Crafts "Insects" with your own hands from improvised materials

Spring and summer are the period when children are surrounded by insects. The weather gets warmer, and the butterflies and ladybugs begin to crawl, fly and buzz around, exciting their curiosity. Therefore, a warm season can be considered an ideal time for creating figures in the form of various beetles and bees. Try with the child different techniques of making own crafts of "Insects", studying and discussing in the process of their habits and features.

Butterfly from napkins

Butterflies are associated with ease and beauty. Various products in the form of them are often used to develop women's accessories. You can make crafts with insects with your own hands from improvised materials. In this master class we will try to make beautiful lace butterflies from napkins, then use them to decorate the interior.

Necessary materials for one craft:

• 2 napkins;
• pin;
• watercolor paints;
• Chenille wire;
• brush;
• scissors;
• Rhinestones;
• glue.

Let the children gently paint the napkins with watercolor as they want. Warn that wet paper is often torn and should be gently driven with a brush. Then put the workpieces aside for drying, cut a small piece of chenille wire and insert it into the clothespin so that the butterfly's antennae are turned out. Secure with glue. The head of an insect is decorated with rhinestones. Now take the napkins and fold them in half. Cut out the pattern with scissors, like on paper snowflakes. Collect two napkins together to make the wings, and secure with a clothespin. That's all, the butterfly is ready!

Insects from the egg box

The next interesting option. You can make artifacts - insects - with your own hands from paper from packing eggs. To do this, it is enough to stock yourself with a box, paints, scissors and a reps tape or chenille wire. Separately, you can buy eyes for figurines. It is easiest to make bees from sections from packaging. You just need to cut one of them and let the child paint the top part with yellow and black paint. Wings are cut from the same box or chenille wire and glued.

Bee can be planted on a flower, made from the same section, but cut at the edges into several parts. If you cut three sections in a row without dividing them, you will get a blank for the ant. His body is covered with black paint, and the feet are made of chenille wire or a reps tape gathered on a string to make a "brush". For this purpose, thick wire is also suitable, which is inserted into the middle of the body of the insect. In the same way create caterpillars and spiders.

Snail from the newspaper

There are very light in the performance of crafts-insects. With their hands for the kindergarten to make their child will be able with minimal help. For example, you can use unnecessary newspapers or magazines that are found in every home to make a snail. Such needlework will teach the child to use materials again and take care of nature.

Additional materials:

• paints;
• brush;
• Artificial eyes;
• black pen;
• Chenille wire;
• Scotch.

The process of making crafts is very simple:

1. First cut off a piece of newspaper and turn it into a thick tube. The edges are fixed with adhesive tape.
2. We paint the tube from all sides and wait until the paint dries.
3. Now you need to roll the tube into a spiral, leaving a small "tail". We fix the spiral with adhesive tape.
4. The child can independently glue a snail's eyes, make horns from a wire and draw a muzzle. The handicraft is ready.

Caterpillar of beads

For the development of fine motor skills, it is very useful to work with beads, beads and other small decor elements. Children just like to do together with their parents a worm of large beads. Colors and invoice can be combined at your own discretion.

For work you will need:

• Chenille wire;
• Beads;
• Nippers;
• glue;
• Artificial eyes.

Cut a piece of chenille wire of the desired length. Start creating an artifact of an insect with your own hands, fixing the ball from one end. Now you need to make a loop of wire to hold it in place. Then pass the stock to your child and ask him to thread beads around the string, alternating colors. It can be a painstaking job, but it's great for developing visual-motor coordination. Leave some space on the end and form a head. Fasten the wire with a loop. Glue the eyes on both sides, and then give the caterpillar shape.

Unusual ladybug

Animal artifact, made by hand from bottles made, is an excellent option for disposal of unnecessary plastic containers. There are many options how to turn containers from different juices and sweet drinks into an interesting toy that the kid will surely like. You can create a variety of beetles if you cut the bottom at 3-4 cm with a clerical knife and paint it from the inside with acrylic. It is enough to draw a dot on top, attach a head from a black-colored foam ball - and get a real ladybug. To connect the body and head use toothpicks, which are fixed with an adhesive gun. If desired, you can glue artificial eyes or just draw them.

Beetle from a plastic bottle

Create crafts-insects with their own hands in the form of bees or large beetles can be made from a whole plastic container. Its surface is decorated in various techniques: pasted with napkins, dyed, placed inside the glitter or beads. From the chenille wire make the antennae, attaching it to the neck of the bottle. From the other plastic container, cut out the wings, legs of the insect and glue them onto the workpiece. You can additionally decorate the face, pasting your eyes and drawing a smile.

There are many more options for how to make insects in the form of insects with their own hands. Experiment, create unusual things and involve your children in the process, learning new details from the life of bugs along with them.