Flat applications from palms
At a toddler age, starting from the age of two, children can already make simple crafts from cut out palms. A child's hand is placed on paper or cardboard, traced with a pencil, and then adults cut out the blank themselves.
Topics for classes: birds, insects, animals, flowers. For creativity, small details or pencils with felt-tip pens will also be useful.
On the applications of the youngest children from 2 to 3 years old, it is better to complete the missing elements. And an older child will be able to independently glue an eye to a fish, and New Year’s decorations to a Christmas tree.
Crafts from one palm
Palms with fingers spread out like a shape similar to tree branches or flower petals. Younger preschoolers are asked to “plant a tree or a flower.”
Birds, insects, and animals are obtained in a similar way to plants. Application from blanks is combined with drawing techniques. Craft ideas:
- Beautiful tree. The palms are the crown, the trunk and leaves are completed.
- Flower in a pot. Adults cut out blanks, and children glue: a pot, green palms, flowers on each finger.
- White Swan. The thumb is like a neck with a head, and the remaining fingers are like wings and a tail. All that remains to be completed is the eye, beak and waves under the bird.
- Gold fish. Blanks for crafts: red palm and aquarium. The plot is complemented by algae, stones at the bottom, and air bubbles.
Children themselves also come up with ideas for crafts. When asked what the palm resembles, they answer - an elephant, an octopus, a hedgehog, a Christmas tree. The response will come if children are actively introduced to the world around them from an early age.
Crafts from two palms
Two palms folded together resemble butterflies and birds in flight, the tail of a peacock, the wings of a dove. For crafts, two types of blanks are cut out: with closed and spread fingers, similar to elongated or wide wings and tails.
Using your imagination, you can come up with the following pictures:
- A butterfly sits on a flower or flies over a clearing. The palms are glued to the body on one or both sides. You receive two crafts that are not similar to each other.
- Peacock with a multi-colored tail. Two multi-colored palms are glued to each other with a ladder and fingers up. The applique is supplemented with prepared parts (this is the body with the head, paws, beak-triangle, eyes-dots).
- Green frog. Two palms are paws; a circle for a muzzle is glued onto them. Two smaller circles for the eyes are placed on the top of the head, and the mouth is completed.
For the wings of a butterfly or the tail of a peacock, instead of two palms, you can cut out several blanks. Or use them for other original crafts: cloud, sun, Christmas tree, chicken.
New Year's crafts from palms
For the New Year holidays, you can also make simple crafts from palms.
Christmas tree
To make the applique, it is better to prepare green paper of different shades. This Christmas tree looks more impressive.
- The outlines of palms are cut out from green paper. They can be real or fictitious details.
- Glue the parts onto the paper base, starting from the bottom.
- The parts can be glued incompletely by slightly twisting your fingers. In this case, the craft will look three-dimensional.
- If desired, the New Year's tree can be decorated with paper toys.
Decorative wreath
You can also make a wreath from the palms to decorate the door.
- You need to cut a circle out of cardboard. This will be the base of the wreath.
- Palms are cut out of green paper and glued to the base.
- For splendor, you can glue the elements only along the edge, more tightly, so that there are more elements on the base.
- Fingers can be curled for pomp.
- The wreath is decorated with ribbons, tinsel, balls or bells.
Making crafts from parts that replicate children's hands is a fascinating creative process. It is useful for the development of a child’s spatial thinking, helps develop accuracy, hard work, and perseverance. You can make such crafts from an early age, teaching your child to be creative.
Gifts for mom from palms
All children want to make gifts for their mother for the holiday of March 8th. There is nothing simpler and more tender than creating flowers with the help of your little hands. Let's consider several options. Trace your palms, paint them with different colors, attach a stem - your flowers are ready.
The child will have more work to do on the next option. We outline two palms in turn, overlapping. We cut out green grass of different sizes and blue petals.
We assemble an applique in the form of a bouquet of snowdrops, which a child gives to his mother.
A tree with hearts would be a wonderful gift. We trace the hand on brown paper, cut it out, and make a stand in the form of a brown strip measuring 3 x 10 cm. We cut out many multi-colored hearts of different sizes. Glue it together - it's done.
Please your mother on a wonderful holiday with a very simple, but very warm and sincere application “Heart from palms”. Bend your thumb slightly and circle both hands in this position. Connect both palms on colored paper so that a heart is formed - the delicate applique is ready.
Now let's make a 3D application. Cut out two palms of different colors. On one we can make any inscription we wish. Let's start making the connecting material. We take a strip measuring 3 x 20 cm, bend it into an accordion shape, and also make the desired inscription on it. We fasten everything with glue.
We looked at many options for applications created using children's hands. The process of making them is not only very interesting, but also useful for the child, because this is how his imagination develops. Help kids realize their ideas, create and delight your loved ones.
Independent creativity of children from palms
DIY crafts on the theme of palms captivate older kids. They come up with and implement their projects with pleasure. Colored paper can be used as a platform for such art.
You can put periods and commas on several prints to create fun octopuses. You can even draw algae using your fingers.
What can you depict with your palms?
- Aquarium fish with bubbles.
- Flower buds with stems.
- Fan prints will depict a peacock.
- Prints superimposed on each other will allow you to draw a hedgehog and a porcupine.
- Symmetrically placed palms look like a spider or a crab.
- A caterpillar or centipede will come out of several prints.
Family of palms - drawing with applique elements
Drawing by Katya Okselenko (4 years old) Spassk-Dalniy, Primorsky Krai.
Description of the work:
Materials: paints, brush, water, palms, PVA glue, bandage, hole punch, magazine pages, leftover ribbons and tape.
For the head print of mom and dad, mom's and dad's palms were imprinted respectively. Prints of a folded fist (mom's shoes) and fingerprints (shoes and hands of the little green princess) were also used.
The air clouds are made from a bandage soaked in tinted water and glued to PVA. The pupils of the eyes, as well as white-toothed smiles, are made using a hole punch from a sheet of glossy magazine of a suitable color.
According to the author's idea, a family of palms goes to a ball. That's why ladies wear long ball gowns. For dads, apparently, the dress code is not important.