Consultation for parents “Natural material and its benefits in the development of the child”

When working with a child, along with various types of constructive activities, construction from natural materials is also recommended.
In the process of constructing from natural materials, children develop:
creative imagination;
ingenuity;
eye gauge;
the ability to use the gifts of nature expediently and carefully;
hard work and perseverance are demonstrated.
Children learn to independently plan and correlate individual details of a craft, select materials for a homemade toy, become familiar with the properties of natural materials, and most importantly, they awaken an interest in nature and develop a caring attitude towards it.
In preparation for construction, organize excursions with your children to collect natural materials. Teach them to collect so as not to cause damage to nature (birch bark and bark, remove from fallen trees; cones, seeds, fallen leaves, and so on)
Before you start making crafts, natural material should be prepared. So, acorns are pierced with an awl while they are fresh, matches and sticks are inserted into the puncture sites (the sulfur is removed from the matches in advance).
It is more advisable to collect twigs that are curved, have the shape of acute, straight and obtuse angles. With their help, you can design an animal or a person more expressive and dynamic.
To construct the torso of people and animals, the following are used: cones of different sizes, shapes and types (pine, spruce, cedar, alder), acorns, nut shells (walnut, Manchurian, pistachio), various bones.
To make the head - nut shells, poppy heads, acorns, small cones.
Hair is made from fluff, thistle, bast, and corn “hairs.”
Eyes can be made from dill, sorrel, and pea seeds.
Human legs and arms, animal limbs are made using linden branches, shrubs, radish rhizomes, and pine cones.
As a base on which crafts are installed, you can use: tree mushrooms, dried orange peels, cuts of various tree species, tree bark, rhizomes, and intricately shaped branches.
The base is decorated with moss, which is collected in advance and stored in a dark place, as well as twigs or dried plants.
At the age of 4-5 years, work with natural materials is in the nature of co-creation between children and adults.
First, you need to teach children how to make the simplest crafts - a mushroom, a bird, a boat.
When making crafts from natural materials, you need to consider the following:
Natural material should not be painted, it is quite beautiful in its natural form (our task is to teach the child to see its beauty);
for crafts, you should only use material that can no longer be used for food and that is already classified as waste (bones, shells from boiled eggs, nuts, peels, onions)
do not use material that can harm the child or threaten his health (burdock, spikes, poisonous plants, raw egg shells)
do not use too brittle, weak material that can easily be damaged during operation.
It is advisable to use the children’s crafts to decorate play corners. Works can be combined into one story.
Children use crafts in building games when they play with their buildings in games with sand, water, and so on.
Children's crafts are also used as gifts for younger comrades, friends, parents, and adults.

Consultation for parents:

Educator: Pshichenko

Svetlana

Victorovna

• develops fine motor skills;
• teaches you to set a goal and visualize it throughout the creative process;
• experiment and look for optimal ways to move towards the goal;
• develops spatial imagination;
• teaches you to see a whole thing in disparate elements;
• develops attention and accuracy, patience and diligence;
• awakens interest in creative design
• introduces a feeling of inspiration;
• teaches you to take care of nature.

Snails

Collect the shells you like, rinse with running water and dry in the sun. Sort the prepared shells by color and shape.

Wash the shells collected on the beach thoroughly in running water and dry in the sun. You can cover the shells with transparent varnish - they will shine like in water.

Select several spirally twisted shells. Take plasticine and sculpt a snail figurine: head, horns, tail. Attach the shell to the snail's back.

Bright pebbles

Children love to collect sea stones on the beach. A brush and paints will turn a smooth pebble into a bug, ladybug, turtle, owl or fungus. The very shape of the pebble will tell the baby which image is best to create. Paint is applied to the pebble - and the image is ready. The pebbles are glued together with plasticine. After the creation has dried, coat it with clear varnish to add shine.

Funny little animals

With a small child, try to do something very simple: for example, make animal figures from tenacious burdock. To do this, make a wool frame in advance on which the burdock will be molded. Then invite the baby to form a teddy bear, an elephant with a long trunk, a dog or a spider.

Amazing picture

This amazing picture can be made from pebbles, small pebbles, shells or cereals (beans, peas). First, decide what color plasticine background is suitable for your work. Apply plasticine to the cardboard base. Mark the design on plasticine. Now, together with your baby, carefully fill the drawing with the selected material along the contour.

Picture of leaves

Collect with your child while walking in the park or forest, collect a lot of leaves of different shades and shapes, large and small. Dry them between sheets of an old book or newspaper, placing something heavy on top. For work you will need sheets of cardboard, glue and natural material. If you are making applications with a small child (1.5-3 years), then you can simply lay out the leaves beautifully on cardboard. Older children can show their imagination and make an amazing applique with your help. The theme of the application can be different birds, animals, fish, cars or even plot pictures.

Crafts from acorns

Acorns come in different varieties: large and small, oblong and round. In a donkey or horse, the body is made from a large acorn, and the head from a small one. Also, from two acorns - a smaller one and a larger one - and several sticks you can make a beautiful stork. You can make funny people: thin and fat, tall and short, wearing hats. The main thing is that everything must be done while the acorns have not yet dried. Toys made from fresh acorns last a long time.

And how many funny and nice figures can be made from chestnuts, cones and nuts! Simply countless, especially if your imagination plays out during work.

Flower Elves

For this craft you will need some flowers. Collect them with your child during your walk in the park or forest. To make an amazing picture you will need: cardboard, pencils or markers, glue, flowers and petals. First draw the shapes on the cardboard, and then start gluing the clothes, wings and magic wand.

A few more tips:

• For panels, paintings, toys made from natural materials you will need cones, seeds of various plants, acorns, catkins of alder, birch, acacia, fruits of various plants, leaves, roots, flowers, shells.

• Frames covered with cereals (buckwheat, semolina, corn, millet, sunflower seeds) or shells look amazing - for paintings, photos or mirrors, as well as wooden boxes.

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Crafts made from natural materials

Educator: Pshichenko

Svetlana

Victorovna

Children especially love crafts made from natural materials, because they can be created from what they themselves find in the park, in the field, in the forest, on the sea coast or in the mountains. The main thing is to have enough imagination to turn shells, pebbles, pebbles, twigs, dry fruits, cones, acorns, chestnuts, nuts, seeds or inflorescences with your own hands into something extraordinary! In addition, natural material is the most environmentally friendly material for activities with children.

Making crafts from natural materials develops skills:

• develops fine motor skills;
• teaches you to set a goal and visualize it throughout the creative process;
• experiment and look for optimal ways to move towards the goal;
• develops spatial imagination;
• teaches you to see a whole thing in disparate elements;
• develops attention and accuracy, patience and diligence;
• awakens interest in creative design
• introduces a feeling of inspiration;
• teaches you to take care of nature.

Snails

Collect the shells you like, rinse with running water and dry in the sun. Sort the prepared shells by color and shape.

Wash the shells collected on the beach thoroughly in running water and dry in the sun. You can cover the shells with transparent varnish - they will shine like in water.

Select several spirally twisted shells. Take plasticine and sculpt a snail figurine: head, horns, tail. Attach the shell to the snail's back.

Bright pebbles

Children love to collect sea stones on the beach. A brush and paints will turn a smooth pebble into a bug, ladybug, turtle, owl or fungus. The very shape of the pebble will tell the baby which image is best to create. Paint is applied to the pebble - and the image is ready. The pebbles are glued together with plasticine. After the creation has dried, coat it with clear varnish to add shine.

Funny little animals

With a small child, try to do something very simple: for example, make animal figures from tenacious burdock. To do this, make a wool frame in advance on which the burdock will be molded. Then invite the baby to form a teddy bear, an elephant with a long trunk, a dog or a spider.

Amazing picture

This amazing picture can be made from pebbles, small pebbles, shells or cereals (beans, peas). First, decide what color plasticine background is suitable for your work. Apply plasticine to the cardboard base. Mark the design on plasticine. Now, together with your baby, carefully fill the drawing with the selected material along the contour.

Picture of leaves

Collect with your child while walking in the park or forest, collect a lot of leaves of different shades and shapes, large and small. Dry them between sheets of an old book or newspaper, placing something heavy on top. For work you will need sheets of cardboard, glue and natural material. If you are making applications with a small child (1.5-3 years), then you can simply lay out the leaves beautifully on cardboard. Older children can show their imagination and make an amazing applique with your help. The theme of the application can be different birds, animals, fish, cars or even plot pictures.

Crafts from acorns

Acorns come in different varieties: large and small, oblong and round. In a donkey or horse, the body is made from a large acorn, and the head from a small one. Also, from two acorns - a smaller one and a larger one - and several sticks you can make a beautiful stork. You can make funny people: thin and fat, tall and short, wearing hats. The main thing is everythingmust be done while the acorns have not yet dried. Toys made from fresh acorns last a long time.

And how many funny and nice figures can be made from chestnuts, cones and nuts! Simply countless, especially if your imagination plays out during work.

Flower Elves

For this craft you will need some flowers. Collect them with your child during your walk in the park or forest. To make an amazing picture you will need: cardboard, pencils or markers, glue, flowers and petals. First draw the shapes on the cardboard, and then start gluing the clothes, wings and magic wand.

A few more tips:

• For panels, paintings, toys made from natural materials you will need cones, seeds of various plants, acorns, catkins of alder, birch, acacia, fruits of various plants, leaves, roots, flowers, shells.

• Frames covered with cereals (buckwheat, semolina, corn, millet, sunflower seeds) or shells look amazing - for paintings, photos or mirrors, as well as wooden boxes.

In order for the child to understand the sequence of work, you must first show how to make the craft. After the child has learned the first basics of creating a toy from natural material, it will be enough for him to show a drawing, picture or photograph of the finished craft, and he will be able to make it himself with an understanding of the process. Then the child should be asked to make fairy-tale characters or animals seen in the zoo out of natural material. Such activities significantly develop children's creativity, fantasy and imagination.

Consultation for parents: “Arrangements from natural and waste materials”
On the importance of manual labor for the comprehensive development of children.
In the process of working with natural materials, a caring attitude towards nature is formed, and the first labor skills are developed.
Children's encounters with nature expand their understanding of the world around them.
In the process of systematic manual labor, the child’s hands acquire confidence, accuracy, and fingers become flexible, which is important for his preparation for school.
Manual labor promotes the development of sensorimotor skills, coordination in the work of the eyes and hands, the development of attention and increasing its stability, and helps the formation of voluntary attention.
Making crafts from natural materials satisfies children's curiosity. In search of something new, children show interest in creativity, design, and achieve their goals. Such work has a beneficial effect on their emotional mood.
In the process of manual labor, a child’s character is formed: making crafts requires strong-willed efforts. Under the guidance of an adult, he tries to eliminate difficulties, he develops such qualities as self-control and self-esteem.
Natural material that can be used when working with children.
Material: cones, nuts, pine needles, chestnuts, acorns, birch bark, branches, leaves, seeds, rose hips, rowan, straw, moss, feathers, shells.
Additional materials: paper, foil, plasticine, wire, thread, colored scraps, pebbles, plywood.
The best works will be used for the subject-development environment of the group room. To decorate rooms in winter, you can choose, first of all, branches of ornamental shrubs with brightly colored fruits (rose hips, hawthorn) and beautifully curved ones with a bizarre silhouette (linden, oak, apple tree branches). The leaves of maple and aspen look very colorful, the dried shoots with inflorescences of cereals and lilies, especially their umbrellas, are spectacular; sometimes reaching large sizes.
Arrangements from dry leaves and rules for their composition.
When composing compositions of dried flowers, you need to remember proportionality: a huge bouquet in a huge vase is out of place in a small room. For a lush bouquet, it is better to choose a simple vase, strict in shape and color. More modest plants are placed in the middle, highlighting its beauty. For a dark room, choose light and bright plants. Dried flowers and inflorescences can be lightly tinted with watercolor or gouache paints.
The quality of winter bouquets and arrangements depends on when the necessary material is collected. It is very important for a plant to find the moment when it is most decorative and best suited for processing. Thus, it is better to cut meadow grasses and cereals before full flowering or in the fall.
In compositions you can use plants that retain their shape and color well when dried: yarrow, hydrangea, bluehead and others. They need to be cut before flowering.
Dried flowers are placed not only in vases, jugs and earthenware, but also in candlesticks, wickerwork, baskets, on trays, as well as in various forest preparations - snags overgrown with lichen, in curved branches, bark, moss, mushroom-shaped solids cut from tree trunks growths, branches of alder and larches with small cones.
Dry plants are an ideal material for wall and hanging compositions. For them, various grains are collected, bright yellow tansy inflorescences, lush plumes of horse sorrel, which enrich the palette of the dry bouquet.
Orange “lanterns” of physalis and lunaria with transparent orange films are popular among garden plants. You can use poppy and iris seeds.
Work using dry plants can be started with young children in the first and second half of the day, as often as drawing, modeling, and making appliques. In older groups, classes are also held 2 times a month.

Consultation for parents on innovative activities
“What can be made from natural materials”

Dear parents. We offer you a consultation on the topic “What can be made from natural materials”
Natural material is an inexhaustible source that allows you to actively develop children's creativity. A nature workshop can be in kindergarten and at home. The materials included in it will certainly interest kids, because fir cones smell of resin, and straw shimmers with all the shades of the sun. Crafts made from natural materials, created with your own hands, will perfectly decorate a child's room and allow the child to take a flight of fancy into the world of children's fairy tales.
And from all this you can make toys and various crafts. Tree bark, pine cones, moss, straw, tree branches, chestnuts, acorns, river and sea shells, corn cobs, pine needles, nuts and many other natural materials are perfect for making all kinds of DIY crafts. The painstaking work of creating figures and even compositions can be an interesting, unusual and very enjoyable experience. Moreover, children will be able not only to show all their imagination, but also to learn something new and develop dexterity. It is not for nothing that famous teachers and child psychologists note the important role of using natural materials in classes with children.
Children can also collect source material on their own, bringing pine cones, branches or acorns from a walk in the park, and shells and beautiful pebbles from a pond. By looking at the collected material, sorting it out, feeling it and examining it, children will remember the shape, colors, and properties of each material. But that’s not all - encounters with nature contribute to the development of children, improving their ability to carefully study various phenomena.
To create crafts, a child will need some dexterity, which will only improve over time, and with his own hands he will be able to create not only simple crafts, but also entire compositions based on famous fairy tales. The first inaccurate movements will give way to confident and accurate ones; as you practice, your fingers will become flexible and your arms will become strong. This is especially important, since in the future the hands must be ready for writing and for various educational activities at school. Thanks to manual labor, sensorimotor skills develop - coordination in the work of the eyes and hands, coordination of movements, flexibility and accuracy in performing actions are improved. Making crafts contributes to the acquisition of special skills and abilities.
Working with natural materials also contributes to the child’s mental development, the development of his thinking, and fine motor skills of his fingers. If initially, to create a craft from natural material, a child needs to look at a sample, analyze its structure and manufacturing methods, then over time he will be able to repeat the figurine by simply looking at a drawing or photograph, or even create something of his own design.
Among other things, classes in making crafts and original toys from natural materials help develop children's attention and increase its stability. For example, to make a dog, a child will have to carefully study the sample to understand where and how to make the holes for the paws correctly, so that they are located symmetrically, not too high and not too low, at the same level. You also need to study the method of attaching the head and other body parts or decorative parts in crafts.
Thus, the child’s communication with natural material:
1. Delicately and unobtrusively teaches you to peer into the world around you and admire it. Develops subtle perception and observation.
2. Gradually introduces the most important life principle: “Do no harm!” “, because if you need leaves and cones, then it is better to collect those lying on the ground. Gradually, step by step, the child begins to comprehend the role of man in preserving nature, and indeed life itself on earth.
3. Crafts made from natural materials are not just fun and pleasant entertainment for a walk in the forest or park. This is true skill akin to art. Just as nature is unique, so is what is created from its gifts unique. Each work is unique and completely one of a kind, even if it is the simplest bird made from an ordinary acorn or feather.
4. Homemade toys are not only the tangible result of exciting activities with natural materials, but also the development of non-standard thinking and imagination, and, as we know, creative imagination is the most valuable acquisition of childhood, remaining with a person forever.
5. Working with natural materials develops the eye, accuracy and, what is very important, precise coordination in the work of the eye and hand (sensorimotor).
The first artistic games with natural materials
Associations Together with your children, lay out all the “wealth” that you collected during a walk or that your children brought from home and start imagining. Offer to carefully examine each pebble (shell) and tell what it resembles. Then show the same pebble from different angles and point out how the image changes. In such games, children engage in objectification—they endow familiar but faceless objects with new artistic meaning.
Images After a while, try to move on to games of a different type - give children the opportunity to connect pebbles and shells in such a way that they get images: butterflies, caterpillars, beetles, etc. At the same time, children master one of the main methods of construction - composing a whole from parts.
Patterns During free play on a walk, exercise children in making patterns (ornaments) from pebbles, sticks, and cones. The complexity of the ornament depends on the age or individual characteristics of the children. This can be laying out several pebbles in a row, regardless of their shape and size, already creating a real ornament. Or alternating elements by shape (pebble - shell, size, color. Gradually change the task, complicating the algorithm (one pebble, two shells) or use other combinations. Show that the ornament can be not only linear, but also in a circle, oval, square.
In experimental activities with natural material, the child acts as a kind of researcher, independently influencing natural material in various ways in order to understand, master and transform it into an artistic image. That is why it is in this activity that the general mental development of children and the formation of creative abilities are manifested very early and most clearly.
These activities will help in the artistic, moral and environmental education of the child. He will learn to admire the harmony of nature, create beauty with his own hands and give it to loved ones, prolonging the life of natural material in paintings, souvenirs, postcards, decorative panels and other crafts.
We wish you success in creative work with children.

Natalya Petrovna Merzlikina

The sky was already breathing in autumn,

The sun shone less often...

A, S. Pushkin

So autumn has come. Autumn has many beautiful colors, and it generously distributes them to everyone. The beauty of autumn landscapes has always inspired poets and artists to create their greatest works. We all freeze with delight, admiring the thin-trunked birch tree with gold coins - leaves, the splendor of the colors of the courageous maple.

The ability to see and feel the beauty of one’s native nature is a priority in the work of preschool teachers. It is necessary to develop this skill in preschoolers as early as possible, since feelings of beauty and simple human kindness are laid down in childhood. Acquaintance with works of art, folk crafts, crafts, communication with nature have a beneficial effect on the harmonious formation of the personality of a preschooler. But children should not just be passive observers, but also creators participating in the process of transformation natural materials into wonderful crafts.

Collected by children natural material– a storehouse for the development of fantasy, creativity, imagination. Manufacturing process from natural craft material has a positive effect on the development of artistic and aesthetic feelings, develops fine motor skills, attention, creative activity and imagination, perseverance, logic and thinking. Children master new skills and abilities that will be useful to them in the future. By creating, children have the opportunity to look at the world around them through the eyes of a creator.

Crafts Children may not be entirely perfect, but they bring a lot of joy and positive emotions. And children's positive attitude will be even greater when they crafts made from natural materials will do it together with adults. Parents, at the first opportunity, go with the children to the forest, park, nature to admire the vast distances and fabulous beauty of forest paths. Parents they try to discover for themselves and their children the beauty of the crimson colors of autumn, intertwined with golden threads, decorated with the dark green of pine trees. With great pleasure they inhale the smell of mushrooms and rotten leaves, collect a collection of leaves of various shapes and colors, find twigs and snags that look like sculptures of animals and people. Children are very proud of their creativity crafts, discuss them with other pupils, tell how they and parents collected natural material how in the evenings they worked on every element of their crafts. The joy of meeting with nature will remain in the memory of children for a long time, awaken inquisitiveness, good feelings for all living things, pride in our Motherland.

And the implementation of creative crafts This is most evident when these works are exhibited at the preschool's fall exhibition. Autumn is the best time to hold such wonderful events. After all, in the forest, in the field, in the countryside you can find the most diverse natural material. Interesting exhibitions are held in all preschool institutions. We never cease to be amazed by the imagination of our children and parents. So I want to show some of the works of our students and their parents who took part in the exhibition of children's creativity at our preschool institution “What autumn has given us!”

I wish you all creative success!

Publications on the topic:

Preschool children really like crafts made from natural materials, since they can be created from what they themselves find in the park.

Natural material gives us great opportunities in the comprehensive development of preschool children. This is not only knowledge of the environment.

Autumn is the most golden time of the year, it is not for nothing that poets and artists glorify it in their works. Autumn gives us very beautiful natural ones.

The origins of children’s abilities and talents are at their fingertips” V. D Sukhomlinsky These words can rightfully be said about my children.

Autumn is a wonderful time for creativity! So many colors, materials, ideas, fantasies from nature itself! We just need to take a closer look and listen.

Municipal budgetary preschool educational institution kindergarten No. 24 st. Kavkazskaya municipal formation Kavkazsky district.