One of the most wonderful options for creating crafts is paper. Applications made of colored paper can not only entertain kids and contribute to their development. Beautiful paper crafts will easily decorate a room or turn into a beautiful original postcard that will surely please your loved ones. In this article, we will offer several options for crafts with colored paper applications.

The term "application" itself comes from the Latin application, which can be translated as "application". This type of fine art is based on cutting out various details and fixing them on another material that acts as a background.

A bit of history

Such material for applications as paper was born a very long time ago. But they began to use it as a component of this arts and crafts only at the end of the 16th century. Rapid development took place at the beginning of the next century. In France, there is a fashion for paper silhouettes. It extends to other European countries and Russia. The walls of houses are beginning to be decorated with small portraits and scenes from life. The very name of the silhouette crafts was given by the name of Etienne Silhouette. This French official was very fond of paper application, and one day the artist depicted a shadow caricature of him. From that moment on, this technique was called silhouette. In Russia, Count F.P. was known for his work in this type of application. Tolstoy. He created over 2000 different images.

In modern creativity, not only silhouette technique is used. Plastic appliqué from crumpled paper, decoupage technique, quilling, cutting according to a pattern, trimming, creating volumetric crafts and much more will help you create original and unusual crafts that will surely become an adornment of your life.

Before you start creating crafts from colored paper in the form of applications, you need to purchase a few simple but very necessary tools.

The most important of these will be scissors. Necessarily sharp, so as not to get the effect of a torn edge on the blanks. Be careful with their hands. They must be comfortable, since the cutting process is quite long and the hands should be comfortable.

The next step is glue. It can be ordinary PVA glue, stationery glue stick or transparent gel glue. Different compositions will require different types.

Another important element will be the ruler. The best option is with ready-made templates for drawing circles, triangles and other shapes.

Any natural materials, sequins, beads, rhinestones, fabric fragments, everything that fantasy tells you can act as additional decor elements for your applications.

To begin with, consider perhaps the most famous craft - a flat appliqué with floral motifs.

Flat applique with flowers

Such a beautiful flower arrangement, probably tried to create all the kids in kindergarten or primary school. Even this uncomplicated composition can become a real work if you put a little imagination and effort.

You will need:

• Colored paper (can be one-sided).
• Scissors.
• Glue.
• Cardboard.
• Pencils or markers.

In order for the flowers to be symmetrical and neat, you need to fold the paper in half and draw a half of the flower, using the fold line as the median axis. We cut out the blank, open it and get a beautiful and even flower.

You can change the shape of the same flower or use the "spreading" method for a variety of options. It is very easy to do this. Just cut the flower petals, and gluing them apart.

If you need to cut out a flower with petals arranged in a circle, then you just need to fold a square sheet of paper diagonally 3 times. And then cut out 1 petal from the workpiece. It may have rounded or vice versa pointed edges. Or, if you want to depict a cornflower, you can cut out cloves.

Another option for cutting several petals at the same time is to fold a sheet of paper with an accordion. Individual petals are obtained, which can then be laid out in a circle and glued on a bright core.

Below are the different options for creating leaves and grass. Such crafts can be done with children. Kids with great pleasure will spread glue, or artistically arrange paper blanks, creating amazing and incredible flowers.

The next version of the paper application is suitable for either older children or adults.

Bulk flowers for appliqué

Such crafts can be attached to a postcard or made part of a decorative panel.

You will need:

• Paper of various colors (two-sided). In this master class, black and white colors were used, but you, of course, will choose the shades that you like and will match the general style of the craft.
• Cardboard.
• Scissors.
• Glue.
• Elements for decoration (decorative buttons, rhinestones or half beads).

Below are the petal patterns. You can draw similar ones yourself, redraw them by attaching a sheet of paper to the screen, or print templates on a printer.

The next step is to cut in all the details. Experiment with paper. Take not just multi-colored, but, for example, embossed or just an unusual texture. Don't just cut out the petals. You can make several cuts on each of them to make the flowers more magnificent.

We glue all blanks strictly in the center, leaving the edges of the petals free. In the middle we glue a rhinestone or other bright detail of your choice.

Now you can glue our blank as an appliqué element on a postcard.

Needlewomen who know how to handle various types of colored paper know and love the following technique for creating applications from multi-colored paper - trimming.

Volumetric lilies from colored paper

You will need:

• Colored double-sided paper.
• Green cardboard for the base of the application.
• Scissors.
• Glue.

Cut out the leaves of water lilies (lotuses) from green cardboard. They are quite simple, but the template for cutting lily petals is unusual. The photo below shows patterns for leaves and petals.

For each flower, you will need 1 leaf and 2-3 petal blanks. Although the patterns for the petals have cut-out parts, they do not need to be cut out on paper blanks. You just need to cut along the applied lines to the inner circle.

Now we take the blank of the petals and turn each of the incised parts into a cone. Glue the edges and get 1 layer of petals.

When all the blanks are ready, we start creating flowers. And here the option of attaching layers of petals is possible. They can be glued on different sides (see photo). You can create as many as 4 variants of a water lily. Make two- and three-layer flowers. Arrange the tiers so that the petals are staggered relative to each other.

And you can also cut off the sharp ends of the cones and get an original and unusual flower.

As cores, you can use pieces of yellow paper or glue ready-made stamens.

And if you like not only to create paper crafts, but also to sew, then you can stick a piece of foam rubber in the middle and use the original three-dimensional application as a needle bed.

The next technique will also be voluminous. With its help, very beautiful and “fluffy” applications are obtained.

Sunflowers in the technique of trimming

For beautiful and original postcards using this technique, it is best to use colored corrugated paper or just pick up very thin sheets.

You will need:

• Colored paper (corrugated).
• Wooden skewer for barbecue (thick).
• Glue (pencil works best)
• Cardboard base for application.
• Ready picture template.
• Scissors.

Stick the colored base on cardboard to give strength.

Now let's get down to paper. It must be cut into squares with a side of about 1 cm. You will need a lot of such blanks.

The next step is to fold the squares. To do this, we take a skewer (you can get by with an ordinary ballpoint pen, just make sure that it is used and does not spoil the paper with ink), place it in the center of the square and twist the paper around the skewer.

We apply glue to the paper blank and attach it to the picture.

Work in this technique is best to start from the center and move to the edges.

First, we make a core from blanks of dark brown or black color. Then we begin to glue the petals. At the end of the greenery and the general background.

Such crafts can be made with children. Ready-made color pictures of the basics will not let the kids make a mistake. You can also draw any image on your own, and turn on your imagination to make a truly original craft.

Mosaic paper applications

Another option for paper applications is mosaic. The very art of creating images using tiny pieces of different colors appeared a very long time ago. This word can be translated as "dedicated to the muses." The East is considered to be the birthplace of this art. The most ancient mosaic crafts that have survived to this day are Persian caskets. The heyday of this art form fell on the era of the Byzantine Empire. In those days, mosaics were made from precious and semi-precious stones with a background, most often consisting of gold.

Now, to make a beautiful mosaic application, it is enough to have colored paper, cardboard for the background, glue and sharp scissors.

The technique is very simple, even small children can handle it. Creating crafts will be much more fun if you work together with the kids. Working with small pieces of paper contributes to the development of the child's fine motor skills, which has a beneficial effect on the development of speech, memory, imagination and patience.

Principle of operation:

1. Choose an image as an example. If you are crafting with children, two or three large objects will suffice.
2. Pick up colored paper of the required colors. To make the craft more creative and bright, take several shades of the same color.
3. Now randomly cut the paper into pieces. For toddlers, it will be easier to use square pieces. If you decide to make this craft without the participation of kids, then the pieces do not have to be triangular or square. Five-, six-, heptagonal details, trapezoids, irregular triangles, any details will find their place.
4. It remains only to prepare cardboard with a pattern, on which you will need to glue pieces of colored paper and glue.
5. If you are using PVA glue, prepare a dry cloth to wipe off excess glue after applying each piece.

A variety of mosaic appliqué is broken. Its principle is simple - instead of cutting the paper into parts, it is torn apart. The fuzzy contours of the blanks give a feeling of blurry contours, which adds originality to the craft.

Quilling Paper Applications

This type combines paper rolling and mosaic technique. Quilling arose a very long time ago, but scientists still have not come to a consensus on where exactly this type of arts and crafts came from. The word itself comes from the English "quill" - "bird feather". It was bird feathers that began to be used as the first tools for twisting paper strips. It was split into several centimeters, one end of the strip was inserted into this slot and twisted.

For this application you will need:

• Colored paper that you can cut into strips or you can purchase ready-made quilling kits.
• Tweezers.
• PVA glue.
• Paper twist tool. If you purchased a special kit, then the tool is already there. You can also use a notched ballpoint pen instead.

Below are the most popular elements that are used in the quilling technique.

It remains only to choose the colors of paper you like and assemble the picture according to the type of mosaic technique. Simply arrange paper rolls along the marked lines or over the stencil.

To make the application truly creative, deviate from the rules, use various elements, fantasize.

Applications for children are one of the most favorite games and fun. But it is precisely by playing that the little ones learn! They are gradually mastered in the world of colors and shapes. And yet, they get satisfaction from the fact that they themselves, with their own hands, can create beauty. And if parents want to help their child, we will suggest ideas for colored paper applications.

What we can offer:

• Schemes and stencils for applications of different figures: flowers, animals, insects and fairy-tale characters.
• Let's show what entertaining non-traditional application techniques are.
• And, of course, we will give you a lot of positive! We are sure you will have fun with us!

For the little ones

What we may need for the application:

• Colored thin paper;
• Cardboard;
• Pencil;
• Stencils;
• Glue.

Hedgehog

Ladybug voluminous

Application execution sequence:

Flower meadow

Lesson in 3 stages:

Little funny chicken

You need to cut out the following details:

chick

Meet Chypa! Him:

• The body is a square;
• Eye - 2 circles (black and white, and white with a little more);
• The beak is a triangle;
• The paws are also triangular;
• Wing - a semicircle;
• The crest is a crescent.

Sun

Leave the smile to your kitten. Or you can print ready-made muzzles:

And do yourself the preparation of yellow, golden and orange circles of different sizes.

We collect a picture on a blue background.

You can stick circles in the form of rays, or in a circle, the main thing is to alternate their colors. The Sun itself will be placed in the middle of the panel.

Lilac

Bouquet

Snowman

And since it consists of two bases and 16 circles, we print out templates for applications, this will allow you to quickly, and not linger on the preparatory work, proceed to the design of the toy.

More about preparations. The base is 2 circles of the same size, drawn with a figure eight. Additional circles are equal in diameter to those in the base.
We also need a rope 4 times the length of the base. and decorative beads.

glade

Our base is blue cardboard. This is the sky. The sun is shining. Grass grows in which flowers bloom. And above them flutter butterflies and dragonflies. All parts are made of paper folded into an accordion.

Piggy bank of master classes on applications + interesting ideas

It is nice to know that the different types of appliqués made by children, such as appliqués made from torn paper, or from corrugated material, are a good memory. Yes, and irrefutable evidence that our little ones have talent. The child is developing. And in this we help him.

The most common material for creating simple crafts is colored paper. Indeed, working with paper is not only easy, but also fun. Paperwork is also a great exercise for kids' fingers. Considering all these advantages of paper, we decided to offer you colored paper crafts for kids. Here you can see the brightest ideas and try to have fun with your child.

Paper craft ideas

Chamomile.

Today there are a huge number of paper crafts for children. But we hasten to offer you only the best ideas. For example, all children love a chamomile flower. So they are happy to do it. To create a flower you will need:

• multi-colored paper and a sheet of cardboard,
• PVA glue and scissors.

Working process:

1. Long strips are cut from sheets of white paper. In order for the strips to be even, lines are first drawn on a sheet of paper with a pencil and a ruler.
2. After that, circles are cut out of yellow paper, which will be the middle of the chamomile.
3. It is also worth cutting out 3 long strips of green paper and a few leaves.
4. From white stripes you need to make petals. White strips are glued together on both sides to make loops.
5. Then all the elements are glued to the cardboard. (Pay attention to the photo).

Paper goldfish.

All colored paper crafts that we list in this article are suitable for children 4-5 years old. To make a fish you should take:

• a sheet of thick cardboard and a round plate,
• ruler and scissors
• colored paper and PVA glue,
• a simple pencil and elements for decorating a fish.

Working process:

1. First, cut out the figure of the fish. To do this, a plastic plate is taken, placed on cardboard and the child traces its contours. After that, a circle is cut out, which turned out.
2. Using a pencil, draw straight lines to the edges of the plate. In this case, the ruler must be used so that a triangle is formed. Now the kid should cut out this triangle.
3. The piece that was cut recently will be the tail of the fish. It is glued to the back of the cardboard mug.
4. Now you need to draw an eye or cut it out of colored paper.
5. That's all the simple craft is ready. You can just admire it or use it in children's games.

Original butterfly from children's hands.

Very entertaining applications can be obtained from the contours of the palms of children. In addition, such an activity will be able to please your child and give him a sea of ​​​​positive.

On a note! Save a similar craft in order to remember the size of your child's palms in the future.

To make a craft, take:

• Colored paper and scissors
• White sheets and glue stick,
• Elements for decoration.

Working process:

1. The kid must first attach his left palm, and then his right to the sheets of paper. Using a pencil, an adult outlines the contours of the palm. As a result, it is worth making 4 palms of different colors. They will be the wings of a butterfly.
2. Palms are now glued onto a sheet of white cardboard. (Pay attention to the photo).
3. After that, an oval is drawn on a colored sheet. It should become the body of a butterfly. His child should glue between the wings and palms.
4. Now with felt-tip pens you need to draw eyes and a smile.
5. To decorate the wings, you can use completely different elements. It can be: sequins or sequins. You can also stick ready-made stickers.

Nice paper applique.

In this article you can find simple paper crafts for kids. Such products will be fun and easy to make. Invite the child to make an application from colored paper. Surely he will enjoy this activity. To create an application, you will need to prepare:

• a sheet of thick cardboard and a simple pencil,
• scissors and glue, colored paper.

Working process:

Heart with love.

Colored paper crafts for kids must be bright. In this case, their creation process will definitely interest the child. To make the following craft you need to take:

• A thick sheet of cardboard and PVA glue,
• Corrugated paper of different colors and scissors.

Working process:

1. Draw an even heart on a sheet of cardboard. It should have a size of 20x20 cm. Cut out this heart.
2. Colored corrugated paper is cut into squares 2 by 2 cm.
3. These squares are glued as follows. A small area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe heart is smeared with glue, a square is glued to it. With the help of a toothpick, the edges of this square are raised.
4. Thus, you need to fill the entire space of the heart.

Sweet caterpillar.

To make it fun and interesting for the kids to make crafts of various kinds, be sure to offer them only bright colored paper for work.

In order to make a caterpillar, take: colored paper and glue.

Making a caterpillar is incredibly easy. The cardboard base is being prepared. Circles are cut from sheets of colored paper. At what circles should be different sizes. The largest circle is the head. A circle of smaller diameter is a ponytail. Glue all the details on cardboard.

On a large circle with a black felt-tip pen, draw facial features and make hairs with horns out of black paper.

Ladybug.

Here we offer you simple crafts made of colored paper. Making a ladybug is very easy. Take cardboard and glue for this.

Working process:

1. A circle is cut out of red cardboard. Circles and stripes are glued on it.
2. Separately, paws and a head are cut out of black cardboard. All these elements are glued to the red circle from the inside.
3. Now it remains to glue only the eyes and antennae, which can also be made from colored cardboard.

Bulky cat.

A volumetric cat is easy and very fast to make. In order to make a cat, take:

Working process:

1. In order to make a cat, a template is useful. It is downloaded and cut.
2. 4 cuts are made in the template. They are made along marked, solid lines.
3. The neck bends like an accordion, and the tail twists.
4. The paws along the line must also be bent and glued to a piece of cardboard.

Finally

Now you know what crafts to make with preschoolers from colored paper. We hope that the above ideas are wonderful for you and you will be able to do creativity with your child in the very near future.

What to do with children 3-4 years old, so that it is interesting and useful for their development? Of all the variety of activities that develop the creative thinking of a boy and a girl, it will be very useful and interesting to use an application made of paper or other suitable material. And regardless of the result of the work (it turned out beautifully or not), the child is happy that he did it himself. Application with children 3-4 years old is a creative activity that forms the aesthetic taste of the child.

At 3-4 years old, the baby already speaks well, he has heard many fairy tales, been to the zoo or seen animals in the village, is familiar with many types of transport, watched the creative or labor process. His circle of knowledge is wide enough. Everything that children of 3-4 years old see, hear about, play can be used as a starting point for creativity. This can be beaten with developing appliqué classes.

You can start using the application from the age of 2. Then by the age of 4 this activity will become a favorite. And with ready-made applications, you can decorate a children's room or give it to grandparents.

Light cutters for preschool children 3-4 years old can be classified according to the way they work, the type of materials.

• For children 3 years old

It is very simple so that the child can perform the maximum of actions with the minimum help of an adult.

. This is a suitable type of carving for children 3 years old. The details of the composition are cut out of colored paper along the outlined contour and pasted onto the base cardboard. The main thing in this type of application is accuracy. Strawberry application is easy to perform. Cut out strawberries from red paper along the contour outlined by an adult and glue them onto cardboard. Then cut the tail out of green paper or use the one already cut out and also stick it on cardboard.

For 3-year-old kids, everything turns out awkwardly, but it’s already good that they learn to work with scissors, train their hands and fingers. This develops fine motor skills, which is associated with mental development. And the seeds on the strawberries can be painted with yellow paint with a brush.

Details for paper appliqué for children 3-4 years old should be made large. It should be convenient for the child to take them in his hands and stick them.

You can print the picture in detail, cut it out and assemble it by gluing it on a blank sheet of paper. All actions with scissors and glue should be performed by the baby. The main criterion for evaluation is not the level of skill, but the very participation in the creation of the work.

Volume application. You need a base-cardboard, the contour of the future drawing is applied to it. The details of the composition are created from paper, but first they give it volume. You can slightly wrinkle pieces of colored paper, or you can fill the contour with spirals, accordions, napkin balls.

Using geometric elements. In it, images and compositions are made up of geometric shapes. The same strawberry can be a simple red triangle with a green tail in the form of an even rectangle stick. In a rectangle-aquarium, fish triangles or quadrangles can swim, which are easy for kids to cut out, round pebbles lie, long rectangle algae grow.

Ripped appliqué. Previously, the outline of the drawing is applied to the colored cardboard. You can print the outlines of the application for children, or you can ask the kid to draw it himself. The peculiarity of this method is that the parts from colored paper are not cut out, but are torn into small pieces that fill the contour. This is again a great exercise for the development of the child's fingers.

• For children 4 years old

For kids 4 years old, the degree of difficulty increases. And also the materials for work are not limited to paper.

Application of grains and cereals. The contour of the drawing is covered with a thin layer of glue and filled with cereals, coffee beans, dry beans, peas. Such compositions are very loved by children because of the unusual performance.

Using cardboard and plasticine. The basis is colored cardboard. The contour of the picture is filled with plasticine balls, sausages, or the details of the picture are fashioned entirely and stuck to cardboard. Also an interesting exercise helps to develop the fingers of a child of 3-4 years old.

Leaf applique. Both green and colored leaves will do in the fall. The leaves must first be dried. You can use the traditional method of drying the leaves between the pages of books, but this will take some time. And the leaves dried in this way will lose their color: they will be brown. It is better and faster to dry the leaves with a hot iron, placing them between the pages of the newspaper. The color of the sheet is preserved, the material dries quickly, and you can start working on the application.

Fabric appliqué. According to the finished template, the details of the picture are cut out, for example, a bus. This will be the preparation. It is recommended to pre-soak it with a liquid solution of gelatin and dry it. Since the material is fabric, a four-year-old child will not always be able to cut the bus blank himself, he will need the help of an adult. Then the part is smeared with glue and glued onto colored cardboard. Such work is already similar to a real picture.

Gallery: paper applique for children 3-4 years old (25 photos)

. This is something like a craquelure technique and looks very similar to a mosaic. Therefore, it requires patience. Pieces of painted or white shells are laid out along the outlined outline of the pattern and glued, filling the entire outline, like a mosaic. It is better to choose dark cardboard for the background, so the picture will look more impressive.

Every mom and dad try to find an exciting activity for their child that will not only keep him busy for a while, but also have a beneficial effect on the comprehensive development of the baby, make the child improve creative thinking, think, fantasize, learn to concentrate.

Colored paper applications are a great option for your child to have a good time. Older children can do this creative activity on their own, kids from a year old will create their first works together with their parents.

The role of applications in child development

Paper application involves the phased creation of a picture by gluing elements of various shapes and colors onto a cardboard or paper base. After looking at various photo paper applications for children, you will understand what this type of activity is and what kind of finished work you can get at the end of the process.

Paper application technology is quite simple. The child himself, or with the help of his parents, nanny, educator, must come up with what kind of picture he would like to depict, prepare the tools necessary for the creative process, make patterns of elements, cut out small details from paper sheets in turn, which will be needed to recreate the intended image and successively glue them to the chosen base.

So what is the benefit of doing this?

Application creation process:

• develops perseverance;
• improves fine motor skills;
• allows you to remember and distinguish colors and shapes;
• teaches you to be independent;
• instills accuracy;
• teaches patience;
• forms creative and imaginative thinking, etc.

The role of applications in the development of the child is undoubtedly great. They contribute to the multifaceted and versatile development of the child.

Here are some simple paper appliqué templates that can be useful for the first lessons and introducing kids to the concept of appliqué.

Application examples

Let's try to make a presentation of some of the easiest paper applications with which you can start the process of learning this business.

Ice cream

To create such an application, you need to prepare:

• cardboard or paper base;
• glue;
• pencil;
• scissors;
• colored paper in various shades.

To begin with, on colored leaves, you need to sketch the main elements of the future picture: separately a cone and separately ice cream balls. After, with the help of scissors, it is necessary to cut out these details. At the next stage, you need to glue small elements in strict sequence: the horn is attached to the base first, then, in turn, popsicle balls.

After completing the steps, the resulting picture can be decorated with additional details: a cherry, chocolate chips (which also need to be cut out of paper).

Using such a simple algorithm of actions, you can make applications of various types: a plate of fruit, a fish, a bunny, and a house.

Volume application

This version of the execution is a little more complicated, but the result is worth it. Consider how to make an unusually beautiful three-dimensional paper flower. To create it, you will need the materials indicated above, the only clarification is that colored paper should be as thin as possible.

From the base it is necessary to cut out the shape of a flower, it can be, for example, a rosebud or a chamomile inflorescence. After, from paper of different colors it is necessary to cut a lot of small pieces and crumple them with your fingers.

Volumetric winter applications made of paper look very beautiful and believable, which will be a wonderful gift for grandparents for the New Year holidays. On a cardboard basis, you can depict a Christmas tree decorated with colorful balls, and with the help of crumpled pieces of white paper, you can recreate a snowfall or set a snowman.

There are a lot of options for applications created from colored paper, so such an activity will not bother the child, every day he will discover something new and interesting, while improving imaginative and creative thinking, ingenuity, perseverance, discipline and intellect.

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