If your baby is already three years old, but he still doesn’t know how to cut beautifully or handle liquid glue correctly, creativity A torn paper applique will help your child to develop successfully.
What is it and how to do it?
The technique of cut appliqué is very simple. If the usual one requires cut-out templates, then here pieces of colored paper are torn off and glued to the outline of the picture.
Even a 3-year-old child can cope with this task. The big advantage of this technique is that there is no need to use scissors.
The child does not yet know how to hold them and may get hurt. In cut-out appliqué, everything can be done by hand. To prevent your child from getting dirty with glue, take the pencil version: it does not get dirty, does not spread, and glues the paper no worse than liquid glue.
General scheme execution of a broken applique will look like this.
- Choose cardboard or thick colored paper for the base. The background must be denser, otherwise it will become saturated with glue and will not withstand the load of the applique.
- Apply a pattern or design to the background. The technique is very similar to coloring, in which the outlines are given in advance, and you just need to paint them with a certain color. Only in the case of applique, we will not decorate it, but cover it with scraps of colored paper.
- Prepare pieces of paper of the desired color. They may be different sizes, but it is advisable to first help the child decide on the size of the pieces of paper and show exactly how to carefully tear the paper.
- We begin to fill the space inside the outline with pieces of the desired color. We start with the large ones and end with the small ones. We glue each piece of paper separately.
- Make sure that the baby does not crawl out beyond the edges of the outline, otherwise the applique will turn out ugly.
Templates
Templates for applications can be taken from anywhere. You can print them on our website, use your child’s old coloring books, or draw them yourself. Children can become the creators of such patterns themselves. Tearing paper for a picture is also not difficult: the main thing is to convince the child that this needs to be done carefully.
Important role in development fine motor skills For a child, cut-off applique can be played if the baby is just learning to cut with scissors. He only recently picked them up and so far he only cuts any paper into small pieces. Take advantage of these moments. Offer to make a picture from cut-up colored paper. The baby will definitely be interested!
Examples of finished works
The finished cut-out appliqué looks very much like a mosaic, especially if there is little space left between the pieces of paper. Here are examples of such applications:
For older children or schoolchildren, you can choose more serious subjects. In Ancient History lessons, the teacher may well suggest making Egyptian frescoes out of paper!
In general, broken applique as a type children's creativity quite suitable for kindergartens, aesthetic centers, junior classes schools.
An alternative material for making cut-out appliqué can be multi-colored double-sided tape or adhesive-backed note paper. Scotch tape, of course, is a more expensive method, but the baby will not need to get dirty with glue. Simply tear off a piece, remove the base and stick it on paper. Ideal for kindergarten!
Where did you come from?
Initially, cut-out appliqué was by no means a child’s form of creativity. It was not children who were doing it.
This is an ancient Korean art called handigyrim. It is done a little differently.
The tearing paper is pre-wetted, and then pieces are torn off along the edges. By soaking the paper on the applique, you can achieve the appearance of oil or watercolor paints. This is how Koreans create entire works of art.
Korean art has been greatly simplified for children. It's hard for kids to deal with wet paper, and it's a lot of trouble for adults too. So we will create a cut-out applique with children from ordinary dry paper.
What does this type of activity provide?
Those parents who consider cut-off appliqué useless for the baby are far from right. Although there is no work with scissors, the cut-off applique is indispensable for shaping creative thinking. The child learns to place the drawing on the picture, to see what color the outline should be painted over.
At the same time, you shouldn’t let your little one’s creativity run its course. He must understand that the colors in the picture must be close to reality, and that the gluing must be done carefully and evenly. These factors discipline the process of fantasy and thinking. At the very beginning, an adult should act as an organizer of the technical side of working with the application. And only when preparatory stage passed, you can start working!
The techniques used for children's appliques are very diverse. After all, you must agree that ordinary gluing to paper different figures made from colored paper is quite monotonous and can quickly get boring for a child. You can re-interest him by using interesting artistic techniques. The article contains various master classes on artistic creativity, the work on which will undoubtedly not leave children indifferent.
Lily on the heart
A beautiful, voluminous, hand-made lily will decorate any card and replace a bow with gift box or it will become a valuable gift itself. After all, the most expensive ones are those that are made with your own hands and from the heart.
Materials we will need:
- colored and white paper;
- cardboard;
- glue;
- scissors
- pencil;
- templates
1. Draw a heart template on a sheet of cardboard. We chose this one, but you can choose any other to your taste. If you are not good at drawing, then you can print the templates on a printer.
2. Cut out the heart from cardboard and set it aside.
3. On a sheet of white paper, draw a circle template. Cut it out.
4. The second circle should be slightly smaller than the first. We also outline and cut out.
5. The very last circle is the smallest. We'll make it yellow.
6. The next stage is to apply a special template with sectors to the white circles and trace them again.
7. On the blanks we make cuts to the inner circle.
8. Roll up the cut parts into a ball and glue them together, making petals.
9. We will also make the second blank.
10. First glue a large flower onto the base, and a small one on top.
11. Glue a small yellow circle in the middle.
We get this lily on the heart.
Tear-off children's applique made of colored paper
Interesting torn applique from colored paper. It is very simple and accessible even to the smallest. Also, it does not require scissors, because all elements are torn with bare hands. You will need:
- a sheet of white paper with a prepared template outline;
- colored paper;
- glue;
- pencils.
1. You can draw a template for work using your imagination, or you can download any template you like and print it. You can also use a children's coloring sheet. Ours is a fawn.
2. Use pencils to color the background.
3. Finely tear a sheet of yellow paper.
4. Apply glue to the breast and belly and carefully glue pieces of paper to these places.
5. Now you need to fill in the body and head of the deer. To do this, take brown paper and also tear into small pieces.
6. Trying not to leave any white spaces, fill in the contours of the animal’s body.
7. This is how the beast turned out.
8. Now we take pencils in our hands again and color the horns, clearly draw the contours.
The work is ready.
Application from cuttings using the example of a vase
Another handicraft option for children could be a collage of magazine clippings. In addition to cutting out and gluing the necessary elements, here the child will also learn to select the necessary colors and shades for the collage, according to the sketch, or guided by imagination and artistic vision. Such work will also help the child feel the artist’s work, understand and feel the painting.
1. First, let's make a sketch of the work. This will be a vase with flowers in the foreground, and in the background we will depict a window or landscape.
2. We take glossy magazines, look on their pages for the elements of colors necessary to bring the sketch to life. First, let's take care of the center - the flowers.
3. Create an environment - a wall, a window.
4. Gluing piece by piece, we depict a table and a vase on it.
The collage of glossy clippings is ready.
The children completed the following work:
You will need:
· drawing sheets
· scissors
· glue
Job description:
Draw a large square on the white side of the paper. Its two sides will coincide with the edges of the sheet; you will have to draw the other two lines yourself. Give the child scissors, hold the sheet yourself and guide it. After cutting out the square, you can make a triangular roof. Now the house is ready, all that remains is to spread it with glue and press it firmly onto the paper. Pressing the part against the main background, remove the remaining glue with a cloth. After finishing the work, invite your child to complete the details, for example, mark the windows, door, dormer window, fence. Children love opening parts in houses or caves in rocks. These pieces are very easy to make. At the bottom of the house you cut out a door. One side should hold it as if on hinges. Of course, the door is not glued, but kept open. Now the child can close and open it himself. You can also make shutters on windows, opening doors in cars, mysterious grottoes in the rocks.
It allows you to develop skills in handling scissors, improve the work of children's hands and make the baby more careful. Every child will be able to make appliqués from colored paper with their own hands if they are given a feasible task.
So, the most affordable options for colored paper applique for children 4-5 years old can be:
Volumetric applications made of colored paper
Ladybugs. Cut out two red circles and a black semi-oval. Black dots are placed on the circles, after which one circle is glued exactly above the black semi-oval, and the second is bent in half and glued to the first circle. We complement the bug with toy eyes and antennae.
Materials for the “Ladybug” applique
We complement the bug with toy eyes and antennae.
Application "Ladybug"
Watch the video on how to make an applique " ladybug» in another technique:
Application made from pieces of colored paper
Chanterelle. Cut out a triangle from a paper plate, and use a stapler to attach two triangles of orange cardboard to its round edge. Then we cover the plate with pieces of orange thin colored paper.
Fill out the entire piece of paper.
Triangles are ears and circles are eyes
All that remains is to attach the round eyes - and the fox is ready!
Ice cream. We draw or cut out ice cream cups from colored paper in advance and glue round cupcake molds to them, like creme brulee balls. You can also make other food applications with these molds if you use them as plates.
Application "Ice cream"
Application made from colored paper using a template
Bunny. We cut out the ears, head and triangular nose of the bunny in advance according to the template, as well as a bush of grass behind which it will hide.
We assemble the picture on a sheet of white paper, glue all the details and animate the bunny with toy eyes.
Application "Bunny"
White bear. Using a template, we cut out a round body, a head with ears, a muzzle and paws of a bear from white paper.
Let's complete the necessary details. We cover a sheet of white cardboard with blue watercolor, creating a background.
Against this background, we assemble our bear and complement it with toy eyes.
Application "Polar Bear"
Multilayer applications made of colored paper
More complex, multi-layered paintings containing small details can be used as appliqués made of colored paper for children aged 5-6 years. Preschoolers are quite capable of creating characters such as:
Fish. Cut out from disposable plate triangular fragment, cover the remaining part with “scales” - semi-oval pieces of colored paper of different colors, which need to be applied, slightly overlapping each other. We attach the tail and fins with a stapler, and glue the eye. Ready!
Here is another fabulous fish with colored scales.
Dragonfly. From thin paper we cut out the body of a dragonfly with a head and eight multi-colored wings.
Glue it all to a white sheet, complement the image with mustaches and toy eyes.
Application "Dragonfly"
Application made of colored paper and disposable plate
Chicks in the nest. Glue half of a disposable paper plate to a sheet of cardboard. We cut out three oval figures of chicks from blue paper.
We cover the figures with lumps of crumpled thin blue paper, and the nest with decorative shavings.
All that remains is to glue the eyes and beaks of the chicks - and the applique is ready!
Craft “Chicks in the nest”
In the application " autumn tree» A disposable plate serves as a background.
Application "autumn tree"
Applications made of colored paper using a complex pattern
Girl in the rain. This application is based on working with complex templates, according to which you need to cut out an umbrella, boots, head, dress, hair and hands of a girl.
What needs to be cut out for the “Girl in the Rain” craft
We assemble the picture on a sheet of blue cardboard, gluing the parts one by one.
Application “Girl in the rain”
Combined applique made of colored paper
Chicken with an umbrella. This application also involves working with templates, but if it is difficult for children to cope with such a task, teachers or parents can prepare templates in advance.
Materials for crafts “Chicken”
We decorate the umbrella with pieces of translucent colored paper, which will make the image more interesting.
All that remains is to collect the picture.
Applique “Chicken with an umbrella”
Volumetric applique made from pieces of colored paper
Flower. Cut out the outlines of a flower from a disposable plate or sheet of cardboard.
Cut small pieces of colored paper and roll them into lumps. One by one we glue the lumps onto the glue.
Carefully fill the entire space of the flower.
Application made of colored paper “Flower”
Another craft option is “sunflower”. Draw the outline of a sunflower on a piece of paper. Cut pieces of yellow and green paper.
Glue a black circle in the center. We begin to decorate the craft with pieces of paper. Before gluing the paper, crumple it a little - this will give the craft additional volume.
Sunflower applique made of colored paper.
Sunflower applique made of colored paper
Rainbow. It is made in much the same way as a flower: the child crumples colored paper and carefully places it in rows, observing the sequence of colors in the rainbow.
Application "Rainbow"
Very beautiful in technology 3D applique An autumn tree is made from colored paper.
You can make a heart applique from pieces of red and pink paper. We use a heart made of cardboard as the basis.
We crumple the pieces a little and glue them to the base. The craft will look interesting if you alternate red and pink lumps.
Excellent appliques are obtained using the cutting technique. Small pieces of paper are glued tightly to one another using a thin stick.
This is an airplane that can be folded from pieces of paper using the cutting technique.
Instead of glue, small pieces of paper can be fixed to a plasticine base.
Flat applications from pieces of paper
The herringbone applique from colored paper is made in a very interesting technology. Pieces of thin tissue paper are glued onto triangular bases. In this case, the pieces can seal the edges of the Christmas trees and stick to one another. Only after this the triangular base is glued onto the pre-painted background.
Christmas tree applique made of colored paper
Straw man. The application is made using the mosaic technique. Glue the hat and head of the stuffed animal cut out according to the template to the sheet, and draw the contours of the body.
Materials for the “Straw Scarecrow” craft
The child’s task is to fill the body with pieces of colored paper, gluing them next to each other. In the same pieces yellow lay out the hair and beard of the stuffed animal.
Sunset. We lay out sand and purple sunset with pieces of yellow color.
A small palm tree will complement the landscape.
Application "Sea" made of paper
Applique with quilling elements “heart”
Applications with elements of quilling or paper rolling look very impressive. In order to make an applique we will need colored paper, a pencil, scissors and glue.
We make notches about 1 cm wide on the paper and roll it into a roll. We cut the roll along the notches. We should get paper curls, the ends of which we fix with glue.
Glue the paper curls onto a pre-prepared base - a paper heart.
Decorate the curls with rolled green paper. The curls begin to resemble graceful roses framed by petals. We can do it interesting application using paper rolling technique.
Applications made of colored corrugated paper
Colored applique corrugated paper— “Vase with flowers”
Application “Vase with flowers”
From colored corrugated paper and wire you can make a very impressive “Summer Meadow” applique postcard. The technique for making it is very unusual. We wrap corrugated paper several times around an easily bendable rod or wire. Fix the end of the paper with glue.
Squeeze the paper onto the wire. Cut off the excess wire and tuck the ends. We should get colored thick sausages.
"Sausages" made of corrugated paper
From these “sausages” we lay out an applique on paper.
You can make a very beautiful wall panel with yellow flowers from colored corrugated paper.
A paper plate is a great base for colorful appliqué. What do you think of the idea of making a carrot bed out of a paper plate?
Applique on a paper plate “bed with carrots”
Very beautiful applications are obtained if they are based on a background painted in watercolors.
Application and drawing “spring”
Using different techniques, and by combining ideas in your own way, you can create unique paintings that will become a real manifestation of children's talent.
