What a beautiful time of year - winter! Fluffy snow, sledding, frosty cheeks. And how great it is to come home from a walk, drink tea and do what you love! Draw, make appliqués, sculpt from plasticine, create!
We offer you the most interesting winter crafts for school and kindergarten : we will make fairy-tale characters, invent clothes out of paper, sculpt Christmas trees and animals in winter clothes, and do winter plasticineography. Many crafts come with ready-made templates for printing. If you don't have much time or don't have colored paper, print them out. They are especially convenient if you want to make New Year cards for a large number of friends.
The ideas in this collection can be used as creative activities for your advent calendar. You will find a lot of inspiration and creative ideas for activities with children throughout the winter.
Crafts “Christmas trees”
We offer you 4 options for how to make a craft with a Christmas tree. We will make cards, applications and a New Year's toy.
New Year's card "Delicate Christmas tree"
Let's make a postcard - a transformer. When closed, the Christmas tree looks like an ordinary one, but as soon as you open the postcard, the holiday begins!
Craft “Christmas tree” from a sleeve
Crafts made from bushings are a special love! Such affordable material and so many interesting things you can make from them, for example, a Christmas tree. To do this, we will fold the sleeve in half and make cuts. The final work can be used as a Christmas tree decoration. This craft can be done by children aged 3 years and older.
You can think about what a green beauty might look like in the “Living Christmas Tree” master class. Download the finished template. Children under 4 will need help cutting out as the lines are curved.
Or make an applique from paper circles. For children under 4 years old, make a lot of blanks from colored paper and show them how to fold them. Then they can handle it themselves! As an additional decoration, we use semolina, which is so similar to snow.
For older children (from 6 years old), we invite you to try out elements of the origami technique to create your own New Year’s cards. Three craft options for your choice!
Pictures of furniture
At the moment of visual acquaintance with such material, children learn to recognize pieces of furniture. Pronounce their names accurately. Additionally, they gain skills in comparing quantities and proportions.
Pictures on the topic of furniture for children of senior preschool age are motivating material for the development of artistic taste. They help you learn to think figuratively, describing interior items in detail.
Fairy tale characters
It is impossible to imagine the New Year without Santa Claus. He is the symbol of the New Year, which occupies the minds of all boys and girls. Let's figure out how to make Santa Claus out of paper. And so that you can play with it, let’s glue it to a skewer (or twig). You can make other New Year's characters and stage a real home performance!
Pattern applique “Snowmen”
In the master class “Applique - Snowmen Pattern” we will learn how to cut out even circles, form a uniform composition and learn the basics of creating patterns. This application is suitable for children aged 3 years and older and will be interesting for older children who can add additional elements to it. Take the idea and repeat it with other fairy-tale characters or make a magical forest.
Application “Snowman with a gift”
Or you can make a snowman who will give candy to friends and family. An excellent option for a DIY gift for the New Year for which the only materials you need are paper.
Papier-mâché snowman
I really like this “Snowman” craft, but it can’t be done in one go. The napkin base should dry thoroughly. This will take a couple of days. Children will love the papier-mâché technique, which can be used to form three-dimensional shapes.
Didactic games
Pictures on the topic of furniture for children are often used as visual material for educational games. Their range is varied. Such fun is aimed at the overall development and development of the child as a person.
- “What will this be needed for?” The child needs to correctly name the piece of furniture in the picture and describe its purpose (what they do with it in everyday life, where it can be placed).
- "Find the odd one out." A radically different image is specially added to one of the groups of pictures (by purpose, location, color, size). The child is given the task of determining what is superfluous.
- "Get things in order." In front of the child is a diagram of an apartment with different rooms and chaotically laid out pictures of furniture. The goal is to arrange the furniture in its place, as is customary in real life.
- "Part of an object." In all pictures, the furniture is shown without a certain element (the back of a chair, the armrest of a chair, the leg of a sofa, etc.). Children need to point to the missing part and name it.
- "What common". The task is to find common characteristics among different furniture (elements - legs, backs, etc., or color, shape, material).
- "Find the difference." Children need to find differences in pieces of furniture similar to the previous game.
- “What is this item?” It is required to describe certain furniture with various epithets. Give it a detailed description using adjectives. You can arrange a competition between subgroups of children. The team that comes up with the most characteristics wins.
- “Put it all together.” It is necessary to assemble a piece of furniture from puzzles, an entire furnished room. If there are two identical sets of puzzles, older children can compete in the speed of completing the task.
- "Shop". A child can make a conditional purchase of a headset only if he correctly pronounces the name of the furniture in the picture.
- "Repair". In all pictures, the furniture is shown without a certain element (back, legs, seat, armrest). Children need to name the missing part, what it can be made of and what tools are needed to repair it.
- "What is this". The child needs to recognize and name the furniture based on individual parts of the set.
- "Big small". Invite the children to compare the furniture in the two pictures and determine which is larger and which is smaller.
- “Name all the pieces of furniture.” The image contains chaotically placed furniture, dishes, plants, things, etc. Children find and name only furniture.
- “How this furniture is made.” The child should reproduce the sequence of actions when making an object. To do this, you need to prepare a manual diagram that shows: the material, the manufacturing process, tools and the furniture itself.
- "In our house". The task for kids is to list all the pieces of furniture that they have at home (by room).
If you prepare a variety of pictures of furniture for children, you can come up with any didactic fun on your own. Invent your own unique gaming method of teaching and developing children.
Winter clothes
We associate winter with snow, New Year and, of course, cold. To avoid freezing, we wear warm clothes and winter accessories. Look at the crafts we made on the theme of winter clothes.
Application “Winter hat”
What does your head get cold without in winter?
Of course, without a warm winter hat. Let's make a beautiful head pattern with a pompom from paper and plasticine. In this master class, your child will learn how to make beautiful patterns from plasticine and an interesting technique for folding paper patterns. Children from 5 years old can handle this craft. Watch a detailed master class here
Application “Mittens” made of paper and plasticine
To keep our hands from freezing, we wear warm mittens! Ours will have very beautiful patterns, which we will draw with markers and felt-tip pens. And we will definitely make decorations from plasticine: flagella and circles. This applique can be made for a New Year’s card or hung in a frame on the wall to create a festive mood.
Detailed master class here
DIY New Year decorations for the home
Sometimes the preparation for the holiday is much more interesting than the holiday itself! Does this happen to you? When we prepare for the New Year, we decorate the house, put up a Christmas tree and hang garlands. We will tell you what crafts you can make with your children from scrap materials.
New Year's wreath made of paper and pompoms
How beautiful New Year's wreaths look on the doors of the apartment. And we will make one from paper and pom-poms. To do this, we will cut out fir branches from paper, draw patterns on them and decorate them with multi-colored pom-poms. What kind of wreath will you make?
Craft “New Year's boot”
Or you can make a personalized boot from cardboard. Look how hard Varya tried and decorated her felt boots with stickers. This is a very simple and easy craft that children from 3 years old can handle.
Do you remember how they used to sew elastic bands to mittens? And we decided to make a pendant from cardboard and white paper mittens. It turned out great!
Pendant “Winter City”
Another pendant is a winter city, which we decorated with snow wool and sparkles. As a basis, we took a piece of cardboard, of which so much remains after the goods are delivered. Cardboard from boxes makes very strong crafts.
We not only decorated the house, but also came up with a winter crown! Download a ready-made template or make a sample with us. Sequins are suitable for decorations, you can take nail polish with sparkles or simply paint with felt-tip pens.
Winter plasticineography
Santa Claus's house
Do you know where Santa Claus lives? We fantasized about this topic and decided that grandfather lives in a very nice red house with a huge snowdrift on the roof. And always with a round window from which he waves to all the kids! We made Santa Claus from plasticine using the reverse plasticine technique in a sour cream lid.
In this master class we combined plasticineography classes and watercolor painting. It will be interesting and will keep the child busy for a long time!
We really love it when the city is covered in snow. We invite you to depict a beautiful country house using plasticine. Let's learn how to sculpt patterns from plasticine and draw a monochrome background.
How to make plasticine cards
For the New Year we often make plasticine cards. To make them last longer, you can fix them on top with varnish. Look at the postcards we made with the children using the plasticine technique.
- Christmas tree made of flagella and circles;
- making a snowflake from flagella (a rather difficult and painstaking task);
- New Year's balls using the smearing technique (a simple and easy master class for children over 3 years old).
See plasticine New Year here
Winter plasticineography for children from 3 years old
Make an applique with a warmed dachshund. We will learn how to make flagella and make a sweater out of them.
A penguin with a warm heart, he really wants to please your loved ones. Great idea for a card. You will need black paper, a white pen (can be replaced with gouache) and plasticine. Remember that if you do not have some material or tool, you can always replace it with an alternative (white pen for gouache, plastic eyes for plasticine eyes, black paper can be drawn with gouache on white).
We sculpt from plasticine on a winter theme
If your child loves to sculpt with plasticine, see what we can offer for creative inspiration. With the help of detailed step-by-step visual diagrams, you can sculpt winter animals and learn how to sculpt different textures.
How to make a Christmas tree from plasticine: 7 detailed instructions
7 detailed diagrams for sculpting a Christmas tree from plasticine are waiting for you. Look how bright and beautiful they are! This is a very useful master class for developing fine motor skills and more. Plasticine has a calming and positive effect on children.
You can make funny hedgehogs from plasticine, which are insulated: put on hats, scarves and mittens. See detailed instructions for modeling in the diagrams. Recommended for children over 5 years old.
Or this New Year's pig. Children will practice making clothing items and learn how to make textures from plasticine using stacks.
Sectional pictures of furniture
Pictures of furniture for children in kindergarten can be used in cut form. To do this, the finished colorful images are divided into parts of regular/irregular geometric shape.
Starting from early preschool age, the child is able to match puzzles and put together a picture. The benefits of such activities cannot be overestimated. They contribute to the development of the following functions and abilities:
- logical and spatial thinking;
- fine motor skills, coordination of movements;
- orientation in space;
- making independent decisions;
- fantasy;
- creative skills;
- visual perception of information.
