Paper crafts for children 3-4 years old

Babies at 3-4 years old are very active: they run, jump, frolic. Also, children at this age are very fond of creative activities that contribute to the development of imagination, help improve fine motor skills. They enjoy drawing with colored pencils, crayons, modeling from plasticine, making appliqués from colored paper and cardboard. Using simple materials, the child will be able to make a beautiful applique on their own. A simple children's craft can take its rightful place on the shelf, where numerous works of a growing child will be exhibited.

All babies have certain inclinations and individual imaginations. Creative work allows you to develop these abilities. In the process, children absorb new information for them, turn on fantasy, apply experience in practice.

Children love to make crafts using colored paper. Having chosen this material, you can make figurines of animals, birds, images of flowers, trees from it.

To make a butterfly, you should take:

• sample;
• multi-colored paper;
• cardboard;
• children's scissors;
• glue (stick or PVA);
• decorative elements (if desired).

Most often, when making crafts for kids of this age, a template is used that allows you to outline a future figure. With its help, the child will be able to independently draw the outlines of the butterfly, giving it a natural shape.

A child of this age may need help from a parent or caregiver. This applies to cutting out a figurine from cardboard.

Progress:

• it is necessary to take cardboard and cut out the outlines of a future butterfly from it using a template;
• in the same way, a figure should be cut out of colored paper according to the template;
• glue the blanks.

At this stage, you can complete the work by additionally decorating the craft: By coloring it with crayons, paints or felt-tip pens. But you can complicate the task by making the figure three-dimensional. To do this, you need to take a smaller template and also cut out the image of the butterfly.

The cut out workpiece is glued to the base. The result is a voluminous butterfly. It remains to finish the abdomen and head for her, they are cut out of brown or beige colored paper. The butterfly itself can have different colors. To make it look brighter, it is advisable to choose contrasting colors for the wings (in this case, bright green and blue).

All parts must be glued and left to dry for a few minutes.

The finished butterfly is decorated using ready-made blanks, sparkles, pieces of colored paper or confetti.

You can get a butterfly from this material by tracing the children's palms in advance, cutting them out and fixing them in the form of a fan.

A voluminous butterfly made of bright multicolored sheets of paper will look bright, unusual and interesting. You can definitely boast of such a craft by putting it on display. It is not difficult to make it. It is enough to cut strips of paper of different colors and glue them one by one to the picture.

The child during this period already has certain skills and abilities, therefore, tasks for children should be selected taking into account their age and capabilities. Children 3-4 years old will be happy to study together with adults. As an assignment, it is worth asking the kids to make a tree. It can be a flowering apple or cherry tree, an autumn tree with fallen leaves or with ripe fruits.

To make a tree, you will need:

• sheets of green, brown, red and yellow;
• adhesive composition;
• scissors;
• pencil.

The kid will only have to cut leaves of colored paper onto an apple tree and carefully glue them to the workpiece. Multi-colored confetti can be used as leaves.

For those who like to work with paints, you can draw a beautiful drawing of an apple tree on paper.

To do this, kids will need watercolors and a sheet of thick paper.

Making a watercolor painting is a snap. Toddlers will have to smear brown paint on one of their palms. Having made an imprint of the palm on a white sheet, you can get a tree trunk. The kids will have to wash their hands well and finish the drawing. This time, not the palms will be involved, but the fingers of the kids. Dipping them in bright colors, kids apply dot prints on the sheet to make colorful leaves.

Making paper crafts will become a fun activity for kindergarten children that will help them develop their creative activities. For children 3-4 years old, these classes will be very interesting, because they will be able to do amazing things with their own hands. Anything can be used as a material, from colored or crumpled paper to natural materials. To make the craft look more advantageous, you should teach the child to perform all the actions step by step. This will not only make the figurine more beautiful and interesting, but also teach the kid perseverance, patience and accuracy.

The simplest materials for crafts with babies at this age are cardboard and colored paper. Children really enjoy working with them, creating amazing appliques. A little older children are already beginning to use more complex materials in the form of cereals, pasta or branches, cones, dry leaves.

It will not be difficult for kids to make a funny mouse if adults help him with this.

Materials used in the work:

• sheets of thick paper of brown and pink colors;
• pencils;
• scissors;
• braid (for the ponytail).

To make a mouse, you should take a sheet of brown paper and use a stencil or drawing to make a base. The sheet must be folded in half and cut out in the form of a drop. The resulting blank will be the body of the future mouse. But a mouse cannot be without ears. To make them, take a piece of pink paper, fold it in half and cut out a circle. After that, the paper is unrolled, as a result, beautiful, even ears for the mouse are obtained. In the place where the ears should be located, incisions are made and pink blanks are inserted there.

All people, without exception, love the New Year holidays. A green fluffy Christmas tree made of paper will help bring this holiday closer and feel its magical atmosphere.

To build a green beauty, you need to prepare the following materials:

• a sheet of white paper;
• a sheet of green paper;
• scissors, glue;
• decorative elements.

Let's describe the process in stages.

1. Fold a piece of green paper in half and cut it in half. After each part is folded in half again and cut. As a result, you get 4 longitudinal stripes. They will act as future branches for the tree.
2. You need to take each of the cut strips and fold them in the form of an accordion.
3. Two sticks should be glued to a sheet of white paper. For these purposes, you can use cocktail straws, ice cream sticks. They will serve as the trunk of the Christmas tree.
4. Accordion branches are alternately attached to the base, straightening them downward.
5. The top is decorated with a star cut out of paper or felt and decorated with toys.

You can quickly build a forest beauty by taking an A4 paper sheet and cutting out the craft according to the picture.

For this you need:

• fold the prepared sheet into a triangle;
• cut off excess;
• draw strips about 1 cm wide;
• not cut them completely;
• having expanded the workpiece, glue the strips one by one to the center.

The finished craft is decorated with rhinestones or sequins, the top and trunk are glued.

You can quickly make a suitcase or briefcase from this material. Older children should choose more complex tasks by creating crafts using templates. Children aged 3-4 years are better off choosing lighter options, such as a suitcase-backpack made of colored paper.

To make a suitcase, you need to prepare:

• a piece of pink paper;
• pieces of orange colored paper;
• scissors;
• glue.

To create a model, you need to take a whole sheet of pink paper. Then cut two orange strips and glue to the pink sheet on both sides. These parts will act as straps for a briefcase-backpack.

Tasks using their own palm will definitely appeal to kids of this age. To get such a hare, you must consistently follow the steps described below.

• Take a sheet of white or colored paper.
• Attach your palm to the piece of paper and outline the contour with pencils or a felt-tip pen.
• Use scissors to carefully cut out the image of the palm.
• Place the cut out palm on a piece of paper in a contrasting color. Now it remains to mark on the workpiece 1,3 and 5 fingers. The middle (third) finger is cut off along the dotted line, and 1 and 5 are tucked forward, as shown in the figure.

The hare figurine is ready. It remains to finish drawing the animal's eyes, nose, mustache, outline the ears.

The making of a gray bunny will allow you to consolidate the skills.

For work you will need:

• sheets of colored paper - you need to take white, gray and pink colors;
• scissors;
• PVA glue or glue stick;
• felt-tip pens.

A strip cut from a piece of gray paper is used as a base. The width of the workpiece is 10 cm, the length of the strip is 30 cm.

1. The prepared workpiece is bent in half, and the fold is rounded off with scissors.
2. The bottom edge is folded about 3 cm wide and glued. Thanks to this, the craft will stand steadily.
3. Blanks for bunny ears are cut from pieces of gray paper.
4. Using pink pieces, decorate the ears.
5. The finished ears are glued to the base.
6. Now it remains to cut the legs. They will be gray, the lower legs are decorated with pink spots.

In conclusion, it remains to make the eyes of the hare from pieces of white paper and a black felt-tip pen, finish drawing his nose and mustache.

The development of creative abilities should begin precisely at the age of 3-4 years, during this period a powerful foundation of skills and knowledge begins to be laid, which will be replenished and improved during later life. Parents play a huge role in this. Communicating with the child, they direct his abilities in the right direction, help him learn about the world through creative activities.

Parents should create a special environment that allows their child to start the creative process with enthusiasm. It is important to praise your child and keep him / her self-confident.

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