Regular sports activities are the key to human health. Many people develop a variety of chronic diseases due to an inactive lifestyle. As a result, a love for sports should be instilled from early childhood.
In order to promote an active lifestyle, various holidays are organized (for example, Sportsman's Day). In addition, craft competitions on the theme “Sports” are regularly held for kindergarten.
Where does the making of a craft begin?
Initially, you need to decide on the level of complexity of working on a children’s craft and its theme. Children of early preschool age can:
- bring an original drawing;
- make an applique;
- make a craft on the theme “Sports” from plasticine.
At older ages, children are able to perform more complex tasks. For example, they can make a three-dimensional model of a sports ground.
When making crafts, one should not forget that this task was given specifically to the child. Therefore, parents need to take minimal participation in its production. Working on a craft is a creative process.
Therefore, you should not deprive your child of the opportunity to realize his own fantasies. Let him figure out what the craft should look like. Parents just need a little help in making the layout.
Simple crafts from plasticine
Plasticine is a favorite material for both small and older children to work with. Children's hands can easily handle soft, flexible plasticine. The simplest idea for a sports-themed craft is a soccer ball. To create it, you don’t need any special skills or abilities; you just need to roll a ball.
You can use several colors of plasticine to create a soccer ball with inserts. It will be more difficult to sculpt the figures of athletes and their attributes. For example, you can create participants of the Olympic Games in Sochi on skis, a boxer with gloves in the ring, a gymnast with a hoop in her hand.
What material can be used?
As a rule, crafts are made from available materials at home. Some people prefer to purchase ready-made art kits. But the cost of such goods is quite high.
Therefore, it is worth paying close attention to inexpensive materials for crafts on the theme “Sports” for a master class. After all, they can easily find a non-standard way to use them.
DIY crafts on the theme “Sports” include:
- using cotton wool to make snow;
- use of white glitter. With their help, snow with beautiful tints is obtained;
- use of dense polyethylene. Ice is made from this material.
Plasticine is a flexible, soft material that is often used to make crafts. Making a soccer ball is considered the easiest task. It does not require any special skills.
The dark colored sandpaper is very reminiscent of a stadium running surface. An ordinary dishwashing sponge perfectly imitates a sports mat. A thin cocktail tube can become the basis for any complex design. In turn, roll sticks can easily be turned into parallel bars for gymnastics.
It should be remembered that all materials used to make crafts must be durable, with a securely fixed structure. After all, the model still needs to be transported to its destination.
Crafts on sports themes from scrap materials
Scrap materials are the most accessible, in-demand, varied materials for creating crafts, especially on a sports theme, be it a winter sport or team games.
With a little imagination, you can create whatever you want.
Perhaps one of the good options is to create a pet, a symbol of the Olympic Games - the Olympic Bear! This hero is liked not only by children, but also by adults.
To create it you will need:
First you need to cut out the outline of the bear. Cut the cotton swabs, for the craft you need only those parts where the cotton is located, the sticks themselves are not useful. Glue the required size of silver cardboard into the lid under the candies. Glue the bear blank onto it. Glue cut cotton swabs along the silhouette of the bear. Press well and let dry a little. Form eyes, a nose, a mouth, and claws from plasticine and glue them with glue.
Make holes in the disposable pallet so that the edge of the box can be placed so that the finished panel can stand practically. Wrap the ring blanks with knitting threads, secure this symbolism of the Olympic Games on the pallet in front of the bear (you can glue it or make holes and secure it well with threads). Such a sweet, soulful craft will delight everyone.
As a material for sports crafts, you can use everyone’s favorite candies. You can quickly and easily form a soccer ball from them; you don’t need a lot of effort and time to create it. All you have to do is take a round ball (you can make it out of paper, or take a tennis ball) and completely cover it with candy. It is desirable that the candies have black and white wrappers, then the ball will look more like a football.
You can also use other available materials for such crafts: disposable tableware, old unnecessary light bulbs, paper napkins, buttons, beads.
Creating sports-themed crafts is a good, exciting activity that stimulates the desire to take up some kind of sport and lead a healthy lifestyle. After all, with the help of such an activity, you can immerse yourself in the sports world and learn its intricacies. A sports theme for crafts is one of the best themes for such an activity!
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Making an applique
You can simply cut out a variety of sports equipment. Kettlebells, balls, and dumbbells are ideal for this purpose. Then the child needs to independently arrange such shells on paper. You can also draw a football field on a landscape sheet or print out small figures of athletes. And the kid will independently distribute the members of the football team on the field.
You can also depict your favorite cartoon characters who are actively involved in sports. Even a very small child can cut out Smeshariki figures from paper. Applications featuring these characters are an excellent option for crafts for kindergarten.
What might you need when working with the application?
To make an applique, you should arm yourself with:
- a set of colored paper;
- scissors;
- white cardboard;
- glue;
- box of colored pencils.
Crafts on the theme of vitamins and healthy foods in the dhow
The topic of healthy eating for children is very important. It is worth finding the strength within yourself and trying to explain to your child that a number of delicious foods contain large amounts of harmful substances that destroy the body.
Of course, you shouldn’t focus only on harmful substances; be sure to tell your child about man’s best friends – vitamins. Most vitamins are found in fruits. Consider the fruit.
Crafts on the theme of vitamins and healthy foods in the dhow
You can play the game “harmful and useful.” Ask your child to identify what is harmful and what is healthy. This game can be played using pictures of drawn products.
Turn this lesson into a celebration! Make crafts on the theme “healthy eating” with your child!
For the “Volume Products” craft you will need:
- Durable colored paper
- Stapler
- cotton wool
- Markers
Fold a sheet of colored paper in half. We cut out the outlines of future products from folded colored paper. You will end up with two identical pieces at once.
We staple the edges of the future product, leaving one side free. Through this side we insert a little cotton wool into the craft. We staple the remaining side. You should end up with a voluminous paper craft.
Bulk paper products 1
Now we give our craft a bright, recognizable look by coloring it with felt-tip pens or paints. We draw characteristic contours on the fruit, draw on the eyes and scales of the fish, and sign the word “honey” on the yellow jar.
Bulk paper products 2
In the same way, you can make a collection of harmful products so that you can play the “harmful-healthy” sorting game. Such crafts on the topic of healthy eating can become a real teaching aid for home or kindergarten.
Another interesting craft is the “Fruit Dish” applique. On a dark sheet of cardboard we glue fruits pre-cut from colored paper and the dish itself.
Fruit applique 1
Fruit applique 2
Wonderful crafts on the theme of vitamins and healthy foods in a dhow can be made from salt dough. We make salt dough and shape it into the desired product.
Roll out the dough
We wait for it to dry and paint it. From such products you can make a real corner of healthy and tasty food.
Coloring the craft
You can make an “Apple” applique from disposable plates and cut paper. To do this, you need to coat a disposable plate with PVA glue, and then glue colored cut-out pieces of paper. You can first crumple them into small light balls, then the applique will turn out even more voluminous. Glue the leaves to the edge of the plate. What a delicious apple!
Craft from a disposable plate “Apple”
A charming room decoration can be made from ordinary inflatable balls. To do this you need to take the smallest long and round balls.
We inflate them and attach green leaves to them.
How to make fruit from balloons
Such fruits can be hung on a rope or attached to a curtain.
Fruits from balloons Garland from balloons
If you can guess the color and size, it will turn out very impressive! Let's now celebrate the “Vitamins” holiday!
Applique with swimmers
Cardboard is used as a basis for appliqué. It is on this that all the necessary parts are glued. First you need to take blue colored paper. Then it needs to be cut into long uneven strips (they will represent the water in the pool). After this, the swimmers are cut out. Their face will be a white circle, their body will be a small rectangle of any color, and their arms will be white stripes.
Most of the cardboard is sealed with blue stripes. The existing swimmers are carefully glued on top of them. A judge and spectators are depicted on a blank piece of cardboard.
Such an application involves the child using several performance techniques at once. It is quite simple: the implementation of such an idea does not involve any difficulties.
Sports ball
To make crafts you should use:
- white threads;
- PVA glue;
- balloon;
- a set of paints.
First you need to inflate the balloon. After this, it is wrapped with a large number of threads, the craft is treated with glue, and wait until it dries completely. The balloon is then deflated. As a result, only a frame made of thread remains.
After this, the ball must be colored in accordance with the desired sport. The volleyball ball is decorated with blue and yellow stripes, the soccer ball is decorated with black slots. When making a volleyball you will need orange threads and black stripes.
Creating a ball for the game
For the craft you will need:
- Balloon;
- White threads;
- Paints;
- Stationery glue or PVA glue;
Completing of the work:
- First, the balloon should be inflated.
- Then it is carefully wrapped with thread and coated with glue.
- After waiting for the glue to dry, the ball is pierced and deflated, and the thread frame retains its shape.
- The ball is carefully painted with paints, depending on which sport the ball will belong to.
The ball is originally white because white threads were used. You can paint individual elements with black paint to create a soccer ball.
By painting it orange, children will make the ball look like a basketball, yellow and blue - like a volleyball, etc. This proposal can hardly be addressed to preschool children; it is more suitable for children of early school age.
Competition figurine
Making such figures is a fairly easy option. The easiest way is to take a doll and add the appropriate attributes. If you make a swimsuit out of a balloon for the toy and put a ribbon in her hand, Barbie will turn into an elegant gymnast. A small teddy bear can be dressed in a kimono.
Note! You can also use existing mascots at sporting competitions. Everyone knows what symbols were used during the Winter Olympic Games held in Sochi.
Street layouts
You can create situations that convey the meaning of reality; such a game will help you master traffic on the road and study signs. Street markings can be painted on cardboard and houses can be built from boxes. Decorate the cityscape with greenery and, most importantly, make road signs and traffic lights.
Road signs can be printed from the Internet. A stand for the sign can be made from a plastic bottle cap and a sushi stick, and fastened with plasticine.
Houses can be easily created from cardboard boxes or glued together from cardboard and painted on the facade. Trees are created from cardboard or natural materials.
If you finely chop green threads and sprinkle them on cardboard, previously coated with glue, you will get grass. It is easy to create soil using grain glued to the surface.
Note!
One side has a background color, and the other has three traffic light colors. Glue a thread between the halves and the circle is easily glued so that you can rotate it to the hole on one side or the other.
3D layouts
This type of work is considered the most difficult, but at the same time the most realistic. When making such crafts, a hard surface is used. When working on it, you can use small figures of men. But, unfortunately, not every home has them. If such figures are not available, you should use wire. It will help you produce products of any design and shape.
You can capture the moment an athlete pole vaults. To do this you need to do:
- the pole itself;
- crossbar design;
- figurine of an athlete.
When preparing an athlete performing a pole vault, you need to remember the safety rules. Therefore, when doing crafts, it is worth laying a mat underneath, made in the form of a sponge.
