DIY paper crafts for children from 9 years old

Children learn to work with paper at a nursery age, performing simple operations. Closer to the age of 9-10, they begin to be interested in paper plastic, quilling, origami and other types of creativity related to paper. There is also growing interest in complex applications, where watercolor paper is used, allowing you to create compositions that are interesting from the point of view of color. And this is only part of all the possibilities.

For boys and girls, working with paper is useful, because it not only develops fine motor skills and helps to relax, but also allows you to feel the effectiveness of work.

By constructing paper crafts, they get the necessary experience, success, satisfaction with work and diligence.

Crafts from this material may be different.

• Origami. To make a simple boat, crane or swan, one sheet of paper and 15 minutes of time is enough. And if there are several paper cranes, you can make a beautiful module of them by hanging it above the desk.

• Applications. Creative work is often needed at school for various autumn exhibitions. And appliques made of colored paper (it can be a designer product, metallized and velvet paper, printed, etc.) solve the issue quickly and efficiently. Choosing non-standard formats: A-3 or, conversely, a miniature A-5, the child makes a handicraft with his own hands that can stand out at any school competition.

• Cutouts. This type of creativity can be practiced even in preschool age, but older children, at the age of 9-13, learn to make really beautiful cutouts. Cutouts can be simply glued to a specific background and framed, or you can decorate windows, furniture fronts, earrings, pencil cases, cloth bags, etc. with them.

• Quilling work. The use of paper strips has long become a popular form of creativity, taking shape in a direction that requires a delicate approach and gives rise to graceful, extraordinary works. Quilling is often used to create appliqués. This direction is suitable for children of middle school age.

• Volumetric applique. A fundamentally different type of paper-making, which helps to create multidimensional compositions. To explain its specifics in a simplified way, it consists in gluing the applique elements not in a continuous even layer within a given plane, but using double-sided tape, which allows the elements of the work to appear in different planes. When one fragment comes forward, leaving another behind, the composition gains volume, and this is its main charm.

• Garlands, lanterns and other festive decor. Kids in the garden enthusiastically make chains-garlands, then learn to make garlands in the form of flags, then they are happy to design Chinese lanterns. All this in a complicated and more original form can be made by older children. Only instead of standard colored paper, old booklets, wrapping paper, crepe, etc. will be used.

• Paper flowers. To make such crafts, you will need not only paper, but also additional elements (wire, skewers, rods, etc.), but the basis will be paper raw materials: from simple writing sheets to beautiful sheets of paper from a music collection with notes.

Each of the options described assumes a wide range of schemes and patterns: from elementary work with a minimum of tools and materials to complex handicrafts that will take more than one day to finish.

Corrugated (crepe) paper became especially popular 5 years ago, when delicate and surprisingly believable bouquets began to be made of it. There could be real candies inside the paper flowers, which made such a bouquet an original gift. Today, the emphasis has shifted towards huge colors as interior decor. Children over 10 years old are happy to make them: in a nursery, the appearance of such a flower will be a real event.

To make an aster from corrugated paper, you will need:

• lilac paper (the color can be any other): 5 pieces of 16x100 cm, 3 pieces of 20x100 cm, 5 pieces of 24x100 cm;
• pink paper 10x100 cm;
• pliers;
• wire;
• scissors;
• glue gun.

The step-by-step description is as follows.

1. A 16x100 cm strip must be bent in half, its edge is toothed. The teeth should be fairly sharp.
2. The wire is glued inside, along the fold line of the element. Gather the paper a little, making a fold.
3. The same is done with strips 20 and 24 cm wide.
4. The pink corrugated paper needs to be cut into a fringe, not cut to the brim, and then rolled into a roll.
5. The assembly of the structure starts from the middle. The pink fringe is curled up and then glued to the edge of the lilac paper (16 cm wide). A lilac is twisted around the pink element, and this is done with all 5 parts.
6. Then 3 parts of the larger blanks are twisted, and the largest blank (with a width of 24 cm), consisting of 5 parts, will be the extreme.
7. The base of the flower must be glued for strength.
8. The bottom is decorated with paper.

Such an aster can be hung on the wall above the bed, for example. Children 12-13 years old can easily do it.

Here are some more step-by-step instructions that will help children 9-10 years old (and older) become the authors of adorable crafts that are easy and interesting to make.

A parrot sitting on a finger looks cute and looks very much like a real bird. For the manufacture of such work, the origami technique will be used. The scheme is based on the "fish" technique.

Let's consider how to make a parrot in stages.

1. Diagonals should be marked on a paper blank, then fold the sides to the middle and unfold them back.
2. Then horizontal diagonals are outlined. The sides again tend to the middle.
3. The workpiece is folded in half, the corner is bent.
4. The wings are created by folding the corners. The top should drop down to create a crease.
5. When pleating, part of the top corner is placed inward.
6. For more realism of the beak, you need to create an angle, and also add small details (the same eyes).
7. As a result of these manipulations with paper, a paw is formed in the parrot, which will hold it on the fingers of the author of the craft. However, he will hold on to the shelf in the same way.

In this example, the parrot is made of plain white paper, but the author himself chooses the color of the bird.

This lion can be made in 30 minutes. This charming craft will decorate a box with a gift for a friend or simply settle on a child's bookshelf.

To work you need to take:

• colored paper of colors consonant with the color of the lion;
• stapler;
• scissors;
• glue stick;
• ruler;
• curly scissors;
• simple pencil;
• felt-tip pens.

Let's see how to make a lion.

1. First, two rectangles are cut out, they will be of different sizes. The smaller one will become the head, the larger one - the body.
2. Horizontally, each rectangle folds into a tube. The tube is fixed in two places with a stapler.
3. Small identical ears should be attached to the volumetric part of the lion's head. With felt-tip pens, you can draw a lion's face.
4. It's time to make a mane: a circle is cut out of orange paper, you need to walk along its contour with curly scissors.
5. In the center of the resulting circle, the volumetric head of a lion is glued.
6. Then the head with the mane is attached to the left or right side of the body. A stapler is used again for a firm hold.
7. Paws and a tail with a tassel are cut out of colored paper. Brown legs are attached to the lower part of the body, the tail is attached to the side.

The lion is ready! Such a craft will not be difficult for a child of 8-9 years old.

And such a chanterelle will be made with pleasure by children who like to play puppet theater. The end result is not a whole fox, but only its head, but it will be "talking". For work, you need a sheet of orange colored paper.

The fox is done as follows.

1. First, the basic figure-house is folded: the square is divided in half lengthwise, both parts are bent in half, towards each other. Doors will turn out. Side folds in the form of pockets need to be opened and smoothed out.
2. Turn the workpiece over, bend the first edge to the middle, and do the same with the left one. The lower right corner is folded up diagonally.
3. A fox's eye is formed: the lower half of the workpiece is folded diagonally, the front layer is bent to the top. The product must be turned over and the same actions must be repeated, only starting not from the right, but from the left edges. The workpiece should be directed towards itself with the middle part.
4. Carefully pull the sidewalls, pushing them apart. Use your fingers to add volume to the middle convex part. The fox's mouth must be pushed into the workpiece with the same delicate movements.
5. All joints should be smoothed so that they are even. The mouth must be closed so that the fox's face is finally aligned.
6. It remains only to draw or glue the eyes of the fox, and this "actress" is already ready to perform at home theater.

You can use colored paper, or you can use old magazines (they are colored paper, only variegated). You will also need green duct tape, scissors, fairly long skewers, and glue to make these fluffy flowers.

The process of making crafts is as follows.

1. Prepare several sheets of colored paper. This can be paper with different colors on both sides, or printed paper. If you decide to take a magazine, you need to select and tear out suitable sheets from it.
2. Each sheet is folded 4 times along its length. From the side of the fold, the sheets must be cut into fringes.
3. The resulting fringed tape is wrapped around the skewer and fixed with glue. In order for the bud to be lush, there should be many such turns.
4. The skewer is wrapped in green duct tape. If there is none, plain green paper (or velvet, for example) is taken.

All that remains is to choose a suitable vase for the paper flowers, and the timeless decor is ready. A child of 11-12 years old will cope with the manufacture of such a composition.

A simple but very cute caterpillar can be made according to the templates presented in this description. The templates are printed on sheets of red and green paper. Scissors and glue are also useful.

Let's see how to make a caterpillar:

1. print templates, cut very neatly;
2. you can start making crafts from the calf (the workpiece is cut into stripes along the dotted line);
3. each strip is glued to form a dynamic body;
4. a head is cut out of red paper, there will be green antennae on it.

Elementary!

A child of 7-8 years old will cope with making a funny caterpillar.

Bulky bright insects from strips of paper are made quickly and do not cause difficulties in independent creativity in children 8-10 years old.

Ladybug is performed as follows.

1. First, you need to cut 2 circles with a diameter of 7 cm from red paper.
2. After that, narrow red stripes 1 cm wide, 15 cm long are cut.If two ladybugs are to be made, 20 strips are required.
3. Blanks for the head are cut out of black paper, as well as specks on the body.
4. Strips are glued to the circle in turn, and identical folds are also made on the fragments of the strip for fixation.
5. When the ladybug has a round volumetric body, it can be decorated with black spots that just stick. In the right place, the insect head is fixed on the glue.

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