Fairy tale-themed crafts - step by step masterclasses for creating applications and geometric products

After reading a fairy tale, you don't want to say goodbye to your favorite characters. Therefore, children often ask their parents for a bedtime story again, until they memorize it or until they can understand everything that escaped their attention before.

Crafts on the theme of fairy tales by Pushkin, Andersen, Milne, Chukovsky, Suteev, Kavabata, Lagin and other popular authors, on the theme of folk tales is a great idea for a vacation with your baby, preschooler and schoolchildren, unless, of course, at this time they show your favorite cartoon on TV.

Preparing materials for work

It is not uncommon to assign such homework to teachers - to make a handicraft dedicated to your favorite fairy tale, cartoon. For a creative contest, you can prepare a handcraft on the theme of fairy tales - in kindergarten or school. You can sew a toy, molded from plasticine, draw characters. But it should be remembered that it's easier to make a beautiful and effective handicraft, using different techniques at the same time.

Creature volumetric, bright, made diligently, with a smile, with a soul, will be remembered and even if the score is not high, you can spend time with fun, with benefit. Creative applied activities are known to develop motor skills, spatial and visual perception, imagination, thinking, and an aesthetic sense.

They are liked by most children, as well as usual games with parents or friends. They will not be tedious if everything is prepared, properly organized.

Materials can be different, but you will definitely need:

paper;
scissors;
pencil;
paints or wax crayons;
PVA glue or double-sided tape.

What else you will need depends on the chosen idea, the characters and, of course, on your ingenuity.

Applications of paper and fabric

Handicraft for school on a fairy tale theme or art class in the garden, to decorate the room of the child, made in the form of a model or picture is the most practical and convenient. Toys, souvenirs, garlands are more suitable for a holiday contest. They can be prepared for family contests, home collection, as a gift to loved ones.

Applique is one of the most spectacular methods of applied art.

It is possible to make a beautiful picture:

with paper applications - regular or volumetric;
with applique made of plasticine;
fabric applique.

To create an element created in the form of applique held on the paper, you can use glue, tape, office buttons, make slits and fix the materials from the wrong side.

At the beginning of the work on a sheet of paper it is necessary to draw the contours of the characters and the background. Volumetric, convex paper applique is created by twisting, folding the sheet. It can also be created by using identical parts to form a multi-layered fragment.

From fabric, it can be created by using several identical repeating parts and decreasing in size, folded together, as well as with a soft inner layer of foam rubber, absorbent cotton, by twisting, ruffles.

Volumetric objects will make the handicraft look like that magical world, the fairy tale it is dedicated to or a separate artifact from another reality. Normal collage, if used completely dissimilar materials, sequins, helps quickly make a handicraft, hide the inaccuracy of outline, color, minor flaws.

Make a model on the theme of Russian folk tales can, for example, require drawing a grandmother, grandfather, prince, princess, which requires a certain skill. One must know how to draw a person. If it is difficult, fabric applique will help to cope with the task quickly, without too much rigor to achieve a good result.

And if not, you can portray Kolobok without Grandma and Grandpa, Princess Frog with a caught arrow, a hut on chicken legs, fairy-tale castle and do not make a mistake, make a complex presentation, accurate, but not excessive.

Geometric method for fairy tale-themed crafts

To draw absolutely any character, King and Princess, to make an interesting craft on the theme of fairy tales by Andersen, Pushkin, Chukovsky with a child in the form of a very real picture, you can very simply, using the geometric art method. Parents and children will love it, but it's still quite difficult to portray a person. To work with children at different ages use different techniques.

Making a craft with a preschooler

Each object is depicted as the most similar to the original geometric shapes. For example, the human body is drawn using an oval, and the head using a circle. They are placed on an axis of straight lines, so you can portray the character in motion, or holding something.

Geometric shapes are connected by smooth lines. The desired character is drawn on paper. This method can easily be mastered by a preschooler and a child who is already in elementary school, but does not like to draw.

To do the work with a schoolchild

If your child is already in school, he or she will probably enjoy making geometric art style crafts. All characters are depicted using only geometric shapes. They can be very similar to the real characters or different, remaining recognizable nonetheless.

The easiest geometry

Natural materials can be used in the form of applications - leaves, branches, flowers, acorns, chestnuts. They have their own geometry and it will help make an exclusive handicraft, unusual, to surprise everyone. Leaves, twigs, all the necessary materials should be collected in advance, to dry. They are suitable for making pictures, models, souvenirs, and for the manufacture of garlands, toys.

If dried leaves treated with bleach, they will be transparent. You will be able to see only the veins of the leaf. Wings made of transparent leaves will suit Tishka the dragon or Gorynych the Serpent. You can use them to draw a fish, Nafan the house man, Baba Yaga's stupa.

Different materials, techniques and methods can be used to create a picture or a model on the theme of fairy tales. They can be combined in one handicraft. You can use the geometric art method, paper applique or cloth.

Work will be fun, enjoyable and a lot to learn. A great move - a craft on the theme of visiting fairy tales, with characters from different stories.