Handmade summer-themed crafts - master classes and applications with photos

Summertime is a wonderful time to relax and give yourself and your child to creativity. You can make countless wonderful and easy to do works from the most ordinary things: flowers, shells, river rocks, ears, leaves. No child or adult will not remain indifferent.

Occupy such nice little things child is not only fun, but also useful, because it promotes the development of his creative thinking, motor skills, brings positive emotions.

Paper crafts

Paper is one of the most accessible materials for creating handmade works, and the variations of handicrafts from it are very diverse, which is sure not to leave your child indifferent.

Ladybug out of colored paper

In the summer you can find countless industrious ladybugs flying around the fields, vegetable gardens, flowers. Children love these bugs, they are beautiful, bright. Your child will gladly want to make his own ladybug with his own hands.

We will need:

• Colored paper or cardboard in red, orange and black;
• Scissors;
• Glue;
• A felt-tip pen and a simple pencil;
• Eyes (you can buy them in a craft store or cut them out yourself);

You need to cut out the future body of the ladybug from orange colored paper or cardboard. Below is a template.

According to the dotted lines will need to bend this template. Next, cut out the remaining template. These will be the wings, antennae and legs of our ladybug. On the wings are also cut circles.

Wings should be glued on both sides of the future ladybug. If for some reason the wings will be too big, you can always cut off the extra part. Next, you need to glue the tendrils and eyes on the body.

There is the last step - the legs of our ladybug! They are glued to the bottom.

Our wonderful handicraft "Ladybird" is ready!

Make a handicraft "Sheep in the meadow".

You kid can easily make this handicraft with their own hands and get a cute little sheep, similar to a cloud.

We will need:

1. Green cardboard;
2. Colored paper;
3. Scissors and glue;
4. White single-layer napkins.

Green cardboard will serve as a background. From colored paper, cut out grass, flowers, sunshine and clouds and glue to the cardboard. You can cut a strip of blue colored paper and make a blue background - the future sky.

From white colored paper cut out the body and head of our future sheep and glue them to the green cardboard.

Then use a pen or felt-tip pens to draw her eyes, nose, and mouth.

Take white tissues and roll them into circles of different sizes. This is the future wool of our sheep. Then glue it on the body, distributing it all over the area.

Here is such a wonderful sheep we have! It certainly will please both children and adults.

Sunflower" handicraft

Summer is characterized by countless different colors, which decorate our nature and benefit all living things. Walking out on a warm summer day into a field of sunflowers, you can't help but be struck by their beauty and grandeur. Make with your child such a beautiful flower and please him and yourself!

We will need:

• Colored paper;
• Green cardboard;
• Scissors;
• Sunflower seeds;
• Glue;

Initially it is necessary to choose a background - it will be a green field, on which our flower will grow. If desired, you can additionally cut a strip of blue sky.

Next, we proceed to the production of the parts of the plant. From green colored paper you need to cut out the stem, leaves. From yellow paper - petals. Orange paper is suitable for the future heart.

All parts should be glued to green cardboard.

Next, in the middle of the core we pour glue and glue sunflower seeds in a circle, you will get a kind of spiral.

Try to glue them as close to each other as possible, so there is no glue and the seeds are well fixed on the surface of the colored paper.

The craft is ready!

Summer-themed applications

Applications are very useful for children of different ages, as they contribute to the development of motor skills and creative thinking. Also, this type of crafts helps to create unimaginable pictures that will please both friends and family members.

Applique "Meeting of the summer".

Very beautiful and easy to perform applique, which is suitable for children of school age and kindergarten.

Materials needed:

1. Cardboard of green or blue color;
2. Colored paper;
3. Scissors;
4. Glue;
5. Black marker.

You need to take a sheet of white paper, cut it in half. One half to twist into a tube and glue the joint. This will be the trunk of our future birch tree

Then with a black felt-tip pen we put small black stripes on the base of the birch and glue the trunk to the cardboard.

Take the green colored paper and tear it into pieces of medium and small size - it is the future leaves of the birch. After that we glue it on the cardboard on the top of the trunk to form the crown of the tree.

In addition, you can cut out and glue flowers, the sun and clouds.

A beautiful landscape is ready!

Collage "At sea"

Very entertaining and unusual applique from different kinds of cereals, which will not leave anyone indifferent.

Materials for making:

• White cardboard;
• Glue;
• Manka;
• Millet;
• Rice;
• Buckwheat.

You need to take a sheet of white cardboard and distribute the glue evenly over its entire surface.

Next, form the beach. To do this, sprinkle the bottom part with semolina. You can make the top edge uneven, so that it seems as if there are elevations in the sand.

On top of the sheet on the left, form the sun. To do this, take glue and draw a circle on it, and then pour millet on it and give time for everything to dry.

After that, we need to make the sea. To do this, over the beach we apply glue all over the surface, leave room for the sky, then sprinkle the area with rice. In the future, the rice can be painted with blue, blue and white gouache, so that the sea was voluminous.

At the end, we decorate the beach, applying a small amount of glue in different places, and then sprinkle everything with buckwheat - these will be shells.

Leave the appliqué for a while so that it can dry.

Summer Meadow" applique

This applique is made from natural material and very beautiful in its execution, helps to convey all the beauty and lightness of summer.

We will need:

1. Cardboard of blue color;
2. Dandelion flowers;
3. Leaves of large and medium size;
4. Glue;
5. Any other white flowers (other colors are possible).

On the blue cardboard below, glue the leaves. You can start with a large, and after the large glue the rest to give the appliqué more volume. This will be the field. Leave the leaves for 1-2 minutes to allow them to dry and fix.

Next, on top of leaves glue flowers absolutely any color and size.

Then we decorate the sky. From the dandelions we make a circle and rays of our future sun, and white flowers are used to To create clouds. They can be different sizes and shapes.

We leave the application for a while and let it dry.

Handmade crafts are very important for school-age children and those who are still in kindergarten. You will get invaluable positive emotions, strengthen your relationship with your child and help him develop motor skills, imagination and creative thinking.

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