Thinking about what needlework to do with a child, it makes sense to turn your attention to crafts from foamiran. Working with this material is simple and fun, and the number of ideas that can be implemented is not limited by anything.
Features
Crafts from foamiran are ideal for the development of children. It is interesting to work with such material even the smallest, since, in addition to an unusual appearance resembling porous rubber, it stretches well, and also easily takes the required shape. Heating it, in addition, it will turn out to give volume to the finished products. Sheets are easily cut, punctured with a hole punch and painted with ordinary paints.
Fomian, being non-toxic, is absolutely safe for health and easy to operate. Its interesting property is that finished work can be washed with ordinary water.
Engaged in crafts with children, you can invite them to create an applique, photo frame, jewelry or toys. It is customary to fix parts from foamiran on ordinary PVA glue or hot glue. If the craft requires the use of an iron, the process should only be under the control of adults.
To simplify the work for children, cardboard templates are pre-made, which they then independently circle on the foamiran of different colors and cut with scissors. For example, in this way the child will be able to assemble the application in the form of an animal with his own hands.
Creative Ideas
Work with foamiran is recommended for children from 4-5 years old, who are already able to cope with cutting parts and reliable gluing of individual elements. For instance, You can make a bouquet of flowers, decorative nozzles for pencils and pens, or light bookmarks for books and notebooks. Themed application will be suitable for the competition in kindergarten, and simple photo frames with the image of beloved grandchildren will come as gifts for grandparents. Directly with your child it will be interesting to decorate children's diaries with figures of your favorite characters.
Girls will surely like the bandages, wreaths or hairpins made of this unusual material.
For example, a comb, hair elastic or bezel will be easily decorated with a luxurious floral composition made of suede paper. For older children, complex crafts are already suitable, for example, a stand for pens and pencils, a foamiran pencil case or even a full-fledged doll. Of course, porous paper is also suitable for creating a varied seasonal decor: winter toys for the Christmas tree, autumn garland or spring decorations for window panes.
Workshop on manufacturing
For beginners, a DIY creation of a pretty Christmas tree responsible for the New Year mood is suitable. For work you will need: a piece of foamiran of a green hue, scissors, a sheet of cardboard, PVA glue, a ruler and small beads used as decor. To form the base, it will be necessary to glue the cardboard cone so that its height is 12 centimeters. Then the foamiran is cut into long strips with a thickness of about 2 centimeters, which will act as needles. Further on each lane you need to make a fringe. Cuts are created so that about 3-5 millimeters remain whole.
To make the needles voluminous, it will be necessary to attach each strip for a couple of seconds to the iron. At the final stage, the needles are fixed on a cardboard cone in the direction from bottom to top. The crown and branches of the finished Christmas tree are decorated with beads.
A Christmas tree toy in the form of a strange flower can become an addition to the New Year tree. To create it, you will need 2 sheets of this material in green and white colors, as well as several cotton pieces. During work, you can not do without helium superglue, as well as acrylic blue and dark green colors. Work begins with the fact that rectangles with a side equal to 3 centimeters are cut out of white suede paper. Each of them will act as a petal, and therefore it is recommended to paint its edges in blue.
To create a bud will require about 13 of these blanks. Warming each on an iron or above a candle, it turns out to give the details a beautiful bend.
Leaves of the future toy are cut from green foamiran. You can make them of different sizes, but of the same shape. The edges of the blanks are painted green.
The base of the bud is a cotton pad soaked with glue and shaped in the shape of a ball. First, the tips of the first petals are fixed on the workpiece, and then the rest are glued in a checkerboard pattern. The second cotton ball is glued in the middle of the flower, and right next to it are green leaves so that the toy can be hung on a Christmas tree.
On how to make a children's New Year's flashlight, see the video below.
