What crafts to make from buckwheat?

An original applique made from all kinds of cereals in general and from all of the familiar buckwheat in particular is a great opportunity to consider the creative and fantasy abilities of children at any age. This kind of activity contributes to the rapid development of the motor skills of naughty children's fingers.

Making various crafts from buckwheat grains is not so difficult. To do this, you will need: buckwheat and other types of familiar cereals, thick PVA glue, sheets of thick cardboard, multi-colored markers and pencils, bright gouache for coloring cereals.

Using cereals, kids can easily make truly unusual crafts from large buckwheat or small rice. For example, here's what you can create:

• "Drawn" pictures. Filling in the contours of various existing patterns with cereals and PVA glue, you can end up with a creative picture.
• Products made with glue. This variation is similar to the previous one, but instead of the base, a foam or plastic mold is taken.
• Pictures that are pressed. Instead of glue, in order to fix the buckwheat, a certain color of plasticine is used.
• "Bulk" crafts. Cereals of different colors are poured in layers into a tall bottle or jar. So the child will help his parents quickly create an unusual decor for a summer cottage or apartment.

If you are thinking of making a craft for kids in kindergarten on the theme "Autumn", then the application "Mushrooms", which you and your child will be able to do in just a few minutes, is ideal for you.

To create an autumn craft, you will need:

• a little buckwheat and a little rice;
• a sheet of light cardboard is denser;
• plasticine of neutral colors;
• felt-tip pens or gouache.

Master class on creating crafts:

• we draw a large mushroom on a thick sheet of cardboard;
• fill the entire contour of the drawn fungus with soft plasticine;
• pressing buckwheat into the mushroom cap, fill it with brown color, press rice into the leg;
• the background of the picture is made out with felt-tip pens and gouache, so that the applique looks complete.

Step-by-step creation of any homemade buckwheat applique with glue:

• pick up a sheet of cardboard, best of all colored and dense;
• the drawing will have to be printed on a printer, or you can draw it yourself with a regular pencil with your child;
• along the contour of the resulting image, you need to carefully apply a layer of glue;
• then pour buckwheat on those areas where there is glue;
• the glue will dry for about 2 hours, and buckwheat will stick to the cardboard;
• after that, you need to carefully shake off those excess cereals from the product that did not stick;
• go to another part of the picture and start gluing the cereal again;
• you can paint the craft with colored gouache or watercolors;
• so that your hand-made craft is preserved for the longest possible period of time, just spray it with a little spray varnish (or hair-fixing varnish).

A really beautiful applique made of buckwheat grains in the form of any flower is much more convenient to make if you use the brown color of the grains to create a visually more voluminous background. You can "paint" the flower itself with rice (snow-white or multi-colored). A white rose made of rice on a brown buckwheat background will look quite creative.

• To create this type of craft, on a sheet of light cardboard with any dark marker or bright pencil, clearly mark the outline of the flower you need.
• The space around the picture should be thickly greased with PVA glue and covered with buckwheat. You will have to wait until the picture is dry, and carefully brush off the extra grains from it.
• Inside the flower, you can use rice, plant seeds, which are glued so that the lines drawn with a marker are visible. When the glue is dry, the product will be completely finished.

For example, in the core of the painted flower, black sunflower seeds can be used, as petals - dried white pumpkin seeds... And dry buckwheat will become a bright background for them.

First, let's try to make a cute forest dweller - a hedgehog.

The process includes 6 steps.

• A drawing of a cheerful hedgehog with an apple on the back is transferred onto thick cardboard.
• We smear the back of the hedgehog with PVA glue and sprinkle it tightly with buckwheat (you can choose dry black seeds as an imitation of needles).
• Wait until the glue is completely dry, and only then can you shake off everything that is not stuck from the craft.
• We make the body of a hedgehog in the same way: sprinkle the glue with white rice or yellow millet. And you will also need to shake off the excess as soon as the glue dries well.
• Now you need to coat the contours of the apple with a thin layer of glue. Inside his image, one by one, halves of dry peas are glued with the flat side in glue.
• The background of the picture is usually complemented with dry autumn leaves, you can draw a path in front of the hedgehog and draw a tail on the apple.

If you need to make a stylish applique in the form of a squirrel, then you should first choose a suitable animal pattern for this. We spread white rice along the contours of the picture. In the places where the squirrel has a white breast, abdomen, muzzle, pour white semolina on a layer of PVA glue, then add dry peas (as nuts) to the squirrel in its paws. Sunflower seeds will help create the nose and eyes. But the little body can be covered with brown buckwheat.

By analogy, a beautiful applique with a cat is created - only white rice is used as light stripes on the animal's body, and dark buckwheat will be the main color of the four-legged friend.

Very often, whole paintings and panels depicting various birds are made from buckwheat.

Step-by-step instructions for creating this application for older students.

• The template of the selected owl pattern must be glued onto thick cardboard - the basis of the craft.
• The contour of the head of a wise bird, first smeared with PVA glue, carefully "draw" with buckwheat grains. Let the resulting contour dry for 5 minutes, after which you can shake off the excess.
• Eyebrows are usually made from rice and small poppy seeds.
• The eyes can be colored with a dark brown pencil, the pupils, having smeared them with glue, "contour" with the remains of poppy.
• The body of buckwheat "feathers" can be decorated with millet grains.
• Separate fragments of such an application can be supplemented with other cereals, so that there are no voids left between the grains. With the help of a fluffy brush, remove all unnecessary.
• We glue an ordinary twig with a leaf from any tree onto the cardboard. We "draw" the sun with millet.

Of insects, the choice of children most often falls on butterflies. How to make a beautiful butterfly from several varieties of cereals?

• First, you should choose certain parameters of the future picture. They will depend on what size moth you want to "draw" with the help of croup.
• We put the drawing of the butterfly in front of us. Apply a thick PVA glue with a thin brush to 2 of her antennae. After that, pour some grains of raw buckwheat next to the picture and with ordinary tweezers begin to spread the grains on a layer of drying glue. In the absence of tweezers, you can push the grains to the gluing site with a regular crochet hook.

• If, nevertheless, the child is interested in working with cereals, you can go with him to the body. We coat it with PVA glue, sprinkle with buckwheat grains so that there is no missing space.
• Next, you need to carefully lay out buckwheat along the outer contour of the moth and on the membranes of its wings. It is definitely worth remembering that work is carried out along the contour with each individual grain. If the glue suddenly happens to be on top of the grain, do not be alarmed - when it dries, it will become completely colorless and will be able to fix the grains on the base much more firmly.
• The entire inner surface inside the open wings must be filled with corn grits or any of its analogues. Here it will no longer be necessary to work separately with each grain, because corn grits have a different shape than buckwheat. Therefore, we simply take crushed corn kernels in small pinches and sprinkle a little on a base of PVA glue.

Here are some pretty useful recommendations for parents and teachers so that useful creativity with buckwheat will interest children from the very first time.

• When creating various applications from buckwheat grains, the trunks of different trees, their branches, roofs of houses, mushrooms, figurines of those animals that have a dark natural color of wool will be best obtained.
• In order to create colored elements in a drawing with buckwheat, you can choose white (like rice) or beige groats (millet or pearl barley). They can be dyed quite easily by just dipping them into a pre-purchased food dye or colored gouache. After coloring, the cereals should be dried on the table or in the oven.
• Buckwheat can also be tinted. When painting it, you should choose the tones that are as close as possible to the natural color of the cereal: black, beige, ocher, light brown.You can even try to lighten the grains, for example, dip them in white gouache.
• You should not tint the grains with green, blue, red paint, as they will most likely acquire a dirty, unpleasant shade.
• For good work, you should choose a denser material as a base. A regular sheet of an album is unsuitable for drawing - it will most likely simply deform from the presence of glue and ruin the future craft.
• Performing the selected applique, it will be much more correct to move along it, heading from top to bottom and from left to right. This will allow you not to accidentally touch the already finished parts of the drawing.
• The glue should be applied to a dense base with the thickest possible layer. It is this step that will allow the grains to adhere well and stay on this basis.
• If you wish, the template with the craft can be cut out so that the picture turns into a separate figurine. Such figures can become details of a large panel, part of some kind of creative installation, or they can simply be used as an independent decoration.

A detailed master class on making a picture of buckwheat in the video below.