Autumn decoration “Volumetric cloud”. Master class
Master class on making interior decoration "Mobile Tuchka"
Author: Khlebokazov Alexander, 5 years old, student of the MDOU DS KV "Raduga" of the joint venture "Silver Hoof"
Supervisor: Ostanina Victoria Aleksandrovna, teacher of the Children's Preschool Educational Institution DS KV "Raduga" SP "Silver Hoof"
Target: execution of interior decoration “Tuchka”
Tasks:
- introduce children to a new type of decorative decoration “mobile”;
- learn to use the template;
- cultivate accuracy when working with glue.
Purpose: The master class will be useful for teachers working with children, as well as simply creative and creative people. This interior decoration will help you create festive mood, will help decorate the room for any autumn holiday....maybe the clouds cry in spring too? Your imagination will help make any of your holidays brighter and more interesting!!!
Materials: colored cardboard, glue stick, satin ribbon, metal clip 2 pcs., pencil, scissors.
Work progress:
Educator:
"There's a cloud in the sky,
Sighs and grumbles,
A little cloud
He knocks his hooves.
Through the puddle,
Along the path
Milk mushrooms along the umbrella
Knocking like a fawn
Hooves
Rain!
Educator: Guys, clouds don't always cry. Why are they crying?
Children's answers.
Educator:
"The cloud and the sun again
They started playing hide and seek.
Only the sun will hide
The cloud will burst into tears.
And when the sun is found,
The rainbow immediately laughs.”
Educator:
Judging by the author's opinion, a cloud cries when it does not see the sun. So I propose to make a cloud with droplets today.
Before we start, we need to remember
safety rules when working with scissors:
Scissors should lie on the table with the blades closed,
- you need to pass the scissors with closed blades, rings to a friend, holding the blades,
When working with scissors, you must not be distracted from your work.
Let's start work.
1. We need a template. To do this, draw a cloud and a droplet on a white sheet of cardboard.
2. Now, using scissors, cut out the droplet.
3. Now let’s fold a strip of blue colored paper like an accordion and circle the droplet. We need to cut out 8 parts (for one cloud), since for each droplet we need 2 parts.
4. Now we will outline the cloud template, 2 parts (for one cloud). All details are ready.
5. Now let's prepare the ribbons. For each droplet you need to cut a ribbon: 10 cm, 15 cm, 20 cm, 25 cm. For the cloud we need a loop for attaching to an iron clip.
6. Now we spread the glue stick on the wrong side of the droplet and apply a ribbon in the middle.
7. Coat the ribbon itself. We close the droplets with the second part.
8. We do this with all 4 droplets. If necessary, you can trim the edges of the droplet with scissors.
9. Glue the two parts of the cloud together, don’t forget to put a loop in it on one side,
And on the other side there are all 4 droplet ribbons. The cloud is ready. We make the second cloud in the same way.
10. In order to hang our cloud in a group, we need a blue satin ribbon 2.7 m long (to calculate the length specifically for your room, you need to know the height of the ceilings and the desired hanging length of the mobile). We tie an iron clamp to both ends.
11. Now we throw the ribbon over the edge of the curtain, placing the ends of the ribbon at different heights.
12. Attach the cloud to one clamp.
13. Now to the second. And the mobile is ready!
14. You can make not only clouds, but also, for example, apples.
15. This is how our group became brighter and more interesting with autumn mobiles!!!
I wish you creative success!
We make voluminous applications from paper
There are 2 ways to make a volumetric applique with your own hands, and I will be happy to tell you about them.
How to make volume? Method 1
Printing the templates clouds and a balloon for appliques, fold the paper like an accordion and cut it out.
We glue our three-dimensional blanks onto the background. It should look something like this (only balloons we will have plain ones):
Method 2
We draw and cut out clouds and balloons, as if we were going to make a regular one paper applique. Now let’s add volume to the details: take two identical balls or clouds, bend them in the middle and sew them together. Like this:
Let's launch planes into the sky
Clouds and balloons are not all the paper crafts that I will talk about today. Next is the plane.
Let's use the template to prepare the parts for the paper appliqué.
Now let's put it all together!
Small birds
You can also make birds out of paper! You can use this template.
Cut out the bird along the outline. Bend it exactly in half and glue it together, leaving the wings. Now carefully bend the wings along the dotted line. We tie a string, and that’s it – the bird is ready to fly!
Get creative by combining volumetric paper crafts in unique applications or interior decorations. For example, you can add not balloons or airplanes to the clouds, but simply a multi-colored rainbow:
I liked the idea))
Isn’t it a miracle to make clouds with your own hands?! And this miracle is possible!
You will need: cotton wool, starch, water, glass, small saucepan or ladle, teaspoon, gas stove.
1. Prepare the paste: take a glass and pour 250 ml of cold water into it. Stir two teaspoons of starch evenly and bring the mixture to a boil, but do not boil. Don't forget to stir. The paste will be ready when it thickens enough to be spread, for example, with a brush.
2. Leave the welded glue to cool to a temperature comfortable for working with your hands.
3. Form clouds of the required size from cotton wool.
4. Prepare a container convenient for dipping into glue, fill it with cooled paste.
5. Briefly dip the formed clouds, one at a time, into the paste and remove.
6. Spread the glue more evenly with your fingers over the surface of the cotton ball. If necessary, squeeze out the lump of excess glue.
7. Place the resulting blanks on a plastic surface or tray. It is even preferable to use a large flat ceramic or glass plate with a smooth surface.
8. Let the clouds dry for about a day. And for uniform drying, turn them over periodically (every 2-3 hours).
9. After drying, the resulting clouds must be slightly crushed.
10. In order to decorate the interior of a child’s room with clouds, tie strings to the clouds and attach them to the ceiling.
Beauty!!!
Another way to make a cloud
Another way to make a cloud yourself and a great idea for photography with clouds.
First you need to inflate the balloons, preferably there are a lot of balloons, and tie them with one rope in the shape of a cloud. Most of all, the shape of a cloud resembles a triangle.
Spread the balls with PVA glue and glue pieces of white paper to them using the papier-mâché technique, so that there are no gaps left, so that they create a single whole.
On top of the paper of the future cloud, glue ordinary cotton wool or padding polyester from an old down jacket or an old jacket. Keep the future cloud suspended until it dries.
When the cloud dries, you can simulate its flight, you can hang it on a tall tree or on the ceiling, or even better, pump the balloons with helium; if there are enough balloons and not enough cotton wool, then it is possible that it will float on its own. However, hanging a cloud is the best option.
You can make lush and airy clouds from cotton wool using both ready-made forms and scrap materials. To work, you will need as much cotton wool as you need to make clouds with your own hands. Instead of cotton wool, you can also take padding polyester, which is usually used to stuff plush toys.
To enhance the effect, you can add light bulbs to them: standard or colored. Clouds can be hung from the ceiling using threads or ropes. Additionally, clouds can be decorated with raindrops, flying birds and other decor.
In addition to hanging structures, you can make unusual crafts with your child. To do this, you can glue pieces of cotton wool onto colored cardboard, giving them the shape of a certain type of cloud (cumulus, cirrus, stratus). Such useful craft will help your child study the atmosphere of our planet.
Cloud based
To make hanging clouds, you can use a lampshade made from rice paper. This can be a factory-made version, or made by yourself. Spray adhesive is used to attach the cotton wool to the surface of the lampshade. Cotton wool is applied evenly over the surface in small pieces.
The glue must dry well before use. To make the resulting cloud glow, a light bulb is inserted into the lampshade. Fastening can be done in the usual way for a chandelier. Instead of conventional light bulbs, you can use multi-colored LED backlighting.
Clouds on balloons
You can make clouds without a lampshade. To give the clouds the shape you need, regular balloons are perfect. They need to be inflated, tied in the shape of a cloud and coated with PVA glue. Next, you need to attach pieces of white paper to the glue using the papier-mâché technique - then the structure will turn out to be solid.
Cotton wool is also attached to the dried paper with glue. If the balloons are inflated with helium, then the cloud can simply be left floating under the ceiling. Otherwise, it must be hung by any in a convenient way, the master class does not limit here.
Clouds without a base
To create a structure without a base other than cotton wool, you will need:
- starch paste (made from a mixture of potato starch and water, which must be brought to a boil and cooled to room temperature),
- a basin for dipping future clouds,
- tray.
Since the cotton wool itself will serve as the basis for the clouds, you need to take more of it. You need to pour the prepared paste into the basin. Clouds of the required size are formed from cotton wool, which are dipped in a basin with paste.
The glue needs to be distributed evenly over the surface of the cloud, and if there is too much of it, you can simply squeeze out the cotton mass so that the excess pours out. After dipping, the workpiece should be placed on a tray to dry. They will dry for about a day, during which they need to be turned over every 2-3 hours.
Paper clouds - great idea For children's creativity and children's room decor. Also, paper clouds can be used as a decoration element in children's theater productions. Paper clouds can be flat, made from a single sheet of paper, or three-dimensional. Based on the principle of attachment, such clouds are divided into loosely attached and fixedly attached. Fixed clouds include paper clouds in the form of appliqués on a sheet of paper, securely glued with glue. Loosely fixed - decorations in the form of clouds, attached with pins or double-sided tape to the surface, or attached to the ceiling on hanging threads, decorative elements of a children's room. Such clouds can be moved depending on the need for it.
In our article we will look at three ways to make paper clouds, and you will be able to choose the one you need.
Cloud application
Cloud application is one of the most simple ways making paper clouds. As a rule, single-layer templates are used for crafts of this kind. The outline of the cloud is drawn on white paper, then cut out, and glued to the required surface with glue. Sometimes application clouds are made textured or multi-layered. Multi-layer applications are made by gluing cloud patterns of similar shapes onto each other different sizes and shades. Textured applications can be made using white toilet paper. The craft is recommended as a children's creativity option for children 2-7 years old.
Cloud decor for children's room
Sometimes you want to update the interior of a children's room, bring something new into it, but there is often not enough time for global changes and rearrangements. You can postpone global changes until more convenient times, but in the meantime, add cheerful notes to the interior that will surely delight and entertain your baby. A suitable option would be a voluminous cloud with paper rain. It can be mounted on glass or on a wall. To make such a cloud we need white and blue paper, thread, pencil, glue, scissors. The templates for making the cloud must be identical. After all, they will have to be glued together. Therefore, we proceed as follows:
Fold a sheet of white A4 paper three times.
Then we bend and fold the sheet of paper folded in three in half, as shown in the photo above.
Draw the outline of half the cloud on the paper so that the middle of the cloud falls on the fold line of the paper. Cut along the contour.
We get three identical fragments. Two of them can be slightly reduced in size, descending, but maintaining the main outline and height at the top point.
Something like this.
Glue the cloud fragments along the fold line. The cloud is ready. Now let's start creating raindrops. For this we need white sewing threads maximum thickness and blue paper.
We cut the required number of threads of the required length. In our case there are three of them. It is recommended to make threads different lengths so that upon completion of the formation of the craft, a visual impression of falling drops is created.
Cut out droplets from blue paper. For three drops of rain, we make six blanks, two for each drop. This is necessary in order to hide traces of gluing when attaching droplets to the thread.
Glue the threads with droplets to the cloud. The craft is ready.
To ensure that the craft sticks well to the glass or wall, we attach a small piece of double-sided tape to it on the wrong side.
Hanging volumetric clouds (decoration)
Sketchy contour paper clouds large size, of course, can be considered as an option for theatrical decoration for a children's play. But it's very simple. We offer you original solution this issue. In order to build an interesting volumetric cloud, we need a durable balloon the required size (it’s better to have it in light, neutral colors), glue for ceiling tiles(quick-drying), a spool of white thread, cotton wool, fishing line, several rolls of white toilet paper. It is recommended to take a soft, multi-layered option.
Inflate the balloon until the right size. Then, we wrap it thickly with threads over the entire area until the gaps disappear. We coat the structure with glue, very carefully, and let it dry. Then, using cotton wool, gluing it, we form the outline of a cloud. After the threads dry, the ball can be pierced and removed. We will be left with a thread frame. The entire area of the frame and the cotton wool glued to it is glued with large torn pieces of toilet paper until the desired volume is formed. The structure is then attached to a fishing line and suspended at the required height. Your cloud will be even more original and alive if you fill the balloon with helium before installing the craft and do not remove it afterwards. Such a cloud needs to be attached to a fishing line from below so that it does not fly away. If the performance will take place in twilight, to enhance the effect, you can attach several LEDs powered by a coin cell battery to the cloud.
How to make a paper cloud /video/
Sky with clouds
Children's paper craft
DIY cloud
Conclusion:
“Ah, clouds.. White-maned horses..!” These words from a children's song involuntarily come to mind. Of course, you won’t be able to ride across the sky, like in it, on the clouds from our article, but you are guaranteed a charge of positivity..