Winter in our region lasts a long time. And what can you do with your baby on long winter evenings? Why not start making winter crafts together with him? Even preschool children can make them with their own hands. Many parents will need winter crafts for kindergarten. Therefore, the ideas presented below will be very useful. You just need to set aside one evening and start creating magic together with your beloved baby.

Material selection

Typically, winter is associated with snowflakes, snow, winter sports, snowdrifts and the New Year. Based on this, it is necessary to select materials to implement ideas.

The easiest way would be to make a panel or drawing. But it should not be simple, but made using some interesting technique. The drawing canvas can be filled in:

• Mankoy.
• Cotton pads.
• Plain water.
• Crushed eggshell.
• Sugar and much more.

The use of these materials involves gluing them to a cardboard base.

New Year's installations are a favorite type of creativity for children. To do this, you just need to take an unnecessary empty box, for example, a shoe box, and cut off two walls from it. This will leave a floor with two walls at an angle. From this you can make the basis for an amazing winter landscape, forest or scene. You can use cotton wool as snow, trees and houses can be made from cotton swabs or newspapers rolled into a tube and painted with brown paint on top.

Crafts can also be made from empty plastic bottles or paper, from burnt out light bulbs - literally from anything that can be found at home. For example, from a plastic bottle and light bulbs you can get an unusual penguin or dog. From threads you can make three-dimensional figures of snowmen, as well as unusual interesting panels using the technique of thread printing or from thread crumbs.

It's worth taking a closer look , from which you can create crafts with your own hands on a winter theme.

Burnt out light bulbs

It is very good if you have a large light bulb. You can make a real New Year's penguin out of it. To make such a craft you will need the following tools:

Step-by-step instruction

The unusual penguin is ready!

Plastic bottles

You can also make a penguin or Santa Claus from plastic bottles. The scheme is quite simple and similar to the previous one. For this craft, you need to take two empty plastic bottles of the same size and shape. From one you need to cut off only the bottom, and cut the second in half and use tape or glue to glue the top and bottom of the first bottle to it. This will create a block.

Now it needs to be painted white and allowed to dry. In exactly the same way as with the light bulb, you need to draw the contours of the front part for the penguin. If you are making Santa Claus, then you need to draw a face. These parts remain white, and the rest is painted black for the penguin or red for Santa Claus. After this, you need to paint the face and draw other necessary details. A scarf and cap are put on top; if you made Santa Claus, then you need to glue on a beard from felt or cotton wool.

It turns out to be quite an interesting craft that can be easily made with your child from unnecessary things.

Panel made of cotton pads

It's hard to imagine winter without a snowman. Kids love to sculpt them in the yards and play in the snow, making lumps out of it. However, making this winter hero at home from scrap materials will be quite interesting and simple. For the creative process you will need:

Step-by-step master class on making a snowman

The unusual winter panel is ready!

Panel made of semolina, plasticine or thread

This is another interesting and exciting option for creating a winter-themed painting. The child will simply be delighted with this activity. To make such a craft, you need to take colored cardboard, a simple pencil, PVA glue, semolina or sugar.

Snowman made of threads

You can make it from threads. To do this you will need the following materials and tools:

Step-by-step manufacturing diagram

In principle, you can decorate such an original snowman at your own discretion, you just need to show your imagination.

Christmas trees made from balls of thread

For a children's exhibition, you can also make a composition in the form of a New Year tree from balls of thread. To make it you will need:

Step-by-step master class

A Christmas tree can be made without a base from a pot and a stem, while the cone will be made from balls. It will be much faster and easier.

New Year's wreaths

Such wreaths are classics of the genre. All New Year's fairs are literally inundated with them. Wreaths can decorate any room during the New Year holidays. Most often they are made from scrap materials; they can be used:

To make a New Year's wreath, you only need to understand the principle: first of all, the base is made from cardboard or a ready-made purchased foam ring, after which it is decorated at your own request. The selected elements are glued onto it quite tightly. They can be combined with each other; finally, the wreath can be decorated with a bow or ribbon on the side. The finished wreath is hung on the entrance or interior doors.

Child psychologists say that children should make crafts for school or kindergarten on their own, and parents should only help. According to experts, this affects the development and self-esteem of the baby.

New Year is a magical holiday for every child. You just can’t count how many crafts you can create for children’s exhibitions yourself. Children will be very happy to join the creative process. After all, any child loves to sculpt, draw and glue something.

Winter craft

Here you will find both New Year's crafts made from paper and crafts from unusual materials. Making such crafts will be interesting for both the youngest children (from 2 to 3 years old) and older children.

• Volumetric Christmas tree toys made of paper

For this craft, it is better to take the simplest templates - stars, Christmas trees, bells, balls, etc. It is necessary to prepare 4 templates for each Christmas tree decoration in advance. It is important that all 4 patterns are absolutely identical and symmetrical! Therefore, before cutting out, for example, a Christmas tree from paper, fold the piece of paper in half, and draw half of the Christmas tree on it, and then cut it out folded.

When the templates are ready (older children can cut them out themselves), invite your child to glue Christmas tree decorations from them. Don't forget to glue a ribbon or string inside so that the toy can be hung on the Christmas tree!

• Christmas tree toys made from dough

The process of making such toys is in many ways similar to baking. If your little one loves playing with dough, this craft is definitely for you.

To ensure that the toys are strong and can be painted, you need to prepare a special salty dough . There are many variations of salt dough recipes. But the main thing to remember when choosing a recipe: the more salt you add, the stronger and rougher the dough becomes. For drying simple Christmas tree decorations (as in the photo), in my opinion, this recipe is perfect:

1 cup flour

1 cup salt (Extra)

½ glass of water

If you plan to make toys with many small embossed parts, then you will need more. Soft dough is also good for playing if you do not plan to dry the toys at all.

So, having prepared the dough, roll it out and use molds to cut out figures from it. Don't forget to fasten the thread or ribbon inside the toy. To do this, make a small hole at the top with a knife or secure the thread at the back with a small extra piece of dough. You can also use a paperclip instead of thread.

You can dry the figures at room temperature, but this process will be very long (several days, or even weeks). The process will go faster if you put your Christmas tree decorations near the radiator, or even better, in the oven. At the same time, the temperature in the oven should be very low so that the toys do not crack. We dried the figures in the oven at 50 degrees with the door ajar, it took about 4 hours. It is important to place toys in and out of the oven when it is cold to avoid sudden temperature changes.

After drying, paint the toys with acrylic paints or gouache.

DIY Christmas tree decorations made from walnuts

For such New Year's toys, first of all, you need even halves of a walnut shell. Next, you need to prepare appropriate templates from cardboard - the silhouette of a turtle, fish, bear, sun, etc. The child is required to paint the shell with suitable paint (it is better to use acrylic paints or gouache) and attach them to a cardboard template. This is convenient to do using plasticine.

DIY bird feeder made from a plastic bottle

For a feeder competition for kindergarten, my daughter and I made just such a bird feeder.

Generally speaking, the majority of the feeders at the kindergarten competition were very sophisticated, and even an adult would have to work very hard to build them. When thinking about the idea of ​​decorating a feeder, I, as usual, was guided by the principle of accessibility for a small child. In fact, all you need to know to create such a feeder is to paint the bottle. And indeed Tasya enjoyed coloring the snowman from start to finish. But, of course, I helped her with this, and also painted on the eyes and carrots.

For the feeder we needed a five-liter plastic bottle and acrylic paints (the bottle is covered with one layer of paint).

It seems to me that this is the most popular craft on the Internet now. This is not surprising, because despite its festive appearance, the ball is quite simple to make. The main thing is to know a few secrets. First of all, you will need a glass jar (preferably close in shape to a ball) and a beautiful figurine that fits the size of the jar; for us it is a candle in the shape of a snow-covered Christmas tree. You will also need glitter, super glue or a glue gun, and glycerol(liquid), it is sold at the pharmacy.

Glycerin is necessary for the glitter to fall slowly and smoothly. When choosing sparkles, buy the smallest and lightest ones; large stars and other decorations will sink to the bottom of the jar too quickly.

First, you need to glue the figurine to the lid with glue (our candle did not succumb to super glue, but a glue gun coped with the task). Then fill the jar with water almost to capacity, add glycerin and glitter. Then screw the lid on and enjoy the beauty. Perhaps, here the adult only uses super glue; the child can handle everything else.

New Year's applications made from unusual materials

In fact, the materials are not so unusual, we always have them at hand - cotton wool, cotton balls, cotton pads, pieces of sponge, napkins, semolina. Applications with these materials look very wintery. Let me give you a few examples.

• Craft for the New Year “Snowflake” from pieces of sponge

For younger children, you can mark the lines on paper in advance on which to glue the sponge pieces.

Another option for winter crafts made from cotton pads.

• Mittens with cotton appliqué and lacing

For this craft, mom needs to make a preparation in advance: cut out mitten templates from cardboard and make holes in them with a hole punch.

Taisiya (she is now 3 years 2 months old) has lately had a real passion for embroidery on cardboard, so she made this craft with special pleasure.

• Winter craft from paper and napkins

Long winter evenings, a quiet family atmosphere, New Year's holidays - and now your desire awakens in us

Winter crafts with and for children

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Long winter evenings, a quiet family atmosphere, New Year's holidays - and now the desire to create unprecedented beauty with our own hands awakens in us. And if you add to your own imagination the huge mass of ideas with which the Internet is simply overflowing, then you can actually become addicted to homemade products. Moreover, you don’t need any unusual materials for this. Just the opposite: on winter crafts Anything in the house will do.

Such funny snowmen made from felt, socks and even salt dough.

A funny penguin made of colored paper will amuse a child and teach the basics of geometry.

Snow-white winter is our favorite time of year for many of us, and New Year is one of the best holidays. Just imagine: it’s frosty outside, the roads are snowy, everything is covered with huge snowdrifts, and the whole family has gathered in a warm, cozy house on a day off. And when the kids start fiddling with colored paper and scissors, normal parents will not be able to stay away and will definitely join in the needlework, which will bring pleasure to both themselves and the kids. The desire to create awakens even more with the appearance of a fluffy Christmas tree. That’s when the children with mom and dad open a real workshop of Santa Claus, so many Christmas tree toys, garlands, snowflakes and decorations for gifts appear from under their hands. Not only is it beautiful, but it also brings great joy to those making crafts and those who see them.

If you remember, we wrote in detail how to make a solution for crystals.

Our inventive mothers, if desired or necessary, can adapt any item for decoration. This is how New Year’s crafts FROM FIGURED PASTA PRODUCTS have become very popular. You can get creative with your child and make unusual toys and funny garlands. Even if you simply paint them gold or white and sprinkle them with frosted pieces, the tree will sparkle from them, and the baby will be simply delighted. For the little ones, simple toys made from cardboard templates are suitable. The child will be able to cut out figures from paper, felt or foil. You can also use unnecessary beads and buttons found at home, different in shape and color. The child can sew them according to his own taste to previously made figures. Then they must be hung on the tree in the place of honor.

Winter crafts from pasta

For crafts you will need pasta of different shapes, glue and glitter.

Children's winter crafts

For older guys, we can offer more serious kids winter crafts, requiring certain skills. This way, younger schoolchildren can easily cope with a New Year’s craft - SLIPPERS WITH SANTA CLAUS. Of course, they can be made “in an adult way” - from thick felt, insoles, padding polyester. But in our case, a simpler one is suitable - a souvenir version of slippers that can be hung, for example, for combs in the hallway. They are made either from thick fabric or cardboard. In this case, the child traces his foot on cardboard and cuts out the base. Then he cuts out the top of the slipper from another piece of cardboard, and you can offer him to cut out its shape according to the template you made in advance. Before connecting both blanks, the upper part is decorated to resemble the face of Santa Claus. To do this, you can take a braid of a suitable tone, thick fabric, colored paper, two white buttons and two black beads from which the eyes are made, multi-colored yarn, padding polyester for mustaches, beards and the edges of a hat. You can decorate everything with white gouache and glitter. If your child gives such a souvenir to his beloved grandparents, then their happiness will know no bounds.

Winter theater made of felt.

Beautiful New Year card.

And here is another postcard with a snowman.

A fun version of a New Year's craft - Christmas tree decorations FROM EGGSHELLS. First, the white and yolk are carefully blown out of a whole (fresh) egg through punctures at its ends. Then the most creative stage begins - decorating the shell. The easiest way is to cover the entire surface of the eggshell with small pieces of colored paper. You can glue different applications from the same colored paper. If you add cotton hair, a mustache, a beard and a paper cap to the drawn mouth, nose and eyes, you can get a cute gnome, clown, Santa Claus or someone else. You can also cover the egg with glitter, decorate it with finely chopped “rain”, various ribbons, and absolutely anything else you can get your hands on. You can also simply paint the shell, but not with watercolors or gouache. They do not adhere well to the surface of the egg, so oil or acrylic paint is more suitable. A thread for hanging the toy, first threaded through both holes, is secured at the lower end of the egg, for example, with a thread tassel or bead.

Sugar snowmen.

Do you still not know how to properly use plastic bottles?

But for an APPLE OF PARADISE, everything in the kitchen will do. This way you can crumple the foil and give it the shape of a small apple. On top it needs to be wrapped with a finishing layer of the same foil. A peppercorn is glued into the recess at the bottom of the apple, and two holes are pierced in the upper recess into which a stalk, a leaf and a fastening thread will be inserted. For the cutting, you can use a twig, a real tail from an apple or a piece of twine, and the leaf can be successfully replaced with a bay leaf, which is better tinted for greater naturalness. Now all that remains is to sprinkle the apple with snow. It can be replaced with scraps of paper, small polystyrene foam balls, or even ordinary granulated sugar. To prevent the snow from falling off, the apple should be coated with glue or clear polish (nail polish) and rolled in snow material prepared ahead of time. Moreover, you do not need to roll the entire apple, but only one side or the top. When the apple is dry, it will be ready to hang on the tree.

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DIY winter crafts for kindergarten. Crafts made from paper, snow and pine cones. Master classes with photos.

Origami

• Christmas tree

What do children associate with winter? Of course, the green beauty is the Christmas tree! This tree is a symbol of the New Year holidays and a good, cheerful mood. You can make a craft in the shape of a Christmas tree in various ways and from various materials. For the youngest children, you can offer the option of making a wonderful spruce tree from paper.

For the craft you will need:

• 1 sheet of cardboard,
• green paper,
• glue,
• scissors.

First of all, you need to roll a cone out of cardboard and glue it so that it holds its shape. It is best if an adult helps at this stage so that the base for the Christmas tree is smooth and neat.

Next, you need to cut out many circles of the same diameter from a sheet of green paper. It will be faster and easier to cope with this task if you fold the sheet into several folds, draw a circle and carefully cut it along the contour.

Starting from the bottom, evenly cover the cardboard cone with green circles.

The result is a beautiful green Christmas tree, which can serve as a table decoration or become part of a large New Year's composition.

You can add decorative elements to decorate the Christmas tree. For example, make small bows from thin satin ribbons and glue them in the form of toys. You can cut out small circles from colored paper of different colors and glue festive balls onto the Christmas tree, and make a decoration in the form of a red star on the top. Another option for decorations for a festive Christmas tree can be a string of beads, which will turn into a garland: one end must be secured at the top and evenly wrapped with a thread of beads around the cone to the bottom, where the thread should also be secured.

Christmas trees in 5 minutes from tanush.livejournal.

Beautiful winter appliques made of paper and felt.

• Snowman

In many kindergartens, walking time in winter is reduced, and sometimes, due to bad weather outside, it is necessary to completely cancel access to fresh air. It would be a good idea to make a group applique, which will serve as an excellent decoration for the room and at the same time allow you to develop the skills of working in one team and friendly mutual assistance.

The “snowman” composition is perfect for this, because an unlimited number of children aged 3 years and older can participate in its creation. This work is also useful because it is aimed at developing fine motor skills in children. By actively working with their hands, kids activate the functioning of the brain, which affects the improvement of logical thinking and speech.

To create a snowman you will need:

• sheets of white paper,
• black, orange and blue paper,
• scissors,
• pencils,
• glue.

Each child takes a sheet of white paper, a pencil and scissors. You need to place your left hand on the paper and trace it with a pencil to create an image similar to a glove.

Now you need to carefully cut out the resulting images from paper. This will be the basis from which the snowman's body will be formed in the future.

It's time to use the glue. The resulting paper “hands” must be connected in the shape of circles to make large, medium and small. To simplify the task, you can use a ready-made circle-shaped base made of white paper, onto which the elements cut out by the children are glued.

By connecting three circles together, you get a snowman. Now you need to add eyes, a nose and buttons to it. From black paper you need to cut out eyes and eyebrows for the snowman, orange paper will be used to make a “carrot nose.” Buttons for the snowman can be made from beautiful carved snowflakes. All you have to do is add a warm bucket hat and your wonderful snowman is ready!

Snow crafts

By clearing the paths in the kindergarten yard and dumping all the snow into one large snowdrift, you can show creativity and imagination and turn an ordinary pile of snow into a Christmas tree! To do this, you need to lightly compact the top layer of snow so that the Christmas tree is smooth and beautiful from all sides.

You can decorate a wonderful Christmas tree together with your children; to do this, you need to dissolve green gouache in water, and then paint the branches with a thick brush.

You can add various decorations to the tree, for example, festive balls. To do this, you need to cut circles from bright pieces of material. Attaching them to a snowy spruce is very simple, just wet the fabric well in water and place it on the snow. At sub-zero temperatures outside, the water will quickly turn into ice and securely attach the balls to the snow.

• Snow caterpillar

A cheerful caterpillar can become an original decoration for a walking area in a kindergarten. In order not to freeze while walking, young children need to move more and spend time actively in the fresh air.

The task of rolling snow globes will appeal to many kids; time will fly by with such an active activity. When the snow globes are ready, they need to be laid out in a curved line to form a caterpillar.

The first snowball will be a muzzle. It is convenient to make eyes, nose and mouth from plastic bottle caps.

You can decorate the cheerful caterpillar using paint dissolved in water; it is good to use gouache or food coloring. This water not only allows you to color a snow craft, but also perfectly holds the snow globes together and gives the entire structure strength.

Crafts from pine cones

• Little people

Cones serve as an excellent natural material for making crafts.

To make funny little people from pine cones you will need:

• cones,
• wire in soft winding - chenille wire,
• plasticine,
• paints,
• plastic spoons,
• ready-made eyes for making toys,
• Double-sided tape,
• plastic bottle cap,
• universal glue,
• scissors.

First of all, you need to paint the cone well; to do this, carefully paint over each scale on the cone with a brush. Before work, the cone must be thoroughly dried so that the paint does not stain your hands during the process.

Using glue, fix the pine cone in a vertical position in the plastic cover. When the glue has dried and the cone holds well in the lid, the upper part of the cone is cut off with scissors, and the resulting depression is filled with plasticine.

You need to cut off the handle from a white plastic spoon, leaving about 1 cm of length so that you can stick this part into the plasticine. This way the little man should have a face.

The next step is to work with the wire. To make the hands of a man, you need to cut two small pieces of wire about 5 cm long and attach them to the pine cone using plasticine. You can also make a warm hat for a little man from softly wound wire; to do this, you need to wind a piece of wire about 10 cm long in a spiral in the shape of a cone.

It is necessary to revive the little man; to do this, the eyes are fixed using small pieces of double-sided tape, drawn with felt-tip pens, or small balls of plasticine are glued in the form of a mouth and nose.

You can additionally decorate the little man with shiny snowflakes or stars, and add a scarf around his neck. The end result should be a cheerful little man who will bring a good mood and a charge of positive emotions throughout the winter!

We invite you to get creative and return a little to childhood, when any fluff is a ballerina, any box is a house, and any leaf is something magical and unusual. In childhood, imagination is very well developed. It’s better to make crafts on the theme of winter with your own hands for kindergarten together with your little ones. Children can suggest and come up with a lot, but the technical side of the issue is up to adults. Further in the article you will find descriptions of winter-themed crafts that you made yourself for kindergarten and many ideas and tips. All that remains is to set aside an evening and start creating magic together with your favorite little ones!

We associate winter with snow, snowflakes, snowdrifts and, of course, Happy New Year. Crafts for a competition or exhibition for a kindergarten on the theme of winter, which can be easily done with your own hands, should reflect these ideas. Based on this, we will select ideas and material for their implementation.

You can make a panel or a drawing. But this may not be a simple drawing, but made using an interesting technique. Here's what you can use to fill a canvas for a drawing or a panel on the theme of winter:

1. Semolina drawing.
2. Application made from cotton pads.
3. Application made of cotton wool.
4. Drawing from white crushed eggshell.
5. Drawing with sugar.

All these types of designs and applications involve gluing ingredients onto a base with a pattern applied with glue.

New Year's installations are a favorite type of creativity for kids. For it, you can take an empty unnecessary box and cut off 2 walls from it. There will be a floor with two walls at an angle. This will be the basis for an amazing fairy-tale landscape or scene. Snow can be made from cotton wool, houses and trees can be made from cotton swabs or newspapers rolled into a tube, painted with brown paint, or original logs. Further in the article a master class of one of these installations will be given.

Do-it-yourself winter-themed crafts for kindergarten can be made from paper or empty plastic bottles, from burnt out light bulbs, and generally from anything you find at home. Next, consider a penguin made from an empty plastic bottle and dogs made from light bulbs.

You can also make crafts on the theme of winter for kindergarten with your own hands from threads; photos of such crafts with descriptions are further in the article.

Craft “Winter's Tale”

And now we suggest looking at a photo and a detailed description of how to make some crafts on the theme of winter with your own hands for kindergarten.

We make things from what we have at home

We suggest using for crafts everything that is unnecessary in the house, for example, a burnt out light bulb. If there is a big paw, that’s very good. Let's turn her into a real New Year's penguin. What is needed for such magic:

• burnt out light bulb (preferably larger);
• acrylic paints or gouache and brushes;
• some firth or fabric in black, red and white;
• ribbon;
• glue (use a heat gun if possible).

So let's begin:

1. Paint the entire light bulb white and let it dry thoroughly.
2. With a pencil we draw the front part: the face and belly, which will remain white, the rest is painted black, except for the place where the light bulb is screwed into the socket. We paint this place with red paint. Let it dry.
3. Draw the eyes and beak and let dry.
4. We cut out oval wings from black felt or thick fabric and glue them on both sides.
5. Cut out a red rectangle for the scarf and cut the ends, tie the scarf.
6. We attach a ribbon to the top of the head and cover it with a strip of white felt or fabric on top. You can attach a pompom to the top of your head.

The funny penguin is ready.

Penguin from a plastic bottle

Now let's see how to make a penguin or Santa Claus from a plastic bottle. The scheme is very similar and simple. For this craft you will need 2 empty identical bottles. We cut off only the bottom from one, and cut the second in half and glue the bottom of the first eggplant to it with tape or glue. It turned out to be such a block.

Now we paint it white and let it dry. Then, in the same way as with the light bulb, we draw the contours of the front part for the penguin or the face if we are making Santa Claus. We leave them white, paint the rest either black (for the penguin) or red (for Santa Claus). Then we draw the face and draw other necessary details. We put on a cap and a scarf, if we made Santa Claus, then we glue on a beard from cotton wool or felt. These are some interesting crafts you can make with your children from unnecessary things.

Panel “Snowman made of cotton pads”

What is winter without a snowman! Children love to build snowmen in the yards and poke around in the snow, rolling lumps for him. But they will also really like making such a winter hero at home from scrap materials. What is needed for the creative process:

• thick cardboard for the base, light blue or dark blue;
• cotton pads;
• colored paper or thin felt;
• White paper;
• paints and brush;
• scissors;
• PVA glue.

Let's start building a snowman:

1. First, let's create a landscape around us. Cut out 2 colored rectangles from felt or paper and glue them onto cardboard. Cut out a brown tree trunk and glue it on.
2. We glue snow roofs on houses or half a cotton pad. We make the base of the snowman from two cotton pads. Glue on the snowman a cap made of felt or colored paper and a scarf.
3. We glue the discs as snowdrifts and snow on tree branches.
4. Cut out small snowflakes from white paper and glue them randomly.
5. Now all that remains is to paint the details: the snowman’s face, the windows.

A wonderful winter panel for the kindergarten is ready.

Winter panel made of semolina or sugar

Another fascinating and interesting option for a picture or panel on the theme of winter is painting with semolina or sugar. Kids will be delighted with this activity. To make such a panel, take colored cardboard, PVA glue, a simple pencil and sugar or semolina.

Draw any winter design on cardboard with a pencil. For children in kindergarten, the simplest one is possible. Then coat all the parts that need to be painted with glue. Now pour semolina or sugar boldly and thickly over the entire picture. You need to leave it like this until the glue dries. Then just lift and pour out all the remaining grains that did not stick.

You can make a panel with a winter theme from plasticine with your child. To do this, you will need thick cardboard as a base, plasticine and a simple pencil.

You need to draw a simple winter story on cardboard. Mom can help here. It could be a landscape, a Christmas tree, a snowman or any animal. And then decorate the picture, but not with paints, but with plasticine, as if rubbing small pieces of the desired color, filling in the details of the picture. A child can handle this well, only under the control of his mother.

A similar panel can be made from thread crumbs. Everything is exactly the same until the moment of coloring. Before coloring, you need to finely chop threads of different colors and place each color in its own container. Then coat each element of the design separately with PVA glue and apply crumbs of thread onto it. This is how we fill in all the elements of the picture.

Crafts from threads

Snowman made of threads

You can try to make a beautiful, openwork and large snowman from threads. What is needed for this:

• two balloons and polyethylene;
• white cotton threads;
• PVA glue;
• branches for pens;
• cap and scarf for decoration;
• buttons for eyes;
• orange paper to make the nose look like a carrot.

Let's start tinkering:

1. We inflate the balloons and wrap them in polyethylene.
2. Wrap the balls randomly with thread coated with PVA glue. The thread must be passed through a tube of glue and wound.
3. Let the balloons dry, burst the air base, and pull out the balloons from the inside through any gap.
4. Glue 2 balls together and place the snowman on a stable surface. To do this, you can glue a ring from a strip of thick cardboard.
5. Now we decorate the snowman with a cap and a scarf, and glue twigs instead of hands.
6. We glue the buttons in place of the eyes and nose with a carrot from a rolled up paper cone.

In general, you can decorate such a snowman at your own discretion.

Christmas trees made from balls of thread

Now let’s make a cozy, homely and Christmas tree from balls of thread. To do this you need:

• threads of different colors. It is better to take half-wool or acrylic;
• thick paper, from which we will make the base of a cone or a purchased polystyrene foam cone;
• any beads or flowers made from ribbons and tulle for decoration;
• thick wire;
• pot or empty low jar;
• fabric, mesh or tulle for decorating a pot.
• jute rope.
• glue in a gun.
• gypsum.

Let's start creating:

1. Let's make the base. First, beautifully bend a small piece of wire for the leg of the Christmas tree and wrap it with jute rope.
2. Dilute the gypsum thickly in a bowl and transfer the required amount into a Christmas tree pot, stick the stem in and wait until it dries.
3. We decorate the pot with fabric and decorate it with a cone or flower.
4. Now the Christmas tree itself. We make a cone out of paper or take a ready-made one from polystyrene foam and put it on the leg.
5. We wind balls from different threads. You can involve children in this activity; they will be happy to help.
6. Cover the cone tightly with balls, leaving no gaps.
7. All that remains is to decorate our cozy woolen beauty. Glue on beads, fabric flowers, or whatever you want.

You can make such a Christmas tree without a base from a pot and a stem, just a cone of balls. It's both easier and faster. You can add sisal balls to the balls, if you have them, or make balls from coffee beans by simply pasting over thick lumps of paper colored brown with coffee beans.

Winter New Year's wreaths

Such wreaths are classics of the genre. They decorate the room in winter, preparing for the New Year. They can be made from whatever is at hand; they can be used:

• spruce branches;
• cones;
• chestnuts;
• pieces of paper or cardboard;
• acorns;
• bay leaves;
• dried flowers;
• coffee beans;
• paper flowers:
• flowers made of fabric or ribbons;
• just branches;
• New Year's balls of different sizes;
• the same skeins of thread and so on.

To make a wreath, the main thing is to understand the principle: first we make a base out of cardboard or buy a foam ring from a craft store and decorate the base as you wish. You need to stick the selected elements tightly onto the base, you can combine them, and then decorate them with a ribbon bow on the side and hang them on a string.

This wreath can be sprayed with glitter varnish or gold or silver spray paint.