a heart). A postcard with a hiding place will turn out if you glue two cardboard halves of the mitten (or sew them with beautiful woolen threads over the edge), leaving the “elastic band” that falls on the wrist free: inside you can hide both always up-to-date banknotes, as well as tickets to the cinema, theater, circus etc.
Such postcards-mittens can be decorated with markers or paints, decorated with embroidery and ribbons, beads and buttons, foil and natural materials- as the fantasy tells. For work, it is worth stocking up in advance with cardboard and paper, PVA glue and scissors, colored threads and various trifles for decoration. To make a template, you can put a real mitten on your hand and circle it. As an option - draw by hand or copy from the Internet.
Mitten as decoration
With the onset of cold weather, one can often come across such a picture: a bright mitten hangs alone on the branches of trees or shrubs, lost by the owner and carefully hung out for viewing by some passerby. Of course, it is difficult to call it an ornament - it is more like a "lost and found". But here in the festive decor of the home and the New Year's tree, mittens can be very useful!
And it’s not so important what they will be made of: cut out of cardboard, sewn from scraps of fabric or baked from salt dough and painted - each option has its own advantages. Lightweight cardboard will not damage even a small Christmas tree, and crafts from it are easy to fix in other places with adhesive tape. Fabric mittens look more elegant, plus, like in a vase, you can put a Christmas “herbarium” of twigs and berries, as well as tangerines, sweets, nuts, some inserts with wishes or New Year’s riddles ... Crafts from salt dough cannot be distinguished from real cookies , so they look quite cozy in the decor. The main thing is not to confuse :)
Applications from "gloves"
Simple and original: take colored paper, turn it over with the colored side on the table, put the palm of your hand and circle it with a pencil. Then we cut out the stencil, and repeat the procedure many more times - until we get a lot of figures of different colors. As practice shows, quite interesting applications are obtained from them: a Christmas tree with toys, a snowman or Santa Claus with a bag of gifts. You can fix your palms on a painted wall using double-sided tape, or on whatman paper - however, you can draw these same prints on it by dipping your hands in paint.
glove toys
Most often in the pantry we keep old things that we no longer wear - but which we still hope to use “for household purposes” one day. Well, why shouldn't it happen today? Find gloves among your supplies and, armed with scissors and a needle and thread, sew funny soft toys out of them. By the way, in some needlework shops you can find similar crafts made from mittens or socks, which connoisseurs contemporary art lively dismantled for souvenirs.
All you need is to find a pattern of a suitable little animal on the net and slightly change the gloves (not only moms and dads who are far from sewing, but also children can handle this). It remains to stuff cotton wool or synthetic winterizer into ready-made "skins" of giraffes, octopuses, cubs or elephants. The last stage of metamorphosis is to sew bead noses and button eyes on toys. The mouth can be designed in different ways: embroidered in the form of a smiley face or a toothy Hollywood smile, supplemented with a pink ribbon tongue. By the way, if you decide to make an octopus with children, do not forget to embroider its tentacles with beads on the underside - this way it will be even more realistic!
Event calendar
Only the lazy one still talked about this Western tradition, which is slowly taking root with us. Usually, the event calendar is started from December 1, but, in principle, it can be started in the middle of the month. What you need it for, you probably know: each mitten (sock, envelope, box) hung on a garland and has its own number - according to the number of the December calendar. Sweet gifts are placed inside to maintain the pre-holiday mood, as well as tasks for preparing for the new year for the current day. Sometimes such "pendants" are cut off after a day, but somehow this does not add much beauty. Therefore, lovers of this method of counting the days until the new year suggest the following: take a nice clothespin and simply hang it every morning on a new “number”.
delicious mittens
It is known that on New Year's Eve, the housewives, excuse me, are not in the mood for cookies: here you will crumble the “Olivier” and wind the hairpins ... You can treat children and households with fragrant glazed pastries with “winter” motives right now, because the main part of the holiday is his expectation! Why postpone all the pleasures for a festive night?
What would you give as a gift?
And why not mittens? Of course, these should not be simple mittens, but with a twist: positive hedgehogs, foxes, dinosaurs, cat paws... They can be sewn from improvised materials, knitted from warm threads, or simply supplemented with original details of factory-made mittens. And for loving th couples a good gift there will be a “general” mitten, putting on which you can hold hands. Sherche for inspiration!
Application Mittens (mittens).
Let's make the applique Mitten (Mitten). Work plan:
Come up with a pattern for decorating mittens
Cut out the glove template
According to the template, cut out the outline of the mittens from colored paper
Decorate with pasted patterns.
Each of the points provides an excellent opportunity to train the fine motor skills of the hands and the eye of children.
So go ahead!
Now I will tell you how I organized the course of work in the class.
I distributed the prepared drawn contours to everyone:
It would seem that it is possible to give the students themselves the task of drawing such a simple line, but I assure you that children who cannot draw a hand, who do not understand the structure of the hand, draw a mitten very differently. And our goal is to perform decorative work, and there is no time to spend time on learning to draw a hand (from nature). So I decide that this part of the work is done by me.
But let them come up with patterns themselves. If you have a need to train the ability to accurately reproduce the pattern, then you can, but today the goal is to develop the children's own imagination. However, it is worth warning that super-complex patterns do not pile up - after all, cutting out small and bizarre details from paper is a hassle. Yes, and in everyday life - we do not decorate mittens with patterns of extreme complexity. In general, simplicity and conciseness - that's our motto.
When the pattern is composed, cut out the mitten and apply the resulting stencil (template) to a sheet of colored paper. If this paper is white on one side, then, of course, this drawing must be done on white- wrong side, and not on the color front door.
Well, if the paper is double-sided-colored, then we will reconcile - we will have to draw on color.
And where to attach this mitten template?
Comrades, until this topic (half school year, consider) I taught children to be aware and economical, gave colored paper or self-adhesive film only from my own hands - a strictly measured amount. But after all, each student has his own set of colored paper, it's time to teach yourself how to handle it rationally and carefully. So, if the set is designed in the form of a notebook, then a sheet of colored paper must be carefully pulled out (torn off). Because cutting out details directly from a colored sheet fixed in an album is very difficult and of poor quality.
So the leaf is pulled out, we apply the template ... JUST NOT THIS:
From the edge, comrades, from the edge:
Correct, economical layout of the template
And here the children say in bewilderment: but here the template does not fit a little from below !!!
I will answer this as follows: if it were a part of a spacecraft, then we would definitely do it exactly, exactly. But, if the mitten is half a centimeter shorter, then this is acceptable.
Having cut out a mitten from colored paper, we do not throw away the remaining scrap, but save it for future work.
Now you can take up the patterns.
