Applications from cereals are a very useful kind of creativity for children. This activity promotes the development of fine motor skills and calms the nervous system. In addition, it contributes to the development of fantasy and imagination. Having mastered the technique and a little fantasy, you can create real masterpieces.
The materials for creating an application from cereals will require the simplest. They are certainly present in any home. The following will be required:
- Thick paper or cardboard - you can take color. On too thin paper, it is better not to stop the choice, because it may not withstand the weight of the cereal.
- Various types of cereals. Any that can be found at home will do - millet, rice, buckwheat, semolina, etc.
- A bubble of PVA glue;
- Brush for applying glue;
- Plasticine. It may be needed in order to use the indentation technique.
That, perhaps, is all that is required in order to create an extraordinary picture. Also, do not forget to prepare a vacuum cleaner to remove the remains scattered by the child from the floor.
Sprinkling application
The technique called sprinkling is one of the easiest cereal applications for children. First you need to take a sheet of colored cardboard, and then draw the outline of the future picture. It needs to be drawn quite clearly. If you can’t draw, you can simply print a template for crafts from cereals. After that, it remains only to cut it out and stick it on cardboard. It is also necessary to prepare the materials described above. Do-it-yourself cereal craft step by step looks like that:
- First you need to choose the material for the picture. Millet, rice or buckwheat groats are well suited for the first experience of babies.
- Then the prepared template must be smeared with PVA glue.
- On the glue, pour the prepared cereal in one layer and press it down a little with your fingers.
So you can make a funny chicken, a bear, a dog and many other pictures. If a chicken is being made, then millet groats can be taken as a basis, and the paws and beak can be made from buckwheat.
So that the cereal does not fly off, after the picture dries, it can be smeared with glue on top again. Any fidget will be very passionate about the process of creating such a picture.
Indentation technique
Pictures in the technique of indentation are very interesting. For such work, plasticine is required, and not PVA glue. You can act in the same way as in the first option - first print the template. Or you can simply distribute the plasticine on a sheet of cardboard and let the child act independently. Let him fantasize and come up with his own picture.
Then you just need to press the grits into plasticine. For such paintings, any cereal is suitable. You can even take dry peas, coffee beans or make applications from seeds.
Such applications are very helpful when you need to bring crafts made from natural materials to kindergarten. From an early age, the kid will learn to use different techniques and different materials in his work. After a while, crafts will become more complex and the baby will use a lot of different materials. When the child learns to make simple applications, then you can move on to more complex panels using cereals.
Different types of materials
Having mastered simpler applications, you can move on to complex ones. The principle in creating any picture is the same - for each part of the picture you need to use a different grain. It can vary not only in color, but also in shape or texture. Each detail of the drawing should be coated with glue in order of priority.
First, you should take the prepared template or coloring book and gently glue one fragment of the picture with glue. Then you need to take the prepared material and you can invite the baby to pour it on this fragment. Kids usually love doing this. Gently press the pattern with your fingers and, after everything is dry, shake off the remnants. Now it's time for the rest of the parts. Everything repeats until until the painting is complete.
Different materials can be used to make different elements. For example, millet is well suited to create the sun. The earth can be made from oatmeal, beans, dry green peas. And semolina is good for the sky. It also makes beautiful clouds.
With the help of gouache, you can give the necessary color to the elements of the picture.
It will be better to make an application if you listen to some tips. For example:
By listening to these tips, it will be easier to make a picture. Templates for crafts from cereals are easy to print. From them you can create separate figures or make a thematic picture and even a large panel. You can start doing this kind of creativity when the child is 2-3 years old. Some even try to master this technique with their parents earlier.
You can also take seeds of pumpkin, watermelon, melon as a basis - just show your imagination. Parents can only print or draw a stencil.
Patterns for crafts from cereals
Today, all children's doctors and psychologists talk about the importance of developing fine motor skills in a child's hands. It directly depends on how the baby will develop speech, thinking, motor and visual memory, coordination and attention. There are many activities and games to train fine motor skills, one of them is the application of cereals for children - a fascinating form of creativity available at home.
Acquaintance with improvised material
An excellent natural exercise for the entertainment and development of kids is their favorite sand games. But this method is more suitable for private houses, where you can equip a sandbox, or during a holiday at sea. For residents of city apartments, there is an alternative option - all kinds of cereals. They make various handicrafts. On the Internet, you can find and print templates for crafts from cereals, designed for different ages.
The popularity of this type of activity is due to several reasons:
- Availability of materials. In any house you can always find various cereals, peas, seeds or pasta.
- Useful for the development of the child's imagination and fine motor skills of the fingers. Parents strive for this, and children are simply carried away by the process itself.
- An opportunity for children (even with a complete lack of artistic abilities), using ready-made stencils of drawings, to make a beautiful craft that is not ashamed to give to relatives or leave as a keepsake.
In order for the kid to show interest in cereal needlework, first you need to come up with the simplest occupation for him, for example, drawing with cereals.
Such a task can be mastered even by a crumb of 2-3 years. For him, any cereal is enough (it is optimal to use semolina) and a flat surface. You can draw right on the table, but it’s still more convenient to do it on a dark monophonic tray or baking sheet. If an older child is seriously interested in such an activity, semolina can be pre-painted in different colors.
Toddlers can draw directly on the poured material. Older children pour out the outline of the image on the tray. Unfortunately, leaving such a drawing as a keepsake will not work, unless you capture it in a photo. In order for the craft to be saved, you need to learn how to make an application from cereals.
Features of creating cereal crafts
Not all children have the ability to draw due to age or developmental characteristics. In order for their crafts to look quite impressive, and interest in this type of activity has not been lost, it is better to pre-print a picture template. This will be the basis of the application. You can cut out images from children's coloring, choosing drawings without small details.
In addition to the template, you will need a base for crafts. It can be made of thick cardboard or glass, photo frames, jars or flower pots are also used. How to fix the grain depends on the idea of the future product and the base material. In the case of a regular glued application, PVA glue and a brush are used. And if you make a depressed craft from cereals and seeds, you will need plasticine and a stack.
Since the color range of the cereal material is limited to just a few shades, they can be dyed to obtain the planned picture. For this, both food colorings and gouache, brilliant green and iodine are suitable.
In order for the child’s hand-made creation to be preserved for a long time, at the end it must be covered with a colorless varnish or spray enamel.
Rice, buckwheat and semolina monkey
On the Internet there are a huge number of ideas for crafts from cereals with your own hands. The process of their creation is illustrated step by step, which greatly simplifies the work. For example, a master class on making a monkey from cereals includes 5 steps:
Using tea leaves
In addition to cereal material for crafts, an already used tea leaf will fit perfectly. It is used both independently and in combination with cereals. It is good to decorate fluffy animals with tea: cats, bears, cheburashka. The latter can be sculpted with small children: it has large details, with drawing and design of which there will be no difficulties.
To make a cheburashka, you need:
Cheburashka is ready!
Crafts from seeds and pasta
In addition to applications from seeds, grains and pasta, there are many other ways to create original crafts. Educators in kindergartens have long practiced workshops on making beads, bracelets or funny mobiles using these improvised materials.
Pasta of various shapes and cereals are used to effectively decorate various containers (jars, bottles), which turn into original flower vases. First, the selected vessel must be washed well, the labels removed and degreased with dishwashing detergent. Then it remains to apply glue and, in accordance with the creative idea, paste over with cereals and pasta.
Flat pumpkin or watermelon seeds look interesting on such vases. They are laid out in the form of flowers, geometric shapes or create an ornament. Cereals and grains are guaranteed to stick to PVA, and pasta is best fixed with a glue gun.
According to this principle, you can make a decor for a frame for a photo or a flower pot and make an original craft for a kindergarten. Painting and varnishing gives special effect to such pasta products.
Bears in different variations
Children are always happy to create compositions depicting animals, so they learn to love nature and its inhabitants. One of the popular characters is a bear - an important forest dweller, the hero of numerous cartoons and fairy tales, and just a favorite plush friend of kids.
Children of the middle group of the kindergarten can be offered to make a “Bear of a clubfoot” according to the picture shown in the photo.
For its manufacture should be prepared:
- sample;
- white or colored paper, cardboard or plywood board (for the base);
- carbon paper;
- PVA glue;
- paints and a brush;
- rice and buckwheat.
First you need to transfer the stencil of the picture to the base. You can use an image from a children's coloring book (circle it like a carbon paper) or print it out from the Internet. Further, glue is distributed along the contour and the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe bear and rice is poured on top if it is a polar bear, and buckwheat if it is brown.
Now you need to shake off the excess grits and check the image for voids. If there are any, fill them with grains. After drying, the crafts should be decorated with a landscape around the picture. The northern bear will look good against the background of snowdrifts, the brown one will organically fit into a forest clearing or a dense raspberry forest.
The picture is ready. It can be given to loved ones as a keepsake or decorate the wall of the apartment.
The original application can be made in the form of a teddy bear. Such a craft will be in place as a gift for a birthday or Valentine's Day.
And, of course, you can not ignore the beloved cartoon character - Winnie the Pooh. It can be made using millet and buckwheat.
Winter theme
When it's cold outside in winter and everything is strewn with snow, it seems as if sugar or semolina were scattered around. Why not an idea to make a winter applique from these materials? This is a simple process that even three-year-old crumbs can handle with the feasible help of their parents. The result is a gentle, fabulous, magical craft, which will certainly appeal to little craftsmen.
It will consist of colored cardboard (blue, green or black), semolina and glue.
The execution technique includes three steps:
- Drawing with glue on cardboard of any winter pattern: snowdrifts, Christmas trees, snowflakes, an ice hut, a bunny, a snowman and everything that prompts children's imagination and adult ideas.
- Full falling asleep of the picture with semolina (until the glue dries). Particular attention is paid to the contours of the drawn image. Groats need to be poured generously, it will be more convenient for children to do this from a small dish.
- Turning over the base to fall off the excess. Winter landscape is ready!
Here is another option for creating a winter fairy tale on cardboard. This is a rather large craft, it is good to make it with a company of children. For manufacturing, you will need four glued sheets of colored cardboard, semolina, a brush and glue. First, we draw fragments of the composition: snowdrifts, a winter forest and a hare. Then let the children diligently “sow” them with semolina, shake off the excess. Now we will revive the bunny by drawing its eyes, nose and mouth.
Coloring of bulk materials
The full implementation of all creative ideas in the application is often hindered by the limited color background of the material used. Therefore, light cereals (rice, semolina, white beans, pumpkin seeds) are dyed.
For painting you need to stock up:
- ziplock packages;
- alcohol or vinegar;
- liquid food coloring;
- groats;
- measuring cup;
- baking sheet or paper plates to dry the dyed material.
To get a portion of cereals of a certain color, you need to pour 2-3 handfuls of it into a bag. Now let's add 2 tbsp. l. alcohol or 4 tbsp. l. vinegar and 2 trickles of dye. We close the package, crush and shake several times so that the paint is evenly distributed throughout the contents. It remains to put the colored cereal on plates covered with napkins and leave to dry.
It is impossible to list all the applications using cereals, legumes, seeds, coffee beans, pasta. Starting from the simplest (images of animals and plants), designed for toddlers, they reach the most complex paintings and portraits, which are within the power of teenagers with artistic abilities. In addition to the usual improvised materials, even chips and cereals are used, from which the masters make real portrait masterpieces.
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Application of cereals and seeds for children. IdeasThe use of seeds and cereals to create paintings and crafts always attracts children, and adults also enjoy working with such material.
Very beautiful works are obtained from watermelon, melon and other seeds.
To make applications, you will need cardboard, various seeds, cereals, PVA glue, paints, dried leaves, felt-tip pens.
On cardboard, draw an image of the future picture. Spread with PVA glue and sprinkle thickly with cereals. You can use one type of cereal, or create more complex compositions by combining several types of seeds and cereals.
Here are examples of paintings that can be made from cereals and seeds:
Vase with Flowers
The flowers in this picture are made from watermelon seeds and the centers are made from millet. The vase is lined with melon seeds. Stems and leaves can be drawn with a felt-tip pen or gouache, or use colored paper.
boat
This boat is made on blue cardboard with watermelon and melon seeds. With the help of a felt-tip pen or gouache, you can finish the waves.
Wildflowers
The picture is made of melon seeds and dry stalks
dragonflies
For work, you will need melon seeds or white beans and a few dried small leaves or flower petals.
From white and dark beans. Here is the schematic for the picture.
Corn and Bean Chicken
rice bunny
bean parrot
Winnie the Pooh from millet and buckwheat
Summary of the lesson on DPI using non-traditional application techniques, for children 5-6 years old on the topic: "Tabby cat".
Author: Raush Ekaterina Leonidovna, teacher of additional education.Place of work: MBU DO DYUTS "Rainbow", Nizhny Tagil.
I used the image of a tabby cat, since the name of the studio is "Tabby Cat", this cat is also the logo of the studio.
Target: creation of a cat from buckwheat and millet groats
Educational tasks: teach children non-traditional ways to perform applications; learn to navigate on the plane.
Development tasks: develop fine motor skills of hands, creative imagination, study of the properties of various materials, tactile sensations, develop a sense of confidence, endurance;
Educational tasks: foster respect for animals and nature.
Equipment:
- white A4 paper
- paper red A4
- PVA glue
- scissors
- black marker
- brush (for glue)
- buckwheat
- millet groats
- container for cereals
- hairspray (for fixing)
Lesson progress:
You can start the lesson by conducting 2 riddles about a cat (cat).
He arched his back,
Meowed. Who it?
Stretched sweetly -
That's the whole mystery.
(Cat)
Even on the iron roof
Walks quietly, quieter than a mouse.
Go hunting at night
And, like in the daytime, she sees everything.
Often sleeps, and after sleep
She washes.
(Cat)
Then continue with finger gymnastics, inviting the children to perform the movements corresponding to the text:
The cat has four legs - raise and lower 4 fingers on both hands.
claws can scratch - fingers move like claws.
They do not have a face, but a muzzle - connect the fingers of two hands, forming a ball, separate the fingers in turn, lowering them down.
Tail, mustache, and wet nose - wave-like movements with the hand, "draw" the mustache, circular movements with the finger along the tip of the nose.
And, of course, ears - Rub your ears with your palms.
Only on top - massage two points on the crown of the head.
Teacher: guys, before you start the task, you have to guess what we have in two jars on the table? (Children should guess by touch what kind of cereal is there).
Teacher: And what are these seeds?
Children: Buckwheat and millet
Teacher: Where do they grow?
Children: On the fields.
Teacher: And what is made from buckwheat and millet?
Children: Delicious porridge.
Teacher: And today we will make a cat from cereals.
How is the technique of making a cat from cereals, let's see with you! Children observe the teacher and repeat step by step with him.
Stages of work:
Step 1. We take a drawing (blank) of a cat.
Step 2 We prepare the necessary cereals (buckwheat and millet). Each child should have a jar of buckwheat and millet.
Step 3 We begin to gradually fill the contour with PVA glue quite thickly so that the grits stick well.
Step 4 We fill with yellow grits everything that the cat has with white.
Step 5 We fill with black groats (buckwheat) everything that our cat has black (eyes, mouth, nose, ears, stripes)
Step 6 After the glue dries, gently brush off the excess grits.
Step 7 We take the cut out mouth and glue it to the cat
Step 8 When all layers are dry, spray with hairspray to secure.
Teacher: And now guys, look how many cats we have, how beautiful and different they turned out. What can we do with our cats?
Children: Insert into a frame and decorate a room at home, give a friend a birthday, a new year.
Teacher: And now they will make friends and will play together. Let's play too. We will now turn into cats and say: MEOW, MEOW, MEOW !!!
Teacher: Everyone is great today!
Finished works are placed at the exhibition for showing to parents.
Student work
Making applications from cereals is very useful for children, so sorting through cereals contributes to the development of fine motor skills of the hands, perseverance, helps to develop fantasy, creative thinking and imagination.
The first acquaintance with the application of cereals is better to start with simple and large drawings that use 1 type of cereal. And then gradually in subsequent classes to complicate.
Having studied this simple technique and showing a little imagination, the child will certainly be able to create real masterpieces and delight parents with their creativity!
Materials and tools:
Various cereals (buckwheat, millet, rice, etc.);
Colored cardboard with a painted picture;
Scissors;
PVA glue;
Napkin;
Paints or pencils.
Making applications from cereals:
1. We show the child a drawing and offer to play - carefully lay out various cereals on top of the picture, as if painting the picture with cereals.
If the child finds it difficult, then you can show how to do it carefully, trim the cereals according to the drawing office.
2. After the child has finished laying out, ask why he used these particular cereals? Does he want to change something or does he want to leave it that way? You can offer your own version of "coloring" with cereals.
3. Give exactly the same pattern on another cardboard or remove the cereals from this (if the child does not mind) to start gluing the cereals and creating an application.
If the child has already done such applications, you can skip 1-3 points.
4. If the application will consist of one type of cereal, then apply glue to the entire picture (without protruding beyond the contours) and fill it with cereal. Then press with a napkin and hold for 20-40 seconds.
If the application consists of a combination of cereals, then the glue must be applied only to those details of the pattern that will be covered with one type of cereal. Then press with a napkin and hold for 20-40 seconds. Next, glue is applied to the following details of the drawing and covered with other grits, etc.
5. Extra grains must be shaken off, on the contrary, voids must be filled.
6. When the application dries up, you can ask the child to supplement it with a pattern that fits the theme. Alternatively, a child can draw a beautiful landscape with paints or pencils.
