Templates Crafts from cereals and pasta for children with their own hands (185+ Photos) - The original solution to decorate the home and not only
It is much easier to make crafts out of cereals with your own hands than it seems at first glance, it is interesting for both children and adults. The main advantage of crafts from cereals - originality, because even adults will consider the finished work, peering into the details. Guess what material was used, can not all, especially if viewed from afar. If the picture made with cereals hangs along with the standard drawings, it will look brighter and more memorable.
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Advantages of the idea
Originality is not the only reason to teach a child to make such crafts. Today, many parents from childhood teach children to use gadgets, so they quickly master the technique, while mental development, which depends on the fine motor skills of hands, suffers. Simply put, children are not accustomed to working with small details, because of this, their ability to learn, develop, is rapidly falling.
The main advantage of crafts from cereals - originality
Especially often such problems arise in families living in apartmentsIn such conditions, children may not even have the opportunity to play in the sand. Caring parents understand how important it is to worry about the development of the child, so the idea of making crafts from cereals attracts them. A nice advantage of such an activity is that the finished work is a great option for a gift to grandparents, other relatives, so that a child learns from his childhood to please others.
Teach your children to make such crafts.
Where to begin?
First you need to make sure that the child is at that age when such an activity will be not only useful, but also interesting. It is dangerous to force children at a very young age to do something together, as this may be an abundance of desire to spend time with their parents in the future.
There are no specific age limits. Every kid has such a moment when he begins to be actively interested in drawing: a pack of blank paper can be enough for a day, while in the house there are notes of a young “artist” on wallpaper and other furniture. This is the time to direct the child’s energy into creative development.
It is very easy to work with this material.
At the same time, children going to kindergarten and primary school also need to develop fine motor skills and plodding.. It happens that a child seems to be an uncreative person - nothing associated with drawing arouses interest in him. Then parents have to invent something, the original idea will be crafts from cereals.
The first thing you need to start is to choose the right croup. It is better not to be guided by the principle of “what is not sorry,” but to think about how it will be more convenient for the child to work.
Start by choosing cereals
Using one cereal will be boring, so after coming up with an idea for a drawing, you need to choose different options. You can paint the selected material in different colors, some like painting semolina. You also need to prepare a flat surface, it can be part of of the table or a tray, a dish, another flat pot.
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Preparing a template is the task of parents, because the child will not cope with it. The final appearance of the finished work will depend on the selected and drawn template. It is important that the drawing consists of large parts, it is necessary to calculate that there are no more of them than the variations of different croup are available.
Template preparation - parental task
Along with the choice of the template, you need to prepare the basis, it can be anything:
Of course, the more complex the basis, the more difficult it is to apply the drawing, so if you practice crafts the first time, it’s best to use thick cardboard. To this basis, you need PVA glue and a brush for its application.
The more complex the base, the harder it is to apply the drawing.
An alternative to sticking cereal is to press it into the clay. This technique also looks bright and original, but still for the first time it is better to do gluing, and then experiment.
return to menu ↑How to do?
Let's consider on an example how to embody ideas of an application on a template. The whole process of making crafts consists of several stages:
Choose and print a template. This way of making a template is the easiest, you can find many simple drawings with large details on the Internet and print them. You can use other methods - to redraw, and in the presence of artistic potential even to draw by hand, but it is important to try to keep the contours and lines as smooth as possible.
We prepare cereals. To do this, we think over what detail we will make with what material, if necessary, paint the grits in the desired color. It is important that by the time the work is done all the material is dry.
We transfer the printed pattern on a dense basis.. You can leave it on a regular sheet of paper, but in this case the drawing will be untidy and can quickly tear. It is best to take a cardboard, simple or color.
Go to the main part. We smear part of the drawing with a brush with glue, then lay out one grain on this area of the grain. If a child is at an age that can use tweezers, it is best to use it.
We begin to perform work with large parts, we end with small. You can beautifully arrange the background by adding additional elements: the sun, grass, bird, depending on the picture.
Apply step by step
Blow off the remnants of cereal, accidentally fell on the picture, leave it to dry. It may take about 10 minutes, if a lot of glue is applied, then more.
After that, you can use paints, you need to do this in the event that you did not initially paint over the croup, but there is such a need. It is also convenient to draw small details with paints.:
- eyes;
- nose;
- buttons.
It is best to use acrylic paints.
After the final drying of the work, it can be hung in a frame or used as a decor for a children's room.
From cereals and pasta
Pasta - an excellent tool for needlework. Many use them for different decorative purposes, for example, decorate the New Year Christmas tree, make candlesticks and many other crafts. And all because the variety of forms of pasta allows you to do this.
Pasta - a great tool for needlework
Such crafts are performed on the same principle as simply from cereals. To begin with, a template is selected, then the parent determines which parts of the design will be made with cereals, and which pasta. Then with the help of glue and a brush, first large, then small details are painted alternately, the prepared material is glued.
However, some types of pasta are difficult to glue because of the weight, so the material chosen for the base of such an application should be durable, plain paper will not work, and if you choose cardboard, then hard. If you can not stick the product, you can sew it. Beautifully look pasta shaped wheels, spirals, they can just grab a few stitches needles and thread.
Such crafts are performed on the same principle as simply from cereals.
Of course, this part of the process is performed by parents, especially if the children are very small. If the child is already in school, then the execution of such crafts may be a suitable reason to teach a child to own a needle. Usually pasta is attached to the finished drawing at the very end of the work.
If you chose a puppy pattern, why not add him a leash with a “badge” - macaroni in the shape of a wheel, or why not use them for a snowman button.
The advantage of pasta is that they are easy to paint in the desired color.
Handmade macaroni hair ornaments
Pasta can be used not only with cereals, but also as a basic material for work. Manufacturers of pasta, as if specially designed a beautiful design, so that craftsmen can use them not only for cooking.
Especially the original look for hair ornaments with pasta. Few people guess how they were made, but no child will definitely have the same accessory. There are several options for using pasta for making jewelry:
Pasta as a decoration for hair
Pasta Hoop
Pasta Accessories
Pasta can be made not only hair ornaments.All that girls like to wear, beads, bracelets, earrings, can be made from this material. How much joy the child will have if parents do not just buy the jewelry in the store, but take the time to make it on their own with the children.
You can even make beads from pasta.
The easiest way to make beads is to make pasta of such a form that is strung on a thread. You can use different types, painting them in different colors. It is important that the thread was strong, if it is thick and looks ugly from under the "beads", you need to pick it up in color or just paint it.
Beautifully look beads with macaroni in the form of bows. Stringing them on a thread is impossible, so this work is more laborious and takes more time.
Stylish decoration
You can make beads and bracelets by combining pasta with ordinary beads. You can arrange not only one thing, but the whole set, complementing it with a hairpin in the same style. Such sets of "jewelry" look stylish and original.
return to menu ↑Christmas crafts
The easiest way to use cereal for New Year's crafts is to make New Year cards with the child, which he can give on his own behalf to relatives and friends. To do this, you need to select a simple pattern on the New Year theme, print, transfer to cardboard, arrange with cereals.
Option toys for the Christmas tree
A common idea is a Christmas tree. You can draw it yourself, without using a template. The selected small grits must be pre-painted green, allowed to dry and used for drawing, in this case it consists of one large detail. You can decorate the tree with beautifully shaped macaroni, such as bows.
Original looks small crafts that can be hung on the wall, window, Christmas tree. To do this, cut out cardboard New Year's figures. You can make a lot of different options and hang them together like a solid garland. Good options are:
- mitten;
- skates;
- felt boots;
- Christmas decorations.
Crafts for the new year of buckwheat
To draw and cut along the contour all these figures are simple, and you can decorate with croup in different ways, because each of them is one continuous detail. For example, a mitten can be made "fur" from rice, and the rest - from any other cereals. If there are many children in a family, such an idea would be especially good options, because every child will be able to show creativity, sometimes parents themselves wonder how much little dreamers can think of.
return to menu ↑Christmas toys from cereals
Typical glass Christmas decorations are in the past, there are many creative ideas that can be used. One of the most popular is the use of cereals.. For many, it is surprising that it can not just decorate the finished ball, but make it from scratch.
Such an odd job will not take long, if at first glance the idea seems complicated, just try it. Production takes place in several stages:
- We take the newspaper, we roll it into a ball. How much material to take depends on the size of the expected toy. If you do it for the first time, you shouldn’t do it right away, but you don’t need a very small one — it will be inconvenient to hold it in your hands.
- Give the ball a regular round shape using threads. To do this, you just need to start winding them in a circle, periodically changing direction, as if rolling into a ball. When the shape is smooth, fasten the ends of the thread, making a small knot.
- Prepare the cereal, which we will use for the decor, pour it into a plate. Elegantly look toys from buckwheat.
- We smear the PVA glue on top of the threads with a brush, wrap it in a plate. If there are empty places to which the grains are not attached, we lubricate them with point glue and add them with tweezers.
- We take paint spray, it is desirable of gold color, we spray a toy, we leave to dry.It is advisable to choose the color of the spray according to the color of the used cereal, gold looks good on buckwheat, silver on rice and semolina.
Christmas tree of pasta
When there are small children in the house, it is the responsibility of the parents to create a New Year's atmosphere on the eve of their favorite children's holiday. Each child will appreciate if parents take the time to put not only a live Christmas tree, but also small Christmas trees throughout the house. Many materials are not needed for this, most of them are for everyone.
There are several options to make a tree out of pasta. Simple, but at the same time beautiful, is on cardboard or any dense paper. The product is performed in several stages:
- Making the base of the tree. To do this, take the cardboard, fold it into a cone shape, lubricate the edges with glue, press firmly, leave to dry. It is necessary to check that the figure is stable, some for this paste its edges to another cardboard, but this is not necessary.
- Macaroni are used as branches, it is best to take those that have an oblong shape, spirals, short spaghetti. We start to glue from the bottom row, grease the edge of each macaroni with glue, press it down and let go in a few seconds. You need to try to glue them as close as possible to each other so that there is no lumen left.
- When gluing the last row of macaroni, it is necessary to position them so that the edges are connected to each other.
- Coloring the tree in green, if not previously painted them before. To do this, you can use a spray paint, and other festive colors - gold, silver - look original.
- We decorate the Christmas tree, as it is not real, then the toys should be special. You can use other skater macaroni, bows, shells, spirals, painted in different colors with gouache. It is also possible to decorate the Christmas tree with any Christmas tinsel, rain, and for these purposes, leftover jewelry will fit, which will not be useful anywhere.
Animal Crafts
Crafts of animals from cereals can be made in the form of applications, the technique of which was cited above. This option is more suitable for small children, since such work is relatively simple. More complex tasks are volumetric animals, that is, not drawn, but made of different materials.
Craftwork fish
You can choose any animal, imagine what kind of cereal or macaroni of a certain form will make it. All that is needed is to turn on the fantasy, look at the picture of the animal, think about what its fur, body shape, and other features look like. Consider, for example, a hedgehog based on puff pastry, but using this idea, you can come up with your own options:
- Cooking salty dough: for 2 cups of flour, take 1 cup of salt and 250 water at room temperature. Knead the dough, give it the desired shape. Make it easy, because salted dough in a softened form looks like clay.
- For needles, elongated macaroni would be best - take spiral ones. Paint them silver with spray paint. When they dry, you can make needles.
- Visually draw a line that separates the muzzle from the body, grease the edges of the macaroni with glue, set the “needle”, slightly press down. We start to move from the muzzle, because if the last row turns out uneven, it should not be visible.
- Paint over the rest of the test with silver paint-spray, make eyes, nose, mouth.To do this, you can also take pasta - small stars, if they are not painted, they will stand out so well. You can also take beads by setting them on glue.
Suitable for very young children
You can decorate such a hedgehog as you please: make him a bow of pasta, put some small craft on needles or just make it multi-colored.
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The most original idea of grain crafts is the manufacture of bird feeders. Such work will take time, will require perseverance and patience, but the result is worth it. It is possible to make a feeding trough of grain for a child to school, children are often given similar tasks in labor classes, and you can hang it on your own balcony or in the yard of a private house.
The basis can be any, some people buy a ready-made feeding trough, the most ordinary, inconspicuous building of the first type will do. Others make it of wood or other improvised means.
The original idea of grain crafts
It is undesirable to use glue, although this is the easiest option, but it can be toxic to birds. Even a small sticky piece can cause damage to birds. Therefore, it is better to use a natural bonding agent - flour.
It is best not to brew a lot of paste at once, but to do it in parts, since it is important to have time until it is frozen to spread the pattern. Drawing and ornament must be thought out in advance, it is better to draw it on paper, so as not to lose sight of. We process one side of the feeder with paste, put the grits, just sprinkle the crayons, and lay out the large one with tweezers, leave to dry.
Halloween Option
From coffee beans
This kind of crafts is more suitable for adults, because among them there is also an amateur to do something with their own hands. A distinctive feature of such souvenirs - the aroma that comes from coffee beans, is stored for a long time. The craft will be a great gift idea for a coffee lover, you can make it for yourself.
It is best to choose as a basis not just cardboard, but burlap or other similar matter. Making crafts passes in several stages:
- Cut a piece of cardboard and a piece of burlap a couple of centimeters more on all sides. We wrap the cardboard with a cloth, we glue the corners behind. It is important to use a smooth fabric, if it is long lay, it is better to iron it.
- After the glue has dried, proceed to work with the grains. We measure the same distance from the edge, about 2 cm, draws straight lines with a simple pencil under the ruler. Then in the center we draw any picture, the cup of coffee looks beautiful on a saucer.
- We grease each grain with glue, we lay out the pattern inside the picture, then the frame. Slightly press down every time after gluing the grain. Leave to dry.
According to this scheme, you can draw any pictures, some even make portraits of coffee beans.
return to menu ↑How to color the cereal?
Many of the proposed ideas for making handicrafts from cereals imply its coloring. As already mentioned, this can be done in two ways, the simplest of which is to decorate an already finished drawing. But often it is impossible to do this exactly, anyway, traces and irregularities remain, so that it does not look aesthetically pleasing.
That is why many people prefer to color the grain beforehand, although it takes more time, the finished crafts will look neater and more beautiful. If you have never done this before, just try it once and you will see that there is nothing difficult.
All that is needed:
- food coloring;
- vinegar;
- bag.
Souvenir can be repainted in any color
Procedure:
- prepare a bag with a clip or clasp;
- pour cereal into it;
- we mix dye with vinegar, adhering to the instruction (usually the standard bag is calculated on 2 teaspoons of vinegar);
- pour the prepared mixture into a bag of cereals, close it, mix thoroughly;
- pour colored products on parchment paper, leave to dry.
If large items are painted, it is important that they do not touch each other while they dry. This simple method of coloring is suitable for all types of cereals and pasta.
return to menu ↑Photo frames
For the decoration of frames you can use absolutely any cereals and pasta. Ornaments in the form of coffee beans also look unusual, and some craftsmen complement their works with souvenirs brought from the sea by shells. Such handmade frames are highly appreciated as a gift to a loved one, and can also become a beautiful device for your own family photos.
Regardless of the material chosen, the entire work will consist of several stages requiring compliance with the rules:
- We buy a frame made of plastic, glass or wood of a single color. It is best to stick the cereal on a glass base.
- We prepare cereals, grains, any material you need. It can be supplemented with beads, ribbons, sparkles. If you want to paint the grits in the desired color.
- If we use small grains, apply glue to the frame, pour it on top, and if the material is large - pasta, seashells, then grease them with the edge.
- On top of the product can be treated with varnish, thereby securing it.
Crafts for kids
Interesting ideas from cereals
