Handcrafts for March 8 - making beautiful keepsakes for women

International Women's Day is celebrated all over the world, but in Russia it has become something more - a holiday of spring and beauty. On this day, women of all ages receive gifts and flowers.

Having mastered a few simple techniques and techniques, children in kindergartens and schools can make the most beautiful handmade crafts for March 8 for their mothers, sisters, grandmothers and teachers.

Paper crafts and clippings

With colored paper, scissors and glue make simple but beautiful and neat gifts for March 8.

Postcard "Bouquet of Tulips"

For the handicraft takes thick colored paper in yellow, red and green colors, satin ribbon, glue, scissors. Yellow paper is cut out a triangle with sides about 22 cm long, make the corners rounded - it is the basis.

Cut out three tulip heads from red paper, green - stems and leaves.

Details of the flowers glued in the middle of a yellow triangle. Bottom corners of the base bend toward the center and overlap, so the handicraft looked like a bunch of tulips in the yellow wrapping paper. Bouquet tied with satin ribbon. Such a craft for March 8 in kindergarten can be made with the kids.

Openwork cutout

Postcard made of paper with openwork cut-out edges - the task is a little more complicated, as it requires more accuracy and precision.

How to make an openwork card:

Fold a sheet of colored paper in half.
In the upper right corner, use a pencil to draw the elements of the carved pattern.
Use small rounded scissors to carefully cut holes according to the design.

The corner of the card will be carved, with through ornaments. Such a craft speaks of effort and diligence. Additionally, the card is decorated with flowers and leaves, cut out of colored paper.

Handicrafts in the technique of quilling

This technique is also called paper twisting. It is a little more complicated, as it requires special accuracy, patience and a certain dexterity.

What is quilling

Briefly, quilling is the creation of volumetric compositions of long narrow strips of paper twisted into spirals. Such twisted elements are called modules. They give them a different shape - round, elongated, in the form of a drop, and so on, depending on the composition.

Most often, the technique of quilling perform cards, paintings, photo frames. The compositions are often concise, sometimes consisting of only a few elements. But thanks to the twisted spirals the handicraft looks sophisticated and far from simple. For those who are new to the technique, it is better to buy a ready-made quilling kit with already cut paper, a marked base and detailed instructions.

Quilling-card

One of the simplest, but stylish quilling style crafts is a postcard. To make a card with a flower with five petals takes cardboard, colored paper (white, yellow, green), a quilling needle (homemade or from a purchased set of needles for quilling), a pencil, tweezers, PVA glue, brush, scissors.

Instructions:

Insert a strip of yellow in the needle, bend the end and twist the core of the flower in a regular round shape. Fix the other end with glue.
From the white strips in the same way to twist 5 petals and give them an elongated shape, pointed on one side: for this, two fingers to pinch a pair of outer circles of the spiral, so that you get a "drop". If you do this on three sides, you get a triangular shaped petal.
Make two drop-shaped leaves from green paper, leave a 12-15 cm long strip of green for the stem.
On the cardboard base, mark the locations of the elements, draw a wavy line for the curved stem.
Holding the parts with tweezers, carefully apply glue from the back side on the edges of the spiral, then attach the parts to the cardboard base. Lightly press down for a few seconds to allow the glue to set. It is best to start with the head of the flower.

To make a red heart in the technique of quilling is also easier - twist a circle larger, make the outer corners on three sides to form a triangle, and then between the two corners to form another - inner - corner, to get a heart shape with a notch.

Knowing the basics of technology, you can do more complex compositions with butterflies, birds, fish. Such elegant paper crafts on March 8 will be a worthy gift and a nice sign of attention.

Kansashi-style crafts

In the technique of kanzashi (also known as kanzashi) are made traditional Japanese women's hair ornaments. They need a base - hairpin, comb, headband - and satin ribbons.

Kanzashi technique is complicated, requires perseverance and patience. To make a quality product, you need to accumulate skills, as craftswomen say, "to build a hand.

Children who are not familiar with this interesting technique can make a simple kanzashi handicraft for March 8. For this you will need thick cardboard, satin ribbon of a beautiful shade width of 2-2.5 cm, scissors, needle with thread, glue, beads, rhinestones, a variety of decorations.