Penguins, snowmen, snowflakes, clouds with snow, landscapes and Santa Claus are waiting for you. How to make winter crafts for kindergarten?
If you choose the most relevant winter images, then your work will be much more interesting, and winter will seem not such a harsh and boring time of year.
You can also devote a themed activity in kindergarten to creating winter images. It will be more expedient for him to choose crafts that can subsequently form a single composition.
Winter craft “mittens” for kindergarten
The simplest version of the “mitten” craft is applique. We cut the mitten according to the child’s hand. We decorate it with buttons and cotton wool trim.
Mitten applique
The mitten applique can be made from felt. If you attach a thread to it, then we will get an original Christmas tree decoration.
Felt mitten applique
In the form of a mitten, you get a very beautiful winter card. May everyone have happiness this winter!
Santa Claus's magic mitten can be made from salt dough. Detailed master class on video:
Be sure to add a warm hat to your winter mittens set. You can decorate it with cotton balls, pompoms or stickers with your favorite characters.
Winter craft “cloud with snow”
As an option for decorating a window, an unusual winter pendant is suitable: for example, in the form of a snow cloud and large falling snowflakes. Both the cloud and the snowflakes are made from cotton balls: by pinching off pieces of cotton wool, we compact them tightly into a fist until the fist is full. Having opened it, we get neat cotton balls. We glue some of it onto the cardboard outline of the cloud, and string some of it on a thread. We fasten the threads with snowflakes on the cloud - you're done!
Openwork snowflakes made of white paper look original on pendants.
The pendant can also be placed on the wall in a suitable place - for example, in a corner where a future exhibition of winter exhibits is being prepared.
Look at the video on how to make a fabulous “winter window” craft:
Winter craft “snowman”
The most popular winter exhibit will, of course, be. It can be created from a variety of materials. For example, by filling half a transparent plastic bottle with cotton balls, we get the head of a snowman. Let's glue on toy eyes, a felt triangular carrot nose, draw out the contours of the mouth with black circles and coals - and now the face is ready. Let's put a hat made of a warm white sock and a felt scarf on his head - and our snowman is ready to take a place at the exhibition.
Snowmen made from cardboard toilet paper rolls are suitable as table souvenirs. Let's paint them white, glue on buttons, toy eyes and small felt noses - carrots, tie scarves from braid - and now the snowmen take on a characteristic appearance. The highlight for them will be hats - headphones made of fluffy pom-poms and pieces of chenille (fluffy) wire.
Snowmen made from cardboard rolls look very interesting.
With a few popcorn cups and disposable plastic spoons, you can make a whole family of snowmen.
You can make snowmen in a more traditional way - for example, in the form of appliqué. A beautiful applique can be made from ordinary cotton pads.
Snowman applique made from cotton pads
Use cotton balls and pieces of felt for your work - and the applique will turn out original and interesting.
The applique can be supplemented with glue snowflakes.
You can make a beautiful three-dimensional snowman from cotton wool and transparent cells for the testicles. Cut three sections from the transparent testicle tray. We make two such blanks. Glue them together, filling the gap between them with cotton wool. Glue on the hat, scarf, buttons and stick handles. We will get a very original winter decoration.
If you still have unpaired white socks, make a snowman out of them. We stuff the sock with rice and tie it at the top. We tie the sock in the middle part and close the elastic band with a scarf ribbon. We make a hat for a snowman from a blue sock.
A snowman can be made from colored paper and disposable plates.
A charming Christmas tree decoration “snowman” is made from an ordinary light bulb. We paint the light bulb, glue twig handles and a ribbon bow onto it.
You can make a snowman from plasticine.
A real winter picture of a “family of snowmen” comes from white gloves. We cut out the fingers from the gloves and glue them to the main background - we will get little snowmen. We decorate snowmen with ribbons - scarves. Glue on the eyes and noses.
Painting "snowmen" made from gloves
You can make very beautiful snowmen from plastic bottles to decorate the kindergarten premises. These snowmen-lamp are illuminated using a garland.
Winter sports crafts. Pieces of cotton wool can be used to lay out the base for any craft - for example, an impromptu skating rink. Add a couple of paper Christmas trees and a paper figure skater girl to it - and you’ll get a complete winter composition.
A very natural skating rink can be made from foil and cotton wool.
Paper and wooden popsicle sticks make adorable ice skates.
Craft “skates”
Winter craft "penguin"
No less popular than the snowman, another winter character is the penguin. A penguin can be made from egg cartons.
A cute soft penguin can be made using the applique technique using paper and cotton wool.
Winter applique "penguin"
An adorable little penguin can be made from a painted walnut.
From a paper plate you can make a craft in the form of a sports cap with a pompom. We cut off half of the plate, decorate it with snowflakes and other suitable ornaments, and form a pompom from cotton balls - ready!
Winter craft “Polar Bear”
One of my favorite winter crafts is a polar bear. A funny white bear is made from threads wound on a cardboard sleeve.
An original way to make a polar bear is to make it from pompoms.
Skilled needlewomen can sew a beautiful polar bear. How to do this, watch the video:
Winter crafts from pine cones
An interesting winter craft - a skier made from a pine cone. To make it, we will need a pine cone painted white, pieces of felt from which we will make mittens, a scarf and a hat, as well as a felt ball (can be replaced with foam, wood or made of any other material).
A glued cardboard cone becomes a good basis for a winter beauty - a Christmas tree.
A very bright, cozy craft - a New Year's basket made of pine cones.
DIY winter Christmas tree craft
A very beautiful Christmas tree is made from foamiran. To make such a Christmas tree, cut the foamiran into strips and make cuts along one edge. We heat the strips on the iron - they will bend slightly. We glue the curved strips onto the cardboard cone using a glue gun.
The Christmas tree can be made from ribbons or organza. The result will be a very impressive winter craft.
You can sew a charming winter Christmas tree from felt.
You can glue green pasta onto a cardboard cone. We decorate the ends with sparkles and glue on bells and ribbon bows. We will get a very original New Year tree.
A very beautiful winter souvenir is a topiary herringbone. This craft is based on foam plastic, which we wrap in foil and pierce with copper wire. Wrap the cone in yarn and decorate with beads. We glue two strips of double-sided tape to the cone - it will fix the threads.
Winter craft “herringbone topiary”
Winter crafts snowflakes
Very interesting snowflakes are made from thin strips of plasticine.
A very beautiful and delicate snowflake can be made using a glue gun. We will need a snowflake pattern on paper on which we will apply hot glue. When the glue hardens, we will paint the snowflake white and sprinkle it with glitter.
A very beautiful New Year's snowflake can be glued from pasta. The snowflake is painted white and sprinkled with semolina.
A delicate winter craft of amazing beauty is a ballerina snowflake. We cut out an ordinary snowflake from paper and put it on the paper silhouette of a ballerina. We tie a thread to the ballerina's handle and hang an elegant winter decoration on a chandelier, Christmas tree or window.
Watch the video on how to make a 3D paper snowflake:
If you want to bring a little magic to your room, then ordinary paper snowflakes make a lovely New Year's pattern for the window.
Another craft that will surely come in handy in winter is a Christmas angel. Such an angel can be easily made from an openwork napkin or just beautiful white paper. We make the head from a bead.
Winter craft “Bullfinch”
One of the most favorite winter crafts is the bullfinch bird. The bullfinch stays with us during the harsh winter and inspires us with its bright plumage. The easiest way to make a beautiful bullfinch is using the applique technique.
Winter applique "Bullfinch"
A very impressive winter craft “Bullfinch” can be made from colored yarn.
Winter craft “Bullfinch made of threads”
Winter houses and cities
You can make a very effective composition on the theme of winter. All elements of the composition are mounted on a cardboard base. The house is made from milk cartons. Figures made of papier-mâché and cotton wool.
Composition “Winter's Tale”
Look at the video on how to make a beautiful winter house from a plastic bottle:
Winter drawings for kindergarten
The most popular winter design is snowflakes.
Winter snowflake pattern
Drawings using unusual techniques are the perfect idea for winter crafts. For example, children really like to draw pictures with white crayons, and then show the contours with watercolors. This way you can create winter landscapes or characters - for example, snowmen. Winter landscapes made in chalk and developed in watercolor turn out to be very beautiful.
Surely many people will want to draw the magical beauty of winter!
Drawing "Winter"
We draw snowfall with splashes.
A handsome bullfinch can be drawn on a winter landscape or postcard.
Drawing "Bullfinch"
We carefully draw all the details of the bird and rowan berries.
By implementing several of the listed ideas, it’s easy to turn any room into a real winter kingdom.
We invite you to get creative and return a little to childhood, when any fluff is a ballerina, any box is a house, and any leaf is something magical and unusual. In childhood, imagination is very well developed. It’s better to make crafts on the theme of winter with your own hands for kindergarten together with your little ones. Children can suggest and come up with a lot, but the technical side of the issue is up to adults. Further in the article you will find descriptions of winter-themed crafts that you made yourself for kindergarten and many ideas and tips. All that remains is to set aside an evening and start creating magic together with your favorite little ones!
We associate winter with snow, snowflakes, snowdrifts and, of course, Happy New Year. Crafts for a competition or exhibition for a kindergarten on the theme of winter, which can be easily done with your own hands, should reflect these ideas. Based on this, we will select ideas and material for their implementation.
You can make a panel or a drawing. But this may not be a simple drawing, but made using an interesting technique. Here's what you can use to fill a canvas for a drawing or a panel on the theme of winter:
- Semolina drawing.
- Application made from cotton pads.
- Application made of cotton wool.
- Drawing from white crushed eggshell.
- Drawing with sugar.
All these types of designs and applications involve gluing ingredients onto a base with a pattern applied with glue.
New Year's installations are a favorite type of creativity for kids. For it, you can take an empty unnecessary box and cut off 2 walls from it. There will be a floor with two walls at an angle. This will be the basis for an amazing fairy-tale landscape or scene. Snow can be made from cotton wool, houses and trees can be made from cotton swabs or newspapers rolled into a tube, painted with brown paint, or original logs. Further in the article a master class of one of these installations will be given.
Do-it-yourself winter-themed crafts for kindergarten can be made from paper or empty plastic bottles, from burnt out light bulbs, and generally from anything you find at home. Next, consider a penguin made from an empty plastic bottle and dogs made from light bulbs.
You can also make crafts on the theme of winter for kindergarten with your own hands from threads; photos of such crafts with descriptions are further in the article.
Craft “Winter's Tale”
And now we suggest looking at a photo and a detailed description of how to make some crafts on the theme of winter with your own hands for kindergarten.
We make things from what we have at home
We suggest using for crafts everything that is unnecessary in the house, for example, a burnt out light bulb. If there is a big paw, that’s very good. Let's turn her into a real New Year's penguin. What is needed for such magic:
- burnt out light bulb (preferably larger);
- acrylic paints or gouache and brushes;
- some firth or cloth in black, red and white;
- ribbon;
- glue (use a heat gun if possible).
So, let's begin:
- Paint the entire light bulb white and let it dry thoroughly.
- With a pencil we draw the front part: the face and belly, which will remain white, the rest is painted black, except for the place where the light bulb is screwed into the socket. We paint this place with red paint. Let it dry.
- Draw the eyes and beak and let dry.
- We cut out oval wings from black felt or thick fabric and glue them on both sides.
- Cut out a red rectangle for the scarf and cut the ends, tie the scarf.
- We attach a ribbon to the top of the head and cover it with a strip of white felt or fabric on top. You can attach a pompom to the top of your head.
The funny penguin is ready.
Penguin from a plastic bottle
Now let's see how to make a penguin or Santa Claus from a plastic bottle. The scheme is very similar and simple. For this craft you will need 2 empty identical bottles. We cut off only the bottom from one, and cut the second in half and glue the bottom of the first eggplant to it with tape or glue. It turned out to be such a block.
Now we paint it white and let it dry. Then, in the same way as with the light bulb, we draw the contours of the front part for the penguin or the face if we are making Santa Claus. We leave them white, paint the rest either black (for the penguin) or red (for Santa Claus). Then we draw the face and draw other necessary details. We put on a cap and a scarf, if we made Santa Claus, then we glue on a beard from cotton wool or felt. These are some interesting crafts you can make with your children from unnecessary things.
Panel “Snowman made of cotton pads”
What's winter without a snowman? Children love to build snowmen in the yards and poke around in the snow, rolling lumps for him. But they will also really like making such a winter hero at home from scrap materials. What is needed for the creative process:
- thick cardboard for the base, blue or dark blue;
- cotton pads;
- colored paper or thin felt;
- White paper;
- paints and brush;
- scissors;
- PVA glue.
Let's start building a snowman:
- First, let's create a landscape around us. Cut out 2 colored rectangles from felt or paper and glue them onto cardboard. Cut out a brown tree trunk and glue it on.
- We glue snow roofs on houses or half a cotton pad. We make the base of the snowman from two cotton pads. Glue on the snowman a cap made of felt or colored paper and a scarf.
- We glue the discs as snowdrifts and snow on tree branches.
- Cut out small snowflakes from white paper and glue them randomly.
- Now all that remains is to paint the details: the snowman’s face, the windows.
A wonderful winter panel for the kindergarten is ready.
Winter panel made of semolina or sugar
Another fascinating and interesting option for a picture or panel on the theme of winter is painting with semolina or sugar. Kids will be delighted with this activity. To make such a panel, take colored cardboard, PVA glue, a simple pencil and sugar or semolina.
Draw any winter design on cardboard with a pencil. For children in kindergarten, you can do the simplest one. Then coat all the parts that need to be painted with glue. Now pour semolina or sugar boldly and thickly over the entire picture. You need to leave it like this until the glue dries. Then just lift and pour out all the remaining grains that did not stick.
You can make a panel with a winter theme from plasticine with your child. To do this, you will need thick cardboard as a base, plasticine and a simple pencil.
You need to draw a simple winter story on cardboard. Mom can help here. It could be a landscape, a Christmas tree, a snowman or any animal. And then decorate the picture, but not with paints, but with plasticine, as if rubbing small pieces of the desired color, filling in the details of the picture. A child can handle this well, only under the control of his mother.
A similar panel can be made from thread crumbs. Everything is exactly the same until the moment of coloring. Before coloring, you need to finely chop threads of different colors and place each color in its own container. Then coat each element of the design separately with PVA glue and apply crumbs of thread onto it. This is how we fill in all the elements of the picture.
Crafts from threads
Snowman made of threads
You can try to make a beautiful, openwork and large snowman from threads. What is needed for this:
- two balloons and polyethylene;
- white cotton threads;
- PVA glue;
- branches for pens;
- cap and scarf for decoration;
- buttons for eyes;
- orange paper to make the nose a carrot.
Let's start tinkering:
- We inflate the balloons and wrap them in polyethylene.
- We wrap the balls randomly with thread coated with PVA glue. The thread must be passed through a tube of glue and wound.
- Let the balloons dry, burst the air base, and pull out the balloons from the inside through any gap.
- Glue 2 balls together and place the snowman on a stable surface. To do this, you can glue a ring from a strip of thick cardboard.
- Now we decorate the snowman with a cap and a scarf, and glue twigs instead of hands.
- We glue the buttons in place of the eyes and nose with a carrot from a twisted paper cone.
In general, you can decorate such a snowman at your own discretion.
Christmas trees made from balls of thread
Now let’s make a cozy, homely and Christmas tree from balls of thread. To do this you need:
- threads of different colors. It is better to take half-wool or acrylic;
- thick paper, from which we will make the base of a cone or a purchased polystyrene foam cone;
- any beads or flowers made from ribbons and tulle for decoration;
- thick wire;
- pot or empty low jar;
- fabric, mesh or tulle for decorating the pot.
- jute rope.
- glue in a gun.
- gypsum.
Let's start creating:
- Let's make the base. First, beautifully bend a small piece of wire for the leg of the Christmas tree and wrap it with jute rope.
- Dilute the gypsum thickly in a bowl and transfer the required amount into a Christmas tree pot, stick the stem in and wait until it dries.
- We decorate the pot with fabric and decorate it with a cone or flower.
- Now the Christmas tree itself. We make a cone out of paper or take a ready-made one from polystyrene foam and put it on the leg.
- We wind balls from different threads. You can involve children in this activity; they will be happy to help.
- Cover the cone tightly with balls, leaving no gaps.
- All that remains is to decorate our cozy woolen beauty. Glue on beads, fabric flowers, or whatever you want.
You can make such a Christmas tree without a base from a pot and a stem, just a cone of balls. It's both easier and faster. You can add sisal balls to the balls, if you have them, or make balls from coffee beans by simply pasting over thick lumps of paper colored brown with coffee beans.
Winter New Year wreaths
Such wreaths are classics of the genre. They decorate the room in winter, preparing for the New Year. They can be made from whatever is at hand; they can be used:
- spruce branches;
- cones;
- chestnuts;
- pieces of paper or cardboard;
- acorns;
- bay leaves;
- dried flowers;
- coffee beans;
- paper flowers:
- flowers made of fabric or ribbons;
- just branches;
- New Year's balls of different sizes;
- the same skeins of thread and so on.
To make a wreath, the main thing is to understand the principle: first we make a base out of cardboard or buy a foam ring from a craft store and decorate the base as you wish. You need to stick the selected elements tightly onto the base, you can combine them, and then decorate them with a ribbon bow on the side and hang them on a string.
This wreath can be sprayed with glitter varnish or gold or silver spray paint.
Happy winter has come
With skates and sleds,
With a powdered ski track,
With a magical old fairy tale.
On the decorated Christmas tree
The lanterns are swinging.
May your winter be merry
It doesn't end any longer!
Winter crafts
Winter has come! Snow, frost, sleds, skates - WHERE? Our Latvian weather has again unpredictably canceled winter. Well, let's make winter ourselves, with our own hands. And create a festive New Year's atmosphere! And to help you, I offer a small selection of ideas.
There has already been a lot about postcards, so I won’t delve too deeply into this topic, I’ll just post a few new ideas. Yarn, buttons, threads, ribbons, paper, pencil shavings and a little magic!
Last year there were Christmas trees made of stripes, this year we will make the Christmas trees a little more voluminous - we will twist tubes from colored paper.
Unusual candlesticks are made by simply cutting out a black and white picture of a city or castle and wrapping it around the jar. You can make a whole fairy-tale city. And the fabulous atmosphere will be supported by lanterns and candlesticks made of tin cans, on which an openwork pattern is punched.
A cone is already a Christmas tree in itself. And a lot of cones is a big tree.
Since we're talking about Christmas trees, here's an option. Elegant and original. And by the size and number of Christmas trees you can understand how big a wine lover you are.
And finally, I propose to remember our little brothers and make these unusual feeders. Gelatin is dissolved in water, then the food is poured in, placed in molds and cooled in the refrigerator.
I hope some of the ideas are useful to you and your winter evenings will be filled with creativity!
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Has a kindergarten or school announced an exhibition of winter-themed crafts? Or do you just want to keep your little one busy with creativity on these cold days? In one material, we have collected for you 6 ideas for winter crafts from natural and scrap materials with step-by-step master classes, a selection of 60 photos and videos.
Idea 1. Tabletop diorama with a winter theme
A tabletop diorama will allow you and your baby to show off all your talents - from modeling to design. Moreover, using a variety of materials and objects: branches, cones, toys (for example, from Kinder Surprise eggs), plasticine, salt dough, cardboard, cotton wool and much more.
First of all, you need to come up with a plot for your diorama and plan the composition. You can recreate any of your fantasies or be inspired by our selection of topics with photos and small tips on making crafts.
Topic 1. “Winter in the forest”
The craft is made of polystyrene foam and plasticine. You can also make a bear from polymer clay or salt dough
If in kindergarten or school you were given the task of making a winter craft from natural materials, then you can use pine cones. They make excellent Christmas trees, owls, deer, squirrels and hedgehogs for the winter forest. By the way, we just have several master classes on how to make them.
Want to make a simple craft more effective? Just light it up with an LED garland! To embed light bulbs in cardboard, you need to make cross-shaped cuts in it.
This winter forest is made entirely of felt. Animal figurines can be placed on fingers
Topic 2. “Winter House”
A favorite theme at winter craft exhibitions. The house can be surrounded by a forest or a courtyard with paths, a gate, a rowan tree, a skating rink and a snowman. And the hut itself can be beautiful not only outside, but also inside.
This video tutorial shows a simple and quick way to make winter crafts from natural materials, namely twigs and pine cones.
Topic 3. “Christmas in a village/town”
If you build a couple of houses and connect them with beautiful streets, you will get a whole village or town.
The easiest way to make houses is from paper, or rather from printed templates that you just need to cut out, paint and glue. The following video presents a step-by-step master class on making such a craft.
Topic 4. “The North Pole and its inhabitants”
Want to make a more original craft? We suggest making a diorama on the theme of the North Pole.
To make such a craft, download and print the templates (click on the picture to download), transfer them to cardboard, then cut, connect and paint the parts
Topic 5. “Winter fun”
A craft on the theme of winter fun illustrates all the joys of winter. For example, sledding, making snowmen or playing snowballs. Lego men (pictured below), Kinder Surprise egg figurines and any small toys are well suited for recreating winter scenes. You can also make little people with your own hands from plasticine or polymer clay.
Topic 6. Winter sports
Another very original craft idea is a diorama on the theme of skiing, figure skating, hockey, bobsleigh, and snowboarding. By the way, the Olympics in Sochi can serve as inspiration and a model for modeling.
To make these ski figures, download, print, color and cut out the templates (click on the picture to download the templates), then glue a toothpick to the hands of the men, and a popsicle stick to the legs.
Topic 7. Scenes from fairy tales
Choose your favorite fairy tale and recreate one of its episodes. For example, this could be the fairy tale “12 Months”, “The Snow Queen”, “Morozko”, “The Nutcracker”, “At the Command of the Pike”.
Everything in this craft on the theme of the fairy tale “At the Command of the Pike” is molded from plasticine and only the mill is assembled from matches
To make such a craft, you need to cut several holes in a piece of plywood and insert tree branches into them
This composition is dedicated to the theme of the ballet “The Nutcracker”. The figures in it are made of... clothespins. Unfortunately, clothespins with a round top are not sold in Russia, but you can order them on the Aliexpress website or use regular ones
From this video you will learn how to make a winter craft with your own hands based on the fairy tale “At the Order of the Pike.”
Idea 2. Skating rink with a controlled figure
The originality of this winter craft is that the skater can be smoothly “rolled on the ice” by moving a magnet along the back of the box.
What you need:
- A shallow tin can for cookies, tea, etc.
- Paper;
- Paints and brushes, pencils or markers;
- Paperclip or coin;
- Glue;
- Magnet.
How to do it:
Step 1. Decorate the tin box so that it resembles an ice skating rink: paint the bottom with blue and white paint and cover with clear varnish (glitter nail polish works well), you can place garlands and flags on top of the box, and snow-covered trees on the sides.
Step 2. Draw a figure of a girl or boy skating on thick paper or cardboard, then cut it out and glue it to a coin or paperclip.
Step 3. Attach a magnet to the back of the box. Voila, the skating rink is ready!
Idea 3. Painting made with prints
Drawing pictures with fingerprints, handprints, and even toes is a lot of fun, especially for preschoolers. All you need is imagination, gouache and a sheet of paper! In the following selection of photos you can see examples of such drawings.
Idea 4. Mini Christmas tree made of paper
Another winter craft idea for little ones is paper Christmas trees. They are made very easily and quickly, and you can use them in any way you like: as decoration for the same diorama, applique for a New Year's card or panel, for decorating a garland or Christmas tree.
What you need:
- A sheet of green paper and some brown paper for the trunk;
- Glue stick;
- Scissors;
- Sequins, rhinestones, beads and other decorations for the Christmas tree.
Step 1. Make a square from a sheet of green paper by folding one corner of the sheet as shown in the photo and cutting out the excess.
Step 2. Cut one of the short sides of the triangle into equal narrow strips, not reaching the fold by about 1 cm (see photo above).
Step 3. Now straighten your workpiece and begin gluing the ends of the strips to the center fold line one by one, moving from bottom to top.
Step 4. Once you have secured all the stripes, fold and glue the bottom corner of the tree to the top. Next, in the same place, but on the reverse side, glue a small rectangle (tree trunk) cut out of brown paper.
Step 5. Decorate the tree with colorful beads, sparkles, buttons and other decor. If you wish, you can make several of these trees, glue loops to them, and then assemble a garland or decorate a real tree with crafts.
Idea 5. Snow globe... or rather a jar
Now we propose to make a real souvenir with your own hands - a variation of a snow globe. True, it will be made from an ordinary glass jar. The child can give the craft to a loved one, present it at a winter crafts competition, or simply leave it on the shelf for beauty.
What you need:
- Glass jar with lid;
- A piece of foam;
- Glue (hot or “Moment”);
- Acrylic paint for decorating the lid (optional);
- Artificial snow or just sea salt, sugar, finely grated white soap or polyethylene foam;
- Figurines that will be placed in a jar;
- Foam balls or any white beads;
- Fishing line;
- Needle.
How to do it:
Step 1: Repaint the lid the desired color and leave to dry. In this project, spray paint was used to remake the lid.
Step 2. While the paint is drying, let's make a “snowfall”. To do this, you need to string several foam balls onto a fishing line threaded into a needle. Use tape to attach the snowflakes to the jar.
Step 3. Trace the bottom of the jar directly onto the foam, then use a knife to cut the resulting circle out of it. This circle will become the basis for the figures.
Step 4. Glue your figures to the foam circle, then glue the resulting composition to the bottom of the jar.
Step 5. Pour artificial or homemade snow into the jar, close it with a lid with snowflakes and enjoy the view of a winter fairy tale.
Idea 6. New Year card
There are never enough New Year cards, so we suggest making a few together with your child.
What you need:
- A sheet of white paper;
- A sheet of colored paper;
- Scissors;
- Glue stick;
- Markers.
How to do it:
Step 1. Fold a sheet of white accordion paper three times so that each top accordion layer is smaller in width than the previous one.
Step 2. Straighten your accordion, cut the sheet diagonally and slightly in waves as shown in the photo above, then assemble the accordion again. You have the slope of a snow-covered mountain.
Step 3. Now take a sheet of colored paper, glue the blank onto it and cut off the excess. Hooray! The postcard is almost ready.
Step 4. Decorate the mountain with Christmas trees, draw snowmen and skiers and finally sign the card.
Using the same principle, but using larger paper, you can make a winter craft for kindergarten.
What could be more fun and exciting during the cold season than doing DIY crafts on the theme “Winter”. When it’s cold and snowy outside, the child has a lot of time for creativity, and besides, the weather itself gives inspiration. And the New Year holidays are approaching, so crafts will come in handy for decorating your apartment and Christmas tree. The baby has a variety of materials at his disposal, so you should not limit yourself to paper; for example, you can take pasta and use it to create a bright decorative Christmas tree.
DIY children's crafts on the theme "Winter"
Most Popular DIY children's crafts on the theme "Winter"- these are Christmas trees, but the materials that can be offered to a child to implement this idea can be very diverse. For example, you have at your disposal various shaped pasta that will be an excellent material for decorating a lush New Year's beauty.
The basis will be a disposable wine glass; it has a conical shape, this is exactly the shape we need for the base for the Christmas tree. You can make the bases using cardboard or plastic, but a disposable wine glass is strong enough that it will not deform under the weight of the pasta and a layer of glue.
We will take pasta in the shape of small bows, with them the Christmas tree will turn out to be truly beautiful and lush. You should also prepare miniature pasta of different shapes, which will serve as decoration and become small Christmas tree balls that decorate our New Year’s beauty.
To keep the elements securely on the base, ordinary PVA glue is not enough; it is advisable to use a hot glue gun. To make the craft realistic, we will need green spray paint, and for coloring - gold paint.
We need to separate the stem of the wine glass; we will need it at the very end of the craft. Turn the cone over with the wide side down and start gluing the elements from the very bottom. The pasta bows are fixed with a drop of hot glue.
The “bows” should be glued close to each other, arranging the rows in a checkerboard pattern. Make sure that there are no holes between the elements through which the plastic base of the wine glass can be seen. If there are any small gaps left, you will then paint them with green spray.
When you get closer to the top of the head, whole “bows” will no longer fit, so the top of the head can be filled in halves, as shown in the master class. Of course, while the pasta retains its natural color, the craft looks completely unattractive, but as soon as you paint it green, it will immediately take on a magical look. Additionally, the tips of the “twigs” can be decorated with sparkles.
When the paint is dry, you can glue the stand. The role of the stand will be played by two legs from a wine glass, glued together along a narrow base, as shown in the master class. Now the coasters need to be glued to the wide part of the wine glass using hot glue.
All that remains is to decorate the finished Christmas tree with small shaped pasta - first you need to paint them with a gold spray on both sides and let the paint dry. Then stick small elements in random order on top of the “bows” or fill the remaining gaps with them.
Several curly macarons can be glued together to form a star, which can be used to decorate the top of the head.
When making pasta with your children, you can take not only “bows”, but also other fancy-shaped pasta - spirals, shells and tubes. Depending on what form of pasta you use, your craft will be completely different. The base can be made from cardboard, rolled into a cone, or pasted over an empty glass bottle of champagne or mineral water with pasta. You can independently choose the color of paint in which to paint the finished craft.
Original DIY crafts on the theme “Winter”
Together with your children you can do original DIY crafts on the theme “Winter”, and these can be not just individual crafts, but entire winter compositions. What elements may be present in such a composition? Of course, a house with snow-covered roofs, which stands among bare trees and lush green fir trees in a snow-covered meadow. Next to the house there will be a snowman, who has been visited by forest guests - gnomes or hedgehogs.
As you can see, this is a complex and multi-stage work in which you can involve a group of children, each of whom will have their own task. And then the individual crafts will be combined into a whole composition.
The main element of the composition is the house, it is very interesting to make it, because the child will literally stack it log by log. The main element is snow; according to tradition, this role will be played by ordinary cotton wool, which must be fluffed with flakes. It is with cotton wool that we will cover the roof of the house and the clearing itself. Flakes can be used to cover bare tree branches and spruce branches. If you still have artificial snow in an aerosol that you used to decorate your windows for the New Year, you can also use it.
How to make crafts on the theme “Winter” with your own hands
Now that we have an idea, how to make crafts on the theme “Winter” with your own hands, you can start creating it. First we will make a paper house, it will be built from paper tubes. You can take plain white paper and then paint the walls of the house with brown paint, or immediately use brown paper (colored single-sided).
The A4 sheet must be cut into three parts along the length of the side, as a result you will get rectangles, each of which we will twist into a tube. You will need a lot of tubes - approximately 11 pieces on each side, the total number is about 50; if necessary, you can tighten the tubes while working. The edge of the thick tube must be coated with a glue stick and glued to form a tube.
Our foundation will be thick cardboard - you can cut a square or rectangle. Glue the tubes on all sides so that the tips of two peek out beyond the perimeter of the base. Long tubes will be on the sides, and two more should be shortened a little by cutting off the excess part, then gluing it to the base. Long tubes should alternate, for example, if in the first layer we laid long ones on both sides vertically, then in the next row the long ones should be horizontal. This way you will get the effect of a log cabin, exactly like in the picture.
When laying out the next row, it is necessary to coat the tubes of the previous row with a thin layer, and it is better to fix the corner joints with PVA glue for reliability. Once you have three rows on each side, it's time to decide where the door to your magic house will be located (who knows, you might end up with a house for Santa). Select one of the sides and mark the door in the middle - there should be a hole in this place. When you glue the next layers on this side, the tubes must be cut. Make sure that the cuts are at the same level along the entire height of the door on both sides.
The height of the windows should be half that of the door, but both the windows and the door should end at the same level. Therefore, when you have made three rows of doors, you can begin to form windows on the side walls.
After the walls have become solid again, you need to complete 2-3 more rows and begin forming the roof. For the roof, the tubes are installed only on two opposite sides in the form of a triangle. Each next row of tubes should be shorter than the previous one by only a few millimeters. In total, the attic will consist of 10 rows of tubes.
DIY crafts on the theme “Winter”: ideas
The main element of ours is almost ready, but it needs to be decorated so that the house looks like something out of a magical Christmas story. You need to secure the door by gluing it also from tubes, but this time placing them vertically. The doorway can be decorated with brown cardboard with a carved edge, as shown in the master class.
Make a frame and shutters on the windows, and then use colored paper to glue the curtains together, securing them with double-sided tape on the back of the walls.
The roof will be made using thick colored cardboard; you can choose any color, but it is better to take a dark one so that its natural color can be seen under the snow. We will make not just a straight roof, but with tiles.
Of course, creating tiles is a long and painstaking process: you will need yellow, orange or terracotta construction paper, sharp scissors, and a piece of paper and a pencil to draw the template. The tile is a wide strip with a wavy edge, then the finished pieces must be glued overlapping, covering the entire surface of the roof.
As you can see, it’s not at all difficult to do DIY crafts on the theme “Winter”, ideas You can see the decoration in the photos.
For the house you need to decorate a snow-covered meadow, you can put our pasta Christmas tree next to it, and a few more hedgehog ones made from pine cones and plasticine. And, of course, there will be a cute New Year's snowman next to the house.
DIY crafts on the theme “Winter”
Probably the most important are various applications that depict Christmas trees, snowflakes and snowmen. The child has at his disposal various materials that will help him create a beautiful paper snowman. Children can use cotton swabs and cotton pads, then the craft will turn out to be voluminous.
You have already seen options for the proposed composition - DIY crafts on the theme “Winter”, photo we selected in our master class. A snowman must be present in the composition, otherwise, what kind of winter is this?!
Together with your mother, your child can make a truly adult craft - a bright and original snowman from a white sock. You can buy special terry socks for this craft, then the snowman will receive additional volume due to the specifics of the material. To make the snowman stable, it should be filled with heavy material, especially the very bottom. For example, you can use small grains, then the toy will also give you an unforgettable tactile sensation. The rest of the snowman is filled with padding polyester.
And don’t forget about the main element of any winter decor - snowflakes, which you can cut out with the whole family, competing to see who can create the most beautiful snowflake. Ready-made snowflakes can be decorated in the form of a garland or glued to a window using a soap solution.
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