Application "Birdhouse"

With the advent of spring, spring handicrafts for the holidays of March 8 and Easter, for the Mother's Day, are becoming more relevant than ever. In addition, to familiarize the children with the phenomena of nature and the seasons, you can make bird houses, crafts made of natural materials, salted dough, paper applications for spring themes, etc.

We offer you several ideas on how to make a creative application with your child - a birdhouse from paper.

A birdhouse: a simple children's applique

To make a paper birdhouse you will need the following tools and materials: white paper, watercolor or gouache paints, foam sponge, scissors, pencils, glue. This application is quite possible for the younger student. It is required to cut out paper, paint in different colors and paste on the base birdhouse, several birds and a tree and draw some details. Offer your child to do this craft - this kind of exercise well trains assiduity and develops creative thinking.

1. Draw on light paper and cut out the template details of the application: a birdhouse, six birds and a tree trunk.
2. Color the tree and birdhouse with the help of a sponge in brown color.
3. Birds make colorful, choosing bright, cheerful shades.
4. Prepare a base sheet on which the application will be located. You can take colored paper or cardboard, or apply a background color (light green or yellow) on a white sheet of thick paper.
5. Stick the details of the application onto the paper. A few birds "sit" on the nest of the birdhouse, others - on the roof, on the tree, etc. Draw or glue birds to the birds, beaks and eyes of contrasting colors, and put the tree in the leaves. Do not forget about the window for the bird house. Here is your application and ready!

Craft yourself: a paper birdhouse

1. This is a hobby for preschool children: a birdhouse on the background of green foliage and trunks of birches.
2. Prepare the base sheet of a blue color, cut out any type of green paper from the green paper of different colors, and cut the white sheet of A4 into four parts. Each twist into a tube and fix it with glue. These will be trunks of birches; glue them to the base in a picturesque manner.
3. Cut from the red paper a figure in the shape of a house and glue it to the trunks of birches at the top of the application. Two intersecting brown stripes let it be the birdhouse roof, and a white circle - the window of the bird house.
4. Decorate the composition with green foliage. Then paint the trunks of the birches with black stripes using a marker and glue them on butterflies cut from bright colored paper.

Handmade "Flying bird from the birdhouse"

1. First make a house. To do this, cut out a colored cardboard box of 10x10 cm and a triangle with a base of 12 cm. Glue these two parts so that the house turns out. In the upper corner of the roof, make a small hole and thread the thread into it, forming a loop.
2. Cut out the window of the birdhouse from the black cardboard - a circle with a diameter of 5 cm. On the back of it, glue a piece of double-sided tape, and on the top - a thread about 20 cm long.
3. Glue a circle in the middle of the square so that the thread hangs down.
4. Now cut out the figure of the bird from the orange cardboard and separately - two wings. Glue on the scotch wings and connect the bird with a thread hanging from the window. You will have a flying bird that moves from the movement of air. It can be hung on a chandelier in the nursery.

Paper applications are the simplest, but from this not less interesting kind of children's creativity. The guys like to cut out a variety of elements from paper and make colorful compositions out of them. More often offer your child to work out an application, this is a wonderful stimulus for creative activity. Older children can be involved in the implementation of applications not only from paper, but also from felt, leather, cloth, perform unusual 3D and 3D applications.