Handcrafts for school: the most beautiful and practical toys and decorations on different subjects

School crafts stimulate the development of creativity in children: they are made in the classroom or at home, on the occasion of a holiday or a competition among students. Materials are taken in a variety of ways: collected in nature, remnants of fabric and yarn from home needlework, ready-made purchased sets with instructions.

Homemade gift for March 8

Children are sure to make handmade crafts in elementary school for March 8 for mothers, grandmothers and sisters. International Women's Day is a great excuse for a child to apply skills, learn something new, and make a gift from the heart.

Painted Vase

A glass vase painted with acrylic paints is a craft made from simple materials, which will show the child's imagination. For a vase will need a glass jar of any shape, paint, brush.

In the process, you can teach your child to properly match the paint color combinations. Such a simple craft, however, requires accuracy and diligence.

Vase with a knitted cover

This handicraft for children who are familiar with the basics of crochet (without the complicated patterns). As the basis is taken glass jar. Of materials you will also need cotton yarn, crochet, scissors, braid or satin ribbon.

How to make a cover for a vase:

Tie a circle with no-neck columns the size of the bottom of the jar.
Then stop adding stitches and knit upwards.
Do not reach the edge by 2 cm. Carry out one row in the following pattern: three air loops, * air loops, a stitch in the third loop of the previous row, repeat from *. The row will be netted.
Finish the crochet as follows: place three stitches in each stitch of the previous row to get a decorative wavy edge.
Put the cover on the jar. Thread the braid through the mesh row, loop it around the neck of the jar, and tie a bow.

When using melange yarn, the vase will be especially ornate.

Paper flowers

Paper crafts are some of the most popular among elementary school students: accessible materials plus uncomplicated instructions for making equal interesting crafts for school. In a vase painted with your own hands, you can put fresh flowers or make paper flowers.

If the vase is bright, the flowers can be made from a sheet of white paper - a contrasting combination will look interesting. For a multicolored bouquet take several sheets of colored paper - red, blue, yellow, orange.

How to make a paper flower from three sheets of colored paper A4 size:

You need two sheets of the same color, such as lilac, for a blooming bud to make a lush flower. Fold one sheet in half.
Measure from the edge of 2 cm. and draw a line with a pencil.
On the side of the fold to make cuts about 3 mm wide. to the outlined line along the entire length - you get a fine "noodle" from edge to edge.
On the inside along the whole edge, apply a layer of glue and glue the two halves, 2.5 cm from the edge. - The "noodles" will move a little to the side.
Do the same with the second sheet.
To make the stem, you need to cut off from a sheet of green about a third and twist into a tight tube diagonally, starting from a corner. At the end of the corner glue, so that the stem does not unravel.
Glue a piece of tape to the edge of one lilac piece, put the stem on the other edge of the tape, then wrap the lilac paper part around the stem without crumpling the "noodles". Secure the end with glue or tape.
Wrap the second piece around the stem in exactly the same way. If you take two leaves of different colors, the flower will be two-color.
Fluff up the flower, if necessary. The thinner sliced "noodles", the greater the volume of the flower.

Bouquet of such flowers can be submitted to a school competition. Especially spectacular look options from corrugated paper.

Handicrafts for a school contest

In schools on holidays it is customary to arrange contests of handicrafts among elementary schoolchildren. The choice of crafts depends on the theme and age of the child.

Easter basket of paper from a first grader - a suitable handmade craft for school for the Easter contest. You will need pink and green paper, glue, scissors, two chocolate eggs "Kinder Surprise" in the wrapper.

How to Make a Basket:

From a sheet of pink paper, cut 9 strips 1.5 cm wide on the short side.
Glue two strips in the form of a cross, between them evenly glue another 4 strips - you get the blank of the 12 rays diverging from the center. The middle can be further strengthened by gluing a paper circle with a diameter of 3-4 cm.
Take one of the remaining strips, cut in half and glue the half to another strip on both edges - this is the rim of the basket.
Glue the ends of the blank around the rim on the inside at the same distance - to do this, the ends of each strip are glued diagonally in turn.
From the remaining strip make a handle - attach to the rim on the inside.
Cut thin strips of green leaf literally 2-3 mm, crumple them to make a crumpled grass, and put them in a basket. Place two eggs on top.

A simple but stylish craft with a tasty filling will decorate a children's art competition.

School crafts for Victory Day

The holiday of May 9 is filled with special meaning, so on this day, schoolchildren make commemorative handicrafts. Children can learn how to make cards for Victory Day, for example, to lay out on heavy cardboard figure "9" of red paper in the style of quilling.

Handicrafts "Eternal Flame" - an interesting option using improvised materials. The craft consists of a three-dimensional paper star and an eternal fire of corrugated paper.

Instructions for making:

From thick red or gold colored paper, cut out on a template or without it, the star in the size of 20 cm. (from corner to corner).
On the back side of the star, draw stripes from the sharp corner of each ray diagonally to the obtuse corner. Thus, each of the five rays will be divided into two identical triangles.
On the reverse side fold the paper along the outlined lines from the obtuse angle to the center (five times).
Turn to the front side and fold the paper along the lines from the corners of the rays to the center - also five times. Perform carefully so as not to crumple the paper and not to spoil the shape.
Take two strips of corrugated paper in red and yellow, fold each in half, cut out tongues of flame around the edges. Fold the strips together and twist into a small "bouquet".
In the center of the star, cut a hole with a diameter of about 1 cm. and insert a piece of corrugated paper symbolizing the eternal flame.

These and other handmade crafts for school for May 9 can be made by elementary school children under the guidance of an adult.

Making crafts develops creativity in the child, teaches them to work with new materials and learn interesting techniques.