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In the summer, most of the children rest at home, in the village, in the country house or in some resort town.

So that they have something to do, you can come up with various crafts, which will not only be, but which will also remind you of summer in the future.

Other than that, you can make crafts that kids can play with and have fun with. Here are some very interesting summer crafts for children:

Crafts for the summer. Paper fruits.

You will need:

Paper plates

Acrylic paint or gouache (red, orange, green, lemon, yellow, white)

Colored cardboard (yellow, orange, green, pink, white)

Markers (brown, yellow, orange)

Scissors

Glue stick.

1. Take paper plates and start coloring them - one red, the other orange, and so on. Choose any color that matches the fruit you have chosen.

You may need to apply a second coat by leaving the plates to dry and then adding a second coat.

If you want to color the paper plate like kiwi, then you need a mixture of green and white.

2. Place a paper plate on a piece of colored cardboard and trace around it to make a circle. Follow the instructions below for each fruit:

Apple:

Cut a circle out of white paper that is 1 to 1.5 cm smaller than the paper plate.

Use a glue stick to glue the white circle to the red plate.

Cut the plate in half and draw in the seeds with a black or brown felt-tip pen.

Orange:

Cut a circle out of orange cardboard, slightly smaller than the diameter of the plate.

Fold the circle in half and in half again, and then in half a third time.

Unfold once and use scissors to cut out the center sections of each triangle (see image).

Unfold your blank completely and glue it to the orange plate.

You can finish the seeds with an orange felt-tip pen.

Lemon:

Repeat all steps for the orange using yellow paper and a felt-tip pen.

Kiwi:

Cut a circle out of green paper that is slightly smaller than the paper plate.

Fold the circle in half and cut an oval at the center of the fold.

Lay out the paper, draw the seeds with a brown felt-tip pen.

Glue the blank to a light green plate.

Watermelon:

Cut out the pink paper circle, making it slightly smaller than the paper plate.

Glue the circle to the green plate.

Cut the plate in half.

Use a brown felt-tip pen to draw the seeds.

And here's another thing that can be made from paper plates:

DIY summer crafts. Sun.

You will need:

Multiple branches

Twine

Yellow, red and orange fabrics

Scissors

Thread and needle (optional).

1. Collect 8 branches, about 1 meter long (as small as possible).

2. Lay all branches on a flat surface so that they form a star.

3. Connect the branches together using twine. First, connect the 2 branches in the shape of a cross, and then add two more branches in the shape of an X.

Here is one way to connect the sticks with a string:

4. Use scissors to cut the fabric into strips of any width. In this example, the strips are 5-6 cm wide. You can tie the strips together to make one long strip.

5. Begin to "knit" your sun, wrapping the connected branches with a cloth. First tie one end of the fabric to the center of your twig sprocket, and start winding the strip in a spiral pattern.

When you have tied the sun, simply tie the end of the fabric strip to any branch.

Crafts for kindergarten for the summer. Aquarium.

You will need:

Cardboard box

Colored cardboard

Buttons

Pencil (to draw fish)

Scissors (to cut fish)

Fishing line or strong thread (to attach one end to the button and the other to the fish)

A utility knife or sharp-edged scissors (to make cuts in the box)

Scotch tape (to secure fragile spots on the box)

Double-sided tape (to attach the craft to the wall).

Crafts in the summer for children

You will need:

Toilet paper rolls

Beads

Tubule (cocktail)

Ice cream sticks and scotch tape to connect the sticks.

DIY crafts for children 10 years old and older. Stained glass.

You will need:

Paper plates

Scissors

Self-adhesive foil or wide tape

Plants.

1. Cut a circle out of a paper plate.

2. Cut a circle slightly larger than the plate from the self-adhesive tape.

3. Turn the plate over and carefully glue the plastic to it so that it does not touch anything other than the plate itself.

Instead of oilcloth, you can use a wide tape - cut off several strips from it, and carefully and evenly glue them to the plate so that the strips hardly touch each other.

4. Turn the plate over and start attaching various leaves, flowers and other plants to the tape or oilcloth.

Summer. DIY crafts. Multicolored wind toy.

You will need:

A set of sticks for children's needlework (in this example, there are 200 of them)

Fishing line or other strong thread

Thick needle

Awl, screwdriver or drill with fine drill

Large beads (in this example, 5 pieces).

1. Make a small hole in the center of each stick so that a needle and thread can be pulled through.

2. Pass the needle and thread through the large bead and place the bead in the middle of the thread.

3. Connect the ends of the thread and pull the twinned thread through the holes in the sticks. You can stretch first through 10 sticks of one color, then 10 sticks of a different color, and so on.

4. When you have threaded all the sticks, it's time to add 4 more beads (you can use as many beads as you like).

5. Tie the ends of the thread into a knot and make a loop to hang the craft.

6. Adjust the sticks so that they resemble a spiral staircase.

Enjoy your craft when the breeze blows and it starts spinning and the colors shimmer.

Children's hand-made articles on the theme "Summer". Toy jellyfish.

You will need:

Plastic bag

Plastic bottle

Scissors

Blue food coloring.

Below the instructions for creating a jellyfish, you will also find a video with a detailed explanation.

1. Place the bag on a table and cut off the bottom (bottom) or, if the bag has a handle, cut off the top to make a square.

2. Cut the bag into two equal pieces.

3. Take one piece so that a small ball forms in the middle of it. Wrap this ball with thread at the base.

4. Cut the bottom (everything under the "ball") into a fringe to create tongs for your jellyfish.

5. Fill the bottle with water and tint it with blue food coloring.

6. Pour some water into the "head" of the jellyfish and put the craft in the bottle. Close the cover.

Almost all children love to be creative, tinkering with a variety of materials, doing interesting crafts with their own hands. A ten-year-old child has various skills in working with paper, glue, plasticine and colored paper, natural and applied materials are more perfect. Therefore, crafts for children 10 years old are intricate and complex in technique.

Crafts from paper 10 years: painting "Dove"

To complete such a voluminous picture, you will need:

• a sheet of colored and white paper;
• white napkins;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• glue.

A wonderful symbol of peace is now to settle in your home!

Crafts for boys 10 years old: "Pirate ship"

Having made several of these ships, you can arrange a competition in a bath or a large puddle on the street. For the manufacture of the vessel you will need the following materials:

• milk tetrapak;
• colored paper;
• foil;
• Matchbox;
• cocktail straw;
• wire;
• scissors;
• pencil;
• ruler;
• Scotch;
• glue.

Now you can go sailing around the world across the distant seas and oceans! And so that the "wave" does not wet the pirate ship, its sides can be pasted over with tape.

Crafts for a 10 year old girl: "Bouquet on the windowsill"

Girls, like all representatives of the beautiful half of humanity, adore flowers. Surely in every house there are cardboard egg trays, and which you can create beautiful inflorescences. In addition to egg packaging, you will need it.

Hello everyone. I decided today to please the boys and their parents. Now you will receive a great charge of creative energy that will require immediate application. You will be overwhelmed with wonderful craft ideas for boys. Today we find ourselves in the paradise of boyish ideas and tricks. You will do cool things with your own hands and with your boys. It will be great and not boring. Just for today - crazy crafts for boys especially for you. The best ideas collected in one article. I arranged them by topic, robots separately, ships, planes, cars, dinosaurs, sharks, skeletons and Indians separately. Everything that makes our boys happy and enthusiastic.

Crafts for boys.

Idea package # 1

ROBOTS.

From ordinary boxes, from shoes, from tea, from milk or juice, from toothpaste, from cream, from sweets - you can make wonderful ROBOTS.

As a raw material base, you will need various complementary items from home trash - yogurt jars, lids, milk bottles, egg cassettes, cocktail tubes.

Such crafts for boys will turn into an exciting family game "Make a Home Robot". Created by the collective intelligence (grandfather, grandmother, dad, mom, son), this AI will become a member of your family.

And how many story games you can come up with with his participation, how many burning and chilling stories you can beat - your child will forget about the console and the tablet for a long time. After all, here you can control a boxed enforcer in real life, in the 3D reality of a tangible toy world.

Relieve your grandfather, unload the balcony from valuable trash. Let grandfather finally say with pride: "You see, it was not in vain that I kept it all these years - it came in handy."

Imagine, dare. Create DIY crafts for your boys. Laugh, have fun, have fun. Just don't fight. Don't let the creative disputes between two violent robotics designers lead to quarrels. Let the elder give way to the younger - after all, this is an educational game for children - let them develop their vision. Who knows, it may be during these hours of creative design that the seed of the future outstanding robot-creator will be born in your child.

Crafts for boys.

Idea package # 2

DINOSAURS.

The era of relict forests and large-sized dinosaurs has always attracted children's minds. Eyes wide open your boys are watching dinosaur horror movies. They will love these cute animal crafts for children. For kids, you can prepare the craft "Dinosaurs from plastic plates" Details of the neck, legs and tail are attached with sticky tape. The plate is covered with paint (so that the gouache does not roll down the smooth surface of the plastic into ingots-droplets, add a little liquid soap to it).

This dinosaur craft can be PUT ON LEGS. If you first cut the toilet paper roll into halves (pierce it with nail scissors and cut it in a ring). And then in these halves of the bushings, make vertical shallow cuts (on both sides of the upper circle) - and insert the plane of our dinosaur into these cuts. Now your boys can play with this craft like a toy. To prevent dried gouache from staining your hands and clothes, spray it with hairspray, so the paint will fix and will not smudge.

Here is another option for DIY crafts - dinosaurs from toilet paper rolls. Also a quick and easy craft for boys, which they can do themselves if they are already 6 years old and have experience with scissors. Give them just a silhouette - they'll cut it out of the cardboard themselves. They will make a slit in the rolls and insert a silhouette there. The dinosaur legs are cut from the second roll - so they are immediately obtained with the desired bend and firm in material.

And here's another great volumetric craft for boys - a dinosaur made of three toilet paper rolls. The master class in the photo below shows everything in detail. You can repeat this craft step by step.

You can also make a fun toy from a toilet paper roll. On the edge of the roll we glue strips of crepe paper (it is thin and soft) - and when we blow into the roll, the paper will develop like the flames of a fire-breathing dragon.

Here's another cheap and practical way to make beautiful dinosaurs like a 3D mockup. Cut and assemble with your own hands like a volumetric puzzle.

As we can see, all the details are cut from ordinary rough packaging cardboard. And then they gather at the slits in each other.

You can draw a SILHOUETTE SKETCH on the draft yourself - according to your own design. Or flip through pictures of dinosaur drawings and take the silhouette idea from there. And then the main thing is to add legs to the silhouette - which are simply inserted into the slots on the ABDOM - in the front closer to the neck and slightly behind, not very close to the tail (as in the photo below). Draw everything at random. All the same, the structure will turn out - and all the same it will stand and not fall.

And here's another quick do-it-yourself craft made of paper or cardboard. A dinosaur that is carved from a flat sheet. And then it bends along the lines into a three-dimensional figure that stands steadily on its paws and tail. Great craft for boys.

Here is a drawing diagram for this craft.

Or else, according to the same principle, a plane figure is folded in half and we get a volumetric craft on legs.

Crogodiles are dinosaurs that have survived to this day. You can create them yourself from ordinary cardboard egg cassettes. The design can be anything you want. The main thing is the presence of the mouth, which opens and the back.

Crafts for boys.

Idea package # 3

SPIDERS.

Spider disgust has always attracted boys. Throwing a toy spider to make the girl next door screech - what could be more fun.

The craft helps to remove phobias and it is also pleasant to do it, and then show it. I have a palm-sized spider. - Yes, you are persecuting, this does not happen. - I give a tooth, I can show. On a bet.

Such a dispute is easy to win, because the conditions do not say that the spider must be alive and real.

Crafts for boys with spiders is a theme that can be played with different craft techniques. For example, painting a paper disposable plate (we draw a spider web on it) and an applique made of handprints. This craft will appeal to kids. They love to tinker with paints.

And here are cute spiders from a roll of toilet paper, or rolled from a sheet of black cardboard. We fold a sheet of black cardboard, fasten it with a stapler. We bend the top of the roll from the front and from the back to the inside (we get ears at the corners of the roll). We cut the lower part of the roll into legs, cut off the excess front part.

You can make a spider from a strip of black cardboard and black paper. A simple DIY craft. We staple the cardboard strip into the ring. Children cut out the legs and eyes, bend the legs and paste them into the inside of the ring. Eyes are glued to the facade.

Spiders can be made from anything and have different designs. Feel free to experiment. Whatever you come up with, in any case it will look like a spider - because there are legs and eyes.

Crafts for boys.

Idea package # 4

MONSTERS and UFOs.

Cute monsters are the love of all boys. Crafts with monsters and aliens are always interesting. And most importantly, there is no limit to imagination, because there are no strict kakons in the structure and appearance of monsters. It can be absolutely anything, with any number of legs and eyes. It's great.

Aliens are monsters from other planets. From the point of view of the scientific and technical community, the most interesting thing about aliens is the design of their ships. Let's make a FLYING PLATE with the boys.

We take disposable dishes with a deep bottom - two bowls make an excellent flying machine. A transparent jar of jelly or ice cream will become a cabin in which you can put a real monster (stick it on plasticine so that it does not dangle in zero gravity).

Any design, any household products will be suitable for the construction of an intergalactic omnibus. (By the way, the McDonald's cocktail lid already has an excellent dome shape, there is a convenient hole in the center). Here is a master class below on how to create such an interesting craft for boys with your own hands.

Your flying ships can fly on a secret sabotage mission, steal all the animals from your toy farmland. UFOs love beef too.

Cut the pieces of cardboard into rectangles. We bend each rectangle 2 times (to get a rectangular edge). Now we put each bent module on top of each other - slightly overlapping - with an oblique overlay on the adjacent piece, we get 8 squares. You have already understood that the overlap should be such that the remaining edge of the cardboard coincides with the cell-sector of the umbrella.

Crafts for boys.

Idea package 5

INDIANS.

Wild Wild West. Awesome callsign of Native American strikers. The rustle of ambushed observers. The quiet snort of horses. The world of the Indians - wigwams, drums, beads made of bones and teeth - is a real boy's paradise. Let's make crafts on Indian themes with the boys. Great sturdy masks for real totem leaders.

Cut out the masks from the same packaging cardboard. And a lot of small decor, all this decorative decor is glued to the mask - do not forget the bags under the eyes, the stripes on the forehead and cheeks are a classic folk make-up.

When all the details are glued, it is necessary to smooth out the sharp edges of the cardboard, and close the corrugated-cut holes. To do this, we spread the craft with PVA glue and glue it over with thin newspaper scraps or toilet paper. Next, dry and cover with colored gouache. Be sure to spray with hairspray - so that the gouache does not rub off on clothes and hands. Kids will love to color and design the mask with their own hands and brains.

We make horses for Indians from plastic bottles. This is how it is in the photo below. The beer bottle folds. It is worn too much on a sturdy stick (fixed with tape or electrical tape). We cut out the ears and eyes from any material (cardboard, rubber, dense fabric) and glue it on the horse's face. We add a mane from a washcloth, fur, thread, rubber cut into a fringe, etc.

If you have a suitable wool sock, then the horse can turn out to be generally almost real, with wool and a soft nose, and you can sew a bridle from the straps from the old mother's bag to it. In general, a wonderful horse for an Indian leader. Now you can kill the pale-faced invaders and let the spirits of the ancestors be on your side.

Crafts for boys.

Idea package 6

SKELETONS.

Skeletons in coffins are a must for every child. After all, it is necessary to train courage and bravery in this complex and increasingly complex world. Children are drawn to the terrible in order to develop beneficial immunity. Let's help our boys and channel this craving into a creative direction.

Let's make horror with our own hands. To understand that everything terrible is simple. It's just someone's deliberate provocation, and there is no need to be afraid, but you need to go and figure it out. And who should be given in the face. There is nothing to scare us.

So the first craft is a skeleton mask. Skull with a radiant smile. Here we just take a disposable plate, draw a skull, cut out the excess, cut holes for the eyes. We strengthen the side parts of the mask with layers of adhesive tape, make holes in this fortified place and insert an elastic band onto the knot.

And here is the principle by which all volumetric masks are created. Let's create a skull quickly and easily.
To get a convex shape from a flat sheet, we make cuts along the round edge of the skull. And then we impose these cuts with an offset on top of each other (we fix them with glue or double-sided tape, you can use a stapler). After that, we put pieces of torn newspaper or toilet paper on top of the PVA glue - again we spread PVA glue on top and also add newspapers or paper. The more layers you make, the stronger and more reliable your mask will be.

After that, dry and cover with white paint (acrylic or gouache, just sprinkle the gouache with hairspray to fix the paint).

It is better to buy PVA glue in a bucket at a hardware store - this way you will save 4 times. All PVA are the same for construction and stationery and universal.

And here's another scarecrow craft for boys. You can quickly and easily draw it or print it from the template in the photo below.

You can also make such a cute skeleton on threads. Just draw it with a black marker on thick cardboard and embed it. Behind, along the line of the shoulders and the line of the pelvis, glue the tubes from the cocktail (horizontally), stretch the ropes in them and hang the limbs of the arms and legs of the skeleton on them.

And here is a skeleton applique for fun crafts. Made from cotton swabs and paper. Such an applique can be a birthday card to a friend with the inscription-wish "Live up to 100 years like this skeleton."

From plastic containers and pieces of wire (for fasteners), you can assemble a pretty skeleton with your own hands. Any bottle from liquid cleaners and detergents will work to create such a heartbreaking companion. Just do not hang it in a dark corridor, before the arrival of your beloved grandmother.

And here is another craft for those who are not too lazy to draw drawings. A cute skeleton made of white cardboard will delight your child. You can play with it for a long time and excitingly.

Crafts for boys.

Idea package 7

SHARKS.

Sharks are dangerous creatures. And what boy does not like extreme dangerous things.

You can learn to draw a shark. Like this with an open, aggressive mouth.

And here is an interesting craft with sharks for kindergarten. All the boys are crazy about this art activity. Here, with paints, first we draw a white circle in the center, then a light blue circle around it, then a bright blue, then blue, then a dark blue. Thus, we get centric circles from pale to deep blue. It looks like the sun through the depths of the sea. Now we glue the silhouettes of fish cut out of black paper - and we get a photo from the underwater world of sharks.

And here is an applique for a shark with scary teeth. Everyone and girls and boys love this craft in kindergarten. We glue the body. Then blue waves of water over the body. Then the eyes - along the edges of the body. Then an inverted mouth. And then the painstaking work of placing the teeth in the mouth.

And here is another similar craft, there is also a toothy mouth.

And here the teeth are in volumetric form - they are sharp, like real ones. It is done simply. The disposable plate folds in half. Its edges are cut into sharp teeth. The plate with its middle part is glued in the center of the shark silut, cut out of cardboard. A beautiful craft for boys.

And here is not just a craft, but a game device for the development of manual dexterity.

Here, a fish is tied to a shark's mouth on a string. And you need to throw it up and catch it with the mouth of a shark (like a baseball glove). As you noticed, the shark is made from a white kefir bottle. It is colored with a blue office marker. The fish is made from a kinder egg.

Idea package no. 8

MARINE crafts for boys.

All boys love ships. Become a captain, sail the oceans, hunt pirates, search for unexplored territories of mysterious islands. Sea romance is the lot of boys whose hair loves to flutter in the wind.

For the smallest boys, simple crafts that they can make themselves are suitable. Here is a craft idea based on a disposable plastic plate.

We take two plates, one whole and the second with a cut-through hole-window. Along the lower circumference of the plate with a hole, we make several holes with a hole punch (as in the photo below). We cover both plates with blue paint and glue them (in the manner of a flying saucer) with the bottoms in opposite directions. At the bottom of the back plate we make a boat applique. We lace the holes with blue knitting threads.

Making a three-dimensional applique painting of a pirate ship with skulls on black sails is fun for boys. You can use different materials in the applique - ice cream sticks, matches, pieces of fabric.

Egg cartons also make great ships. It is convenient to stick wooden skewers-masts into soft knobby packing elements. Hang a ribbon with flags on the strings. Set up a wardroom from a tea box, fasten an anchor, hang a lifebuoy, make a tower for an observer.

Packages metalized from the inside - from juice or milk - have excellent swimming properties. They do not allow liquid to pass through and can stay on real water for a long time.

Here is a great steamer based on milk cartons. We cover it with white paint, then we cover it zonal with blue. We install additional rooms in the form of tea or cookie boxes decorated under the same design. Add pipes from paper towel rolls, the craft ship for boys is ready to remove the mooring line.

And even large packages, from a TV, refrigerator (or just from several boxes), you can assemble and glue a real full-size ship, which can fit with a whole team of loyal friends. Just one evening of papa’s life - and now a serious ship is sailing through the living room, there are honks, cries of seagulls, cries of drowning passengers and pirate attackers. Parents will have to look for a quiet dock in a cramped kitchen.

Well, one more craft for real sea wolves. Toilet paper roll binoculars are a simple craft for boys.

These are the ideas for interesting crafts for boys you found in our article. As you can see, everything is quite simple and budgetary (no need to look for material in stores - you already have it at home. Interesting and funny things turn out. It is good to do such crafts in the summer at the dacha - when you need to come up with an idea for the boys from what is at hand.

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The idea of ​​making a bouquet of flowers out of paper is very good. For paper crafts, we need to purchase colored paper, cardboard, felt-tip pens, a stationery knife, tape, scissors and PVA glue.

Bouquet of paper

First, you need to make three blanks for each flower, two of which should be the same color, they should have six petals.

Place one blank in front of you, on top of which you glue a circle.

On the mug, first make holes for the eyes and mouth in the form of a smiley.

After gluing the mug with a flower, you need to paint your eyes with a black felt-tip pen, and then bend the petals inward.

The next step is to cut out the stem, which we further attach to the flower, and on the other side of the flower, attach the same blank.

You can also make leaves for a bouquet, which can be made from green paper.

First you need to draw an oval and cut it out, and then use scissors to make notches.

In order for the individual pieces of paper craft to become a single whole, tie the flowers with a ribbon or some other fabric for decorating the bouquet.

Such a bouquet will never fade and will be a great decoration for your home.

Simple crafts from plastic bottles

The simplest crafts for children include crafts from bottles.

For example, you can make a piggy bank from a bottle, which requires only a marker, a stationery knife, dice (4 pieces), a small bottle, glue and colored paper.

The first step is to cut a straight line, the width of which can be 5 centimeters, and the length of this line should be enough to grip the bottle.

Draw eyes with a marker, and draw nostrils on the bottle cap. Using a clerical knife, cut a hole for coins.

As legs for the pig, you need to attach the dice with glue.

Note!

This craft develops the child's imagination, and is also useful in everyday life.

Ball of threads

The craft can be used as a lampshade for a lamp or simply hung as a decoration.

A ball of threads is made very simply, you will need colored threads, a ball, transparent glue to make it.

First, we need to inflate the balloon and tie its tip so that the air does not come out.

Then the inflated ball must be wrapped with threads, after which glue is applied to the surface of the ball and wait until it dries.

Note!

Now you need to separate the ball from the threads, to do this, just pierce it with a needle and everything is ready for the craft.

Plasticine gnome and cones

As a simple DIY craft, you can make a gnome. For crafts, you will directly need a pine cone, light-colored plasticine, pieces of fabric, glue and a brush.

First of all, the child should roll a ball out of a piece of plasticine, after which it is necessary to make indentations on the ball using a brush for the nose, eyes and mouth.

At the next stage of our craft, you need to attach the resulting head to the top of the cone.

Then the child should cut a triangle out of the fabric and glue it on the sides, as a result, a cone should be obtained. The cone will play the role of a cap for our character.

Note!

At the end, it is necessary to make mittens from fabric, and then attach them to the cone using plasticine and our gnome from the cone is ready.

Paper bookmark

As a simple craft for kindergarten, a paper bookmark is perfect. For children to be able to make such a simple craft, they will need a pencil, a ruler, colored paper, scissors and glue.

To begin with, children should draw a square measuring 20 by 20 centimeters.

Then divide the resulting square into 4 identical parts using a pencil and a ruler, as a result there will be 4 squares measuring 5 by 5 centimeters.

The second step is to divide the upper right and lower left squares in such a way as to get triangles, that is, you need to draw a line diagonally from the upper corner to the lower corner.

We do not need triangles with the outer side and can be crossed out.

Then it is necessary to cut out a figure from paper without taking into account the crossed out triangles.

The upper triangle needs to be trimmed. If everything is done correctly, then the paper will be in the shape of a diamond, to which two triangles are glued.

The next step is to fold all the triangles in half, and then alternately put them on the tip of the rhombus. You should get a pocket that will fit over the end of the page of the book.

To make the bookmark original, children can be advised to cut some kind of applique from colored paper.

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In the summer, most of the children rest at home, in the village, in the country house or in some resort town. So that they have something to do, you can come up with various crafts that will not only be interesting to craft but which will also remind you of summer in the future. Other than that, you can make crafts that kids can play with and have fun with. Here are some very interesting summer crafts for children:

Crafts for the summer. Paper fruits.

You will need:

Paper plates

Acrylic paint or gouache (red, orange, green, lemon, yellow, white)

Colored cardboard (yellow, orange, green, pink, white)

Markers (brown, yellow, orange)

Scissors

Glue stick.

1. Take paper plates and start coloring them - one red, the other orange, and so on. Choose any color that matches the fruit you have chosen.

You may need to apply a second coat by leaving the plates to dry and then adding a second coat.

If you want to color the paper plate like kiwi, then you need a mixture of green and white.

2. Place a paper plate on a piece of colored cardboard and trace around it to make a circle. Follow the instructions below for each fruit:

Apple:

Cut a circle out of white paper that is 1 to 1.5 cm smaller than the paper plate.

Use a glue stick to glue the white circle to the red plate.

Cut the plate in half and draw in the seeds with a black or brown felt-tip pen.

Orange:

Cut a circle out of orange cardboard, slightly smaller than the diameter of the plate.

Fold the circle in half and in half again, and then in half a third time.

Unfold once and use scissors to cut out the center sections of each triangle (see image).

Unfold your blank completely and glue it to the orange plate.

You can finish the seeds with an orange felt-tip pen.

Lemon:

Repeat all steps for the orange using yellow paper and a felt-tip pen.

Kiwi:

Cut a circle out of green paper that is slightly smaller than the paper plate.

Fold the circle in half and cut an oval at the center of the fold.

Lay out the paper, draw the seeds with a brown felt-tip pen.

Glue the blank to a light green plate.

Watermelon:

Cut out the pink paper circle, making it slightly smaller than the paper plate.

Glue the circle to the green plate.

Cut the plate in half.

Use a brown felt-tip pen to draw the seeds.

And here's another thing that can be made from paper plates:

DIY summer crafts. Sun.

You will need:

Multiple branches

Twine

Yellow, red and orange fabrics

Scissors

Thread and needle (optional).

1. Collect 8 branches, about 1 meter long (as small as possible).

2. Lay all branches on a flat surface so that they form a star.

3. Connect the branches together using twine. First, connect the 2 branches in the shape of a cross, and then add two more branches in the shape of an X.

Here is one way to connect the sticks with a string:

4. Use scissors to cut the fabric into strips of any width. In this example, the strips are 5-6 cm wide. You can tie the strips together to make one long strip.

5. Begin to "knit" your sun, wrapping the connected branches with a cloth. First tie one end of the fabric to the center of your twig sprocket, and start winding the strip in a spiral pattern.

When you have tied the sun, simply tie the end of the fabric strip to any branch.

Crafts for kindergarten for the summer. Aquarium.

You will need:

Cardboard box

Colored cardboard

Buttons

Pencil (to draw fish)

Scissors (to cut fish)

Fishing line or strong thread (to attach one end to the button and the other to the fish)

A utility knife or sharp-edged scissors (to make cuts in the box)

Scotch tape (to secure fragile spots on the box)

Double-sided tape (to attach the craft to the wall).

Crafts in the summer for children

You will need:

Toilet paper rolls

Beads

Tubule (cocktail)

Ice cream sticks and scotch tape to connect the sticks.

DIY crafts for children 10 years old and older. Stained glass.

You will need:

Paper plates

Scissors

Self-adhesive foil or wide tape

Plants.

1. Cut a circle out of a paper plate.

2. Cut a circle slightly larger than the plate from the self-adhesive tape.

3. Turn the plate over and carefully glue the plastic to it so that it does not touch anything other than the plate itself.

Instead of oilcloth, you can use a wide tape - cut off several strips from it, and carefully and evenly glue them to the plate so that the strips hardly touch each other.

4. Turn the plate over and start attaching various leaves, flowers and other plants to the tape or oilcloth.

Summer. DIY crafts. Multicolored wind toy.

You will need:

A set of sticks for children's needlework (in this example, there are 200 of them)

Fishing line or other strong thread

Thick needle

Awl, screwdriver or drill with fine drill

Large beads (in this example, 5 pieces).

1. Make a small hole in the center of each stick so that a needle and thread can be pulled through.

2. Pass the needle and thread through the large bead and place the bead in the middle of the thread.

3. Connect the ends of the thread and pull the twinned thread through the holes in the sticks. You can stretch first through 10 sticks of one color, then 10 sticks of a different color, and so on.

4. When you have threaded all the sticks, it's time to add 4 more beads (you can use as many beads as you like).

5. Tie the ends of the thread into a knot and make a loop to hang the craft.

6. Adjust the sticks so that they resemble a spiral staircase.

Enjoy your craft when the breeze blows and it starts spinning and the colors shimmer.

Children's hand-made articles on the theme "Summer". Toy jellyfish.

You will need:

Plastic bag

Plastic bottle

Scissors

Blue food coloring.

Below the instructions for creating a jellyfish, you will also find a video with a detailed explanation.

1. Place the bag on a table and cut off the bottom (bottom) or, if the bag has a handle, cut off the top to make a square.

2. Cut the bag into two equal pieces.

3. Take one piece so that a small ball forms in the middle of it. Wrap this ball with thread at the base.

4. Cut the bottom (everything under the "ball") into a fringe to create tongs for your jellyfish.

5. Fill the bottle with water and tint it with blue food coloring.

6. Pour some water into the "head" of the jellyfish and put the craft in the bottle. Close the cover.

Video instruction:

DIY crafts for children 5 years old and older. Fish and flower.

You will need:

Plastic caps

Colored cardboard

Scissors

PVA glue

Sequins (optional).

1. Cut a triangle out of yellow cardboard and prepare a sheet of blue cardboard.

2. Glue to the blue sheet of cardboard the round bottle cap - the body of the fish, and next to it the triangle - the tail.

3. If you wish, you can glue a toy eye or use a felt-tip pen to draw it, or a piece of plasticine.

4. You can also decorate the fish with glitter - it is better to use glitter glue right away.

5. The composition on blue cardboard can be supplemented with a few more fish and algae from green paper. For algae, you can cut out strips of green paper, crush them along and glue them.

6. Bubbles can be made using regular cocktail straws and white paint.

In the same way, you can make the "Flower" applique:

Craft on the theme of summer. Multicolored butterflies.

You will need:

Cardboard sleeve (from toilet paper or paper towels)

Colored or wrapping paper

Scissors

Simple pencil

Cardboard (plain or colored)

Colored ribbon

Toy eyes (optional).

1. Take the grommet and wrap it with colored paper. Cut off any excess and glue the sleeve with bright paper. You now have the torso of a butterfly.

2. You can glue the toy eyes. If they are not there, you can use a felt-tip pen to draw them, or play dough.

3. Cut 2 pieces of ribbon, knot one end of the ribbon on each piece. Glue both pieces to the inside of the sleeve with the knots outward to form the butterfly antennas.

4. Draw the wings of a butterfly on a piece of colored cardboard and cut them out.

5. You can decorate the wings with flowers made of colored paper or colored cardboard.

6. Glue the wings to the torso and you're done!

DIY crafts for the summer. Dinosaurs in blocks of ice.

You will need:

- little dinosaurs and other toys

Plastic container

Food coloring

Freezer

1. Fill a plastic container one third full with water, add blue food coloring and stir. Place one type of toy, such as sea animals, in the freezer.

2. When the water is frozen, take out the container, fill another third with water, add green food coloring, stir and put other animals, such as farm animals, into the water, put the container in the freezer.

3. When the water of the second layer is frozen, take out the container and fill the last third of it with water, add the blue dye, stir and put the third type of animal, dinosaur, into the water, and put it back in the freezer.

4. When the third layer is frozen, you can take out a block of ice and give it to the children, so that they use toy tools to look for hidden animals.